What’s boiling hot, full of minerals, and provides food for the hungry masses? 🤤 👉Find out what’s cooking in the deep sea: go.whoi.edu/think-deep

Given the error bars on most geological dating it might already happened >3000 years ago.

We have ranked 85th in the QS World University Rankings 2027! Professor Karen O’Brien, our Vice-Chancellor and Warden, said: “To rise nine places to 85th in the QS World University Rankings is a tremendous achievement, in an outstanding year.” www.durham.ac.uk/discover/qs-world-university-rankings/

University research makes a net contribution to the UK purse. This investment produces £ if that's what you're worried about. I suspect that is not what RL is worried about, and his use of the word "woke" is very telling (as well as being an incorrect usage of the word).

Sand ripples from an ancient sea floor that covered this area over 300 million years ago - now scattered around the site of an abandoned quarry. County Clare, Ireland. Cormacscoast.com walking tours

On the latest @theguardian.com Science Weekly podcast, Nicola Davis and I talk all about birds! Their dinosaur origins, how they started to fly, how they survived the asteroid, and the remarkable things they've done since! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

🎶"Oh me lads, you should've seen us gannin'"🎶

I love this type of representation of seismic waves travelling across continents. Just mind blowing stuff. ⚒️🧪

Given the inherent instability of calcium monofluoride versus calcium fluoride this outcome feels inevitable after the loss of one fluorine. 🧪

Excerpts of White's voice recorded during the event are used in Lemon Jelly's track Space Walk. 🧪🎶 youtu.be/6805ECeFhtw?...

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New interdisciplinary MSc programme in Environmental Sustainability at Durham University spanning scientific, social, and policy issues, as they relate to global challenges such as climate change, resource use, and environmental governance. 🧪🌍 www.durham.ac.uk/study/course...

I maintain that the best way to learn anything is to explore it with someone else who is genuinely interested. This is both how and why universities work.

Sébastien!

I urge you not to generalise these bigoted grifters with the actual people of the North East. There is a long history of representation and fighting for LGBTQIA+ rights in the area as shown this week at Durham Pride. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

🚨Job Alert!!🚨 #Mineralogy Full Professorship at Heidelberg : igneous and metamorphic processes, geochemistry, geochronology, planetary sciences/cosmochemistry, environmental. ⚒️🧪 adb.zuv.uni-heidelberg.de/info/INFO_FD...

Fantastic news that the Siccar Point viewpoint and trail are now open. ⚒️🧪

Probably my favourite rock in @nhm-london.bsky.social. Pallasites are spectacular mixtures of olivine (stony) and alloy (metallic) meteorite components. When sectioned the olivine is translucent forming one of nature's most beautiful rocks. ⚒️🧪 Image from Sotheby's.

My dog sees you lunching at your keyboard and can’t help thinking it would be nice if you shared with her.

(D')Entrecasteaux eclogite exhumation encouraging evolution 🧪⚒️🐸

(Very) Schematic illustration of subduction zone evolution that Robert Hall and I produced some moons ago. We used Robert's plate reconstructions to try and map plate margin migrations. Links to papers further down thread. ⚒️🧪🌋 🧵1/4

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Introduce yourself with 10 bands/musicians you've seen live! 1 The Stranglers 2 Rush 3 Deep Purple 4 The Blockheads 5 Wynton Marsalis 6 Iron Maiden 7 Martyn Bennett 8 Marillion 9 Dio 10 The Proclaimers

📢 4-year postdoc opportunity!! Magda Carr (Newcastle University) is recruiting a Leverhulme-funded postdoc to experimentally investigate the generation of internal tsunamis by glacial calving. The award is linked to the POLOMINTS project (www.polomints.ac.uk). Please share! lnkd.in/ePHmPxbD

Olivine- and plagioclase-phyric, vesicular basaltic glass in cross polarised light from Hawaii for #ThinSectionThursday. Olivine shows wide range of interference colours despite uniform composition. Much of the glassy groundmass is devitrified in rosettes around the phenocrysts. 🧪⚒️🌋

"The most dangerous worldview is the worldview of those who have not viewed the world." - Alexander von Humboldt

Long history of coming out on top in this fixture. #Noah #Ararat #Armenia #Football

#MusicChallenge #DavidsMonthOfMusic DAY 19 - With heaven or hell in the title. Why have one when you can have both. Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell 🤘 youtu.be/uWAhd4KkVUU?...

May 18, 1980 | 8:32 a.m. The ground shudders. A M5.1 quake hits beneath Mount St. Helens. Weakened critically, the north face bulge collapses outward. Within seconds, a pyroclastic density surge bursts through the disintegrating slope. The clock strikes zero.

George Box's quote "Since all models are wrong the scientist must be alert to what is importantly wrong", applies equally to large language models as to any other type of model. I, for one, am reluctant to employ models I cannot verify. www-sop.inria.fr/members/Ian....

I consider it a particular win to get positive comments about assessments (Summative 1 / star wars summative) in end-of-module evaluations from our @durhamearthsci.bsky.social students. 🌋🧪🚀

This looks like a great volcano related PhD opportunity in a great place in New Zealand. 🌋⚒️🧪 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

An (ALT-texted) image speaks a thousand words so here is a list of all the critical minerals.

For geologists ⚒️🧪; silver screen 🤝 concrete boots

Me and my mentor moving quickly to where the edges are without understanding what was underneath either Earth 101 or the edge. 🧪

Simply 380-510THz

Wow! Great drone footage of eruption at Fuego volcano 🌋⚒️🧪

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

Picture I took of my mate Mark in Tromsø at 1:20am in late June a few years ago. Text day he and our wives ran the midnight sun marathon.

Henry Sorby was born on 10 May 1826, in Sheffield. A great geologist of immense ingenuity pioneering the techniques of microscopic petrology, slaty cleavage, fluid inclusions, meteorite structure & modern sedimentology & the founder of modern metallurgy. All this (& more) from his Sheffield home!

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Happy Birthday Sir David Attenborough. A global inspiration to those who love the natural world … and tennis. 🧪🌍🎾 www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/amp/entry/da...

#IsmuasMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge @ismua.bsky.social 7: A track where rhythm drops out entirely for a dramatic effect Utzp - Angine de Poitrine It's so long you almost think they've stopped. Then ... 💥 youtu.be/IfQuaxIiOm4?...

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"Fifteen Maps that Changed How We See the Ocean Floor" Based on his research for The Library of Lost Maps, James Cheshire of @ucl.ac.uk pulled together these seminal works of Marie Tharp and Bruce Heezen! cc @seabed2030.bsky.social 🌊 ⚒️ 🌎 🌍 🌏 libraryoflostmaps.com/2026/05/06/f...

#IsmuasMonthOfMusic 🎼 #MusicChallenge 🎶 @ismua.bsky.social Day 6️⃣ - A genre-blending track Martyn Bennett - Ud the Doudouk: Middle Eastern folk + Celtic folk + house/electronic youtu.be/G9HN93sDJWo?...

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A fascinating piece of science reported using a tragically misinformative headline and AI-generate image. ⚒️🧪🌍