Since finishing my PhD, I've been trying to remember what my hobbies were. Trying to become more than just a brain on a stick. I love climbing, it's been too long.
Acquired Stardust
tumblr dot com
we're not kids anymore.

titsay
hello vonnie
Game of Thrones Daily

Kaledo Art

pixel skylines

roma★
will byers stan first human second
styofa doing anything
ojovivo
dirt enthusiast

★

shark vs the universe
Three Goblin Art

if i look back, i am lost

⁂
RMH
Aqua Utopia|海の底で記憶を紡ぐ

seen from Malaysia

seen from Netherlands

seen from United States

seen from Australia
seen from United States

seen from United States
seen from United States

seen from United States

seen from Malaysia

seen from Türkiye

seen from United Kingdom

seen from United Kingdom
seen from United States

seen from Malaysia

seen from United States
seen from United States

seen from United States
seen from United States

seen from Greece
seen from United Kingdom
@hammerforscale
Since finishing my PhD, I've been trying to remember what my hobbies were. Trying to become more than just a brain on a stick. I love climbing, it's been too long.

Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.
Free to watch • No registration required • HD streaming
I’ve just relocated from London to Boston.
But all I can think about is Scotland.
Titrations. This wasn't supposed to be a still life, but whatever. Science is BEAUTIFUL.
Went on a spontaneous backpacking/wild camping weekend to the Lake District last weekend. Was just the tonic this weary PhD soul needed.
The world according to geologists.

Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.
Free to watch • No registration required • HD streaming
This pretty much sums up my life (read PhD) for the last 2 months...
Today has been a genuine pit of despair.
My first paper was accepted a few weeks ago, and is currently at the typesetters. It's been a long and troublesome journey to publication but I was proud of the final product and looking forward to finally seeing my name in print (as immodest as that seems). Today however, the biggest of all the curve balls has been delivered. As a geochronologist, my paper obviously related to the ages of various rocks from a part of Scotland. However, what I wasn't banking on was a change in the decay constant of the parent isotope my paper is based on. A paper was published this month that means all of the ages from my paper are c. 2% too young. I'm more than a little bit annoyed by this, and a few glasses whisky may have been consumed since the discovery of this news. It means that I'll have to re-write at least parts of my paper. Despite the fact it's literally weeks from being published! FUCK MY FUCKING LIFE. This PhD will be the end of me.
Image credit
BALTICA! (Where’s Laurentia, eh?)
It's been a year since I posted! Well, that's what happens when you're in the lab for 10 months with nothing overly exciting happening! But I've been freed from the lab bench and allowed to venture...
I wrote a blog about a field trip to the Outer Hebrides I went on last month. Feel free to have a browse. It’s got some nice pictures!
Turns out, when you show a landscape to a group of geologists, they always congregate on the highest part.
It’s a strange phenomenon.

Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.
Free to watch • No registration required • HD streaming
Thor (Rob Strachan) doing the hard work during sample collection on field work in Shetland.
Palaeogene dyke crosscutting Devonian columnar jointed basalts on the Island of Kerrera, near Oban, Scotland.
Now that’s an unconformity!
Between Dalradian metasediments and the Old Red Sandstone sediments on the Island of Kerrera, near Oban, Scotland.
The Standing Stones at Callanish.
Running cation columns on a sunny Saturday. Sometimes isotope geochemistry is brutal... But I need the dates of these garnets as soon as possible, so I’m currently separating the different Rare Earth Elements (REE)! Should be interesting to see what these garnets can tell us about the tectonics of the North Atlantic (but before it was the North Atlantic).

Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.
Free to watch • No registration required • HD streaming
I’ve been in the lab all winter, but last weekend was a bank holiday. So I left the lab, and went blinking into the outdoors: to the mountains!
A lovely weekend camping an scrambling in Snowdonia. Obviously I couldn’t resist looking at the rocks, much to the dismay of my friends!
Fieldwork: Not just a geology holiday
As a geologist I often come across people who think my fieldwork is just an excuse to go relax in the sun while looking at the occasional rock. I can understand the confusion, why fly out to a different continent to study rocks when the department is already full of samples?
Keep reading