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Dr Rebecca Williams
@volcanologist.bsky.social
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Reader in Volcanology in Geology @Hull. Waffle about volcanoes, HigherEd, tea and occasional running. SFHEA & STEM ambassador. She/her.

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Dr Rebecca Williams @volcanologist.bsky.social · Aug 2
It's about time I announced a project that I've been working on in the last year... I wrote a book!

'Volcanoes: 10 things you should know' published by @orionbooks.bsky.social Seven Dials will be out in September. It's available to pre-order now. Links: linktr.ee/volcanologist
A graphic of a book. The cover is a deep red and had a good line illustration of an erupting volcano.

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Dr Rebecca Williams @volcanologist.bsky.social · 1h
Yeah, it was amazing. We were on a boat on the water in the Amazon Rainforest in Ecuador. It was curled up in a tree. Seemingly digesting something, so the guides said. So paid us no attention. It was huge.

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Dr Rebecca Williams @volcanologist.bsky.social · 2h
So much fun. So silly. The was about 2001?

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JGR: Oceans @jgroceans.bsky.social · 2h
Pumice rafts are floating mats of volcanic rock from the eruption of underwater or coastal volcanoes. Monteath et al., analyze the chemistry of pumice from the Falkland Islands and trace its origin from ∼20,000 km away in the South Sandwich Islands 🌊

agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
Crew of the HMS Protector inspecting a large pumice clast (∼40 cm in diameter) from the 1962 Protector Shoal raft

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Natalia Jagielska @nataliajagielska.bsky.social · 8h
Doodles for Hong Kong 🇭🇰

In response to the tragic Tai Po fire, I'm doing charity commissions. Anyone who puts over £25/250HKD into "Feeding Hong Kong" or Hong Kong SPCA can request a coloured doodle of any prehistoric animal 🙏

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Dr Rebecca Williams @volcanologist.bsky.social · 10h
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen

Red Hot Chili Peppers
Metallica
Steps
Levellers
Mastodon
blackcatgarden.bsky.social Caz🇨🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @blackcatgarden.bsky.social · 1d
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen.

Grace Petrie
The Wildhearts
The Tragically Hip
Barenaked Ladies
Cake
richardthesod.bsky.social Richard The S🌀d @richardthesod.bsky.social · 1d
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen.

The Mad Capsule Markets
Nightwish
Killswitch Engage
Linkin Park
Karen Dió (most recent!)

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Dr Rebecca Williams @volcanologist.bsky.social · 10h
Introduce yourself with five animals you have seen in the wild

Anaconda
Grizzly Bear
Hedgehog
Echidna
Moose
geolizzy.bsky.social Elizabeth V @geolizzy.bsky.social · 12h
Introduce yourself with five animals you have seen in the wild

Moose
Wolves
Pikas
Puffins
Grizzlies
coconinoite.bsky.social Coconino @coconinoite.bsky.social · 17h
Introduce yourself with five animals you have seen in the wild

Prairie rattlesnake
Moose
River otter
Ermine
Beaver

Reposted by Rebecca Williams

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Elizabeth V @geolizzy.bsky.social · 12h
Introduce yourself with five animals you have seen in the wild

Moose
Wolves
Pikas
Puffins
Grizzlies
coconinoite.bsky.social Coconino @coconinoite.bsky.social · 17h
Introduce yourself with five animals you have seen in the wild

Prairie rattlesnake
Moose
River otter
Ermine
Beaver
restingdinoface.bsky.social Riley Black - When the Earth Was Green out now 🌱 @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 17h
Introduce yourself with five animals you have seen in the wild

Guanaco
Brown tarantula
Eastern newt
Caribou
Western blue jay

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Dr Rebecca Williams @volcanologist.bsky.social · 22h
Great, thank you! The explanation was particularly helpful!

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Dr Rebecca Williams @volcanologist.bsky.social · 22h
Great, thank you!

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Dr Rebecca Williams @volcanologist.bsky.social · 22h
I'm so sorry. It's so awful. I hope you're able to look after yourself and get support. It's a traumatic situation.

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Dr Rebecca Williams @volcanologist.bsky.social · 23h
I was just coming here to see if you were ok!

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Dr Rebecca Williams @volcanologist.bsky.social · 1d
Where do folks commit to making their code open source these days? Is GitHub still the go to? (Beyond institutional and funder repositories).

Reposted by Rebecca Williams, Aileen McHarg

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 1d
'11 universities expanded by more than 11,000 students over the past decade, while the three institutions with the biggest growth expanded by more than 20,000 students – BPP University (28,915 more students), Canterbury Christ Church University (22,410) and UCL (21,490).' 3/3

Reposted by Rebecca Williams, Katrina Navickas

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 1d
'Bols and Maguire trace the current financial problems higher education institutions are facing back to the government’s decision to remove the limit on student numbers in 2015-16 and deregulate student recruitment, while maintaining caps on tuition fees, thus limiting universities’ income.' 2/3

Reposted by Rebecca Williams, Jonathan Hopkin, Michael H. Whitworth , and 2 more

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 1d
'David Maguire and Alex Bols, vice-chancellor and chief of staff respectively at the University of East Anglia, updated their prediction made last autumn that 10,000 jobs could be lost in 2024-25, claiming this same amount could in fact be lost every year going forward.' 1/3
UK universities ‘could cut 10,000 jobs every year’
Academics claim changes made to higher education system a decade ago have divided sector into ‘winners and losers’, with government-imposed limits on income exacerbating financial challenges
www.timeshighereducation.com

Reposted by Rebecca Williams

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Caz🇨🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @blackcatgarden.bsky.social · 1d
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen.

Grace Petrie
The Wildhearts
The Tragically Hip
Barenaked Ladies
Cake
richardthesod.bsky.social Richard The S🌀d @richardthesod.bsky.social · 1d
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen.

The Mad Capsule Markets
Nightwish
Killswitch Engage
Linkin Park
Karen Dió (most recent!)
gallaethamatt.bsky.social Matt Holland Author Dot Com @gallaethamatt.bsky.social · 1d
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen.

Hot Snakes
The Fall
Evanescence
Within Temptation
Epic Rap Battles of History

Reposted by Rebecca Williams

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Nadine, Hunter of Rocks 💎 @nadwgab.bsky.social · 1d
331 of #365Minerals 🧪⚒️

Andalusite:
- An aluminosilicate mineral
- A polymorph of kyanite and sillimanite
- A common low grade metamorphic mineral
- Used in the production of high temperature ceramics
- Named after Andalusia in Spain #minerals
Twin crystals of andalusite (variety chiastolite) in a grey mica schist. The crystals are beige and look like flowers with four petals. A cut and polished slice. From Bimbowrie, South Australia. Specimen on display in the Natural History Museum, London.

Reposted by Rebecca Williams

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UH Hilo Geology @uhhilogeology.bsky.social · 3d
Did you know that UH Hilo participates in the National Student Exchange Program? We welcome students from all over the upper 49 states to our campus every year. We also have a robust international exchange program.

If you are interested in learning about volcanoes with a front row seat, reach out!

Reposted by Rebecca Williams

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julietbiggs.bsky.social @julietbiggs.bsky.social · 3d
Our preliminary analysis of the satellite observations of the #hayligubbi #eruption is now available online: comet.nerc.ac.uk/event-respon.... Details of the eruption onset, SO2 emissions and precursory deformation.
Event Response Reports - COMET
25th November 2025: COMET Event Response Report 2.4 – Erta Ale/Hayli Gubbi Purpose/Caveats: This event response report was produced to assist situational awarenessand rapid response efforts. It repres...
comet.nerc.ac.uk

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Simone @simoneb.bsky.social · 4d
@xkcd.com on point again :D :D

Reposted by David Pyle, Rebecca Williams

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Alessandro La Rosa @alarosa.bsky.social · 4d
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

Reposted by Rebecca Williams

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Tim Dawson @timblor.bsky.social · 4d
More Greenland photos, featuring some geology. Scoresbysund has some fantastic exposures of columnar basalts, which are ~55 million years old (young for Greenland rocks!) related to flood basalts when the Atlantic was opening up. Fantastical shapes and fall tundra colors
Undulating columnar basalts Columnar basalts with some green and red plants. Cliffs of basalt with snow, a water fall, and an icy fiord

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Dr Rebecca Williams @volcanologist.bsky.social · 4d
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Dr Rebecca Williams @volcanologist.bsky.social · 4d
Thanks. It needs to be low cost, robust and available in UK. Without being crap.

It's so hard to tell what is good on Amazon.

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Dr Rebecca Williams @volcanologist.bsky.social · 4d
Downloaded in BBC Sounds and queued for my next commute! I ❤️ @toriherridge.bsky.social 's podcasts, whether her own or as a guest. Always so interesting.

Last Saturday I said I was an actual Tori Herridge Fan Girl. And it's absolutely true.
toriherridge.bsky.social Tori Herridge @toriherridge.bsky.social · 4d
On the Origin of Species was published on this day in 1859.

It really did change the world, and the way much of humanity views our place in nature.

I spoke to Radio 4's Opening Lines about it's importance -- both to science, and to me on a personal level

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Opening Lines - On the Origin of Species - BBC Sounds
John Yorke investigates Charles Darwin’s world-changing book On The Origin of Species.
www.bbc.co.uk

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Dr Rebecca Williams @volcanologist.bsky.social · 4d
Not really. Apparently everyone streams now?

That's what I'm hoping for recs of. A kid friendly (in terms of usability and price) mp3 player.

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Dr Rebecca Williams @volcanologist.bsky.social · 4d
What's the 2025 equivalent to a Walkman?

Mini-volcanologist is 8 and loves music and dancing to music. She has an Echo Dot at home, but it's reliant on Kids Radio. We want something portable she can curate and play her own music on. Not a phone.

At this age I was attached to my Walkman. Recs?

Reposted by Tim Wright, Rebecca Williams

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julietbiggs.bsky.social @julietbiggs.bsky.social · 4d
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
tinyurl.com

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Tim Wright @timwrightleeds.bsky.social · 4d
We think there was a small eruption there in July/August (at least a small plume) and some ongoing activity there since (including continued uplift). I suspect all linked to recent activity along dyke from Erta Ale (See COMET reports on July/August activity at comet.nerc.ac.uk/event-respon...).
Event Response Reports - COMET
4th September 2025: COMET Event Response Report 1.9 – Fentale  Volcano, Ethiopia Purpose/Caveats: This event response report was produced to assist situational awareness and rapid response efforts. It...
comet.nerc.ac.uk

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Tori Herridge @toriherridge.bsky.social · 4d
On the Origin of Species was published on this day in 1859.

It really did change the world, and the way much of humanity views our place in nature.

I spoke to Radio 4's Opening Lines about it's importance -- both to science, and to me on a personal level

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Opening Lines - On the Origin of Species - BBC Sounds
John Yorke investigates Charles Darwin’s world-changing book On The Origin of Species.
www.bbc.co.uk