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Charlotte (Lottie) Gold-Taylor

@geolottie.bsky.social
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Interests: geology, 🌋, geohealth, toxicology, air pollution, agriculture & PHEC | Mum/carer/home educator of 2 👨‍🦽(z”l)👩‍🦼| She/her

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Sam Langford @samsighs.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
A small little bit of both advice and a plea for using Bluesky. This platform doesn't have an algorithm for content. If your default response to seeing something cool is to hit like, take a second to hit the Repost button too. Especially if it's a cool indie product, a show, some art, whatever.
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Amanda Coleman @amandacomms.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Amazing that more than 200 people have registered to join @lucygobag.bsky.social and me for our latest chat on 16 Dec. Free and online looking at 2025, 2026 and being crisis ready. Find out more here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1932956658...
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Grab bags, prepping and a year of disasters
Professor Lucy Easthope and crisis communication consultant Amanda Coleman will talk about being crisis ready as well as reflecting on 2025.
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Prof Claire J Horwell @clairehorwell.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Hooray! The first paper of our FACE-UP project has finally been published! And this is actually the last week of funding! Literally too busy to write more now… so more later! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Assessment of the fit and wearability of commercially available KN95 respirators for children in Indonesia and Nepal
The purpose of this study was to determine how well KN95 respirators, marketed for children, fit the faces of children aged 6–13 years old in two urba…
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Charlotte (Lottie) Gold-Taylor @geolottie.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Good to see solar panels over part of one of the car parks at the Metrocentre in Newcastle!
Photo of a car park showing areas of roof covered in solar panels
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Charlotte (Lottie) Gold-Taylor @geolottie.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
As eldest’s #photography deadline is now looming, this month’s trip to #Durham is an extra long one to hopefully enable him to get the majority of his final photoshoots completed. This was not the weather we ordered! 😅
Screenshot showing rain forecast for Durham for the next few days.
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Charlotte (Lottie) Gold-Taylor @geolottie.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Decided to get some rosettes back out & mice have eaten a box in an outbuilding, destroyed a lot of them & those remaining are crumpled to varying degrees 😭 Is there a way to flatten the ribbons without damage? Tried heavy books but it hasn’t worked on most & I’m nervous about ironing them! Help!
Photo of a pile of rosettes in different colours with crumpled ribbons.
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Charlotte (Lottie) Gold-Taylor @geolottie.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
After deciding in June 2023 that I was going to join the gym … I have finally joined the gym!! 💪🏽 I have a fitness planner to log my exercise and food, and I’m feeling very hopeful that 2025 will be the year I manage to stick to it and find a healthier and happier me!
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Charlotte (Lottie) Gold-Taylor @geolottie.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Tonight we lit the final candle for the last night of Chanukkah.
Photo showing a Chanukkiah with 8 candles and the shamash candle all lit for the last night of Chanukkah. There are snowflakes on the window.
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Charlotte (Lottie) Gold-Taylor @geolottie.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
This time last year I wasn’t in a great place. I spent 2024 working hard on myself, being brave, & pushing myself out of my comfort zones. I learnt a lot about myself along the way. A recent pivotal moment means I’m starting 2025 happy, & with hope that continuing the work will be easier this year.
“Change is not a bolt of lightning that arrives with a zap. It is a bridge built brick by brick, every day, with sweat and humility and slips. It is hard work, and slow work, but it can be thrilling to watch it take shape.”
Sarah Hepola (author)
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Charlotte (Lottie) Gold-Taylor @geolottie.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Ending 2024 with the Aurora Borealis.
Photo of the sky showing green and red aurora. Stars can also be seen.
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Charlotte (Lottie) Gold-Taylor @geolottie.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
It’s very rare we properly see our feral farm cat Ginge to get a photo of him. Look at his adorable grumpy little face! 😻
A zoomed in photo of a red classic tabby cat with a tipped ear in grass looking at the cameraA zoomed in photo of a red classic tabby cat with a tipped ear in grass looking at the camera
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Charlotte (Lottie) Gold-Taylor @geolottie.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Chag sameach! #Hanukkah
Photo of a Chanukkiah lit for the first night
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Charlotte (Lottie) Gold-Taylor @geolottie.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
It’s #Christmas today, #Chanukkah starts tonight and, if you’re in the UK, it’s also Gavin and Stacey day!! I hope everyone has a lovely time whatever you do or don’t celebrate, and that it is as gentle on you as possible if it’s the first holiday without a loved one.
Cream background with dark blue text saying ‘Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah’
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Charlotte (Lottie) Gold-Taylor @geolottie.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
#DuvetKnowItsChristmas is brilliant. Watching people post that they’ve arrived at their parents and found that this year they’ll be sleeping between a printer and an exercise bike, with a Care Bears duvet cover they had when they were 7 🤣🤣
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Danielle Solzman 🗽🇺🇲✡️🕎🟦🎥 @solzyatthemovies.com · 23/12/2024
Yearly reminder about what Chanukah is and isn't.
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Charlotte (Lottie) Gold-Taylor @geolottie.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
This morning I was searching online for other flavours of drinks now I can no longer have caffeine. Having been up since 5.30am I was very tired and misread the name of this tea as a minty public health nightmare! 🤣
Screenshot showing a box of Yogi Tea in ‘Minty Chlorella’ flavour
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Ilan Kelman @ilankelman.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Development and Disasters: Natural hazards and vulnerability reduction (2nd edition) practicalactionpublishing.com/book/3006/de... Hard copy can be pre-ordered. Free download available in Feb. #DRR #DisastersAreNotNatural #NoNaturalDisasters (avoid the phrases #NaturalDisaster #NaturalDisasters)
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Charlotte (Lottie) Gold-Taylor @geolottie.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Today was spent driving around County #Durham so my eldest could take some photos for his #photography project about the #mining industry in NE England. I can’t upload any of his images but my snap below is the lift cage from the mine at #Easington Colliery which shut in 1993.
Lift cage from Easington Colliery with a hazy sea in the background
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Charlotte (Lottie) Gold-Taylor @geolottie.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
If the north of Scotland was warm I could grow rice! #SmallFarmLife
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Charlotte (Lottie) Gold-Taylor @geolottie.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
The rain hasn’t stopped so checking the cows this morning was a bit soggy due to the gley soils in our bottom fields! Thankfully the field they are in is on a slope so they’re sensibly staying out of the water. #SmallFarmLife
Photo of Lottie’s legs and wellies standing in water on a flooded track.
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Charlotte (Lottie) Gold-Taylor @geolottie.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Day 1 of the medical geology and environmental health conference was great today! Brilliant presentations from everyone! I really enjoyed sharing my #Sinabung ash work 😃
Photo of Lottie’s laptop showing a PowerPoint title slide with a photo of a volcanic ash plume on the left and text on the right reading ‘Physicochemical characterisation of Sinabung volcanic ash for the assessment of respiratory health hazard’
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Charlotte (Lottie) Gold-Taylor @geolottie.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
After a wonderful weekend catching up with old uni friends in Leicester it’s time to unwind in Durham ready for a medical geology and environmental health virtual conference starting on Tuesday!
Photo of Durham showing the river with a bridge, the castle and the cathedral in the background.
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Charlotte (Lottie) Gold-Taylor @geolottie.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
I’m back in Leicester again! This time for a reunion with some of my Geology undergrad cohort. I found out on Wednesday that I am presenting at a conference next week so this evening will be spent writing a presentation uncomfortably close to a deadline. Really adds to the reminiscing 🤣🤣
Photo of a water fountain in front of a double fronted red brick building with a clock tower.
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Charlotte (Lottie) Gold-Taylor @geolottie.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Between the #snow in the north of #Scotland, traffic in Edinburgh and the sat nav going bananas and sending me through Newcastle city centre (🤯) it has been a very very long and tiring drive down to #Durham!! Now fed and ready for bed! 😴
Durham cathedral illuminated at nightA street in Durham at night
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Charlotte (Lottie) Gold-Taylor @geolottie.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
This hasn’t stopped all day and we’re now snowed in! I used to get extremely excited about snow when I first moved up here but the novelty wore off very quickly!
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Charlotte (Lottie) Gold-Taylor @geolottie.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
It was a cold, wet and very windy day in north Aberdeenshire today 🥶 We found a fishing memorial sculpture which depicts a woman and her daughter looking out across the North Sea for a family member who will never return.
Photo of the back of a sculpture which depicts a woman and her daughter. The sculpture shows them looking out to sea for a family member who will never return from fishing.Photo of the front of a sculpture which depicts a woman and her daughter. The sculpture shows them looking out to sea for a family member who will never return from fishing.
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Charlotte (Lottie) Gold-Taylor @geolottie.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Whilst mucking out the horses tonight the Arab dribbled freezing cold water down the back of my neck and the Fell dribbled her chaff soup over me and then kept emptying the scoop! I’ll be glad to chuck them back out into the field tomorrow! 😂 My son’s little Welshie was a good boy as always!
Side on photo of a chestnut Crabbet Arabian horse in her stable.Photo of a black Fell Pony with sloppy chaff all around her mouth poking her tongue out
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Charlotte (Lottie) Gold-Taylor @geolottie.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
Very busy 3 days of 6-7hrs/day of driving to take eldest to my old uni for an open day (including a 5am wake up yesterday to get there in time! 🥱) but it was a productive day. He really enjoyed it, definitely wants to add Leicester to his shortlist spreadsheet & is now seriously considering geology!
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homer simpson and bart simpson are sitting on a couch with the words come come dear one
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Charlotte (Lottie) Gold-Taylor @geolottie.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
A relaxing evening having dinner with my favourite boy in one of my favourite cities 🥰
Durham Cathedral illuminated in redFlatbread , chips and a milkshake with cream, sprinkles and a cherry!
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Charlotte (Lottie) Gold-Taylor @geolottie.bsky.social · 28/10/2024
I had forgotten how hard the early days of trying to learn a new language are! Add in not being able to hear like other people and it makes it SO much harder and more tiring!! Staying focused on why I’m doing it though! 🌋
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a man wearing glasses and a green jacket says " this is making my brain hurt "
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Charlotte (Lottie) Gold-Taylor @geolottie.bsky.social · 27/10/2024
Spent some time at the beach this morning ⚒️
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Charlotte (Lottie) Gold-Taylor @geolottie.bsky.social · 23/10/2024
I wasn’t expecting to see a #fox when I was unloading the kids in a hotel car park tonight! I can’t believe how close it let me get!
Photo of a fox in a car park
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Global Volcano Risk Alliance @gvra.bsky.social · 22/10/2024
We are Global Volcano Risk Alliance a new charity organisation working to build global resilience to volcanic eruptions. Our mission is to safeguard millions of lives through regional and international preparedness, monitoring, and advocacy. www.globalvolcanoriskalliance.com
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Global Volcano Risk Alliance
Volcanoes pose globally catastrophic threats to society through their multi-hazard impacts that can alter the Earth's climate and disrupt our global critical systems. The direct and indirect impacts t...
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Charlotte (Lottie) Gold-Taylor @geolottie.bsky.social · 21/10/2024
Eldest teen has informed me that he has to do an absolute minimum of 8 photoshoots for his photography project. Has he chosen a topic that’s based locally … no he hasn’t! 😅 Well, I’ll certainly be confident with driving hilly twisty roads in pitch black by April!! 📷
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kermit the frog and fozzie bear are driving a car and saying feelin a roadtrip coming on
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Charlotte (Lottie) Gold-Taylor @geolottie.bsky.social · 18/10/2024
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Charlotte (Lottie) Gold-Taylor @geolottie.bsky.social · 14/10/2024
Whizz Kidz max day. OH & I met through #climbing so we were delighted to see the kids get a chance to climb! 💜 I even got a climb in myself for the first time since before I had the kids & was surprisingly chilled until I made the fatal mistake of looking down & then everything went a bit wobbly 🤣
Photo of a boy on an indoor climbing wallPhoto of a girl on an indoor climbing wallPhoto of 2 teens on an indoor climbing wallPhoto of a girl on a traverse wall
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ErrantScience @errantscience.com · 10/10/2024
Balanced equations are important, even in your own mental health. Remember to make time for Self Care #MentalHealth #WorldMentalHealthDay #SelfCare
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Charlotte (Lottie) Gold-Taylor @geolottie.bsky.social · 05/10/2024
#Meningitis does not always start with a rash. I took my daughter to hospital because she just seemed ‘off’ & with a history of intestinal failure I wasn’t taking chances. By the time the rash appeared she was incredibly ill. She spent nearly 6wks in hospital. #WorldMeningitisDay
Signs of meningitis with a warning not to wait for a rash. If you suspect meningitis seek medical help IMMEDIATELY.Photo of Lottie’s daughter’s arm being pressed showing a non blanching rash
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Charlotte (Lottie) Gold-Taylor @geolottie.bsky.social · 05/10/2024
Another day out exploring NE England for eldest to take some more test shots for his photography portfolio. We also found a river barrage so I got some water management in as well!
Photo of a decommissioned oil rigTees transporter bridgeRiver barrageAngel of the North
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 04/10/2024
Stop burning stuff! "It may be tempting to add cardboard, plastic, old clothing and other waste to your home fire to keep warm and save money. But…burning waste indoors has serious consequences for air pollution and especially for the amount of cancer-causing chemicals in the air."
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Pollutionwatch: Dangers of adding rubbish to home fires
Tests show adding just 10% of waste to a wood burner indoors can double its particle pollution
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Charlotte (Lottie) Gold-Taylor @geolottie.bsky.social · 04/10/2024
A beautiful part of the world to fit in some trips as part of the kids work.
Photo of rusted headgear at a disused minePhoto of a derelict stone building and a mine shaft covered with a rusted metal gratePhoto of a rusted mining headgear seen through the window of a disused buildingPhoto of a waterfall
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Charlotte (Lottie) Gold-Taylor @geolottie.bsky.social · 01/10/2024
Baking time! Being away for Rosh Hashanah meant that I had to bring a big box of baking stuff away with us! 🍎🍯
Cream KitchenAid mixer with apples and honey in the foreground
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Charlotte (Lottie) Gold-Taylor @geolottie.bsky.social · 30/09/2024
Huge day today, I had lunch with my girl!! 🥰 She’s always been tube fed but has recently started eating teeny bits so, as she loves a bit of spice, we tried some Sri Lankan street food in Newcastle! 😃
Photo of an enormous portion of Sri Lankan lamb koththu roti
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Charlotte (Lottie) Gold-Taylor @geolottie.bsky.social · 27/09/2024
🚨Food Standards Agency #allergy update 🚨 “We continue to advise people who have a peanut allergy to avoid eating any foods that contain or may contain mustard, mustard seeds, mustard powder or mustard flour because of potential contamination with peanuts.” www.food.gov.uk/news-alerts/...
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Urgent allergy advice remains as Food Standards Agency updates on investigation into mustard ingredients contaminated with peanuts
We continue to advise people who have a peanut allergy to avoid eating any foods that contain or may contain mustard, mustard seeds, mustard powder or mustard flour because of potential contamination ...
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Ada Lovelace Day @adalovelaceday.bsky.social · 20/09/2024
A volcano near the now evacuated Icelandic town of Grindavík has woken up after 800 years. But why has it started erupting again now? How long can the lava barriers protect homes? And what is going on underground? 8 Oct at the Ri & online! #ALD24 findingada.com/events
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Charlotte (Lottie) Gold-Taylor @geolottie.bsky.social · 21/09/2024
Important info for anyone with a peanut allergy!!
Screenshot of Food Standards Agency tweet saying to avoid food or drinks that contain or may contain mustard, mustard powder or mustard flour as it may have been contaminated with peanuts.
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Charlotte (Lottie) Gold-Taylor @geolottie.bsky.social · 18/09/2024
Fountain Pen people, I have a question! Is the fine nib on the TWSBI Eco scratchy? I cannot bear a scratchy nib but the medium is currently out of stock in the colour pen I want. It will mainly be used with Diamine ink, or De Atramentis Document ink if I need water/bleach/alcohol proof ink. 🖋️
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a close up of a fountain pen writing on paper
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Charlotte (Lottie) Gold-Taylor @geolottie.bsky.social · 14/09/2024
Sunset with my Highlands 💜
Highland Cattle with an orange sunset behind themHighland Cattle with an orange sunset behind themAn orange glowing sunsetHighland Cattle with an orange sunset behind them
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Charlotte (Lottie) Gold-Taylor @geolottie.bsky.social · 14/09/2024
This is a useful feed to see posts from quieter followers!
Screenshot of ‘Quiet Posters’ feed with text reading ‘Posts from your quieter followers’
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Charlotte (Lottie) Gold-Taylor @geolottie.bsky.social · 13/09/2024
Joining in with the ‘If you see this, post some cats!’ 🐈‍⬛
A photo of a very fluffy solid black Norwegian Forest CatA photo of a very fluffy black tortie tabby and white Norwegian Forest CatA photo of a black silver spotted tabby and white Norwegian Forest Cat with kittensA photo of 3 Norwegian Forest Cat kittens on a scratchpost barrel. The one on the left of the photo is black tabby and white, the middle kitten is black and white and the right hand kitten is blue and white.
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