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Brandon ❄️

@bdglaciers.bsky.social
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Ph.D. student at USF St Pete and science communicator studying past Antarctic ice sheet and ocean interactions. He/Him sites.google.com/view/brandon-daly/…

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Brandon ❄️ @bdglaciers.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Big day for using your brain
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Brandon ❄️ @bdglaciers.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
How well would you say the monitoring of the glacier and its surroundings were prior to the disaster? Were there signs of imminent danger? Do we know if there were signs of imminent danger? I am writing a piece on hazard monitoring and risk communication.
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Brandon ❄️ @bdglaciers.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
For glacial lake outburst floods and how they’re related to human-caused warming, I would say risk is far more important than cause.
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Brandon ❄️ @bdglaciers.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
My american ass thought this was a comment about washing vegetables to avoid cyclosporiasis
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
As a professional fact checker I would never *in a million years* use AI for research and fact checking. It lies! It makes things up! It plagiarizes! And I also have an obligation to the authors I work for not to do shoddy half-work.
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Brandon ❄️ @bdglaciers.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
And they should sell YouTube
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Brandon ❄️ @bdglaciers.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Can’t wait for them to discontinue gmail and maps because I’m tired of using Google and it’s hard to find a good free alternative
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Brandon ❄️ @bdglaciers.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
But it’s made with an LLM. The message is nullified. If you want the message to get through, promote art made by a human instead.
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Brandon ❄️ @bdglaciers.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
This is an AI-generated image
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Brandon ❄️ @bdglaciers.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Let’s keep AI slop out of climate change discussions 👎
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Brandon ❄️ @bdglaciers.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
@altnoaa.bsky.social has an extreme case of AI psychosis. Thank goodness I don’t follow them.
Beluga Whale Escapes Research Facility And Swims Hundreds Of Miles Back To Her Baby.
It is wrong and immoral to hold beings of self awareness captive if they have committed no crimes.

Includes an AI generated image. The event described above is fabricated.AltNOAA: “Two types of people will see this. The first type is the emotionally shallow person who just sees Al and that's it for them.
Everyone else will think about the emotions it created for a self-aware being they personally don't know and understand that cetacean captivity is wrong. I love it for this!”

Response: “We don't dismiss it because we're
"emotionally shallow," we dismiss it because you're contributing to the rise of misinformation as the new normal. You can find genuine stories that make your point; please do, we'd love that!”

AltNOAA: “It is the new normal. I don't know where you've been for the past 10 years.”
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Brandon ❄️ @bdglaciers.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Here’s how you can keep your climate research safe from the proposed OMB rules (partial satire) ⚒️ 🥼❄️ open.substack.com/pub/glaciers...
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Research Proposals for the American Climate Scientist
Throw your research in the trash and replace it with these MAGA-compliant alternatives
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 23/06/2026
Climate.us is officially live! After NOAA ended Climate.gov’s day-to-day operations in 2025, former team members built Climate.us to carry that work forward. Their explanations and graphics have always stood out to me as clear, accessible, and transparent. I’m really looking forward to this reboot.
climate.us
Climate.us Home
independent, nonprofit, and immune to politics
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Brandon ❄️ @bdglaciers.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
This HAS to be satire. But knowing how some people in academia are, I’d believe you if you told me it wasn’t.
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Brandon ❄️ @bdglaciers.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Here’s how you can keep your climate research safe from the proposed OMB rules (partial satire) ⚒️ 🥼❄️ open.substack.com/pub/glaciers...
open.substack.com
Research Proposals for the American Climate Scientist
Throw your research in the trash and replace it with these MAGA-compliant alternatives
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Brandon ❄️ @bdglaciers.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
A recent 2026 study lead by Allie Coonin found that, in projections, West Antarctic ice retreat is temporarily halted due to fast GIA.
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Brandon ❄️ @bdglaciers.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
How’d you get there, mysterious boulder? [Made by me in Blender]
3D image of a glacial erratic boulder in the middle of a dense forest at night.
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Brandon ❄️ @bdglaciers.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Teaching myself Blender
A 3D rendered snow globe of a glacial erratic made in Blender with no AI slop whatsoever.
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Brandon ❄️ @bdglaciers.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
The Antarctic ice sheet is on an air mattress, and that’s probably a good thing. Read my latest article on Glaciers & Whatnot. Don’t forget to like and subscribe while you’re there! open.substack.com/pub/glaciers...
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Can Antarctica Bounce Back?
The Antarctic ice sheet is on a giant air mattress, and it could make or break its collapse
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Brandon ❄️ @bdglaciers.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
The Antarctic ice sheet is on an air mattress, and that’s probably a good thing. Read my latest article on Glaciers & Whatnot. Don’t forget to like and subscribe while you’re there! open.substack.com/pub/glaciers...
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Can Antarctica Bounce Back?
The Antarctic ice sheet is on a giant air mattress, and it could make or break its collapse
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Brandon ❄️ @bdglaciers.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
I wish LLMs never existed
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Brandon ❄️ @bdglaciers.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Genuinely, aside from pay, I don't understand why people think working in the private sector is better than working in academia.
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Brandon ❄️ @bdglaciers.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
The simplest explanation is likely the correct one: the BLM forgot to consult a geologist.
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Brandon ❄️ @bdglaciers.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Did they forget to hire an exploration geologist, and just assumed oil is everywhere underground?
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Brandon ❄️ @bdglaciers.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
*March, not February
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Brandon ❄️ @bdglaciers.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
🥼❄️ Ice core whiplash! In February, the snapshot record indicated that CO2 likely *didn't* help cause the mid-Pleistocene Transition. Now, the continuous record is suggesting otherwise.
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Brandon ❄️ @bdglaciers.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Posting this to the cryosphere feed🥼❄️
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Brandon ❄️ @bdglaciers.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Would have been my office space this fall :(
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Mya Breitbart @viromegirl.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Thanks to everyone who has reached out about the fire (www.tampabay.com/news/educati...) that completely destroyed more than half of our college. Thankfully no one was hurt -but it’s total devastation to the main building The outpouring of support from the scientific community has been heartwarming
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Fire breaks out at USF St. Pete Marine Science Lab. Building likely ‘total loss’
More than 60 units and 200 firefighters were called to the scene.
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Amelia Shevenell @ashevenell.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
So this happened today. My office, lab, husbands office, lab… students offices… not great. Tough times ahead
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Brandon ❄️ @bdglaciers.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
I'm starting there in the fall. Very sad watching this unfold before even registering for my first semester of classes.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
As a scientist, this is my worst nightmare. There are one-of-a-kind instruments that you spend your life perfecting. When they’re lost, no amount of time or money will bring them back. My thoughts are with @oceanandclimate.bsky.social @ashevenell.bsky.social and others @cmarinescience.bsky.social. 🥺
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Fire breaks out at USF St. Pete Marine Science Lab. Building likely ‘total loss’
More than 60 units and 200 firefighters were called to the scene.
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Brandon ❄️ @bdglaciers.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
I haven't started my PhD there yet, but if there's anything I can do to help out let me know. I'm a science communicator (albeit, novice) so I could try to do whatever I can to raise awareness and rally others in the oceanography community to help out.
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Patrick Rafter @oceanandclimate.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
🌊 It’s a sad day for @cmarinescience.bsky.social A lot of world class scientists (and me) have likely lost their life work as our main building surprsingly caught on fire today. We don’t know the scale of the loss, but it’s certainly very very bad. www.fox13news.com/st-petersbur...
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USF College of Marine Science
Our live waterfront webcam in St. Petersburg, Florida is located at the University of South Florida College of Marine Science. This image should refresh every 60 seconds.
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Brandon ❄️ @bdglaciers.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
A potentially very huge loss for USFSP and the marine science community. The building had quite the history behind it too. I'm scared to learn how this will impact the research of my cohort.
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Trevor Williams @drtrevorwilliams.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Fire is out at the USF St Petersburg College of Marine Science - happily nobody was injured, but it doesn’t look good for the building
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Brandon ❄️ @bdglaciers.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Scared to hear the about the damages tomorrow 😬
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Brandon ❄️ @bdglaciers.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Two recent ice core studies have shed some light on two important climate transitions that occurred over the past 3 million years. Of course, climate change deniers have misinterpreted both :P 🥼❄️ 🌊 ⚒️ Read my new breakdown of these studies on At Its Core: open.substack.com/pub/climatea...
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bite-sized ice cores
celebrating an ice core study for what it is
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Brandon ❄️ @bdglaciers.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
@stemlabels.xyz how does one get one of those cool science labels?
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
This is a perfect example of internalized ableism. Being so terrified of your own diagnosis that you endanger everyone with it by calling for it to be hidden and squirreled away where no one can find it and make everyone who has it hide in the shadows or be publicly judged.
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Brandon ❄️ @bdglaciers.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Two recent ice core studies have shed some light on two important climate transitions that occurred over the past 3 million years. Of course, climate change deniers have misinterpreted both :P 🥼❄️ 🌊 ⚒️ Read my new breakdown of these studies on At Its Core: open.substack.com/pub/climatea...
open.substack.com
bite-sized ice cores
celebrating an ice core study for what it is
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Brandon ❄️ @bdglaciers.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Paleoclimate folks ⚒️ Have you recently published a study? I'm willing to write about it in my Substack, At Its Core (open.substack.com/pub/climateaic), to communicate its findings and why they're important to the scientific community and the world! Contact me if you're interested. It's free!
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At Its Core | Brandon | Substack
The Earth has a long history of climate change. Discovering this history is the key to understanding climate change and how the world works. This blog is about the Earth's climate history and why it m...
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Brandon ❄️ @bdglaciers.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Your obsession with AI is going to drive Pebble into the ground
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Brandon ❄️ @bdglaciers.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Aaaaaand he blocked me lol. Didn't take long
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Brandon ❄️ @bdglaciers.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Why does the technical advisor for Bluesky have AI psychosis?
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Brandon ❄️ @bdglaciers.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Sorry for the hiatus, everyone! Both Glaciers & Whatnot and At Its Core are back this week.
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Brandon ❄️ @bdglaciers.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
LLMs, specifically
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Brandon ❄️ @bdglaciers.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
The best response from Silicone Valley: abandon AI.
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scary angel drags you to heaven @shiningangelx.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
i simply find it a little hard to believe that shortly after every website implemented ai code and fired a bunch of engineers they all started breaking constantly every single day but its not related to the ai code or the skeleton crew
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Brandon ❄️ @bdglaciers.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Maybe this wouldn't happen if the @bsky.app devs didn't vibe code everything... just a thought
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