Zoja Vukmanovic

Raising the next generation of geologists? This book is for you 😉🪨

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The International Fellowships 2026 scheme, run with the @royalsociety.org, supports international early career researchers to undertake a two-year research career with UK partner organisations. Find out more and apply ahead of 11 March deadline: https://bit.ly/3LaMIBC

Lecturer in Physical Oceanography (ATR1734) in University of East Anglia | UEA View details and apply for this Lecturer in Physical Oceanography (ATR1734) vacancy in University of East Anglia. Faculty of Science School of Environmental Sciences Lecturer in Physical Oceano...

We are advertising for a Lecturer in Physical Oceanography, closing date 31 March.

If you have research interests in the shelf seas, estuarine and coastal oceans then this could be for you!

And you could do research using UEA's fleet of ocean gliders

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‪After a great success from the last year, joins us again in Vienna in April 2026! Our session: "To see a world in a grain of rock: Decoding metamorphic, magmatic, and ore mineralisation processes using rock textures and microstructures" at #EGU26 ⚒️ 🪨
www.egu26.eu/session/56201

The second is a 40 month Postdoctoral Research Associate in numerical modelling of volcanic conduit flow, University of Manchester. Closing date – 9 January 2026

Both positions would suit researchers from applied mathematics, physics or fluids/engineering backgrounds

#HEJobs

Sign the Petition Save Geology at the University of Leicester

Understanding of Earth Sciences is fundamental to society's sustainability and development. Please support the department at the University of Leicester which is under threat. ⚒️🧪
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Another PhD project to advertise!
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Supervisory team: William McCarthy (St Andrews), Sandra Piazolo-Trimby (Leeds), Craig Magee (Leeds), myself (UEA) and Viking Cruises! Amazing CASE-funded TARGET Mineral Resources CDT project.

My son loved the Volcano Top Trumps! can't wait now for episode 6! 😅

Go for it! Also, feel free to email me if you need more info on the project.

Magma emplacement and its evolution: deciphering between magmatic and tectonic processes | Aries Dr Zoja Vukmanovic, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia Dr Gareth Fabbro, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia Dr Will McCarthy, University of St Andrews...

I would like to advertise a PhD project on Magma emplacement and its evolution: aries-dtp.ac.uk/studentships... for those who have an interest in petrology, rock microstructure, and fieldwork.
Supervising team: Dr William McCarty, Prof Marian Holness, Dr Eduardo Mansur, Dr Gareth Fabbro and me.

5 students from the University of Florida do the "gator chomp" at Sunset Point Arizona during the 2025 field course.

The application window for GeoSPACE 2026 is now open! Join us online or in-person in Arizona for a two-week planetary geology field camp through @ufgeology.bsky.social. Open to geo-gators as well as visitors from other schools. If you are looking for an accessible field camp, check us out! ⚒️

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Applications are now open for EGU’s #Artist in #Residence programme!

📅 Apply by 27 October 2025.
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New paper alert!

Oliveira et al. just published in AGC:

"A petrological, geochemical, and geochronological study of Ramlat Fasad 532: An Omani addition to the Antarctic `YAMM' lunar meteorite group"

Here you can read the full free article: doi.org/10.33063/agc...

Summary of what the PhD student will do. QR code in bottom LHS. Project part of our Leverhulme Trust funded project volcanic histories and the student will examine the cultural markers and response to to volcanic activity across the Eastern Caribbean. Understand local ways of knowing and remembering volcanic activity. Integrate scientific. And community knowledge for DRR - joining an interdisciplinary team from several universities.

We’re advertising a PhD studentship for folks with good knowledge of Caribbean culture and society, with background in geography, human geography, humanities or interdisciplinary geosciences as part of our @leverhulme.ac.uk funded ‘volcanic histories’ project

For a girl who likes “un-erupted” volcanoes more, I am looking forward to my new read!

Welcome to welcome week and the UEA! We're so excited for the year ahead in Environmental Sciences 💚🌳♻️

We are advertising for a 3-year "Senior Research Associate in Volcanic Petrology and Stratigraphy". Part of a Leverhulme-funded interdisciplinary research grant "Volcanic Histories", focused on research in the Eastern Caribbean.

Closing: October 15th
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

Wooden case for 25 slides | for 25 thin sections 28x48 mm | SM15 Sturdy, clear lacquered box made of poplar wood with precise interior division.Slide rack numbered consecutively.Suitable for slides sized 28 x 48 mmOutside dimensions: 133 x 78 x 37 mmColors in produ...

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finally found the right boxes where thin sections fit perfectly! a bit ££ but worth every penny 💙

In her State of the Union, Ursula von der Leyen chose silence on the alarming situation in Serbia. A silence that looks less like prudence and more like embarrassment—because her party family, the EPP, still counts Vučić’s SNS among its members. Is it complicity, indifference, or fear of discomfort?

👏👏👏 👏👏

Applying for a PhD in Geoscience: To do or not to do Fresh out of your bachelor’s degree, or more commonly these days, your master’s degree, it can be tempting to pursue your PhD as quickly as possible. While there are compelling reasons to dive straigh...

Thinking about applying for a PhD? In this week’s post, Conor Farrell shares practical tips to help you make informed decisions about going for a PhD and strengthen your application.

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#egugeodynamics #PhD

It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.

BSE image of the Belingwe komatiite sample

Beautiful olivines and dendritic pyroxenes from the Belingwe komatiites. Pyroxenes nucleating on olivine crystals 🧪⚒️ 🤩

cross-polarised light - width (~2 cm)

A break from making - looking at the #ThinSectionThursday posts. Here is one of my favourites - a lovely 1.8G old Kunene anorthosite, Angola. 🧪⚒️.

Amidst all terrible news, I am sad that here it is not better. Today the VU Amsterdam announced they'll cut Earth Sciences, and fire 39 staff. 130 students are left to figure out how to finish, and an unknown number of PhDs lose their supervisors. My heart goes out to my colleagues 😳😥

Higher education cuts to hit VU University's earth sciences department; 37 jobs at risk The VU University Amsterdam is translating the government’s budget cuts and its other financial challenges into a reorganization of its Earth Sciences Department. That puts 37 employees at risk of dis...

VU University Amsterdam is going to be closing their Earth Sciences bachelor's program and some of the relevant research (some will go to Utrecht University or other departments) as the university shifts more towards "climate and earth". ⚒️

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I was taught by the best people in their fields, including isotope geochemistry, geochronology, and tectonics. I will never forget the field trips to the Alps and Cyprus and our amazing expedition to Western Australia to hunt for 3Gy old stromatolites. 🪨🖤

A very sad day for the Dutch Earth Science community… They've closed the entire Earth Sciences Department at @vuamsterdam.bsky.social. In this day and age, I can't understand how this fits into any Net-Zero strategy. I'll never forget my time at VU as a Master's student.

Students from Serbia have just announced that they are going to cycle to Strasbourg. This is their route.

Students from #Serbia (yes, those protesting for months now) just announced that they are going to cycle from Novi Sad to—Strasbourg.

Why? To personally deliver news to European institutions of certain important developments in Serbia, since they have been sort of ignoring them.

Here's the route 👇