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David Pyle
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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 .. more

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Oxford University Museum of Natural History @morethanadodo.bsky.social · 16h
The Museum of Natural History is seeking contemporary art work for our upcoming exhibition, with a total budget of £7000. Please note that that this must include all costs including artist time, shipping, fees, production, and travel (if necessary).
Bright green background with black graphics of minerals and the text: 34 CRITICAL RAW MINERALS, art open call

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🇺🇦 @aireseo.bsky.social · 18h
#HayliGubbi eruption rate estimates using SEVIRI data
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David Pyle @davidmpyle.bsky.social · 22h
Fascinating and timely work on the intrusion that preceded the #HayliGubbi eruption - this will turn out to be a very valuable example for volcanologists!
alarosa.bsky.social Alessandro La Rosa @alarosa.bsky.social · 1d
The #HayliGubbi eruption came after a period of unrest that started in June-July 2025 with a large dike intrusion in the southern sector of the Erta Ale rift. Our InSAR study will be out soon but you can have a summary at the link below. @earth-science.bsky.social #geoscience
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Basaltic dike in Erta Ale triggers explosive eruption in Hayli Gubbi. Read our new paper!
www.frontiersin.org/journals/ear...

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Alessandro La Rosa @alarosa.bsky.social · 1d
The #HayliGubbi eruption came after a period of unrest that started in June-July 2025 with a large dike intrusion in the southern sector of the Erta Ale rift. Our InSAR study will be out soon but you can have a summary at the link below. @earth-science.bsky.social #geoscience

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derekkeir.bsky.social @derekkeir.bsky.social · 1d
The Hayli Gubbi tephra has been sampled. These are photos from my sampling expedition on 24 Nov with the University of Semera from around 10 km north of Hayli Gubbi @sorcerinsar.bsky.social @alarosa.bsky.social

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David Pyle @davidmpyle.bsky.social · 1d
Earth's crust is like the very thin shell on an egg - now and then it cracks open, and lets out some more internal heat. Heat from the sun does warm the very surface of the Earth, and is important for example in places that are usually covered in snow, ice or permafrost; and the ocean surface.

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Dominic Manchee @dpmanchee.bsky.social · 1d
Even @eumetsat.int Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) 0 acquired great imagery of the explosive eruption at Hayli Gubbi and ash cloud dispersion.

This is the Volvanic Ash RGB product for Nov 23rd 2025 14:00. Image via #Eumetview view.eumetsat.int/productviewe...

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Prof. Simon Carn @simoncarn.bsky.social · 2d
An explosive #eruption of Hayli Gubbi #volcano, located SE of Erta'Ale in the Afar Rift (Ethiopia), began at ~08:30 UTC on Nov 23. Eruption onset was fortuitously captured by a @planet.com overpass at 08:31 UTC. Hayli Gubbi has no record of Holocene eruptions. Toulouse VAAC reporting ash to ~15 km.

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David Pyle @davidmpyle.bsky.social · 2d
Report of possible explosive eruption at Hayli Gubbi, Ethiopia. This volcano lies south of Erta Ale, and above the location of a dike intrusion that was detected in late July 2025. No historical eruptions are known from this #volcano. @uk-comet.bsky.social
volcano.link VolcanoDiscovery @volcano.link · 2d
Volcanic Ash Advisory (#VAAC) for #Hayli_Gubbi #volcano (Ethiopia)
Explosive activity continues. Volcanic Ash Advisory Center (#VAAC) #Toulouse warned about a volcanic ash plume that rose up to estimated 10000 ft (3000 m) altitude or flight level 100 and is moving at 15 kts in NW direction.
Hayli Gubbi Volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: ERUPTION AT 20251123/0830Z EXPLOSIVE ACTIVITY ONGOING to 10000 ft (3000 m)
www.volcanodiscovery.com

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VolcanoDiscovery @volcano.link · 2d
Volcanic Ash Advisory (#VAAC) for #Hayli_Gubbi #volcano (Ethiopia)
Explosive activity continues. Volcanic Ash Advisory Center (#VAAC) #Toulouse warned about a volcanic ash plume that rose up to estimated 10000 ft (3000 m) altitude or flight level 100 and is moving at 15 kts in NW direction.
Hayli Gubbi Volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: ERUPTION AT 20251123/0830Z EXPLOSIVE ACTIVITY ONGOING to 10000 ft (3000 m)
www.volcanodiscovery.com

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David Pyle @davidmpyle.bsky.social · 4d
#OTD in 1825, George Poulett Scrope published ‘Considerations on Volcanos .. their connexion with the present State and past History of the Globe, leading to .. a new Theory of the Earth’.

Scrope went on to have a long career as an MP, and wrote prolifically on political economy, and volcanoes.
Photograph of the title page of G Poulett Scrope's 'Considerations on Volcanos' published in 1825 Photograph of the spine of a book with a pasted label that reads 'Poulett Scrope on Volcanos, 1825, 12 s.' Photograph of a slip of paper with handwriting, that reads 'Admit the Bearer to the Gallery June twenty six 1838' and signed G Poulett Scrope

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David Pyle @davidmpyle.bsky.social · 11d
When the department seminar is interrupted by a fire alarm.. Kurt Konhauser concluding in the rain!
Photograph of people standing outside under an umbrella. Kurt Konhauser concluding his department seminar.

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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 16d
#OreCup Finals:
It’s copper ore native #Copper vs molybdenum (& rhenium) ore #Molybdenite. Both are shiny, but only one can be the Ore Mineral of the Year

Vote:
Vote in Ore Cup FINALS — Mineral Cup & Ore Cup
Pick the Ore Mineral of the Year! Voting for Copper vs Molybdenite will remain open for 48 hours. Credit: David M. Maietta and Harold Moritz
www.mineralcup.org

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Oxford Earth Sciences @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social · 20d
We're excited to announce that Professor Helen Johnson was interviewed by Michael Rosen as part of the Hot Poets Ignite campaign!

Hot Poets is an award-winning arts organisation working to communicate climate change science and action through spoken word poetry.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytOH...
Climate Problems and Solutions Meet The Scientist - Michael Rosen & Helen Johnson Pt 1
YouTube video by Hot Poets
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David Pyle @davidmpyle.bsky.social · 20d
It has been such fun to work with Martha Keswick and the COPE team on their Disaster Champions project!

cope-disaster-champions.com/books/

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
From storytelling to resilience: A transdisciplinary approach to empowering children in disaster risk reduction
This paper presents an extended and multi-faceted project that explores a model of best practice designed to empower children to play enhanced roles i…
www.sciencedirect.com

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David Pyle @davidmpyle.bsky.social · 28d
Coming up on November 9, Midland Arts Centre, #Birmingham - a staged reading of a new dramatisation of a crisis in 1930's colonial #Montserrat. Is a volcano about to erupt?

Part of the 2025 @beinghumanfest.bsky.social @ukri.org #AHRC

www.beinghumanfestival.org/events/missi...
Missives - Birmingham
A crisis unravelling in letters. Many enquiries have tried to ‘learn lessons’ from crises provoked by natural hazards. Often, disaster is rooted in the misfiring communication and stalled decision-mak...
www.beinghumanfestival.org

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David Pyle @davidmpyle.bsky.social · 28d
Coming up on November 9, Midland Arts Centre, #Birmingham - a staged reading of a new dramatisation of a crisis in 1930's colonial #Montserrat. Is a volcano about to erupt?

Part of the 2025 @beinghumanfest.bsky.social @ukri.org #AHRC

www.beinghumanfestival.org/events/missi...
Missives - Birmingham
A crisis unravelling in letters. Many enquiries have tried to ‘learn lessons’ from crises provoked by natural hazards. Often, disaster is rooted in the misfiring communication and stalled decision-mak...
www.beinghumanfestival.org

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David Pyle @davidmpyle.bsky.social · Oct 23
Wow! Volcanoes Top Trumps - on i-player; season 1, episode 6 of Leonard and Hungry Paul.

'Wow factor 89. Mount St Helens. Fantastic card'

winningmoves.co.uk/products/vol...?

#volcanoes
Screenshot of the BBC iplayer photograph advertising episode 6 of the comedy Leonard and Hungry Paul. The image shows two men, sitting side by side, both holding a hand of cards - which are Volcano Top Trumps.

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · Oct 20
2026 Canadian History & Environment Summer School is going to Prince Edward Island!!

The theme of CHESS 2026 is Climate & History. Keynotes by @dagomardegroot.bsky.social & Liza Piper.

Apply to attend the PREMIER Canadian #EnvHist Event by 30 November 2025.

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CHESS 2026: Climate & History - Call for Participants
We are pleased to invite applications to attend the 2026 Canadian History & Environment Summer School.
niche-canada.org

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David Pyle @davidmpyle.bsky.social · Oct 17
Up for auction next week in Edinburgh - Scottish mathematician James Stirling’s library; including his copy of James Hutton’s Theory of the Earth.. #HistSci

www.lyonandturnbull.com/auctions/boo...
Hutton, James the Theory of the Earth, From the Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Auction from 'The Library of James Stirling, Mathematician', 23 October 2025 from 13:00 GMT. Lot 71. [Edinburgh, c.1787]. [2] 96 [2] pp., half-title, ‘Explanation of Plate' leaf to rear, 2 engraved pl...
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David Pyle @davidmpyle.bsky.social · Oct 14
Very sad to hear that Peter Friend has died.

Peter was a wonderful teacher and a lovely colleague, and first introduced me to the geology of Almeria in the 1990s for an undergraduate field class.

Here's Peter, still running the trip 4 years into retirement.⚒️

www.darwin.cam.ac.uk/news/dr-pete...
Photograph of two people standing by some rocks in a gorge, with vegetation in the background. On the left - Dr Peter Friend, on the right Dr Irene Gomez-Perez, in conversation by the Carboneras fault, Granatilla valley, southern Almeria, Spain in April 2005. Peter and Irene were co-leading a Cambridge undergraduate Earth Sciences field class at the time. @cambridge-earthsci.bsky.social

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Dr. Thomas Ronge @thomasronge.bsky.social · Oct 7
🚨New publication🚨
A new Exp398 study led by @abigaillily.bsky.social showed that caldera volcanism is associated with rifting on the South Aegean Volcanic Arc, Santorini and Kos Volcanoes may be coupled by regional lithospheric stresses...
#NSFfunded
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Research vessel JOIDES Resolution off the Greek village of Oia, Santorini.

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David Pyle @davidmpyle.bsky.social · Oct 7
Great new paper from Abigail Metcalfe and the IODP398 team!
@ukiodp.bsky.social #Santorini

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Tectonic modulation of caldera volcanism on the South Aegean Volcanic Arc
Many highly hazardous, caldera-forming explosive eruptions occur in extensional tectonic regimes, but the role of lithospheric rifting in modulating c…
www.sciencedirect.com

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Jenni Barclay @volcanojenni.bsky.social · Oct 7
We’re advertising a PhD studentship for folks with good knowledge of Caribbean culture and society, with background in geography, human geography, humanities or interdisciplinary geosciences as part of our @leverhulme.ac.uk funded ‘volcanic histories’ project
Summary of what the PhD student will do. QR code in bottom LHS. Project part of our Leverhulme Trust funded project volcanic histories and the student will examine the cultural markers and response to to volcanic activity across the Eastern Caribbean. Understand local ways of knowing and remembering volcanic activity. Integrate scientific. And community knowledge for DRR - joining an interdisciplinary team from several universities.

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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · Oct 1
#MinCup25 Final: After a month of learning and laughter, we’re at the final match to determine the 2025 Mineral Cup Champion! We have blue blades of #kyanite up against optical magician #tugtupite.

Vote: www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r5...
Results: www.mineralcup.org/2025/results...
Vote in 2025 Final Match — Mineral Cup
Click here to vote in Kyanite vs Tugtupite Photo credits: John Sobolewski and Parent Géry
www.mineralcup.org

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Jenni Barclay @volcanojenni.bsky.social · Sep 26
www.beinghumanfestival.org/events/missi...
Volcanic crises! Archives! The ‘real story’ between the lines.

We’re performing a ‘staged reading’ and exploring two crises on #montserrat - with two wonderful playwrights as part of #beinghumanfestival. Come see us in London and also 1/2
Missives - London
A crisis unravelling in letters. Many enquiries have tried to ‘learn lessons’ from crises provoked by natural hazards. Often, disaster is rooted in the misfiring communication and stalled decision-mak...
www.beinghumanfestival.org

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Dr Jazmin Scarlett @grumpyvolcano.bsky.social · Sep 4
If anyone is interested, the paper from my postdoc I left (coming up to 3 years now?!) got published: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Just FYI I've forgotten everything and so removed from academia now, so please direct any questions to @volcanojenni.bsky.social @davidmpyle.bsky.social
Science in a crisis: Assembling volcanic knowledge in twentieth century Montserrat
In the 1930s Montserrat, part of the British Leeward Islands colony, experienced a prolonged period of seismic unrest which many on the island interpr…
www.sciencedirect.com

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International Continental Scientific Drilling Program ICDP @icdpdrilling.bsky.social · Sep 1
Congrats 🎉 BVDP project (South Africa) finalized! Final depth: 1877.2 m depth on 23rd August 25. Congratulations to the successful team! 👍 Important goals achieved⚡now preparing for sampling and for publishing exciting new insights into the Bushveld Complex! ℹ️ www.icdp-online.org/projects/by-...

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Abby @abigaillily.bsky.social · Aug 13
An unexpected discovery of IODP Exp 398! 200 m of ash from the Kos Plateau Tuff eruption buried in the basins around Santorini, read how it got there in our new paper in Science Advances 🌋
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Submarine ash megabed fed by far-traveled, shoreline-crossing pyroclastic currents from a large explosive volcanic eruption
Volcanic ash from an eruption in Greece poured into the sea, forming a bed 200 m thick in a submarine basin far from the volcano.
www.science.org

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David Pyle @davidmpyle.bsky.social · Aug 13
We see the same pattern!