Craig Storey
@cragtastic.bsky.social
Geologist, Professor at University of Portsmouth
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November 19, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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How things are going…
Please support us if you can!
Please support us if you can!
UCU (@ucu.org.uk) has called a national demonstration against the planned redundancies at the University of Leicester.
Please come and march alongside us in Leicester on 12 November.
All welcome!
Please come and march alongside us in Leicester on 12 November.
All welcome!
October 31, 2025 at 7:44 AM
How things are going…
Please support us if you can!
Please support us if you can!
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If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
![[Scene is the entrance cabin to a NATIONAL TRUST PROPERTY AND GARDENS]
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NATIONAL TRUST EMPLOYEE [inside cabin]:
Hello there
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[A young family - two parents two kids - have arrived at the front desk].
DAD:
Hi - do you have an activity trail, for the kids?
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NT EMPLOYEE:
Of course – you’re just in time for the Autumn Gammon Trail!
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MUM:
That sounds fun, doesn’t it kids?
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NT EMPLOYEE [handing an activity sheet and pencils to the kids]:
Every autumn, the Reform Trust gammons flock back to the National Trust for the AGM. Just follow the trail round the grounds, and see how many you can spot!
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NT EMPLOYEE [hearing something in the gardens]:
Listen - that's their call
[Calls emanating from the landscape]:
tut-tut
woke-woke
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NT EMPLOYEE [showing the family an apparently empty fenced enclosure with some bushes in]:
They are extremely sensitive and fragile...
But you can bring them out of hiding if you put a little sign down mentioning slavery.
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KIDS [pointing]:
There they are!
[Some little red faced PEOPLE wearing Barbour jackets and gilets emerge cautiously from the bushes. They are creeping towards a TINY SIGN in the middle of the enclosure].
[Little people noises]:
woke-woke
tut-tut
woke-woke
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[Close-up of the TINY SIGN - we can read that it says]:
Slavery had a bit to do with building this massive house.
[Noises from the little people again as they inspect the tiny sign]:
tut-tut
woke-woke
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MUM [pointing]:
What's that one doing there?
NT EMPLOYEE:
Oh, that's so sweet…
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[We see that one of the people is sat on a rock, with a little laptop open on a tree stump, and they are furiously typing away].
NT EMPLOYEE:
I think he's writing a column for the Daily Telegraph…
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[We see close up to the little person’s screen, it is a word document reading]:
Are National Trust scones secretly WOKE?
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October 31, 2025 at 9:02 AM
If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
Barry Can't Swim are officially my fave new band, they were awesome at Forwards Festival in Bristol yesterday www.youtube.com/watch?v=QY66...
Barry Can't Swim - 'About To Begin' (Official Audio)
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August 24, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Barry Can't Swim are officially my fave new band, they were awesome at Forwards Festival in Bristol yesterday www.youtube.com/watch?v=QY66...
An excellent week of science at Goldschmidt 2025, all lapped up by team Pompey. Exhausting but fun and crucial
July 12, 2025 at 1:06 PM
An excellent week of science at Goldschmidt 2025, all lapped up by team Pompey. Exhausting but fun and crucial
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OK, this is wild.
In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.
It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.
What the HELL?
1/
In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.
It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.
What the HELL?
1/
May 12, 2025 at 3:20 PM
OK, this is wild.
In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.
It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.
What the HELL?
1/
In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.
It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.
What the HELL?
1/
I'm bloody loving this World Snooker Chamionship business. Beats the hell out of the news at the moment.
April 25, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I'm bloody loving this World Snooker Chamionship business. Beats the hell out of the news at the moment.
Heidi in her pyjamas (for anxiety) getting busy with a bone #NationalPetDay
April 11, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Heidi in her pyjamas (for anxiety) getting busy with a bone #NationalPetDay
A garnet fish (?) in a sillimanite-garnet gneiss from west Greenland. Note the melt embayments in the garnet. #ThinSectionThursday
April 3, 2025 at 1:08 PM
A garnet fish (?) in a sillimanite-garnet gneiss from west Greenland. Note the melt embayments in the garnet. #ThinSectionThursday
Particularly close to my heart as I have family out there
March 29, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Particularly close to my heart as I have family out there
Opx-bearing eclogite from Norway in cross polarised light, x4 objective #thinsectionthursday
March 27, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Opx-bearing eclogite from Norway in cross polarised light, x4 objective #thinsectionthursday
A biotite Muscovite schist with crenulation cleavage #thinsectionthursday
March 20, 2025 at 2:28 PM
A biotite Muscovite schist with crenulation cleavage #thinsectionthursday
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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.
March 11, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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.
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Join us for a free-to-attend pre-conference workshop hosted by Datech Scientific, introducing researchers to Laser Ablation ICP-MS (LA-ICP-MS) and Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS).
This event is open to all researchers, PhD students, and academics!
Visit ggrip2025.co.uk for more info!
This event is open to all researchers, PhD students, and academics!
Visit ggrip2025.co.uk for more info!
March 11, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Join us for a free-to-attend pre-conference workshop hosted by Datech Scientific, introducing researchers to Laser Ablation ICP-MS (LA-ICP-MS) and Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS).
This event is open to all researchers, PhD students, and academics!
Visit ggrip2025.co.uk for more info!
This event is open to all researchers, PhD students, and academics!
Visit ggrip2025.co.uk for more info!
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⚠️⚒️🧪⚛️⚗️Early Bird deadline for GGRiP 2025 ends *this Monday (10th)*: ggrip2025.co.uk It's a great conference for geochemists of all disciplines and especially for ECRs. @geolsoc.bsky.social #geochemistry #geology #earthscience @organiccarbon.bsky.social @climategordon.bsky.social l
March 7, 2025 at 4:47 PM
⚠️⚒️🧪⚛️⚗️Early Bird deadline for GGRiP 2025 ends *this Monday (10th)*: ggrip2025.co.uk It's a great conference for geochemists of all disciplines and especially for ECRs. @geolsoc.bsky.social #geochemistry #geology #earthscience @organiccarbon.bsky.social @climategordon.bsky.social l
Bit late for thin section Thursday but check these sillimanite, biotite and melt (nanogranitoid) inclusions in garnet from a mignatite from southern Brittany - I’m teaching migmatites today!
March 7, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Bit late for thin section Thursday but check these sillimanite, biotite and melt (nanogranitoid) inclusions in garnet from a mignatite from southern Brittany - I’m teaching migmatites today!
Having fun getting to grips with the synchrotron at ESRF Grenoble measuring sulphur valence in apatite by XANES
January 24, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Having fun getting to grips with the synchrotron at ESRF Grenoble measuring sulphur valence in apatite by XANES
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It's been nearly 2 years in the making and here we are. @weareagc.bsky.social is now open for submissions!
Community led and community driven. Free to read and free to publish.
Community led and community driven. Free to read and free to publish.
January 20, 2025 at 9:11 AM
It's been nearly 2 years in the making and here we are. @weareagc.bsky.social is now open for submissions!
Community led and community driven. Free to read and free to publish.
Community led and community driven. Free to read and free to publish.
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Hey @whysharksmatter.bsky.social, Nature, as reported by @floragraham.bsky.social, is "keen to find out how scientists are using Bluesky and whether it has become their go-to social-media platform." And they too have a survey at survey.alchemer.com/s3/8149795/B...
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Bluesky
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January 15, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Hey @whysharksmatter.bsky.social, Nature, as reported by @floragraham.bsky.social, is "keen to find out how scientists are using Bluesky and whether it has become their go-to social-media platform." And they too have a survey at survey.alchemer.com/s3/8149795/B...
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It's been a terrible week. A terrible, terrible week. The worst people on earth are full of energy and vigour, the best are defined by anxiety and self-doubt. Here are three simple rules to surviving the next four years, because by God we'll need them iandunt.substack.com/p/a-little-b...
A little bit of hope after a terrible week
A survival guide to the next four years.
iandunt.substack.com
January 10, 2025 at 12:00 PM
It's been a terrible week. A terrible, terrible week. The worst people on earth are full of energy and vigour, the best are defined by anxiety and self-doubt. Here are three simple rules to surviving the next four years, because by God we'll need them iandunt.substack.com/p/a-little-b...
Zuckerburg is seriously trying to destroy any semblance of family unity. I'm going to have come off Facebook now instead of pretending to be there and just ignoring it. This is every racist uncle's dream.
January 7, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Zuckerburg is seriously trying to destroy any semblance of family unity. I'm going to have come off Facebook now instead of pretending to be there and just ignoring it. This is every racist uncle's dream.
Can't believe this was 20 years ago. Can't believe I managed to survive 6 weeks in the middle of a glacier in the Antarctic!
December 10, 2024 at 5:47 PM
Can't believe this was 20 years ago. Can't believe I managed to survive 6 weeks in the middle of a glacier in the Antarctic!
I could do with one of these on fieldwork. Mine is only into squeaky balls
This is Yuma. She's an amateur geologist. Brings home one carefully selected rock a day. For science. 13/10
December 10, 2024 at 10:02 AM
I could do with one of these on fieldwork. Mine is only into squeaky balls
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Word of the day is ‘quafftide’ (16th century): the season for drinking. Also a pithy way of declaring that it’s time to relax.
Works for hydropots (water drinkers) just as well.
Works for hydropots (water drinkers) just as well.
December 6, 2024 at 6:23 PM
Word of the day is ‘quafftide’ (16th century): the season for drinking. Also a pithy way of declaring that it’s time to relax.
Works for hydropots (water drinkers) just as well.
Works for hydropots (water drinkers) just as well.