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Party family vote shares in Europe after Portugal's election: Right-wing 23.9% (+0.1) Conservative 23.6% (+0.1) Social democrat 21.7% (-0.1) Liberal 11.3% (=) Socialist 7.6% (-0.1) Green 4.7% (=)

Tonight, Europe showed love to JJ and Austria! Congratulations on winning #Eurovision2025!

Tonight's #Eurovision2025 final will have the highest proportion of non-English songs ever seen since language freedom was introduced in 1999 - 65%! The figure rose even higher after this week's semi-finals. 9 of the 11 songs eliminated were in English.

OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*. What the HELL? 1/

Welcome to the Birds Gala, where nature's most stylish creatures shine. From golden pheasants to Gouldian finches, birds are vibrant examples of biodiversity. Amidst biodiversity loss, we must act urgently #ForNature to protect birds & the ecosystems vital for life on Earth.

And it hardly even seems newsworthy, but the global mean surface temperature two days ago, on April 24th, hit a new record daily high according to ERA5 data. The Climate 8-ball doesn't know who is in charge and is refusing to make predictions.

Today, we fined Apple €500 million & Meta €200 million for breaching the Digital Markets Act. Apple restricts developers from steering consumers to offers outside the App store. Meta doesn't let users choose a service that uses less personal data. These are the first DMA fines. europa.eu/!9RDQmk

Nahrungsergänzungsmittel, russische Propakanda, Fake-News: Facebook ist voll mit dubioser Werbung. Das Problem wäre wohl lösbar – wenn der Konzern wollte.

Away from work she's a mom to baby boy Niko and has a loving husband.

‘In a twist that befuddled researchers for a year, almost no human beings visit the sites, which are hard to browse or search. Instead, their content is aimed at crawlers, the software programs that scour the web & bring back content for search engines & LLMs’ www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Copernicus has an amazing 'toolbox' that shows air pollution in Europe and allows you to instantly model reductions from different sources. On today's map of anthropogenic PM10 pollution I've just 'removed' agriculture's contribution... and most pollution is gone! shorturl.at/8vkqi

so i'm in the climate skeptics subreddit for some reason (i'm a masochist) and have been horrified to find that they've latched onto a "paper" "written" by Grok 3 as "evidence" that humans are not causing global warming www.reddit.com/r/climateske...

🎉 Happy birthday to Henrik Stiesdal, wind energy pioneer & co-inventor of the modern wind turbine. In 1979, he sold a 3-blade design to Vestas — a blueprint that shaped global wind technology. May the wind always be at your back! 💨

1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but 2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but 3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So 4. Now the LLM code points to malware.

Flower parade in the Netherlands today... @esa.int with a great show, Ariane 6 rocket 🚀

Nearly $7 trillion USD is invested annually in activities harming nature, while investments in Nature-based Solutions total only around $200 billion. It’s time to flip these numbers. Check UNEP’s State of Finance for Nature for more data: financefornature.unep.org

Bluesky has overtaken its flailing rival X in hosting posts related to new academic research, indicating the platform is fast becoming the go-to place for scholars to share their work #AcademicSky #EduSky

In response to Conner Dougherty's NYT article, it's helpful to revisit a piece I wrote. In the USA, the poorer you are, the greater percentage of your income you spend on transportation. In the EU, it's the opposite. Why? USA has car-dependent sprawl, EU has good transit. itdp.org/2024/01/24/h...

If you like both the EU and typography, you’ll be interested to know the Commission’s sprawling website is this week starting to move our typography to Inter by @rsms.me. It’s all still work in progress but I already love the look. Check it out ➡️ commission.europa.eu/priorities-2...

For veterans of the Eurozone crisis, this is quite incredible - today Greece has a lower borrowing cost than both the UK and the US for their 10 year bonds. I had to check, all of the previous so called 'PIIGS' (Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece, Spain) have lower borrowing costs than the US today.

Here are the daily color stripes, from January 1, 1940 and updated through April 5, 2025.

Important story that might be buried under another day of Trump induced market turmoil - there is mounting evidence that Russian actors had at least knowledge of some of the terror attacks that heavily influenced Germany‘s election campaign before they happened:

Just had this blog comment on a post about the delays in prosecuting Trump, and I am convinced it is generated by AI. I have thousands of comments over the years, and this is just so neat and formulaic. It links back to a legal blog site, which in turn seems generated by AI. What a prospect.

Independent media are lifelines for democracy & open societies. At @europarl.europa.eu this week, I reaffirmed my commitment to stand up for free media like Radio Free Europe. Failing to protect them, we hand a victory to autocrats. In 🇪🇺, where freedom prevails, we can never allow this to happen.

You know how the richest EU countries are still poorer than the poorest US states? Well, the richest Americans live shorter lives than poor Europeans. But hey, at least they live much longer than the poorest Americans 🤔 arstechnica.com/health/2025/...

#30daychartchallenge here we go! #Day1 - Fraction I was already 2 years into my PhD focused on EU border regions when I found out that nearly 30% of the population lives in border regions. I think that is quite a number, making it worth studying those often neglected regions 📊 📚

1) Remember how media in 2024 painted "once peaceful Sweden" as collapsing in violence? Well, murder stats for 2024 came out today. Number of homicides per capita in 2024 was the lowest in 13 years, and one of the lowest in the past 50 years. Will media cover this? Not likely.

In Germany the only source of electricity that keeps growing and growing: renewable energy. Solar and wind keep expanding and even though nuclear is no more coal generation has already shrunk significantly and keeps falling.

Interested in the international dimensions of political misinformation? Fantastically important special issue by @eddahumprecht.bsky.social, @sebavalenz.bsky.social, @esserfrank.bsky.social, & Edson Tandoc is now out in the International Journal of Press/Politics! #IJPP #PolComm #Commsky #PoliSky

Extreme heat is driving coal consumption to power cooling.

Meanwhile on Twitter, a bunch of big-name accounts all just happened to organically start posting about a “war on soda.” 🤷🏻

“Cities have turned any physical and cognitive characteristics that diverge from the profile of the typical productive actor into features of vulnerability. Being four years old is not, in principle, a shortcoming, but the city turns that into a vulnerability because they may get run over by cars…”

MONSTER HEAT WAVE IN NORTH AFRICA 45C 2 days ago at Ayoun el Atrous,MAURITANIA which tied its March record Crazy day in ALGERIA >40C from South to North RECORDS 42.5 Bordji Mokhtar 41.9 In Salah 40.8 Hassi Messaoud 40.4 Rhourd Nouss 40.2 Ouargla 38.9 Krechba TUNISIA also >37C!

Eight weeks ago, I jokingly imagined a podcast where scholars could (expertly) hate on historical figures. Almost 100,000 people thought it was a good idea. I am so incredibly excited to announce that the first episodes of my brand new show This Guy Sucked will be released March 20th!

Extreme Climate & Weather Events - March 2025 🧵 bsky.app/profile/clim...

Travail important de Météo-France qui explique ce que signifie réellement +4°C. Par exemple, cela veut potentiellement dire des étés avec 50°C à Paris. Et perso, j'en ai pas du tout envie.

"If we have the power to turn another planet into Earth, then we have the power to turn Earth back into Earth." - Neil deGrasse-Tyson @neildegrassetyson.com

Apropos of nothing; ❤️ @bsky.app 📈 but it's incredibly US centric still, see Top 500 list: vqv.app A few European starter packs: European Union Politics: go.bsky.app/Bg7sPSp European Think tanks: go.bsky.app/8Ra8RjU EU/UK tech policy: go.bsky.app/TJ2xTce Digital democracy: bsky.app/starter-pack...

The top 25 political and news accounts on X in the past 30 days.

Die Dürre ist zurück in Deutschland. Nördlich des Mains hat es im März 2025 bislang noch gar nicht geregnet, an zwanzig Wetterstationen im Norden wurde kein einziger Tropfen registriert. Nun drohen Brände, besonders im Nordosten.

🚨 New preprint 🚨 Are climate scientists less trusted than scientists in general? 🤔🌍 Yes, we find evidence of a significant trust gap between climate scientists and scientists in general. 👇🧵 osf.io/preprints/os...

"The first year of a scheme in Wales where the speed limit on urban roads was lowered to 20mph resulted in about 100 fewer people killed or seriously injured." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

🇪🇺 EU to double funding to attract US #scientists fleeing #Trump “Just as some of the greatest minds of the 20th century left Europe for the USA, fleeing Hitler, there may now be a reverse tide of researchers leaving Trump’s US and settling in the EU.” english.elpais.com/internationa...

Personality Leakage You think you're posting casually — but every like, comment, and pause leaks information. Personality leakage is when platforms and trackers infer deep traits from shallow actions. The risk? You're profiled without consent. 🧵

Context. . .

I recently had a conversation with someone who said they use ChatGPT to write resumes and cover letters because HR managers are also using AI to screen resumes, and I…? If HR is using AI to screen resumes and applicants are using AI to write them, what problem have you solved?

Latest study to confirm that nature conservation works. “Humans have gotten pretty good at what could be considered 'A&E' conservation—focusing on species at very high risk of extinction... We need to move beyond treating the symptoms of biodiversity loss and start addressing the root causes”

“According to analysis conducted by Bloomberg which looked at over a million Community Notes that have been listed in X’s system, the vast majority are never actually shown to users of the app, despite many of those unpublished notes being deemed to be both helpful and accurate.”