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Dr Bridie Davies (she/her)
@bdaviesgeo.bsky.social
330 followers 250 following 33 posts
Volcanology, outreach/science communication, inclusivity in STEM, creatives in STEM, politics.
PDRA at the University of Manchester
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https://linktr.ee/bdaviesgeo
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bdaviesgeo.bsky.social
Has anyone ever used a Gallium source FIB to cut trenches + pillars in olivine crystals and if so can I get the details of the energy, the time etc it takes?

#geology #thermofisher #zeiss #tescan #desperate 😂
November 5, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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reappropriate.bsky.social
From who has been allowed to conduct science, whom we imbue with the title of expert, what kinds of knowledge we consider valid, why we do science, and how science has been applied (and misapplied) throughout history, it’s a misnomer to assert that science has ever been apolitical.
August 23, 2025 at 6:14 PM
bdaviesgeo.bsky.social
Excite!!!
volcanologist.bsky.social Dr Rebecca Williams @volcanologist.bsky.social · Aug 2
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
A graphic of a book. The cover is a deep red and had a good line illustration of an erupting volcano.
August 2, 2025 at 10:51 PM
bdaviesgeo.bsky.social
Not sure how I feel about "never give up" being our new #Lionesses slogan.....my blood pressure can't take it.
Also I'm never going to complain about a running injury ever again 💀
#LucyBronze #UNIT
Photo of Lucy bronze with quote "I actually played the whole tournament with a fractured tibia"
July 27, 2025 at 8:06 PM
bdaviesgeo.bsky.social
"the Palestine exception to Academic Freedom"

“This sends a dangerous message to scholars globally: that academic publishing contracts are conditional, revocable, and subject to external political calculations.”

"we’re watching universities being blown up.”

🇵🇸 This work must be published 🇵🇸
July 22, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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seismogenic.bsky.social
🧪⚒️🌋🇮🇸
ELDGOS ER HAFIÐ
It's erupting!
Here's a livestream:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXD4...
Grindavik - Mosaic
YouTube video by RÚV
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July 16, 2025 at 3:57 AM
bdaviesgeo.bsky.social
So many 3D melt inclusions! 😍 loving the new avenues micro-analytical techniques in 3D are providing for interrogating these widely analysed features 🌋
#IAVCEI2025
Slide showing 3D renderings of melt inclusions with a range of morphologies including multiple bubbles and several with small crystals included in or on the bubble.
July 3, 2025 at 9:21 AM
bdaviesgeo.bsky.social
Got to love a pumice texture compilation slide!
The Hunga-Tonga eruption has inspired some great work, so much has been on display already this week.

#IAVCEI2025
Mila huebsch presenting varied pumice textures from SEM images showing bubbles and glass of different textures.
July 1, 2025 at 2:26 PM
bdaviesgeo.bsky.social
Loving these "Future of #volcanology" talks at #IACVEI2025

Exploring the art of the sketch and our connection to people of the past through the volcanoes we observe.
Ailsa Naismith at the front of a lecture hall presenting images from Turkey showing depictions of volcanoes from the bronze age
July 1, 2025 at 10:57 AM
bdaviesgeo.bsky.social
And here is Barbara Bonechi showing us her fantastic decompression experiments!

#ECR #IAVCEI2025
Woman standing at the front of a lecture hall with her first slide projected on the wall, it reads "Advancing in-situ observations of magmatic processes: development of an X-ray Transparent Internally Heated Pressure Vessel for High-Pressure, High-Temperature synchrotron imaging"
June 30, 2025 at 11:16 AM
bdaviesgeo.bsky.social
Some inspiring work already this morning in the #indigenous knowledge and geoheritage co-session!

#IAVCEI2025

(and in the only air-conditioned room!)
Power point slide depicting indigenous myths about isarog volcano in lncluding "water and rocks are released during isarog's eruptions" "Isarog erupted several centuries ago", "monsters dwell in the crater and fight with eachother" and "isarog erupts when humans disturb the volcano"
June 30, 2025 at 7:15 AM
bdaviesgeo.bsky.social
Bonjour Geneva for #IAVCEI2025 🌋🌋🌋 looking forward to a fantastic week!
The famous Geneva jet. A jet of water shoots into a clear blue sky with a view of a jetty and the lake water. A thin strip of white clouds sit just above the hills in the distance.
June 27, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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honeypisquared.bsky.social
We found that AI tools - both general like #ChatGPT and research-specific like #Elicit - lack the reliability, relevancy and accuracy to summarise research for teachers. This is important because we have been sold the idea that AI will make research more accessible.
honeypisquared.bsky.social Dr Lucy Rycroft-Smith @honeypisquared.bsky.social · Jun 9
I am delighted to announce that my new paper with @darrenmacey.bsky.social is now published, entitled 'All sizzle, no steak: AI tools are not able to act as credible knowledge brokers by summarising evidence in mathematics education'

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A picture of the title and abstract of the research paper: All sizzle, no steak: AI tools are not able to act as credible knowledge brokers by summarising evidence in mathematics education Lucy Rycroft-Smith, Darren Macey University of Cambridge Current discourse around AI (artificial intelligence) tools suggest they can offer users quick access to research evidence, with the goal of improving our practice and policies in mathematics education. However, recent evaluations suggest that AI often falls short of human capabilities in accurately summarising complex information, raising questions about trust, credibility, and reliability. In this paper, we investigate whether AI tools are able to successfully perform the educational knowledge brokering function of finding, selecting, and summarising research with implications for practitioners. In particular, we ask if AI tools are able to find research papers that actually exist (accuracy), are relevant to the question (relevancy) and are able to interpret findings into useful, actionable implications for practitioners (applicability). We find that generally they are not, and even when they are, they do so in a way that is so inconsistent as to be a serious threat to credibility. Keywords: artificial intelligence; AI; knowledge brokering; large language models; mathematics education
June 10, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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deevybee.bsky.social
www.ft.com/content/8778...
Kudos to Andrea Sella for taking a stand against @royalsociety.org’s inaction over Elon Musk FRS
Royal Society prize winner returns award in protest over Elon Musk
Andrea Sella is latest scientist to express dismay over UK science academy’s refusal to criticise tech billionaire
www.ft.com
June 10, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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volcanologist.bsky.social
Writing is hard because the process of getting something onto the page helps us figure out what we think—about a topic, a problem or an idea. If we turn to AI to do the writing, we’re not going to be doing the thinking either. (Rosenzweig 2023)
June 5, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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volcanologist.bsky.social
FFS
profrachelgan.bsky.social Prof Rachel Oliver @profrachelgan.bsky.social · Jun 2
A group of Labour MPs, peers and supporters write:

“We should legislate to root out DEI in hiring practices, sentencing decisions and wherever else we find it in our public bodies.”

Devastated to see how quickly this has arrived in the UK mainstream.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Blue Labour group urges ministers to ‘root out DEI’ to win over Reform voters
Faction influencing No 10 says government should legislate against DEI in hiring, sentencing and ‘wherever else’
www.theguardian.com
June 3, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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kelpiesi.bsky.social
cc: people who are still using "preferred pronouns" also. They are just pronouns, like anyone else's. Sticking "preferred" on communicates additional, confusing information; these aren't suggestions.
ashleynova.space Ashley Nova — Unfiltered, Unhinged, Uncaring @ashleynova.space · May 14
I think I'm definitely done with EDI talks that refer to "people that identify as men/women" instead of just saying "men and women", the underlying implication that "identify as women" that some of those people might not actually be women is just not something I'm willing to accept anymore.
May 15, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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chanda.blacksky.app
I talked about all of the costs in class, ecological and intellectual, and my students were really great and I wish I could teach them again
lexmcmenamin.com Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · May 14
I struggle with the reporting on ChatGPT in education because it often confirms society’s negative bias against young people—oh no, this generation is unsaveable!—when it’s possible to just educate people to be less credulous about it. which is why I wrote this: so teachers could print and assign it
ChatGPT Is Everywhere — Why Aren't We Talking About Its Environmental Costs?
One estimate found that a single ChatGPT search uses 10 times the energy of a normal Google search.
www.teenvogue.com
May 14, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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jameschristie.bsky.social
🚨NEW PAPER ALERT🚨

It is *such a pleasure* to announce the publication of a major portion of my PhD thesis with @volcanojenni.bsky.social, @drgeorgieb.bsky.social @tomchudley.bsky.social, Ricky Herd, and Mel Froude in @geomorphica.bsky.social !

Have a read: journals.psu.edu/geomorphica/...
May 9, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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poisonivy47.bsky.social
If you need any sources on AI being shitty, I've been collecting and compiling them: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Questioning AI Resource List
Excellent summary of major problems with companies’ focus on AI written by expert in machine learning: https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again/ Another g...
docs.google.com
April 29, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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humanrightsindex.bsky.social
🗓️ 28 April 2025

📍The Hague, Netherlands

"Starvation is starvation is starvation." 💔🕊️
April 29, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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natacha.bsky.social
The British Medical Association Resident Doctors are the backbone of the NHS, they look after us all in hospital.

They passed this motion at their conference which pulls the “supreme” court judgement to pieces.

They call it

“scientifically illiterate”
and
“biologically nonsensical”

1/3
EM4 This meeting condemns the Supreme Court ruling defining the term 'woman' with respect to the Equality Act as being based on 'biological sex', which they refer to as a person who 'was at birth of the female sex', as reductive, trans and intersex-exclusionary and biologically nonsensical. We recognize as doctors that sex and gender are complex and multifaceted aspects of the human condition and attempting to impose a rigid binary has no basis in science or medicine while being actively harmful to transgender and gender diverse people. As such this meeting: i. Reiterates the BMA's position on affirming the rights of transgender and non-binary individuals to live their lives with dignity, having their identity respected. Reminds the Supreme Court of the existence of intersex people and reaffirms their right to exist in the gender identity that matches their sense of self, regardless of whether this matches any identity assigned to them at birth. iii. Condemns scientifically illiterate rulings from the Supreme Court, made without consulting relevant experts and stakeholders, that will cause real-world harm to the trans, non-binary and intersex communities in this country. iv. Commits to strive for better access to necessary health services for trans, non-binary and gender-diverse people.
April 29, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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mostlymammoths.bsky.social
"...while students, faculty & advocates across the country expressed measured hope..., they noted it was students & faculty who were leading the charge & mounting the pressure that forced university leaders to act."
@alicesperi.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Hope as US universities find ‘backbone’ against Trump’s assault on education
Anxious Americans find solace as university leaders start to mount more muscular defense of academic freedom
www.theguardian.com
April 27, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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ketanjoshi.co
Incredible satellite image of the 33 (!!!!) operational fossil fuel combustion engines at the site of Elon Musk's XAI data centre

“appalling that xAI would operate more than 30 methane gas turbines without any permits or any public oversight"
@selc.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
a greyscale satelitte image of Musk's data centre - with a bright red marker showing emissions from the many (I think about 30) fossil fuel combustion engines on site
April 25, 2025 at 11:18 AM