Dr Bridie Davies (she/her)

We ended up using a combination of different things that worked but then the beamline had a flood so it was out of our hands haha. Thanks tho!

@rockhoundrich.bsky.social 👀👀👀 you know anyone?

It's the current bane of my life. Much like smoking or being a diamond thief...things that sound cool are often the WORST 😂

Has anyone ever used a Gallium source FIB to cut trenches + pillars in olivine crystals and if so can I get the details of the energy, the time etc it takes?

#geology #thermofisher #zeiss #tescan #desperate 😂

From who has been allowed to conduct science, whom we imbue with the title of expert, what kinds of knowledge we consider valid, why we do science, and how science has been applied (and misapplied) throughout history, it’s a misnomer to assert that science has ever been apolitical.

Excite!!!

Photo of Lucy bronze with quote "I actually played the whole tournament with a fractured tibia"

Not sure how I feel about "never give up" being our new #Lionesses slogan.....my blood pressure can't take it.
Also I'm never going to complain about a running injury ever again 💀
#LucyBronze #UNIT

"the Palestine exception to Academic Freedom"

“This sends a dangerous message to scholars globally: that academic publishing contracts are conditional, revocable, and subject to external political calculations.”

"we’re watching universities being blown up.”

🇵🇸 This work must be published 🇵🇸

YouTube video by RÚV Grindavik - Mosaic

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ELDGOS ER HAFIÐ
It's erupting!
Here's a livestream:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXD4...

In a similar vein we were discussing the left the light on classic of "it's like Blackpool illuminations in here!" (Which apparently is not universal in the UK???)
And discovered the french equivalent is "this is not Versailles" I found the contrast very amusing

Slide showing 3D renderings of melt inclusions with a range of morphologies including multiple bubbles and several with small crystals included in or on the bubble.

So many 3D melt inclusions! 😍 loving the new avenues micro-analytical techniques in 3D are providing for interrogating these widely analysed features 🌋
#IAVCEI2025

Mila huebsch presenting varied pumice textures from SEM images showing bubbles and glass of different textures.

Got to love a pumice texture compilation slide!
The Hunga-Tonga eruption has inspired some great work, so much has been on display already this week.

#IAVCEI2025

Ailsa Naismith at the front of a lecture hall presenting images from Turkey showing depictions of volcanoes from the bronze age

Loving these "Future of #volcanology" talks at #IACVEI2025

Exploring the art of the sketch and our connection to people of the past through the volcanoes we observe.

Woman standing at the front of a lecture hall with her first slide projected on the wall, it reads "Advancing in-situ observations of magmatic processes: development of an X-ray Transparent Internally Heated Pressure Vessel for High-Pressure, High-Temperature synchrotron imaging"

And here is Barbara Bonechi showing us her fantastic decompression experiments!

#ECR #IAVCEI2025

Power point slide depicting indigenous myths about isarog volcano in lncluding "water and rocks are released during isarog's eruptions" "Isarog erupted several centuries ago", "monsters dwell in the crater and fight with eachother" and "isarog erupts when humans disturb the volcano"

Some inspiring work already this morning in the #indigenous knowledge and geoheritage co-session!

#IAVCEI2025

(and in the only air-conditioned room!)

The famous Geneva jet. A jet of water shoots into a clear blue sky with a view of a jetty and the lake water. A thin strip of white clouds sit just above the hills in the distance.

Bonjour Geneva for #IAVCEI2025 🌋🌋🌋 looking forward to a fantastic week!

We found that AI tools - both general like #ChatGPT and research-specific like #Elicit - lack the reliability, relevancy and accuracy to summarise research for teachers. This is important because we have been sold the idea that AI will make research more accessible.

Royal Society prize winner returns award in protest over Elon Musk Andrea Sella is latest scientist to express dismay over UK science academy’s refusal to criticise tech billionaire

www.ft.com/content/8778...
Kudos to Andrea Sella for taking a stand against @royalsociety.org’s inaction over Elon Musk FRS

Writing is hard because the process of getting something onto the page helps us figure out what we think—about a topic, a problem or an idea. If we turn to AI to do the writing, we’re not going to be doing the thinking either. (Rosenzweig 2023)

FFS

cc: people who are still using "preferred pronouns" also. They are just pronouns, like anyone else's. Sticking "preferred" on communicates additional, confusing information; these aren't suggestions.

I talked about all of the costs in class, ecological and intellectual, and my students were really great and I wish I could teach them again

🚨NEW PAPER ALERT🚨

It is *such a pleasure* to announce the publication of a major portion of my PhD thesis with @volcanojenni.bsky.social, @drgeorgieb.bsky.social @tomchudley.bsky.social, Ricky Herd, and Mel Froude in @geomorphica.bsky.social !

Have a read: journals.psu.edu/geomorphica/...

Questioning AI Resource List Excellent summary of major problems with companies’ focus on AI written by expert in machine learning: https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again/ Another g...

If you need any sources on AI being shitty, I've been collecting and compiling them: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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🗓️ 28 April 2025

📍The Hague, Netherlands

"Starvation is starvation is starvation." 💔🕊️

EM4 This meeting condemns the Supreme Court ruling defining the term 'woman' with respect to the Equality Act as being based on 'biological sex', which they refer to as a person who 'was at birth of the female sex', as reductive, trans and intersex-exclusionary and biologically nonsensical. We recognize as doctors that sex and gender are complex and multifaceted aspects of the human condition and attempting to impose a rigid binary has no basis in science or medicine while being actively harmful to transgender and gender diverse people. As such this meeting: i. Reiterates the BMA's position on affirming the rights of transgender and non-binary individuals to live their lives with dignity, having their identity respected. Reminds the Supreme Court of the existence of intersex people and reaffirms their right to exist in the gender identity that matches their sense of self, regardless of whether this matches any identity assigned to them at birth. iii. Condemns scientifically illiterate rulings from the Supreme Court, made without consulting relevant experts and stakeholders, that will cause real-world harm to the trans, non-binary and intersex communities in this country. iv. Commits to strive for better access to necessary health services for trans, non-binary and gender-diverse people.

The British Medical Association Resident Doctors are the backbone of the NHS, they look after us all in hospital.

They passed this motion at their conference which pulls the “supreme” court judgement to pieces.

They call it

“scientifically illiterate”
and
“biologically nonsensical”

1/3

Hope as US universities find ‘backbone’ against Trump’s assault on education Anxious Americans find solace as university leaders start to mount more muscular defense of academic freedom

"...while students, faculty & advocates across the country expressed measured hope..., they noted it was students & faculty who were leading the charge & mounting the pressure that forced university leaders to act."
@alicesperi.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

a greyscale satelitte image of Musk's data centre - with a bright red marker showing emissions from the many (I think about 30) fossil fuel combustion engines on site

Incredible satellite image of the 33 (!!!!) operational fossil fuel combustion engines at the site of Elon Musk's XAI data centre

“appalling that xAI would operate more than 30 methane gas turbines without any permits or any public oversight"
@selc.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...