David Pyle
@davidmpyle.bsky.social
Volcanologist at the University of Oxford: volcanic histories, imaginaries, resources and futures. https://curatingcrises.omeka.net/ https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/rethinking-natural-resources/ https://www.torch.ox.ac.uk/vesuvius-22
Great new paper from Zoltan Taracsak - the sulphur isotopic composition of the subarc mantle from melt inclusions, corrected for degassing. ⚒️🌋 @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social @cambridge-earthsci.bsky.social @lamont.columbia.edu @whoi.edu @ufresearch.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The sulfur content and isotopic composition of the subarc mantle
Sulfur isotopes in volcanic glasses reveal the global significance and the unexpectedly uniform source of arc magma sulfur.
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Some historical background to the fires in southwestern France, drawing on reading I did for my 2019 book about the moorlands, and lamenting the deeply depressing reality that we have known many of the causes of this ecological disaster for 150years 🗃️ williamgpooley.wordpress.com/2026/07/30/u...
Unintentional Arson
The fires in southwestern France are an appalling demonstration of the reality of climate change in 2026. But this is not the first ecological devastation in the region, and the role of human actio…
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Please share! A rare PhD studentship @kingshistory.bsky.social *fully* funded by @slaveryinwar.bsky.social to work with myself and Maeve Ryan, supported by a broader community of experts in Caribbean history, transatlantic slavery, and the history of war. www.kcl.ac.uk/study/fundin... 🗃️
AHRC Studentship: Slavery and the Seven Years’ War within and across the Caribbean Archipelago | King's College London
The Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War (CRSW) is pleased to announce the availability of a fully funded AHRC doctoral studentship, to be jointly supervised across History and War Studies
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Applications are now *OPEN* for our In situ Workshop 2026! Great opportunity for current and potential users of in situ sample environments for TEM and X-ray Nanoprobe techniques 🙂🔬 https://ow.ly/vPMY50ZqHYw
link.springer.com/article/10.1... It’s out! We’ve written a paper about volcanoes 🌋 in the movies 🎥! As well as the usual lava-based faux pas we’ve asked how well they do at recreating eruptive cycles, depicting human responses and what volcanologists can learn from compelling storytelling!
Mayhem, magic and dangerous myths? Volcanoes on the big screen - Bulletin of Volcanology
We examine the extent to which movies that prominently feature volcanoes and volcanic eruptions reflect the reality of eruptions and eruptive crises. To do this, we develop an interdisciplinary method...
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Congratulations to Rebekah Rhodes on her first paper - a study of #Icelandic fire fountains from recreational webcam footage, which Rebekah started as an undergraduate masters project, supported by colleagues at vedur.is @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social ⚒️ 🌋 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Fissure locations and fire-fountain dynamics during the December 2023–September 2024 Svartsengi Volcanic System eruptions, Iceland, from aerial imagery and recreational webcam footage - Bulletin of Vo...
Recent fissure-fed eruptions from the Svartsengi Volcanic System have significantly impacted Iceland’s Reykjanes Peninsula. With eruptions likely to continue intermittently for decades to centuries, e...
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URGENT CASTING: Queen Mary 2 🚢 Immediate speaker vacancy for Eastbound Transatlantic! 📅 July 28 – Aug 4, 2026 (Voyage M617) 🗣️ Need 4 talks: UK Social History or Royal Family ⏳ Deadline: Mon, July 13 @ Noon GMT Apply with talk titles to casting@pastpreservers.com #CruiseSpeakers #QueenMary2
We’ve opened the call for @britishacademy.bsky.social Postdoctoral Fellowships. We provide 3 years of funding to early-career researchers in the humanities and social sciences wishing to pursue an independent research project. Apply by 30th September www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
Postdoctoral Fellowships
The British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships is a three year award made to an annual cohort of outstanding early career researchers in the humanities or social sciences.
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That heatwave felt like we've been inside a volcano, and we've got the perfect new book for your child to learn all about them. 🌋 @nosycrow.bsky.social and @cam.ac.uk have created another gorgeous illustrated science book, 'The Power of Volcanoes'. 📖
Written by leading volcanologists Tamsin Mather & @davidmpyle.bsky.social, and illustrated by Daniel Long, the book takes young readers on an explosive journey into the heart of Earth’s most powerful natural wonders. 🌍
🔬 ✍🏽 #NowHiring: We're looking for a skilled science writer who will be tasked with translating discoveries from the Scripps Oceanography research community into compelling stories. Head to the link below to learn more, and apply by 7/7. ⤵️ https://bit.ly/3R0WDwf
Happy (other) birthday to James Hutton, born on this day, 14th June 1726, in the calendar used in most of Europe at the time. During Hutton's life, Britain caught up by missing 11 days of 1752. Nice to be following in his footsteps today, exploring the granite boundary in northern hills of Arran.
Join us next Wednesday for the Oxford launch of @cathmckenna.bsky.social's Run Like a Girl as we discuss "finding your own path, breaking the rules, and fighting for the future--on your own terms" June 17th, 5:30pm, St Antony's College, Oxford Register: www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/events/blava...
Blavatnik Book Launch: Run Like A Girl
Join author Catherine McKenna, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Climate and Nature Solutions, in conversation with Professor Thomas Hale, to discuss her new book Run Like A Girl.
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🚨Funding for 2yr postdoc w/ me & @geocron.bsky.social on landslide-tsunami-jökulhlaup project, but (this is the ridiculous part) I need to select someone NOW or I lose the $. If you're NOT in Canada (can be any nationality) and interested, send me your CV and transcripts by midnight MT, June 12. 🧪⚒️
Calling all PhDs and ECRs who work on the history of material and visual culture of science - the Nuncius Essay Prize for 2026 is open for submissions until 31 August. Details here: brill.com/fileasset/do... #histSTM
Published today - a magnificently illustrated children’s book on #volcanoes, published by @nosycrow.bsky.social with @sedgwickmuseum.bsky.social and @cam.ac.uk A fun project with Daniel Long (illustrator) and Tamsin Mather (author)! uk.bookshop.org/p/books/univ...
Behind the discovery The dawn of modern marine fish! @sanaaelsayed.bsky.social @friedmanlab.bsky.social
Led by the incomparable Sanaa El-Sayed, a study out today in Science Advances throws open an important new window on marine fish diversity during the critical few million years following the K-Pg mass extinction. Below: artistic vision of the new fauna by Ian Baylatry.
Applications are now open for the EGU Science Journalism Fellowship 2026! Up to 5000€ will be awarded to #journalists reporting in any European language on ongoing #research in Earth, planetary, or space sciences. Apply Now! 📆 Deadline: 17 June 2026. 👉 Learn more: egu.eu/7HQKAH
NEW: Sometimes stories are about major scientific breakthroughs, about the origin of life, the end of worlds—dramatic epiphanies about the cosmos. And sometimes a flaming asteroid photobombs an erupting volcano. Me @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/05/26/s...
A Fiery Visitor From Space Photo-Bombs an Erupting Volcano
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It's out and open access! Come see what happens when Saint Louis University seismologists work with the excellent numerical modeler's at U of Minnesota, Minneapolis to try to figure out why Colombia has so many strange earthquakes in the *mantle wedge* at ~100+ km depth.
Subducting Slab Thermo‐Petrologic Structure and Intermediate‐Depth Supra‐Slab Earthquakes Beneath Southern Colombia
The maximum depth of decoupling (MDD) is anomalously deep in southern Colombia due to partially subducted accreted oceanic terrane The anomalously deep MDD results in relatively cold conditions i...
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Please help spread the news far and wide! We have a new, full-time, permanent Lecturer in Global History of Science job @stsucl.bsky.social Don't be fooled by the application of deadline of only 9 June 2026. This is an open search #histsci #skystorians www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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An ongoing submarine volcanic eruption at Bismarck Sea (Manus back-arc basin), Papua New Guinea. From previously undocumented caldera(?) volcano. No map. Not in any database. browser.dataspace.copernicus.eu?zoom=13&lat=...
New post: Does the Prime Minister have to be an MP? publiclawforeveryone.com/2026/05/14/d...
Does the Prime Minister have to be an MP?
Uncertainty about the position of the Prime Minister has raised the question whether Andy Burnham, currently the Mayor of Greater Manchester, might return to the House of Commons in order to challe…
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Our department is hiring a new Outreach and Communications Manager! If you're interested in science outreach + comms and would like to join a small and friendly Earth Sciences department, please think about applying! my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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Some good news for the Tristan da Cunha islanders, caught up in the #hantavirus outbreak, as medical assistance has arrived by parachute. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Army parachutes onto Tristan da Cunha to help Briton with suspected hantavirus
The specialist team parachuted onto Tristan da Cunha, a remote British overseas territory, to treat them.
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Finally we are recruiting a physical geographer in the school of the environment at the university of Queensland, Australia. Looking for researchers who are passionate about teaching. Keen for people working in hydrology, geomorphology, climate modelling. uq.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/uqcare...
Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in Physical Geography
Faculty of Science | School of the Environment Full-time permanent position Base salary will be in the range $117,120.53 – $138,769.70 plus 17% super (Academic Level B) or $143,099.52 – $164,748.70 pl...
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