Fascinating that experts in extremism (which Marc is, btw) now see X as their core platform for research. (For over a decade, you had to delve into small telegram groups and other networks to track what extremists were saying.)

Just as a refresher since I haven’t been active here: I’m Osariik and I’m into rocks/geology, volcanoes, rock music, metal/metalcore, playing cricket, video games and pretty much anything else cool that I see.

I forgot this place exists, I’ll be honest.

Air pollution could be significant cause of dementia – even for those not predisposed

bear in mind that this is a city who spends $249M of a $730M budget on police who, at least as of last year, were setting all-time lows for arrests and citations.

Do you want to learn about the impacts of the M9 Cascadia subduction #earthquake that struck at 9 p.m. on this night, 324 years ago? Strong shaking, a tsunami and landslides as described in Indigenous oral traditions from #VancouverIsland to #California. hakaimagazine.com/features/gre...

I'm still of the opinion that this band is criminally underrated. They haven't had a single bad (or even mediocre) release, every single one of their songs is fantastic yet they're still so unknown www.youtube.com/watch?v=a60u...

🧪 ⚒️ RÚV now has an English newsfeed for the new eruption north of Grindavík.

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Watching the live webcam feed www.youtube.com/live/kXD4A9u... of the current Icelandic eruption. Unfortunately, it appears that this eruption will have much more of an impact on the local population than the previous one, with the lava crossing the protective berm that was built earlier. 🧪⚒️

⚒️🧪 Earthquake activity north of Grindavík has picked up again in the last hour. Scientists at the Icelandic Meteorological Office say this could be a sign of another imminent eruption. www.ruv.is/frettir/innl...

If a strategy game has volcanoes in it, I'm about 470% more likely to purchase that game; closer to 4090% more likely if the volcanoes actually impact the game.

I have officially completed my bachelor of science degree (majoring in geology)!

Merry Christmas!

Video shows wildlife officials releasing five wolves in Colorado. In a historic initiative, wolves are officially being reintroduced to the state, which hasn't seen a stable wolf population since 1940. youtu.be/luD8iJfkoO0?...

the history of Iceland in a nutshell

My favourite Unicode character is the Cyrillic character ꙮ, the multiocular O, which is literally only used in one phrase in one manuscript in the Old Church Slavonic language from the 15th century: "серафими многоꙮчитїй", which means "many-eyed seraphim".

Read this as: DON'T rush to Iceland to see this, even if you're a scientist. The starts of eruptive crises are chaotic & those in charge of protecting people don't need tourists taking resources from locals. People's homes and livelihoods are under threat, so have some humanity & watch a livestream.

I'M GRADING FINALS. COULDN'T YOU WAIT 24 HOURS, ICELAND. The eruption on the Reykjanes Peninsula has started: en.vedur.is/about-imo/ne... You can check out the webcam of the eruption here: livefromiceland.is/webcams/fagr...

@xkcd.com is an evil genius and we're going to be seeing this going around the internet and creating mischief for years to come. xkcd.com/2868/

🧪 ⚒️ A M5.8 earthquake occurred a few hours ago southeast of Mexico City. Not much damage, but interesting tectonics: the subducting slab is flat to the SW and bends down steeply to the NE. That bending seems to be capable of causing large, sometimes damaging earthquakes. Read more on our blog!

GUESS WHAT NERDS, I’VE FINALLY FINISHED MY DEGREE I’M OFFICIALLY A GEOLOGIST NOW (I think) ONTO A STRESS FREE SUMMER AND THEN MASTERS

This is probably my all-time favourite album art. I love the album itself too and the band is one of my favourites, they mean everything to me, but I just absolutely LOVE the album cover. It's just so pretty and well-designed. I'm somewhat planning on getting part of it as a tattoo at some point.

I have a sook

Ghost forests are so cool

Some motivation to try to get me using this place a bit more I think: for every like that this post gets, I'll reply to this tweet with either a cool volcano fact or a cool volcano picture (or both). For every repost, I'll reply with two.

My @ handle is @Osariik on basically every platform I use EXCEPT Instagram, on which it is @osariik_ because someone else had already taken @Osariik and then apparently proceeded to never use it.

Very true.

Reminder to those watching the situation in Iceland that no eruption has begun yet.

From Iceland Met Office: “Estimate of the vertical displacements caused by the dike during its initial propagation from 10-11 November. The imagery shows over 1-m of ground displacement in the western part of Grindavík, caused by the propagation of the magma intrusion”. en.vedur.is/about-imo/news…

This map (made from satellite data) shows the inflation (uplift) of the ground in Iceland due to the intrusion of magma. “The latest estimate is that this averages to 5 cubic meters per second, since…27 October 2023.” www.volcanodiscovery.com/reykjanes/ne...

The #seismic activity in #Iceland shows no signs of slowing down this evening - two earthquakes over magnitude 5 on the #Reykjanes peninsula within the past hour. 15 minutes of data from station II.BORG (Borgarfjordur, Asbjarnarstadir, Iceland) shown here. earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

Time to bookmark those Icelandic webcams again! 🧪⚒️ livefromiceland.is/webcams/ en.vedur.is/earthquakes-...

The Icelandic government has mandated the immediate evacuation of Grindavík due to volcanic unrest.

A few updates regarding my Twitch channel: 1. I'll probably resume streaming after I build my new PC in a few weeks. 2. I'm probably going to start having closed captions on all of my streams. 3. At some point I'm probably going to try doing a stream entirely in Norwegian. For fun.

Australian Earthquakes - Halloween Edition 👻🎃⚒️🧪 Victoria’s ‘Haunted Hills’, located near Moe ~120 km SE of Melbourne, were named as such because early European colonists reported hearing ‘growling’ from under the ground, and noticed that grazing livestock would seem unsettled when in the hills. 1/3

Interested in #earthquakes? and #volcanoes? See our just-published and freely available Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences article: "Seismicity and Seismic Monitoring of Canada's Volcanic Zones" cdnsciencepub.com/doi/abs/10.1... ⚒️

Here’s a figure showing all earthquakes on record greater than M3.0 in the region of the M5.1 in the Otways, Victoria, overnight. The region has a number of NE-SW aligned neotectonic faults, one of which may have been responsible for last nights earthquake (and aftershocks) ⚒️🧪

A M5.1 earthquake occurred between Johanna and Apollo Bay, Victoria overnight. So where’s the fault? 🧐 In this region, the earth’s crust is being compressed in a NW-SE direction (blue arrows - L) and known neotectonic faults are aligned perpendicular to this (red lines - R) ⚒️🧪 1/2

Magnitude 5.1 earthquake near Melbourne! It was in Cape Otway

For those of you who don’t use Twitter anymore or don’t follow me there, some personal news that I posted there: a friend of mine has told me that he would be a bassist for me (I’ve wanted to start a band for a while) so there could potentially be some interesting news at some point in the future 👀

Mae’n cath

Yesterday was the anniversary of the Mw 7.3 Pleasant Valley, the largest normal faulting earthquake in the USA. We dug this fault at multiple locations, found multiple earthquakes, and we are dating also the alluvial fans that are displaced. Results should come out within the next year.

I may not live in the UK but I do have some very strong opinions on its politics, and this is one thing in particular I have some very strong opinions about. This is quite punishing for the future economy of the Manchester area, as well as further damaging the economy 1/? www.itv.com/news/2023-10...

Frank Hoogerbeets blocked me on Twitter and I find that rather amusing

Several months ago I started working on a project where I was going to, via a YouTube video, call out a major proponent of geology pseudoscience, but I stopped working on it because life got in the way and I didn't have the energy. I think I might start working on that again.

Sometimes I feel like this gate

Finally here :) I'll do some more account setup and finding people tomorrow