David Pyle

David Pyle

@davidmpyle.bsky.social

Volcanologist at the University of Oxford: volcanic histories, imaginaries, resources and futures. https://curatingcrises.omeka.net/ https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/rethinking-natural-resources/ https://www.torch.ox.ac.uk/vesuvius-22

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European Geosciences Union (EGU)
@egu.eu

The EGU #Outreach Committee is looking for new members! Please send your application to: 📩 Solmaz Mohadjer, Outreach Committee chair: outreach@egu.eu 📩 Asmae Ourkiya, EGU Media and Engagement Manager: media@egu.eu 📆 28 September 2026. 🔎Learn more: egu.eu/7N7FCY 📸 Thale Damm-Johnsen on #imaggeo

David Pyle
@davidmpyle.bsky.social

Congratulations Alice! @alicerpaine.bsky.social New open access paper on #mercury cycling in the #Arctic, and the 100 kyr record of Hg in the sediments of the impact crater-lake, El’gygytgyn ⚒️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

onlinelibrary.wiley.comMercury cycling during the last glacial period in Arctic Lake El'gygytgyn, NE RussiaTectonic processes play a key role in the global mercury (Hg) cycle on geological timescales, by mobilising Hg from deep Earth reservoirs to the surface. These natural fluxes also introduce a dynamic...
David Pyle
@davidmpyle.bsky.social

A sorry tale from 1895.. Richard Solly was a #crystallographer, employed in Cambridge as assistant to the Professor of mineralogy, W J Lewis. In 1883, Solly was appointed Demonstrator in Mineralogy. In 1894, Solly published an introductory text book on mineralogy; he presented a copy to Lewis.. 1/2

David Pyle
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‘with kind regards’. Lewis read this the book closely - annotating liberally throughout, pointing out errors and critiquing the writing. The next year, Solly left his university post. Solly’s obituary reports that he resigned his post, having published the book without Lewis’ permission 2/2

David Pyle
@davidmpyle.bsky.social

Delightful reason to vote for #Punisite for #MinCup26 ⚒️

Kerstin Neuhaus@microtopico.bsky.social

This mineral was named after Christine and Andrew Putnis to honor their contribution to mineralogy. Both Andrew and Christine were working at the @uni-muenster.de when I studied Earth Sciences there. Andrew got me excited about mineralogy back when I was an undergraduate; 2/4 ⚒️ #MinCup26

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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup
@mineralcup.bsky.social

Psst. The practice round where you get to predict the #MinCup26 winner should publish at 00:00 GMT. Will it? Who knows! But if it does, you should toss in a prediction to help ensure the backend is tallying correctly.

David Pyle
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Great new paper from Zoltan Taracsak - the sulphur isotopic composition of the subarc mantle from melt inclusions, corrected for degassing. ⚒️🌋 @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social @cambridge-earthsci.bsky.social @lamont.columbia.edu @whoi.edu @ufresearch.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

science.orgThe sulfur content and isotopic composition of the subarc mantleSulfur isotopes in volcanic glasses reveal the global significance and the unexpectedly uniform source of arc magma sulfur.

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Hannah Murphy
@hsmurphy.bsky.social

Please share! A rare PhD studentship @kingshistory.bsky.social *fully* funded by @slaveryinwar.bsky.social to work with myself and Maeve Ryan, supported by a broader community of experts in Caribbean history, transatlantic slavery, and the history of war. www.kcl.ac.uk/study/fundin... 🗃️

kcl.ac.ukAHRC Studentship: Slavery and the Seven Years’ War within and across the Caribbean Archipelago | King's College LondonThe Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War (CRSW) is pleased to announce the availability of a fully funded AHRC doctoral studentship, to be jointly supervised across History and War Studies

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Jenni Barclay
@volcanojenni.bsky.social

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!

link.springer.comMayhem, magic and dangerous myths? Volcanoes on the big screen - Bulletin of VolcanologyWe 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...
David Pyle
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Congratulations to Rebekah Rhodes on her first paper - a study of #Icelandic fire fountains from recreational webcam footage, which Rebekah started as an undergraduate masters project, supported by colleagues at vedur.is @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social ⚒️ 🌋 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

link.springer.comFissure locations and fire-fountain dynamics during the December 2023–September 2024 Svartsengi Volcanic System eruptions, Iceland, from aerial imagery and recreational webcam footage - Bulletin of Vo...Recent fissure-fed eruptions from the Svartsengi Volcanic System have significantly impacted Iceland’s Reykjanes Peninsula. With eruptions likely to continue intermittently for decades to centuries, e...

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Nigel J.Hetherington
@pastpreservers.bsky.social

URGENT CASTING: Queen Mary 2 🚢 Immediate speaker vacancy for Eastbound Transatlantic! 📅 July 28 – Aug 4, 2026 (Voyage M617) 🗣️ Need 4 talks: UK Social History or Royal Family ⏳ Deadline: Mon, July 13 @ Noon GMT Apply with talk titles to casting@pastpreservers.com ​#CruiseSpeakers #QueenMary2

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Hetan Shah
@hetanshah.bsky.social

We’ve opened the call for @britishacademy.bsky.social Postdoctoral Fellowships. We provide 3 years of funding to early-career researchers in the humanities and social sciences wishing to pursue an independent research project. Apply by 30th September www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...

thebritishacademy.ac.ukPostdoctoral FellowshipsThe British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships is a three year award made to an annual cohort of outstanding early career researchers in the humanities or social sciences.

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Angus Miller
@geowalks.scot

Happy (other) birthday to James Hutton, born on this day, 14th June 1726, in the calendar used in most of Europe at the time. During Hutton's life, Britain caught up by missing 11 days of 1752. Nice to be following in his footsteps today, exploring the granite boundary in northern hills of Arran.

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Thomas Hale
@thomasnhale.bsky.social

Join us next Wednesday for the Oxford launch of @cathmckenna.bsky.social's Run Like a Girl as we discuss "finding your own path, breaking the rules, and fighting for the future--on your own terms" June 17th, 5:30pm, St Antony's College, Oxford Register: www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/events/blava...

bsg.ox.ac.ukBlavatnik Book Launch: Run Like A GirlJoin author Catherine McKenna, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Climate and Nature Solutions, in conversation with Professor Thomas Hale, to discuss her new book Run Like A Girl.

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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦
@watershedlab.bsky.social

🚨Funding for 2yr postdoc w/ me & @geocron.bsky.social on landslide-tsunami-jökulhlaup project, but (this is the ridiculous part) I need to select someone NOW or I lose the $. If you're NOT in Canada (can be any nationality) and interested, send me your CV and transcripts by midnight MT, June 12. 🧪⚒️

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Matt Friedman
@friedmanlab.bsky.social

Led by the incomparable Sanaa El-Sayed, a study out today in Science Advances throws open an important new window on marine fish diversity during the critical few million years following the K-Pg mass extinction. Below: artistic vision of the new fauna by Ian Baylatry.

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European Geosciences Union (EGU)
@egu.eu

Applications are now open for the EGU Science Journalism Fellowship 2026! Up to 5000€ will be awarded to #journalists reporting in any European language on ongoing #research in Earth, planetary, or space sciences. Apply Now! 📆 Deadline: 17 June 2026. 👉 Learn more: egu.eu/7HQKAH

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Brandon Bishop
@brandontbishop.bsky.social

It's out and open access! Come see what happens when Saint Louis University seismologists work with the excellent numerical modeler's at U of Minnesota, Minneapolis to try to figure out why Colombia has so many strange earthquakes in the *mantle wedge* at ~100+ km depth.

agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.comSubducting Slab Thermo‐Petrologic Structure and Intermediate‐Depth Supra‐Slab Earthquakes Beneath Southern ColombiaThe maximum depth of decoupling (MDD) is anomalously deep in southern Colombia due to partially subducted accreted oceanic terrane The anomalously deep MDD results in relatively cold conditions i...

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Jon Agar
@jonagar.bsky.social

Please help spread the news far and wide! We have a new, full-time, permanent Lecturer in Global History of Science job @stsucl.bsky.social Don't be fooled by the application of deadline of only 9 June 2026. This is an open search #histsci #skystorians www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

ucl.ac.ukUCL – University College LondonUCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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Prof. Simon Carn
@simoncarn.bsky.social

New submarine #volcanic #eruption in the Central Bismarck Sea (Papua New Guinea) at ~3ºS, 148ºE. Previous activity reported in this region in 1972. Plume breached ocean surface on May 9 at ~01:00 UTC; w/ small pumice raft. Animation shows MODIS/VIIRS imagery & thermal IR hotspots from May 9-12.

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Prof Helen Bostock
@oceanhelen.bsky.social

Finally we are recruiting a physical geographer in the school of the environment at the university of Queensland, Australia. Looking for researchers who are passionate about teaching. Keen for people working in hydrology, geomorphology, climate modelling. uq.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/uqcare...

uq.wd3.myworkdayjobs.comLecturer or Senior Lecturer in Physical GeographyFaculty of Science | School of the Environment Full-time permanent position Base salary will be in the range $117,120.53 – $138,769.70 plus 17% super (Academic Level B) or $143,099.52 – $164,748.70 pl...

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Royal Historical Society
@royalhistsoc.org

Applications are now invited for the Society's 2026 Funded Book Workshops - for historians currently writing a 2nd or 3rd monograph bit.ly/4uwep8C. Grants enable authors to hold a day workshop with upto 6 specialist readers to discuss a MS in detail before submission to a publisher #Skystorians

bit.lyApplications now invited for the Society's 2026 'Funded Book Workshops' for mid-career historians - RHSThe Society’s Funded Book Workshops Grants support historians, currently working on a second or third major research project, and which will lead to publication of a monograph. The Book Workshops enab...

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Michael Brown
@medhistoryman.bsky.social

📢 JOB ALERT📢 Please spread the word that there are 2x1-year, F/T (Teaching & Research) posts going in History @ Lancaster: Lecturer in Modern British History (1800-2000), with a focus on the social & cultural histories of the economy, advertising, or consumerism. hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

hr-jobs.lancs.ac.ukJob Opportunity at Lancaster University: Lecturer in Modern British HistoryLecturer in Modern British History, c1800-2000 The School of Global Affairs at Lancaster University is seeking to appoint a Lecturer in Modern British History, c.1800-2000 (Teaching and Scholarship). ...

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Oxford Earth Sciences
@oxuniearthsci.bsky.social

A newly discovered fossil site in southwest China has transformed our understanding of how complex animal life emerged on Earth, revealing that many key animal groups had already evolved before the start of the Cambrian Period Read the full story: buff.ly/FDkYfxS @morethanadodo.bsky.social

earth.ox.ac.ukSpectacular fossil treasure trove pushes back origins of complex animalsA newly discovered fossil site in southwest China has transformed our understanding of how complex animal life emerged on Earth, revealing that many key animal groups had already evolved before the start of the Cambrian Period. The study, led by researchers at Oxford University’s Museum of Natural History and Department of Earth Sciences as well as Yunnan University in China, has been published today in Science.