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Dr James Hickey 🌋🇪🇺 @jameshickey77.bsky.social · 7d

100% this.

Also, when papers spend weeks (or more) waiting for someone to tick a box to move it to the next stage of the process, and then they demand comments on proofs within 3 days and with no regard for a weekend…!

Bipedal Meatbag @bipedalmeatbag.bsky.social · 8d

If journals want me to give a shit about their time to publication metric, they can pay my ass to edit/review and offer an incentive to publish with them. People who get my effort for free don’t get to make demands on timeliness.

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Rock Lab Strasbourg @rocklabstrasbourg.bsky.social · 10d

I'm hiring a new post-doc to work on the @rottnrock.bsky.social project! Come help us understand hydrothermal alteration and volcanic hazards!
Advert here:
www.unistra.fr/universite/t...
📸 Recent ROTTnROCK trip to Mombacho, Nicaragua 🌋

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Dr James Hickey 🌋🇪🇺 @jameshickey77.bsky.social · 9d

Super interesting stuff! Check. It. Out!

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Jamie Farquharson @farquharson.bsky.social · 10d

Once upon a time, the platform formerly known as Twitter was a vibrant meeting-place where scientists, the public, official orgs and more besides could exchange knowledge. I set out to find out how effective it could be for disseminating geoscience info

Skip to the paper ☛ doi.org/10.1038/s432...

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Dr Fabian Wadsworth @fabianwadsworth.bsky.social · 15d

New paper! The last of Eloïse Bretagne's PhD papers is out! Here we generalize our models for permeability to magma mush at any melt fraction. Take a look if you want to model percolative flow of melt through a magma mush and if you want to account for crystal shape.
OA: dx.doi.org/10.1029/2025...

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Dr James Hickey 🌋🇪🇺 @jameshickey77.bsky.social · 16d

"If you ignore all the fact-free “world-leading this and world leading that” BS..." --> same way I get through every day at work 😂

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Dr. Judith Hubbard @judithgeology.bsky.social · 21d

⚒️ 🧪 Another big addition to the remarkable M8.8 earthquake sequence offshore Kamchatka: a M7.8 - the biggest aftershock so far.

With foreshocks, aftershocks, aftershocks of foreshocks, and foreshocks of aftershocks, it's hard to keep these earthquakes straight! Read more about what's going on:

M 7.8 strikes offshore Kamchatka

Another big addition to a remarkable earthquake sequence

earthquakeinsights.substack.com

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Dr James Hickey 🌋🇪🇺 @jameshickey77.bsky.social · Aug 7

That's an incredible snap, mate 📸!

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Dr James Hickey 🌋🇪🇺 @jameshickey77.bsky.social · Aug 7

The story continues...

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Dr James Hickey 🌋🇪🇺 @jameshickey77.bsky.social · Aug 7

Haha, yeh, and it really didn't help the point that I was trying to make, in that "even ChatGPT would draw a mush extending to the base of the crust" 🤣🙈

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Dr James Hickey 🌋🇪🇺 @jameshickey77.bsky.social · Aug 7

AI iS gOiNG tO TaKE oVeR tHE W0rLd...

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Dr James Hickey 🌋🇪🇺 @jameshickey77.bsky.social · Aug 5

Some of the plumes at Krasheninnikov certainly looked quite steam rich 🧐

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Dr James Hickey 🌋🇪🇺 @jameshickey77.bsky.social · Aug 2

This one will have to go front facing on the bookshelf! 😍 🌋

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 James Hickey 🌋🇪🇺 @jameshickey77.bsky.social · Jul 27

Yaassss! 🦁 🦁 🦁 🥲

a sign that says it 's coming home with a flag in the background

ALT: a sign that says it 's coming home with a flag in the background

media.tenor.com

Dr James Hickey 🌋🇪🇺 @jameshickey77.bsky.social · Jul 22

Sarina clearly lives for the drama…!

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James Bullock @jmbecologist.bsky.social · Jul 17

Really disappointing new policy from NERC banning resubmissions of grant applications

Many of us, including me, have won grants on resubmission,

using the reviews to improve the application

This is is neither fair nor productive
www.ukri.org/councils/ner...

NERC policy on resubmissions

This policy only applies to research grant applications.

www.ukri.org

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Dr Rebecca Williams @volcanologist.bsky.social · Jul 18

NERC: We need to open up environmental science! Why is it not diverse?

Also NERC: We're scrapping Independent Research Fellowships, New Investigator Grants, Small Grants, are limiting applications from institutions based on past success rates and will only allow you to submit your proposal once.

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Dr James Hickey 🌋🇪🇺 @jameshickey77.bsky.social · Jul 18

She was IMMENSE last night!

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Dr James Hickey 🌋🇪🇺 @jameshickey77.bsky.social · Jul 11

I mentioned this to Gilles, and he wanted to make and share this map to visualise how the code currently works.

Could be a cool lil' GIS project for someone to update it to consider volcano footprints rather than point locations.

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Rock Lab Strasbourg @rocklabstrasbourg.bsky.social · Jul 9

To find out more, check out our Open Access paper, just published in JVGR: 🥳

doi.org/10.1016/j.jv...

Featuring: @jameshickey77.bsky.social and others not on BlueSky! 6/6

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Nick Barber 🌋 @volcannick.bsky.social · Jul 7

Wow, what an interesting study!

An early takeaway from me: we have a long way to go to ensure research being done on volcanoes is connected to the academic communities rooted in the areas affected by their eruptions.

This is also a helpful jumping off point for discussions about fieldwork ethics.

Dr James Hickey 🌋🇪🇺 @jameshickey77.bsky.social · Jul 7

🚨 How far are volcanologists from volcanoes? 🌋🚨 Check out our new paper here: link.springer.com/article/10.1....
What started as a conversation about whether we at @exeter.ac.uk (in Cornwall, UK) are further from volcanoes than our global colleagues turned into an exploration of a fruitful data set!

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Dr James Hickey 🌋🇪🇺 @jameshickey77.bsky.social · Jul 7

Interesting! I'll speak to Gilles, who developed the code and app. I'm pretty sure it's sorted by central vent location extracted from the GVP database, so doesn't (currently can't) take into account the footprint of a given volcano (would be cool to add though!).

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Dr James Hickey 🌋🇪🇺 @jameshickey77.bsky.social · Jul 7

🤣 The tephra AND the fireworks 💥, and the (perhaps not so) gentle peace you get knowing you are representing the best of us at the volcanic "coal face" 🙌🏼👏🏻!

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Dr James Hickey 🌋🇪🇺 @jameshickey77.bsky.social · Jul 7

Great work all led by Gilles Seropian, and supported by Thomas Aubry and @farquharson.bsky.social. Thanks to @royalsociety.org for funding Gilles' research.

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Dr James Hickey 🌋🇪🇺 @jameshickey77.bsky.social · Jul 7

We consider our results from a number of angles, including carbon footprints, best practice for collaboration, and EDI.

Finally, it turns out, we at @exeter.ac.uk (in Cornwall) are indeed further than 75–85% of our global colleagues from volcanoes 🌋.

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Dr James Hickey 🌋🇪🇺 @jameshickey77.bsky.social · Jul 7

We have a web tool that will calculate the nearest volcano to your institution, or the nearest institution to a given volcano: gilles.seropian.io/nearest_volc...

We also looked at volcano distance metrics by journal, and by author position in a publication.

Nearest Volcano

gilles.seropian.io

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