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Brandon Daly ❄️
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M.S. Hydrology • glacier enthusiast ❄️ • He/Him

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The next era of Glaciers & Whatnot is coming, starting with an announcement of a new series tomorrow! 👀 For now, please admire the updated logo 👇
The old Glaciers & Whatnot logo, with less vibrant colors and harder to read text. The new Glaciers & Whatnot logo, with more vibrant colors and easier to read.
November 13, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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It's here, everyone! A new Glaciers & Whatnot article is live! I subjected my eyes and ears to horrors for this one, so please give it a like and subscribe
open.substack.com/pub/glaciers...
Cover image for the new Glaciers & Whatnot article, "Please, Don't Get Your Science From TV."
October 20, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Monday on Glaciers & Whatnot
Teaser photo for the next Glaciers & Whatnot article. Contains satellite photos of Lake Vostok, a fake government document about the “Lake Vostok anomaly,” a 1531 map that has a continent that looks like Antarctica, a pyramid-shaped Rubiks Cube, a picture of a “pyramid” in Antarctica, and a notebook with the words "It's aliens but the mainstream scientists are keeping me from the truth!!!"
October 18, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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I need this
Lego Mineral collection.
September 9, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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A new Glaciers & Whatnot article is live! This one is about the slowdown in Arctic sea ice decline... the thing climate change deniers have been drooling over
open.substack.com/pub/glaciers...
"So, of course the sea ice record in recent decades is going to be dominated by natural climate variability. We have gotten rid of most of the old ice in the Arctic already."
August 22, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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The job market is a disaster. I applied at a movie theater (as a backup job) months ago, and they replied this morning telling me they didn't even review my application
Email from a movie theater: "Hi Brandon , Thank you for taking the time to apply for the position of Theatre Team Member at ... We appreciate your interest in our organization. At this time, your application has not been reviewed due to high volume of applications. We apologize for the inconvenience this may have caused you. If you are still interested in this position or any other roles, we encourage you to apply again at...".
July 18, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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"I'm a scientist, why should I stay on Twitter?"
Matthew Wielicki uses the newest sea level curve to mislead people.
July 9, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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This is the closest thing I could find in the paper that suggests circulation has reversed. It sounds more like they meant *observations* have reversed since 2015.

This is going to confuse a lot of people. It even confuses me a little if I'm being honest.
"Here, we show that since 2015, these conditions have reversed: Surface salinity in the polar Southern Ocean has increased, upper-ocean stratification has weakened, sea ice has reached multiple record lows, and open-ocean polynyas have reemerged."
July 6, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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Yep 😔 And of course he invited Bernie Sanders (not a climate expert) to the show instead of actual the authors (Emily Judd and @leafwax.bsky.social ) of the reconstruction, so Joe can claim very easy victory.

These conservative influencers are too scared to contact the scientists themselves.
Screenshot from the Joe Rogan Experience as he is talking about this graph of global temperature change over 485 million years.
June 25, 2025 at 5:07 AM
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They don't like dividing both sides by 4σ to solve for temperature. They tell me it's "blanking out the sun."
A 0-dimensional energy balance equation.
June 20, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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The NSF's Office of Polar Progams is to see major cuts to research and education, while preserving infrastructure. Read more: open.substack.com/pub/glaciers...
Pull quote from the article: "The Trump administration is not to the OPP as a wolf is to a herd of sheep, but a parasite that turns the system of U.S. polar science against the research it was made for."
June 2, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Lmao this is what I did to get blocked by him
Chris Martz blocking me for asking him who he was quoting in his tweet: "15-20-years ago who were yelling that "the Arctic will be ice free by summer of 2013" have enough self-reflection and integrity to realize how foolish they were being.
June 1, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Summary of NASA's budget plan for Earth Science.
May 31, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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Julia Louis-Dreyfus from Veep laughing nervously and saying "what the fuck?" with a forced smile.
May 31, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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Here's a good one. After I called him out for not allowing his kids to participate in a lockdown drill in school. He blocked me before I could reply.
"What do you know about parenting or anything else for that matter. You are a weak minded masters student that has never published or conducted any original research. You are essentially completely worthless to the scientific community. Bye bye"
May 26, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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I've been blocked multiple times by Matthew Wielicki. Even on Bluesky. The only reason he unblocks me is to share a screenshot of his empty blocked users list every now and then.
First time being blocked by Matthew Wielicki. Second time being blocked by Matthew Wielicki. Third time being blocked by Matthew Wielicki. Fourth time being blocked by Matthew Wielicki.
May 26, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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Blocked by Chris Martz.
May 26, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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My impact is far from imaginary. They get really pissed off when you stand your ground and fight their lies. The reaction they want from you is blocking them.
Reaction from known climate denier, "Tom Nelson": "Your arrogance is absolutely hilarious to me. You have no freaking idea who you are talking to. I have been studying climate debate issues intensely over a decade." This was years ago.
May 26, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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My posts get seen. More than they get seen on here sometimes. Not defending twitter in any way (it's a cesspool), but good people are on there who like to see someone put up a good fight against the propaganda machine that is climate denial
Tweet showing me responding to a climate change denier earlier this month, challenging the lie that climate scientists are not trained in atmospheric science and weather.
May 26, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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Funding for polar science cut by 88%. Most out of all the geosciences ⚒️ 🥼❄️

It's time for our tiny field to be as loud as possible
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
That New York Times figure showing how much the NSF-funded science has been cut. Office of Polar Progams was cut by 88% ($51 million to $6 million).
May 22, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Don't forget to check out the newest post on Glaciers & Whatnot ⬇️
Cover art for the new Glaciers and Whatnot article. It depicts a crumpled piece of paper showing the mass change in Antarctica, with the negative mass change scribbled out. The bottom right corner of the paper is burning from being ignited by a lighter.
May 22, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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A new article is now live on Glaciers & Whatnot! We're breaking down the slight increase in total mass balance of the Antarctic ice sheet and exploring how climate change deniers abuse authentic data 🥼❄️ ⚒️

open.substack.com/pub/glaciers...
Title card for my article, "Antarctica is Gaining Ice, Right?: Misrepresenting glaciolgy to death." "The claim climate skeptics make about how the slight precipitation-induced increase in Antarctica nullifies melt in other key sectors of the ice sheet is a claim based on lazy data analysis, lack of expertise, and hasty conclusions. Five or more years of a mass balance trend reversal does not confirm the reversal of the processes that threaten the structural stability of the ice sheet."
May 21, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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Now what?
Degree progress at 100% completion.
May 10, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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April 8, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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A line plot showing the number of tariffs imposed on penguin-run economies against the number of US presidents (by person, not by term). The line jumps to two by the 45th president, Donald Trump.
April 3, 2025 at 5:05 PM