Gordon Bromley
@gordonbromley.bsky.social
Climate scientist, geomorphologist, keeper of bees & refugee chickens in Ireland's very wet west.
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This is Zelensky putting pressure on Trump. He knows Ukrainians don't want to surrender. He's talking to all Americans across the political spectrum who support Ukraine, love freedom, and hate surrender. He's telling them: "you can't allow Trump to align the US with Ru against Europe". Let's see.
NEW: Brutal to watch Zelensky address his nation just now. On the brink of being abandoned by the US.
"Right now is one of the most difficult moments in our history. At this moment, Ukraine may face a very hard choice: either the loss of dignity, or the risk of losing a key partner."
"Right now is one of the most difficult moments in our history. At this moment, Ukraine may face a very hard choice: either the loss of dignity, or the risk of losing a key partner."
November 21, 2025 at 5:41 PM
This is Zelensky putting pressure on Trump. He knows Ukrainians don't want to surrender. He's talking to all Americans across the political spectrum who support Ukraine, love freedom, and hate surrender. He's telling them: "you can't allow Trump to align the US with Ru against Europe". Let's see.
Watched this two nights ago & agree, nothing new under the sun. But why beat about the bush? It's poignant because another big democracy, the US, is collapsing into fascism before our eyes & we pretend not to notice or call a spade a spade. Like the frog in the pan of heating water. & a cute penguin
“The Penguin Lessons” is a really good movie for showing a simplistic and clear example of what’s old is new again in the world of fascism.
And there’s a very cute penguin.
And there’s a very cute penguin.
October 6, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Watched this two nights ago & agree, nothing new under the sun. But why beat about the bush? It's poignant because another big democracy, the US, is collapsing into fascism before our eyes & we pretend not to notice or call a spade a spade. Like the frog in the pan of heating water. & a cute penguin
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A student told her professor “President Trump’s laws state that there are two genders,” and that the lesson was “illegal” for contradicting that. It’s not. Executive orders are not laws.
Compliance with authoritarianism will not protect universities. Either we stand up for our missions or we fall.
Compliance with authoritarianism will not protect universities. Either we stand up for our missions or we fall.
Texas A&M’s President just removed a dean and department head from their positions after they supported a professor whose lesson on gender was challenged by a student. www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...
A&M Dean removed following student complaints over curriculum
The Department of Justice has also acknowledged the situation and said it would be investigating.
www.kbtx.com
September 9, 2025 at 12:14 PM
A student told her professor “President Trump’s laws state that there are two genders,” and that the lesson was “illegal” for contradicting that. It’s not. Executive orders are not laws.
Compliance with authoritarianism will not protect universities. Either we stand up for our missions or we fall.
Compliance with authoritarianism will not protect universities. Either we stand up for our missions or we fall.
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In May 2022, an Israeli sniper shot and killed Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh. Last week, Israel targeted and killed five journalists in one attack. In between those dates, Israel became the largest killer of journalists in the world.
The world’s greatest killer of journalists
Israel is conducting a war against journalism. But journalists keep on documenting its crimes
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September 6, 2025 at 9:57 AM
In May 2022, an Israeli sniper shot and killed Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh. Last week, Israel targeted and killed five journalists in one attack. In between those dates, Israel became the largest killer of journalists in the world.
The EU surrendered to Trump over trade tariffs – now it’s in danger of capitulating again | Thierry Breton www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The EU surrendered to Trump over trade tariffs – now it’s in danger of capitulating again | Thierry Breton
A fresh US assault is aimed at Europe’s right to regulate tech. It’s an outrage – and we must resist it, says former European commissioner Thierry Breton
www.theguardian.com
August 28, 2025 at 6:12 PM
The EU surrendered to Trump over trade tariffs – now it’s in danger of capitulating again | Thierry Breton www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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📣 Open position for a PhD student in Arctic Aeolian Processes & Paleoclimate at the Department of Geological Sciences @stockholm-uni.bsky.social with closing date 15 August 2025.
Collaborators: Uppsala University, Sweden & University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain 🧪⚒️ su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Collaborators: Uppsala University, Sweden & University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain 🧪⚒️ su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
July 28, 2025 at 12:59 PM
📣 Open position for a PhD student in Arctic Aeolian Processes & Paleoclimate at the Department of Geological Sciences @stockholm-uni.bsky.social with closing date 15 August 2025.
Collaborators: Uppsala University, Sweden & University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain 🧪⚒️ su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Collaborators: Uppsala University, Sweden & University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain 🧪⚒️ su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
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The way I see it: if Trump is going to eliminate science in the United States, we have absolutely nothing to gain through obedience. If he wants to step on us, he should be stepping on our quills.
July 21, 2025 at 11:49 PM
The way I see it: if Trump is going to eliminate science in the United States, we have absolutely nothing to gain through obedience. If he wants to step on us, he should be stepping on our quills.
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For the past 19 years the North Cascade Glacier Climate Project has integrated artists into our summer field science expedtion. This article by @thatsmohrlikeit.bsky.social explains well, why and how it has worked with @jillpelto.bsky.social leadership #glaciology
www.hcn.org/issues/57-6/...
www.hcn.org/issues/57-6/...
How to preserve a glacier’s legacy - High Country News
Artists are called to document the existence, and disappearance, of glacier.
www.hcn.org
June 4, 2025 at 9:50 AM
For the past 19 years the North Cascade Glacier Climate Project has integrated artists into our summer field science expedtion. This article by @thatsmohrlikeit.bsky.social explains well, why and how it has worked with @jillpelto.bsky.social leadership #glaciology
www.hcn.org/issues/57-6/...
www.hcn.org/issues/57-6/...
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May 30, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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📣 Postdoc position (2+ years) in the field of climate extremes (using paleoclimate to future climate model simulation data) at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon in Geesthacht (near Hamburg), Germany. 🧪⚛️🌊⚒️
Deadline: 18 June 2025
hereon.de/career/vacan...
Deadline: 18 June 2025
hereon.de/career/vacan...
Postdoc position in the field of climate extremes - Reference code: 50141621_2 – 2025/KS 2
hereon.de
May 28, 2025 at 1:45 PM
📣 Postdoc position (2+ years) in the field of climate extremes (using paleoclimate to future climate model simulation data) at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon in Geesthacht (near Hamburg), Germany. 🧪⚛️🌊⚒️
Deadline: 18 June 2025
hereon.de/career/vacan...
Deadline: 18 June 2025
hereon.de/career/vacan...
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INCREDIBLE !!
Here we are... 😱😱😱
After days of overloading and cracks propagating, Birch Glacier collapsed today at 3.24 pm over Blatten and the dammed Lonza river...
Devastating! 😭
www.letemps.ch/suisse/valai...
Here we are... 😱😱😱
After days of overloading and cracks propagating, Birch Glacier collapsed today at 3.24 pm over Blatten and the dammed Lonza river...
Devastating! 😭
www.letemps.ch/suisse/valai...
May 28, 2025 at 3:09 PM
INCREDIBLE !!
Here we are... 😱😱😱
After days of overloading and cracks propagating, Birch Glacier collapsed today at 3.24 pm over Blatten and the dammed Lonza river...
Devastating! 😭
www.letemps.ch/suisse/valai...
Here we are... 😱😱😱
After days of overloading and cracks propagating, Birch Glacier collapsed today at 3.24 pm over Blatten and the dammed Lonza river...
Devastating! 😭
www.letemps.ch/suisse/valai...
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#fieldphotofriday
Rogue grad students coring Rannoch Moor, Scotland, in April 2010. Clear skies with no contrails, thanks to the eruption of Eyjafjallajökull.
(With @gordonbromley.bsky.social, Kurt Rademaker, and Gordon’s friend Dan.)
Rogue grad students coring Rannoch Moor, Scotland, in April 2010. Clear skies with no contrails, thanks to the eruption of Eyjafjallajökull.
(With @gordonbromley.bsky.social, Kurt Rademaker, and Gordon’s friend Dan.)
March 22, 2025 at 1:04 AM
#fieldphotofriday
Rogue grad students coring Rannoch Moor, Scotland, in April 2010. Clear skies with no contrails, thanks to the eruption of Eyjafjallajökull.
(With @gordonbromley.bsky.social, Kurt Rademaker, and Gordon’s friend Dan.)
Rogue grad students coring Rannoch Moor, Scotland, in April 2010. Clear skies with no contrails, thanks to the eruption of Eyjafjallajökull.
(With @gordonbromley.bsky.social, Kurt Rademaker, and Gordon’s friend Dan.)
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BREAKING: Elon Musk's rocket explosion nearly hit a commercial flight.
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March 7, 2025 at 4:21 AM
BREAKING: Elon Musk's rocket explosion nearly hit a commercial flight.
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Good things are happening, too. 24 BSc students took to the Connacht hills last week, following #Quaternary greats Francis Synge & Hal Borns & learning glacial-geomorphic mapping, beryllium-10 sampling, drone survey, & stone skimming. No chatgpt screwing this up! #geography @uniofgalway.bsky.social
February 8, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Good things are happening, too. 24 BSc students took to the Connacht hills last week, following #Quaternary greats Francis Synge & Hal Borns & learning glacial-geomorphic mapping, beryllium-10 sampling, drone survey, & stone skimming. No chatgpt screwing this up! #geography @uniofgalway.bsky.social
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That must be one of the strongest winds I've ever seen modelled from AROME, with over 110 mph gusts on the west coast of Ireland near Galway. It's looking like a significant event for sure, please heed the warnings! #StormÉowyn
January 22, 2025 at 6:12 PM
That must be one of the strongest winds I've ever seen modelled from AROME, with over 110 mph gusts on the west coast of Ireland near Galway. It's looking like a significant event for sure, please heed the warnings! #StormÉowyn
Been a long time in the making (9 years 😬), but our new paper on long-term behaviour of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet derived from moraines at Otway Massif is out in Climate of the Past: cp.copernicus.org/articles/21/...
Christmas 2015 atop Mom Peak, cold as hell, happy times!
Christmas 2015 atop Mom Peak, cold as hell, happy times!
January 21, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Been a long time in the making (9 years 😬), but our new paper on long-term behaviour of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet derived from moraines at Otway Massif is out in Climate of the Past: cp.copernicus.org/articles/21/...
Christmas 2015 atop Mom Peak, cold as hell, happy times!
Christmas 2015 atop Mom Peak, cold as hell, happy times!
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“The thing that makes me worry is how much these people are giving up the very mental tasks that make them human.”
chuckpearson.wordpress.com/2025/01/13/t...
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The ethical case for resisting AI
I had my moment of reality regarding generative AI in my chemistry and physics classes this past term. I’ve always had the student frustration “I can’t Google your homework problems!” as a point of…
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January 17, 2025 at 4:33 AM
“The thing that makes me worry is how much these people are giving up the very mental tasks that make them human.”
chuckpearson.wordpress.com/2025/01/13/t...
chuckpearson.wordpress.com/2025/01/13/t...
Falls Foot landslide on #Ingleborough, picked out by snow, is a textbook example of mass movement. Thx to my brother, who took this shot last week. We dated the slide with 10Be to 12.5ka (Younger Dryas), bang on David Johnson's estimate in his book 'Ingleborough'. Climate influencing geomorphology?
January 11, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Falls Foot landslide on #Ingleborough, picked out by snow, is a textbook example of mass movement. Thx to my brother, who took this shot last week. We dated the slide with 10Be to 12.5ka (Younger Dryas), bang on David Johnson's estimate in his book 'Ingleborough'. Climate influencing geomorphology?
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Pio XI (or Brüggen) Glacier
Trimetrogon flight
1945
SUPERLATIVE glacier! ❄️
The largest SH glacier outside Antarctica (1260 km²) and the only one that has pervasively advanced over last decades (~10 km!) and is currently at its Neoglacial maximum! 📉
You say weirdo? 🤪
1/
Trimetrogon flight
1945
SUPERLATIVE glacier! ❄️
The largest SH glacier outside Antarctica (1260 km²) and the only one that has pervasively advanced over last decades (~10 km!) and is currently at its Neoglacial maximum! 📉
You say weirdo? 🤪
1/
January 11, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Pio XI (or Brüggen) Glacier
Trimetrogon flight
1945
SUPERLATIVE glacier! ❄️
The largest SH glacier outside Antarctica (1260 km²) and the only one that has pervasively advanced over last decades (~10 km!) and is currently at its Neoglacial maximum! 📉
You say weirdo? 🤪
1/
Trimetrogon flight
1945
SUPERLATIVE glacier! ❄️
The largest SH glacier outside Antarctica (1260 km²) and the only one that has pervasively advanced over last decades (~10 km!) and is currently at its Neoglacial maximum! 📉
You say weirdo? 🤪
1/
Surveying the shore platform at Rinvyle, #Connemara, last week on foot & by drone for our #iCRAG project on coastal erosion. The Dalradian rock platform is backed by a Pleistocene drumlin, the ongoing retreat of which reveals stunning geomorphic structures. @uniofgalway.bsky.social #geography
December 14, 2024 at 2:23 PM
Surveying the shore platform at Rinvyle, #Connemara, last week on foot & by drone for our #iCRAG project on coastal erosion. The Dalradian rock platform is backed by a Pleistocene drumlin, the ongoing retreat of which reveals stunning geomorphic structures. @uniofgalway.bsky.social #geography
#Geography MSc team bushwhacked to the southern end of Lough Corrib in glorious sunshine (!) to collect a sediment core extending back to the end of the ice age in Galway, 17,000 years ago. Lowest 1m is stunning rhythmites from Heinrich Stadial 1 meltdown @uniofgalway.bsky.social #Galway
December 9, 2024 at 9:25 PM
#Geography MSc team bushwhacked to the southern end of Lough Corrib in glorious sunshine (!) to collect a sediment core extending back to the end of the ice age in Galway, 17,000 years ago. Lowest 1m is stunning rhythmites from Heinrich Stadial 1 meltdown @uniofgalway.bsky.social #Galway
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This pm #PRU @uniofgalway.bsky.social was whisked to the Andes (Colombia & Peru) by @gordonbromley.bsky.social. Glacial topography of high Andes (spectacular moraines formed by once active glaciers), dating & climate discussed Now #StormDarragh has arrived in #Galway @wildatlanticway.bsky.social
December 6, 2024 at 9:55 PM
This pm #PRU @uniofgalway.bsky.social was whisked to the Andes (Colombia & Peru) by @gordonbromley.bsky.social. Glacial topography of high Andes (spectacular moraines formed by once active glaciers), dating & climate discussed Now #StormDarragh has arrived in #Galway @wildatlanticway.bsky.social
Wrapped up teaching last week w/ a visit to Galway's unique coastal geomorph. Ice-moulded granite overlain by drowned pine forest (doi.org/10.1177/0959...), overlain by drowned peat bog, capped with modern storm beach. ~20kyr compressed into one tiny strip of coast!
#geography #universityofgalway
#geography #universityofgalway
December 4, 2024 at 12:47 PM
Wrapped up teaching last week w/ a visit to Galway's unique coastal geomorph. Ice-moulded granite overlain by drowned pine forest (doi.org/10.1177/0959...), overlain by drowned peat bog, capped with modern storm beach. ~20kyr compressed into one tiny strip of coast!
#geography #universityofgalway
#geography #universityofgalway