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)

Registration and abstract submission for GGRiP 2025 (Birmingham, 8th-10th April) meeting are now open! Please visit the conference website for more information: ggrip2025.co.uk

Thinking of coming to the #Goldschmidt2025 conference? And working on marine #silicate weathering and reverse weathering? Then consider submitting an abstract to our session 12f! 🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊⛰️⛰️⛰️⛰️🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊 @aprilabbott.bsky.social @krhendry.bsky.social conf.goldschmidt.info/goldschmidt/...

The pure joy of checking your calendar and seeing a totally empty day.

EXCLUSIVE: just had a sneak peek into SpaceX's development labs

Please consider a submission to this exciting new journal!

If you see this post, quote with a bridge from your gallery

Sometimes a Nazi salute is just a Nazi salute. Given that a longtime Nazi did it, no need to overthink that. For fuck’s sake.

The average professor is afraid of being "asked" to help out with the next REF submission.

I'm going to be saying NO to a lot of things this year. #nyresolution

@threebeansaladpod.bsky.social themed birthday presents from sister.

Liverpool currently playing Leicester in Victorian-era London #peasoup

Merry Christmas! I hope everyone's had a great day!

Hi all! Please check out if you or any of your coworkers are elligible for the Geochemistry Group's Meeting Attendance Bursaries (for UK and Ireland-based students) or Awards (Postdoctoral Medal and ECR Prominent Lecturer). We've tried to make these as quick and easy as possible to apply for!