Ian G. Stimpson
@hypocentre.bsky.social
Seismologist, geophysicist, structural geologist, geoconservationist, not necessarily in that order.
Enough is enough.
That’s your lot, you emerald strigiform nemesis.
Adiós para siempre, búho.
That’s your lot, you emerald strigiform nemesis.
Adiós para siempre, búho.
November 9, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Enough is enough.
That’s your lot, you emerald strigiform nemesis.
Adiós para siempre, búho.
That’s your lot, you emerald strigiform nemesis.
Adiós para siempre, búho.
I note that the university cut-backs haven’t yet extended as far as leaf-blowers 🍃 🍂
November 4, 2025 at 11:06 AM
I note that the university cut-backs haven’t yet extended as far as leaf-blowers 🍃 🍂
P-waves from today’s (20:29:59 UTC 2025/11/02) M6.3 Hindu Kush Region, Afghanistan earthquake recorded on my @raspishake.bsky.social seismometer in Newcastle-under-Lyme, England. ⚒️🧪
November 2, 2025 at 9:00 PM
P-waves from today’s (20:29:59 UTC 2025/11/02) M6.3 Hindu Kush Region, Afghanistan earthquake recorded on my @raspishake.bsky.social seismometer in Newcastle-under-Lyme, England. ⚒️🧪
P-waves from today’s (19:48:29 UTC 2025/10/27) M6.0 Türkiye earthquakes recorded on my @raspishake.bsky.social seismometer in Newcastle-under-Lyme, England. ⚒️🧪
October 27, 2025 at 8:27 PM
P-waves from today’s (19:48:29 UTC 2025/10/27) M6.0 Türkiye earthquakes recorded on my @raspishake.bsky.social seismometer in Newcastle-under-Lyme, England. ⚒️🧪
P-waves from today’s (12:38:40 and 12:54:59 UTC 2025/10/27) M6.5 and M6.0 Leeward Islands earthquakes recorded on my @raspishake.bsky.social seismometer in Newcastle-under-Lyme, England. ⚒️🧪
October 27, 2025 at 3:26 PM
P-waves from today’s (12:38:40 and 12:54:59 UTC 2025/10/27) M6.5 and M6.0 Leeward Islands earthquakes recorded on my @raspishake.bsky.social seismometer in Newcastle-under-Lyme, England. ⚒️🧪
Reposted by Ian G. Stimpson
“When we realised these jewels were only stolen to inflate the share price of a company whose entire value relies on the wholesale theft of other people’s art, we had no choice but grant immunity,”
Genius from @waterfordwhispers.bsky.social
waterfordwhispersnews.com/2025/10/20/l...
Genius from @waterfordwhispers.bsky.social
waterfordwhispersnews.com/2025/10/20/l...
Louvre Thieves Given Immunity After Confirming Jewels Stolen For Purpose Of Training AI Software
FRENCH POLICE have immediately ended all efforts to recover priceless Napoleon-era jewellery from the Louvre taken in a daring heist after it emerged the jewels were merely stolen for the purposes of ...
waterfordwhispersnews.com
October 20, 2025 at 6:43 PM
“When we realised these jewels were only stolen to inflate the share price of a company whose entire value relies on the wholesale theft of other people’s art, we had no choice but grant immunity,”
Genius from @waterfordwhispers.bsky.social
waterfordwhispersnews.com/2025/10/20/l...
Genius from @waterfordwhispers.bsky.social
waterfordwhispersnews.com/2025/10/20/l...
The time to protect British science from the trashing that US science is currently succumbing to from an ultra-right-wing government is now.
🧵🚨
The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news.
Today our report is published!
www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...
1/11
The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news.
Today our report is published!
www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...
1/11
UK’s arm’s length public bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation
Seven in ten Britons say it is important for top scientific institutions to be independent in exclusive new polling.
www.ucl.ac.uk
October 10, 2025 at 2:08 PM
The time to protect British science from the trashing that US science is currently succumbing to from an ultra-right-wing government is now.
S-tier trolling by the Norwegians, there. Lol
October 10, 2025 at 9:20 AM
S-tier trolling by the Norwegians, there. Lol
Luton
What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?
October 8, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Luton
Reposted by Ian G. Stimpson
The GA 2025 Annual Conference at Keele University is finally over after a weekend full of interesting and varied talks, displays and field trips.
Thank you to NSGGA - North Staffs Group of the Geologists' Association and everyone involved in organising and delivering such a packed programme!
Thank you to NSGGA - North Staffs Group of the Geologists' Association and everyone involved in organising and delivering such a packed programme!
October 6, 2025 at 5:09 PM
The GA 2025 Annual Conference at Keele University is finally over after a weekend full of interesting and varied talks, displays and field trips.
Thank you to NSGGA - North Staffs Group of the Geologists' Association and everyone involved in organising and delivering such a packed programme!
Thank you to NSGGA - North Staffs Group of the Geologists' Association and everyone involved in organising and delivering such a packed programme!
Reposted by Ian G. Stimpson
🥳 Happy Geodiversity Day!
⭐ As we celebrate with the theme 'One Earth, Many Stories', read this message from the new UNESCO Chair in Geodiversity and Geoconservation:
🌐 www.geodiversityday.org/post/unesco-...
⭐ As we celebrate with the theme 'One Earth, Many Stories', read this message from the new UNESCO Chair in Geodiversity and Geoconservation:
🌐 www.geodiversityday.org/post/unesco-...
October 6, 2025 at 8:24 AM
🥳 Happy Geodiversity Day!
⭐ As we celebrate with the theme 'One Earth, Many Stories', read this message from the new UNESCO Chair in Geodiversity and Geoconservation:
🌐 www.geodiversityday.org/post/unesco-...
⭐ As we celebrate with the theme 'One Earth, Many Stories', read this message from the new UNESCO Chair in Geodiversity and Geoconservation:
🌐 www.geodiversityday.org/post/unesco-...
Out doing reconnaissance for this Sunday’s Geologists’ Association @geolassoc.bsky.social annual conference field trip to the Staffordshire Moorlands.
Near-vertical calc-turbidities with an inverted olistolith of carbonate mudmound reef. Milldale Fm. Tournaisian. Brown End Quarry, Waterhouses. ⚒️
Near-vertical calc-turbidities with an inverted olistolith of carbonate mudmound reef. Milldale Fm. Tournaisian. Brown End Quarry, Waterhouses. ⚒️
September 30, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Out doing reconnaissance for this Sunday’s Geologists’ Association @geolassoc.bsky.social annual conference field trip to the Staffordshire Moorlands.
Near-vertical calc-turbidities with an inverted olistolith of carbonate mudmound reef. Milldale Fm. Tournaisian. Brown End Quarry, Waterhouses. ⚒️
Near-vertical calc-turbidities with an inverted olistolith of carbonate mudmound reef. Milldale Fm. Tournaisian. Brown End Quarry, Waterhouses. ⚒️
P-waves from today’s (09:59:16 UTC 2025/09/28) M5.4 Türkiye earthquake recorded on my @raspishake.bsky.social seismometer in Newcastle-under-Lyme, England. ⚒️🧪
September 28, 2025 at 11:20 AM
P-waves from today’s (09:59:16 UTC 2025/09/28) M5.4 Türkiye earthquake recorded on my @raspishake.bsky.social seismometer in Newcastle-under-Lyme, England. ⚒️🧪
P-waves from yesterday’s (22:21:55 UTC 2025/09/24) M6.2 Venezuela earthquake recorded on my @raspishake.bsky.social seismometer in Newcastle-under-Lyme, England ⚒️🧪
September 24, 2025 at 11:47 PM
P-waves from yesterday’s (22:21:55 UTC 2025/09/24) M6.2 Venezuela earthquake recorded on my @raspishake.bsky.social seismometer in Newcastle-under-Lyme, England ⚒️🧪
Start of my thirty-ninth year at Keele University.
First in the Department of Geology, then Department of Earth Sciences, then Earth Sciences and Geography, then School of Geography, Geology and the Environment, now School of Life Sciences.
Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.
First in the Department of Geology, then Department of Earth Sciences, then Earth Sciences and Geography, then School of Geography, Geology and the Environment, now School of Life Sciences.
Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.
September 22, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Start of my thirty-ninth year at Keele University.
First in the Department of Geology, then Department of Earth Sciences, then Earth Sciences and Geography, then School of Geography, Geology and the Environment, now School of Life Sciences.
Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.
First in the Department of Geology, then Department of Earth Sciences, then Earth Sciences and Geography, then School of Geography, Geology and the Environment, now School of Life Sciences.
Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.
P-waves from today’s (18:58:13 UTC 2025/09/18) M7.8 near east coast of Kamchatka earthquake recorded on my @raspishake.bsky.social seismometer in Newcastle-under-Lyme, England. ⚒️🧪
September 18, 2025 at 8:49 PM
P-waves from today’s (18:58:13 UTC 2025/09/18) M7.8 near east coast of Kamchatka earthquake recorded on my @raspishake.bsky.social seismometer in Newcastle-under-Lyme, England. ⚒️🧪
Reposted by Ian G. Stimpson
Seems like quite a moment. This morning, the UK was powered entirely by low-carbon energy, it seems.
Yes it's windy and sunny. But it's still a milestone.
Yes it's windy and sunny. But it's still a milestone.
We could have declared "100% zerocarbon" this morning when renewables+nuclear were generating 100% of UK consumption.
As usual this drove our price down, so exports up, and we had to run gas just to power the exports.
NESO set hard target that ZCO has to include exports as well as UK demand.
As usual this drove our price down, so exports up, and we had to run gas just to power the exports.
NESO set hard target that ZCO has to include exports as well as UK demand.
September 16, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Seems like quite a moment. This morning, the UK was powered entirely by low-carbon energy, it seems.
Yes it's windy and sunny. But it's still a milestone.
Yes it's windy and sunny. But it's still a milestone.
P-waves from today’s (02:37:54UTC 2025/09/13) M7.4 near east coast of Kamchatka earthquake recorded on my @raspishake.bsky.social seismometer in Newcastle-under-Lyme, England. ⚒️🧪
September 13, 2025 at 6:41 AM
P-waves from today’s (02:37:54UTC 2025/09/13) M7.4 near east coast of Kamchatka earthquake recorded on my @raspishake.bsky.social seismometer in Newcastle-under-Lyme, England. ⚒️🧪
P- and S-waves from today’s (08:49:14 UTC 2025/09/07) M2.6 earthquake 27km depth beneath Pontefract, North Yorkshire, UK recorded on my @raspishake.bsky.social in Newcastle-under-Lyme, England (about 100km southwest of the event) ⚒️🧪
September 7, 2025 at 12:51 PM
P- and S-waves from today’s (08:49:14 UTC 2025/09/07) M2.6 earthquake 27km depth beneath Pontefract, North Yorkshire, UK recorded on my @raspishake.bsky.social in Newcastle-under-Lyme, England (about 100km southwest of the event) ⚒️🧪
Team Stibnite. Antinomy sulphide. The old Greek name for the mineral “stibi” gave rise to the Latin “Stibium”, the former name of the element antimony (Sb). Sample from Baia Sprie, Romania. Cotton Collection, Keele University.
September 2, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Team Stibnite. Antinomy sulphide. The old Greek name for the mineral “stibi” gave rise to the Latin “Stibium”, the former name of the element antimony (Sb). Sample from Baia Sprie, Romania. Cotton Collection, Keele University.
Team chrysotile here. Back in the days of yore before health and safety had been invented, our A-level group used to learn mineral/rock id. at lunchtimes by selecting a random sample from a drawer, tossing it to someone who id’d it and threw it back. I recall chrysotile being one of those samples 😱
#MinCup25 Round 1 Match 1: Hazardous (but useful!) #Chrysotile faces off against stunning gem #Pectolite. Do you pick the forbidden cotton candy, or the anti-pulverization beauty?
VOTE: www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r1...
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Vote in Round 1 Match 1 — Mineral Cup
Click here to vote in Chrysotile vs Pectolite
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September 1, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Team chrysotile here. Back in the days of yore before health and safety had been invented, our A-level group used to learn mineral/rock id. at lunchtimes by selecting a random sample from a drawer, tossing it to someone who id’d it and threw it back. I recall chrysotile being one of those samples 😱
Reposted by Ian G. Stimpson
BGS has launched the UK Geothermal Platform, which provides national- to local-scale information on geothermal potential.
Geothermal technologies have the potential to decarbonise heating and cooling, supporting the energy transition to net zero in the UK.
www.bgs.ac.uk/news/new-pla...
Geothermal technologies have the potential to decarbonise heating and cooling, supporting the energy transition to net zero in the UK.
www.bgs.ac.uk/news/new-pla...
August 11, 2025 at 10:07 AM
BGS has launched the UK Geothermal Platform, which provides national- to local-scale information on geothermal potential.
Geothermal technologies have the potential to decarbonise heating and cooling, supporting the energy transition to net zero in the UK.
www.bgs.ac.uk/news/new-pla...
Geothermal technologies have the potential to decarbonise heating and cooling, supporting the energy transition to net zero in the UK.
www.bgs.ac.uk/news/new-pla...
P-waves from today’s (16:53:47UTC 2025/08/10) M6.1 western Türkiye earthquake recorded on my @raspishake.bsky.social seismometer in Newcastle-under-Lyme, England. ⚒️🧪
August 10, 2025 at 5:41 PM
P-waves from today’s (16:53:47UTC 2025/08/10) M6.1 western Türkiye earthquake recorded on my @raspishake.bsky.social seismometer in Newcastle-under-Lyme, England. ⚒️🧪
The Times @thetimes.com should have got a geologist to review this diagram before publishing. I think I’m going to get my first year students to discuss all the things wrong with it.
From www.thetimes.com/article/9b50...
From www.thetimes.com/article/9b50...
July 30, 2025 at 2:18 PM
The Times @thetimes.com should have got a geologist to review this diagram before publishing. I think I’m going to get my first year students to discuss all the things wrong with it.
From www.thetimes.com/article/9b50...
From www.thetimes.com/article/9b50...
P-waves from yesterday’s (23:24:50 UTC 2025/07/29) M8.8 Off East Coast Kamchatka earthquake recorded on my Raspberry Shake seismometer in Newcastle-under-Lyme, England plus M6.9 (00:09:53 2025/07/30) and M6.3 (00:16:03) aftershocks ⚒️🧪
July 30, 2025 at 7:39 AM
P-waves from yesterday’s (23:24:50 UTC 2025/07/29) M8.8 Off East Coast Kamchatka earthquake recorded on my Raspberry Shake seismometer in Newcastle-under-Lyme, England plus M6.9 (00:09:53 2025/07/30) and M6.3 (00:16:03) aftershocks ⚒️🧪