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Dr Bridie Davies (she/her) @bdaviesgeo.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Has anyone ever used a Gallium source FIB to cut trenches + pillars in olivine crystals and if so can I get the details of the energy, the time etc it takes? #geology #thermofisher #zeiss #tescan #desperate 😂

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Jenn | Reappropriate @reappropriate.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

From who has been allowed to conduct science, whom we imbue with the title of expert, what kinds of knowledge we consider valid, why we do science, and how science has been applied (and misapplied) throughout history, it’s a misnomer to assert that science has ever been apolitical.

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Dr Bridie Davies (she/her) @bdaviesgeo.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Not sure how I feel about "never give up" being our new #Lionesses slogan.....my blood pressure can't take it. Also I'm never going to complain about a running injury ever again 💀 #LucyBronze #UNIT

$Photo of Lucy bronze with quote "I actually played the whole tournament with a fractured tibia"$

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Dr Bridie Davies (she/her) @bdaviesgeo.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

"the Palestine exception to Academic Freedom" “This sends a dangerous message to scholars globally: that academic publishing contracts are conditional, revocable, and subject to external political calculations.” "we’re watching universities being blown up.” 🇵🇸 This work must be published 🇵🇸

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Dr. Julian Lozos @seismogenic.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

🧪⚒️🌋🇮🇸 ELDGOS ER HAFIÐ It's erupting! Here's a livestream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXD4...

Dr Bridie Davies (she/her) @bdaviesgeo.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

So many 3D melt inclusions! 😍 loving the new avenues micro-analytical techniques in 3D are providing for interrogating these widely analysed features 🌋 #IAVCEI2025

Slide showing 3D renderings of melt inclusions with a range of morphologies including multiple bubbles and several with small crystals included in or on the bubble.

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Dr Bridie Davies (she/her) @bdaviesgeo.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Got to love a pumice texture compilation slide! The Hunga-Tonga eruption has inspired some great work, so much has been on display already this week. #IAVCEI2025

Mila huebsch presenting varied pumice textures from SEM images showing bubbles and glass of different textures.

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Dr Bridie Davies (she/her) @bdaviesgeo.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Loving these "Future of #volcanology" talks at #IACVEI2025 Exploring the art of the sketch and our connection to people of the past through the volcanoes we observe.

Ailsa Naismith at the front of a lecture hall presenting images from Turkey showing depictions of volcanoes from the bronze age

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Dr Bridie Davies (she/her) @bdaviesgeo.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

And here is Barbara Bonechi showing us her fantastic decompression experiments! #ECR #IAVCEI2025

Woman standing at the front of a lecture hall with her first slide projected on the wall, it reads "Advancing in-situ observations of magmatic processes: development of an X-ray Transparent Internally Heated Pressure Vessel for High-Pressure, High-Temperature synchrotron imaging"

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Dr Bridie Davies (she/her) @bdaviesgeo.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Some inspiring work already this morning in the #indigenous knowledge and geoheritage co-session! #IAVCEI2025 (and in the only air-conditioned room!)

Power point slide depicting indigenous myths about isarog volcano in lncluding "water and rocks are released during isarog's eruptions"
"Isarog erupted several centuries ago", "monsters dwell in the crater and fight with eachother" and "isarog erupts when humans disturb the volcano"

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Dr Bridie Davies (she/her) @bdaviesgeo.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Bonjour Geneva for #IAVCEI2025 🌋🌋🌋 looking forward to a fantastic week!

The famous Geneva jet. A jet of water shoots into a clear blue sky with a view of a jetty and the lake water. A thin strip of white clouds sit just above the hills in the distance.

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Dr Lucy Rycroft-Smith @ljrycroftsmith.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

We found that AI tools - both general like #ChatGPT and research-specific like #Elicit - lack the reliability, relevancy and accuracy to summarise research for teachers. This is important because we have been sold the idea that AI will make research more accessible.

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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

www.ft.com/content/8778... Kudos to Andrea Sella for taking a stand against @royalsociety.org’s inaction over Elon Musk FRS

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Royal Society prize winner returns award in protest over Elon Musk

Andrea Sella is latest scientist to express dismay over UK science academy’s refusal to criticise tech billionaire

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Rebecca Williams @volcanologist.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Writing is hard because the process of getting something onto the page helps us figure out what we think—about a topic, a problem or an idea. If we turn to AI to do the writing, we’re not going to be doing the thinking either. (Rosenzweig 2023)

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Rebecca Williams @volcanologist.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

FFS

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Dr. Simon D. A. Clark (they/them) @kelpiesi.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

cc: people who are still using "preferred pronouns" also. They are just pronouns, like anyone else's. Sticking "preferred" on communicates additional, confusing information; these aren't suggestions.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 14/05/2025

I talked about all of the costs in class, ecological and intellectual, and my students were really great and I wish I could teach them again

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Dr James Christie @jameschristie.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

🚨NEW PAPER ALERT🚨 It is *such a pleasure* to announce the publication of a major portion of my PhD thesis with @volcanojenni.bsky.social, @drgeorgieb.bsky.social @tomchudley.bsky.social, Ricky Herd, and Mel Froude in @geomorphica.bsky.social ! Have a read: journals.psu.edu/geomorphica/...

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View of Multi-decadal patterns of fluvial morphodynamics and lahar hazard in response to episodic eruption of Soufrière Hills Volcano, Montserrat, Eastern Caribbean

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Human Rights Index 💙 @humanrightsindex.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

🗓️ 28 April 2025 📍The Hague, Netherlands "Starvation is starvation is starvation." 💔🕊️

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

The British Medical Association Resident Doctors are the backbone of the NHS, they look after us all in hospital. They passed this motion at their conference which pulls the “supreme” court judgement to pieces. They call it “scientifically illiterate” and “biologically nonsensical” 1/3

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This meeting condemns the Supreme Court ruling defining the term 'woman' with respect to the Equality Act as being based on 'biological sex', which they refer to as a person who 'was at birth of the female sex', as reductive, trans and intersex-exclusionary and biologically nonsensical.
We recognize as doctors that sex and gender are complex and multifaceted aspects of the human condition and attempting to impose a rigid binary has no basis in science or medicine while being actively harmful to transgender and gender diverse people. As such this meeting:
i. Reiterates the BMA's position on affirming the rights of transgender and non-binary individuals to live their lives with dignity, having their identity respected.
Reminds the Supreme Court of the existence of intersex people and reaffirms their right to exist in the gender identity that matches their sense of self, regardless of whether this matches any identity assigned to them at birth.
iii. Condemns scientifically illiterate rulings from the Supreme Court, made without consulting relevant experts and stakeholders, that will cause real-world harm to the trans, non-binary and intersex communities in this country.
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Commits to strive for better access to necessary health services for trans, non-binary and gender-diverse people.

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Jeanne Timmons @mostlymammoths.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

"...while students, faculty & advocates across the country expressed measured hope..., they noted it was students & faculty who were leading the charge & mounting the pressure that forced university leaders to act." @alicesperi.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Hope as US universities find ‘backbone’ against Trump’s assault on education

Anxious Americans find solace as university leaders start to mount more muscular defense of academic freedom

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 25/04/2025

Incredible satellite image of the 33 (!!!!) operational fossil fuel combustion engines at the site of Elon Musk's XAI data centre “appalling that xAI would operate more than 30 methane gas turbines without any permits or any public oversight" @selc.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

a greyscale satelitte image of Musk's data centre - with a bright red marker showing emissions from the many (I think about 30) fossil fuel combustion engines on site

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

On the other site, Studio Ghibli-style AI output is going viral and allow me to just say it is profoundly depressing to see that stuff being used to promote OpenAI's latest product. Miyazaki famously called AI-produced art "an insult to life itself"—and this in turn is an insult to him.

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Ben Esse @ben-esse.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Interested how we can use satellite gas measurements to monitor and potentially forecast the evolution of volcanic eruptions? Then check out our new paper on the 2021 eruption of #Tajogaite! 🌋🛰️

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Dr Bridie Davies (she/her) @bdaviesgeo.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Sharing some light... Today we set up our "source to surface" #volcano activity as part of #BritishScienceWeek at the #ManchesterMuseum 🌋🌋🌋 Plus a united effort from our department at #UniversityOfManchester in the form of stamp-able cards representing the breadth of #EarthScience research 🌍🌌🌿🪨🦖

A6 postcard with a hexagon graphic of the earth in space, around the hexagon are other hexagons that have been filled with stamps in different colours with icons representing; volcanology, palaeontology, evolution, economic geology, planetary science and plant science. Underneath is a yellow graphic representing the sun with the words "earth and environmental sciences" in purple.

Table with volcanic rocks, a tub of jelly beans and some mineral recipe cards.

Clamp stand with a Lego volcanologist stuck onto it.

Table with "jelly beans magma chamber" three containers of liquids (of different viscosities) and hand pumps and a clamp stand with a volcanologist stuck to the top

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Dr Bridie Davies (she/her) @bdaviesgeo.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

1/3 Disappointing to read today, not surprising, but disappointing nonetheless. I'd like to hear from the fellows at this meeting & whether there was an opportunity to even discuss the Elon in the room? What was the nature of the unity described? #RoyalSociety www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Elon Musk survives as fellow of Royal Society despite anger among scientists

Questions remain over whether further action will be taken after resignations and calls for the Tesla CEO to be expelled

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Dr Bridie Davies (she/her) @bdaviesgeo.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

When you hear "attention all users, stored beam has been lost" for the second time this weekend...it's time to get the embroidery out 🥲 #Science #Crafts #Sunday

Looking towards several computer screens showing the controls for a synchrotron beamline session, on the desk is a bottle of water and lots of embroidery threads. Foreground shows a pair of crossed legs and an embroidery hoop. The fabric has lots of hues of orange and yellow and a paper outline of a leaf has been pinned onto it.

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Chris Rowan @allochthonous.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

But instead they are - intentionally - making their maps wrong, in a way that fits Trump's idea of what he's done, rather than what he actually did. That's the capitulation. That's the problem: they are willing to give us incorrect information - to curry favour.

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Jennifer Blair @squeakinglyjen.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

A lot of misinformation going around about this 'Gazan's using the Ukraine Scheme' court case. This is an unreported case from the Upper Tribunal available here: tribunalsdecisions.service.gov.uk/utiac/ui-202... 🧵

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Tribunal decisions

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

🧵"So this is how liberty dies..." Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up. I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

This is a venn diagram showing how 69 Trump actions map onto domains covering: undermining democratic institutions; suppressing dissent and media; dismantling social protections; attacking science and education; destabilising the global order. A table version is available here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LZN7QnbSyFfUZJG8Sn1MWpK0VnfBtb0OSyZ1jxP3xBk/edit?usp=sharing

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Dr Bridie Davies (she/her) @bdaviesgeo.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

As a UK resident pondering how we respond to what's going on in the US I was expressing just this morning that I would hope our government is making a plan to become less dependent on the US, so we can start to *take a stance* against the alarming progress of Trump v2 I am not optimistic...

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Cllr Dr Alex Powell @apowelllaw.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

'A £285 rise to £9,535 will modestly increase the debts of individual students, while doing little to address the overall problem. A new settlement is desperately needed – one that properly restores a sector that delivers a public good to the public realm' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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The Guardian view on campus cuts: academics pay a high price for Westminster’s mistakes | Editorial

Editorial: The government should not stand aloof as a crisis unfolds in our universities. A new settlement is needed

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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

An open letter to the President of the @royalsociety.org – time to stand up for your values. occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2025/...

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An open letter to the President of the Royal Society – time to stand up for your values | Reciprocal Space

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Kate Mosse @katemossewriter.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Once more with feeling and a dollop of frustration … Taking our work without permission or payment is theft. thttps://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/14/british-novelists-criticise-government-over-ai-theft#img-1

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British novelists criticise government over AI ‘theft’

Richard Osman and Kate Mosse say plan to mine artistic works for data would destroy creative fields

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Prof Chris Jackson @seismatters.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Great if somewhat disturbing thread here by @rubenmathisen.bsky.social. Can you imagine thinking that gender *equality* has gone to far...? Boys might be forgiven...but actual grown men...? 😧

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Dr Bridie Davies (she/her) @bdaviesgeo.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

@vmsg.bsky.social crowd where are some less touristy places to go in #dublin if one were to stay the weekend after #vmsg2025? We will be staying in Smithfields but can uber or bus etc. Food, drinks, thingsss to do/see other than the many museum etc already on the list! 🌋🍺🍝🥔🦐

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Dr Bridie Davies (she/her) @bdaviesgeo.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Thanks #AardmanAnimations for providing me with a nightmarish example to use next time someone asks me why I'm so reticent to use AI for every minor task.... #Norbot #VengeanceMostFowl

Still from Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance most fowl. Gromit looks on in surprise as the Norbot the gnome character marches out of a wooden box with a scary grin on his face. Wallace stands to the right smiling and gesturing with his arms like "ta dah!".

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

When I look back at the death-driven chaos of 2024, this woman’s is the face I want to see. Merci Gisèle Pelicot. #Courage www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...

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Gisèle Pelicot rape trial: husband jailed for 20 years as all 51 men found guilty

Dominique Pelicot drugged his wife and invited dozens of men to rape her in their French home over nine years

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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 21/11/2024

The only way to take on the industrial-grade climate disinformation machine is with a swift, coordinated approach. Glad to learn of the launch of this information integrity initiative and see it join the fight to dismantle fossil fuel-funded lies. www.theverge.com/2024/11/19/2...

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Brazil leads new international effort against climate lies

“Countries cannot tackle this problem individually.”

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

It should not escape our attention as to how few FRS are women (11%!), but yet it took a woman to set an example. royalsociety.org/-/media/poli...

A pie chart representing gender distribution in a total of 1,521 individuals, showing 89% male (1,352) and 11% female (169).

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Dr Bridie Davies (she/her) @bdaviesgeo.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

A little thread of introduction! I am a #volcanologist currently at The University of Manchester imaging melt inclusions trapped in olivine in 3D to investigate inclusion-host relationships that help us interpret records of deep mantle compositions & their impact on eruptive processes!

3D rendering of an olivine crystal approximately 900 micrometers tall, 400 micrometers wide set to semi-transparent showing alignment of several melt inclusions inside (rendered in blue)parallel to the long axis of the crystal. Melt inclusions have a similar shape to the crystallographic axes of the host crystal. The three largest melt inclusions - approximately 200 micrometers longest axis - contain 1 or more spherical vapour bubbles (rendered in yellow).

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alex @dremenec.bsky.social · 28/10/2024

Generally we think of alt-text as the domain of those with accessibility needs. However alt-text is useful for many reasons, which benefit your viewers, as well as you, the creator!

An infographic. There are six panels.

1. "Slow internet. Alt text is shown in place of unloaded images." a drawing shows a phone with poor signal, and alt text is visible where the image should have loaded.

2. "Findabillity. Alt text helps to search content." A drawing shows someone searching 'dog with banana' and a post is shown underneath without the words 'dog' or 'banana'. It is implied to be part of the alt text.

3. "Screen readers. Alt is read out to people using text-to-speech software". There is a drawing of the output a screen-reader would show when viewing an image with alt text on bluesky.

4. "Translation. Alt text can be translated". A drawing shows a post being translated. The alt text is also translated into german.

5. "Readability. Text in images can be made legible" There is a drawing of some truly awful handwriting inside a speech bubble. The alt text clarifies what the text is supposed to say.

6. "Disambiguation. Description helps clarify intent." There is a drawing of a post with a picture of a creature. This is styled after the famous optical illusion of a rabbit and a duck. The alt text clarifies that the animal is a rabbit. It definitely looks more like a duck.

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Dr Bridie Davies (she/her) @bdaviesgeo.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Looking forward to welcoming you here in Manchester!

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Jenni Barclay @volcanojenni.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Welcome! Welcome! To celebrate all the new blue 🌋things I am sharing something old: volcanojenni.wordpress.com/2013/01/31/t.... My old blog - which I haven’t amended in a while and 1/2

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Top 5 Female Scientists in Natural Hazards Movies

More lists! Girls on Film! Disaster Movies are a fabulous genre and there is all sorts of fantastic potential to be very rude indeed about the silly bits. Rather than try to top some of the excelle…

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