David Pyle

'Between isolation and connectedness: understanding energy islands… Her research examines the design and governance of decentralized, decarbonized, and digitalized electricity systems, with particular focus on innovation…

Oxford Martin School seminar next week - 12.30 March 9th #energy #sustainability

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Earth's heat to produce electricity for homes in UK clean energy first Water super-heated by rocks will also provide the UK's first domestic supply of the critical mineral lithium.

Great news from #Cornwall, where #geothermal energy and lithium are now being generated from deep, hot granite. ⚒️

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Oxford Earth Sciences is recruiting an Associate Professor (Tutorial Fellow) in Earth Surface Processes (broadly interpreted, including carbon cycle, ancient and modern carbonates, biogeochemistry, geohazards, etc). Please share! Further details: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

The Department of Earth Sciences and St Peter's College are recruiting an Associate Professor (or Professor) in Earth Surface Processes to join our thriving academic community!

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Are you a researcher in the field of history of science, technology and medicine? There's still time to submit your paper for the #NotesAndRecords essay award. Submit your research by 28 February 2026: buff.ly/dedMm93 #HistSci #HistSTM #HistMed

Volcanoes: 10 Things You Should Know - GEOSCIENTIST Volcanoes: 10 Things You Should Know does exactly what its title promises by offering a concise, engaging introduction to volcanology.

My wee book has had its first formal review!

A lovely piece in @geoscientistmag.bsky.social.

I love how they've picked up on elements of my personality - didn't realise how much this came through.

"as if a geology-savvy friend is excitedly sharing something they have just learned."

and Universities of Bristol, Cambridge, Hawaii and Oxford. It was a wonderful journey of discovery with many colleagues, and published with excellent support from the team at Volcanica|

This was a deeply collaborative effort, supported with @ukri.org funding from AHRC and NERC to the #CuratingCrises project, and supported by archivists and special collections in Montserrat, @carnegiescience.bsky.social, @royalsociety.org, @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy, @bgs.ac.uk (2/n)

Black and white photo-postcard showing the steaming gorge of Gages Soufriere, Montserrat, and the bare, altered rock around the sides of the gully. The sulphur and steam vents were vigorously active during a seismic crisis in the 1930s, and were eventually buried following the volcanic activity that began in 1995. Photographer: K. E. Perkins.

Photograph from May 1936 of a group of six people standing in front of a house on Montserrat, during a visit to the island by the Royal Society expedition team. L-R: Thomas Jaggar (Hawaii Volcano Observatory), Cecil Powell (University of Bristol), Frank Perret, Mr and Mrs Howes, Isabel Jaggar (Hawaii Volcano Observatory). Image number 208964 from the British Geological Survey special collections.

Delighted to share the origin story of the first #volcano observatory on #Montserrat, established in response to a seismic crisis in the 1930s. The observatory was staffed by Montserratians from 1936 to 1946, including Ian and Cecil Kelsick, and Greta Scotland (1/n)

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Photograph of the front cover of a new illustrated book on volcanoes for children, called the Power of Volcanoes. The cover has a red background, and a cut-out circle reveals an erupting volcano inside.

Photograph of on page from the book, showing illustrations of some of the different sorts of rocks erupted from volcanoes.

Excited to see early copies of ‘The Power of Volcanoes’, written with Tamsin Mather and wonderfully brought to life with illustrations by Daniel Long. Part of the ‘Think Big’ series of science books for children, published by @nosycrow.bsky.social and @cam.ac.uk Publication date - 4 June 2026

Friends, can I ask you to spread the word that we have a THREE-YEAR postdoc in American history at Cambridge up for grabs - ANY field, but applications are due March 1 so don't delay - apply, apply, apply! networks.h-net.org/jobs/69790/u...

The biggest upheaval in UK science policy since the 1980s is currently underway, with the creation of a much more direct & explicit link between UK government priorities & £9bn/ yr of R&D funded by the agency UKRI

My attempt to explain & set in historical context
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Archaeological interpretations beyond demonstrating that this approach has potential for detecting subsurface structures, it is regrettable that we included a citation to an unreliable source, but we certainly are engaging with disciplinary experts in follow-on work.

We show that there are some vegetation indices that correlate with the gravity signal across the tunnel, and most of the paper is devoted to this analysis and the development of a workflow for future work. In the context of a paper in an Earth Observation that cites 149 references and makes no ..

Thanks for the cautionary note. The primary purpose of the paper was to test whether there are any correlations between Vegetation Indices derived from multi-spectral satellite imagery and geophysical data (gravity, ground-penetrating radar), at a known control site, where there is a shallow tunnel.

Photograph inside a stone-walled tunnel with one end open to the light. This structure is called a fogou, and is thought to have been constructed in the Iron Age. Location - Carn Euny ancient village, Cornwall. Thanks to English Heritage and Historic England Southwest for permissions.

New paper from Adam Morley shows that some vegetation anomalies in multi-spectral satellite data correlate with geophysical data, and can be used to identify buried archaeological structures like tunnels and drains, with examples from Cornwall and Normandy.

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Poster showing our profile picture (stylized logo of Scientific Ocean Drilling) over a set of five photos: a thin section, a row of cores, a microbiology lab, an ice sheet, and the derrick of the ship at sunrise.

Hello BlueSky! We’re here to bring you the latest opportunities and news in U.S. scientific ocean drilling and amplify the work of our community and partners. This account is managed by the U.S. Scientific Ocean Drilling Coordination Office (SODCO).

Associate Professorship (or Professorship) of English Literature at University of Oxford An academic position as a Associate Professorship (or Professorship) of English Literature is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportu...

Romanticists and Long Eighteenth Centuryists — there’s an Associate Professorship (or Professorship) being advertised, a joint appointment with St Peter’s College.

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Schematic summary of the eruptive history of Kolumbo Volcano.

🚨Check out our new IODP paper on Kolumbo Volcano in Greece. Despite being one of Europe's most dangerous volcanoes not much is known about its eruptive history. The paper led by @abigaillily.bsky.social adds important insight into the Kolumbo-Santorini system
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Life in the Field: Exploring the Seafloor YouTube video by OxfordSparks

Delightful video explainer from @sofiadellasala.bsky.social and @oxfordsparks.bsky.social about a research expedition to the deep sea floor of #Santorini's caldera during the HYDROMOX project led by @isobelyeo.bsky.social and funded by @ukri.org

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Empires, Plants & Gardening: Kew in Jamaica The second talk in our series exploring the influence of political and economic power on garden-making

I'll be talking about the Hope Botanic Gardens in Jamaica on 27th Jan, using records from the colonial archives at Kew Gardens 🌴

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Munby Fellowship in Bibliography 2026 - 2027 at University of Cambridge Searching for an academic job? Explore this Munby Fellowship in Bibliography 2026 - 2027 opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jobs.

Munby Fellowship in Bibliography based @theul.bsky.social in Cambridge - closes on 1 February, so still time to apply.

Many congratulations to @seismokoel.bsky.social!

📖 Applications are now open for an exciting geopark-related PhD in storytelling at Loughborough University

🤔 Know anyone who might be interested?

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Delighted to have the opportunity to respond to Dr Tim Middleton's important new book on 26 January at Regent's Park, University of Oxford:
"Witnessing a Wounded World: A Theology of Ecological Trauma"
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Delighted to see my @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social colleagues Gideon Henderson (CBE) and Tamsin Mather (OBE) recognised in the New Years honours list published this evening. Brilliant news for them and for Earth Sciences more generally.

A mosaic of sediment and rock close-up photos from a site drilled in the Aegean Sea.

🚨New Publication where we employed visible to shortwave infrared spectroscopy to identify tephra layers from the background marine sediment present in core sections collected in the Aegean Sea.
#NSFFunded
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The eruption of the Saint-Vincent Soufrière on April 13, 2021. (© Professor Richard Robertson, The UWI Seismic Research Centre)

Excited to launch Ex-X! A UKRI NERC Large Grant studying dangerous volcanoes in the Eastern Caribbean.
Led by Bristol Uni with @UWI-SRC, @MVO, @IPGP & global collaborators.
Goal: advance understanding of eruptive processes, conduit dynamics & coupled models to improve hazard forecasting.

(PDF) Experimental determination of equilibrium sulfur isotope fractionation factors in the gas-silicate melt-sulfide liquid system PDF | Sulfur, despite its minor presence (~ 250 µg.g− 1) in the bulk silicate Earth, can exhibit high solubility in melts, up to 1.5 wt. %, depending on... | Find, read and cite all the research you n...

I’m excited to share that my latest research article, “Experimental determination of equilibrium sulfur isotope fractionation factors in the gas–silicate melt–sulfide liquid system,” has just been published in GCA!
The article is available here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

If you’re attending #EGU26 and are working on caldera volcanism consider submitting an abstract to GMPV7.5! Looking forward to convening this session! 🌋