Mel Rodgers

Thanks! Didn't know I needed that break from doomscrolling...

Two tissue box covers in the shape of Tahoma Volcano. The one on the right is beautiful stripey reds, yellows, blues and greens (InSAR), and the one on the left is a shiny blue green.

Lab is tissued up and ready for the fall semester!
These are so beautiful!! Love them :)

@phaneritic.bsky.social

Mara has always been terrified of dogs. Apart from Lothar. She loves him. When we asked her why she's OK with him she said "But he's ok, he's a bear".... Bye bye big bear :( We love you. Hugs hugs hugs to you all.

Nooooooooooo..... I don't have words. I'm so so sorry. Poor baby :( And poor humans. Oh Lothar, you touched so many.

wow! Bummer for the delays, but that's an awesome picture - hey, you could make tissue box covers of those ;)

Apparently so...

Having just survived #IAVCEI2025 in Geneva with 35degs, in a literal greenhouse, in a building that was fitted with aircon, but they "weren't allowed" to turn it on. Yes. THIS.

Landscape photo of a big lake, with mountains on the other side of the lake, and fancy building on the near shore

You know you've ruined* your kids when you're on holiday and your 5yr old says "Mamma, is that a volcano...?" :) #notavolcano

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What are the challenges #LGBTQIA+ #scientists face during #fieldwork?

The latest #GeoLog article highlights these issues and offers ways to make fieldwork safer and more #inclusive.

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Would be great to meet up! I'm also hoping to schedule a UAS In Volc get-together if enough folks are interested.

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!!!

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We're hiring: Structural Geology and Geocomputation Visiting Professor. It's a 1-year position with the possibility of renewal.
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Hello!! You got this mamma! I'm so happy to find you on this side of the BlueSky. And congratulations on the little one. Life changes in ways you never expect when you see the world through their eyes.
I'm still volcano wrangling and messing with drones :)

And this is why geodesy matters. Want to know where your aircraft is the next time you fly? Guess what. Position information is important...

OMG! You are officially my hero now!

Dammit! You only posted this 2hrs ago and I'm already too late :)
(But good for you - they are awesome!)

Always 💖

Don't make me tap the sign

"specialist in bathroom decor." oh yes!

A word of caution: it might feel like that grant/paper/review cannot possibly wait over the Christmas period, but you can't get time with friends and family back. You likely won't be like "really wish I'd submitted that" in 5 years time but you might regret not spending time with those you love.

Yup! Forget geoscience, Etsy has decided you are a specialist in bathroom decor now :) Hahaha!

"Phaneritic is a star seller. Specializes in bathroom decor".
Yessssssss..... finally nabbed one of these beauties :)

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The artwork Torus of Time stands in our historic main court, flanked by statues of pioneers of science, carved pillars, and fossils. The artwork is a stone ring, about a meter radius, made of 17 different types of stone arranged in chronological order, all smoothed together to form one continuous loop on a slab of Devonian Ballymagreehan Granodiorite.

Congratulations to Angela Palmer for winning the Art in Stone award from the Stone Federation for her works Torus of Time and Tower of Time.

Torus of Time, which represents 3 billion years of geological history made of stones collected by Angela from across the UK, is now on display at the Museum

Seismologists xkcd.com/3021

sign me up!!!

Oh, are those tissue boxes still for sale? I cried when I missed that boat...

Yes! Exactly this! Thanks @seismatters.bsky.social for putting it into words. It's seen as a fun 'extra' thing to do in your spare time, or a half arsed 'broader impacts' on a grant, but the attitude of not spending time on it or it'll detract you from 'real work' needs to change. IT IS IMPORTANT!

So what are we calling Tweeps now? Is is Bleeps? Skeeps? Skyples? Someone gotta make a dictionary for us newcomers...

This morning’s view of the new eruption in Iceland. Stunning 🤩

Link to livestream below 👇

#Iceland #IcelandVolcano

I make sure that book sits next to our big lab table. Don't know how many students have read it, but it gets moved often... Hope that even reading the title helps normalise that mental health is important. Thank you for this book!