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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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Pete Rowley @pyroclasticpete.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
My wife used this a few years ago to whittle me a copy
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Pete Rowley @pyroclasticpete.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Little crescent suns using a tree as a pinhole camera
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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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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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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 · 20/05/2026
You have finished work now human.
Cat sat on laptop
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Pete Rowley @pyroclasticpete.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Memories of Dismaland
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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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Pete Rowley @pyroclasticpete.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Are we sure it's not a Roman fast food stall? www.npr.org/2020/12/27/9...
Picture of two stone counters in a food stall excavated at Pompeii
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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 · 02/10/2025
Pile of notebooks as evidence
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Pete Rowley @pyroclasticpete.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Text from Return to the Volcano: "An unusual story circulated after the war that Allied aircraft attacking Rabaul had dropped bombs into the craters of Tavurvur volcano to trigger an eruption that, hopefully, would be sufficiently large to dislodge the Japanese from their military base. So unusual was the story that many people believed it was probably untrue—a rumour, a myth, a good yarn. But the volcano bombing did take place. Takashi Kizawa told one of us (R.W.J.) of seeing bombers avoiding other targets and circling towards Tavurvur where they released bombs into the craters. The bombing had no effect, and Japanese soldiers considered the event to be a great joke. Kizawa, however, took a different view: that the enemy was inventive and determined enough at least to attempt a new technique. It helped him confirm his view that Japan would lose the war. Norm Fisher also told R.W.J. that he was consulted officially by the Royal Australian Air Force during the war about the use of bombing in triggering an eruption at Rabaul. He dismissed the suggestion outright, but after the war was amused to discover bomb craters within the volcanic craters of Tavurvur."
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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 · 14/04/2025
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 · 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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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 · 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 · 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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Pete Rowley @pyroclasticpete.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Hoomans, stop going out. Demand strokes now.
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Pete Rowley @pyroclasticpete.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Piles the Christmas penguin is out for his 20th birthday. Stanley is apparently delighted.
Large toy penguin stood with Stanley the white cat lying down in front with his belly to the sky
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Pete Rowley @pyroclasticpete.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Stanley insists that the floof must be stroked before anyone is allowed to move on with their day. Trills are provided as encouragement.
Large white cat stretched out on bed lying on its side.
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Pete Rowley @pyroclasticpete.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Proper fat snow outside my office
Large flakes of snow falling outside an office window, with houseplants.
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Pete Rowley @pyroclasticpete.bsky.social · 10/10/2024
All go in Somerset
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Pete Rowley @pyroclasticpete.bsky.social · 17/08/2024
"Helping".
Cat sat on laptop on my lap
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Pete Rowley @pyroclasticpete.bsky.social · 25/05/2024
Which joker thought a yellow boardmarker was a good idea?
Yellow whiteboard marker
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Pete Rowley @pyroclasticpete.bsky.social · 10/05/2024
Aurora above our back garden. Not bad for Somerset.
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Pete Rowley @pyroclasticpete.bsky.social · 24/02/2024
What I love is when the very passive and mild phrasing used by the BBC results in things like this. How to make him sound like someone not entirely of full faculty...
A screenshot from a BBC article, where a picture of the king reading a get well card is captioned "The king was amused by a card featuring a dog having to wear a protective cone"
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Pete Rowley @pyroclasticpete.bsky.social · 03/02/2024
He bloody loves getting into a weighted blanket
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Pete Rowley @pyroclasticpete.bsky.social · 02/12/2023
Beautiful morning up in the Mendips. Levels are having a foggy one though.
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Pete Rowley @pyroclasticpete.bsky.social · 10/11/2023
Urgent Friday cat update.
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Pete Rowley @pyroclasticpete.bsky.social · 06/10/2023
Stanley is unimpressed with my current focus of attention.
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Pete Rowley @pyroclasticpete.bsky.social · 29/09/2023
Happy Friyay
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Pete Rowley @pyroclasticpete.bsky.social · 29/08/2023
Been working on these on and off for almost a year. Started from ~2" rough cut slab from an oak that fell on the farm. Another few hours work before we have a final fit but cat successfully scaled it so tools down for a cup of tea.
Set of DIY bookshelves with cat
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Pete Rowley @pyroclasticpete.bsky.social · 28/08/2023
Stanley likes the IMAX experience when watching SG1.
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Pete Rowley @pyroclasticpete.bsky.social · 27/08/2023
Been making lots of noise in the house clearing stuff. Came to find this one had found a quiet spot in the garden
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Pete Rowley @pyroclasticpete.bsky.social · 25/08/2023
Fantastic day at NOC and BOSCORF planning a new project and looking at cores of offshore volcaniclastics from Hunga Tonga and Montserrat. Good collaborators make life fun.
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Pete Rowley @pyroclasticpete.bsky.social · 13/08/2023
Easy like Sunday morning
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Pete Rowley @pyroclasticpete.bsky.social · 09/08/2023
Busy spring and summer means our garden has totally run away from us. Send help. On the bright side I'm guessing the birds enjoyed all the currants.
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