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David Pyle
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Volcanologist at the University of Oxford: volcanic histories, imaginaries, resources and futures. https://curatingcrises.omeka.net/ https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/rethinking-natural-resources/ https://www.torch.ox.ac.uk/vesuvius-22
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#OreCup Finals:
It’s copper ore native #Copper vs molybdenum (& rhenium) ore #Molybdenite. Both are shiny, but only one can be the Ore Mineral of the Year

Vote:
Vote in Ore Cup FINALS — Mineral Cup & Ore Cup
Pick the Ore Mineral of the Year! Voting for Copper vs Molybdenite will remain open for 48 hours. Credit: David M. Maietta and Harold Moritz
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November 9, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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We're excited to announce that Professor Helen Johnson was interviewed by Michael Rosen as part of the Hot Poets Ignite campaign!

Hot Poets is an award-winning arts organisation working to communicate climate change science and action through spoken word poetry.

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Climate Problems and Solutions Meet The Scientist - Michael Rosen & Helen Johnson Pt 1
YouTube video by Hot Poets
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November 5, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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It has been such fun to work with Martha Keswick and the COPE team on their Disaster Champions project!

cope-disaster-champions.com/books/

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From storytelling to resilience: A transdisciplinary approach to empowering children in disaster risk reduction
This paper presents an extended and multi-faceted project that explores a model of best practice designed to empower children to play enhanced roles i…
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November 5, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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Coming up on November 9, Midland Arts Centre, #Birmingham - a staged reading of a new dramatisation of a crisis in 1930's colonial #Montserrat. Is a volcano about to erupt?

Part of the 2025 @beinghumanfest.bsky.social @ukri.org #AHRC

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Missives - Birmingham
A crisis unravelling in letters. Many enquiries have tried to ‘learn lessons’ from crises provoked by natural hazards. Often, disaster is rooted in the misfiring communication and stalled decision-mak...
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October 28, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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Coming up on November 9, Midland Arts Centre, #Birmingham - a staged reading of a new dramatisation of a crisis in 1930's colonial #Montserrat. Is a volcano about to erupt?

Part of the 2025 @beinghumanfest.bsky.social @ukri.org #AHRC

www.beinghumanfestival.org/events/missi...
Missives - Birmingham
A crisis unravelling in letters. Many enquiries have tried to ‘learn lessons’ from crises provoked by natural hazards. Often, disaster is rooted in the misfiring communication and stalled decision-mak...
www.beinghumanfestival.org
October 28, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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Wow! Volcanoes Top Trumps - on i-player; season 1, episode 6 of Leonard and Hungry Paul.

'Wow factor 89. Mount St Helens. Fantastic card'

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#volcanoes
Screenshot of the BBC iplayer photograph advertising episode 6 of the comedy Leonard and Hungry Paul. The image shows two men, sitting side by side, both holding a hand of cards - which are Volcano Top Trumps.
October 23, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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2026 Canadian History & Environment Summer School is going to Prince Edward Island!!

The theme of CHESS 2026 is Climate & History. Keynotes by @dagomardegroot.bsky.social & Liza Piper.

Apply to attend the PREMIER Canadian #EnvHist Event by 30 November 2025.

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CHESS 2026: Climate & History - Call for Participants
We are pleased to invite applications to attend the 2026 Canadian History & Environment Summer School.
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October 20, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Up for auction next week in Edinburgh - Scottish mathematician James Stirling’s library; including his copy of James Hutton’s Theory of the Earth.. #HistSci

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Hutton, James the Theory of the Earth, From the Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Auction from 'The Library of James Stirling, Mathematician', 23 October 2025 from 13:00 GMT. Lot 71. [Edinburgh, c.1787]. [2] 96 [2] pp., half-title, ‘Explanation of Plate' leaf to rear, 2 engraved pl...
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October 17, 2025 at 7:26 AM
davidmpyle.bsky.social
Very sad to hear that Peter Friend has died.

Peter was a wonderful teacher and a lovely colleague, and first introduced me to the geology of Almeria in the 1990s for an undergraduate field class.

Here's Peter, still running the trip 4 years into retirement.⚒️

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Photograph of two people standing by some rocks in a gorge, with vegetation in the background. On the left - Dr Peter Friend, on the right Dr Irene Gomez-Perez, in conversation by the Carboneras fault, Granatilla valley, southern Almeria, Spain in April 2005. Peter and Irene were co-leading a Cambridge undergraduate Earth Sciences field class at the time. @cambridge-earthsci.bsky.social
October 14, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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🚨New publication🚨
A new Exp398 study led by @abigaillily.bsky.social showed that caldera volcanism is associated with rifting on the South Aegean Volcanic Arc, Santorini and Kos Volcanoes may be coupled by regional lithospheric stresses...
#NSFfunded
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Research vessel JOIDES Resolution off the Greek village of Oia, Santorini.
October 7, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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abigaillily.bsky.social
An unexpected discovery of IODP Exp 398! 200 m of ash from the Kos Plateau Tuff eruption buried in the basins around Santorini, read how it got there in our new paper in Science Advances 🌋
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Submarine ash megabed fed by far-traveled, shoreline-crossing pyroclastic currents from a large explosive volcanic eruption
Volcanic ash from an eruption in Greece poured into the sea, forming a bed 200 m thick in a submarine basin far from the volcano.
www.science.org
August 13, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Great new paper from Abigail Metcalfe and the IODP398 team!
@ukiodp.bsky.social #Santorini

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Tectonic modulation of caldera volcanism on the South Aegean Volcanic Arc
Many highly hazardous, caldera-forming explosive eruptions occur in extensional tectonic regimes, but the role of lithospheric rifting in modulating c…
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October 7, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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volcanojenni.bsky.social
We’re advertising a PhD studentship for folks with good knowledge of Caribbean culture and society, with background in geography, human geography, humanities or interdisciplinary geosciences as part of our @leverhulme.ac.uk funded ‘volcanic histories’ project
Summary of what the PhD student will do. QR code in bottom LHS. Project part of our Leverhulme Trust funded project volcanic histories and the student will examine the cultural markers and response to to volcanic activity across the Eastern Caribbean. Understand local ways of knowing and remembering volcanic activity. Integrate scientific. And community knowledge for DRR - joining an interdisciplinary team from several universities.
October 7, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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mineralcup.bsky.social
#MinCup25 Final: After a month of learning and laughter, we’re at the final match to determine the 2025 Mineral Cup Champion! We have blue blades of #kyanite up against optical magician #tugtupite.

Vote: www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r5...
Results: www.mineralcup.org/2025/results...
Vote in 2025 Final Match — Mineral Cup
Click here to vote in Kyanite vs Tugtupite Photo credits: John Sobolewski and Parent Géry
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October 1, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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Volcanic crises! Archives! The ‘real story’ between the lines.

We’re performing a ‘staged reading’ and exploring two crises on #montserrat - with two wonderful playwrights as part of #beinghumanfestival. Come see us in London and also 1/2
Missives - London
A crisis unravelling in letters. Many enquiries have tried to ‘learn lessons’ from crises provoked by natural hazards. Often, disaster is rooted in the misfiring communication and stalled decision-mak...
www.beinghumanfestival.org
September 26, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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grumpyvolcano.bsky.social
If anyone is interested, the paper from my postdoc I left (coming up to 3 years now?!) got published: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Just FYI I've forgotten everything and so removed from academia now, so please direct any questions to @volcanojenni.bsky.social @davidmpyle.bsky.social
Science in a crisis: Assembling volcanic knowledge in twentieth century Montserrat
In the 1930s Montserrat, part of the British Leeward Islands colony, experienced a prolonged period of seismic unrest which many on the island interpr…
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September 4, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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Congrats 🎉 BVDP project (South Africa) finalized! Final depth: 1877.2 m depth on 23rd August 25. Congratulations to the successful team! 👍 Important goals achieved⚡now preparing for sampling and for publishing exciting new insights into the Bushveld Complex! ℹ️ www.icdp-online.org/projects/by-...
September 1, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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rsc.org
Don’t miss the Kathleen Lonsdale Public Lecture!

Commemorating 200 years since Faraday isolated benzene, celebrating Lonsdale's contributions in crystallography, activism & science communication.

Free to attend, all welcome.

Register: buff.ly/IIDjsC2

#Science #London #Chemistry #WomenInSTEM
Photo of Dame Kathleen Lonsdale.
August 7, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Colonial-era yellow firebrick, manufactured by Rufford & Co., Stourbridge, and imported to #StLucia where it was used in the bakery near Fort Rodney, Pigeon Island.
Photograph of some bricks, one of which is made from yellow clay with the partial impression [RU]FFORD [STOU]RBRIDGE, near the colonial-era bakery building on Pigeon Island, St Lucia. Photograph from Fort Rodney, St Lucia, of Signal Peak, Pigeon island. Bright red flowers of the Flamboyant trees in the foreground.
July 26, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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Director of the Montserrat Tourism Authority, Rosetta West Gerald highlighting the #Montserrat Mural Tour; featuring four murals created in 2023 during the Curating Crises project curatingcrises.omeka.net/exhibits/sho...
Rosetta West Gerald speaking at a podium in front of a slide on the Montserrat Murals tour
July 18, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Closing presentations at #SHV30 on the themes of geoheritage, and imagining new opportunities for volcano tourism and geopark development on the island of #Montserrat.
Photograph of Rosetta West Gerald at a podium presenting on tourism opportunities on Montserrat. Photograph of Sherene James-Williamson at a podium talking in front of a slide titled geosite, geopark and geoheritage.
July 18, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Subtweet incoming.. an administration that designs a form required for ‘entry’ that contains 74 mandatory questions is an administration that has either forgotten its purpose, or that doesn’t actually want engagement.
July 17, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Soufriere Hills Volcano, Montserrat, with a haze descending across the buried city of Plymouth. #SHV30
Photographic view across the sea of southern Montserrat, with the hazy green hill of the Soufriere Hills Volcano in the background, blue sky and clouds above.
July 16, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Current Montserrat Premier, Reuben T Meade, with his vision for the future. ‘Montserrat Still Home, Still Nice, Still Paradise’. #SHV30
Photograph of Reuben Meade at the podium, reflecting on his times as Chief Minister and Premier.
July 15, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Frank Savage - Governor in 1995 - and Reuben Meade - Chief Minister in 1995 - with reflections on the start of the eruptive crisis in 1995. #SHV30
Photograph of Frank Savage in a pink shirt and linen jacket, and the Honourable Reuben T Meade, adjusting the microphone, on a stage in front of the SHV30 banner. Savage explains ‘my business suit is still on holiday in Antigua’.
July 15, 2025 at 1:21 PM