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Ruth Mottram @Ruth_Mottram@fediscience.org

· 7h ago

Ok fedizens, I will shortly be driving a rental EV around rural northern and Western Germany, (+ possibly SE Belgium) - what apps should I download and prepare for charging? Any suggestions on good plans to sign up for? #EV #AskFedi #AlwaysBeCharging

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Ruth Mottram @Ruth_Mottram@fediscience.org

· 1d ago

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Antarctic snows For most of this century, the Antarctic Ice Sheet has been losing mass at a pretty steady rate of around 100 Gigatonnes a year, pushing up global sea levels a small amount (about one third of a millimetre per year in fact, a little less than half the Greenland contribution for example). Antarctica is by far the biggest potential contributor to future sea level rise, so this is the number we all watch rather closely, as we also discussed the other week… http://sternaparadisaea.net/2026/10/06/antarctic-snows/

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Ruth Mottram @Ruth_Mottram@fediscience.org

· 5d ago

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TFW your #Ukraine based colleague apologises for missing a meeting because of transport collapse triggered by Russian attack. But not to worry "because the paper is coming along fine." 😢 F them all to hell. 😡

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Ruth Mottram @Ruth_Mottram@fediscience.org

· 2w ago

Boosted by @trending@homestead.social

This, from the European Correspondent, is a very good way of showing that even though they fill a lot of the media time, the far right are very far from the majority in any country (possible exceptions are Poland Hungary), the main question then is how to ensure the majority views are better represented. https://europeancorrespondent.com/en/r/going-far-right

The European Correspondent

Going far right?

Support for far-right parties across Europe has increased in recent years. Added up across the continent, they won 23.5% of votes in the five countries that…

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Ruth Mottram @Ruth_Mottram@fediscience.org

· 3w ago

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Love the Irish. Imagine they were inspired by Celtic cousins in Scotland? https://tech.lgbt/@Natasha_Jay/117264797974236358 Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt - Protesters at the Irish Open 🇮🇪 😂 ⛳ (it's at the Orange one's international golf links and hotel Doonbeg, Ireland)

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Ruth Mottram @Ruth_Mottram@fediscience.org

· 2w ago

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Good morning all, for those of you who missed it last week, here's the last call on what wordpress informs me is my 💯 th post... We've been measuring the loss of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets for half a century now, read on for what we have discovered .. http://sternaparadisaea.net/2026/09/17/half-a-century-of-ice-loss-the-new-imbie-dataset/

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Ruth Mottram @Ruth_Mottram@fediscience.org

· 2mo ago

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Never thought I'd say this, but it's actually too hot to hike in Scotland just now. We are suffering from the heat. Not complaining but genuinely surprised. #ClimateDiary

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Ruth Mottram @Ruth_Mottram@fediscience.org

· 3w ago

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Yes! Please make this film.someone. i would watch it! Casting should include Mads Mikkelsen as Deutsche Bahn boss trying to work how to get the crossing through Hamburg to work on time .. https://mastodon.online/@Pepijn/117263597189188108 Pepijn@mastodon.online - I would seriously enjoy watching this movie btw. It can become a proper feel good story about two young people on a shared (connected digitally, then physically) adventure. And by traveling by train it can also be a very #european story. Traveling by train also makes for an excellent opportunity to show lots of relatable human interaction on the way, both on trains and in the places along the way. Anyway. I'd watch it. #film #europe #train

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Ruth Mottram @Ruth_Mottram@fediscience.org

· 4mo ago

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"DB will let you down. It will also, more often than the internet would have you believe, deliver you eight hours of clean uninterrupted thinking time at 250 km/h across a country, drop you within walking distance of your next meeting, and occasionally reroute you down the left bank of the Rhine at golden hour as an apology. The trick is to plan for the first and enjoy the second.' The most useful hints I've ever seen for our summer holiday planning... https://blog.hofstede.it/a-field-manual-for-three-years-on-deutsche-bahn/

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Ruth Mottram @Ruth_Mottram@fediscience.org

· 3mo ago

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The US special envoy sent to negotiate with Greenland and Denmark, used the occasion of Greenland's National Day to suggest that already next year they will be the 51st state. I cannot express my feelings about this without swearing very very loudly. https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/politik/jeff-landry-maaske-kan-groenland-blive-usa-s-51-stat-allerede-naeste-aar

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Ruth Mottram @Ruth_Mottram@fediscience.org

· 3w ago

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I'm on board with basically all of this but I miss the focus on climate, green transition and biodiversity... https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/117262489741948435 EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu - What can we expect for the year ahead? 🇪🇺 This week, President Ursula von der Leyen will deliver the State of the Union address, laying out the concrete steps that will shape Europe’s future. As we move from promise to progress, our 5 core priorities are: 🛡️ Security & Defence 🤝 Support for Ukraine 🚀 Competitiveness & AI innovation 📱 Social Media & child safety online More info: https://link.europa.eu/v9vtvh

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European Commission: "What can we expect for the year ahead? 🇪🇺 This…" - European Commission on Mastodon

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Ruth Mottram @Ruth_Mottram@fediscience.org

· 2mo ago

In desperate search for some good news I turned to theNaked Scientists Podcast and I was not disappointed ... Alzheimer's drug breakthrough, and sugar in space Episode webpage: https://www.thenakedscientists.com/podcasts/naked-scientists-podcast/alzheimers-drug-breakthrough-and-sugar-space Media file: https://flex.acast.com/downloads.nakeddiscovery.com/downloads/active/Naked_Scientists_Show.26.07.17.mp3

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Ruth Mottram @Ruth_Mottram@fediscience.org

· 1mo ago

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This👇 https://mastodon.world/@SuneAuken/117222990990397690 From @SuneAuken@mastodon.world - If your first reaction to a positive development is to start listing why it's not enough, I'll block you. The development probably came about through the concerted, intelligent efforts of a lot of people. You're telling them their efforts do not matter. More work needs doing. We all know that. Keep you allies standing to do the work. Appreciate what they have done and what they are doing.

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Ruth Mottram @Ruth_Mottram@fediscience.org

· 2w ago

New piece on the blog on the #IMBIE paper that has just come out. How healthy are the ice sheets? What is driving their mass change and what do we know now after a half a century of observations by satellites? #iceSheets #SeaLevelRise #ClimateChange #ClimateImpacts #EO #SatelliteData Half a century of ice loss: the new IMBIE dataset http://sternaparadisaea.net/2026/09/17/half-a-century-of-ice-loss-the-new-imbie-dataset/

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Ruth Mottram @Ruth_Mottram@fediscience.org

· 3mo ago

😂 AI Economics for Dummies - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ai-economics-for-dummies

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Ruth Mottram @Ruth_Mottram@fediscience.org

· 4w ago

Boosted by @trending@homestead.social

Publication day! Our finalised paper on melange processes at Greenland glacier fronts and what it means for calving glacier stability is finally out... If you want to know what I've been doing in #Greenland the last few years, why it is so important and what conclusions we have drawn, I've written a hopefully easy to follow summary here: http://sternaparadisaea.net/2026/09/09/a-jumble-of-broken-ice-and-what-it-means-for-greenlands-calving-glaciers/

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Ruth Mottram @Ruth_Mottram@fediscience.org

· 4mo ago

I have been slowly moving away from US controlled tech, the remaining bits are ones I can't control really: banking + payments, DK state ITs love affair with microsoft, apps needed to access state services.
And if someone can come up with a way to persuade teenagers this is cool. That would be nice.
Of course what the piece misses is the huge commercial reliance on the back end stack.

We desperately need #Eurostack.

@Ruth_Mottram@fediscience.org
Ruth_Mottram - Life without US tech - https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/e6d8cec7-b20c-4707-b963-88348726215a

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Ruth Mottram @Ruth_Mottram@fediscience.org

· 3mo ago

Have just started using Ente for secure, privacy focused photo back up and organisation. So far I am actually pretty impressed. It's lightning fast and very easy to navigate - and I have tens of thousands of photos that it's definitely helping me to organise and search through easily. And share with non-Ente users too. It's miles better than Flickr as a UI experience. This is a test period before I decide if I migrate rest of family too. However, I was under the impression the company was German/Dutch but it unfortunately appears to be US incorporated - even though the servers are supposed to be in NL, F and DE. It just makes me very suspicious that at some point the company will be sold off and the creeping enshittification will start again. It is very frustrating. I could but am not very keen to self host. I have far too many other things going on in my life for that. But it does look like immich or memories for nextcloud is the only other good option. And this probably epitomises why most people just stick with (mostly US) big tech. It is so much easier and less effort than working out what the alternatives are.

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Ruth Mottram @Ruth_Mottram@fediscience.org

· 2mo ago

Boosted by @trending@homestead.social

Loving your family in 2026 is discovering your female family members using insecure 3rd party apps to track their menstrual cycles and sitting down to write a private and secure one for them to use instead...

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Ruth Mottram @Ruth_Mottram@fediscience.org

· 2mo ago

🚨new publication alert🚨 Some types of El Niño lead to more melt over the Ross Ice Shelf in #Antarctica. In our paper led by PhD student Sanjiban Dutta, we look at the synoptic relationship where Eastern Pacific El Niños channel warm moist air over the Ross Ice Shelf. One to watch with the current #ElNino building.. #ClimateDiary https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2025JD045932

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Ruth Mottram @Ruth_Mottram@fediscience.org

· 1mo ago

An improbable mix up appears to be delivering the magazine of the Danish veal producers to members of the Danish meteorological society...

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Ruth Mottram @Ruth_Mottram@fediscience.org

· 2mo ago

Cocktail

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Ruth Mottram @Ruth_Mottram@fediscience.org

· 3w ago

Boosted by @trending@homestead.social

Today! See you later? https://fediscience.org/@Ruth_Mottram/117245920950114136 Ruth_Mottram - In Brussels and at a loose end tomorrow (Friday 11th September) evening? Come and join us and our Ukrainian colleagues from National Antarctic Scientific Center of #Ukraine to talk Penguins, Floats and Balloons and learn more about our OCEAN ICE work on the #Antarctic peninsula 5pm to 6.30pm at the Museum of Natural Sciences in Brussels. There will also be refreshments on offer and activities for children so bring the whole family. Reserve a spot: https://www.eventbrite.de/e/a-story-of-penguins-floats-and-balloons-in-antarctica-tickets-1990394996013

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Ruth Mottram: "In Brussels and at a loose end tomorrow (Friday 1…" - FediScience.org

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Ruth Mottram @Ruth_Mottram@fediscience.org

· 2mo ago

Boosted by @trending@homestead.social

I no longer remember who it was but thanks for the electroverse recommendations for #EV driving in Scotland - may be the easiest app I've ever used to charge rental EV cars (and I've tried a lot!) It's also remarkable how many chargers there are now in Scotland - even at remote Ardnamurchan Point #TheTimesTheyAreAChanging

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Ruth Mottram @Ruth_Mottram@fediscience.org

· 4mo ago

Everything you want to know about AMOC changes but were afraid to ask?
The Nordic council report on the impact of #AMOC slowdown has some very powerful but immensely illustrative stories.

https://pub.norden.org/temanord2026-504/storylines.html

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Ruth Mottram @Ruth_Mottram@fediscience.org

· 3mo ago

Boosted by @trending@homestead.social

And here is an indigenous viewpoint from the Arctic: https://policylabs.frontiersin.org/content/policy-outlook-geoengineering-inuit-homelands https://fediscience.org/@Ruth_Mottram/116769466126905589 Ruth_Mottram - Flurry of articles, including in the Guardian on the very well funded but seriously misguided efforts to geoengineer the Arctic by growing sea ice, reminds me that it is probably time to report our critical article on the subject.. https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/science/articles/10.3389/fsci.2025.1527393/full

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Ruth Mottram @Ruth_Mottram@fediscience.org

· 3mo ago

Boosted by @trending@homestead.social

I have no intention of signing up for W currently, but I might consider it if we can get it to replace LinkedIn. Either way I am planning to stay here.. https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/116770333053823108 aral@mastodon.ar.al - Needless to say, do not sign up for W or give them your ID information no matter how simple they eventually manage to make it. You simply don’t need to. You’re already in a far superior – non-corporate, federated – space. Do not sign up for W. And warn your friends. The only time you have any power to stop this is now. If they succeed in gaining network effects, you will be as powerless to stop them as you are with X. And yes, they’re just another venture capital funded surveillance capitalist, people farmer, and burgeoning Nazi Bar. They just happen to be based in the EU. (As Nazi Bars traditionally have been.) #WSocial #NoWNoX #surveillance #capitalism #BigTech #VC @_elena https://mastodon.social/@_elena/116770291207686239

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Aral Balkan: "Needless to say, do not sign up for W or give the…" - Aral’s fediverse server

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Ruth Mottram @Ruth_Mottram@fediscience.org

· 3mo ago

Judging by number of Danes on this #dfds passenger ferry, it is surely time for a reopening of the Esbjerg ferry to UK to facilitate #FlyingLess? - especially as people seek cooler climates for summer holidays, rather than warm ones

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Ruth Mottram @Ruth_Mottram@fediscience.org

· 5mo ago

Dear British people, following your local elections, I regret to inform you that you are going to need to spend more time in the pub..

https://www.ippr.org/media-office/closure-of-community-spaces-fuelled-tinderbox-for-far-right-to-spark-southport-riots-says-report

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Ruth Mottram @Ruth_Mottram@fediscience.org

· 5mo ago

It's Europe Day and perhaps fittingly I'm sitting in a sunny garden enjoying the bird song and re-reading this magisterial work by Neil MacGregor. It's about Germany, but it's also about the heart of Europe.

Huge recommend.

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Ruth Mottram @Ruth_Mottram@fediscience.org

· 4mo ago

Boosted by @trending@homestead.social

Narwahls are critically dependent on the marginal ice zone in Northern Greenland. "it provides both feeding opportunities and refuge from predators. Continued loss of seasonal sea ice is therefore expected to alter narwhal movement patterns, potentially increasing fjord residency and reducing inter-fjord movements. Such behavioural shifts could have cascading ecological effects, altering prey dynamics and reducing genetic exchange among regional narwhal groups." My colleagues do *such* cool research.. . https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-53787-8

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Ruth Mottram @Ruth_Mottram@fediscience.org

· 3mo ago

Boosted by @trending@homestead.social

Every year I am stupidly late booking family holiday as the experience of booking train tickets was toooo depressing. This year (I'm still late), a reply to my post the other day about travel sickness on swedish trains reminded me of the railfinder.eu site and honestly - it's a revelation. Doesn't cover everywhere yet, but definitely going to be using it a lot more for international rail travel in Europe. https://www.railfinder.eu

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Ruth Mottram @Ruth_Mottram@fediscience.org

· 1mo ago

Boosted by @trending@homestead.social

An interesting aspect is that for the first 2 weeks, the young people at efterskole have all their screens taken away. And apparently this is a popular choice among the teenagers themselves https://www.efterskolerne.dk/om-efterskoleforeningen/nyheder/skaerm/unge-oensker-en-pause-fra-skaermen-paa-efterskolen/ https://fediscience.org/@Ruth_Mottram/117064929859511737 Ruth_Mottram - Dropping one of the teenagers off at efterskole today, every 4th car on the motorway has a bike on the back, presumably also with teens efterskole-bound. It's a rite of passage and also a kind of reverse migration to the countryside away from the city. *Efterskole is an optional year, usually at a boarding school between basic school and 6th form/further education (in British terms). Around 40% of Danish kids do it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efterskole

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Ruth Mottram @Ruth_Mottram@fediscience.org

· 3mo ago

The Copenhell Metal Festival is on this week, just in time for the heat wave and whoever thought of this is genius. #Copenhagen #Copenhell #Heatwave #Wx

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Ruth Mottram @Ruth_Mottram@fediscience.org

· 2mo ago

Boosted by @trending@homestead.social

Essential thread 👇 https://mastodon.social/@weatherwest/116989729029443214 weatherwest@mastodon.social - In recent weeks, there has been a remarkable surge in large, intense, fast-moving, and unfortunately in many cases destructive/deadly wildfires in multiple Northern Hemisphere regions spanning a wide range of climates & ecologies, but they all share one key commonality. [Thread]

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Ruth Mottram @Ruth_Mottram@fediscience.org

· 3mo ago

Boosted by @trending@homestead.social

A question for my #FediScot friends: if you were to shortly be driving around Scotland (specifically western Highlands) in an #EV - what apps and maps would you use to find and load up at public chargers? #AskFedi #Scotland

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Ruth Mottram @Ruth_Mottram@fediscience.org

· 3mo ago

On flow, familiarity, culture and zombie flow. I think I'd argue the Fediverse does not encourage zombie flow, and is maybe "the right kind of hard" as Derek Thompson puts it here. Fascinating stuff. https://www.derekthompson.org/p/how-zombie-flow-took-over-culture

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Ruth Mottram @Ruth_Mottram@fediscience.org

· 3mo ago

Boosted by @trending@homestead.social

This was really excellent overview of what hybrid warfare is, how it is evolving and what we can do about #Russia's hybrid tactics. Mildly Alarmed: Russia’s Hybrid Warfare in Europe Episode webpage: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mildly-alarmed/episodes/Russias-Hybrid-Warfare-in-Europe-e3kcmeu Media file: https://anchor.fm/s/111aff124/podcast/play/121051038/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-5-5%2F425571617-44100-2-86a394f96ae91.mp3

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Ruth Mottram @Ruth_Mottram@fediscience.org

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@Tony_Meredith@mastodon.me.uk @wifsten@mas.to we miss pubs in the countryside though the kro exists, but Danes are very keen members of all manner of foreninger (organisations), everything from sports to special interests and campaigns - i think it fills a certain similar social 3rd space.

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Ruth Mottram @Ruth_Mottram@fediscience.org

· 5mo ago

Currently making some tutorials for our next hackathon - should I upload them to codeberg (and make the students use that)? Or github (where they almost certainly already have accounts)? #DigitalSovereignty... #AcademicChatter

Currently making some tutorials for our next hackathon - should I upload them to codeberg (and make the students use that)? Or github (where they almost certainly already have accounts)? #DigitalSovereignty... #AcademicChatter

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Ruth Mottram @Ruth_Mottram@fediscience.org

· 5mo ago

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@Tony_Meredith@mastodon.me.uk @wifsten@mas.to I do however have a very lovely proper pub with a beer garden (which however our local authority wants to build on 😕), run by 3 Irish blokes, so I definitely have my 3rd space sorted...

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Ruth Mottram @Ruth_Mottram@fediscience.org

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@Alejandro_P always welcome to come for a visit! We regularly have visitors working on related projects!

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Ruth Mottram @Ruth_Mottram@fediscience.org

· 3mo ago

On the ghosts, and lessons, of Versailles. Ukraine’s war is now longer than the first world war https://www.economist.com/europe/2026/06/11/ukraines-war-is-now-longer-than-the-first-world-war?giftId=YzE5ZmMzZTUtMjYyMS00NmU5LThiMjQtZGQ5NTQ3MDRiODQx&utm_campaign=gifted_article

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Ruth Mottram @Ruth_Mottram@fediscience.org

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@Tony_Meredith@mastodon.me.uk @wifsten@mas.to yes indeed. That's partly why I posted ..

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Ruth Mottram @Ruth_Mottram@fediscience.org

· 4mo ago

Replying to

@michammel@mastodon.social ja, det må man sige

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Ruth Mottram @Ruth_Mottram@fediscience.org

· 3mo ago

Wow. This is bizarrely not good. And what terrible style from the US Ambassador (consciously mimicking the political boss apparently.) https://newsletter-cdn.europeancorrespondent.com/go/ke13kj8tcubr40vq9qd84lufzqttn6rj00vksswk877i/2866

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Ruth Mottram @Ruth_Mottram@fediscience.org

· 3mo ago

Five good things instead of three today:

Passed mid term project review with flying colours, technical officer proclaimed himself "impressed" (phew).
Visited super cool facility at DTU and learned a lot about measuring sunlight. Hopefully the start of some interesting new collaborations
Took my 2 wonderful teens out for vegan hotpot dinner in Vesterbro to celebrate end of their exams.
Lay out in garden listening to the blackbirds and identified 5 separate bee species within 10 mins
Tea and TV on the sofa with aforementioned teens just relaxing.

Perfect day really. #threegoodthings

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Ruth Mottram @Ruth_Mottram@fediscience.org

· 3mo ago

Fantastisk dybt rapportering om Albanien, Trump, Kushner, EU, demokrati og naturbeskyttelseslove Genstart: Ivankas albanske ferieparadis Episode webpage: https://www.dr.dk/lyd/special-radio/genstart-2642056922000 Media file: https://api.dr.dk/podcasts/v1/assets/urn:dr:podcast:item:11802660153/93c072b83648c4d4315901ba9e28c97ae282db64fb6737aa2bef6b71232b19da.mp3

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Ruth Mottram @Ruth_Mottram@fediscience.org

· 3mo ago

And we've done it! The all time Danish heat record of 36.4C broken with 37C, the previous June record (from1947) beaten by a full 1.5C. Also warmest tropical night on record and earliest crossing of 30C (well before midday) also set. The previous all time heat record was set in August 1975* in Holbæk. So, Yay is, I guess? *Not a typo for UK readers, 1976 was record there, 1975 was warmer in Denmark. https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/vejret/37-0-grader-gav-ny-dansk-varmerekord

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Ruth Mottram @Ruth_Mottram@fediscience.org

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@noodlemaz@mstdn.games yes I agree. The cesspit of AI rageslop on Facebook has a lot to answer for...

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