Antonia Mochan
@antoniamochan.com
European official, opsimath. Job: EU policy lab - innovative policymaking. Life: Knitting, crochet, theatre, my family, my friends and my dogs. FRSA, Eisenhower Fellow. #EUsky for EU-related stuff. Don’t DM me, I’m not doing that verification nonsense.
Much the way other countries feature their, er, king…?
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 3w agoNew $1 coin featuring Trump in production at US Mint, treasury says
Could we have Farage v Binface? I wouldn’t want to call that one…
Top work Belgium, both on the pitch and by your social media team
Belgian Red Devils@belreddevils.bsky.social · 4w agoOverturn this! 😎
Good to read how @uclei.bsky.social used our Polycrisis toolkit #eupolicylab ucleuropeblog.com/2026/05/17/p...
Polycrises and Uncertainty: Teaching Strategic Foresight
What if good policy design began by planning for what has yet to happen? Students from the UCL Diplomacy society tested strategic foresight toolkits designed by the European Commission.
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Top night at the AB powered by Tinariwen, ably supported by Sulaf, a wonderful Sudanese singer. How lucky we are to have access to fabulous live music like this
Quite cool to see that the three senior Commission officials responsible for AI in public administration are all women!
Work travel can have its upside. This was the view from my hotel window this morning
I’ve signed up to the Bxl Tour. Can’t quite believe it’s me. Let’s talk on 15 June to see how I feel about this decision…!
A comment from today’s #polyfutures that I will be using elsewhere. When something is complex, you can try to force simplicity on it, or you can try to bring clarity, and it’s important to understand the difference.
In Temse to watch the Tour of Flanders roll through. Flemish separatists (VVB) handing Flemish flags out to all the spectators.
Our trip out to the Schelde area to watch the Tour of Flanders tomorrow has already been worth it - passed Groupama FDJ team out on a training ride!
I picked up my new bike on Monday. I have cycled more this week than any time since I was at uni in the Netherlands (1992). Let’s hope I keep it up.
My Brussels tip for the day: STIB have a WhatsApp channel for realtime info on the network. Follow the STIB channel on WhatsApp: whatsapp.com/channel/0029...
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Channel • 36K followers • Le canal officiel de la STIB - Société des transports intercommunaux de Bruxelles
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“500 years ago the church lost the truth argument to science. Now science is losing the truth argument to social media” 💥from @janmarcoscience.bsky.social
I’m on a panel this morning at the European Partnership for Brain Health. Will probably (😝) talk about the work we have done on anticipatory governance of neurotech. publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/h...
Emerging applications of neurotechnology and their implications for EU governance
This report sums up recent developments in neurotechnology, that is, technology that can read and modify activity from the central nervous system. Some devices record information from the brain, and o...
publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu
Exciting news about my yarn side hustle. Not only have I moved digitally (set up a new website and moved domains to an ethical cloud provider) I'm going physical, setting up a studio in a creative co-working space here in Brussels: purlandchain.eu/news-and-eve...
Moving to a new home — Purl and Chain
It's an exciting time for this little side hustle of mine. I've completely outgrown my house and have taken the plunge to move into a separate studio. I've...
purlandchain.eu
Just deactivated my X account, after not using it for almost3 years. Feels great.
I'm taking 2026 to do a digital makeover - to wean myself off the big tech and find interesting alternatives. Follow along if you're interested in the process (and please feel free to suggest an alternative to Substack...!) open.substack.com/pub/digitalm...
The start of the makeover - admitting you need one
How I'm going to try to clean up my tech stack over the course of 2026
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Who would have thought that 2025 would see me becoming something of an internal reference on neurotechnology? This work, with a huge contribution by Beth Parkin, was probably my professional highlight of the year.
Antonia Mochan@antoniamochan.com · last yr.Great rejoicing that our report on emerging applications of neurotechnology and their implications for policymakers is now out. Applying tech foresight to think about governance of an emerging technology: policy-lab.ec.europa.eu/news/explori...
Thinking that Johannes Radebe should be prescribed on the NHS…#scd