🚨Professorship at St Andrews🚨 We are recruiting a Professor in Earth Sci (incl atmos, oceans, climate) @earthscista.bsky.social @uniofstandrews.bsky.social Ideal candidate is a leading researcher with interests in impact/outreach. Deadline 23/3/26! www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/...

The lowest Permian formation in NE England is known as the Yellow Sands. This afternoon it looked positively golden. 🧪⚒️

My brilliant dog agrees that your dog is brilliant 🐕

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Spent the last couple of nights in the Perthshire town of Comrie, also known as as Shaky Toun due to the frequency of earthquakes ⚒️🧪

A wonderful reminder from physicist and author Sean M. Carroll. 📖

How to just walk into Mordor

Make a Bond movie academic: Diamonds Are Forever: The continental lithospheric mantle as a repository for subducted carbon.

#Home Reef #volcano (Tonga Islands): new effusive eruption with two lava flows - A new effusive period at the volcano started over the past days. Following a strong thermal anomaly detection in the Sentinel-2 satellite imagery from 17 ad 22 December, new lava flows appear to be commenced descend...

Kilauea has put on its Christmas lights 🌋⚒️🧪 www.youtube.com/live/gXKuUyK...

Probably just a dodgy kebab after a night in the Bigg Market

🚨Extremely short notice: Looking for prospective PhD or postdoc w/ geological engineering or modelling experience, w/ interests in mountain geohazards for project focused on landslide-triggered tsunamis in subarctic w/ me & @geocron.bsky.social 🧵 🧪⚒️ Pls share! nserc-crsng.canada.ca/en/news/laun...

I work on #geothermal energy projects and find the #geology, and its potential for helping us decarbonise heating, exciting. But…it always frustrates me when it’s framed as being a somewhat out-there, somewhat futuristic technology, when it’s actually been around for *ages*…

In 'The Scientist's Guide to Writing', I offer this as an example of writing that's fairly technical (for public-facing writing) but also beautiful. Reading copyedits and just struck again by how lovely this passage is.

Stops global warming 🧪

In the days when I regularly visited pubs with duke boxes, Texas was one of my go to choices. 😢 www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c0...

December 22, 1872, HMS Challenger set sail from Portsmouth, traveling nearly 70,00 nautical miles & cataloguing over 4,000 unknown species over 4 years. This pioneering expedition, organized by the Royal Society, laid the foundations of oceanography by creating the first global map of the seafloor.

It is, however, down 870‰. #MakeStableIsotopesGreatAgain

At an @agu.org Town Hall today, @ncar-ucar.bsky.social President Antonio Busalacchi spoke to #AGU25 attendees about what's at stake if NCAR is dismantled. One attendee asked anyone who uses NCAR research to stand up. Almost everyone in the room stood. Read more here: eos.org/research-and...

The science is clear on glacier change – and the perils of ignoring it are even clearer. Read more from Prof Chris Stokes @geogdurham.bsky.social and colleagues on how efforts to downplay the latest scientific findings are “alarming” 👉 www.durham.ac.uk/research/cur...

Last #ThinSectionThursday this year from me. Beautiful Balvenie troctolite in XPL. A large olivine crystal is cross cut by oxide veins representing fluid pathways, which become thinner but more numerous as they radiate out through the surrounding plagioclase, which retains striking twinning. 🧪⚒️🌋

Delighted to see the UK rejoin Erasmus. From my own experience, it’s about far more than studying abroad; it’s about confidence, connections, and horizons widened. A real win for students and the future. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

This is pretty extraordinary: dinosaur footprints 🦕⚒️🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Job alert: #PhD position, tracking C dynamics in permafrost using U isotopes, Northumbria University (UK). Apply by 23 Jan, 2026. More info: buff.ly/GEtpyAG

Marking petrology exams and just read that a basalt was ventricular. Heart stopping. ❤️⚒️

Scientists from @durhamearthsci.bsky.social have helped study a rare rock core taken from deep inside the Great Glen Fault in the Scottish Highlands. @bgs.ac.uk Learn more: www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/...

Ten years ago today I was lucky enough to meet Jim Montgomery, who made the greatest save ever (and I'm not even a Sunderland fan).⚽ youtu.be/PZmFoo4payA

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Well that is just … so bloody Scotland 🤦‍♂️

Wishing I'd listened to more Handel, Pachelbel, and JS Bach this year so my Spotify listening age would have been about 300.

Incredible work here tracing continuous oral traditions among Aboriginal peoples over a near-geological timescale. The article argues oral traditions transmitted information about volcano eruptions from 9,000 years ago: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Christmas zoned phlogopite in carbonatite for #ThinSectionThursday. In PPL (left) Mg-rich core shows less colour than brown rim (pleochroic to colourless) which has higher Fe, possibly due to Al-deficiency. Same chemical variation gives different interference colours in XPL (right) 🧪⚒️🌋🎄🎅

As a sports lover whose PhD research involved refining a process using chlorine trifluoride, I am comfortable with this analogy. 🧪

Yup. Sounds about right. Or right about sounds. 🎸🤘🎵

Check out this new Open Access article written by researchers from the Earth Sciences Department and collaborators! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.

How do you hide two Nobel Prize medals from invading Nazis? Dissolve them in acid of course (and reprecipitate them later). This is applied chemistry at its finest 🧪 www.npr.org/sections/kru...

"Bring plate tectonics please" ⚒️🧪

Ashfall Fossil Beds is an astonishing locality of which I was ignorant until last week. Included it in Monday’s Introduction to Volcanoes lecture to @durhamearthsci.bsky.social first years. 🧪🌋⚒️

Missile preservation has no business being this productive. Apparently WD40 was invented to protect missile housings (WD standing for water deterrent). 🧪🚀

A movie that takes place where you’re from.

Second single I ever bought. Absolutely belting song.

Understanding of Earth Sciences is fundamental to society's sustainability and development. Please support the department at the University of Leicester which is under threat. ⚒️🧪 c.org/jzkHKh9byy

#Semeru #volcano (East Java, Indonesia): massive block and ash flow created billowing ash plume - A strong eruption occurred at the volcano a couple of hours ago. At about 04:00 PM local time today, a massive pyroclastic flow descended over the southern slope. The block-and-ash flow has been lik...

I watched the Brazil '98 match in The Shakespeare Pub in San Diego, which had opened especially to attract "the Scottish crowd". Kick off was about 8am PST and my mate Stuart (who was visiting) and I wore our kilts. Just us and the barman were there. Still bedlam when John Collins's scored!

Wait. This can’t be right. What is this strange, joyous feeling? 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💙💪 Back at the World Cup after 28 years.

so I've been playing around with AI (GPT), asking it how Pt-bearing sulfide layers form in layered intrusions. I asked critical questions, prompted it to think about physics, and after many iterations, it came up with this model. Utter nonsense, violating physics! Be very careful of AI.

Nope. It would appear there is not. 🤦‍♂️

Good grief, is there no end to the ways Scotland make themselves agonising to support 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

The application deadline for these has been extended (due to them being open an unreasonably short time initially, not b/c we got too few applications). Dust off your CV, friends. 🧪⚒️