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Dr Sam Poppe @sampvolcano.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A week of #EPSC26 ended with our session on volcanism, tectonics and seismicity through the Solar System. Inspiring week in #TheHague and proud supervisor moment with PhD student Amisha Baiju presenting greatly! Now back to the office and new discoveries!

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Dr Sam Poppe @sampvolcano.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The #BepiColombo MTM separation Livestream of @esa.int straight into the #Mercury2026 conference at the @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social Promotiezaal! And now the nail-biting wait for confirmation separation was successful!

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Rebecca Williams @volcanologist.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Volcanoes are fascinating. Pictures, videos and articles of eruptions fill our social media feeds and newspapers. But can you believe what you read? Misinformation and rumours spread just as easily as facts. Misconceptions are easily created and hard to correct. @heatherkhandley.bsky.social

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During eruptions, misinformation can spread further than ash. How can we spot it?

From scary headlines to recycled eruption videos, new research reveals how common misconceptions can fuel misinformation about volcanoes.

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Dr Sam Poppe @sampvolcano.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

The very last landing of our drone "Mick DAGGER" at #Krafla #volcano 🥹🌋 We concluded the field work for our #DAGGER, #Iceland has given us a-ma-zing weather, ✅ all the boxes on our list! Now on to analyzing our data and inserting into numerical models during the long Polish winter 😎 @ncn.gov.pl

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Dr Sam Poppe @sampvolcano.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

With the #DAGGER project team (Tegan, Amisha, myself) in East #Iceland again! We're joined by Sonja Greiner from @haskoliislands.bsky.social and mapping magma intrusions at Eystrahorn and Borgarfjörður Eystri in often windy but mostly perfect conditions! Funded by @ncn.gov.pl #CBKPAN

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Dr Sam Poppe @sampvolcano.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Another revision of our 27-author review paper of #Volcano misconceptions resubmitted! Let's hope 4x is a charm! 🙏🏼🌋

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Dr Sam Poppe @sampvolcano.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

So sad for victims of another #volcano eruption at Mount #Dukono. When abroad always check with local authorities, here MAGMA Indonesia and #PVMBG They have set #Dukono at Alert Level 2 and advise a 4 km exclusion zone around its crater for months now. magma.esdm.go.id/v1/gunung-ap...

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Laporan Aktivitas Gunung Api - Dukono, Kamis - 07 Mei 2026, periode 00:00-24:00 WIT

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Dr Sam Poppe @sampvolcano.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

With #Artemis astronauts on their way home to #Earth, no better day than today for me to mark my first time teaching planetary #geology to our #PhD students! Today, #Mars and - of course - the #Moon!

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Dr Sam Poppe @sampvolcano.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

We have flown ample times to the Moon and still have so much to learn! #Artemis 2 astronauts have been collecting geological observations of preset targets at the farside, including colors, boundaries between terrains, and fresh impact craters. #NASA has a blog summary ⬇️ www.nasa.gov/wp-content/u...

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Dr Sam Poppe @sampvolcano.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

We are going back and beyond the #Moon! Fingers crossed for a successful launch and safe flight for the #Artemis II astronauts! While going around the Moon, they are scheduled to record geological observations of the lunar surface, exciting!

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Dr Sam Poppe @sampvolcano.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

After months of silence Piton de la Fournaise #volcano is at it again, this time with unusual small pyroclastic flows from local collapse near the vent. Good luck to OVPF colleagues monitoring the situation 👍🏼🌋

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Dr Sam Poppe @sampvolcano.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Been visiting the impressive experimental rock mechanics and petrology lab at LMU Munich this week! Inspiring chats about modelling rock strength behind us, my talk on cryptic volcanic features on the #Moon and #Mars awaits today!

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Dr Sam Poppe @sampvolcano.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Multi-author (27!) review papers are the hardest to revise, especially this one we just resubmitted to @springernature.com J. Applied #Volcanology! Stay tuned for our #volcano misconceptions if accepted 🙏🏼 🌋🌋🌋

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Dr Sam Poppe @sampvolcano.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

On this day my family and I remember our time in #StateCollege @pennstateuniv.bsky.social back in 2020 with #Fulbright and #BAEF and all the great new friends and memories we left with! Thanks!!! 🦃🦃

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julietbiggs.bsky.social @julietbiggs.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Activity at Hayli Gubbi began in July when there was an eruption at Erte Ale. Magma propagated 30 km south passing under Hayli Gubbi. Since then, there has been a small plume, quasi-continuous SO2 emissions and uplift. Details in @uk-comet.bsky.social event response report: tinyurl.com/y3nfdfj8

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Karen Fontijn @volckaren.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Toch even een kleine correctie: dit is de eerste gedocumenteerde uitbarsting van deze vulkaan in Ethiopië. We weten niet wanneer de vorige uitbarsting was omdat deze vulkaan amper bestudeerd werd, en we de geschiedenis ervan dus niet kennen. Het zou me verbazen als het echt 12,000 jaar geleden was.

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Dr. Erik Klemetti Gonzalez @eruptions.site · 23/11/2025

Here's the GVP page of Hayli Gubbi in Ethiopia: volcano.si.edu/volcano.cfm?.... Plume from the eruption can be seen in this Aqua/MODIS image cross the Red Sea to the Arabian Peninsula. #eruption #volcano

Volcanic ash plume from Hayli Gubbi in Ethiopia, November 23, 2025. Credit: NASA/Aqua

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Dr Sam Poppe @sampvolcano.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

I've never been, so I thought 2026 may be good to attend #LPSC in Texas. By restricting academic freedom through abiding an executive order they have effectively lost their prime #Space #science meeting position. This is not ok, you won't see me or my science there. I hope no one submits.

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Dr Sam Poppe @sampvolcano.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Working at a #Space #Science institution with governmental ánd industrial connections we live this tension every day. We have to continue convincing that having science in the driver's seat of space exploration is prime.

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Dr Sam Poppe @sampvolcano.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Thanks @astro-slawosz.bsky.social for visiting us at #CBKPAN to return the patch of the 1st Pole in space and add your own #IGNIS patch having been as 2nd Pole in space! Ready to inspire a new generation of our students! 🚀🌖 @science.esa.int

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Dr Sam Poppe @sampvolcano.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Finally made it to #Mars! ...at the wonderful Mars Yard at the Planetary Exhibition of the Jagellonian University in #Kraków, #Poland. Equipped with two rovers of Warsaw University of Technology

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Dr Sam Poppe @sampvolcano.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

I have trouble seeing how these felsic veins and dykes at Austurhorn #Icelqnd could have come in by pyroclastic processes and not flow of a fluid magma at 2-3km depth? Any papers to suggest @fabianwadsworth.bsky.social @htuffen.bsky.social or others working on tuffisite veins et al?

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Dr Sam Poppe @sampvolcano.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

The #LASI7 post-conf fieldtrip in SE #Iceland was a blast! On day 1 Gudmundur Omar took us into the heart of #Geitafell, once a central #volcano. We saw the gabbro intrusion that once sat at 2-3 km depth, and the most impressive sheet intrusion complex above that once fed #lava flows!

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Dr Sam Poppe @sampvolcano.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

And with that, the main conference of #LASI7 is over and disappears in our foggy rearview mirrors of time! It was an honor to host all of you VIPS in #Iceland! See you in a few years in..?

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Dr Sam Poppe @sampvolcano.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

When you organize a conference and tell a bunch of volcanologists NOT to step on the #lava 😎👍🏼 #LASI7

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Boris Behncke @borisetneo.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

How does lava sound when it comes to the surface of the Earth? Listen to a lava flow oozing out of its effusive vent high on the southwestern side of #Etna, 28 August 2025. That day no visits by tourists were allowed on the site, which permitted this (relatively) clean recording

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Dr Sam Poppe @sampvolcano.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

You can't undo robust scientific consensus even if you tried. It is a well-proven #fact: Earth's #climate is changing, and that change is human-made. To all American scientists standing up to this attempt: global #academia is with you 💪🏼🌍 #climatecrisis

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Dr Sam Poppe @sampvolcano.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Visited the inspiring George Walker museum in Breiddalsvik in #Iceland last week, saw one of my most inspiring collaborators & friend @claireharnett.bsky.social win the @iavcei.bsky.social Walker award yesterday. What a boost, congrats Claire! 🤩🌋

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Dr Sam Poppe @sampvolcano.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

@iavcei.bsky.social just awarded the well-deserved Thorarinsson medal to planetary volcanism visionary Prof Lionel Wilson. An example for all of us, congrats!!! @europlanetmedia.bsky.social #planet #volcano #iavcei2025

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Dr Sam Poppe @sampvolcano.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

And our #IAVCEI2025 session on planetary volcanism has kicked off with exciting detections of recent volcanism on #Venus by Davide Sulcanese! @theplanetaryguy.bsky.social @iavcei.bsky.social

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Dr Sam Poppe @sampvolcano.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

What an honor to present as first early-career plenary keynote at #IAVCEI2025! In front of the whole #volcano crowd! Thanks @iavcei.bsky.social !

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Dr Sam Poppe @sampvolcano.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Practicing my tomorrow's #IAVCEI2025 #ECR plenary keynote like a true Belgian 🤩🍟🇧🇪

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Dr Sam Poppe @sampvolcano.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Aaaand the #IAVCEI25 assembly has kicked off! Ready for a week of hot #volcano #science! If you're attending, come see my plenary keynote on #magma intrusion modelling as the first one tomorrow 11:40! 🌋

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Dr Sam Poppe @sampvolcano.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Visiting the George Walker museum in Breiðdalsvík today is just such an eye-opening lesson again in field work documentation. His notebooks and hand-drawn maps are absolutely amazing in their detail and rigour 🤩🌋

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Dr Sam Poppe @sampvolcano.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

I have the best job in the world. Hi from NE #Iceland 😎

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Dr Sam Poppe @sampvolcano.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Wonderful day at Hvitserkur in NE Iceland mapping #magma intrusions and flying our drone to image the entire mountain! This work will get us to understand #magma emplacement a whole lot better!

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Dr Sam Poppe @sampvolcano.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Ready to check out our DJI RTK antenna in Borgarfjordur in NE #Iceland! Prepping for exciting drone flights tomorrow 🤩 Thx @ncn.gov.pl for the gear!

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Dr Sam Poppe @sampvolcano.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Visiting #Grindavik in #Iceland silences even the most experienced volcanologists. We saw cracked up streets, fenced areas, and cracked houses leaning forward in which cups, pictures and toys still sat in the window. Volcanism has real impact on people's lives.

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Dr Sam Poppe @sampvolcano.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Great reception at the #Askja building of @haskoliislands.bsky.social discussing our #DAGGER field work plans in East #Iceland and #LASI7 conference planning! Thanks to all!

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Dr Sam Poppe @sampvolcano.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

The independent funding of #Fulbright got me where I am now, being funded by @ncn.gov.pl and interviewed by #NSF funded colleagues from New Mexico Highlands Uni in #Poland! Advancing #volcano #science. #science needs independent funding, not political interference! eu.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

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Dr Sam Poppe @sampvolcano.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Time for a new field notebook 🌋🤩 #Iceland, here comes the #DAGGER team! @ncn.gov.pl #cbkpan

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The Planetary Society @planetarysociety.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Our global petition to save NASA science closes this Thursday, and we’re just shy of 15,000 signatures! Every name counts, this petition will be hand-delivered to members of Congress. Add yours today, Save NASA Science. planet.ly/petition

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HiRISE Beautiful Mars (NASA) @uahirise.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

HiRISE 3D: A Crater in Arabia Terra This lonely crater is not only heavily eroded along its rim, but appears to be filled-in with material although layers along the walls remain visible. Full image: www.uahirise.org/anaglyph/ESP... NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona #Mars #NASA #science

3D image shows an impact crater in Arabia Terra on Mars. The crater seems to be filled-in with material. The scene is less than 5 km, under 1 mile, across. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona)

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Dr Sam Poppe @sampvolcano.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

An uplifting moment awaits for #Poland and #ESA #Space exploration as @astro-slawosz.bsky.social will travel to the #ISS. Hopefully tomorrow! #Ignis

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