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Amelia Bain

@amelia-bain.bsky.social
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Researcher in volcanology, disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation, co-production. Based in Edinburgh 🌋 Volunteer Managing Editor for the Journal of Applied Volcanology.

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Amelia Bain @amelia-bain.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
🌋Do you work in #volcanic #geoheritage ? Calling for contributions to our special issue edited by @heatherkhandley.bsky.social and @knemeth.bsky.social Check it out here! 👇 link.springer.com/collections/...
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Amelia Bain @amelia-bain.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
📢New 𝐉𝐀𝐕 article alert! 🌋 Patrick et al. discuss benefits and challenges of livestream video monitoring in Hawaii. Providing an “up-close” view previously limited to observatory field staff, and are generating unprecedented levels of public engagement. #volcano link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Seeing is believing: livestream video monitoring of Hawaiian eruptions - Journal of Applied Volcanology
Livestream video has become a crucial tool for volcano monitoring in recent years, building upon the use of webcam snapshots that have been common for the past two decades. In Hawaii, livestream video...
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Amelia Bain @amelia-bain.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
🌋Don't forget to check out the special collection on #Geoheritage in Journal of Applied #Volcanology edited by @knemeth.bsky.social and Heather Handley. accepting contributions till October 🌋 @katy-saunders.bsky.social @ehd.bsky.social link.springer.com/collections/...
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Volcanic Geoheritage: Assessment, Conservation, and Sustainable Development
Geoheritage encompasses the scientific, educational, cultural, and aesthetic value of geological features and landscapes, providing a fundamental basis for ...
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Amelia Bain @amelia-bain.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Second week as NERC independent research fellow @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social Ducks aligning but not quite in a row. Heading off on holiday to forget about ducks altogether. Duck-wrangling business, otherwise known as #volcano bothering will resume in July! 👋🦆
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Amelia Bain @amelia-bain.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
🌋🏘️🌱🛩️Do you work on #volcanic #hazard and #risk modelling? Check out the latest special collection in Journal of Applied Volcanology, accepting contributions until Feb. 2027: link.springer.com/collections/... @katy-saunders.bsky.social @ehd.bsky.social @josh-hayes.bsky.social
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Coherent Volcanic Hazard and Risk Modelling Across Multiple Dimensions: Scales, Systems, and Decision Contexts
Volcanic risk modelling is undergoing a quiet but significant shift. Increasingly, governments, infrastructure operators, and decision-makers require models ...
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Amelia Bain @amelia-bain.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
New article by Meara et al. in #JAV They carefully reconstruct the first night of the 1973 #eruption of Eldfell volcano, #Iceland, and the community response, based on 30 interviews, 55 written personal accounts, 10 books, and 499 news articles. Check it out: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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The Eldfell eruption, Iceland, 1973: using “Small Stories” to investigate the human evacuation from Heimaey - Journal of Applied Volcanology
Journal of Applied Volcanology - Research into Eldfell 1973 typically favour scientific studies, with human aspects of the eruption overlooked. The first night, and the subsequent evacuation to the...
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Amelia Bain @amelia-bain.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
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Amelia Bain @amelia-bain.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
🚨Exciting new article in JAV by Wright et al. 🚨 on sources of cognitive bias in #eruption forecasting and how to minimise them. The authors present an updated forecasting methodology used by the #USGS #Volcano Disaster Assistance Program (VDAP)🌋🏘️ 👇 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Graphic from Wright et al. 2025 in Journal of Applied Volcanology, showing that the level of bias increases when data availability and time to plan are low - a situation that characterises almost all volcanic crises.
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Amelia Bain @amelia-bain.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
‪Amelia Bain‬ Last chance to contribute to our special collection in Journal of Applied Volcanology on 'Data Visualisation and Effective Communication in #Volcanology' JAV is affiliated with the @iavcei.bsky.social Commission on Cities and #Volcanoes 🌋🏘️ Read more: link.springer.com/collections/...
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Amelia Bain @amelia-bain.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
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Amelia Bain @amelia-bain.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
For those interested in diffuse soil gas emissions in #volcanic areas, check out this new open-access article in #JAV focused on the island of Saba in the Lesser Antilles. The authors identified biogenic, atmospheric, and hydrothermal-magmatic sources of CO2: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Figure 4c from Zwillich et al. (2025) in the Journal of Applied Volcanology, showing a low cost instrument measuring soil CO2 emissions.
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Amelia Bain @amelia-bain.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
**Deadline Extended!** 🌋Our special collection on data visualization and effective communication in #volcanology is now accepting submissions till 31 January 2026. JAV is fully open access and many institutions have read/publish agreements that cover the APC. Waivers also available where needed🌋
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Ana J. Cabrera Pacheco @ana-j.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Our recipe book is finally published! Have a look at some of the recipes from Tz'utujil Maya women from our "Recipes for Recovery" project. This work was part of my contribution to the @gcrf-ixchel.bsky.social based at the @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social as a postdoc. Thank you all who contributed! 🌱
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Amelia Bain @amelia-bain.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
🌋Interested in high energy scoria cone #volcanism? Check out the latest article by Courtland and Bump in the Journal of Applied #Volcanology, which demonstrates the use of GPR to search for evidence of sustained #ash columns with regional impact👀⏬ appliedvolc.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Figure 15 from Courtland and Bump (2025) in the Journal of Applied Volcanology, showing the authors' interpretation of structures within the Red Cone scoria cone, Nevada, USA
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Amelia Bain @amelia-bain.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Excellent risk mitigation actions🐘🐘🐘 😍
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Amelia Bain @amelia-bain.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
🌋Hot from Kīlauea #Volcano, read about a 𝗻𝗲𝘄, versatile and nimble technique for real-time monitoring of lava lake fluctuations using a continuous laser rangefinder. Used by #USGS Hawai'i Volcano Observatory since 2018 to monitor magmatic system pressure & hazards👉https://tinyurl.com/52kbk2m6
Figure 3 from Younger et al. (2025) in Journal of Applied Volcanology showing the field installation of continuous laser rangefinder instruments for continuous real-time monitoring of lava lake levels at Kilauea Volcano, Hawai'i.
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Amelia Bain @amelia-bain.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
🌋Exciting new article in Journal of Applied Volcanology by Paine and Wadsworth, who created a global compilation of fall deposit and ignimbrite volumes for #eruptions >M4. They found little or no buoyant plume component for eruptions of the highest known magnitudes😯👉https://tinyurl.com/44jsepxn
Figure 5 from Paine and Wadsworth (2025) in Journal of Applied Volcanology, illustrating the key differences between (a) high VFALL/V ratio eruptions, and (b) low VFALL/V ratio eruptions.
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Amelia Bain @amelia-bain.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
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Amelia Bain @amelia-bain.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Don't forget about this exciting special issue, receiving submissions till end September. The Journal of Applied Volcanology is fully open-access and covered under many institutional publishing agreements. We also have APC waivers available for authors from resource constrained contexts✍️🌋
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Amelia Bain @amelia-bain.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
🌋✈️Brand new article in the Journal of Applied Volcanology by Debrel et al investigates changes to aircraft flight paths during ash-rich #eruptions. Greater volumes of airspace affected by ash result in greater deviation of flight paths with longer travel time & fuel use⏬⏬⏬ tinyurl.com/55en2f7e
Figure 2 from Debrel et al. (2025) in the Journal of Applied Volcanology showing the information flow between different organisations involved in response to volcanic emissions for providing hazard information to aviation
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Amelia Bain @amelia-bain.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
🌋Don't miss this '𝑩𝒆𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒂𝒑𝒆𝒓' blog post by author Charles Ching discussing the motivations for their recently published study on monitoring the crater lake of Ruapehu #volcano 📜🖊️ Link to the open-access article in the blog post👇 tinyurl.com/mpwfam3u
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Watching Ruapehu Crater Lake: What does this tell us about an active volcano?
Ruapehu is an active volcano in New Zealand, with all historical eruptions having occurred from its Crater Lake. By watching and photographing the Crater Lake, we attempted to better understand the la...
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Amelia Bain @amelia-bain.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
📢Anunciamos el primer artículo de nuestra edición especial sobre Voces de la Comunidad: 'Ilustrando el #volcán de Fuego' de Ailsa Naismith que documenta la producción de un zine ilustrando las experiencias de las personas sobre las #erupciones 👇🌋🏘️🎨 appliedvolc.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Figura 7 de Naismith et al. 2025 en Journal of Applied Volcanology, que ilustra el proceso de producción de una página de revista sobre las experiencias de la gente local de las erupciones de Fuego.
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Amelia Bain @amelia-bain.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Check out the 1st article in our special issue on Community Voices in #JournalofAppliedVolcanology by Ailsa Naismith: 'Illustrating Fuego' #volcano which documents local people's experiences of Fuego's #eruptions. Read it now👇🌋🏘️🎨 appliedvolc.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Figure 7 from Naismith et al. 2025 in Journal of Applied Volcanology, illustrating the process of producing a zine page on local people's experiences of Fuego's eruptions.
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Prof Richard Betts @richardabetts.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Although NOAA's page on atmospheric CO2 levels has vanished, you can still get this vital information from Ralph Keeling's team at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego keelingcurve.ucsd.edu Please follow bsky.app/profile/keel... for updates and share Don't let science be hidden
A graph of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations at the Mauna Loa observatory, Hawaii, from 1958 to 4th February 2025. It shows carbon dioxide levels rising at an accelerating rate over the decades. This is known to be due to emissions of carbon dioxide from human activity, mainly fossil fuel burning but also deforestation. The first CO2 concentration value in March 1958 was 315 parts per million (ppm). The latest daily value is 426 ppm. The graph also shows a seasonal cycle of a few ppm within each year, which is known to be linked to the growing season in the northern hemisphere causing a temporary uptake of carbon in spring and summer and release in autumn. The graph is produced routinely by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego.
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Amelia Bain @amelia-bain.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
32kg of samples from #Volcán de Fuego getting ready to travel from their temporary home in Scotland to Münich in Germany to become magma once again at LMU. Part of our collaborative work in the @gcrf-ixchel.bsky.social project.🌋
A heavy suitcase full of rock samples for scientific analysis
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Prof Claire J Horwell @clairehorwell.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Poster time! So happy to have this forum to present the findings of the FACE-UP project! @agu.org @agugeohealth.bsky.social #AGU24
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Amelia Bain @amelia-bain.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Unfortunately the Colombian food has been cancelled due to an emergency somake sure you have something to eat before coming!
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Ixchel Project @gcrf-ixchel.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Join us tonight in #Edinburgh for the last event in our #volcano film series in collaboration with @cinemaattic.bsky.social - this evening will feature 5 short films, with Colombian food by Sabor Al Toque. See you there! cinemaattic.com/event/volcan...
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Amelia Bain @amelia-bain.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Penultimate event in our @gcrf-ixchel.bsky.social project #volcano film series tonight in Edinburgh 👇Last chance to see Pobo 'Tzu'. Join us in #Edinburgh!
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CinemaAttic @cinemaattic.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
We have another great selection of shorts this evening in Glasgow focusing on volcanoes. 📅 5th Dec, 6.30pm (screening starts at 7pm) 📍 Kelvin Hall, Glasgow, G3 8AW (FREE entry, registration recommended) 🎟️ Register here: cinemaattic.com/product/volc...
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Ixchel Project @gcrf-ixchel.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹 for submissions to the special collection in Journal of Applied Volcanology: 'Community voices and #volcanic risk reduction', closing end of the month! Get in touch with @ehd.bsky.social if you'd like to discuss. #DRR #NoNaturalDisasters www.biomedcentral.com/collections/...
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Community voices and volcanic risk reduction: co-production, participatory research, and community-led approaches to risk
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Henning @geohenning.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
All of these are some of the best Geosciences starter packs. ☺️⚒️ bsky.app/profile/geoh...
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Katie Preece @katiepreece.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
🌋NERC competition-funded #PhD opportunity 🌋 Interested in understanding pre-eruptive processes and timescales at Merapi volcano, Indonesia? Based at Swansea, with co-supervision from @rgertisser.bsky.social (Keele) and Chiara Petrone (NHM) Full details: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Summit of Merapi volcano as seen from the south flank, with fumaroles and blue sky in background
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Bob Gooday @bobgooday.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Unlike the more topographically spectacular Canary islands, central Lanzarote is a low-lying volcanic field peppered with monogenetic cones – here seen peeking through the haze of Saharan dust brought over by the hot Calima winds. #VolcanoMonday
A landscape view of a flat plain covered in small conical hills stretching off into the haze. The sun, just out of the shot above the frame, is causing a big flare across the image. In the foreground a woman stands on a ridge covered in desert plants looking out at the view.
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Amelia Bain @amelia-bain.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
@smakris.bsky.social and I will present tomorrow as part of the @vmsg.bsky.social 60th Anniversary series. I'll give an overview of the @gcrf-ixchel.bsky.social project and some work at Fuego #volcano, and Symeon will discuss perched tephra piles and granular flows. ed-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: VMSG 60th Anniversary Seminar - University of Edinburgh and the British Geological Survey. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about jo...
Reflections on recent research in volcanic hazard and risk in Guatemala
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Mark Smith @geomorphmark.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
When we did this rather silly comparison picture highlighting glacier retreat in Norway over the last 140 years... I don't think any of us expected it to make it into a news story on the NRK website 😂. Such is life! I ❤️the scratchy image they have at the top: www.nrk.no/klima/brefor...
A comparison image showing glacier retreat at an outlet of the Folgefonna ice cap in Norway between 1886 and 2024.
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Ixchel Project @gcrf-ixchel.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Hello @bsky.app ! We are the Ixchel project funded by the Global Challenges Research Fund @ukri.org Expect posts on research activities, including but not limited to volcanology, disaster risk reduction, critical decolonial theory, human rights, and arts-based participative methodologies 🌋
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Henning @geohenning.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Some more amazing photographs from the recent volcanic #eruption on Iceland by Vilhelm Gunnarsson. Who knew road signs and delineators could look so photogenic? ⚒️🌋 #Geology petapixel.com/2024/11/26/p...
A photo by Vilhelm Gunarsson. A road sign is engulfed by orange burning lava.A photo by Vilhelm Gunarsson. A road sign is engulfed by orange burning lava.A photo by Vilhelm Gunarsson. Two delineators on a road are devoured by orange burning lava.
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British Antarctic Survey 🐧 @bas.ac.uk · 28/11/2024
No one likes uncertainty, but we REALLY don't like it when it's about irreversible tipping points 🫣 New research by @jonathanrosser.bsky.social shows that the polar ice sheets are some of the most sensitive parts of our climate system, and most easily tipped into irreversible change. And... 🧪🧵 1/5
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Icevolcanx Ron @jokulhlaup.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Today. lava from the eruption at the Sundhnúka crater series now flows almost exclusively to the east and northeast, to and along Fagradalsfjall. The activity has been stable during the night and so has the eruption. Video captured from: www.youtube.com/watch?v=faH3... #iceland #geosciences
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The Royal Society @royalsociety.org · 27/11/2024
The Royal Society is looking for an Artist in Residence, an opportunity for a creative individual to produce new work in response to our collections and the scientific research of our community. Express your interest in this funded project by Thursday 12 December: royalsociety.org/about-us/wor...
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Julie Cupples @juliecupples79.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Ahora hay traducción en tz'utujil de nuestra sistematización de las consecuencias del deslave de Panabaj (Guatemala) de 2005 Ruk’iyiwaal, Nuk’uujneem, K’amoj B’eey: Rucholajiil K’asleemaal ja Xb’anataja rumaal Ujl rixin Panab’aj, 2005 books.ed.ac.uk/edinburgh-di...
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Desastre, reconstrucción, liderazgo: Sistematización de las experiencias tras el deslave de Panabaj de 2005 | Edinburgh Diamond | Books
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Dr Fabian Wadsworth @fabianwadsworth.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
In this new paper, we use hydro-granular theory to model magma ascent. In this framework, all magmas are strictly Newtonian locally, but apparently non-Newtonian bulk behaviour emerges from the microphysics; with important implications for shear fracturing at conduit margins. doi.org/10.1038/s432...
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Steve Brusatte @stevebrusatte.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Fossil poo and puke show how dinosaurs took over the world. Slowly, over 10s of millions of years, as they ate new plants & bugs. Not a joke! It's innovative new work, published in Nature, led by pal & former postdoc Martin Qvarnstrom My thoughts @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2024/11/27/s...
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Dinosaur Domination Is Marked in a Timeline of Vomit and Feces Fossils
Studying bromalites helped paleontologists piece together how the reptiles came to rule a part of the prehistoric world.
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Julie Cupples @juliecupples79.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Join us for Volcano Cinema: Of Eruptions and Other Stories in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Dundee. A collaboration between Cinemaattic and Ixchel cinemaattic.com/volcano-cine...
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Volcano Cinema: Of Eruptions and Other Stories - 2024 Education
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Alex Spahn 🌋🌪️☄️ @spahn711.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
I started a hike to Fagradalsfjall (2021) at 2am. Just after sunrise, the last few people left. I was completely alone out there, face-to-face with the erupting volcano. To witness and feel the warmth of the creation of Earth without another soul in sight was the most surreal experience I've had.
A wide-angle image of an erupting volcano with a tall lava fountain on the left as the Sun first rises over the hills on the right. A river of bright orange lava pours out of the volcano and streams horizontally across the center of the landscape, which is primarily covered in black solidified lava. Gases rise from the volcano and into the partly cloudy, pastel-colored sky above.
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Hugh Tuffen @htuffen.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
It's not too early to reflect how the outline of lava flow fields in any future geological maps will record how public money protected the profits of a private company #anthropocene #capitalism #volcanology @andrimagnason.bsky.social
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Amelia Bain @amelia-bain.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
🌋Introducing 'Volcano Cinema: of Eruptions and Other Stories', organised as part of the GCRF-funded 'Ixchel' project. For more information and tickets: cinemaattic.com/volcano-cine...
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Prof Claire J Horwell @clairehorwell.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
⚠️🚨 I asked ChatGPT a 🧪⚒️ question and asked it to provide references to evidence the #academic sources of its answer. ALL THE REFERENCES LOOKED REAL BUT WERE MADE UP. Try it for yourself. I reviewed a paper full of fake references. Now I understand why … 👀👀👀
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Dr. Erik Klemetti Gonzalez @eruptions.site · 20/11/2024
Sadly, I was not chosen for GalaxyCon in Columbus for a panel. Anybody wants a volcanologist to talk about the VOLCANOES OF SCIENCE FICTION AND HOW TO DIE IN LAVA, ping me!
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