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Day 4 of the West Highland Way Today we left the wooded paths along Loch Lomond into the wide-open Glen Fallon. Also spotted the first wild garnets of the trip.

Day 5 of the West Highland Way A day of walking around the River Fillan, we crossed a boundary from the Southern Highland Group to the structurally lower Argyll Group. Found some nice bits of the Loch Tay Amphibolite and the Ben Lui Schist - much bigger garnets than yesterday!

Day 6 of the West Highland Way A march across the Grampian Auch Gleann Psammites in the rain, which was rewarded with a view of Loch Tulla in the sunshine.

Day 7 of the West Highland Way A walk along the edge of Rannoch Moor. Beneath the grass of this relatively flat-lying area of the Highlands is a granodiorite pluton, some 25 km across. It forced its way up into the overlying Grampian metasediments ~420 million years ago.

Day 8 of the West Highland Way A fleeting view of the Glencoe volcanics, with the dark rhyolite of Buachaille Etive Mòr. Further NW we found many examples of the Etive Dyke Swarm - microdiorite intrusions that exploited the fabric of the host Grampian metasediments.

Day 9 of the West Highland Way A long walk through the secluded Lairig Mor and around the granite of Mullach nan Coirean, before going down to Glen Nevis and Fort William. We had an amazing view of Ben Nevis in the sunshine.

Learning something about insect’s during the time of dinosaurs with Dr Emily Swaby from OU: Environment, Earth & Ecosystem Sciences Soapbox Science MK #WomenInSTEM Faculty of STEM, The Open University

⚠️BREAKING NEWS 🐣 It's official, we have bee-eater chicks! The wardens have been watching closely and seen an upping of food being brought to one of the nest holes. ...But while it's great news for the birds, we can't ignore this stark reminder of our overheating planet 👇

Critical Minerals underpin many aspects of modern life, from mobiles phones & computers to wind turbines, fighter jets, & solar panels 💎 A secure supply is essential & our first ever national strategy will boost the industry & protect companies & jobs. gov.uk/government/pub…

Pleased to share our review article on the mid-Proterozoic, aka Earth's Middle Age, aka the Boring Billion. Teaser - it ain't so boring, but it was a wee bit different😉 tinyurl.com/2p84nasw including Traveling Geologist Richard Palin Ross Mitchell

Postgraduate students in the UK now earn *less* then minimum wage! This is already an emergency not even taking into acount the impact of soaring inflation and rising energy prices. We need urgent action! UK Research and Innovation @GeorgeFreemanMP @beisgovuk 1/7

Article: The composition of continental crust altered by the emergence of land plants some 430 million years ago nature.com/articles/s4156…

Westminster voting intention: LAB: 54% (+9) CON: 21% (-7) LDEM: 7% (-2) GRN: 6% (-1) via YouGov, 28 - 29 Sep Chgs. w/ 25 Sep sotn.newstatesman.com/2022/09/britai…

For those wondering about the scale of Patagotitan here’s me getting up close and personal with real thing MuseoEgidioFeruglio - it’s going to be a tight fit, even in our largest gallery Natural History Museum

My first ever research paper has been published and is now available online! 🥳 In it we investigated what the humble and beautiful mineral kyanite can tell us about metamorphism and crustal melting processes. 🪨💙🏔️ (1/3) link.springer.com/article/10.100… #TeamKyanite

Today I handed in my thesis - The Formation and Age of Leucogranitic Melt in the Garhwal Himalaya ⛰️ Thanks to all the wonderful people in OU: Environment, Earth & Ecosystem Sciences

Lasers, microscopy, ores, battery materials and more! 3.5 year PhD, fully funded by an Science and Technology Facilities Council CASE Studentship, working closely with X-Ray Minerals Ltd. Based SEGG, University of Portsmouth, and supervised by myself, @cragtastic and Catherine Mottram 🔋⚒️🌍😀 port.ac.uk/study/postgrad…

Congratulations Dr Dr Charlie Oldman on your thesis defence today! It's been a joy and a pleasure to see your progress these last few years. Thanks @cragtastic and Julia Semprich for examining!

Article: Quartz emits a piezoelectric charge during deformation that may promote the formation of gold nuggets within veins in orogenic settings that experience earthquakes Chris Voisey @ProfAndyTomkins Joel Brugger Monash Earth, Atmosphere and Environment 🌏🌪️🍃 nature.com/articles/s4156…