Cheese and biscuits time

Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface

Did a prehistoric pottery course with my wife a month ago. Today I'm seeing if I can fire it...

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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"Draw me like one of your French girls"

New paper klaxon: what risk do volcanoes pose to the maritime industry? A review we've put together to frame the scale of the issues and and highlight some steps forward. @smitchellscience.bsky.social @bristolvolcanology.bsky.social www.jvolcanica.org/ojs/index.ph...

Introduce yourself with 10 bands/musicians you've seen live! 1. The Levellers 2. Skunk Anansie 3. Heilung 4. Lamb 5. Public Service Broadcasting 6. Ozric tentacles 7. Therapy? 8. Foo Fighters 9. Smashing Pumpkins 10. Green Day

Dr. Wendy Bohon@drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Introduce yourself with 10 bands/musicians you've seen live! 1. NIN 2. The Ramones 3. Guns N Roses 4. Phish 5. Them Crooked Vultures 6. Tori Amos 7. Glen Phillips 8. The Indigo Girls 9. Bon Jovi 10. Greg Brown

You have finished work now human.

Well, well, well. Who could possibly have seen this coming...

Dissatisfied: Three-fourths of AI customer service rollouts are a letdown

AI rollback rates hit 81% at firms with mature guardrails, suggesting enterprises are struggling to manage the systems in production, says Sinch

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After what has been a 5 year process of rural fibre contracts closing, reopening, closing again and then restarting a lovely gentleman named Sam is putting a FTTP connection in today. Online lecturing during Covid on a 0.4Mbps exchange line was torture. (1/2)

Driving into Bristol today I saw signs for the "Funderworld" theme park. I immediately had this image of a load of low-rent coconut-shy type stalls, with NERC and EPSRC labels, where underpayed overworked staff unenthusiastically attend to queues of people...

Just rescued this little one out of a bucket of water

🌋NEW JOB POSTING!🌋 We are advertising a 32-month postdoc in volcanic petrology at @bristoluni.bsky.social . This UKRI NERC-funded position will join a large team working on: ‘Ex-X’ Expecting the Unexpected. Understanding ‘dangerous’ volcanic transitions’. More: www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... "Results show that corporate bullshit receptivity is ... negatively associated with measures of analytic thinking. Importantly, corporate bullshit receptivity is ... a robust negative predictor of work-related decision-making."

The Corporate Bullshit Receptivity Scale: Development, validation, and associations with workplace outcomes

From boardrooms and brown bags to emails and earnings calls, business culture often seems overrun by “corporate bullshit,” a semantically empty and of…

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New Masters by Research project available with myself and @jessicairving.bsky.social trying to pick apart what MERMAID hydroacoustic sensors can tell us about submarine volcanoes www.bristol.ac.uk/earthscience...

Arrived to work in something approaching twilight/daylight for the first time in 3 or 4 months. Also, the starling that lives near us each summer is back, recogniseable because it has a song surprisingly similar to the tune for "I'm a Barbie Girl". It wears thin by about April.

While on the topic of sexism and the Nobels, let us recall how the rightwing British newspapers reported Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin's 1964 prize. Daily Telegraph: "£18,750 Award to Mother of Three" Daily Mail: Hold my beer - "Oxford Housewife Wins Nobel."

40 years since 6 year-old me watched the Challenger disaster live on TV in a classroom in a small UK Fenland town. It is a core memory that subtly but foundationally shifted my perception of how how the wider world works. Watching something so anticipated go so badly wrong so quickly.

A few months ago I was curious to know how much Anna's Archive was charging AI developers for access to their massive library of pirated works for training - so I emailed them saying I was interested in buying access. Here is their reply. 🧵 1/n

Been rewatching the Expanse. It really is a fabulous attempt at capturing the book series. By far the best hard sci-fi that has made it to screen.

This is literally one of the funniest threads I have ever seen. Brilliant.

Charles Louis Richter@richterscale.bsky.social · 8mo ago

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

Cosupervising x2 🇬🇧 PhD projects advertising now: 'The effects of climate cooling on evolution of Antarctic Eocene benthic communities' (BAS/Bristol) shorturl.at/MiWqJ 'Testing novel archives of seawater chemistry in biogenic carbonate' (Leeds): share.google/dbojTRZme92R... Deadlines early Jan '26

Some pyritised ammonites from Charmouth last weekend

One of the fluoro strips in my office has been going for the last month. Estates came in and replaced it today but they only have LED versions now. My office has gone from flickering Stasi-like interrogation room to making me wonder if I'm Mike TV

a man in a top hat stands next to a child and says " goggles on please "

ALT: a man in a top hat stands next to a child and says " goggles on please "

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Come do an exciting new PhD project with fieldwork in the Caribbean and S Pacific working on understanding what happens when powerful lahars enter the ocean - with me, @isobelyeo.bsky.social at @noc.ac.uk www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Assessing the impacts of ocean-entering lahars: A globally-important but poorly-understood process at University of Southampton on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Assessing the impacts of ocean-entering lahars: A globally-important but poorly-understood process at University of Southampton, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Office hours just now: Student: "will this notebook be OK? I'm concerned that ring bindings might not be hardy enough" Me: "This ringbound notebook is fine. I've been using it since..." *checks first page* ".... 2006" Student: That was the year I was born.

Burn GIF

ALT: Burn GIF

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This paper by Meredith et al. (2025) examines global city exposure to volcanic hazards, using metrics such as population and distance to GVP Holocene volcanoes to quantify and rank cities at risk. This data has also been visualised through a web app. nhess.copernicus.org/articles/25/...

Cities near volcanoes: which cities are most exposed to volcanic hazards?

Abstract. Cities near volcanoes expose dense concentrations of people, buildings, and infrastructure to volcanic hazards. Identifying cities globally that are exposed to volcanic hazards helps guide l...

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Looking for recommendations! I went an online storage for our research group and their data. So we can archive video data, image data etc., from a long line of projects. Files downloadable, but secure/backed up. Where people can deposit easily for our own purposes (made open by other means).

We tried compiling a global database of deposit descriptions of pyroclastic density current deposits. The aim was to help us do big data analysis, look for common trends, and to support modelling. We got some interesting results but also, found some really significant issues and gaps #IAVCEI2025

My challenge for this weekend is to work out the delay on the BBC Glastonbury coverage based on what I can hear in the back garden and the speed of sound.