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

Academics writing papers and proposals; students writing theses, dissertations, and projects; professional staff writing policy papers; anyone writing PowerPoint/presentation slides. This 👇🧪 🧵1/2

What a beautiful day to be visiting some of Scotland's most iconic geo sites 😍⚒️🔆

As an Edinburgher who studies volcanoes I have certain reservations about the generality of this statement 🌋⚒️🏰

This is good. Read it, especially but not only if you are a government minister. It comes from a reflective place of praxis. Unlike much of what has been said on this topic, this is not slop.

Fun fact: the green rock used for the desk front behind the speaker podium in the Uno Assembly Hall is made out of serpentinite from Aosta Valley, Italy. ⚒️ 🧪 #UrbanGeology

It’s official: the UK is rejoining Erasmus! 👏🇪🇺

"Stranger from another planet welcome to our hole, Just strap on your guitar and we'll play some rock'n'roll" One of my favourite lyrics from one of my favourite bands 🎸

Someone on our street has two (lovely) dogs called Norman and Stanley. I so want them to add another and call it Fletcher.

Have been thinking off and on about this overview for He for a bit. Mostly because it promises an actual use for all that classical oil and gas structural geology stuff that those of us taught before fracking took off all know but can't use anymore.

What a beautiful rock 😍⚒️🧪 Peridotite xenolith in a vesicular basalt

Oompah Brass at Durham Brass Festival in 2015

🎉 𝐎𝐮𝐫 𝐕𝐨𝐥𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐘𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬 🌋 A few weeks ago we shared the freshly published article of Dr. Janina Gillies et al on the formation of Pelee's Hair. This article has been chosen by The New York Times for its Science section! ✨ www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/s...

Still the greatest TV scicomm of all time. James Burke’s Connections was hugely influential to me as a school pupil. Science, art, philosophy … no boundaries, all connected. 🧪

Countdown - Rush 🚀🤘 youtu.be/Pu2Xpvh22mQ?...

🚨Fully funded 5-year petrology Ph.D. at Carleton University (Ottawa, Canada). Also, a M.Sc project ⚒️🧪 www.teamgar.net

The conference dinner for the 2008 Goldschmidt (geochemistry) meeting was held in the main hall at the Museum of Anthropology. It was one of the most amazing buildings I have ever visited. ⚒️

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🌋PhD and MSc students in Earth Sciences🌋 Are you interested in geohazards and volcanic islands? Don't miss the 2026 edition of the International Summer School on Geohazards in Volcanic Islands, held in the Azores, 12-19 July. For details check ivar.uac.pt/summer-cours... ⚠️Deadline is 15 April⚠️

It’s a source of constant shame for learned/professional societies, companies, and higher education institutions that they don’t offer a minimum/living wage to interns 💰 Here the @royalastrosoc.bsky.social is rightly in the dock 👇🏾 Please read and sign ✍️ tinyurl.com/ras-letter

Yeeeahhhh, oooohhhh yeah! Rush

We are looking for a new volcano-petrology postdoc to join the NERC-funded large grant ‘ex-x: understanding dangerous eruptive transitions’ Based at Bristol University! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRA042/s...

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I'm totally with @rhodri.biz although the break at 5:20 would have me pogoing like a KING. This is just the most brilliant use of looping imaginable. 🎸🤘

Pegmatitic dolerite from Fair Head, County Antrim in XPL for #ThinSectionThursday. Same location as two weeks ago but much coarser grain size. Stunning clinopyroxene showing birefringence progressions at edges and cracks, plus fractured olivine and twinned plagioclase. 🧪⚒️🌋

Dad: youtu.be/xVAP0cAY_3Q?... #heavymetal #metal #dio #ronniejamesdio #guitar #blacksabbath #mobrules #80s #nostalgia

This is ... not good ⚒️🧪

Peregrine looking for breakfast during this morning's dog walk. Watched it hover, from about 15m away, for nearly two minutes before ... 1/2 🧵

#DavidsMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge **Day 23** A song by a band/artist whose name starts with ‘W’... The Waterboys - ‘Fisherman's Blues’ (Live) youtu.be/ALhtqysPNQw?...

🔬 The Cavendish Experiment: how tiny lead balls proved gravity exists between small objects

I have an x-ray diffraction joke but I try not to Bragg about it

It's worth noting that all current helium production is just the gas that's been trapped by the same geologic structural traps that keep hydrocarbons from reaching the surface. There's been some effort at identifying non-hydrocarbon related structural traps that might have significant amounts of He

The @durham.ac.uk difference when it comes to graffiti in student halls of residence. 🧪

I have a subduction joke that always goes down well. ⚒️🧪

Completed my birthday pile and part of Mrs Mac's Christmas reads. Loved all of these but Jo Harkin's The Pretender goes straight onto the "don't leave too long to reread" list ... amazing. 📖

Corundum is red Corundum is blue Oxygen-three-aluminium-two ⚒️🧪

“It’s like molasses." ... sweet! ⚒️🧪🌋

Beautiful big biotite crystal. Nice clip showing how all the distinct (but parallel and related) cleavage planes in a single crystal reflect incident light simultaneously. ⚒️🧪

Granite-astic ⚒️🧪

Photo of the Day: Kelut's active lava dome in 2007

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BRAND NEW VLAD EPISODE released today by The Stranglers. And it is hilarious (yes, funnier than Dmitri)! 🤣🤣🤣 youtu.be/tgnCZH0haXc

#IsmuasMonthOfMusic 🎼 #MusicChallenge 🎶 6/3 (UK): A song you recognise after two bars Rush - Tom Sawyer First note ... youtu.be/WJoTxywiRG0

Ready for your new adventure in 2026? #FindAMasters 🌍 New MSc Environmental Sustainability at Durham University 🌍 Get more info here: www.durham.ac.uk/study/course... And share with someone you think would be a great candidate to make a real impact and help shape a sustainable future!

Spectacular olivine dolerite from Fair Head, County Antrim in XPL for #ThinSectionThursday. Olivine shows particularly vibrant interference colours while the ophitic intergrowth of twinned plagioclase and clinopyroxene is a textbook quality example. 🧪⚒️🌋

The final boss of volcano vistas 🌋⚒️🧪

The Volcanology and Magmatic Petrology group at ETH Zurich is looking for a Postdoctoral Fellow in Volcanology and Magmatic Processes to develop and lead an independent research programme in magmatic petrology, volcanology, and/or geochronology. #postdoc #jobalert www.jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/11402

👏Congratulations @openuniversity.bsky.social! My wife and mum both obtained OU degrees. I used to know by heart the second trombone part (for the whole suite, not just the fanfare) of Leonard Salzedo's Divertimento. The iconic opening fanfare introduced all OU programming. youtu.be/Mh_BkqIj1tg