Dr Sam Poppe
@sampvolcano.bsky.social
Assistant Prof @ Space Research Centre PAS (CBK PAN) / #volcano / #planets / #geology / #scicomm / #EDI officer @VIPScommission @IAVCEI / He/Him / Husband & twin dad
On my way!
a man in a space suit is walking on the moon in front of the earth
ALT: a man in a space suit is walking on the moon in front of the earth
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February 5, 2026 at 7:04 AM
On my way!
But it will turn into something beautiful 🤩🌋🤩
the beast from beauty and the beast has a very large mouth
ALT: the beast from beauty and the beast has a very large mouth
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December 12, 2025 at 2:37 PM
But it will turn into something beautiful 🤩🌋🤩
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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Stay tuned for our #volcano misconceptions if accepted 🙏🏼
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December 12, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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 🙏🏼
🌋🌋🌋
Stay tuned for our #volcano misconceptions if accepted 🙏🏼
🌋🌋🌋
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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Thanks!!!
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November 27, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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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Thanks!!!
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Reposted by Dr Sam Poppe
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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November 24, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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
Reposted by Dr Sam Poppe
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.
November 24, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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.
Reposted by Dr Sam Poppe
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
November 23, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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
Instead, consider @egu.eu or @europlanetmedia.bsky.social #EPSC, or @agu.org if you really, really need to attend in the US.
We have built a diverse, equitable, inclusive and accessible community for years now. The work is far from finished. Politics will not take that from #academia.
We have built a diverse, equitable, inclusive and accessible community for years now. The work is far from finished. Politics will not take that from #academia.
November 19, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Instead, consider @egu.eu or @europlanetmedia.bsky.social #EPSC, or @agu.org if you really, really need to attend in the US.
We have built a diverse, equitable, inclusive and accessible community for years now. The work is far from finished. Politics will not take that from #academia.
We have built a diverse, equitable, inclusive and accessible community for years now. The work is far from finished. Politics will not take that from #academia.
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.
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.
Choosing to go to LPSC now that they've doubled down on banning any content about making the field a better place for underrepresented scientists? That would be rewarding this behavior and make the field even more unsafe! Just a thought!
November 19, 2025 at 5:53 AM
It's been an absolute pleasure to push initiatives, but the battle for our community's diversity goes on! I will retire from this role but will never stop fighting for those who feel excluded.
Our EDI webpage links to some good resources for all of us to do so 👇🏼
vipscommission.org/about/equali...
Our EDI webpage links to some good resources for all of us to do so 👇🏼
vipscommission.org/about/equali...
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion - VIPS Commission
Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion at VIPS
vipscommission.org
November 17, 2025 at 4:31 PM
It's been an absolute pleasure to push initiatives, but the battle for our community's diversity goes on! I will retire from this role but will never stop fighting for those who feel excluded.
Our EDI webpage links to some good resources for all of us to do so 👇🏼
vipscommission.org/about/equali...
Our EDI webpage links to some good resources for all of us to do so 👇🏼
vipscommission.org/about/equali...
Our @iavcei.bsky.social #VIPS Commission committee is looking for someone to take over my #EDI officer role.
Do you want to help diversify our community and make us more inclusive? Apply before 12th December!
vipscommission.org/vips-is-look...
@egu.eu @agu.org @vmsg.bsky.social
Do you want to help diversify our community and make us more inclusive? Apply before 12th December!
vipscommission.org/vips-is-look...
@egu.eu @agu.org @vmsg.bsky.social
VIPS is looking for new committee members! - VIPS Commission
The IAVCEI commission for Volcanic and Igneous Plumbing Systems is currently seeking members to fill the following three roles: Commission vice-president, EDI officer, and Focus on VIPS Blog Editor. I...
vipscommission.org
November 17, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Our @iavcei.bsky.social #VIPS Commission committee is looking for someone to take over my #EDI officer role.
Do you want to help diversify our community and make us more inclusive? Apply before 12th December!
vipscommission.org/vips-is-look...
@egu.eu @agu.org @vmsg.bsky.social
Do you want to help diversify our community and make us more inclusive? Apply before 12th December!
vipscommission.org/vips-is-look...
@egu.eu @agu.org @vmsg.bsky.social
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.
We have to continue convincing that having science in the driver's seat of space exploration is prime.
November 17, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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
@science.esa.int
November 1, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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
@science.esa.int
Happy it went into the Valle del Above then 👍🏼 And certainly worth a mention as the longest recorded at Etna 😉
October 10, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Happy it went into the Valle del Above then 👍🏼 And certainly worth a mention as the longest recorded at Etna 😉
Hi Boris, do you have an idea of the length of the June 2 PDC? Longer than the 3km of 2014? Asking for a big paper revision 😉
October 10, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Hi Boris, do you have an idea of the length of the June 2 PDC? Longer than the 3km of 2014? Asking for a big paper revision 😉
Hard to imagine indeed! We're doing some work on Austurhorn now so yes, happy to have a chat, will dm 👍🏼
September 24, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Hard to imagine indeed! We're doing some work on Austurhorn now so yes, happy to have a chat, will dm 👍🏼
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?
Any papers to suggest @fabianwadsworth.bsky.social @htuffen.bsky.social or others working on tuffisite veins et al?
September 15, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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?
Any papers to suggest @fabianwadsworth.bsky.social @htuffen.bsky.social or others working on tuffisite veins et al?
...and then we went on to Reyðarártindur pluton, with it's roof contact showing hot interactions between granite and basalt in the roofs, even with a conduit and faults in the roof!
All described by Emma Rhodes et al in www.nature.com/articles/s41...
All described by Emma Rhodes et al in www.nature.com/articles/s41...
September 14, 2025 at 8:44 AM
...and then we went on to Reyðarártindur pluton, with it's roof contact showing hot interactions between granite and basalt in the roofs, even with a conduit and faults in the roof!
All described by Emma Rhodes et al in www.nature.com/articles/s41...
All described by Emma Rhodes et al in www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The second day the Tertiary Slaufrudalur pluton revealed itself magnificently (low ☁️ are regular here...), an example of a shallow granitic #magma pluton with roof contacts beautifully exposed for geologists ready to scramble upslope 🤩
September 14, 2025 at 8:37 AM
The second day the Tertiary Slaufrudalur pluton revealed itself magnificently (low ☁️ are regular here...), an example of a shallow granitic #magma pluton with roof contacts beautifully exposed for geologists ready to scramble upslope 🤩
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!
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!
September 14, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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!
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!
