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Pete Rowley

@pyroclasticpete.bsky.social
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Volcanologist at the University of Bristol working on pyroclastic density currents and their deposits, and maritime volcanic risk. Occasional brewer, baker and blacksmith. earth-science.org.uk/teach-earth

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 17/09/2026
One of the key problems with AI is that the AI bros and their behemoth companies have absolutely no governance or guardrails. It's not that the AI is conscious or going rogue or whatever. It's that it's run by feckless arseholes. www.ft.com/content/2c34...
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Pete Rowley @pyroclasticpete.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Eclipse ready
Me wearing welding helmet
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Pete Rowley @pyroclasticpete.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Cheese and biscuits time
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 19/07/2023
Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface
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Pete Rowley @pyroclasticpete.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Did a prehistoric pottery course with my wife a month ago. Today I'm seeing if I can fire it...
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Jenni Barclay @volcanojenni.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
link.springer.com/article/10.1... It’s out! We’ve written a paper about volcanoes 🌋 in the movies 🎥! As well as the usual lava-based faux pas we’ve asked how well they do at recreating eruptive cycles, depicting human responses and what volcanologists can learn from compelling storytelling!
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Mayhem, magic and dangerous myths? Volcanoes on the big screen - Bulletin of Volcanology
We examine the extent to which movies that prominently feature volcanoes and volcanic eruptions reflect the reality of eruptions and eruptive crises. To do this, we develop an interdisciplinary method...
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Pete Rowley @pyroclasticpete.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
"Draw me like one of your French girls"
Cat lying on its back showing all of its belly
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Pete Rowley @pyroclasticpete.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
New paper klaxon: what risk do volcanoes pose to the maritime industry? A review we've put together to frame the scale of the issues and and highlight some steps forward. @smitchellscience.bsky.social @bristolvolcanology.bsky.social www.jvolcanica.org/ojs/index.ph...
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Volcanic risk to marine infrastructure and shipping | Volcanica
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Pete Rowley @pyroclasticpete.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Introduce yourself with 10 bands/musicians you've seen live! 1. The Levellers 2. Skunk Anansie 3. Heilung 4. Lamb 5. Public Service Broadcasting 6. Ozric tentacles 7. Therapy? 8. Foo Fighters 9. Smashing Pumpkins 10. Green Day
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Pete Rowley @pyroclasticpete.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
You have finished work now human.
Cat sat on laptop
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Pete Rowley @pyroclasticpete.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Well, well, well. Who could possibly have seen this coming...
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Dissatisfied: Three-fourths of AI customer service rollouts are a letdown
AI rollback rates hit 81% at firms with mature guardrails, suggesting enterprises are struggling to manage the systems in production, says Sinch
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Pete Rowley @pyroclasticpete.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
After what has been a 5 year process of rural fibre contracts closing, reopening, closing again and then restarting a lovely gentleman named Sam is putting a FTTP connection in today. Online lecturing during Covid on a 0.4Mbps exchange line was torture. (1/2)
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Pete Rowley @pyroclasticpete.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Driving into Bristol today I saw signs for the "Funderworld" theme park. I immediately had this image of a load of low-rent coconut-shy type stalls, with NERC and EPSRC labels, where underpayed overworked staff unenthusiastically attend to queues of people...
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Pete Rowley @pyroclasticpete.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Just rescued this little one out of a bucket of water
Peacock butterfly drying it's wings in the sun
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Univ. Bristol Volcanology Group @bristolvolcanology.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
🌋NEW JOB POSTING!🌋 We are advertising a 32-month postdoc in volcanic petrology at @bristoluni.bsky.social . This UKRI NERC-funded position will join a large team working on: ‘Ex-X’ Expecting the Unexpected. Understanding ‘dangerous’ volcanic transitions’. More: www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
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Pete Rowley @pyroclasticpete.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... "Results show that corporate bullshit receptivity is ... negatively associated with measures of analytic thinking. Importantly, corporate bullshit receptivity is ... a robust negative predictor of work-related decision-making."
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The Corporate Bullshit Receptivity Scale: Development, validation, and associations with workplace outcomes
From boardrooms and brown bags to emails and earnings calls, business culture often seems overrun by “corporate bullshit,” a semantically empty and of…
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Pete Rowley @pyroclasticpete.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
New Masters by Research project available with myself and @jessicairving.bsky.social trying to pick apart what MERMAID hydroacoustic sensors can tell us about submarine volcanoes www.bristol.ac.uk/earthscience...
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Opportunities | School of Earth Sciences | University of Bristol
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Pete Rowley @pyroclasticpete.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Arrived to work in something approaching twilight/daylight for the first time in 3 or 4 months. Also, the starling that lives near us each summer is back, recogniseable because it has a song surprisingly similar to the tune for "I'm a Barbie Girl". It wears thin by about April.
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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
While on the topic of sexism and the Nobels, let us recall how the rightwing British newspapers reported Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin's 1964 prize. Daily Telegraph: "£18,750 Award to Mother of Three" Daily Mail: Hold my beer - "Oxford Housewife Wins Nobel."
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Pete Rowley @pyroclasticpete.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
40 years since 6 year-old me watched the Challenger disaster live on TV in a classroom in a small UK Fenland town. It is a core memory that subtly but foundationally shifted my perception of how how the wider world works. Watching something so anticipated go so badly wrong so quickly.
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Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
A few months ago I was curious to know how much Anna's Archive was charging AI developers for access to their massive library of pirated works for training - so I emailed them saying I was interested in buying access. Here is their reply. 🧵 1/n
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Pete Rowley @pyroclasticpete.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Been rewatching the Expanse. It really is a fabulous attempt at capturing the book series. By far the best hard sci-fi that has made it to screen.
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
This is literally one of the funniest threads I have ever seen. Brilliant.
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James Witts @jdwitts.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Cosupervising x2 🇬🇧 PhD projects advertising now: 'The effects of climate cooling on evolution of Antarctic Eocene benthic communities' (BAS/Bristol) shorturl.at/MiWqJ 'Testing novel archives of seawater chemistry in biogenic carbonate' (Leeds): share.google/dbojTRZme92R... Deadlines early Jan '26
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Pete Rowley @pyroclasticpete.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Some pyritised ammonites from Charmouth last weekend
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Pete Rowley @pyroclasticpete.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
One of the fluoro strips in my office has been going for the last month. Estates came in and replaced it today but they only have LED versions now. My office has gone from flickering Stasi-like interrogation room to making me wonder if I'm Mike TV
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a man in a top hat stands next to a child and says " goggles on please "
ALT: a man in a top hat stands next to a child and says " goggles on please "
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Mike Clare @mikeaclare.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Come do an exciting new PhD project with fieldwork in the Caribbean and S Pacific working on understanding what happens when powerful lahars enter the ocean - with me, @isobelyeo.bsky.social at @noc.ac.uk www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Assessing the impacts of ocean-entering lahars: A globally-important but poorly-understood process at University of Southampton on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Assessing the impacts of ocean-entering lahars: A globally-important but poorly-understood process at University of Southampton, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Pete Rowley @pyroclasticpete.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Office hours just now: Student: "will this notebook be OK? I'm concerned that ring bindings might not be hardy enough" Me: "This ringbound notebook is fine. I've been using it since..." *checks first page* ".... 2006" Student: That was the year I was born.
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Burn GIF
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James Dalziel @j-dalziel.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
This paper by Meredith et al. (2025) examines global city exposure to volcanic hazards, using metrics such as population and distance to GVP Holocene volcanoes to quantify and rank cities at risk. This data has also been visualised through a web app. nhess.copernicus.org/articles/25/...
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Cities near volcanoes: which cities are most exposed to volcanic hazards?
Abstract. Cities near volcanoes expose dense concentrations of people, buildings, and infrastructure to volcanic hazards. Identifying cities globally that are exposed to volcanic hazards helps guide l...
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Rebecca Williams @volcanologist.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Looking for recommendations! I went an online storage for our research group and their data. So we can archive video data, image data etc., from a long line of projects. Files downloadable, but secure/backed up. Where people can deposit easily for our own purposes (made open by other means).
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Rebecca Williams @volcanologist.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
We tried compiling a global database of deposit descriptions of pyroclastic density current deposits. The aim was to help us do big data analysis, look for common trends, and to support modelling. We got some interesting results but also, found some really significant issues and gaps #IAVCEI2025
Selfie of a woman stood in front of a conference poster
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Pete Rowley @pyroclasticpete.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
My challenge for this weekend is to work out the delay on the BBC Glastonbury coverage based on what I can hear in the back garden and the speed of sound.
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Pete Rowley @pyroclasticpete.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
If cats are liquid this must be some kind of pitch-drop experiment
Cat asleep on table with head hanging off the edge
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Pete Rowley @pyroclasticpete.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Diane Morgan's episodee of Who Do You think You are is a wonderful genre crossover / 4th wall experience.
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Pete Rowley @pyroclasticpete.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Delighted that this paper has hit p[ublication. Nemi did a truly amazing job on all of this, and together with 3 other papers (1 published 2023, the others winging their way to print soon) has really moved forward our understanding of moisture in pyroclastic sediments.
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 25/04/2025
PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081
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Mike Clare @mikeaclare.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Great to see this research covered by the BBC - looking forward to seeing what we discover from all the data that were collected last month! Nice work by @isobelyeo.bsky.social on radio and TV interviews!
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Pete Rowley @pyroclasticpete.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Gneiss geology up here.
A bolder of gneiss with a hill in the background
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Pete Rowley @pyroclasticpete.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Hollibobs!
Photo of the fairy glen on Skye, with pathways leading up to a basalt tower outcrop and a person standing on top
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Pete Rowley @pyroclasticpete.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Whale (?) breaching in the Clyde this afternoon. Think it might be a Minke? Blew a water spout first then breached about a dozen times around the same place.
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Pete Rowley @pyroclasticpete.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
This is just plain dangerous. Thoughts are with friends and colleagues impacted by this. I guess there's no reasoning with uninformed zealots.
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Pete Rowley @pyroclasticpete.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
8.30 pm. This is a trap. Any attempt to stroke floof will result in teeth and 4 sets claws being embedded in your hand. This is not to be confused with 7 am floof which must be stroked immediately to avoid loud meowing.
White cat lying on its back on a red kilim rug exposing its belly for strokes / slash / mauling
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Prof Chris Jackson @seismatters.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
🧪 Frustrated by the actions (or inactions) of some of our professional and learned societies during this ongoing attack on #science and scholarship more generally? If so, this letter to the @royalsociety.org from my mate, @scurry.bsky.social, is worth a read and I hope, signing ✍🏻
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Pete Rowley @pyroclasticpete.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Me: Wifi in my office is incredibly slow and keeps dropping out" IT: Please install this 140MB diagnostic software Me: Download attempt 3 and counting before it times out.
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Pete Rowley @pyroclasticpete.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Months of knocking shit off the mantle piece finally clears enough ground to just lie there and absorb heat from the fire
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Pete Rowley @pyroclasticpete.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Start of teaching, school and faculty exam boards, NERC deadlines and PhD application shortlisting all landing in the same 7 day window.
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a woman is using a vacuum cleaner in a living room while wearing a hula hoop around her waist .
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Pete Rowley @pyroclasticpete.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Had a walk out at Stockholm woods near Priddy. Plenty of ice and snow still on the ground and some particularly pretty light through the trees
Moss and ice on an old tree stump in sunlightTrees on a slope in sunlight with mossy groundSilhouetted pine trees in snowPine trees with moss and snow lit from the side with golden sun light
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Pete Rowley @pyroclasticpete.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Actually snowed in. Couple of inches of snow with more falling and there doesn't appear to have been a gritter or plough even on the main roads.
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Pete Rowley @pyroclasticpete.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Went to see the starlings at Ham Wall this evening. Always impressive (as long as you luck out and go to the right place...)
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Pete Rowley @pyroclasticpete.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
December 30th 2024. Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle. Marcus Aurelius
Easter eggs and chocolate rabbits for sale in a shop alongside discount Christmas chocolate selection boxes.
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