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Dr Eric Breard @pdcguy.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

🔊 SOUND ON & play in HD 🔊 Flow Fan-Fiction Friday: I let IMEX_SfloW2D_v2 simulate a Mount Doom PDC, loosely inspired by the AD 232 Taupō eruption. Will Osgiliath & Minas Tirith survive? Basically, I let a volcanic-flow model loose in Mordor… #FlowFriday #LOTR #Volcanology tinyurl.com/LORTPDC

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The Day Mordor Breathed Again

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Dr Eric Breard @pdcguy.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

3.5-years Fully Funded PhD position at the University of Edinburgh! www.exageo.org/phd-student-... #CFD #granularflows

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

This is why they’re deleting studies

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Roberto Mérida Boogher 🌋🟦⬜️🟥👨‍👩‍👧🇵🇸 @robertomboogher.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Wrapping up one week of fieldwork at Fuego volcano, flying drones and sampling PDC deposits with @smakris.bsky.social @pdcguy.bsky.social @tyranakisaurus.bsky.social Sylvain Charbonnier, Gustavo Chigna, Fabrizio Ponce, Amilcar Calderas, Edgar Barrios, William Chigna and Mario Ovalle.

A group of volcanologists and disaster risk management technicians out in the open, standing next to a pickup truck and a tripod with an antenna, posing for a picture taken with a drone flying in front of them.

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Unseen Japan @unseenjapan.com · 30/07/2025

On X, Masaki Nobushiro posts a recurring (and useful) drawing about how people wrongly think a 1m tsunami is a cresting wave when it's actually a wall of water filled with dangerous and deadly debris that's strong enough to sweep up a car. #tsunami

X post by @nobushiromasaki. JP text: カムチャッカ半島付近の大地震（M8.0）による津波、日本各地にも1m程度の津波が来るという注意報が出てる。侮らないで。1mは、ふつうに自動車が流されるレベルです。画像は拾い物だけど、これが本当だから。沿岸地域の方、特に気をつけて！

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Dr Eric Breard @pdcguy.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

In this PhD work Chris Harper investigated thin-layer stability (i.e., why a granular flow friction depends on its scale when the flow thickness is /10*characteristic diameter), which makes levees in most geophysical flows and is a process observed even in frictionless systems! #granularflows

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Dr Eric Breard @pdcguy.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Volcan de Fuego is at it again (#Guatemala). Follow the official information www.insivumeh.gob.gt

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Dr Eric Breard @pdcguy.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Why using matlab sucks... no way to activate Matlab's licence, it has now been a week @matlab ; this is why I only code in python these days...

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Dr Eric Breard @pdcguy.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

On this day in 1902, Montagne Pelée (Martinique) unleashed pyroclastic flows that killed over 28,000 people. That tragedy gripped me as a child and led me to volcanology. After more than a decade studying PDCs, I’ve received on this day my permanent faculty post at Edinburgh to continue the journey.

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Dr Eric Breard @pdcguy.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Volcan de Fuego woke up after a nap of 7 weeks... watch live at www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpqT... and keep informed with insivumeh.gob.gt #Guatemala

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Libby Whittemore @libbage55.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

#BlueskyResistance #Voices4Victory #ProudBlur Advertisement at a London bus stop. Ya gotta love the British…

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Common Sense @cmmnsensedspnsr.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

More true every day

Passage from Carl Sagan’s 1995 book, the demon haunted world. The passage states “ not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world. This book is a personal statement, reflecting, my lifelong love affair with science. but there’s another reason: Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a four boating of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time - when the United States is a service or information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those and authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good, and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness. The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media. The 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially, a kind of celebration of ignorance.

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Dr. Judith Hubbard @judithgeology.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

🧪⚒️ The seismic swarm in Greece continues - and GPS stations on Santorini show that the island itself is deforming, signaling likely movement of magma deep in the crust. In our latest post, we explore a new detailed seismic catalog and come up with a possible interpretation. Read more:

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The seismic swarm in Greece gets more complicated

New data reveal unexpected volcano-tectonic interactions

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Dr Eric Breard @pdcguy.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Just a few more days until the deadline (Feb 17) to apply for the 3.5-year fully funded PhD scholarships in GPU-based modelling! 🚀 Work at the cutting edge of #granularflow and #CFD, pushing the boundaries of #EarthSciences. Don't miss this opportunity! #STEM

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James Dalziel @j-dalziel.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

With geoscientists keeping a close eye on the seismicity around Santorini over the past couple of weeks, this work by the BGS using machine learning to enhance detection & short-term forecasting for advising emergency services & at-risk communities is fascinating: www.bgs.ac.uk/news/artific...

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Artificial intelligence is proving a game changer in tracking the Santorini earthquake swarm - British Geological Survey

An online tool that shows which roads are most likely to cause river pollution is being expanded to assess pollution from agricultural areas.

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

I've been encountering over the past few days the claim that the planet is warming twice as fast as predicted. This is entirely untruthful and unhelpful. The planet is warming AS fast as predicted, which is cause enough for dramatic action. The truth is bad enough!

Comparison of model-predicted and observed global surface temperatures by Zeke Hausfather

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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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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

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Dr Eric Breard @pdcguy.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

What a cluster of earthquakes in the Aegean Sea.. #rasberryshake

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Dr. Judith Hubbard @judithgeology.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

🧪⚒️ A swarm of earthquakes has been rattling the Greek islands. Today marked the largest event in the swarm so far (M5.1). Schools are closed and emergency crews have deployed. Could the swarm trigger a really big earthquake, like the M7.8 in 1956? Read more on Earthquake Insights:

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Earthquake swarm beneath the Aegean Sea

Greek government is responding to elevated risk of large earthquake

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Dr Eric Breard @pdcguy.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Volcan de Fuego is VERY quiet now, for the 6th day in a row... #Fuegovolcano #guatemala

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Dr Eric Breard @pdcguy.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Wait, co-l in means co-lead? I thought it was co-Investigator for years...?

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Henning @geohenning.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Three years ago, on Jan 15, 2022, the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai #volcano erupted, causing the most powerful volcanic explosion since Krakatoa in 1883. The eruption triggered a tsunami, which killed three people and forced the relocation of communities. ⚒🧪 www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hy-...

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Tonga tsunami cuts off nearly all island communications - BBC News

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Dr Eric Breard @pdcguy.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

DAMN.. and one testament to this may be the 5 typhoons hitting the Philippines in 23 days...

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Dr Theodosios Chatzistergos @damagedonegr.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

The temperature data from December 2024 were released today. So it is time to update the comparison between measured temperatures and the prediction by Vahrenholt, which has been cited by contrarians & the AfD to deny the anthropogenic influence on #climatechange 🧪

graph showing the HadCRUT5 temperature series covering 1850-2024. This is compared to the IPCC AR4 scenaria and the Vahrenholt prediction from his book die kalte sonne. The IPCC prediction tracks very well the measured temperature variations, while Vahrenholt's diverges from the measurements since it predicted a decrease in temperature when a sharp increase was actually measured.

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Dr Eric Breard @pdcguy.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

The abstract deadline for IAVCEI25 in Geneva is tomorrow at 11:59pm Geneva time; Let's keep the numbers of abstracts growing exponentially as usually..🌋 @iavcei.bsky.social

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Dr Eric Breard @pdcguy.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

@lucacaricchi.bsky.social when is the IAVCEI25 abstract deadline exactly? Is it 11:59 pm on the 10th (tomorrow) Geneva time?

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

A real photo and perfect metaphor heading into 2025.

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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 25/12/2024

Merry Christmas, Bluesky!!!

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Dr Eric Breard @pdcguy.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

We are proposing projects to study geophysical flows! Spread the word

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Martha Bhattacharya @marthabhattacharya.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

🧪👩‍🔬🧠🦠

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Jesse Capecelatro @jessecaps.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

New paper out in JFM! Simulations, experiments, and theory all wrapped up in one. #openaccess doi.org/10.1017/jfm....

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Dr Eric Breard @pdcguy.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

The best thing about Gladiator II are all the refs to the first one.. and thanksfully they have Paul

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Dr Eric Breard @pdcguy.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

The application deadline for our exciting PhD project on landslides is January 6, 2025 -- e4-dtp.ed.ac.uk/e5-dtp/super...

Dr Eric Breard @pdcguy.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Zero volcanology book... #blackwell's

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nixCraft @cyberciti.biz · 24/11/2024

MS Word and Excel is Using You to Train AI: How to turn off AI-scraping from your Word documents to protect your work from trillion dollars corporations. the feature is hidden through a series of popup menus in your settings medium.com/illumination...

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MS Word is Using You to Train AI

How to turn off AI-scraping from your Word documents

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Henning @geohenning.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

My expectations were already low but hoooly shit...

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Dr Eric Breard @pdcguy.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Example of daily e-mails... "On behalf of the Editorial Office, we cordially invite you to submit your excellent research work to our journal, Molecular & Cellular Biomechanics" how do I say more clearly that I am 'only' a VOLCANO doctor 🌋. #academia #AI-generated-email

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Henning @geohenning.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Impressive eruption photo from Iceland. Like a piece of paper getting burned. Lava flow reached Blue Lagoon car park, pay attention to the excavator on the right side. 🌋 ⚒️ Photo by RÚV, Ragnar Visage. www.ruv.is/english/2024...

Aerial view of a lava flow overflowing a car park. Half of the car park is already full of glowing lava.

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Dr Eric Breard @pdcguy.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

geo-engineering at its best in Iceland #volcanoes

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