Dr James Hickey 🌋🇪🇺
@jameshickey77.bsky.social
Volcanologist 🌋 | Geophysicist | Associate Professor @ Uni of Exeter, Dept Earth & Environmental Sciences | SciComm & Outreach | 🏃🏼♂️🏑🚴🏼♂️🧘🏼♂️🤸🏄🏼♂️⛷🧗🏼♂️
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Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
🚨 new paper and proud supervisor moment 🚨
A former 4th year undergraduate research project student has published her work: www.jvolcanica.org/ojs/index.ph...
Social sensing the 2018 Kīlauea Volcanic eruption through community Facebook use
#volcanology #risk #hazards 🧪⚒️🌋
A former 4th year undergraduate research project student has published her work: www.jvolcanica.org/ojs/index.ph...
Social sensing the 2018 Kīlauea Volcanic eruption through community Facebook use
#volcanology #risk #hazards 🧪⚒️🌋
Social sensing the 2018 Kīlauea Volcanic eruption through community Facebook use
| Volcanica
www.jvolcanica.org
November 5, 2025 at 9:56 AM
🚨 new paper and proud supervisor moment 🚨
A former 4th year undergraduate research project student has published her work: www.jvolcanica.org/ojs/index.ph...
Social sensing the 2018 Kīlauea Volcanic eruption through community Facebook use
#volcanology #risk #hazards 🧪⚒️🌋
A former 4th year undergraduate research project student has published her work: www.jvolcanica.org/ojs/index.ph...
Social sensing the 2018 Kīlauea Volcanic eruption through community Facebook use
#volcanology #risk #hazards 🧪⚒️🌋
🚨 New Paper Day 🚨
Benchmarking and testing poroelastic dynamic magma mush volcano deformation models - one for all the magma mush or volcano deformation enthusiasts out there 🌋⚒️🧪
Thread 🧵 below ⬇️
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#volcano #geophysics #modelling #volcanology #magma
Benchmarking and testing poroelastic dynamic magma mush volcano deformation models - one for all the magma mush or volcano deformation enthusiasts out there 🌋⚒️🧪
Thread 🧵 below ⬇️
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#volcano #geophysics #modelling #volcanology #magma
Benchmarking and testing poroelastic dynamic magma mush volcano deformation models
Volcano deformation studies provide crucial insights into magmatic processes, offering a key perspective on the dynamics of magma reservoirs and their…
www.sciencedirect.com
October 17, 2025 at 3:05 PM
🚨 New Paper Day 🚨
Benchmarking and testing poroelastic dynamic magma mush volcano deformation models - one for all the magma mush or volcano deformation enthusiasts out there 🌋⚒️🧪
Thread 🧵 below ⬇️
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#volcano #geophysics #modelling #volcanology #magma
Benchmarking and testing poroelastic dynamic magma mush volcano deformation models - one for all the magma mush or volcano deformation enthusiasts out there 🌋⚒️🧪
Thread 🧵 below ⬇️
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#volcano #geophysics #modelling #volcanology #magma
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Looking for your next professional adventure? Here's your opportunity! ✨
Apply for this Associate Professor position in Sustainable Earth Energy before the 31st Oct. 2025 and join the Durham University Department of Earth Sciences!
Find out more👉 durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
#DUJobs #Hiring
Apply for this Associate Professor position in Sustainable Earth Energy before the 31st Oct. 2025 and join the Durham University Department of Earth Sciences!
Find out more👉 durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
#DUJobs #Hiring
Associate Professor in Sustainable Earth Energy
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
durham.taleo.net
October 14, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Looking for your next professional adventure? Here's your opportunity! ✨
Apply for this Associate Professor position in Sustainable Earth Energy before the 31st Oct. 2025 and join the Durham University Department of Earth Sciences!
Find out more👉 durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
#DUJobs #Hiring
Apply for this Associate Professor position in Sustainable Earth Energy before the 31st Oct. 2025 and join the Durham University Department of Earth Sciences!
Find out more👉 durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
#DUJobs #Hiring
100% this.
Also, when papers spend weeks (or more) waiting for someone to tick a box to move it to the next stage of the process, and then they demand comments on proofs within 3 days and with no regard for a weekend…!
Also, when papers spend weeks (or more) waiting for someone to tick a box to move it to the next stage of the process, and then they demand comments on proofs within 3 days and with no regard for a weekend…!
If journals want me to give a shit about their time to publication metric, they can pay my ass to edit/review and offer an incentive to publish with them. People who get my effort for free don’t get to make demands on timeliness.
October 3, 2025 at 2:28 PM
100% this.
Also, when papers spend weeks (or more) waiting for someone to tick a box to move it to the next stage of the process, and then they demand comments on proofs within 3 days and with no regard for a weekend…!
Also, when papers spend weeks (or more) waiting for someone to tick a box to move it to the next stage of the process, and then they demand comments on proofs within 3 days and with no regard for a weekend…!
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I'm hiring a new post-doc to work on the @rottnrock.bsky.social project! Come help us understand hydrothermal alteration and volcanic hazards!
Advert here:
www.unistra.fr/universite/t...
📸 Recent ROTTnROCK trip to Mombacho, Nicaragua 🌋
Advert here:
www.unistra.fr/universite/t...
📸 Recent ROTTnROCK trip to Mombacho, Nicaragua 🌋
September 29, 2025 at 7:02 PM
I'm hiring a new post-doc to work on the @rottnrock.bsky.social project! Come help us understand hydrothermal alteration and volcanic hazards!
Advert here:
www.unistra.fr/universite/t...
📸 Recent ROTTnROCK trip to Mombacho, Nicaragua 🌋
Advert here:
www.unistra.fr/universite/t...
📸 Recent ROTTnROCK trip to Mombacho, Nicaragua 🌋
Super interesting stuff! Check. It. Out!
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Once upon a time, the platform formerly known as Twitter was a vibrant meeting-place where scientists, the public, official orgs and more besides could exchange knowledge. I set out to find out how effective it could be for disseminating geoscience info
Skip to the paper ☛ doi.org/10.1038/s432...
Skip to the paper ☛ doi.org/10.1038/s432...
September 30, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Super interesting stuff! Check. It. Out!
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New paper! The last of Eloïse Bretagne's PhD papers is out! Here we generalize our models for permeability to magma mush at any melt fraction. Take a look if you want to model percolative flow of melt through a magma mush and if you want to account for crystal shape.
OA: dx.doi.org/10.1029/2025...
OA: dx.doi.org/10.1029/2025...
September 24, 2025 at 7:12 PM
New paper! The last of Eloïse Bretagne's PhD papers is out! Here we generalize our models for permeability to magma mush at any melt fraction. Take a look if you want to model percolative flow of melt through a magma mush and if you want to account for crystal shape.
OA: dx.doi.org/10.1029/2025...
OA: dx.doi.org/10.1029/2025...
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⚒️ 🧪 Another big addition to the remarkable M8.8 earthquake sequence offshore Kamchatka: a M7.8 - the biggest aftershock so far.
With foreshocks, aftershocks, aftershocks of foreshocks, and foreshocks of aftershocks, it's hard to keep these earthquakes straight! Read more about what's going on:
With foreshocks, aftershocks, aftershocks of foreshocks, and foreshocks of aftershocks, it's hard to keep these earthquakes straight! Read more about what's going on:
M 7.8 strikes offshore Kamchatka
Another big addition to a remarkable earthquake sequence
earthquakeinsights.substack.com
September 19, 2025 at 2:20 AM
⚒️ 🧪 Another big addition to the remarkable M8.8 earthquake sequence offshore Kamchatka: a M7.8 - the biggest aftershock so far.
With foreshocks, aftershocks, aftershocks of foreshocks, and foreshocks of aftershocks, it's hard to keep these earthquakes straight! Read more about what's going on:
With foreshocks, aftershocks, aftershocks of foreshocks, and foreshocks of aftershocks, it's hard to keep these earthquakes straight! Read more about what's going on:
AI iS gOiNG tO TaKE oVeR tHE W0rLd...
August 7, 2025 at 2:50 PM
AI iS gOiNG tO TaKE oVeR tHE W0rLd...
This one will have to go front facing on the bookshelf! 😍 🌋
It's about time I announced a project that I've been working on in the last year... I wrote a book!
'Volcanoes: 10 things you should know' published by @orionbooks.bsky.social Seven Dials will be out in September. It's available to pre-order now. Links: linktr.ee/volcanologist
'Volcanoes: 10 things you should know' published by @orionbooks.bsky.social Seven Dials will be out in September. It's available to pre-order now. Links: linktr.ee/volcanologist
August 2, 2025 at 10:42 AM
This one will have to go front facing on the bookshelf! 😍 🌋
Yaassss! 🦁 🦁 🦁 🥲
a sign that says it 's coming home with a flag in the background
ALT: a sign that says it 's coming home with a flag in the background
media.tenor.com
July 27, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Yaassss! 🦁 🦁 🦁 🥲
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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...
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 policy on resubmissions
This policy only applies to research grant applications.
www.ukri.org
July 17, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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...
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...
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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.
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.
July 18, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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.
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.
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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
doi.org/10.1016/j.jv...
Featuring: @jameshickey77.bsky.social and others not on BlueSky! 6/6
July 9, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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
doi.org/10.1016/j.jv...
Featuring: @jameshickey77.bsky.social and others not on BlueSky! 6/6
Reposted by Dr James Hickey 🌋🇪🇺
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.
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.
🚨 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 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!
July 7, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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.
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.
🚨 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 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!
July 7, 2025 at 10:04 AM
🚨 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 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
July 5, 2025 at 9:04 AM
What a week at #IAVCEI2025, and what a bunch of closing ceremony-after party survivors 🕺💃🏼🪩 @iavcei.bsky.social
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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!
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!
July 4, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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!
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!
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If you’re interested in hydrothermal sealing and explosions, check out my #IAVCEI25 @iavcei.bsky.social poster today! Number 29! 🌋
July 3, 2025 at 8:00 AM
If you’re interested in hydrothermal sealing and explosions, check out my #IAVCEI25 @iavcei.bsky.social poster today! Number 29! 🌋
Useful 👇🏼 #IAVCEI2025
@iavcei.bsky.social made a spreadsheet of tomorrows talks #iavcei2025 - docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
IAVCEI2025schedule
docs.google.com
June 30, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Useful 👇🏼 #IAVCEI2025
Touched down in Geneva town for #IAVCEI2025 🌋 🥵
June 29, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Touched down in Geneva town for #IAVCEI2025 🌋 🥵
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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...
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
Details | Working at Bristol | University of Bristol
www.bristol.ac.uk
June 19, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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...
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
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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!!!
Survey here: forms.gle/TWLt2qq1XLZz...
Thank you!!!
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...
forms.gle
June 11, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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!!!
Survey here: forms.gle/TWLt2qq1XLZz...
Thank you!!!
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🌋Hot news: Workshop Call 👉 FlankEd: Drilling the Deforming Eastern Flank of Mount Etna
WHEN 📆 24-27 September 2025 (Catania, Italy)
CALL ▶️ tinyurl.com/4fhhhj6m
MORE INFO ℹ️ www.icdp-online.org/projects/by-...
Application until 31 July 2025
WHEN 📆 24-27 September 2025 (Catania, Italy)
CALL ▶️ tinyurl.com/4fhhhj6m
MORE INFO ℹ️ www.icdp-online.org/projects/by-...
Application until 31 July 2025
June 11, 2025 at 11:35 AM
🌋Hot news: Workshop Call 👉 FlankEd: Drilling the Deforming Eastern Flank of Mount Etna
WHEN 📆 24-27 September 2025 (Catania, Italy)
CALL ▶️ tinyurl.com/4fhhhj6m
MORE INFO ℹ️ www.icdp-online.org/projects/by-...
Application until 31 July 2025
WHEN 📆 24-27 September 2025 (Catania, Italy)
CALL ▶️ tinyurl.com/4fhhhj6m
MORE INFO ℹ️ www.icdp-online.org/projects/by-...
Application until 31 July 2025