Dr James Hickey 🌋🇪🇺

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

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

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Yaassss! 🦁 🦁 🦁 🥲

Sarina clearly lives for the drama…!

NERC policy on resubmissions This policy only applies to research grant applications.

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: 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.

She was IMMENSE last night!

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.

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

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.

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!).

🤣 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" 🙌🏼👏🏻!

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

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 🌋.

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.

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Around 27% of volcanologists are based within 100 km of a Holocene volcano, compared to 14% of the world population. More than 85% of volcanologists are within 1000 km of a Holocene volcano, but 48% need to travel over 1000 km to visit a volcano that erupted in the past 50 years! @iavcei.bsky.social

🚨 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!

What a week at #IAVCEI2025, and what a bunch of closing ceremony-after party survivors 🕺💃🏼🪩 @iavcei.bsky.social

We are thrilled to announce that the next IAVCEI Scientific Assembly will be held in Costa Rica! 🇨🇷

A heartfelt thank you to everyone who joined us in #IAVCEI2025 in Switzerland. We look forward to seeing you all again in #IAVCEI2029.

Welcome to Costa Rica!

If you’re interested in hydrothermal sealing and explosions, check out my #IAVCEI25 @iavcei.bsky.social poster today! Number 29! 🌋

Useful 👇🏼 #IAVCEI2025

Can you turn the heating down? 🤣

Touched down in Geneva town for #IAVCEI2025 🌋 🥵

We are looking for a new researcher @UoBEarthSciences ! (36 months funded) if you like 🌋, are good at analysing. 🪨 and enjoy working in large collaborations. Then come and join us! This post is an important part of a new UK NERC funded Large Grant..

www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

Then and now: a post-workshop survey It's been a little over two years since the inaugural "Lessons-Learned Community-Driven Workshop to Define Best Practices for Unoccupied Aerial Systems (UAS) use in Volcanology" at IAVCEI 2023. Techno...

We're looking for volcano researchers who use drones to fill out a short(ish) survey on typical field practices and use of UAS. We'll present some preliminary results at IAVCEI in Geneva @iavcei.bsky.social next month.

Survey here: forms.gle/TWLt2qq1XLZz...

Thank you!!!

🌋Hot news: Workshop Call 👉 FlankEd: Drilling the Deforming Eastern Flank of Mount Etna

WHEN 📆 24-27 September 2025 (Catania, Italy)

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Application until 31 July 2025

Crystal mush processes and crustal magmatism Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, Published online: 03 June 2025; doi:10.1038/s43017-025-00682-xCrystal mush processes are key to magmatic differentiation, volcanic system behaviour and some mineral resources. This Review discusses the processes involved in mush formation, rejuvenation and eruption, and how tectonics and crustal thermal maturity impacts these processes.

New online! Crystal mush processes and crustal magmatism

Finally, for anyone considering it: the publication process at Natural Hazards and Earth System Science was the worst I've ever experienced, with problems at almost every stage. This paper was submitted in January 2024; it's now May 2025. I sadly can't recommend the journal to anyone at this time.

Maybe there's hope in the future though, should things at X change again. We've also looked into using Facebook and that shows good potential too, so I guess all is not lost 🤓😎. More on that soon, hopefully.

Thanks to USGS for their collaboration 😀 🌋.

We also did a bunch more other analyses. I used to be super hyped for this work, and thought it could be a really neat way to track responses to volcanic eruptions, but since Twitter changed ownership, that data have become very difficult (💰💰💰) to access and users have declined...