Paul Savage
@savageearth.bsky.social
Geochemist/cosmochemist/general subterranean rummager, Senior Lecturer at the University of St Andrews, views my own.
PREACH!
Id rather eat a spoonful of cod liver oil than a baked potato. Idc how much sour cream and herbs and bacon you throw on there its still natures styrofoam. Hard pass. Sorry to literally every person bc people go fucken bananas for baked potatoes for some ungodly reason.
September 16, 2025 at 8:37 PM
PREACH!
I didn't realise shandy was such a big deal in diplomatic circles.
Peter Mandelson: ambassador whose panache made him a big hitter in DC
Peter Mandelson: ambassador whose panache made him a big hitter in DC
Sacked diplomat’s career was described as durable to an audience of foreign policy top brass just five days ago
www.theguardian.com
September 12, 2025 at 6:43 AM
I didn't realise shandy was such a big deal in diplomatic circles.
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Suicide statistics are sobering, but there is hope.
74% of people with had suicidal thoughts say these were interrupted by a friend, loved one or even a stranger. Find out more @samaritans.bsky.social #WorldSuicidePreventionDay 👇 samaritans.org/support-us/campaign/world-suicide-prevention-day
74% of people with had suicidal thoughts say these were interrupted by a friend, loved one or even a stranger. Find out more @samaritans.bsky.social #WorldSuicidePreventionDay 👇 samaritans.org/support-us/campaign/world-suicide-prevention-day
September 10, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Suicide statistics are sobering, but there is hope.
74% of people with had suicidal thoughts say these were interrupted by a friend, loved one or even a stranger. Find out more @samaritans.bsky.social #WorldSuicidePreventionDay 👇 samaritans.org/support-us/campaign/world-suicide-prevention-day
74% of people with had suicidal thoughts say these were interrupted by a friend, loved one or even a stranger. Find out more @samaritans.bsky.social #WorldSuicidePreventionDay 👇 samaritans.org/support-us/campaign/world-suicide-prevention-day
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Starmer to Northern Ireland secretary
Ed Miliband is the prime minister
Ed Miliband is the prime minister
September 5, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Starmer to Northern Ireland secretary
Ed Miliband is the prime minister
Ed Miliband is the prime minister
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Academia may not give you job security, flexibility, or wealth, but it will let you unexpectedly connect to eduroam in foreign cities
August 20, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Academia may not give you job security, flexibility, or wealth, but it will let you unexpectedly connect to eduroam in foreign cities
V much looking forward to @redlettermedia.com having a go on this.
How did a new War of the Worlds movie get a 0% critical rating?
How did a new War of the Worlds movie get a 0% critical rating?
A cursed Covid-made version of the HG Wells classic, starring Ice Cube, has emerged after five-year delay – perhaps it should have stayed buried
www.theguardian.com
August 6, 2025 at 11:51 PM
V much looking forward to @redlettermedia.com having a go on this.
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NERC: We need to open up environmental science! Why is it not diverse?
Also NERC: We're scrapping Independent Research Fellowships, New Investigator Grants, Small Grants, are limiting applications from institutions based on past success rates and will only allow you to submit your proposal once.
Also NERC: We're scrapping Independent Research Fellowships, New Investigator Grants, Small Grants, are limiting applications from institutions based on past success rates and will only allow you to submit your proposal once.
July 18, 2025 at 9:38 PM
NERC: We need to open up environmental science! Why is it not diverse?
Also NERC: We're scrapping Independent Research Fellowships, New Investigator Grants, Small Grants, are limiting applications from institutions based on past success rates and will only allow you to submit your proposal once.
Also NERC: We're scrapping Independent Research Fellowships, New Investigator Grants, Small Grants, are limiting applications from institutions based on past success rates and will only allow you to submit your proposal once.
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Our Euro Cup hopes have petered out as a superb performance by Poland leads to us slipping to a 91 run defeat. We finish on 9 points, the same number as the tournament winners, but a little behind on Net Run Rate. Victories over Lithuania, Latvia, and Ukraine leave us proud.
July 13, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Our Euro Cup hopes have petered out as a superb performance by Poland leads to us slipping to a 91 run defeat. We finish on 9 points, the same number as the tournament winners, but a little behind on Net Run Rate. Victories over Lithuania, Latvia, and Ukraine leave us proud.
Auspicious hotel room name en route to @goldschmidt-confer.bsky.social See you in Czechia!
July 6, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Auspicious hotel room name en route to @goldschmidt-confer.bsky.social See you in Czechia!
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Half of doing academia is pretending you've read something everyone's pretending they've read
June 23, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Half of doing academia is pretending you've read something everyone's pretending they've read
QUICK EVERYONE! Now's our chance! SET THE STUDENTS SOME ESSAYS!!!
BREAKING | ChatGPT down: OpenAI reports major outage as users see error message
ChatGPT down: OpenAI reports major outage as users see error message
OpenAI reports the chatbot is seeing a widespread outage
www.independent.co.uk
June 11, 2025 at 4:40 AM
QUICK EVERYONE! Now's our chance! SET THE STUDENTS SOME ESSAYS!!!
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Now published in Communications Earth & Environment @commsearth.nature.com: "Silicon isotopic signatures of granitoids support increased weathering of subaerial land 3.7 billion years ago" by N. Greber, M. E. Murphy, J.-C. Storck, J.R. Reimink, N. Dauphas & P.S. Savage www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Silicon isotopic signatures of granitoids support increased weathering of subaerial land 3.7 billion years ago - Communications Earth & Environment
Emergence of land and continental weathering feedbacks likely started around 3.8 to 3.6 billion years ago, according to silicon isotope analysis of Archean granitoids.
www.nature.com
June 5, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Now published in Communications Earth & Environment @commsearth.nature.com: "Silicon isotopic signatures of granitoids support increased weathering of subaerial land 3.7 billion years ago" by N. Greber, M. E. Murphy, J.-C. Storck, J.R. Reimink, N. Dauphas & P.S. Savage www.nature.com/articles/s43...
@eageo.bsky.social not really doing a great job for their remote "presenters" - i.e. they aren't presenting, just putting a video together which will be buried on the conference website. No engagement with the in-person attendees, not even played during the oral session. Not worth the money.
As previously advised: remote talks will NOT be played or presented live in oral sessions in Prague. More info on the conference format: conf.goldschmidt.info/goldschmidt/...
Goldschmidt 2025 Conference
conf.goldschmidt.info
June 4, 2025 at 12:40 PM
@eageo.bsky.social not really doing a great job for their remote "presenters" - i.e. they aren't presenting, just putting a video together which will be buried on the conference website. No engagement with the in-person attendees, not even played during the oral session. Not worth the money.
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At our GGRiP meeting this year, we held an art & photography competition. Over the next few weeks we will be sharing our entries here.
First up is a stunning photo by Thomas Marquand @tommarquand.bsky.social titled 'The start of the field day on the Ouse Washes'
First up is a stunning photo by Thomas Marquand @tommarquand.bsky.social titled 'The start of the field day on the Ouse Washes'
June 2, 2025 at 7:53 AM
At our GGRiP meeting this year, we held an art & photography competition. Over the next few weeks we will be sharing our entries here.
First up is a stunning photo by Thomas Marquand @tommarquand.bsky.social titled 'The start of the field day on the Ouse Washes'
First up is a stunning photo by Thomas Marquand @tommarquand.bsky.social titled 'The start of the field day on the Ouse Washes'
New research! rdcu.be/emGpq
We use Si and Ti isotope compositions of ancient continental crust to infer that continents started to poke their heads above sea-level (so providing nutrients to the oceans and mediating atmospheric CO₂) ~3.8-3.6 billion years ago. @earthscista.bsky.social @unibe.ch
We use Si and Ti isotope compositions of ancient continental crust to infer that continents started to poke their heads above sea-level (so providing nutrients to the oceans and mediating atmospheric CO₂) ~3.8-3.6 billion years ago. @earthscista.bsky.social @unibe.ch
Silicon isotopic signatures of granitoids support increased weathering of subaerial land 3.7 billion years ago
Communications Earth & Environment - Emergence of land and continental weathering feedbacks likely started around 3.8 to 3.6 billion years ago, according to silicon isotope analysis of Archean...
rdcu.be
May 19, 2025 at 3:19 PM
New research! rdcu.be/emGpq
We use Si and Ti isotope compositions of ancient continental crust to infer that continents started to poke their heads above sea-level (so providing nutrients to the oceans and mediating atmospheric CO₂) ~3.8-3.6 billion years ago. @earthscista.bsky.social @unibe.ch
We use Si and Ti isotope compositions of ancient continental crust to infer that continents started to poke their heads above sea-level (so providing nutrients to the oceans and mediating atmospheric CO₂) ~3.8-3.6 billion years ago. @earthscista.bsky.social @unibe.ch
Who's your favourite pokemon? Wrong answers only.
May 15, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Who's your favourite pokemon? Wrong answers only.
Another fantastic example of the fact that, as long as you have a posh accent, you can get away with saying the most moronic shite
Academic James Orr trying too hard to be the new Matt Goodwin abt town. Claims: "There's been a lot more people that have got into trouble in the UK for free speech offences, than in Putin's Russia."
That is pro-Putin, Trumpian disinformation from the UK right. #PoliticsLive
That is pro-Putin, Trumpian disinformation from the UK right. #PoliticsLive
May 13, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Another fantastic example of the fact that, as long as you have a posh accent, you can get away with saying the most moronic shite
I absolutely despair with our current government, I really do. I had so much hope, but all their decisions seem to be based on what's good for the Labour party, and not what's good for the country. 😞
May 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM
I absolutely despair with our current government, I really do. I had so much hope, but all their decisions seem to be based on what's good for the Labour party, and not what's good for the country. 😞
Fantastic news! As many of my colleagues know (and are probably tired of), I'm often spreading the gospel of Arran's amazing geology.
Congratulations to Arran Geopark on being awarded
🗻 UNESCO Global Geopark 🏔️status!
It’s fab to see Arran being recognised for its unique geological heritage, rich biodiversity, and commitment to protecting their natural heritage.
🗻 UNESCO Global Geopark 🏔️status!
It’s fab to see Arran being recognised for its unique geological heritage, rich biodiversity, and commitment to protecting their natural heritage.
April 18, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Fantastic news! As many of my colleagues know (and are probably tired of), I'm often spreading the gospel of Arran's amazing geology.
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The Labour Party: rushing in to save the British steel industry while letting the far larger university sector implode, because they have reasoned that the former is more important to potential Reform voters than the latter. So much for centrism and “the adults being back in the room”, hey?
April 11, 2025 at 7:45 PM
The Labour Party: rushing in to save the British steel industry while letting the far larger university sector implode, because they have reasoned that the former is more important to potential Reform voters than the latter. So much for centrism and “the adults being back in the room”, hey?