Tom Harvey

Chloe Kelly’s goal celebration face is the exact look my sister used to give me behind our mum’s back when I was being told off

A simple invitation to an online event, the text reads "This is Geoscience" Date: 2 Septemner 2025 from 18:00, Location: The Geological Society & online, free to attend, all welcome. The text is white on a bright blue background. On the right of the text is an image of a person in cold weather gear using a shovel to break ice/snow beneath them.

On 2 September we're launching our This is Geoscience campaign to reframe public understanding of #geoscience and inspire the next generation of geoscientists ⚒️ 🧪

Join us to be amongst the first to see the report and campaign, and help share them far & wide. Free & open to all tinyurl.com/3r99dzw5

Catch our #EGU25 poster this afternoon! We’ll discuss widening meeting access, open data sharing, and supporting interdisciplinary communities via the @geolsoc.bsky.social GeoFutures conference series.

Find us at X2.51 (14:00 - 15:45) in Session EOS4.6 to share your thoughts and grab a badge!

A poster board at a conference with two GSL posters on display, one on plate tectonics and another on the carbon cycle

Two women looking at a poster on display

Poster session time at #EGU25 & our incredible Education team from @geolsoc.bsky.social are presenting on our educational resources - go say hello to Sarah at X2.81 before 18.00 today to find out more!

A graphic image with white text that reads "Join GEON" as a title An online hub for geoscience education and outreach, show us you joined at EGU and claim a free GeolSoc badge at our booth, #59. The web address reads www.geolsoc.org.uk/geon. The EGU logo sits on the left side, and a community cartoon sits in the middle.

Have you joined the free, global #Geoscience #Education & #Outreach Network, GEON, from @geolsoc.bsky.social yet? Share questions, jobs, opportunities & more!

If you join & show us at the GeolSoc booth at #EGU25 this week, you can claim your free GeolSoc badge! To join: discord.gg/nRzDNWfp 🧪 ⚒️ 🔭

Earth Science Week 2024 - GEOSCIENTIST Earth Science Week promotes responsible stewardship of Earth through events and opportunities to discover Earth sciences, involving community groups, educators, and citizens. Each October, the Geologi...

News | Earth Science Week 2024

To celebrate our 14th year of involvement in Earth Science Week, the Society hosted, sponsored, and promoted over 60 in-person events throughout the UK:

geoscientist.online/sections/new...

#EarthScience #outreach

Missions, meteorites, and moons - GEOSCIENTIST Planetary geoscience is a vast and growing field, with research that spans from the core to atmosphere of different planetary bodies and through billions of years of history. Rapid advances in technol...

Unearthed | Missions, meteorites, and moons

Marissa Lo, @tharvs.bsky.social, and Ana Pagu report on research across our Solar System, pioneering missions, and the importance of sustained collaboration and community:

geoscientist.online/sections/une...

#Geology #PlanetaryScience

Missions, meteorites, and moons - GEOSCIENTIST Planetary geoscience is a vast and growing field, with research that spans from the core to atmosphere of different planetary bodies and through billions of years of history. Rapid advances in technol...

Read Marissa's, Ana's and my ponderings on the @geolsoc.bsky.social GeoFutures: Planetary Geoscience conference in November. Lovely to see the community come together and a fantastic opportunity to hear about some really cool space and mission science! 🚀 🌌 🛰️ ☄️

geoscientist.online/sections/une...

Graphic promoting the RAS Specialist Discussion Meetings for March, with the depiction of an extreme stellar explosion as the background and an inset image of a scientific research boat carrying out exploration work.

Are you interested in coming along to one of our Specialist Discussion Meetings? 🗣️

Next month we've got one exploring extreme stellar populations and the other on ocean bottom geophysics. ✨ 🌊

Find out more at: https://buff.ly/4hmNPsn

JOIN THE GEOSCIENTIST TEAM!

We’re seeking a motivated and detail-oriented Assistant Editor with a passion for Earth science!

Deadline: 6 March 2025.

Full details on the role and how to apply here: www.geolsoc.org.uk/bhrecruitment

“That is why I am speaking to the whole family of humankind, minorities and women alike. If you qualify and would like to be an astronaut, now is the time. This is your NASA—a space agency embarked on a mission to improve the quality of life on planet Earth right now.”

plus.nasa.gov/video/nichel...

Too much of the USA’s decline is being framed in terms of “look at our empire being torn apart by clowns” - that’s exactly the problem: this decline is the logical outcome of when that same will to dominate is turned inwards. (I know that’s an obvious point, I’m just seeing this framing everywhere.)

A white page with a blue banner reading "Connect with us". The page features logos for other popular social media sites and handles for the Geological Society; Facebook - The Geological Society; Instagram - @GeolSoc; LinkedIn - The Geological Society; Web & Newsletter - geolsoc.org.uk; YouTube - @TheGeologicalSociety

We are The Geological Society & this is our official account on BlueSky!

Whilst we work out how to best resource this, you can still keep up to date with our activity across other remaining channels, or sign up to receive direct email communications from us here: geolsoc.org.uk/newslettersi...

Geology and Building Stones in the City of London - London Walks Thinking about going on the guided Geology and Building Stones in the City of London tour? Have a little read about the sights, hidden spots, your guide and meeting point beforehand!

Next month, I’ll be starting my year’s programme of #urbangeology walks introducing the building stones of London with London Walks. The first date is 8 Feb. Cost, details and reservations at this link www.walks.com/our-walks/ge...

This is so sad

A book cover, featuring the text "Palaeontology in Public: Popular Science, Lost Creatures and Deep Time. Edited by Chris Manias." The cover image depicts a large long-necked Sauropod dinosaur, modelled after the famous animation "Gertie the Dinosaur" in a park, with a city skyline in the background. A range of humans are standing around Gertie, pointing at and admiring her. There is also a man in a ringmaster outfit standing on Gertie's shoulder.

"Palaeontology in Public: Popular Science, Lost Creatures and Deep Time" is out today, and is freely downloadable as an open access pdf, published by @uclpress.bsky.social !

uclpress.co.uk/book/palaeon...

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10 less common garden birds for the Big Garden Birdwatch. Coal Tit: Black cap, white cheeks. Wren: Brown, upright tail. Nuthatch: Blue-grey back, orange underside. Dunnock: Brown, grey tones. Song Thrush: Brown, speckled chest. Great Spotted Woodpecker: Black, white, red. Rock Dove: Grey, iridescent neck. Collared Dove: Pale beige, black collar. Chaffinch: Male pinkish, female brown.

These 10 not-so-common birds might not visit every garden, but they’re worth keeping an eye out for this #BigGardenBirdwatch! 🐦👀

Have you seen any of these visitors on your patch before?

Sign up for the birdiest, countiest event of the year: www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happen...

INACCESSIBLE ANCIENT SITES — Stone Club 28% of England’s ancient monuments have no legal public right of access Over 5,500 sites recorded by Historic England are beyond reach of the public, according to new analysis undertaken by the camp...

28% of England’s ancient monuments have no legal public right of access

Over 5,500 sites recorded by Historic England are beyond reach of the public, according to new analysis undertaken by the campaign group Right to Roam.
stoneclub.rocks/right-to-roam

The MetBase database has been merged into Astromat MetBase has been the world's largest database for meteorite compositions, but has now passed this torch on to the Astromaterials Data System (Astromat), into which MetBase has recently been merged. T...

Wow. Hezel et al.: MetBase has been migrated into Astromat (search.astromat.org). Millions of data points on chemical and isotopic compositions of meteorites are now available! Epic! 🔭🧪☄️🪐 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

‘It absolutely took off’: five UK biodiversity success stories From new butterfly habitats in the Cotswolds to arctic willow planting in the Scottish Highlands, there are increasing numbers of places where humans are giving nature a helping hand to re-establish i...

A good news story to start your week. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Why birdsong matters more than you think | Natalia Zielonka and Simon Butler Our natural soundscapes are falling silent as bird populations decline. To improve our lives, we must invest in conservation

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Another day, another door! 🎁

Supervising the tree decorating... who will be today's advent surprise?

#RSPBAdvent

I would prefer it if right-wing populism could cease being on the rise

The Petrology and Geochemistry of the 2021 Fagradalsfjall Eruption, Iceland: An Eruption Sourced From Multiple, Compositionally Diverse, Near‐Moho Sills We use high frequency sampling to observe rapid changes in lava composition during the 183 day 2021 Fagradalsfjall eruption The eruption was sourced from 12 to 15 km depth, corresponding to the l...

My big paper on the 2021 Fagradalsfjall eruption is finally out! If you want to understand the recent eruptions on the Reykjanes Peninsula better, look no further: doi.org/10.1029/2024...
Let’s dive in to what we found: 🧵
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An article describing orcas wearing dead salmon as hatd

We're so back

A little sad to have wiped a 12 year old timeline of posts and positive interactions, so choosing to commemoratively carry over my favourite ☺️

Curation and classification procedures for the UK Antarctic meteorite collection The field of advanced curation is important for existing astromaterials collections, which includes samples returned by space missions, and meteorites and cosmic dust samples that have been recovered...

Haven’t seen posted here - so excited to see Jane’s paper about curating and classifying samples from the Lost Meteorites of Antarctica Project (ft. some photogrammetry 👀) published! Details about several very interesting meteorites inside 🤓 #PlanetaryScience

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Welsh government urged to safeguard Celtic rainforests Conservation groups’ report warns remaining temperate rainforest sites and ‘vital habitats’ are in poor condition

"The newly created Alliance for Wales’ Rainforests (AWR) says only about one in five of the 68 temperate rainforest sites it has surveyed are in good condition"

New report urges Welsh Govt to safeguard Cymru's rainforests:

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...

Nothing says legitimate organic Right Wing uprising in the UK like a meaningless petition that gets retweeted by a foreign billionaire with 200 million followers on the platform he controls.

But wait til you hear where the signatures are coming from!

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I am pictured holding a salad bowl containing several sliced figs. Each fig is labelled Fig. 1, 2, 3 and so on, as figures in paper drafts.

Revisiting a paper draft and reminded of this banger of a lockdown-brain meme when working on an early thesis draft