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Sarah Cosgriff 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇭 @acescicomm.bsky.social · Sep 3

It's East and South East Heritage Month in the UK! 🥳

I will be running an event featuring three amazing activists who are ESEA and LGBTQ+. The event is free to attend and will be held online. Please repost this so more people can know about it!

Details: www.eventbrite.com/e/queer-esea...

Queer ESEA Voices in Activism

We invite you to join us in celebrating the work of LGBT+ East and South East Asian (ESEA) activists and change makers.

www.eventbrite.com

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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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VolcaKnowledge Podcast @volcaknowledge.bsky.social · Jul 21

WELCOME TO VOLCAKNOWLEDGE!

The podcast exploring how volcanoes interact with nature culture and society, featuring new guests every episode. Hosted by @smitchellscience.bsky.social

Season 3 is JUST around the corner!! 🌋 So stay tuned for an exciting first episode with some VERY famous geology...

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Jamie Farquharson @farquharson.bsky.social · Jul 29

The symposium is free to attend and abstracts are free to submit, although there will be some social events and field excursions for which expenses will be collected locally in cash. Abstracts and registrations are still open!

Check out the website or contact me for more info.
www.thevolcano.world

Conference 2025 - Home

www.thevolcano.world

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Jamie Farquharson @farquharson.bsky.social · Jul 29

We are thrilled to announce that the meeting will feature a keynote from Patricia Mothes from Instituto Geofísico of the Escuela Politécnica Nacional (IG-EPN @igepnecuador.bsky.social ), who has a wealth of experience on each of the symposium themes, and is sure to provide some terrific insights.

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Jamie Farquharson @farquharson.bsky.social · Jul 29

Are you a volcanologist or working in an adjacent field? Consider signing up for Niigata University’s 1st international symposium on “Volcanology in Practice”:
www.thevolcano.world
which will run from 7th–10th of October 2025 in Niigata, Japan, endorsed by @iavcei.bsky.social.
#volcano #science ⚒️🌋

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Dr Jazmin Scarlett @grumpyvolcano.bsky.social · Jul 29

Calling all volcanologists and scientists in related fields: introducing the 1st Niigata University international symposium on "Volcanology in Practice," to be held between the 7th and 10th of Octobver 2025 in Niigata, Japan. More details are available here: www.thevolcano.world.

Conference 2025 - Home

www.thevolcano.world

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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · Jun 1

This Pride I want to connect with and amplify more trans people who work in nature/ecology/conservation so please say hi and do a little introduction if you're trans and work with plants, animals, fungi etc. I'll repost and create a starter pack if enough people respond 🏳️‍⚧️

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Dr Jazmin Scarlett @grumpyvolcano.bsky.social · Jun 3

I'll be on the roster as a Flood Warning Duty Officer by August and will be appreciating the close relationship we have with the Met Office in order to make the important decisions of issuing flood alerts or warnings.

True, we are experiencing understaffing etc ourselves but not to this degree.

John Morales @johnmoralestv.bsky.social · Jun 3

Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺

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Dr Jazmin Scarlett @grumpyvolcano.bsky.social · Jun 2

Probs the only time I wish for an edit button 😂 I am finding it funny though.

Dr Jazmin Scarlett @grumpyvolcano.bsky.social · Jun 2

Happy Pride Month to the queerly inclined 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Make a homophobe/queerphobe/transphobe mad by being apologetically you 🫶🏾

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Dr Jazmin Scarlett @grumpyvolcano.bsky.social · Jun 2

I make one spelling mistake 😂

Dr Jazmin Scarlett @grumpyvolcano.bsky.social · Jun 2

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Pride in STEM @prideinstem.bsky.social · Jun 2

Happy Pride Month! We will be in Edinburgh on Thursday supporting this fantastic event!

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
🎟️: www.ai-ethics.org/queer-data-s...

A poster for the Queer Data showcase on 5-7pm
5 June 2025
Cabaret Bar, Pleasance
Edinburgh

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Dr Jazmin Scarlett @grumpyvolcano.bsky.social · Jun 2

I shouldn't have said anything 🤔

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Dr Jazmin Scarlett @grumpyvolcano.bsky.social · Jun 2

Not cool 👎

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Dr Jazmin Scarlett @grumpyvolcano.bsky.social · Jun 2

At least I'm consistent in being terrible at proof-reading messages before I sending them 🤷🏾‍♀️

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Dr Jazmin Scarlett @grumpyvolcano.bsky.social · Jun 2

Goddamn I only realised I meant to spell "unapologetically" 😂

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Dr Jazmin Scarlett @grumpyvolcano.bsky.social · Jun 2

Happy Pride Month to the queerly inclined 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Make a homophobe/queerphobe/transphobe mad by being apologetically you 🫶🏾

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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · Jun 1

I made these for five reasons:

• Trans Pride 🏳️‍⚧️
• Aesthetic jewellery 🌿🧝‍♀️✨️
• Science communication through #SciArt
• To afford trans-affirming costs
• A niche joke about kerning

I will not elaborate on the order of importance

Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · May 30

Trans fem? I thought it was trans fern 🏳️‍⚧️

After 6months hard work, I'm finally launching my trans fern Pride pins and necklaces! There's even a glow-in-the-dark version and each fern comes with a queer nature fact 🌿

Please share so others can enjoy! canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4312...

An enamel fern in the colours of the trans pride flag, hanging from a silver chain by its curled over stem. It's on a backing card that says Trans Fern by Canopy Robin. Glow in the dark. Did you know that most ferns are homosporous? This means they produce onlye one type of spore which germinates to be both male and female during the plant's reproductive phase.

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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · Apr 19

Today's the big day! There are 22 planned protests all over the UK and even one abroad!

Find out if there's one near you here:

whatthetrans.com/compilation-...

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · Apr 18

If you still vote for, or are a member of the UK Labour Party after reading this, you have no morals, empathy or awareness of the Holocaust*.

What a nasty bunch the fundamentalists of the English Labour Party are. Solidarity to UK Queer, & especially trans, people.

Labour minister says Tories should 'apologise' for pro-trans stance under Theresa May

Labour’s health and social care minister, Karin Smyth, has called on the Conservatives to apologise for the party’s pro-trans stance.

www.thepinknews.com

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Dr Jazmin Scarlett @grumpyvolcano.bsky.social · Apr 18

Its more common in chalk stream areas (Hertfordshire where I'm based, and Yorkshire have the most chalk streams) but also can be gravel, which is more complicated.

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Dr Jazmin Scarlett @grumpyvolcano.bsky.social · Apr 18

Because you can't pump it out like river or surface water flooding. A colleague described it as "like trying to get rid of the water from an olympic swimming pool with a spoon" 😅

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Dr Jazmin Scarlett @grumpyvolcano.bsky.social · Apr 18

Its when a natural underground resevoir and the water table is at capacity and comes back up from the ground. Its because we had the downpours back in September and a wet winter (this is the 2nd year in a row now!). Groundwater flooding can stay around for months and there isn't an easy fix...

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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · Apr 17

I was considering writing some thoughts to help cis people understand what's going on and what's needed... but I see who likes my posts about trans news and I can extrapolate who doesn't, so what's the point? Other than a very few allies who already know the things, who's going to read it?

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