🚨New article🚨 Exploring how salt detachment geometry controls the development of thrust salients, our work compares analogue modelling results with the South-Central Pyrenees thrust salient. I.R. Geomodels - (UB) deptDTO AAPG Salt Basins TIG sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Cognitive Skills Linked to Brexit Votes - Neuroscience News neurosciencenews.com/cognitive-skil…

This is amazing! How would you feel to know your funky new bathroom had an ancient human jaw bone?

First went to Utah in 1994! More than half a life time ago! Heading back for the 30th year and starting with a nice modern analogue for the Blackhawk shorelines

Ever wanted to know more about the Geology of the Aberdeenshire coast? We made a little movie about my favourite coastal town #Stonehaven and its hidden secrets Jess Pugsley School of Geosciences, University of Aberdeen #mensshed #AGS youtu.be/4l-RMfKiyRU?si…

So excited to be running this fantastic event again, please share far and wide!

Six years on this still makes me very angry #geovandalism #BartlettWash #DeformationBands #StructuralGeology

Great piece of work from a great PhD student :-)

And the prize for “stating the bleeding obvious” goes to ⁦The Guardian⁩ #pointlesssurveys . 1. People who live in the country drive more than people in towns 2. Rich people have nicer holidays than poor people theguardian.com/uk-news/articl…

Election Special: 1. The Economy

So you thought we’d reached Peak Brexit? Watch British Paratroopers who after being dropped into Sannerville, France, to commemorate D-Day, had to show their passports to the French Douane… Nigel Farage MP musty be so proud…

At the The Geological Society for a very special day standing in front of that map!

The R H Worth Medal is awarded to Professor John Howell! John is a Professor of Virtual Geoscience University of Aberdeen, where he communicates the natural world to a wider audience. This medal recognises achievements in outreach, public engagement and education. Well done John Howell!

Great time at the International Association of Sedimentologists IAS conference in Aberdeen this week. Some excellent talks including john underhill insightful review of the #EnergyTransition

Election Special 4: The Conservatives.

Watching C4 election coverage Can we have Mhairi Black 🏳️‍🌈 as our prime minster. She is awesome! Immigration is not the problem! Rt Hon Nadine Dorries is batshit crazy

Thrilled to see Aberdeen ranked 1st in the UK for Earth Sciences and for Human Geography, and 1st in Scotland for Forensic and Archaeological Sciences based on positive responses in the NSS. A remarkable testament to our amazing students and staff! abdn.ac.uk/news/23346/

Academics get funding and do research. Write up the results and send to a journal. An unpaid editor sends the work to unpaid reviewers and when its eventually accepted the publisher sells it back to the Academics for £'000s. The greatest scam of all time tinyurl.com/4se2k2p3

Went to listen to ⁦Rory Stewart⁩ new series on Ignorance on ⁦BBC Radio 4⁩ and discovered this excellent older series on #Argument . Just what we need for a social media polarised world. Thank you Rory! bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

If you think Jonathan Pie is racist you probably need to have a word with banksy And if you think Banksy is racist you probably need to reevaluate what triggers you and focus on the real issues.