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Erik Gulbranson

@erikgulbranson.bsky.social
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Scientist, educator, studying Earth’s climate ⛈️ and ecologic history through the lens of soils⛰️and tree-rings🌳🪵. Courage, Sacrifice, Devotion. Gustavus Adolphus College. AE GSA Bulletin. Posts, re-posts, views and opinions are my own.

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Erik Gulbranson @erikgulbranson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
According to precedent the next presidential election is only two years away, so we really can’t confirm a new justice and should let the voters decide.
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Erik Gulbranson @erikgulbranson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Folks, we’re gonna be okay. They’re just rich morons.
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Erik Gulbranson @erikgulbranson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A lot of sighing about the Anthropocene rehashed debate today. And from my perspective not a lot of mirrors that I’m seeing in my fellow geoscientists.
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Erik Gulbranson @erikgulbranson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Some of you don’t die when your character dies in a VR game, and it shows.
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Jason Rasgon @vectorgen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I am going to be buried with all my data, like the Pharaohs of old
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Erik Gulbranson @erikgulbranson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
😮
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Erik Gulbranson @erikgulbranson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Just wanna say that you can be a “systems thinker” and know your zip code/perform fundamental math.
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Actuel Moyen Âge @agemoyen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Une belle carte sur la Peste noire (de 1347 à 1352). L'épidémie se diffuse à partir de Marseille, puis de Narbonne. Notez l'importance de l'axe du Rhône (logique) mais aussi du couloir Narbonne-Bordeaux (plus inattendu à l'époque). Bilan : 30 à 60% de la pop meurt... ☠️
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Erik Gulbranson @erikgulbranson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This happened to me on a flight to Buenos Aires, diverted to Montevideo. Crew bailed, airport became a ghost town, just stuck in the airport until the next morning.
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Erik Gulbranson @erikgulbranson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Resident Evil on the OG PlayStation, which I bought, used, from Blockbuster after saving for a year. I believe it was spring 1996. A report from Game Informer on this game, which included captivating fan fiction had me hooked. It was the scariest video game I had played until The Last of Us.
Image of the cover art for the video game Resident Evil depicting a grimacing male figure holding a firearm in the corner of a room with silhouettes of enemies around him.
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Erik Gulbranson @erikgulbranson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Now that is my kind of root system! Ignoring the order of things and seeking out information where you can get it.
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Erik Gulbranson @erikgulbranson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A microcosm of this administration.
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Erik Gulbranson @erikgulbranson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
My entire professional career up to the present in one chart.
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Erik Gulbranson @erikgulbranson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Marked Safe from Triumphal Arch death squads and drone swarms.
A photograph of two people, one adult and one child, smiling in front of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.
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Erik Gulbranson @erikgulbranson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is like the “what is this spider?” Winning Lottery ticket.
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Erik Gulbranson @erikgulbranson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is not normal. This is what happens when regulations go out the window.
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Erik Gulbranson @erikgulbranson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
If this is a different plane than the one from March, then it’s the third E-3 (half of total) destroyed (2) or damaged (1). This is catastrophic in the near term.
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Travis @someforeignfield.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The E-3 destroyed here was destroyed *after* airframes were dispersed across the airbase (which is huge) and subsequently struck precisely by an Iranian drone, likely Shahed 136. Most publicly-known damage to key systems, ie. AN/TPY-2 radars were hit by drones.
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Erik Gulbranson @erikgulbranson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
My question is whether the slow-walking demise of the NSF to be just an ATM for tech bros is deliberate, or due to the incompetence of this administration.
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Erik Gulbranson @erikgulbranson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Dear Colleague Letter.
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Erik Gulbranson @erikgulbranson.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
💯
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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This is ethnic cleansing.
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Erik Gulbranson @erikgulbranson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
“Get your hand off my tail, you’ll make it dirty. Said Albi…quite racistly” Albi the Racist Dragon, Flight of the Conchords
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Erik Gulbranson @erikgulbranson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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Nathan Fillion's Speechless 'Um No' Reaction
Alt: Nathan Fillion's Speechless 'Um No' Reaction
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Erik Gulbranson @erikgulbranson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Well, this is gross.
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Erik Gulbranson @erikgulbranson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A thiocyanate mineral! #julienite gets my vote!
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Dr. Katie I. @hellyeahcorks.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The 'initiatives' summarized: 1. Plagiarism machine/eugenics 2. Made-up stuff to funnel $ to pseudoscience/rich ppl 3. Stuff already funded by companies (i.e. funneling $$ to rich ppl) 4. Eugenics Fuckin hell.
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Erik Gulbranson @erikgulbranson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
There’s a lot of bad in here, but one of the first things that caught my eye was this “golden ticket” (their words) idea. Where a single reviewer can push a proposal forward if they think it wouldn’t survive review in panel…
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Erik Gulbranson @erikgulbranson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Holy heck this is a tough one. But I gotta go with #teamPutnisite for the fact that it’s Sr-bearing and…I’m just learning about this…a carbonate-sulfate mineral. With Sr fitting into the vacancy in rings of Cr (+3), and Ca segregated and offset from the Cr rings. Wild!
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Erik Gulbranson @erikgulbranson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
RIP
A photograph of a hand holding a bottle of beer, La Fin du Monde, by Unibroue. A Tripel strength of the Belgian style. Brewed and bottled in Canada 🇨🇦.
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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 08/09/2026
oh no now my brain is stuck in Benoit Blanc voice
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Erik Gulbranson @erikgulbranson.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Is nothing sacred?
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Erik Gulbranson @erikgulbranson.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Let’s make 2027 the year of the phyllosilicate!
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Aleta @aletamosquito.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This is my setup for daily voting in my #library. At the end of the day, I'll enter an official vote based on my patrons' choice. #MinCup26 #PublicLibrary #SelfDirectedProgramming
Whiteboard says "Pick your favorite from the pair: #MinCup26". There is a blank mineral cup bracket with pictures of azurite and smithsonite. Text below the pictures can't be read in the picture. There are 6 votes for aAurite and 3 for Smithsonite.
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Erik Gulbranson @erikgulbranson.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
A million times this, an AI summary doesn’t even qualify as redundant, it’s a distraction to hallucinations.
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Andrea Mann @andreamann.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
"By writing, you are literally firing up your brain and therefore stirring up your conscious thoughts and something new emerges. You are not, or at least not always, transcribing something already present in your conscious thoughts.“ LOVE this piece. www.historians.org/perspectives...
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How Writing Leads to Thinking (and Not the Other Way Around) – AHA
Writing is stressful. Sitting in my computer chair my neck and shoulder muscles almost immediately tense up as I dig around in my brain for the best phrase or even any coherent string of words.
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Erik Gulbranson @erikgulbranson.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Editorial manager chasing a potential reviewer…
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Erik Gulbranson @erikgulbranson.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Introduce yourself as what almost killed you. Hi, I’m a Bell 212 helicopter.
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I've been talking a lot about the disastrous recent loss of American institutional capacity regarding climate science. But today, I'd like to announce something we've been working on, quietly, in the meantime to offer a lifeline to some of those affected. [Thread]
First page of a 2-page flyer describing the Climate Science and Communications Fund. It shows a map of gift recipient locations, and also summarize statistics regarding the program thus far (including over $3 million disbursed to date), with testimonials from individual recipients.Second page of a 2-page flyer describing the Climate Science and Communications Fund. It further describes the need for and goals of the program. It also includes a point of contact email: roshan@climate-talent.org
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Talia Lerner @talialerner.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
It has been painfully clear since Fall’24 that US science funding would tank, universities would be targeted, and any assertions about a new “gold standard” disingenuous. The question has not been “will it be that bad,” but “how bad will it be.”
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Erik Gulbranson @erikgulbranson.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Damn, scooped again.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 09/08/2026
New Evidence Suggests Dinosaurs Had Quinceañeras
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New Evidence Suggests Dinosaurs Had Quinceañeras
BOZEMAN, MT—Upending long-held beliefs about how the prehistoric reptiles commemorated a juvenile female’s transition into adulthood, new evidence published Thursday by researchers at Montana State Un...
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Erik Gulbranson @erikgulbranson.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
I see two GAC current and former faculty!
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Simon Lee @simonleewx.com · 06/08/2026
Gonna teach a whole class this autumn using only this map (ok, it probably won't be *only* this map, but woah, what a forecast! The ENSO and teleconnection lectures are going to be even more fun than normal 🤓)
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Erik Gulbranson @erikgulbranson.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
We had a good run.
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Erik Gulbranson @erikgulbranson.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I love this visualization, but what it means is disturbing.
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Erik Gulbranson @erikgulbranson.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Happy “abstract submission webpage is down” day, to all who celebrate!
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Eos @eos.org · 01/08/2026
What makes a derecho a derecho? Seventy years of storm data are helping meteorologists find the answer. eos.org/articles/wha...
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What Drives Derechos? The First Derecho Archive Could Help Meteorologists Figure It Out. - Eos
Researchers can now use 70 years of data to examine the conditions that create these destructive windstorms.
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Dr. Dave Huber, Soil Scientist 🔥 @dphuber.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
After nearly 10 years in academia, I’ve left to focus on outreach and service in soil and water health via my consulting LLC — see the link. Looking forward to working with producers and the NRCS on #RegenAg and #SoilHealth over the next few years. imwestconsulting.com
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Home - Intermountain West Environmental Services and Technology
Helping people understand, manage, and improve the land.
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Jack Grimes @jackapedia.design · 16/07/2026
Furious that Chris Nolan would disregard historical accuracy in adapting The Odyssey by making a "movie" with "cameras" instead of memorizing the entire story and then going on a nationwide tour to sing it to us while tripping on ergotized barley
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