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Struggle and Serendipity (or: Yay! I’m in Open Lab!)
For some reason I wasn’t exactly keeping up with my e-mail last week – or much else that wasn’t Big Geology Conference related. So, although I did take note of the e-mail containing the glad tidings that my post ‘Ten … Continue reading
Categories: bloggery
All the blogging from AGU
One thing I’ve been doing in free moments since the end of the AGU Fall Meeting is catching up on what cool science other geobloggers who attended the meeting had unearthed whilst wandering the poster hall and lecture halls. Below … Continue reading
Categories: bloggery, conferences, links
Scenic Halloween Saturday
As the leaves turn and colder nights draw in, let us journey to a mysterious country that holds an even more mysterious glowing orange pit. Halloween is upon us, so could we be looking on a newly-opened gateway to the … Continue reading
Call For Posts, Accretionary Wedge #38: Back to School
‘Tis the season when professors write their syllabi and lead their first classes, when students decide whether to take that elective in geophysics or the one in hydrogeology, and when professional and armchair geologists…well, I don’t know what they do, … Continue reading
Anne is a Strange Quark, AKA awesome science writer!
When Anne first started blogging on Highly Allochthonous, I introduced her first post with the words: I let her post this on the condition that she not show me up by being clearly smarter and a better writer than I … Continue reading
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A new blog at All-geo: Volcan01010
I’m very pleased to announce a new blog here at All-geo. Volcan01010 is written by volcanologist John Stevenson, a compatriot from my undergraduate days. You might recall his excellent posts during last years’ eruption of Eyjafjallajökull, which provided expert commentary … Continue reading
The baking of an angular unconformity: Hutton’s Unconformicake
One of the most famous sites in the history of geology – in cake form!. Chris’s entry for Accretionary Wedge #30: the bake sale Continue reading
#scio11 and #AGU10: a tale of two conference hashtags
Small 300 person conference out-tweets large 19,000 person conference 2 to 1. Which group should be worried about this? Continue reading
The elephants in the room at ScienceOnline 2011
The undercurrents and unresolved issues at ScienceOnline 2011, that I feel are going to be an important component of online conversations in the next 12 months. Continue reading
Earth Science Erratics: the kinder, gentler way to start geoblogging
Is one of your New Year’s Resolutions this year to start a science blog? We’re here to help. Continue reading

