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Henning @geohenning.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

A new video emerged which seems to show a surface rupture in Yatsushiro, Japan following the M6.8 earthquake in July! Exact location of the video would be 32°30'04.0"N 130°38'29.9"E. Absolutely wild. Only the second ever video of a surface rupture forming after the 2025 Myanmar video! ⚒️🧪 #geology

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Simon Mudd @simonmariusmudd.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

One of the "fun" things about AI code assistance the ease with which it lies. "In our tests on synthetic quadratics and large rasters this yields stable, finite coefficient maps (no float‐limit blow‐ups) and still runs in O(N log N)." Friends, I can guarantee it has run precisely 0 tests.

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Hugh Pumphrey @hughpumphrey.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

This is a really important read for people who have got excited about "vibe coding" and especially so for academics who think that LLMs solve the problem of how to teach students how to program.

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Chris Townsend @christownsend.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Just back from a few days in the Glen Affric area with @tonyswilderness . Beautiful colours, beautiful light. #glenaffric #scottishhighlands

A walker climbing a path out of a forest with many trees in golden auitumn colours wiuth hills in the distance and a cloudy sky.

A Scottish glen with a river winding through it and mountains rising above lit by bright autumn sunlight.

A view from a hillside across a loch to distant mountains, all light by a low autumn sun and under a cloud-streaked blue sky.

Birch trees with golden autumn leaves in the foreground with green pines behind them then shadowed mountains in the background under a blue sky with white clouds.

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Qiusheng Wu @giswqs.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

🚀 The OBS Zoom-to-Mouse Bug on Linux… FINALLY Solved! 🎉 👉 Watch the full breakdown and solution here: youtu.be/relTN31l0Zo Hopefully this helps fellow OBS users and educators who’ve been struggling with the same problem. #OBSStudio #Linux #OpenSource

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Joe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Geomorphology in the Brandon Sandhills/Assiniboine River area of Manitoba: Crosscutting past and present meandering channels, gullied slumps on terrace scarps, and great examples of spring sapping (R image is closeup of L). HRDEM from Natural Resources Canada via @opentopography.org. More to follow.

Hillshade image of a stream floodplain with terraces on either side. There are multiple cross-cutting meandering channels on the floodplain. Along the terrace scarps there many irregular "steps" indicating recent slumping, There are also complex features with multiple rounded alcoves eroded into the terrace by spring sapping. A few dunes are visible.

A close-up of the left-hand image showing areas of slumping and spring sapping. Small gullies are visible in the alcoves produced by spring sapping.

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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 14/08/2025

This is a masterpiece. Simply excellent www.instagram.com/reel/DMVGMIC...

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James Franklin @franklinjamesl.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Here's what I get for the same 1966-2024 historical period, using 12-h motions from the best tracks. Erin's estimated 20-kt speed earlier today would rank 12th.

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OpenTopography @opentopography.org · 23/07/2025

OpenTopography is excited to announce a major expansion to its international data catalog with the addition of the High Resolution Digital Elevation Model from Natural Resources Canada. This 1-meter resolution dataset is ideal for a wide range of applications. opentopography.org/news/opentop...

Map showing extent of data coverage, primarily over southern Canada

A hillshade colored by elevation of downtown Toronto draped on Google Earth imagery.

A three panel figure of a section of the Athabasca River in Alberta. Figure A is the Digital Surface Model which includes buildings, trees and other structures. Figure B is the Digital Terrain Model and is a bare-earth representation of the topography. Figure C is the Canopy Height Model (CHM) which is the difference between the DSM and the DTM.

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Ben Dolphin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿❄️⛰🌲 @countrysideben.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

New bus service from Dundee to Aberdeen starting, via Braemar. I really hope this is successful as we get soooo many folk emerge from the Lairig Ghru at Linn o Dee, asking when the buses south are 😉 www.ember.to/news/#new-du...

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Simon Mudd @simonmariusmudd.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

The Blatten disaster could have been so much worse. Anyone know what data the Swiss government is using to inform evacuation orders? Seismics? Radar? Pixel tracking? GPS? @geoluca.bsky.social @subfossilguy.bsky.social @davepetley.bsky.social

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Luca Malatesta @geoluca.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Helicopter view published by Pomona Media (🔗 below) shows the lake building up by the end of the day. 5 m3/s is a lot of water. youtu.be/R0YlCNDW2l4?...

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

SPEECHLESS BEFORE / AFTER #BLATTEN The magnitude of destruction after the 3:24 pm collapse of Birch Glacier is immense! 😱 All the forest has been razed and the ice/wood/debris dammed the Lonza river 🌊 Some buildings of Blatten are buried 🏠 📷 Pomona

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Simon Mudd @simonmariusmudd.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

You know you have been in a field a long time when you can tell who wrote the paper just from the colourmap in the figures.

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Simon Mudd @simonmariusmudd.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

University management news: "During the session, committee convener D Ross MSP revealed that the university's recovery plan document sent to trade unions included the number of job losses in its password. Prof O'Neill replied: "I'm surprised at that, I didn't know that." www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Dundee University insolvency 'a real possibility'

Senior management give evidence over the university's £35m financial deficit to MSPs.

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Simon Mudd @simonmariusmudd.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

It is fun when your code spits out something psychedelic

A red and blue bit of abstract art. You can vaguely make out something that looks like a channel network in the blues.

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Simon Mudd @simonmariusmudd.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

We know this will be upsetting to many colleagues, if you are struggling please see our Staff Wellbeing Sharepoint

A screengrab of Kier Starmer with the closed caption "there's a famous slogan in the United Kingdom"

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Ross Carroll @rosscarroll.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

When I worked in UK academia I recall hearing of a Japanese man who was baffled at how Britain had decided to run its universities like firms. “Why? Your universities are excellent and your firms are terrible.”

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Simon Mudd @simonmariusmudd.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Hey British academics! While we await the latest job cut email, lets look at our pension (or those of us in USS). The Financial Times had a nice plot about Local Government Pension Schemes. The worst one (by far) lost 18.3% for a yr to March 2023. Awful!! Lets have a look at the performance of USS 😱

Plot from the Financial Times (https://www.ft.com/content/87c321ab-e5ac-4a1d-a637-c1f7befcc1cb) showing performance of Local Government Pension schemes for the 12 months to March 2023. The worst performing scheme was a closed Environment Agency scheme that lost 18.3% The next worst lost 10%.

Image from the USS 2023 annual report (https://www.uss.co.uk/-/media/project/ussmainsite/files/about-us/report-and-accounts/uss-report-and-accounts-2023.pdf?rev=ad96ac2875264986bc7386ce1f82f108&hash=5A67B41B27A7B876F0BF0CF7A853FC0D). In the 12 months to March 31 2023, USS income builder (the defined benefit part of the scheme) lost 18%.

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Simon Mudd @simonmariusmudd.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Delighted to announce that I convinced a student not to use a pie chart today.

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Declan Valters @decvalts.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Six weeks left to apply for this super-cool fully-funded PhD studentship developing flood forecasting models for HPC; supervised by Mark Bull @epcc.bsky.social, Maggie Creed at Glasgow Uni, @simonmariusmudd.bsky.social, and myself at the British Geological Survey.

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Simon Mudd @simonmariusmudd.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

I'm quite pleased with this effort.

Image from the book Grove Karl Gilbert, A Great Engine of Research
By Stephen J. Pyne. Image shows an engraving of Gilbert working at Lake Bonneville in Utah. One can see the old lake bed as well as hills in the distance.

An oil painting of Lake Bonneville with hills in the background. Painting by Simon M Mudd. Hills and lake bed are in various yellow, red and brown hues, with a blue sky.

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Simon Mudd @simonmariusmudd.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

I was driving through Los Angeles and they did a radio bit explaining Boxing Day. The host said "it is mainly celebrated in Australia". 😫😢🇬🇧

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Simon Mudd @simonmariusmudd.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Enjoy some photos of Joshua Tree.

Split rock (a granite rock formation that has a large, uh, split rock) at Joshua Tree national Park.

Sunrise over rock formations at Joshua Tree

The face of the photographer in front of rock formations at Joshua tree

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Simon Mudd @simonmariusmudd.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

My son said "Japanese food is just uncooked British food" and now I'm concerned he runs a rage-bait social media account.

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Simon Mudd @simonmariusmudd.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

5 points to whomever can identify my current position.

A stunning bronze sculpture of a man holding a microphone and bagpipes. I cannot reveal the name of this person or it would make the quiz too easy

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Fiona Clubb @drfionaclubb.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Our new paper in discussion in @egu-esurf.bsky.social publishes the results of Scotland's Big Sediment Survey - a citizen science project to document the grain size of Scottish rivers led by Anya Towers during her PhD. Find out more here: egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...

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Simon Mudd @simonmariusmudd.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

My river network template is working to my satisfaction. All you need is an @opentopography.bsky.social account and a web browser. You can scroll through the notebook to see how to update location, your name, comment, sizes, etc. Have fun! github.com/LSDtopotools...

Image of a river network surrounding the Dadu River, China. Image includes two basemaps. Image generated using a template written by Simon Mudd using lsdtopotools and lsdviztools.

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Simon Mudd @simonmariusmudd.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

I'm experimenting with an (almost) fully automated notebook for making channel network images.

A channel network map of mountains to the east of Taskhent. Includes a regional map and a globe to see where the site is.

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Simon Mudd @simonmariusmudd.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

If you are in the UK, you might have heard UK universities are in trouble, and are particularly sensitive to swings in international student numbers. How sensitive? Here is University of Edinburgh's numbers up to 31 July 2023 (the most recent numbers). Tuition fees make up ~40% of its income.

Table showing student figures for the University of Edinburgh based on domicile. There are 12905 Scottish students, 11245 English students, 9080 Chinese students, 3035 students from the USA, 990 from India, 755 from Canada, and between 545 and 200 for many other countries.

Tuition fee income from the University of Edinburgh for the year ending 31 July 2023. "home domicile" students (this means students from Scotland) brought in £27.5M. These students make up the largest number of students at the university. International students brought in £355M.

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Simon Mudd @simonmariusmudd.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Can I highly recommend the Earth View extension if you use Chrome. You get a new satellite image every time you open a tab. Coastal geomorphologists: I challenge you to construct an environmental history from this (@61.784147,-80.118452, Nunavut, Canada).

Coastline in Nunavut, Canada. Multiple instances of sand spits and beach traces.

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Mark Piper @mdpiper.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Are you a grad student (or a recent graduate) that has written a model, or a component for a modeling system, or done something cool and modeling-adjacent as part of your research? If so, consider submitting your work for the 2025 Syvitski Student Modeler Award! csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/Student...

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Dr Eric Breard @pdcguy.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

🚨 Fully funded PhD opportunity at Edinburgh to Investigate landslide triggers in deglaciating volcanoes and mountainous environments. tinyurl.com/yvwtppss with Dr. Symeon Makris (BGS), Dr. Max Van Wyk de Vries (University of Cambridge), Dr. Beatriz Recinos, and Prof. Simon Mudd (UoE) #naturalhazards

The image shows a satellite image of a landslide that deposited on a glacier in Patagonia (Chile)

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Simon Mudd @simonmariusmudd.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Has anyone else in Edinburgh spotted the guy on an overpowered electric scooter, wearing a kilt over a cookie monster onesie?

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Jared Hutchins @pablohutch.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

I teach a class on data science here at Illinois and during the seminar I host a competition for the class called "The Hunt for the Worst Data Visualization." This was my most popular post on Xitter, so reproducing some of the best submissions from previous years here:

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Simon Mudd @simonmariusmudd.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Does anyone know what this !invalid handle business is all about and how do I get one?

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Hugh Pumphrey @hughpumphrey.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Splendid sunset over central #Edinburgh this evening. I bagged this one shot before dashing into Waverley. By the time I was on the platform the show was over.

Sky full of pink clouds. City skyline in silhouette.

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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Another spectacular sunset in Edinburgh.

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Simon Mudd @simonmariusmudd.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Light over Edinburgh is amazing right now. Everyone on the street is stopping to take photos.

Sunset in Edinburgh. Photo looking West to Edinburgh Castle. Clouds are a mixture of orange, pink and yellow. The scene would be stunning I the hands of a competent photographer, which I am not.

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Simon Mudd @simonmariusmudd.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

Happy "celebrate you don't live in the United States today day" day everybody!! 🥳🥳🥳

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Simon Mudd @simonmariusmudd.bsky.social · 02/11/2024

Hiking up hills in the highlands can be hard work but views like this make it all worthwhile.

A metal shed with grafitti in thick fog at the top of a Scottish hill.

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Simon Mudd @simonmariusmudd.bsky.social · 30/10/2024

I question the hype about AI replacing all programmers since I get the correct code about 10% of the time after a query, and you actually have to know what you are doing to fix it. Note: AI has massively reduced the time I need to create functioning code.

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Simon Mudd @simonmariusmudd.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

Northwest Slovenia, what a place. What a place to have wall-to-wall lidar

A hillshade image of Northwest Slovenia, derived from lidar data made available by the Slovenian government

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Simon Mudd @simonmariusmudd.bsky.social · 18/10/2024

I really have no idea what I'm doing but here is a geomorphology starter pack. Suggestions welcome. Geomorphologists: If I follow you and failed to add you to this list, send me a message and I will send you a hand crafted Microsoft Paint drawing and a grovelling apology. go.bsky.app/CNQSoJg

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Howard Lee @hlee.bsky.social · 24/09/2024

Seems like a really important paper, ICYMI: Waves rippling under continents could explain mysterious plateaus around the world ⚒️🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

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Waves rippling under continents could explain mysterious plateaus around the world

Underground churn from ancient continental breakups can explain highlands in Brazil, India, and South Africa

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Simon Mudd @simonmariusmudd.bsky.social · 19/09/2024

Please enjoy some photos of the Lairig Ghru

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