Prof Col Macpherson

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Rock ̵e̵t̵ ̵ scientist @durhamearthsci.bsky.social 🧪⚒️🌋 Husband, dad, typographical errer

Queue of people wearing colourful graduates robes in the stone carved corridor of Durham University cloisters
Google Earth view of the Punic Ports of Carthage
The members of Angine de Poitrine wearing their polka-dot costumes and masks.
Durham Cathedral standing above the skyline of Durham and the River Wear
Motorbike with planks attached to sides for seating, and a roof.
A black dog sitting on frosty ground looking at the camera.
The character Malcolm Tucker from The Thick of It, delivering a sceptical look
Geddy Lee: a white man with glasses and long hair facing the camera standing on a stage wearing a double neck 12-string-guitar/bass and standing in front of a bank of keyboards, foot pedals and microphones.
Band Angine de Poitrine waving their arms in time to music
Band Angine de Poitrine wearing a mixture of black on white and white on black polka dots.
Slab of the Imilac Pallasite meteorite. Large golden-yellow olivine crystals in a matrix of pale grey matrix.
A shiny black dog licking her chops
Schematic world view centred on Southeast Asia showing hinge advance or hinge retreat migration amounts of convergent plate boundaries from twenty-five until five million years ago.
Schematic world view centred on Southeast Asia showing hinge advance or hinge retreat migration amounts of convergent plate boundaries over the past five millions years.
A schematic illustration of hinge retreat showing slab and trench locations before and after a finite period of subduction. The surface expression of both have mover with respect to the fixed hinterland of the overriding plate (as represented by the left hand side of the figure).
Hibernian women’s 2024/25 SWPL champions squad montage
15:04BST BREAKING FULL-TIME Hibernian 2-0 Hearts HEART OF MIDLOTHIAN ARE SWPL CHAMPIONS! Despite a final-day defeat to Hibs Eva Olid’s side are officially title winners.
van Gogh's Starry Night
Cross polarise light view of Hawaiian porphyritic basalt. Multicoloured, euhedral olivine phenocrysts, and elongated, euhedral, black and white plagioclase lathes surrounded by vesicular glass. Much of the glass is devitrified in rosettes around the phenocrysts. A particularly large vesicle is conspicuous towards the top of the field of view.
Armenian Premier League result. FC Noah 8 - 3 Ararat
Album cover of Sunshine On Leith by The Proclaimers
Excerpt of responses from student evaluation questionnaire, reading: Lecturers were helpful in answering questions during practicals. Concepts felt like they fully came round by the end of the course. Mathematical summative (Summative 1) was amazing The star wars summative was very interesting liked the metamorphic teaching. found the igneous lectures sometimes
A picture of planet Earth viewed looking down onto the northern hemisphere.
Wylie Coyote presses plunger to explode bomb (close to Roadrunner) but the plunger explodes leaving him burned.
White male standing on some rocks next to a Norwegian fjord in full daylight.
A black lab-spaniel mix with its mouth open sitting on sand waiting for some sausage, or cake, or any other kind of food.
Caucasian man in dark outdoor gear standing in front of a loch surrounded by mountains.
A large bird sits highest on a perch. On the next level down two birds have some of the first bird's droppings on them. The next level down has six birds with quite a lot of droppings on them. The four birds on the lowest level are completely coated in droppings.
Monochromatic photograph of rock band The Stranglers in Iceland in 1978. Four men in 1970s clothes standing on a rocky landscape with snowy mountains in the background.
Two copies of the same meme from the Simpsons where a crowd of children ask Crusty to stop attacking a burglar. In both memes the burglar is labelled "Dinosaurs". Where the crowd is labelled "Impact Proponents", Crusty is labelled "Deccan". Where the crowd is labelled "Volcanism Proponents", Crusty is labelled "Chicxulub".
Black dog laying on a floor with its muzzle in a sandal.
Cross polarised light view of pegmatitic dolerite. Field of view is mainly large clinopyroxene prisms showing strong cleavage and second order interference colours. Two olivine crystals on right show fracture while a band of plagioclase laths run down the centre showing simple and polysynthetic twinning.
Norman Rockwell’s Freedom of Speech but standing man has Yoda’s head
Three electric guitarists and bass guitarist of Iron Maiden playing live.
Two people silhouetted against a sun with text “Renton! Renton! Choose Life”
Black dog’s face resting on a leg.
A husky with all its entire coat shaved short, except for on its head.
Stack of five books: Murder at the Black Cat Cafe by Seishi Yokomizo The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley The Safekeep by Yael ver der Wouden Butter by Asako Yuzuki The pretender by Jo Harkin
A caucasian woman in a wedding dress squatting in the middle of a street, a still from the movie Bridesmaids.
Gromit the dog
Photomicrograph of olivine dolerite. Isolated, euhedral to subhedral olivine phenocrysts (showing second and third order interference colours) are surrounded by a groundmass made up of opaque iron oxides and an ophitic intergrowth of small, euhedral plagioclase laths surrounded by large clinopyroxene crystals.
Graph showing any division of Green + Labour vote in Gorton & Denton byelection always results in one or other exceeding reform total. Actual result also illustrated.
Two spidermen pointing at one another, one labelled geophysics the other labelled geochemistry.
Schematic graph showing number of humans increasing with time then splitting into two lines: Faster increase labelled "Culture Novels" Rapid decrease labelled "Terminator Movies"
GoogleEarth view of Lake Taal on the island of Luzon containing a volcanic island that hosts a crater lake.
The three members of the band Primus in exaggerated cowboy outfits.
Two enormous, metal, horse head statues lit pale blue against an early evening sky.
Cartoon of man with huge shoulders and torso but very small legs.
Mouth of a xenomorph from alien
Two men facing camera in front of Murrayfield pitch.
Pictures of Lincoln, Darwin, calendar showing Gromit’s birthday, and the cover of Moving Pictures.
The cooker from Wallace and Gromit film A Grand Day Out, standing on the moon with its arms in the air.
The Rosetta Stone
Photographs of two goals scored off the same post at Easter Road stadium by Hibernian players. Keiron Bowie versus PK Partizan in August 2025 and Ante Suto versus Dundee United in February 2026.