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Gareth Fabbro
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Volcano lover and lecturer in igneous processes at @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social. Lived in: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇫🇷 🇸🇬 🇫🇯 🇵🇭 🇧🇪. Studied volcanoes in: 🇮🇹 🇬🇷 🇵🇬 🇵🇭
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Gareth Fabbro @fitzgabbro.bsky.social · Oct 20
Do you like stripy rocks? Want to study how ore deposits form? Does fieldwork in Norway sound like fun? Come do a PhD with @3oja.bsky.social and me (and a few others) at @ueaenv.bsky.social!

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Magma emplacement and its evolution: deciphering between magmatic and tectonic processes | Aries
Dr Zoja Vukmanovic, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia Dr Gareth Fabbro, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia Dr Will McCarthy, University of St Andrews...
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tfinch.bsky.social
Are you an MSc student based at a UK university? Or do you know one?
RSPB @rspbscience.bsky.social have just released their list of research projects for 2026:
www.rspb.org.uk/helping-natu...
#ornithology #conservationscience 🌍
Postgraduate opportunities
The RSPB is offering a variety of exciting research projects for postgraduate students in 2026.
www.rspb.org.uk
November 21, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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VIDEO: 🇮🇩 Indonesia on highest alert level after volcano near Bali erupts

Clouds of ash and gas rise above Mount Semeru in the east of Indonesia's main island of Java after eruptions force officials to raise the alert status to its highest level. At least 300 people have been evacuated so far
November 20, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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geophysichick.bsky.social
Speaking of bad science in media (and I am using the term "media" pretty loosely here), allow me to use The Daily Mail as evidence of why you should get your science information from reputable agencies rather than crap websites. I'm not going to link the article, but it looks like this:

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An article in the Daily Mail entitled "America's deadliest volcano enters unprecedented 72-hour tremor phase as eruption threat looms over millions". This is incorrect.
November 19, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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aivulcan.bsky.social
Today #Strombolistatid’animo treats us to some unbelievable shots 🌋😍
#Stromboli #SebastianoCannaò
November 18, 2025 at 6:08 PM
fitzgabbro.bsky.social
Today's harvest
A handful of carrots and parsnips of varying sizes, two red habanero chillies, a thin red cayenne chilli, and two green bell peppers
November 16, 2025 at 2:32 PM
fitzgabbro.bsky.social
This is my hometown 😢

My family is fine, but the images hit differently when it is a place you know so well

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Monmouth floods prompt 'danger to life' warnings and rescues
Bethan Turner described how she, her father and her boyfriend were left standing on the roof of their submerged car.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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jessicacalarco.com
I appreciate that the main takeaway from this lesson is that science can't ever really be "apolitical."
jessicacalarco.com Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 8d
11-year-old: Our new science project is so frustrating!

Me: How so?

11: We're designing an earthquake warning system, and we could only get it to 59 minutes and 2 false alarms, and it still cost $123M, which means cutting road and school budgets. It's impossible!

Me: Sounds like that's the point.
November 14, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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erikklemetti.bsky.social
The current issue of Nature Geoscience is focussed on the 1985 eruption of Nevado del Ruiz in Colombia. The lahars from this eruption destroyed a town and killed ~20,000 people only ~50 miles from where my mother grew up and I spent a lot of my childhood.
www.nature.com/collections/...
Volcanic hazards and risk mitigation since the 1985 Armero disaster
The November 1985 eruption of Colombia’s Nevado del Ruiz volcano and the resulting Armero disaster marked a turning point in natural hazard and risk research, ...
www.nature.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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drlperezdiaz.bsky.social
Tectonic plate puzzle anyone? 🌎

Made by me, one at a time. I’m planning to have a really limited number available before the holidays - if you want to find out when I do, sign up to my newsletter! I will share them through it first.

Sign up > www.luciaperezdiaz.com#newsletter
(No spam, I promise)
November 11, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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celestelabedz.bsky.social
Fellow seismologists, we're going to get a lot of mileage out of the latest @xkcd.com
xckd coming of a flowchart. The top reads "someone is claiming to predict the exact date of a future earthquake. Should you listen?" A diamond-shape says "start" and one arrow leads to a box reading "NO" in very large letters, followed by "(there are big earthquakes constantly, so if anyone ever DOES figure this out, it will be immediately obvious that their method works and then the world's seismologists will not shut up about it. You won't need this flowchart."
November 8, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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aliettedebodard.com
I lost the framed original of this while I was going through St Pancras on Sunday Nov 2nd around 3pm. Would love if it had been found by anyone?
A picture of a red moon with a tower and the steps leading to it, in black and white The caption says "The keep and keeper"
November 5, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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xkcd.com
Heart Mountain

xkcd.com/3162/
4-panel comic. (1) PERSON 1: We haven’t checked in on the geology department for a while. I wonder if they’re doing okay. (2) PERSON 2 with ponytail: I’ll go see what they’re up to. (3) [Person 2 opens door to room where a person is gesturing at a projector screen and explaining to two other people] PERSON 3: 49 million years ago, Heart Mountain, Wyoming slid sideways 15 miles like a giant stone hovercraft. (4) PERSON 2 [returning to Person 1]: ...They’re not okay. OFF-PANEL PERSON: Hey, *you* come up with a better explanation!
November 4, 2025 at 8:12 PM
fitzgabbro.bsky.social
Do you like stripy rocks? Want to study how ore deposits form? Does fieldwork in Norway sound like fun? Come do a PhD with @3oja.bsky.social and me (and a few others) at @ueaenv.bsky.social!

aries-dtp.ac.uk/studentships...
Magma emplacement and its evolution: deciphering between magmatic and tectonic processes | Aries
Dr Zoja Vukmanovic, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia Dr Gareth Fabbro, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia Dr Will McCarthy, University of St Andrews...
aries-dtp.ac.uk
October 20, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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stephencollins.bsky.social
1 Nurse: It’s become a real problem in this area 2 Nurse: We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction 3 Show a building sign posted: Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it Nurse: Ministers, Spads, Researchers… 4 Nurse: Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely [Nurse on phone taking a call] Ok - we’ll be right over 5 Nurse: We just have a gentle chat [Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster Minister: I understand your concerns… 6 Nurse: Are you OK love? Minister: Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters 7 Nurse: That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian [Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters] Nurse 2: Give us your phone, love 8 Nurse: At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to [We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.] 9 Minister: YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR [woman looks baffled] 10 woman: I just want a bus service Minister: LOOK AT MY FLAG [produces a St George's flag] [ends]
October 19, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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bipedalmeatbag.bsky.social
Kīlauea episode 35 has arrived. The double fountain shot is from one of the HVO interns, Christina. All are taken from the public viewing areas.
Two lava fountains at night feeding a flow A bright orange lava fountain A bright orange lava fountain with glowing clouds.
October 18, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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phaneritic.bsky.social
Kilauea is putting on another tremendous show right now. Anyone got a private jet we could borrow after No Kings tomorrow?
www.youtube.com/live/BqmpkUd...
YouTube screen cap of massive double fountain of orange lava shooting away from one another into the black of night. Foreground has a very large lava flow pouring over uneven landscape
October 18, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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taynappe.bsky.social
It must be #FridayFold ⚒️ time!
Carboniferous Crackington Formation at Hartland Quay, Devon, UK (similar to Millook Haven further south along the coast, but upright here)
Steeply-dipping strata on both limbs of a tight upright antiform on the LHS of the piccie. Dunno about RHS, is there a synform there or is it faulted? Waves crash below onto stony beach.
October 17, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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canopyrobin.com
I'm so proud to announce my most ambitious pin to date: a miniature guide to the trees of Britain (and lots of Europe)!

Available now from my Etsy: canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4386...
A rectangular enamel pin with two hinges on the left hand side. It looks like a book and has a picture of a tree on the front. The book is titled: Trees, a miniature guidebook. An open version of the pin shows assorted leaf shapes on the pages of the book. The leaves are labelled by species as oak, horse chestnut, sycamore, hawthorn, ash, alder, hazel, holly, lime, beech, and birch
October 15, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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edhawkins.org
A request for weather interested volunteers!

Met Eireann would like to rescue millions of weather observations taken in Ireland over many decades that are still stuck on paper. #WeatherRescue

Anyone can help: www.zooniverse.org/projects/met...
October 16, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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lastquake.emsc.eu
#Earthquake 18 km E of #Manay (#Philippines) 7 min ago (local time 09:43:59). Colored dots represent local shaking & damage level reported by eyeswitnesses. Share your experience via:
📱#appc.eu/#app" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">https://m.emsc.eu/#app
🌐https://m.emsc.eu/?id=1878673
From EMSC
October 10, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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subfossilguy.bsky.social
Ice cave at Zinal Glacier front tonight! 🧊🥰
October 8, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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mineralcup.bsky.social
We have a #MinCup25 champion!!

Congratulations, #Kyanite!
www.mineralcup.org/2025

After eight years of competing, another few hours to verify votes was nothing, right?

Amazing first run, #Tugtupite, and better luck next year.
2025 — Mineral Cup
www.mineralcup.org
October 2, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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pfsmet.bsky.social
And here is the updated color summary for #MinCup25!
Colorless (white-grey-black) minerals were quickly kicked out, unfortunately. Maybe next time, there can be a max color level for participation? Tenebrescent #tugtupite can participate again and take a glorious win after exposure to UV ;-)
Bracket of MinCup25. For each mineral, the typical appearance is shown with a small image. Of course, some minerals have multiple colours, so snippets from the images on the voting posts or the website were taken. Colored lines connect the different rounds.
October 2, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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scurry.bsky.social
I am so dismayed a the statement today from the President of the @royalsociety.org that I want to publish here the letter I wrote to him yesterday urging him to address the clear concerns of the UK scientific community.
Screenshot of first part of letter (continues in next image). Text reads: Dear Sir Adrian I write to request that in its deliberations tomorrow the Council resolves to take a principled stand to defend the scientific values written into its code of conduct. In its attempts to deal with the actions of Elon Musk FRS, the Royal Society has repeatedly failed to explain how his repudiation of those values is consistent with the code of conduct that all Fellows must adhere to as a condition of their fellowship. As is now well established, these actions include attacking Antony Fauci FRS without good cause; spreading scientific misinformation on X [through his own utterances and by relaxing controls on the platform]; recklessly and unlawfully degrading the research ecosystem of the US as part of DOGE; and bragging publicly about "feeding USAID into the wood chipper", which the Lancet estimates will cause the deaths of 14 million people, many of them children under the age of five, by 2030. The Society’s inaction extends to the recent brief exchange of correspondence between Prof Sir Paul Nurse and Mr Musk. Although there was some initial contact, when Sir Paul laid out the Society’s specific concerns there was no reply or explanation from Musk. For reasons that I’m afraid I cannot fathom, you chose once again not to enforce your code of conduct. Screenshot of letter. Text continues: "You will be aware that the sense of bewildered dismay over this affair is shared by Royal Society Fellows, medallists and journals editors, and many thousands within the scientific community here and abroad. The Royal Society still claims to speak for scientists in the UK, but on this vital issue, its inaction represents an inexplicable rupture with values that our community holds very dear. In all this my primary concern is has been for the good standing of the Royal Society as the UK’s national academy. As I am sure you understand all too well (given your recent remarks in the wake of Mr Musk’s ill-judged speech at the Tommy Robinson rally), the country, the world at large, and the very practice of science itself face severe challenges from technologies and populist politics that foment division and ignorance. In such troubled times, people look to our established institutions to have the courage to stand by long-held values of truth and decency. It is my sincere hope the Royal Society will demonstrate tomorrow that it is just such an institution. Yours faithfully, Stephen"
October 1, 2025 at 5:42 PM
fitzgabbro.bsky.social
If the racism and fascism on display at the Unite the Kingdom rally, especially from Elon Musk, are not a threat to the "values that allow science to flourish", then what is? Is racism just a "personal political opinion" that you can ignore whenever it's convenient to you, @royalsociety.org?
royalsociety.org The Royal Society @royalsociety.org · Oct 1
"I am increasingly concerned over threats to the values that allow science to flourish." Read the full statement from the President of the Royal Society Sir Adrian Smith: royalsociety.org/news/2025/10...
A statement from the President of the Royal Society | Royal Society
A statement from the President of the Royal Society regarding threats to the values that allow science to flourish.
royalsociety.org
October 1, 2025 at 6:13 PM