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@man_basins

Twitter account of the Manchester Basins Group at the University of Manchester

 Manchester, England
Joined February 2015
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David Hodgetts@VRGeoscience7 May 2024
The talks from The Geological Society conference 'Digital Geoscience: Unleashing the Power of Data and Technology in Earth Sciences' are now on YouTube. @VRGeoscience presentation 👇 youtube.com/watch?v=h5T9V1kE…
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David Hodgetts@VRGeoscience2 Feb 2024
The latest build of VRGS 3.1 has just gone online. Build 58 features improvements to the orientation measurement tool and greater flexibility in the way polyline groups can be displayed. vrgeoscience.com/get-trial/

Your free 30-day trial of VRGS

Register for a free 30-day trial of VRGS and receive a licence code and a link to the installer.

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Phil Mannion@pdmannion15 Dec 2023
Our department (@ES_UCL) is advertising a fully funded 3.5 year PhD scholarship, open to ethnic groups underrepresented in Earth Sciences (with UK/home fees status). If you're eligible & interested in crocodylomorph evolution &/or conservation palaeobiology, please email me
EarthSciences UCL (@ES_UCL) profile pictureEarthSciences UCL@ES_UCL14 Dec 2023
Applications are open to the UCL Earth Sciences Ph.D. scholarship. The scholarship is meant to support underrepresented groups at the Ph.D. level. The deadline for applications is on January 29th, 2024. bit.ly/47TTjGp
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David Hodgetts@VRGeoscience7 Dec 2023
#VRGS Advent Day 7, and today we’re highlighting #VR 📆❄️ Get tips on how to set up your Meta Quest 2 with VRGS so you can experience immersive virtual geology on your PC. And remember, with VRGS, you can seamlessly transition between desktop and VR at the click of a button!
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David Hodgetts@VRGeoscience8 Dec 2023
#VRGS Advent Day 8 📆❄️#FieldworkFriday! We are off to St Ninians Cave in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. It's one of our favourite models as it's a magnificent location with stunning geology and was created with just a handheld camera and a basic GPS. #heritage #geology
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Chickies Rock, a striking promontory on the Susquehanna River: the early Cambrian type locality of the trace fossil Skolithos and a model site for structural analysis. Read more in the Lyell Collection lyellcollection.org/doi/10.1… #Geology #EarthScience #Geoscience #Cambrian
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N8 CIR@N8CIR23 Nov 2023
2nd Wave of Tickets Released! Join us in Sheffield for our highly-anticipated Text-Mining code demos: Basic NLP workshop. Learn data analysis techniques, advanced deep learning, & how to effectively prompt large language models like ChatGPT. More info: n8cir.org.uk/events/text-min…
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Dr Mads Huuse@MadsHuuse22 Nov 2023
Good news for sustainability of battery storage. Maybe bad news for Li producers? 👇
Northvolt (@northvolt) profile pictureNorthvolt@northvolt21 Nov 2023
Northvolt is proud to add sodium-ion to its cell portfolio, enabling the expansion of cost-efficient and sustainable energy storage systems worldwide. northvolt.com/articles/north…
Northvolt develops state-of-the-art sodium-ion battery

Northvolt develops state-of-the-art sodium-ion battery

Northvolt is proud to add sodium-ion to its cell chemistry portfolio, enabling safe, low-cost, sustainable power for energy storage systems.

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#WeekendReading with The Depositional Record @DepositRecord: Testing geological proxies for deep‐time tidal model simulations onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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The UK National Geological Repository: a case study in innovation. By Michael P. A. Howe. Read more in the Lyell Collection lyellcollection.org/doi/10.1… #Geology #Geoscience #EarthScience #OpenAccess
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Dr Mads Huuse@MadsHuuse20 Nov 2023
Great kick off by Marit Brommer ⁦@lovegeothermal⁩ ⁦@KieranMullanUK⁩ & Michael MacKenzie ⁦@GeoEnergyNI⁩ highlighting the need for 20,000(!!) #geothermal wells per year worldwide & the lack of 🇬🇧 regulatory framework and finance despite #netzero urgency
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N8 CIR@N8CIR16 Nov 2023
Closing soon! You don't want to miss our Tree Models in Python session, where you will be taught absolutely everything, from when to use them to working through datasets. Sign up now➡️ n8cir.org.uk/events/introduc…
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Time to get that abstract written... only one week to go until the deadline for @IAS_Aberdeen @sedimentology #ias2024
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EGU TS Division@EGU_TS14 Nov 2023
📢Tectonic Modelling Tuesday #58 - with analogue work by @IngeGelder & colleagues (from @UUEarthSciences), who studied the interplay between subduction and lateral extrusion in the European Eastern Alps😃 More details in their 2017 EPSL paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2017.…
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Tom Coulthard@Tom_Coulthard15 Nov 2023
If you’re a first year Geomorph PhD student book yourself a place on this course. It’s great. Windsor Workshop - British Society of Geomorphology geomorphology.org.uk/windsor…

Windsor Workshop - British Society of Geomorphology

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Equations are just the boring part of mathematics. I attempt to see things in terms of geometry. -- Stephen Hawking
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You can find key information about all things @IAS_Aberdeen on our website at iasaberdeen2024.org/ @sedimentology #ias2024
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Mike Clare@MikeAClare15 Nov 2023
Real-time Distributed Acoustic Sensing feed from Iceland - measurements of volcanic activity made along a terrestrial fibre optic cable by ETH Zurich. Amazing data being gathered with strong potential for monitoring subsea volcanoes in real time youtube.com/live/MUt7Lz4y-jg… @vmsg_uk
Unrest at Svartsengi/Grindavik, Iceland: Live DAS data from Blue...

Unrest at Svartsengi/Grindavik, Iceland: Live DAS data from Blue...

NEW STREAM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_3NBuVrmCs!! DESCRIP...

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David Topping@lanky_manky15 Nov 2023
Abstract submission now open for the long standing and popular Aerosol Chemistry and Physics session at #EGU24 lead by @SchobesbergerS, @PhDEmilyM @ZhonghuaZheng and me. Come and join us in Vienna! meetingorganizer.copernicus.…
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Back from the field after a week in Namibia with Matt Baddock, @jobullard and John Anderson - a unique learning experience!🧵 @lborogeog @lborouniversity geography students enter the Namib Desert on day 1 of the Dryland Environments Fieldcourse based @GobabebRSH
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