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VMSG @vmsg.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

We're excited to announce registration for our 2027 VMSG Annual Meeting in Cambridge is now open! See our webpage here: vmsg.org.uk/events/vmsg2... For this year we also have bursary support available to help attendees, deadline to apply 9th October!

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Dr James Hickey 🌋🇪🇺 @jameshickey77.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Can we please move away from nonsense like this, it helps no one: "Leverhulme actively encourage applicants to apply to a different institution from the one they gained their PhD from. Therefore, a strong case to stay at [current instituion] will need to be made by all internal candidates."

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VMSG @vmsg.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

There are now just 12 DAYS remaining to submit your nomination for the VMSG Award, Willy Aspinall Prize, Zeiss Postdoctoral Keynote Award, or apply for our £750 student bursary! Deadline 15th Sept. Details at vmsg.org.uk/awards

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VMSG are proud to present several awards, which may be presented up to annually. The awards are:

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Kate Littler @palaeoclimate.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Please sign and share the petition below to stand with Exeter staff against these unjustified redundancies. Thank you 🙏 www.change.org/p/stop-redun...

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Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter

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Dr James Hickey 🌋🇪🇺 @jameshickey77.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

It was great to chat about Sakurajima volcano with Michael Portillo last year in Japan for his current BBC TV show 🌋 🚆 🇯🇵. If you didn't catch my fleeting appearance on BBC 2 last night, it's available on iPlayer at: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

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Dr James Hickey 🌋🇪🇺 @jameshickey77.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Can I ask pre-webinar what operating system the computers running the presentations at #EGU26 will use? Thanks! :)

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Romain Vaucher @romainvaucher.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

We need to change how we publish science! New article with @camthomas.bsky.social : “Diamond is the new Green: why Green OA is not sustainable long-term.” About 15 min, perfect for a weekend reading with a coffee: @sedimentologika.bsky.social 💎 doi.org/10.57035/jou...

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Dr Fabian Wadsworth @fabianwadsworth.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

In 2017 we went to the Diamond Light Source to test if we could make obsidian by slowly cooling bubbly magma inducing resorption of the bubbles. We found that we could, so long as the cooling was very slow. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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VMSG @vmsg.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Final Registration for the VMSG Annual Meeting 2026 is fast approaching. Abstract deadline has been extended until Friday 8 Dec. We aim to inform registrants of their presentation type (talk/poster) & time slot by 12 Dec. We look forward to welcoming you all to Southampton!

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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 27/11/2025

Today, we're launching our advanced volcanic ash forecasting service to reduce aviation disruption. In 2010, Eyjafjallajökull closed much of Europe's airspace; our new service could halve such disruption and keep skies open during future eruptions. Read more: www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...

Met Office news release: 27 November 2025 - New Met Office service to cut aviation disruption from volcanic ash

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Dr James Hickey 🌋🇪🇺 @jameshickey77.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

And probably cost the best part of £200 for the pleasure...? 🙈

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

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Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how

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Dr James Hickey 🌋🇪🇺 @jameshickey77.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Annie manually read & classified 7000+ Facebook posts to assess how community use of a local Facebook group can inform on changes in social behaviour & emotional response during a highly destructive volcanic eruption! There are some surprising results!

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Dr James Hickey 🌋🇪🇺 @jameshickey77.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

🚨 new paper and proud supervisor moment 🚨 A former 4th year undergraduate research project student has published her work: www.jvolcanica.org/ojs/index.ph... Social sensing the 2018 Kīlauea Volcanic eruption through community Facebook use #volcanology #risk #hazards 🧪⚒️🌋

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Social sensing the 2018 Kīlauea Volcanic eruption through community Facebook use | Volcanica

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Dr James Hickey 🌋🇪🇺 @jameshickey77.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

This new works extends my own work from back in 2014 where we did a similar thing, but with much simpler Finite Element models: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Thanks to @ukri.org NERC for funding the current work, with other support and community from @uk-comet.bsky.social 😎🌋⚒️🧪

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Benchmarking and developing numerical Finite Element models of volcanic deformation

Volcanic deformation during an unrest episode can provide valuable insights into potential magmatic plumbing system dynamics. Paramount to this is a m…

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Dr James Hickey 🌋🇪🇺 @jameshickey77.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

As well as testing the models, we spend time discussing their implementation and benchmarking. We provide a range of model files with the paper, as well as detailed instructions on how to build poroelastic magma mush deformation models using Finite Element modelling software (COMSOL Multiphysics).

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Dr James Hickey 🌋🇪🇺 @jameshickey77.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

We also contrast entirely poroelastic magma mushes, with magma mushes that contain both poroelastic regions AND melt-rich domains. The composition of the mush can alter both the spatial and temporal ground deformation patterns for an identical magma resupply simulation.

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Dr James Hickey 🌋🇪🇺 @jameshickey77.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Melt compressibility also impacts the temporal evolution of ground deformation, and how we may experience post-injection uplift or subsidence. Awkwardly, in terms of interpreting deformation, the effect of compressibility also trades off with mush reservoir geometry...

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Dr James Hickey 🌋🇪🇺 @jameshickey77.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

In this paper, Rami explores different modelling approaches to simulate volcano ground deformation from melt resupply to magma mushes. Key parameters are tested: porosity, permeability, compressibility, mush geometry, and composition. Melt compressibility has a big effect on deformation amplitude.

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Dr James Hickey 🌋🇪🇺 @jameshickey77.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

🚨 New Paper Day 🚨 Benchmarking and testing poroelastic dynamic magma mush volcano deformation models - one for all the magma mush or volcano deformation enthusiasts out there 🌋⚒️🧪 Thread 🧵 below ⬇️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #volcano #geophysics #modelling #volcanology #magma

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Benchmarking and testing poroelastic dynamic magma mush volcano deformation models

Volcano deformation studies provide crucial insights into magmatic processes, offering a key perspective on the dynamics of magma reservoirs and their…

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Department of Earth Sciences at Durham University, UK @durhamearthsci.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Looking for your next professional adventure? Here's your opportunity! ✨ Apply for this Associate Professor position in Sustainable Earth Energy before the 31st Oct. 2025 and join the Durham University Department of Earth Sciences! Find out more👉 durham.taleo.net/careersectio... #DUJobs #Hiring

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Associate Professor in Sustainable Earth Energy

Click the link provided to see the complete job description.

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Dr James Hickey 🌋🇪🇺 @jameshickey77.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

100% this. Also, when papers spend weeks (or more) waiting for someone to tick a box to move it to the next stage of the process, and then they demand comments on proofs within 3 days and with no regard for a weekend…!

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Rock Lab Strasbourg @rocklabstrasbourg.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

I'm hiring a new post-doc to work on the @rottnrock.bsky.social project! Come help us understand hydrothermal alteration and volcanic hazards! Advert here: www.unistra.fr/universite/t... 📸 Recent ROTTnROCK trip to Mombacho, Nicaragua 🌋

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Dr James Hickey 🌋🇪🇺 @jameshickey77.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Super interesting stuff! Check. It. Out! 👇🏼

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Dr Fabian Wadsworth @fabianwadsworth.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

New paper! The last of Eloïse Bretagne's PhD papers is out! Here we generalize our models for permeability to magma mush at any melt fraction. Take a look if you want to model percolative flow of melt through a magma mush and if you want to account for crystal shape. OA: dx.doi.org/10.1029/2025...

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Dr James Hickey 🌋🇪🇺 @jameshickey77.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

"If you ignore all the fact-free “world-leading this and world leading that” BS..." --> same way I get through every day at work 😂

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Dr. Judith Hubbard @judithgeology.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

⚒️ 🧪 Another big addition to the remarkable M8.8 earthquake sequence offshore Kamchatka: a M7.8 - the biggest aftershock so far. With foreshocks, aftershocks, aftershocks of foreshocks, and foreshocks of aftershocks, it's hard to keep these earthquakes straight! Read more about what's going on:

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M 7.8 strikes offshore Kamchatka

Another big addition to a remarkable earthquake sequence

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Dr James Hickey 🌋🇪🇺 @jameshickey77.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Haha, yeh, and it really didn't help the point that I was trying to make, in that "even ChatGPT would draw a mush extending to the base of the crust" 🤣🙈

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Dr James Hickey 🌋🇪🇺 @jameshickey77.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Some of the plumes at Krasheninnikov certainly looked quite steam rich 🧐

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Dr James Hickey 🌋🇪🇺 @jameshickey77.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

This one will have to go front facing on the bookshelf! 😍 🌋

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James Bullock @jmbecologist.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Really disappointing new policy from NERC banning resubmissions of grant applications Many of us, including me, have won grants on resubmission, using the reviews to improve the application This is is neither fair nor productive www.ukri.org/councils/ner...

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NERC policy on resubmissions

This policy only applies to research grant applications.

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Rebecca Williams @volcanologist.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

NERC: We need to open up environmental science! Why is it not diverse? Also NERC: We're scrapping Independent Research Fellowships, New Investigator Grants, Small Grants, are limiting applications from institutions based on past success rates and will only allow you to submit your proposal once.

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Dr James Hickey 🌋🇪🇺 @jameshickey77.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

I mentioned this to Gilles, and he wanted to make and share this map to visualise how the code currently works. Could be a cool lil' GIS project for someone to update it to consider volcano footprints rather than point locations.

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Rock Lab Strasbourg @rocklabstrasbourg.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

To find out more, check out our Open Access paper, just published in JVGR: 🥳 doi.org/10.1016/j.jv... Featuring: @jameshickey77.bsky.social and others not on BlueSky! 6/6

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Nick Barber 🌋 @volcannick.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Wow, what an interesting study! An early takeaway from me: we have a long way to go to ensure research being done on volcanoes is connected to the academic communities rooted in the areas affected by their eruptions. This is also a helpful jumping off point for discussions about fieldwork ethics.

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Dr James Hickey 🌋🇪🇺 @jameshickey77.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Interesting! I'll speak to Gilles, who developed the code and app. I'm pretty sure it's sorted by central vent location extracted from the GVP database, so doesn't (currently can't) take into account the footprint of a given volcano (would be cool to add though!).

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Dr James Hickey 🌋🇪🇺 @jameshickey77.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

🤣 The tephra AND the fireworks 💥, and the (perhaps not so) gentle peace you get knowing you are representing the best of us at the volcanic "coal face" 🙌🏼👏🏻!

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Dr James Hickey 🌋🇪🇺 @jameshickey77.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Great work all led by Gilles Seropian, and supported by Thomas Aubry and @farquharson.bsky.social. Thanks to @royalsociety.org for funding Gilles' research.

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Dr James Hickey 🌋🇪🇺 @jameshickey77.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

We consider our results from a number of angles, including carbon footprints, best practice for collaboration, and EDI. Finally, it turns out, we at @exeter.ac.uk (in Cornwall) are indeed further than 75–85% of our global colleagues from volcanoes 🌋.

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Dr James Hickey 🌋🇪🇺 @jameshickey77.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

We have a web tool that will calculate the nearest volcano to your institution, or the nearest institution to a given volcano: gilles.seropian.io/nearest_volc... We also looked at volcano distance metrics by journal, and by author position in a publication.

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Nearest Volcano

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Dr James Hickey 🌋🇪🇺 @jameshickey77.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Around 27% of volcanologists are based within 100 km of a Holocene volcano, compared to 14% of the world population. More than 85% of volcanologists are within 1000 km of a Holocene volcano, but 48% need to travel over 1000 km to visit a volcano that erupted in the past 50 years! @iavcei.bsky.social

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a group of people are standing in front of a volcano with dasa 1968 written on the bottom

ALT: a group of people are standing in front of a volcano with dasa 1968 written on the bottom

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