David Pyle @davidmpyle.bsky.social · 17/09/2026‘with kind regards’. Lewis read this the book closely - annotating liberally throughout, pointing out errors and critiquing the writing. The next year, Solly left his university post. Solly’s obituary reports that he resigned his post, having published the book without Lewis’ permission 2/2 040
David Pyle @davidmpyle.bsky.social · 17/09/2026A sorry tale from 1895.. Richard Solly was a #crystallographer, employed in Cambridge as assistant to the Professor of mineralogy, W J Lewis. In 1883, Solly was appointed Demonstrator in Mineralogy. In 1894, Solly published an introductory text book on mineralogy; he presented a copy to Lewis.. 1/2 190
David Pyle @davidmpyle.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Delighted to find out that our @nosycrow.bsky.social #volcanoes book will soon be available in Chile - where my volcanic path began! Via Contrapunto.cl 🌋⚒️ 071
David Pyle @davidmpyle.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Published 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... 0242
David Pyle @davidmpyle.bsky.social · 09/05/2026New installation in #Oxford University Parks. Tulu’s-Latrines, ‘Les Toilettes’, 2026, HDPE. 130
David Pyle @davidmpyle.bsky.social · 20/03/2026Amazing trace fossil - Zoophycos - from the mid-Miocene sediments of the Tabernas basin, Almeria. First time to have seen this, in many years of field visits - spotted by eagle-eyed 3rd year @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social students. ⚒️ 35412
David Pyle @davidmpyle.bsky.social · 17/02/2026Delighted to share the origin story of the first #volcano observatory on #Montserrat, established in response to a seismic crisis in the 1930s. The observatory was staffed by Montserratians from 1936 to 1946, including Ian and Cecil Kelsick, and Greta Scotland (1/n) doi.org/10.30909/vol... 1282
David Pyle @davidmpyle.bsky.social · 14/02/2026Excited to see early copies of ‘The Power of Volcanoes’, written with Tamsin Mather and wonderfully brought to life with illustrations by Daniel Long. Part of the ‘Think Big’ series of science books for children, published by @nosycrow.bsky.social and @cam.ac.uk Publication date - 4 June 2026 0180
David Pyle @davidmpyle.bsky.social · 08/02/2026New paper from Adam Morley shows that some vegetation anomalies in multi-spectral satellite data correlate with geophysical data, and can be used to identify buried archaeological structures like tunnels and drains, with examples from Cornwall and Normandy. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1375
David Pyle @davidmpyle.bsky.social · 03/12/2025What to do for the last first-year igneous #petrology practical class of term, late on a Friday, when you have been teaching #magma differentiation? 🌋⚒️ 1100
David Pyle @davidmpyle.bsky.social · 21/11/2025#OTD in 1825, George Poulett Scrope published ‘Considerations on Volcanos .. their connexion with the present State and past History of the Globe, leading to .. a new Theory of the Earth’. Scrope went on to have a long career as an MP, and wrote prolifically on political economy, and volcanoes. 060
David Pyle @davidmpyle.bsky.social · 14/11/2025When the department seminar is interrupted by a fire alarm.. Kurt Konhauser concluding in the rain! 041
David Pyle @davidmpyle.bsky.social · 23/10/2025Wow! Volcanoes Top Trumps - on i-player; season 1, episode 6 of Leonard and Hungry Paul. 'Wow factor 89. Mount St Helens. Fantastic card' winningmoves.co.uk/products/vol...? #volcanoes 190
David Pyle @davidmpyle.bsky.social · 14/10/2025Very sad to hear that Peter Friend has died. Peter was a wonderful teacher and a lovely colleague, and first introduced me to the geology of Almeria in the 1990s for an undergraduate field class. Here's Peter, still running the trip 4 years into retirement.⚒️ www.darwin.cam.ac.uk/news/dr-pete... 2488
David Pyle @davidmpyle.bsky.social · 26/07/2025Colonial-era yellow firebrick, manufactured by Rufford & Co., Stourbridge, and imported to #StLucia where it was used in the bakery near Fort Rodney, Pigeon Island. 0120
David Pyle @davidmpyle.bsky.social · 18/07/2025Director of the Montserrat Tourism Authority, Rosetta West Gerald highlighting the #Montserrat Mural Tour; featuring four murals created in 2023 during the Curating Crises project curatingcrises.omeka.net/exhibits/sho... 030
David Pyle @davidmpyle.bsky.social · 18/07/2025Closing presentations at #SHV30 on the themes of geoheritage, and imagining new opportunities for volcano tourism and geopark development on the island of #Montserrat. 091
David Pyle @davidmpyle.bsky.social · 16/07/2025Soufriere Hills Volcano, Montserrat, with a haze descending across the buried city of Plymouth. #SHV30 1212
David Pyle @davidmpyle.bsky.social · 15/07/2025Current Montserrat Premier, Reuben T Meade, with his vision for the future. ‘Montserrat Still Home, Still Nice, Still Paradise’. #SHV30 021
David Pyle @davidmpyle.bsky.social · 15/07/2025Frank Savage - Governor in 1995 - and Reuben Meade - Chief Minister in 1995 - with reflections on the start of the eruptive crisis in 1995. #SHV30 021
David Pyle @davidmpyle.bsky.social · 14/07/2025Turning magma into momentum - #SHV30 kicks off on the island of Montserrat, marking the 30th anniversary of the start of the Soufriere Hills Volcano eruption. @mvoupdates.bsky.social 0102
David Pyle @davidmpyle.bsky.social · 24/06/2025Great to see the first outcomes of a digital archives project led by Martin Mahony @ueaenv.bsky.social, with #Montserrat National Trust, @mvoupdates.bsky.social @dlocaribbean.bsky.social @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy Here is 'SeismiCity News', from 1997 to 1998 dloc.com/title-sets/A... 060
David Pyle @davidmpyle.bsky.social · 23/06/2025Marking the 30th anniversary of the start of Soufriere Hills volcanic eruption (July 1995), with a reception in the Speaker’s rooms, Westminster 050
David Pyle @davidmpyle.bsky.social · 11/06/2025.. delighted to see recognition for Hugh Jenkyns (@oxuniearthsci.bsky.social) who published his first paper in 1967, discovered Ocean Anoxic Events in the 1970s, and is still publishing papers on the Jurassic today! 0121
David Pyle @davidmpyle.bsky.social · 11/06/2025Lovely afternoon at the @geolsoc.bsky.social celebrating the annual awards. Congratulations to all the award winners and medalists! Here’s a selection of photos of just a few of the awardees.. 1101
David Pyle @davidmpyle.bsky.social · 18/05/2025What a show from Grace Petrie in Oxford last night! Anger, passion, humanity, despair and hope all wrapped up into an exuberantly life-affirming performance. I went on a whim - highly recommend! www.gracepetrie.com/gigs 130
David Pyle @davidmpyle.bsky.social · 13/05/2025Great thread on seismologist Inge Lehmann! Her classic paper on the seismic (PKP) waves that pass from mantle to core to mantle was simply called: P' I was delighted to find Lehmann's signature in the Kew Observatory correspondence from 1937! courses.seas.harvard.edu/climate/eli/... 050
David Pyle @davidmpyle.bsky.social · 13/05/2025Thank you @katysduncan.bsky.social and @miguelohn.bsky.social for convening such a wonderful discussion meeting on #histsci and #geophysics at @ri-science.bsky.social, and a great keynote from @naomioreskes.bsky.social 092
David Pyle @davidmpyle.bsky.social · 25/04/2025Thank you Julie Belo, Steffen Kutterolf and Paul Albert for organising a great workshop, and @geomarkiel.bsky.social for hosting! 070
David Pyle @davidmpyle.bsky.social · 24/04/2025Anatol Herzfeld’s ‘kybernetiker’, by the docks at @geomarkiel.bsky.social Kiel 060
David Pyle @davidmpyle.bsky.social · 24/04/2025@sofiadellasala.bsky.social presenting her work at the @geomarkiel.bsky.social tephra workshop, on sediments from Santorini caldera recovered during IODP 398 @ukiodp.bsky.social 061
David Pyle @davidmpyle.bsky.social · 18/04/2025There are only three days left to catch the wonderful 'Magma Rising' exhibition at the Heong Gallery, @downingcollege.bsky.social, #Cambridge; curated by Dr Sara Rawlinson, with #volcanic art, film, music, rocks and equipment, all on an #Icelandic theme #sciart magmarising.org 1122
David Pyle @davidmpyle.bsky.social · 18/04/2025If you get a chance, do see Kyoto - gripping dramatisation of the decade of global negotiations leading to the Kyoto protocol, and a wonderful piece of theatre from @the-rsc.bsky.social sohoplace.org/shows/kyoto/ 050
David Pyle @davidmpyle.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Wonderful launch event at Birkbeck with Martha Keswick, James Hammond and the Mount Paektu Research Centre for the launch of the latest COPE disaster champions children’s DRR books in Korean (free to download). @unesco.org cope-disaster-champions.com 170
David Pyle @davidmpyle.bsky.social · 25/02/2025I still wonder whether this was a COVID adaptation for individualised exam rooms, or just a polite notice.. 4151
David Pyle @davidmpyle.bsky.social · 01/02/2025The past few days has seen a cluster of small earthquakes around the submarine Kolumbo volcano, north east of #Santorini, Greece. Kolumbo last erupted in 1650, and the crater has an active metal-rich hydrothermal system. www.geophysics.geol.uoa.gr/stations/map... www.mdpi.com/2624-795X/5/... 06816
David Pyle @davidmpyle.bsky.social · 29/01/2025Google streetview turns out to be a surprisingly effective way of scoping out a potential outcrop for a field class! No parking though.. 1401
David Pyle @davidmpyle.bsky.social · 29/01/2025Time to move this ornamental rock to its rightful place in the teaching lab, for the first #volcanic #sediments practical of the year.. 0170
David Pyle @davidmpyle.bsky.social · 09/12/2024For #VolcanoMonday Volcan Fuego and thin ash plume, seen from Antigua, Guatemala. 🌋 ⚒️ 1384
David Pyle @davidmpyle.bsky.social · 06/12/2024Volcanology- and petrology-inspired baking for the annual Oxford Earth Sciences bake-off, courtesy of Bei Bei, Rhiannon, Sofia and colleagues! ⚒️🌋🔬 1284
David Pyle @davidmpyle.bsky.social · 19/11/2024There’s something unaccountably exciting about the phase change of water. The softened colour palette, the changed soundscape, and the first snowfall of winter. 1571
David Pyle @davidmpyle.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Wow! So many new acquaintances and re-acquaintances on this site! Here’s a young Charles Darwin and an exhortation from the next custodians of our planet (school children). From the Sedgwick Museum project ‘The Butterfly Effect’ ⚒️ 071
David Pyle @davidmpyle.bsky.social · 18/11/2024While parts of the fabric might be timeless, other evidence of time passing is hard to ignore. Here is the Sedgwick Club in 1986 ⚒️ 020
David Pyle @davidmpyle.bsky.social · 18/11/2024In Cambridge to give a talk to the Sedgwick Club (undergraduate Earth Scientists). Interesting to see how some parts of the fabric of a place are managed to remain timeless: how long has this chalk graffito been here, and how often is it topped up? 110
David Pyle @davidmpyle.bsky.social · 19/10/2024 Explaining risk and uncertainty with the Sensing Volcanoes ‘Imaginarium’ at the Manchester Science Festival - will be here until Tuesday 22nd, 10-5 daily. www.scienceandindustrymuseum.org.uk/manchester-s... 061
David Pyle @davidmpyle.bsky.social · 05/10/2024Optical illusions, dynamic designs and fans are on display around Oxford for the next month as a part of Uchiwa science at the IF Oxford science and ideas festival if-oxford.com/uchiwa/ 031
David Pyle @davidmpyle.bsky.social · 03/10/2024Are you ready? The IF Oxford science and ideas festival starts this weekend; a community festival with over 100 events across the next 3 weeks. Take a look at the programme - there’s something for everyone! if-oxford.com/events/ 001