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Met another wheelie scientist here at the PhD programme symposium I'm attending - so great to see wheelie folks doing STEM. During my PhD all my disabled activist friends were in Disability Studies (which is awesome!) but I missed having fellow disabled STEM folks. Barriers keep so many of us out.

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‘It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade’ ☀️❄️ - Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (1861)

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I am physically disabled. I have to use a wheelchair and/or crutches to move around. During my Bristol MSc I was unable to partake in essential research for my project - due to poor access - thus limiting my thesis Bristol is taking no responsibility for this. I’m at a loss as to what to do.

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✨ We have EIGHT amazing summer internships with our National Capability for Global Challenges scheme! Work with UKCEH scientists on topics like ozone pollution, modelling, satellite imagery, soil health & more. 🔗 Apply by 2 April: www.ceh.ac.uk/our-science/... 🧪🧵 1/ Please share widely!

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Geology of Scotland - pretty breathtaking 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 2020 adventures on wheels. #scotland #geology #highlands

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NSF employees were unlawfully reclassified from career to probationary, and then fired. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

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Geology is absolutely beautiful. Ripple marks, cross bedding and many more sedimentary features from a solo excursion in 2017. Photos from kata-juta national park #Australia #geology #outback #uluru

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Trip to the Giant’s Causeway - checking out successive lava flows of the British and Irish Paleogene Province- with bonus Laterites! Geologising with fellow enthusiastic geologists 🌋 #VMSG_MDSG25

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A monumental win to be standing back on the hockey pitch after six arduous years of fear. I can’t believe I’m able to be a hockey coach - a huge achievement to start the year ♿️❤️‍🩹

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Calling all artists and scientists! Do you want to elevate your field sketches? Or maybe you’d like to incorporate more science into your art practice? Join The Creative Geo Club on Patreon! 🪨🎨 www.patreon.com/c/vojtahybl Keep reading to learn more ⬇️ #SciArt #illustration #science

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MSc volcanology 🌋 Officially graduated 🎓✅ It was an extremely difficult year marred by accessibility issues. ♿️ However, there were so many moments of joy - learnt a lot and met fantastic folks! 🌋✨

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The United States Geological Survey (USGS) page for Diversity and Inclusion policies is also is also gone. Same for their Diversity Council. What a sad week. What a weak and fragile elite.

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For #TombTuesday, one of the hundreds of megalithic dolmen tombs that scatter the landscape around the village of Ellés, Tunisia. In spring they are surrounded by carpets of white, yellow and purple flowers. 📸 My own, March 2024 #archaeology #photooftheday

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Folding in South Stack formation. Anglesey mapping field trip. #FridayFold ⚒️

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I am reaching out to the #geoscience community - I need help. My MSc thesis was curtailed due to being unable to even access the building @ my previous university♿️ they provided no alternative. They’ve taken no responsibility for this #discrimination after I submitted an appeal.

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This time last year I was getting ready for the trip of a lifetime to Guatemala to study volcanoes & hazards with @bristolvolcanology.bsky.social 🌋 . We were so lucky to meet local folks and hear their stories, positive and negative, about their experiences with volcanoes. #volcanoes #guatemala

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Conference fatigue + chronic illness =

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Very gneiss pavement geology at Trinity College Dublin 👀

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Do you know a UK-based wheelchair user who works in a lab and would be willing to user-test our prototype of what is believed to be the first-ever lab coat adapted for wheelchair users? Please share far & wide! Interest form: forms.office.com/e/66FhcQjqRT More info: www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-east/new...

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Great time at #VMSG_MDSG25 so far 🌋 Listening to interesting talks, perusing posters, seeing old pals and making new ones. Trying tayto crisps and enjoying a Guinness or Beamish (or two) 🍻 Good first day I’d say ✅

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We have now created our VMSG starter pack, feel free to share amongst your networks & keep adding your suggestions for students, staff & alumni to include!

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Trip to the Giant’s Causeway - checking out successive lava flows of the British and Irish Paleogene Province- with bonus Laterites! Geologising with fellow enthusiastic geologists 🌋 #VMSG_MDSG25

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Life seemed hopeless after my accident. ♿ I would not have completed my undergraduate degree if it were not for the incredible support of the Geology Department of the University of Aberdeen and the geoscience community 💟 www.abdn.ac.uk/news/22040/ @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social

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These things here are emergency wreck buoys, and if you're thinking the colour scheme looks somewhat like a circus big top, just wait until you hear about the clown show that inspired their introduction.

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Night night sweet dreamies Your time and your feelings are just as valuable as anyone else's. Focus on the good, let go of the rest. Be kind to yourself ❤️

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One day I will post something without typos, but today is not that day lol. But anyway, please share this post, especially with geoscience workplaces outside of academia, or people that have left the geoscience workforce due to access issues. Those groups will be harder the reach than academics.

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Relevant to the recent discourse:

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Please join me in congratulating @manonberger.bsky.social in her successful PhD defense at @geosciences.bsky.social. She showed that growing seaweed (macroalgae) is not an effective way to remove atmospheric CO₂. 🌊

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We are looking for geoscientists who are or were in the workforce to take a participate in a survey about their experiences. There is almost no data on disabled geos beyond the student level and we aim to change that. Please share widely!

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Yup

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For #thinsectionthursday: a hidden treasure! While avoiding grading, I came across this series of rocks from Rum, Scotland I had no idea my dept. had. Absolutely stunning! I can’t get enough of the cumulate textures. They were loaned to us by someone Oxford according to the labels. ⚒️🌋

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Day 10 of a nasty lurgy. Unsure how stop the frustration of feeling “behind” on work as a first year PhD student. The overwhelm looking at my inbox too 😭

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Day 10 of the Mull Geo Advent Calendar and we are round the coast at Rubha na Sealbhaig (Point of the Sorrel) Some rather nice columnar basalt there as well as a stupendous dyke of the Tertiary "Mull Swarm" See Alt-txt

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This is Yuma. She's an amateur geologist. Brings home one carefully selected rock a day. For science. 13/10

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