Frankie Butler
PhD student in Igneous Petrology - studying magma mixing and mingling | Trinity College Cambridge 🌋⚒️ | Full time crutch/wheel user | ♿️ #CRPS | #DisabledinSTEM #geology #volcanology
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- Reposted by Frankie ButlerThis little chickadee had likely just woken up from its nocturnal hibernation. It was -39C this when I took this. Chickadees can drop their core temperature up to 10C and go into torpor at night to conserve energy in extreme weather. #birds 🌿
- Reposted by Frankie ButlerThe Washington Post published a clear video of federal agents removing Alex Pretti's handgun moments before he was fatally shot. There's nothing in the video to suggest Pretti even reached for his weapon. wapo.st/49Zqv1L
- Women in geoscience NERC funded leadership course Day one in Cornwall ✅ We visited Geevor tin mine for our field trip - this was sandwiched nicely between classroom based scicomm & leadership workshops. Looking forward to what the rest of the week will bring 🙌🏼 #geoscience #cornwall
- VMSG Southampton 2026 let’s go 🙌🏼🌋#VMSG26 Fish supper ✅ Sunset over the water ✅ Ready for day one ✅ @vmsg.bsky.social
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- Seeing an outcrop IN PERSON after reading about it/ seeing photos is pretty awesome 🙌🏼 I’ve been focussed on this area as a case study for mixing and mingling textures since the start of my PhD … SE Iceland 🇮🇸 🌋 is spectacular! #LASI7 #IAVCEI
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- Some textures from the mid-conference field trip in Iceland 🇮🇸 @iavcei.bsky.social
- And so the adventure begins! Cambridge —> LDN —> Reykjavík 🇮🇸 Homemade poster tube in tow. Looking forward to the LASI 7 conference and meeting fellow volcano enthusiasts! 🌋🇮🇸 #LASI2025 #VIPS #IAVCEI @iavcei.bsky.social
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- St Kilda Quartz from pegmatitic veins in a mixed magma complex 🌋 I got to take this video with a specialist high def microscope camera 📸 whilst working with NMS @bobgooday.bsky.social and @scottishagates.bsky.social recataloguing the St Kilda collection 🌋 @scottishgeology.bsky.social
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- The geology of the Sliabh Liag peninsula is spectacular. Irelands highest sea cliffs! Metamorphosed dalradian metasediments with extreme recumbent folding, vertical strata and some impressive metamorphic textures (syntectonic). Tá an t-ádh orm a bheith i mo gheolaí! #geology #ireland #donegal
- The past two weeks I’ve been learning the Irish language during an intensive beginners course with Oideas Gael @oideasgael.bsky.social In the beautiful Dún na nGall🔰 Táim ag foghlaim Gaeilge agus tá cúpla focal agam #irish #gaelige #donegal
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- Reposted by Frankie ButlerNOAA just announced a long list of datasets that are going away🧪⚒️🌊: www.nesdis.noaa.gov/about/docume... Download what you need asap and send comments to: ncei.info@noaa.gov
- Our field guide was a bit woolly with their rock descriptions!
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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.
- Reposted by Frankie Butler✨ 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!
- Geology of Scotland - pretty breathtaking 🏴 2020 adventures on wheels. #scotland #geology #highlands
- Reposted by Frankie ButlerNSF employees were unlawfully reclassified from career to probationary, and then fired. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
- 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
- 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 ♿️❤️🩹
- Reposted by Frankie ButlerCalling 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
- 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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- 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.
- Instead writing a patronising letter. I want to take this further to my previous university’s management “higher-ups”as a whole. I don’t want to be brushed to the side again. “Sorry you experienced these issues”
- 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
- Conference fatigue + chronic illness =
- Very gneiss pavement geology at Trinity College Dublin 👀
- Reposted by Frankie ButlerDo 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...
- 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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- 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
- 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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- 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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- Reposted by Frankie ButlerI keep trying to write something eloquent and just being tired. History matters. Philosophy matters. Languages and literature matter. Indigenous studies matter. Arts and humanities and social sciences matter. All of them. Signed, a physicist
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- I was invited to a Mediterranean themed party - think Greek gods etc. I went as the Messian Salinity Crisis 🤣
- Reposted by Frankie ButlerIn this new paper we determined the rheology of the magma that was intercepted by the 2009 IDDP-1 borehole at Krafla, Iceland. We also worked out how quickly it cooling during the drilling. doi.org/10.1016/j.jv...
- Reposted by Frankie ButlerNew study from @fabianwadsworth.bsky.social and team examines how crystal-rich magmas deform: a combination of viscous flow and fracture on different spatial scales. Especially relevant to lava dome emplacement. Bravo!
- New paper. Here we develop a general framework for understanding when magmas will break and rupture, with implications for how dome lavas flow and how gas permeability develops. doi.org/10.1016/j.jv...
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- Reposted by Frankie ButlerThe Onion should buy Elsevier next
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