Finally. The decision to appoint McSweeney was wrong. He has damaged the Labour party, our country and trust in politics itself.

Technical staff are often overlooked and underrepresented at Scientific meetings... We hope to address this with our new Technical Staff Meeting Attendance Bursary! Please visit our website for full details and to apply: geochemistry.group/funding-oppo...

Our second Keynote speaker for BPSC 2026 is Dr Joseph McNeil (Natural History Museum, London). Dr McNeil is a planetary scientist specialising in the geology of early Mars. He uses orbital remote sensing to investigate how martian environments and habitability evolved through time.

Our first Keynote speaker for BPSC 2026 is Dr Elishevah van Kooten (University of Copenhagen). Dr van Kooten's works on astrobiology, the origins of life, and meteorites as records of early Solar System processes. She investigates the formation, alteration, and delivery of life’s building blocks.

My NY resolution to eat more crumpets is going really well thankyou for asking.

Starmer's Press Conference:

Real Monkey's Paw energy about wishing for the UK to develop closer ties with Europe, and it happening because the USA declares war on Denmark.

This "Honest" Bob Jenrick story is absolutely golden. Inject it into my veins plz.

Our website for the British Planetary Society Conference 2026 is now live! 📅 9-11 June, 2026 🎯 St Andrews, Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Our website contains details on how to get to St Andrews and the conference accommodation. Registration details will be added soon. bpsc2026.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk

Proportional representation now.

Deadlines for our awards and bursaries are only a week away (15th January), so please get your applications in! We have: - Postdoctoral Medal geochemistry.group/awards-and-m... - ECR Prominent Lecture Series - Meeting attendance bursaries geochemistry.group/funding-oppo...

Brand-new chaired professorship, in any subdiscipline, at our School. Limited teaching and admin responsibilities so you can focus on research and impact!

Rejoice!

Ah, the Ashes!

Magnesium: not a mineral bbc.com/news/article...

PREACH!

I didn't realise shandy was such a big deal in diplomatic circles.

Suicide statistics are sobering, but there is hope. 74% of people with had suicidal thoughts say these were interrupted by a friend, loved one or even a stranger. Find out more @samaritans.bsky.social #WorldSuicidePreventionDay 👇 samaritans.org/support-us/campaign/world-suicide-prevention-day

Starmer to Northern Ireland secretary Ed Miliband is the prime minister

Academia may not give you job security, flexibility, or wealth, but it will let you unexpectedly connect to eduroam in foreign cities

V much looking forward to @redlettermedia.com having a go on this.

Ah man. RIP Ozzy.

NERC: We need to open up environmental science! Why is it not diverse? Also NERC: We're scrapping Independent Research Fellowships, New Investigator Grants, Small Grants, are limiting applications from institutions based on past success rates and will only allow you to submit your proposal once.

Our Euro Cup hopes have petered out as a superb performance by Poland leads to us slipping to a 91 run defeat. We finish on 9 points, the same number as the tournament winners, but a little behind on Net Run Rate. Victories over Lithuania, Latvia, and Ukraine leave us proud.

Auspicious hotel room name en route to @goldschmidt-confer.bsky.social See you in Czechia!

Half of doing academia is pretending you've read something everyone's pretending they've read

QUICK EVERYONE! Now's our chance! SET THE STUDENTS SOME ESSAYS!!!

Now published in Communications Earth & Environment @commsearth.nature.com: "Silicon isotopic signatures of granitoids support increased weathering of subaerial land 3.7 billion years ago" by N. Greber, M. E. Murphy, J.-C. Storck, J.R. Reimink, N. Dauphas & P.S. Savage www.nature.com/articles/s43...

@eageo.bsky.social not really doing a great job for their remote "presenters" - i.e. they aren't presenting, just putting a video together which will be buried on the conference website. No engagement with the in-person attendees, not even played during the oral session. Not worth the money.

At our GGRiP meeting this year, we held an art & photography competition. Over the next few weeks we will be sharing our entries here. First up is a stunning photo by Thomas Marquand ‪@tommarquand.bsky.social titled 'The start of the field day on the Ouse Washes'

New research! rdcu.be/emGpq We use Si and Ti isotope compositions of ancient continental crust to infer that continents started to poke their heads above sea-level (so providing nutrients to the oceans and mediating atmospheric CO₂) ~3.8-3.6 billion years ago. @earthscista.bsky.social @unibe.ch

Who's your favourite pokemon? Wrong answers only.

Another fantastic example of the fact that, as long as you have a posh accent, you can get away with saying the most moronic shite

I absolutely despair with our current government, I really do. I had so much hope, but all their decisions seem to be based on what's good for the Labour party, and not what's good for the country. 😞

Fantastic news! As many of my colleagues know (and are probably tired of), I'm often spreading the gospel of Arran's amazing geology.

The Labour Party: rushing in to save the British steel industry while letting the far larger university sector implode, because they have reasoned that the former is more important to potential Reform voters than the latter. So much for centrism and “the adults being back in the room”, hey?

Seeing what is happening to the USA is so tragic. I had a great time working there and met some lovely people. There is not much that would convince me to travel there at the moment. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

It is 2002. I am 18 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2008. I am 24 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2020. I am 36 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2025. I am 41 years old. We are in a—

Good God, this is horrific. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

I'll spend >£30 on esoteric progressive rock records (I am alone)

Post a warning

A FINAL REMINDER that the abstract deadline for The Geochemistry Group Research in Progress meeting (GGRiP) is MIDNIGHT TONIGHT. This will be a great meeting! Visit ggrip2025.co.uk for more information and to submit your abstracts.

We have extended the GGRiP abstract deadline to Friday 14th March at midnight. This is your last chance to get your abstracts submitted. It is shaping up to be a fantastic meeting so don't miss out! Visit ggrip2025.co.uk for more information.

Fucking Russian agent bone-spur coward rapist scum sitting next to the Churchill of our age.

This might be the best news I've read this year (not a high bar)