Elliot Carter

The Roaring Game: Scotland's curling stone island | National Museums Scotland Curling is a sport native to Scotland, that can be traced back to medieval times. Today, the game involves two teams taking turns to slide heavy, polished

My blog post on Ailsa Craig, curling stones, and the weird minerals that make this rock unique. 🥌

Today, Dr. Elliot Carter, @olivine-enthusiast.bsky.social, Lecturer at @keeleuniversity.bsky.social, gave the first Research Seminar of 2026 and of the Epiphany Term, entitled "Sixty Million years of Seafloor alteration: the South Atlantic Transect, a unique natural experiment" ⛴️🌍

BBC report at a headline level that Grok will now not make sexually exploitative images any more. An actual reporter comes on and explains that it will do no such thing, and will just make the images invisible in the UK. These are two very, very different things.

Comment: Unearthing autistic voices in geosciences, an overlooked minority hidden in plain sight [free to access (via a free Nature account) for one month]

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Every dollar JK Rowling makes from Harry Potter is going into bankrolling an extortion racket issuing legal threats to organizations across the UK to purge themselves of trans people or face ruinous lawfare.

How we discovered a giant geological sponge for carbon in rocks deep below the seafloor While drilling deep into the seafloor we recovered a thick sequence of carbonate-cemented rubble (breccia). The carbon content and estimated volume of the breccia suggests that slow-spread oceanic cru...

There's also a News & Views www.nature.com/articles/s41... and a blog communities.springernature.com/posts/how-we... for more of an overview

A geological carbon cycle sink hosted by ocean crust talus breccias - Nature Geoscience Mass-wasting deposits that accumulated against mid-ocean ridge faults have high porosity in which calcium carbonate precipitated, storing seawater carbon dioxide, as revealed by cores of a 61-million-...

Very excited to see this out in the world. During IODP Expedition 390 we drilled into a thick sequence of carbonate-cemented breccia in the South Atlantic. We show these have nearly twice as much carbon as any previously sampled oceanic crust! doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Just wilful performative cruelty that is entirely out of step with the majority of British people.

How many Labour MPs got into politics in order to vote for stealing jewellery off of people seeking refuge from war and persecution?

Summary of what the PhD student will do. QR code in bottom LHS. Project part of our Leverhulme Trust funded project volcanic histories and the student will examine the cultural markers and response to to volcanic activity across the Eastern Caribbean. Understand local ways of knowing and remembering volcanic activity. Integrate scientific. And community knowledge for DRR - joining an interdisciplinary team from several universities.

We’re advertising a PhD studentship for folks with good knowledge of Caribbean culture and society, with background in geography, human geography, humanities or interdisciplinary geosciences as part of our @leverhulme.ac.uk funded ‘volcanic histories’ project

Alt text: A screenshot of a tweet from Graham Linehan (@Glinner) posted on April 20, 2025. The tweet reads: “If a trans-identified male is in a female-only space, he is committing a violent, abusive act. Make a scene, call the cops and if all else fails, punch him in the balls.” The tweet shows engagement counts: 629 comments, 71K retweets, 20K likes, and 534 bookmarks. (Note: The content contains transphobic and violent language.)

The tweet, posted October 22, 2024 at 12:57 PM, reads: “We believe … is studying computer science somewhere in London. If you know … and want to help to stop … harassing people, please get in touch.” The attached image is obscured by a large pink rectangle. The tweet shows 20.7K views.

The tweet, posted October 22, 2024 at 12:53 PM, reads: “More … footage from the weekend.” It includes a video thumbnail partly obscured by a large red rectangle. The video length is 3:20, with 171.9K views.

Everyone is rushing to defend Graham Linehan as some martyr to free speech but don't actually state what he tweeted. He explicitly called for people to violently assault trans women in the bathroom.

In another instance, he cyberstalked a trans minor. He's legitimately a danger to trans people.