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Ian G. Stimpson @hypocentre.bsky.social · 1d

P-waves from today’s (20:29:59 UTC 2025/11/02) M6.3 Hindu Kush Region, Afghanistan earthquake recorded on my @raspishake.bsky.social seismometer in Newcastle-under-Lyme, England. ⚒️🧪

Earthquake diagrams.
Map of wavepath from source to receiver, seismogram of vertical component of ground motion velocity and spectrogram showing frequency content against time.

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Ian G. Stimpson @hypocentre.bsky.social · 7d

P-waves from today’s (19:48:29 UTC 2025/10/27) M6.0 Türkiye earthquakes recorded on my @raspishake.bsky.social seismometer in Newcastle-under-Lyme, England. ⚒️🧪

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Ian G. Stimpson @hypocentre.bsky.social · 7d

P-waves from today’s (12:38:40 and 12:54:59 UTC 2025/10/27) M6.5 and M6.0 Leeward Islands earthquakes recorded on my @raspishake.bsky.social seismometer in Newcastle-under-Lyme, England. ⚒️🧪

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 14d

“When we realised these jewels were only stolen to inflate the share price of a company whose entire value relies on the wholesale theft of other people’s art, we had no choice but grant immunity,”

Genius from @waterfordwhispers.bsky.social

waterfordwhispersnews.com/2025/10/20/l...

Louvre Thieves Given Immunity After Confirming Jewels Stolen For Purpose Of Training AI Software

FRENCH POLICE have immediately ended all efforts to recover priceless Napoleon-era jewellery from the Louvre taken in a daring heist after it emerged the jewels were merely stolen for the purposes of ...

waterfordwhispersnews.com

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Ian G. Stimpson @hypocentre.bsky.social · 24d

The time to protect British science from the trashing that US science is currently succumbing to from an ultra-right-wing government is now.

Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 25d

🧵🚨

The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news.

Today our report is published!
www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...

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UK’s arm’s length public bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation

Seven in ten Britons say it is important for top scientific institutions to be independent in exclusive new polling.

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Ian G. Stimpson @hypocentre.bsky.social · 25d

S-tier trolling by the Norwegians, there. Lol

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Ian G. Stimpson @hypocentre.bsky.social · 25d

My suggestion is Charles Darwin, Geologist by Sandra Herbert.

Also, for history of science rather than just geology, The Lunar Men by Jenny Uglow (18th C Birmingham, UK Lunar Society - rather than NASA)

Cover of book Charles Darwin, Geologist by Sandra Herbert

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Ian G. Stimpson @hypocentre.bsky.social · 25d

Import the .lyr files rather than the .shp ones to your GIS project?

Ian G. Stimpson @hypocentre.bsky.social · 26d

Luton

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 26d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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The Geologists' Association @geolassoc.bsky.social · 28d

The GA 2025 Annual Conference at Keele University is finally over after a weekend full of interesting and varied talks, displays and field trips.

Thank you to NSGGA - North Staffs Group of the Geologists' Association and everyone involved in organising and delivering such a packed programme!

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UNESCO International Geodiversity Day @geodiversityday.bsky.social · 29d

🥳 Happy Geodiversity Day!

⭐ As we celebrate with the theme 'One Earth, Many Stories', read this message from the new UNESCO Chair in Geodiversity and Geoconservation:

🌐 www.geodiversityday.org/post/unesco-...

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Ian G. Stimpson @hypocentre.bsky.social · Oct 2

I gave my ‘how to build Planet Earth‘ lecture today. I noticed that the introductory slide made a jokey reference to Slartibartfast. Hitch-Hiker’s Guide was 1978 (even the film was 2005!).

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Ian G. Stimpson @hypocentre.bsky.social · Sep 30

Dark red Namurian Chatsworth Grit bleached yellow by fluids (probably hydrocarbons) flowing through fault zones. Harston Wood, Froghall Wharf, Staffordshire Moorlands. ⚒️

Rock face in woodland.

Dark red Namurian Chatsworth Grit bleached yellow by fluids (probably hydrocarbons) flowing through fault zones.

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Ian G. Stimpson @hypocentre.bsky.social · Sep 30

Out doing reconnaissance for this Sunday’s Geologists’ Association @geolassoc.bsky.social annual conference field trip to the Staffordshire Moorlands.
Near-vertical calc-turbidities with an inverted olistolith of carbonate mudmound reef. Milldale Fm. Tournaisian. Brown End Quarry, Waterhouses. ⚒️

Quarry face with steep-dipping limestones and a large rounded block in upper right.

Near-vertical calc-turbidities with an inverted olistolith of carbonate mudmound reef.

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Ian G. Stimpson @hypocentre.bsky.social · Sep 28

P-waves from today’s (09:59:16 UTC 2025/09/28) M5.4 Türkiye earthquake recorded on my @raspishake.bsky.social seismometer in Newcastle-under-Lyme, England. ⚒️🧪

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Ian G. Stimpson @hypocentre.bsky.social · Sep 25

… and its near twin M6.3 at 03:51:39 today (2025/09/25).

Ian G. Stimpson @hypocentre.bsky.social · Sep 24

P-waves from yesterday’s (22:21:55 UTC 2025/09/24) M6.2 Venezuela earthquake recorded on my @raspishake.bsky.social seismometer in Newcastle-under-Lyme, England ⚒️🧪

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Ian G. Stimpson @hypocentre.bsky.social · Sep 22

Start of my thirty-ninth year at Keele University.

First in the Department of Geology, then Department of Earth Sciences, then Earth Sciences and Geography, then School of Geography, Geology and the Environment, now School of Life Sciences.

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.

My ‘home’ for the last thirty-eight years - the ‘Will Smith’, a building actually named after two William Smiths, one the Father of Stratigraphy, the other an earlier cartographer and drawer of town plans.

My office is in the older, white part of the building to the left behind the metasequoia, the newer brick-faced part is on the right behind a low hedge.

The university still hasn’t replaced the single-glazed windows with metal frames, that don’t shut properly, in all that time.

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Ian G. Stimpson @hypocentre.bsky.social · Sep 18

P-waves from today’s (18:58:13 UTC 2025/09/18) M7.8 near east coast of Kamchatka earthquake recorded on my @raspishake.bsky.social seismometer in Newcastle-under-Lyme, England. ⚒️🧪

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Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · Sep 16

Seems like quite a moment. This morning, the UK was powered entirely by low-carbon energy, it seems.

Yes it's windy and sunny. But it's still a milestone.

WillP @wiilp.bsky.social · Sep 16

We could have declared "100% zerocarbon" this morning when renewables+nuclear were generating 100% of UK consumption.

As usual this drove our price down, so exports up, and we had to run gas just to power the exports.

NESO set hard target that ZCO has to include exports as well as UK demand.

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Ian G. Stimpson @hypocentre.bsky.social · Sep 13

P-waves from today’s (02:37:54UTC 2025/09/13) M7.4 near east coast of Kamchatka earthquake recorded on my @raspishake.bsky.social seismometer in Newcastle-under-Lyme, England. ⚒️🧪

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Ian G. Stimpson @hypocentre.bsky.social · Sep 7

Too small and too deep. I don’t think anyone even felt it.

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Ian G. Stimpson @hypocentre.bsky.social · Sep 7

P- and S-waves from today’s (08:49:14 UTC 2025/09/07) M2.6 earthquake 27km depth beneath Pontefract, North Yorkshire, UK recorded on my @raspishake.bsky.social in Newcastle-under-Lyme, England (about 100km southwest of the event) ⚒️🧪

$Earthquake diagrams. Map of wavepath from source to receiver, seismogram of vertical component of ground motion velocity and spectrogram showing frequency content against time. 08:49:14 UTC 2025/09/07 M2.6 earthquake Pontefract, North Yorkshire, UK$

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Ian G. Stimpson @hypocentre.bsky.social · Sep 3

That first year strat course was a real roller coaster. Janet Watson on the Precambrian, Jerry Leggett teaching dynamic stratigraphy with the new fangled plate tectonics for the Lower Palaeozoic and then back to the old geosynclinal theory with Peigi Wallace for the Upper Palaeozoic.

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Ian G. Stimpson @hypocentre.bsky.social · Sep 3

She taught me Precambrian stratigraphy in my first year undergrad at Imperial. Yes, she was lovely and enthusiastic.

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