Prof Chris Jackson
@seismatters.bsky.social
Geoscientist👨🏾🔬 | Visiting Professor at Imperial College | Ex-Academic | 🏃🏾♂️🚴🏾♂️ 🧗🏾♀️🎸🍺| he/him | 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️| I do all my own stunts | “Self-declared King of Geotwitter” (Palin, 2022) | Professional (East)Midlander 😎| Co-founder of @EarthArxiv
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The founder of Dignitas, Ludwig Minelli, has died by assisted suicide aged 92.
A remarkable character - this interview was two years ago: www.ft.com/content/0f96...
A remarkable character - this interview was two years ago: www.ft.com/content/0f96...
November 30, 2025 at 9:02 PM
The founder of Dignitas, Ludwig Minelli, has died by assisted suicide aged 92.
A remarkable character - this interview was two years ago: www.ft.com/content/0f96...
A remarkable character - this interview was two years ago: www.ft.com/content/0f96...
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A good cover teases out something true about the song that was there all along.
Mani’s death has had me fiddling about with The Stone Roses 🎸🎶
November 27, 2025 at 12:39 AM
A good cover teases out something true about the song that was there all along.
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This gave me the great music chills 🤩
I LOVE IT
I LOVE IT
Mani’s death has had me fiddling about with The Stone Roses 🎸🎶
November 27, 2025 at 11:07 AM
This gave me the great music chills 🤩
I LOVE IT
I LOVE IT
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Oof.
When I was a kid, the father of one of my friends initially started listening to right wing talk radio to mock it. Somehow, a few years later, the whole family except my friend had become right wing evangelicals who didn’t believe in evolution (when they had before). It was bizarre.
When I was a kid, the father of one of my friends initially started listening to right wing talk radio to mock it. Somehow, a few years later, the whole family except my friend had become right wing evangelicals who didn’t believe in evolution (when they had before). It was bizarre.
November 29, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Oof.
When I was a kid, the father of one of my friends initially started listening to right wing talk radio to mock it. Somehow, a few years later, the whole family except my friend had become right wing evangelicals who didn’t believe in evolution (when they had before). It was bizarre.
When I was a kid, the father of one of my friends initially started listening to right wing talk radio to mock it. Somehow, a few years later, the whole family except my friend had become right wing evangelicals who didn’t believe in evolution (when they had before). It was bizarre.
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Yep. Watched a family member slide off into the anti-vax crowd over COVID. Told her what I knew as a labrat for the AZ vaccine, and told her to ignore shitheads online telling porkies about poisons in vaccines... I still think she's hanging out with the wrong people online. :-/
November 29, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Yep. Watched a family member slide off into the anti-vax crowd over COVID. Told her what I knew as a labrat for the AZ vaccine, and told her to ignore shitheads online telling porkies about poisons in vaccines... I still think she's hanging out with the wrong people online. :-/
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Do not know Professor, I have seen many former socialists with degrees that start to spit xenophobic, antisemitic, authoritarian or pro-ptin stuff nowadays because "they get their news from pseudo tv news that speak what they want to hear"
November 29, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Do not know Professor, I have seen many former socialists with degrees that start to spit xenophobic, antisemitic, authoritarian or pro-ptin stuff nowadays because "they get their news from pseudo tv news that speak what they want to hear"
Niiiiiiice
Scientists work for free for the publishers. Then this happens:
english.elpais.com/science-tech...
english.elpais.com/science-tech...
The fall of a prolific science journal exposes the billion-dollar profits of scientific publishing
One of the 15 publications that put out the most studies globally has been expelled from the indexing system for irregularities. Its publisher, Elsevier, has a 38% profit margin that reached $1.5 bill...
english.elpais.com
November 30, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Niiiiiiice
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throwback to this absolute banger
November 30, 2025 at 8:45 AM
throwback to this absolute banger
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Doodles for Hong Kong 🇭🇰
In response to the tragic Tai Po fire, I'm doing charity commissions. Anyone who puts over £25/250HKD into "Feeding Hong Kong" or Hong Kong SPCA can request a coloured doodle of any prehistoric animal 🙏
In response to the tragic Tai Po fire, I'm doing charity commissions. Anyone who puts over £25/250HKD into "Feeding Hong Kong" or Hong Kong SPCA can request a coloured doodle of any prehistoric animal 🙏
November 29, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Doodles for Hong Kong 🇭🇰
In response to the tragic Tai Po fire, I'm doing charity commissions. Anyone who puts over £25/250HKD into "Feeding Hong Kong" or Hong Kong SPCA can request a coloured doodle of any prehistoric animal 🙏
In response to the tragic Tai Po fire, I'm doing charity commissions. Anyone who puts over £25/250HKD into "Feeding Hong Kong" or Hong Kong SPCA can request a coloured doodle of any prehistoric animal 🙏
throwback to this absolute banger
November 30, 2025 at 8:45 AM
throwback to this absolute banger
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Totally not true. Administration roles are a viable career alternative for scientists whose research activity gets terminated (eg grants not. Ring renewed). With a supportive faculty, such roles can also contain a huge amount of latent potential for making a positive impact, I think.
November 30, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Totally not true. Administration roles are a viable career alternative for scientists whose research activity gets terminated (eg grants not. Ring renewed). With a supportive faculty, such roles can also contain a huge amount of latent potential for making a positive impact, I think.
not true
Few self-respecting scholars choose to become university administrators.
It is populated by swimmers in the shallow end of the intellectual pool, would-be and real fascists, and people of limited imagination.
It is populated by swimmers in the shallow end of the intellectual pool, would-be and real fascists, and people of limited imagination.
November 30, 2025 at 7:32 AM
not true
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Just in case anyone, like me, has never understood this meme, this is my go-to resource: www.sahilbloom.com/newsletter/t...
Yummy looking biscuits btw 😋
Yummy looking biscuits btw 😋
November 29, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Just in case anyone, like me, has never understood this meme, this is my go-to resource: www.sahilbloom.com/newsletter/t...
Yummy looking biscuits btw 😋
Yummy looking biscuits btw 😋
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Always love to see great talent using their platform for unabashed good.
'F*** Off And Let People Be': David Tennant Doubles Down On Support For Trans People
"People are trying to create division... and it's so f***ing unnecessary."
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Always love to see great talent using their platform for unabashed good.
It's one thing to bump into a right-winger...but it's something else to witness the rightward drift of someone you've known for many years...
November 29, 2025 at 1:13 PM
It's one thing to bump into a right-winger...but it's something else to witness the rightward drift of someone you've known for many years...
“There’s no such thing as bad publicity…” etc
Another helpful reminder that the Altmetric Score is not an indicator of quality, but of attention. Not all attention is good attention!
This paper with this unbelievable #AI generated yet peer-reviewed Figure 1, is still available online (pending editiorial response). It has now a whopping 932 altmetric score, with - quite interestingly - only 18 posts on X (<93k followers), while on Bluesky there are 1453 posts (<3.4M followers).
November 29, 2025 at 12:47 PM
“There’s no such thing as bad publicity…” etc
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BOOM! Now over 90,000 signatures. Let’s get it to 100,000 and get this done!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
November 28, 2025 at 11:04 PM
BOOM! Now over 90,000 signatures. Let’s get it to 100,000 and get this done!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
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"they hired me as consultant for something completely different. I did the propaganda for free".
November 28, 2025 at 10:57 AM
"they hired me as consultant for something completely different. I did the propaganda for free".
Just in case anyone, like me, has never understood this meme, this is my go-to resource: www.sahilbloom.com/newsletter/t...
Yummy looking biscuits btw 😋
Yummy looking biscuits btw 😋
November 29, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Just in case anyone, like me, has never understood this meme, this is my go-to resource: www.sahilbloom.com/newsletter/t...
Yummy looking biscuits btw 😋
Yummy looking biscuits btw 😋
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An extraordinary thing, this.
A line up of stars performing at Wembley Arena to show their love and solidarity with the trans community and in aid of Good Law Project and Not A Phase.
Register now for tickets.
www.transmissionlive.uk
A line up of stars performing at Wembley Arena to show their love and solidarity with the trans community and in aid of Good Law Project and Not A Phase.
Register now for tickets.
www.transmissionlive.uk
Trans Mission - Wednesday 11th March
Mighty Hoopla and Olly Alexander team up for a Trans Mission: an all-star solidarity concert for the trans community at OVO Arena Wembley
www.transmissionlive.uk
November 28, 2025 at 12:10 PM
An extraordinary thing, this.
A line up of stars performing at Wembley Arena to show their love and solidarity with the trans community and in aid of Good Law Project and Not A Phase.
Register now for tickets.
www.transmissionlive.uk
A line up of stars performing at Wembley Arena to show their love and solidarity with the trans community and in aid of Good Law Project and Not A Phase.
Register now for tickets.
www.transmissionlive.uk
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In 24 hours this has now raised £150,000.
Thank you to the thousands of people who have donated.
Let's make small donations normal again!
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hopeishere
Thank you to the thousands of people who have donated.
Let's make small donations normal again!
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hopeishere
Hope is here.
Help us beat Reform in May. Donate today ⤵️
Help us beat Reform in May. Donate today ⤵️
November 29, 2025 at 7:18 AM
In 24 hours this has now raised £150,000.
Thank you to the thousands of people who have donated.
Let's make small donations normal again!
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hopeishere
Thank you to the thousands of people who have donated.
Let's make small donations normal again!
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hopeishere
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What a great headline
November 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
What a great headline
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We’ve just hit 50 council by-election wins since May 1st, winning more than the Conservatives, Labour, and the Green Party!
The momentum is with us. 🔶
The momentum is with us. 🔶
November 28, 2025 at 2:00 PM
We’ve just hit 50 council by-election wins since May 1st, winning more than the Conservatives, Labour, and the Green Party!
The momentum is with us. 🔶
The momentum is with us. 🔶
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Just cancel your Netflix subscription and stop buying avocados. You'll be fine
November 28, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Just cancel your Netflix subscription and stop buying avocados. You'll be fine