Hugh Pumphrey
@hughpumphrey.bsky.social
Reader in Atmospheric Sci, Sch. of GeoSciences, Uni. of Edinburgh, UK. Works on https://mls.jpl.nasa.gov/ . Walking, singing, Linux, bellringing, astronomy, geology, geophysics and meteorology. Dislikes extreme right or leftwing politics and nationalism.
Bam! Well done, @fdmadsen.bsky.social . (See, not everything at Uni of #Edinburgh is rubbish . . . )
I have found out that the old link didn’t work anymore - not sure what happened there…
Read our blog here!
www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/make-...
Read our blog here!
www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/make-...
December 1, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Bam! Well done, @fdmadsen.bsky.social . (See, not everything at Uni of #Edinburgh is rubbish . . . )
Slidey Santa says that Christmas is on its way.
December 1, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Slidey Santa says that Christmas is on its way.
Particularly disgusted with my alma mater for cosying up to the fagash führer and his loathsome gang. Sure, they have to plan for a variety of futures, but I do not think that this is the way to do it.
One should be in no doubt that most of Britain's elites will simply make their peace with Farage and do a deal, so long as they get left alone or benefit. Tho there is resistance to Trump in the US, it's v much the exception.(1/2) www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Cambridge University cosies up to Reform
The vice-chancellor expects Nigel Farage to model his policies on Trump and says other Russell Group members are meeting his allies
www.thetimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Particularly disgusted with my alma mater for cosying up to the fagash führer and his loathsome gang. Sure, they have to plan for a variety of futures, but I do not think that this is the way to do it.
Rachel Reeves did not tell me that my employer was shovelling cash at a vampire consultancy www.theferret.scot/consultancy-...
December 1, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Rachel Reeves did not tell me that my employer was shovelling cash at a vampire consultancy www.theferret.scot/consultancy-...
It is #BenchmarkMonday ! This is www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm236332 . Not a first log; I was beaten to it by someone else.
December 1, 2025 at 10:10 AM
It is #BenchmarkMonday ! This is www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm236332 . Not a first log; I was beaten to it by someone else.
Sunday outing to Berwick for lunch, with a quick look at Norham castle on the way home. (Keep currently closed off for repairs, but the afternoon sunlight on it was very striking.)
December 1, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Sunday outing to Berwick for lunch, with a quick look at Norham castle on the way home. (Keep currently closed off for repairs, but the afternoon sunlight on it was very striking.)
Oh, look: a bit of actual reporting about what is going on at my dear employer, the University of #Edinburgh:
www.theferret.scot/consultancy-...
(Tagging @ucu.org.uk @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social )
www.theferret.scot/consultancy-...
(Tagging @ucu.org.uk @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social )
‘Nousferatu’: the notorious consultancy advising Edinburgh uni amid 'huge' cuts
Scotland’s largest university has turned to Nous Group at the same time as it is making savings that could lead to nearly 2,000 job losses. Staff say they were misled about the extent of its work.
www.theferret.scot
December 1, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Oh, look: a bit of actual reporting about what is going on at my dear employer, the University of #Edinburgh:
www.theferret.scot/consultancy-...
(Tagging @ucu.org.uk @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social )
www.theferret.scot/consultancy-...
(Tagging @ucu.org.uk @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social )
Up to 92000! Come on, #UnitedKingdom @bsky.app ! We can have this over 100000 by Monday! And will Farage the fagash führer turn up to the resulting debate? I am guessing not . . . petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
November 29, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Up to 92000! Come on, #UnitedKingdom @bsky.app ! We can have this over 100000 by Monday! And will Farage the fagash führer turn up to the resulting debate? I am guessing not . . . petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Gravity meter at the University of #Edinburgh picked up a quake in Indonesia this morning. Signal was not visible on our @raspishake.bsky.social .
November 27, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Gravity meter at the University of #Edinburgh picked up a quake in Indonesia this morning. Signal was not visible on our @raspishake.bsky.social .
Nearly 70000 signatures on this one, people. Let's get it up to 100000 We might find out who is really supporting the fagash führer, and make him appear even more loathsome than he seems now.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
November 27, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Nearly 70000 signatures on this one, people. Let's get it up to 100000 We might find out who is really supporting the fagash führer, and make him appear even more loathsome than he seems now.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
We are properly into the grim depths of winter now. Sunrise only just starting when I got off the train at #Edinburgh Waverley, even though we are off summer time and on GMT. (1/3)
November 26, 2025 at 8:46 AM
We are properly into the grim depths of winter now. Sunrise only just starting when I got off the train at #Edinburgh Waverley, even though we are off summer time and on GMT. (1/3)
I bigged this up yesterday, but I am bigging it up again.
One month until Christmas 🎄 If you are wondering what to get the special geology or history enthusiast in your life, check out the unique rewards we have in our #SiccarPoint #DeepTimeTrail Crowdunder 🎁
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/siccar-point
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/siccar-point
November 25, 2025 at 10:29 AM
I bigged this up yesterday, but I am bigging it up again.
This is a nice example of vertical wind shear: the lower level clouds are clearly going in a different direction to the upper level clouds. #Meteorology
Sunset Ireland (November 24th), [2hr Timelapse] West Field, Galway, Ireland #Sunset #Ireland #Scape #Landscape #Sky #Clouds #SkyScape #Photography #TimeLapse
November 25, 2025 at 8:18 AM
This is a nice example of vertical wind shear: the lower level clouds are clearly going in a different direction to the upper level clouds. #Meteorology
Get signing this one, people. Let's put as much pressure on the fagash führer as possible.
This petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy already has over 26,000 signatures. Let’s get it to 100,000 this week.
Please sign and share 🙏
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Please sign and share 🙏
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy
We are concerned about reported efforts from Russia to influence democracy in the US, UK, Europe and elsewhere. We believe we must establish the depth and breadth of possible Russian influence campaig...
petition.parliament.uk
November 25, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Get signing this one, people. Let's put as much pressure on the fagash führer as possible.
Do chip in and give this project a push. The site is fab, but access is currently difficult: blogs.ed.ac.uk/hughpumphrey...
November 24, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Do chip in and give this project a push. The site is fab, but access is currently difficult: blogs.ed.ac.uk/hughpumphrey...
Well, duh. Yet another example of the current government's failure to understand what is going on.
Aren't foreign student fees pretty much the only thing keeping universities solvent?
i: Reeves to unveil £600m raid on foreign student
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
November 24, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Well, duh. Yet another example of the current government's failure to understand what is going on.
Christmas cake baked!
November 24, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Christmas cake baked!
I am going to keep promoting @thenerve.news until you are all reading it, and until enough people realise how utterly loathsome Nigel Farage is. This from Stewart Lee is bang on.
A pile of toxic filth has been dumped in the British countryside. This has put me in mind of Nigel Farage
This week’s column by Stewart Lee, on Reform poisoning our national discourse
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
This week’s column by Stewart Lee, on Reform poisoning our national discourse
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
November 23, 2025 at 12:22 PM
I am going to keep promoting @thenerve.news until you are all reading it, and until enough people realise how utterly loathsome Nigel Farage is. This from Stewart Lee is bang on.
Everyone needs to keep cheering for @carolecadwalla.bsky.social and @thenerve.news --- they are doing important stuff.
NEW: If you have *any* interest in the Nathan Gill story, you need to look at this.
We’ve put all the dates into a timeline & it’s incredibly revealing.
1/
www.thenerve.news/p/nathan-gil...
We’ve put all the dates into a timeline & it’s incredibly revealing.
1/
www.thenerve.news/p/nathan-gil...
Reform UK and Russian bribes: a Nathan Gill timeline
As Reform’s former leader in Wales is sentenced to ten and a half years for taking bribes from a pro-Russian actor, here's a chronology of his actions and the wider context of Putin, Ukraine and Brexi...
www.thenerve.news
November 22, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Everyone needs to keep cheering for @carolecadwalla.bsky.social and @thenerve.news --- they are doing important stuff.
I do like the hashtag #DisparageTheFarage . Get disparaging, people!
It really is a remarkable coincidence that when Reform's Nathan Gill was being paid to shill for Putin, Reform's Nigel Farage was also shilling for Putin. Occam's razor surely comes into play. #DisparageTheFarage
November 21, 2025 at 1:57 PM
I do like the hashtag #DisparageTheFarage . Get disparaging, people!
Quake in #Bangladesh earlier today detected in #Edinburgh on both the @raspishake.bsky.social and gravity meter. (The quake in the last hour near Japan shows on the gravity meter but not on the Raspberry Shake.)
November 21, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Quake in #Bangladesh earlier today detected in #Edinburgh on both the @raspishake.bsky.social and gravity meter. (The quake in the last hour near Japan shows on the gravity meter but not on the Raspberry Shake.)
I think that @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com has had a fair shot at expressing the disordered rage that many normal people are feeling in this distressing period of history: youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/arent-you-...
this week's newsletter is titled "aren't you tired of feeling insane all the time?" and I think it speaks for itself
it is also free to read
youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/arent-you-...
it is also free to read
youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/arent-you-...
November 21, 2025 at 10:58 AM
I think that @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com has had a fair shot at expressing the disordered rage that many normal people are feeling in this distressing period of history: youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/arent-you-...
WHO DID THIS????!!!
Cheer yourself up and give it a watch, it is hilarious. (Especially for those of us old enough to have lived through the disco cheese era.)
Cheer yourself up and give it a watch, it is hilarious. (Especially for those of us old enough to have lived through the disco cheese era.)
November 19, 2025 at 5:40 PM
WHO DID THIS????!!!
Cheer yourself up and give it a watch, it is hilarious. (Especially for those of us old enough to have lived through the disco cheese era.)
Cheer yourself up and give it a watch, it is hilarious. (Especially for those of us old enough to have lived through the disco cheese era.)
Thank you for this @ledbydonkeys.org . Time for the govt to sack Mr. Gibb as he is clearly not exactly unbiased. Tagging random lab MPs as mine is not on @bsky.app : @secret-labour-mp.bsky.social @pjferguson.bsky.social @darrenpjones.bsky.social @lukemurphy.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Thank you for this @ledbydonkeys.org . Time for the govt to sack Mr. Gibb as he is clearly not exactly unbiased. Tagging random lab MPs as mine is not on @bsky.app : @secret-labour-mp.bsky.social @pjferguson.bsky.social @darrenpjones.bsky.social @lukemurphy.bsky.social