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Andrew C Kerr @andrewckerr.bsky.social · Apr 16

This OA paper is now formally published:
www.lyellcollection.org/doi/full/10....

Cretaceous large igneous provinces: from volcanic formation to environmental catastrophes and biological crises | Geological Society, London, Special Publications

Abstract The Cretaceous Period was marked by the formation of numerous large igneous provinces (LIPs), several of which were associated with geologically rapid climate, environmental and biosphere per...

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Andrew C Kerr @andrewckerr.bsky.social · Feb 8

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02...

Overpaid university bosses show what is wrong with Starmer’s Britain

Labour preaches about growth, but hasn’t the foggiest what that really means

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Andrew C Kerr @andrewckerr.bsky.social · Feb 7

New paper with Chinese colleagues: Mantle metasomatism by subducted Indian continental crust: Evidence from post-collisional basaltic ultrapotassic rocks in southern Tibetan plateau. authors.elsevier.com/c/1kZpD5aRZn...

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Andrew C Kerr @andrewckerr.bsky.social · Jan 19

New paper in GCA with colleagues from Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry "Light iron isotopes in high-silica granites record fluid evolution in magmatic-hydrothermal systems" authors.elsevier.com/c/1kSyK3p4ZY...

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Andrew C Kerr @andrewckerr.bsky.social · Jan 17

You will soon have as little hair as me!

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · Dec 25

No, they're not caught between anything. Stop it. The fact that AI may be used or useful in future jobs does not create a single dilemma at all for college students in how to actually complete their coursework. This is all nonsense & excuses for not doing the reading & learning how to think & write.

College students caught between professors' AI bans and employers' growing demand for AI skills

Research shows 75% of workers now use artificial intelligence on the job, yet many universities still classify its use as cheating.

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · Dec 18

12 Days of Gnomemart 🎁 Day 7

Concerned Citizens! Save the planet sensibly with… The Home Eco Protest Kit™

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Andrew C Kerr @andrewckerr.bsky.social · Nov 28

New paper with Chinese colleagues: academic.oup.com/petrology/ar...

Lithospheric Evolution and Uplift of the Tibetan Plateau During Continental Convergence: Evidence From Early Oligocene Pseudo leucite Phonolites from Southern Qian tang, Central Tibet

Abstract. The Cenozoic collision of India and Eurasia clearly built the high-elevation Tibetan Plateau, but how this collision was accommodated, and the Ti

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Gavin Foster @thefosterlab.bsky.social · Nov 8

We need geologists to find the minerals needed to power the green transition, which is why I am constantly surprised/dissapointed that now when we need geologists the most we have such low numbers of undergrads doing Geology. ⚒️🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Minerals power the green transition - Nature Geoscience

Geologists are seeking new critical mineral resources that are needed to support the world’s transition to net-zero carbon emissions.

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Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · Nov 2

"America is more divided than ever!"

Oh really? Are you sure about that one??

Blakey paleogeographic map of North America during the Cretaceous, when the Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway split the continent into two with a shallow sea in the middle

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Andrew C Kerr @andrewckerr.bsky.social · Sep 7

New paper by Gooday et al. reporting high precision U-Pb ages for the Central Arran Complex. We show that the central complex formed relatively rapidly in less than 330ka. authors.elsevier.com/a/1jjrr5aRZj...

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MarcA Millet @marcamillet.bsky.social · Feb 14

🚨PhD project Alert🚨
Interested in trying to quantify carbon sequestration by enhanced weathering? Here's a fully funded PhD project in the CELTIC lab in collaboration with UNDO Carbon (un-do.com)

Supervised by Morten Andersen, Ed Inglis and myself.

Quantification of carbon sequestration during enhanced weathering: A novel trace elemental and isotopic approach at Cardiff University on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Quantification of carbon sequestration during enhanced weathering: A novel trace elemental and isotopic approach at Cardiff University, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Stephen Lokier @lokier.bsky.social · Dec 6

Record breaking numbers of people attend a meeting in one of the few areas of the world that you can only realistically visit by plane, where AC is essential, where the vast majority of food is imported, where the water comes in plastic. All to talk about how we are destroying the planet. 🤔

Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · Dec 6

Analysis: Which countries have sent the most delegates to COP28? | @rtmcswee.bsky.social

Read here: bit.ly/481UJyd

Overall totals for delegates from parties, observers and the media for all COPs, as published by the UNFCCC. Data for COPs 1-27 are the “final” figures, while COP28 data is “provisional”. Chart by Carbon Brief.

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