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Dr Natasha Dowey
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Assoc Prof in Sustainable Geoscience & Volcanology at Sheffield Hallam. Posting about explosive volcanism, hazard and risk, equitable, multidisciplinary geoscience, and the juggles of academia! Creator of www.GeosciencefortheFuture.com. She/her.
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I'm not good at being off sick. Luckily, I have a companion who makes lounging look good.
A very fluffy black and white cat lies on a bed, paws in the air.
November 27, 2023 at 12:06 PM
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Taking Geographers to a classic geology field location and having great conversations about rocks and what they tell us about paleoenvironments and landscape evolution makes me very happy 😍 🧪⚒️ Very positive way to end the week! #LoveGeoscience
Group of students stand in front of a grassy slope and grey rock cliff faces in a limestone valley, Cavedale in Castelton, Peak District Students make observations of a limestone valley to try to reveal how it was formed. Students stand on green grass, with limestone cliffs and a stone castle in background Students stand on tarmac track by gate, in front of bracken hummocky land of the Mam Tor landslide. A rainbow in the sky. Mam Tor escarpment in the background. Castleton, UK Students stand on a tarmac road that has cracked, slipped and fallen downhill. Hummocky landforms in middle ground covered in bracken form oart of the same mass movement event. Flat bottom valley with agriculture and chimney of a cement factory in distance (Hope Valley, UK)
November 3, 2023 at 3:43 PM
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When you go past your field site for the day on the train into work, and all looks beautiful and calm in the morning light... but you know full well that the weather forecast says it will rain cats and dogs on you and your coachload of geography students when you return later today 🤩🫣🤔😫

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Sunrise over Edale, Peak District. Clouds tinged with gold in a pale blue sky float above a grassy ridge, with fields in foreground
November 3, 2023 at 7:40 AM
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It seems excessive...But we bought a loom. And the loom is lovely. The 5 year old loomed a coaster that she is very proud of. Scarves are next to be loomed. It's chunky and they can't break it or themselves. (So far!)
Children's loom
October 19, 2023 at 6:54 PM
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This week, I'm running the first teaching labs on our new flume here at SHU!🤩 Hope the students enjoy exploring the world of analogue pyroclastic density current modelling, and having a go at designing an experiment! #TeamCatastrophicFlows @volcanologist.bsky.social @pyroclasticpete.bsky.social 🧪⚒️
A photo of a computer screen with the front page of a slide deck. It says "Exploring Hazard Modelling" next a photography of three scientists standing behind a experimental flume in a laboratory. The flume is made of a metal frame with a metal hopper and acrylic sides. A computer and camera are also in the image, in front of the flume.
October 15, 2023 at 9:10 PM
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When you listen back to a live interview in relief that you managed not to massively mess up... 🤣 promoting our undergraduate degree was exhilarating! We are SO passionate about our new course - Climate, Sustainability and Environmental Management! This photo shows nervous pre-interview smiles! 🌱⚒️🌍🧪
A woman with long hair and. Pink scarf sits in front of a man with short hair and a black coat. Behind them is a purple background with "BBC Radio Sheffield" written on it. The two lecturers are smiling nervously at the camera.
October 12, 2023 at 4:50 PM
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From writer Simon Heywood

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Poem above a silhouette of the tree at Sycamore Gap- poem reads "we curse the poor benighted chap who felled the Sycamore at the Gap, but tolerate those richer guys who burn whole forests, seas and skies"
October 6, 2023 at 9:46 PM
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Book club just got interesting.
An excerpt from the book "Mrs Caliban, describing Larry the Frog Man, an escaped sea monster who has an affair with a grieving housewife
September 26, 2023 at 7:03 AM
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#VolcanoMonday is on Bluesky and I am so happy! 🧪 ⚒️ Here's a picture of my excited little face after seeing the Geldingadalir crater for the first time in Iceland this year. Complete with still-warm lava field steaming in the rain & woolly volcano hat knitted by the wonderful @shulizl.bsky.social 😀
A person wearing a woolly volcano hat and a blue coat stands in front of a black, steaming lava field with a black, jagged volcanic crater in the background
September 25, 2023 at 5:09 PM
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The small Cornish girl inside never fails to be completely in awe of London.
Very excited woman from small town in Cornwall smiles into camera in front of golden clock tower that houses the famous 'Big Ben' bell in London
September 21, 2023 at 3:06 PM
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At the Geological Society in London for the annual council strategy meeting, and it's very positive- lots of new and exciting progress- the new leadership within the society are doing great things, as are the staff 👏 and enjoyed being shown some of the education team resources!🦖⚒️🧪
Staff in two blow up dinosaur costumes roam the Geological Society library A table containing education resources to help Key stage 2 primary teachers in the UK. pin badges, maps a day handouts, rocks with Googly eyes stuck to them, trays of rocks and fossils with barbie dolls wearing hard hats, and posters showcasing the varied applications of Geology in a more sustainable future A geologist barbie wears a pink suit with geology pin badges and works on a dataset on a tiny laptop
September 21, 2023 at 7:03 AM
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What better way to wake up than with the incredible Kīlauea live feed:

www.youtube.com/live/tBh-ZhI...

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A screen shot of the Kīlauea eruption live feed, showing fire fountaining of glowing red lava from multiple vents feeding flows of red glowing lava at night
September 12, 2023 at 7:26 AM
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You know its been a tiring day when you get the kids to bed and this is what you have the energy to create. #EatingLikeA7YearOld
September 6, 2023 at 7:10 PM
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Sharing your very favourite places in the whole world with your favourite people is the best.

Growing up here made me so passionate about nature and about how the Earth works. It made me want to understand tides, beaches, cliffs, rocks, processes! ⚒️😍

#Cornish
Sunset over sea with a large beach in foreground. The seashore reflects a cloud-filled orange sky. In the centre, a power kite flies high. In the right, a lighthouse sits on a black rock Sun set behind a line of clouds low in the sky, with a beach in the foreground. Calm sea reflects the sky, with large black rocks in the shallows. 2 children look out to sea, standing on a fence, arms outstretched. In the background the sun sets into the line of clouds above the sea Folded and contorted brown and grey slates containing white and orange veins of quartz sit behind a sandy beach. Caves are set back in the cliffs, and beige glacial loose sediments form a layer at the top of the cliffs, beneath a blue evening sky
August 29, 2023 at 8:42 PM
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I've taken up guitar again recently- I'm mediocre at best, but it's been great for finding better work/family time/me time balance..the more I talk about it, the more I find other academics who are secret musicians!

So #AcademicSky, let me know, do you play an instrument? What music do you love? 🧪⚒️
Calloused fingers from re-learning to play the acoustic guitar
August 25, 2023 at 4:45 PM
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Amazing day with the Catastrophic Flows team and colleagues at National Oceanography Centre discussing ocean-entering pyroclastic density currents! Great to visit the NERC core store- these beauties were laid down by volcanic flows into the sea, then captured by deep ocean drilling! 🧪⚒️ #AcademicSky
Two cores of sediment next to a hand lens for scale, one core is a tube of black grains and the other has grey mud and finer black grains Grey and black sediment cored from the ocean floor, zoomed in with a hand lens for scale, sits on top of a wrapper with the core number written on 3 scientists discuss volcanic processes. They stand over a table with 12 sediment cores taken from the sea floor. The cores contain layers of black and grey sediments Two sediment cores from the ocean floor. One contains black sand sized grains, the other contains a mixture of gravel-sized grains, including pale bubbly pumice clasts and grey and orange lithic material from a volcanic vebt
August 25, 2023 at 3:18 PM
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My 6 year old nephew made me a card. The card itself was blowing my mind, but what was even better was the delight he took in describing it to me (the glitter is the ash coming out, the red parts are very hot, the dots are rocks!) Children's imagination+science+art= a beautiful combination!🧪⚒️#SciArt
A yellow card with a drawing of a volcano. The volcano is black with red, yellow and orange lava shapes added, onckuding a red erupting fountain, and the sky above the volcano is filled with silver glitter, and black dots
August 19, 2023 at 9:23 PM
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One of the Geological Society's 100 Great Geosites of the UK for #FoldFriday today, Millook Haven near Bude in my beautiful home county of Cornwall!

https://apphub.cloud.esriuk.com/app/GreatGeosites/index.html#map

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A person in a purple coat and blue jeans stands at the base of a high cliff that dominates the image. The cliff contains astripey zig zag pattern of rocks that are red, orange, black and grey, folded by powerful tectonic forces
August 18, 2023 at 7:35 AM
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Today I wrote the first 1200 words of a paper that's been on my desk for 10 years...felt like a big mental health win. Was going to work into eve but have to break that habit... so listened to music on a beaut Peak District jog instead 😍 How can I keep this up in term time?! #AcademicSky
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Evening sun hits a field with grazing sheep, a town and hills in distance Footpath sign and hedge in foreground, green fields and purple moors in background under blue sky with white clouds
August 15, 2023 at 7:35 PM
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Academia is hard. But if I can grow a single cauliflour larger than my children's heads each summer, then I think I can survive it. The sheer pride of finally growing brassica after years of trying... I will return to the glory of this post in the pit of marking despair in 4 months time 🤣

#academia
Home grown vegetables sit on a wooden table outside with toys behind. Cauliflour, broccoli,courgette, beans,spinach, beetroot and lettuce are lined up, with sweet pea flowers in a vase. Home grown cauliflower close up
August 14, 2023 at 8:52 PM
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I'm jaded by Twitter- many people I admire are joining Bluesky so thought I would too- hello world! Follow me for posts about sustainable & equitable Geoscience, explosive volcanism and its hazards, and the perils and joys of academia- although recently I have mostly been enjoying some summer rest!
Car and tent in a camping spot overlooking a lake and forested hills
August 12, 2023 at 7:25 AM