Ruth Mottram
@ruthmottram.eurosky.social
Climate scientist at DMI, Greenland, Antarctica, polar regions in general. Now migrated to eurosky.social on here. Mostly on mastodon though @ruth_mottram@fediscience.org Blogging at sternaparadisaea.net
Truly Denmark is a cycling nation. We are dropping teenager off at efterskole in Jylland today. Every 4th car on the motorway has a bike on the back, presumably with other teens also efterskole-bound. *Efterskole = Voluntary boarding school en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eftersk...
Efterskole - Wikipedia
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Sorry for the most absurdly pompous take imaginable, but it's very frustrating seeing the unrest of Thetford as it appears not one of the racist thugs have reflected on the words of the town's most famous resident, Thomas Paine: "My country is the world, and my religion is to do good."
I find myself holding seemingly contradictory views. On one hand, this is an extraordinary moment. We are watching discoveries built over decades produce treatments, and things are happening now that I couldn't imagine when I started. It is hard not to look at that and feel enormous optimism.
Nicole Rust@nicolecrust.bsky.social · 4d agoUS scientists: Going into fall 26, how are you thinking about things? Following Fall 24 events and a tumultuous spring 25, I remember a convo with a colleague in which we agreed we just needed to wait things out until fall 25 and we'd have some clarity about the landscape (eg for funding). /1
Turns out, if you stop tearing up the seabed, wildlife thrives: ten years after banning bottom trawl fishing, there are 3 times the number of sea creatures + double the number of species in the South Arran MPA, Scotland, than there were before the ban 👏🦪🐟 share.google/2M5WqP3CXwSH...
Seabed life triples after bottom trawling ban in Scotland protected area
Nearly a decade since Scotland established the South Arran Marine Protected Area and banned bottom trawling across much of it, life on the seafloor has thrived, a new study has found. Scientists surve...
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Paul Halpern@phalpern.bsky.social · 6d agoWhen Niels Bohr fled Nazi-occupied Denmark in a fishing boat to Sweden, and then in a high-altitude plane to England, he clutched what he thought was a precious vial of heavy water used to moderate nuclear reactions. In his haste, however, he had brought a bottle of beer instead! #Bohr #physics
(oh s**t) "According to the French Biodiversity Agency (OFB), as of August 1st, 43% of small French streams had ceased to flow or were completely dry (i.e., the water no longer flows). This had never been observed at this level in France before. 2/18"
Dr. Serge Zaka@sergezaka.bsky.social · 6d agoCette carte est gravissime. Mais elle n'a pas fait la une de l'actualité. Pour moi, l'été 2026 marque un tournant. Après celui de 2022, il devient difficile de ne plus parler de "rupture écologique" ou de "point de non retour" pour une partie des milieux aquatiques français. 1/18
Absolutely insane footage of rock avalanches currently sweeping across the entire south face of the Matterhorn, as filmed from Cervinia! 🔥😱 📽️ Via @meteovalledosta
How do we collect data in some of the harshest environments on Earth? 🛰️ SnowPI will combine satellite data, monitoring records and new field campaigns across the Arctic and Antarctic. These data will help improve climate models and support more accurate projections of polar change. #HorizonEU
This was both fascinating and unsettling. Remarkable. They clone polo ponies, don’t they? - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT
They clone polo ponies, don’t they?
Meet the minds behind the sport’s next (and peculiar) high-tech gamble
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There Will Come Soft Rains In 1950 Ray Bradbury wrote a short story called There Will Come Soft Rains. The story appears in a collection called The Martian Chronicles. The title comes from poem of the same title, written in 1918 as a response to the horrors of World War 1: There will come soft…
There Will Come Soft Rains
In 1950 Ray Bradbury wrote a short story called There Will Come Soft Rains. The story appears in a collection called The Martian Chronicles. The title comes from poem of the same title, written in 1918 as a response to the horrors of World War 1: There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground,
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In desperate search for some good news I turned to the Naked Scientists Podcast and I was not disappointed ... Alzheimer's drug breakthrough, and sugar in space Episode webpage: www.thenakedscientists.com/podcasts/nak...
Alzheimer's drug breakthrough, and sugar in space
Plus, three types of severe pneumonia discovered
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I går gik det op for mig, hvor alvorligt det er med #signalkrebs som #invasiv art i vores #åer og #vandløb. Besøgte en kammerat som bor nær #Grenå med en lille å langs haven. Åen løber ud i #Nordkanalen, og vi kom til at tale om, om der måske var #flodkrebs. Der lå 5 krebsefælder, da han købt..
A hero whose heroism consists of killing people is uninteresting to me, and I detest the hormonal war orgies of our visual media, the mechanical slaughter of endless battalions of black-clad, yellow-toothed, red-eyed demons.
Please share: Full-time PhD position on Butterfly Evolution at High Elevations 🦋⛰️ The project aims to understand the evolution and adaptation of Andean white butterflies using genomics. DEADLINE: September 11, 2026 More info: pavelmatos.wordpress.com/join-us/
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Opportunities Below are the positions currently open in our lab. Open PhD position (full time) Comparative and Population Genomics of Butterflies at High Elevations. The project aims to understand …
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Ungarns elnet er presset til det yderste, Rumænien erklærer undtagelsestilstand pga manglende strøm som følge af tørke og lav vandstand, massive skovbrande hærger og fødevarepriser fortsætter opad. Alt er koblet til klimaforandringerne, men som frøen i kogende vand ser vi ingen grund til at handle.
📣 Calling young innovators and leaders! Do you have a scalable solution that can help communities prepare for and respond to the growing impacts of floods and droughts? We'd love to support your project! Learn more and apply by 31 August 👉 bit.ly/WMOYouthLedProjects
ukranian special forces have been the most effective environmental activists of the 21st century
Simon Evans@drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 2w agoWind and solar have just overtaken fossil-fuel power in Germany www.carbonbrief.org/...
Himmel og helvede er nok en abstraktion og fortidens magtfulde mænds instrument til at disciplinere almindelige mennesker. Men lad os sige, de findes. Mon ikke Lindsey skriger om kap med Hitler, Truman, Sharon og de andre massemordere? 🔥🔥🔥
Nye optagelser viser afdød senator juble efter angreb mod Iran: 'Jeg græd næsten'
Optagelserne af Lindsey Graham giver et sjældent indblik i overvejelserne og samtalerne bag USA’s krig mod Iran.
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Unthinkable in China. Unthinkable in Russia. Unthinkable in India. And yes, unthinkable in America. This is Europe.
Eric Adamson@eadamson91.bsky.social · 2w agoIt’s Stockholm Pride Week, and the Swedish Armed Forces will be proudly marching in uniform “to defend your right to be who you are.”
Wowza. Look at this chart on wildfires in France from @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social EFFIS. Red line is cumulative area burned this year; blue line is average since 2006...
Silly policy idea: every young person from age 11 to age 18 gets to spend a week doing out doors-y stuff at a residential retreat/youth hostel/outward bound centre somewhere in the countryside. This includes young people who are working. Just a week, expenses paid, doing fun outdoors-y stuff.
You see everything is connected. The marine heatwaves off the coasts of Europe make heatwaves on land more intense, which in turn dries out vegetation, which then creates perfect fire weather conditions. Brought to you by the world's refusal to drastically reduce the burning of fossil fuels.
Ongoing marine heatwave in the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea | EU Space Support Office
In late May 2026, several countries in Western Europe faced above-average temperatures. During the same period, large areas of the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea also recorded above-average ...
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Et lille udvalg af vilde dyr fra vores skønne danske natur!
One of those stories that makes you want to burn it all down. AI is a DDOS and polymarket appeals to some people's worst instincts stephenfollows.com/p/what-just-...
What just happened to TheNumbers.com should worry us all
If you work in or around the film industry, there is a decent chance you have used the work of The Numbers this month, whether you realise it or not.
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And (speaking as one of the beneficiaries): subsidising ‘opera tickets’ ultimately pays the wages of singers, players , designers, stage management, front of house &c - and also leads to people eating out beforehand, drinking out afterwards and using taxis.
Yes! The "why is the state subsidising opera tickets and tram fares for the middle class?" crowd never quite comprehends how much you need to give it a stake in a welfare system that its taxes are paying for
