Ian G. Stimpson

Earth's heat to produce electricity for homes in UK clean energy first Water super-heated by rocks will also provide the UK's first domestic supply of the critical mineral lithium.

Great news from #Cornwall, where #geothermal energy and lithium are now being generated from deep, hot granite. ⚒️

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A variety of letter stencils. What we used to use before computers for labelling diagrams.

I still have my stencils. Yes, kids, this is what we used to use to label diagrams before computers.

Used to use a combination of these and Letraset dry transfer lettering.

Line drawing of a rock thin section about 5mm across of a graphitic schist with crystals of garnet, chlorite, staurolite, kyanite and quartz in a folded biotite matrix

If we are sharing old hand-drawn thin sections…
From my undergraduate mapping report, Lukmanierpass, Switzerland, a thin section line drawing of a graphitic schist.
Includes the lost art of lettering using stencils.

A red cap with ‘Make America Great Britain Again‘ embroidered on it.

Enough’s enough. Time to revoke their independence.

In the UK, near-surface geophysics comes under the purview of the Geological Society of London where as solid-earth geophysics comes under the Royal Astronomical Society. Costs me a bloody fortune in fellowship fees every year being a fellow of both.

Depends on background I think. My degree was geology but doctorate in geophysics. My PhD advisor was from a physics background. He wouldn’t consider himself a geologist but I do consider myself one.

I’ve switched from Duo Lingo to Babbel. I much prefer it, but I‘m more intermediate level than once-fluent.

Agreed. Newcastle-under-Lyme is the largest UK town without a railway station.

It was blue bin day here yesterday. Pity nobody thought to tell the dustbin men.

Autistic voices are an overlooked minority in geosciences Nature Geoscience - Autism remains an under-recognized and under-represented aspect of inclusivity conversations in geosciences. We highlight an urgent need for support and recognition of autistic...

#Autistic people in #geoscience, #highereducation, and beyond, are asking you to understand who they are, rather than what they are. If you would be willing to listen, please consider taking 15 minutes of your time to read this short article:

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#autism #inclusion #neurodiversity

“I say, it is becoming increasingly difficult to justify siphoning off the bulk of our research funding to our chums at Oxbridge, IC and UCL”
“Try giving ChatGPT a go”
"reward institutions for specialisation by making them a “partner of choice” in specific areas of research’”
“Trebles all round!”

Earthquake diagrams. Map of wavepath from source to receiver, seismogram of vertical component of ground motion velocity and spectrogram showing frequency content against time.

P-waves from today’s (14:15:11 UTC 2025/12/08) M7.6 Near east coast of Honshu, Japan earthquake recorded on my @raspishake.bsky.social seismometer in Newcastle-under-Lyme, England. ⚒️🧪

I’m wondering if the official location / origin time is a bit off for this event. All the UK records that I have seen have the P and S predicted times about 4-5 seconds ahead of the actual arrivals.

P- and S-waves from yesterday’s (23:23:32 UTC 2025/12/03) M3.4 earthquake 3km depth beneath Silverdale Lancashire, UK recorded on my @raspishake.bsky.social in Newcastle-under-Lyme, England (about 130km southsoutheast of the event) ⚒️🧪

That’s a nice ring ditch you have there, it would be a shame if someone dug a powerline to a mobile phone mast through it. ⚒️🧪

I was finishing my PhD on earthquake source mechanics when the Hasegawa and Kanamori paper came out. I quite liked the idea at the time that it was a single-couple event caused by the landslide.

Person pushing a radar kart across a green field.

So good to be outdoors supervising a GPR survey today, but why do I always get asked to do this stuff in winter rather than summer?

Historic landscape with spectacular views across the region. No wonder our forebears venerated this place.

Duo lingo 2500 day streak

Enough is enough.
That’s your lot, you emerald strigiform nemesis.
Adiós para siempre, búho.

A lecture on geohazards in the Peak District by Vanessa Banks of the BGS last week attributed it to the volcanic ash layers between the limestones.

Can understand Bowland Shales and Coal Measure marine bands, but the Limestone Peak is unusual I think.

I note that the university cut-backs haven’t yet extended as far as leaf-blowers 🍃 🍂

Earthquake diagrams. Map of wavepath from source to receiver, seismogram of vertical component of ground motion velocity and spectrogram showing frequency content against time.

P-waves from today’s (20:29:59 UTC 2025/11/02) M6.3 Hindu Kush Region, Afghanistan earthquake recorded on my @raspishake.bsky.social seismometer in Newcastle-under-Lyme, England. ⚒️🧪

Earthquake diagrams. Map of wavepath from source to receiver, seismogram of vertical component of ground motion velocity and spectrogram showing frequency content against time.

P-waves from today’s (19:48:29 UTC 2025/10/27) M6.0 Türkiye earthquakes recorded on my @raspishake.bsky.social seismometer in Newcastle-under-Lyme, England. ⚒️🧪

Earthquake diagrams. Map of wavepath from source to receiver, seismogram of vertical component of ground motion velocity and spectrogram showing frequency content against time.

Earthquake diagrams. Map of wavepath from source to receiver, seismogram of vertical component of ground motion velocity and spectrogram showing frequency content against time.

P-waves from today’s (12:38:40 and 12:54:59 UTC 2025/10/27) M6.5 and M6.0 Leeward Islands earthquakes recorded on my @raspishake.bsky.social seismometer in Newcastle-under-Lyme, England. ⚒️🧪

Louvre Thieves Given Immunity After Confirming Jewels Stolen For Purpose Of Training AI Software FRENCH POLICE have immediately ended all efforts to recover priceless Napoleon-era jewellery from the Louvre taken in a daring heist after it emerged the jewels were merely stolen for the purposes of ...

“When we realised these jewels were only stolen to inflate the share price of a company whose entire value relies on the wholesale theft of other people’s art, we had no choice but grant immunity,”

Genius from @waterfordwhispers.bsky.social

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The time to protect British science from the trashing that US science is currently succumbing to from an ultra-right-wing government is now.

S-tier trolling by the Norwegians, there. Lol

Cover of book Charles Darwin, Geologist by Sandra Herbert

My suggestion is Charles Darwin, Geologist by Sandra Herbert.

Also, for history of science rather than just geology, The Lunar Men by Jenny Uglow (18th C Birmingham, UK Lunar Society - rather than NASA)

Import the .lyr files rather than the .shp ones to your GIS project?

Luton

The GA 2025 Annual Conference at Keele University is finally over after a weekend full of interesting and varied talks, displays and field trips.

Thank you to NSGGA - North Staffs Group of the Geologists' Association and everyone involved in organising and delivering such a packed programme!