At the stage of planning a summer holiday where I'm wondering if I should just stop working early so I can just cycle the Euro Velo network over the next ten years... en.eurovelo.com

People on mastodon seem to like and agree with this. It's very well written and I think they're some of the most useful tips I've seen for planning my summer holiday travels... #FlyingLess

"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 ... drop you within walking distance of your next meeting, + occasionally reroute you down the left bank of the Rhine at golden hour"

When reading the below excerpt, I was reminded of your reflection above: “Begivenheder er ikke gode empiriske grundlag for håb eller frygt, når spørgsmålet handler om historiens retning. Nej, siger Kant, vi skal se på folks reaktion på store begivenheder” www.information.dk/kultur/anmel...

This data on relationship rates amongst young people around the world is striking

Hello world again... Ihave just completed the migration to @eurosky.social - remarkably easy. Everything seems to be working so far, let me know if any hiccups

Jeg havde mistet nyheder at MobilePay går sammen med andre betalingsselskaber i andre europæiske lande. Lyder fedt når det egentlig kommer op til at køre mobilepay.dk/news/vipps-m...

And this is where the tech I use at work comes from 😕 This is where my tech comes from: OS PC/Laptop: 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 OS Smartphone: 🇺🇸 Browser: 🇺🇸 🇳🇴 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 Messaging: 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 E-Mail: 🇺🇸 Microblogging: 🇺🇸 Office Software: 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 Cloud: 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 Payment Service: 🇪🇺 AI: 🇫🇷 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇨🇭 Percentage of 🇺🇸: 75% Created @ fingolas.eu/MyTech

This is interesting. This is where my tech comes from: OS PC/Laptop: 🇬🇧 OS Smartphone: 🇺🇸 Browser: 🇳🇴 🇺🇸 Messaging: 🇺🇸 E-Mail: 🇨🇭 Microblogging: 🇩🇪 🇺🇸 🌍 Office Software: 🇩🇪 🇫🇷 🇨🇭 Cloud: 🇨🇭 🇨🇭 🇺🇸 Payment Service: 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 Streaming: 🇺🇸 🇫🇷 🇫🇷 🇸🇪 AI: 🇫🇷 🇨🇭 Percentage of 🇺🇸: 26% Created @ fingolas.eu/MyTech

What to do about it is a difficult question. Will be interesting to see if smartphone restrictions on kids have any effects - maybe we as parents need to help our kids learn to socialise with strangers more...?

New global analysis of 21,439 rivers (1985–2023) shows Earth’s rivers are steadily losing oxygen Less oxygen = more ecological stress, fish kills, biodiversity loss, & weakened freshwater resilience River deoxygenation is becoming a planetary-scale climate signal www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Fascinating + beautifully visualised analysis, exploring convincingly why birth rates are crashing everywhere. Spoiler: there are many factors, but the smoking gun is a smartphone. Why birth rates are falling everywhere all at once - a limited 🎁 giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

On a more serious note, using microplastics for geoengineering is absolute madness.Beyond the toxic fallout, it risks "Termination Shock." Masking warming traps latent heat. If we stop spraying, temps will spike instantly, collapsing ecosystems.

skriv under på borgerforlaget om at afskaffe palantir i danmark her: www.borgerforslag.dk/se-og-stoet-...

We're hiring at the Department of Archaeology, University of Ljubljana! Palaeolithic and Mesolithic specialist wanted, someone who likes fieldwork, students and hunter-gatherers who left frustratingly little behind. Ljubljana is fine, actually. Deadline July 10. www.uni-lj.si/en/universit...

In case you want to know why the fossil industry is so adamant about "critical" minerals, and the importance of not "rushing" into batteries because, look, that lithium mine really needs to meet all ethic standards the fossil industry itself never has...

Today, the Thames gets its first official bathing spot. A milestone - not a finish line. The fight to restore London's waterways continues.

Ice core reveals longest-ever continuous record of Earth's climate - @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

We don’t talk enough about how the Trump admin has just removed women and people of color from all the front lines of government.

Eurovision, once Europe’s glittering celebration of pop, camp and unity, is facing one of its deepest crises in years.

On Eurovision, @eurcorrespond.bsky.social is spot on: "All of that now feels under threat. And for what again? The participation of a country that is not even geographically in Europe, and whose prime minister is indicted for war crimes... "

Are, like, men ok? What a weird story..

On NSF’s postdoc page, the biology and earth science fields have been completely eliminated; the only remaining fellowships are in math, astronomy, engineering, and “entrepreneurship.” Weird choice not to support research on the life support system for 8 billion people. www.nsf.gov/funding/post...

🚨🚨Quite significant recommendation by @ec.europa.eu published today responding to the European Citizens' Initiative ( #ECI) ‘Ban on conversion practices in the European Union' and clearly a win for #LGBTIQ+ rights. ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

Well, this was tremendous fun from the BBC. Almost enough for me to switch fields to archaeology Listen out for the Babylonian gig economy too In Our Time: The Code of Hammurabi Episode webpage: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... Media file: open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselecto...

Everything you want to know about AMOC changes but were afraid to ask? The Nordic council report has some very powerful but immensely illustrative stories... pub.norden.org/temanord2026...

Very happy to share my last paper published in @natcomms.nature.com on a global dataset of the topography beneath the world´s glaciers 🥳 Check it out here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

What an interesting approach - and paper. Worth a look

The large batteries in trucks and buses present a great opportunity to do so much more good

The difficult thing about sea level rise is how much of it is locked in already: several meters, basically no matter what happens.

And of course what this article completely misses out is the back end, the tech stack all our ecommerce is built on. We need a #Eurostack yesterday...

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

Hvad mon der skal til før olie-liderlige nordmænd vågner op? Ingenting - for de tænker alle sammen "flere penge til os!"

Hmm. www.reuters.com/world/uk/bri...

Life without US tech - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via

I can't help feeling that this kind of thing is a sign of Europeans becoming more united around the idea of Europe - not the singing of the ode to Joy in the Hungarian parliament exactly, but more that this piece crossed my SoMe feed and has apparently been reposted 2300 times...

Of course it's impossible not to think of this

Always a bit funny when places you know well suddenly pass on your timeline. The photo below shows Sankt Kjelds plads - our @dmidk.bsky.social office is just behind and to the right of this picture...

The U.S. has spent billions to lose a war that enriches its oligarchs, impoverishes the citizenry, sabotages its alliances, and strengthens its enemies. Empires have risen and failed before, but to my knowledge no state has ever chosen to kill its own power. snyder.substack.com/p/on-superpo...

Zelensky issued an official presidential decree authorizing Russia to hold its Victory Day parade in Moscow tomorrow. He included the exact coordinates of Red Square. That's it. A+ trolling.

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.

On the great man’s 100th. Thanks, David! open.substack.com/pub/californ... 🌊

Like Antarctic ice cores & the climate perspective they provide? They only happen with the 7 decades of sustained support we’ve given to the National Science Foundation, United States Antarctic Program, and Operation Deep Freeze. My two cents (or 180 seconds):

this really does make me despair. this is a woman who has just got elected as a Reform councillor. she works for the NHS and wants to know “where the money is going”. it’s going on social care, babe

I read (on mastodon, which still and perhaps inexplicably is a much more lively place than here), that the EC have removed their X share button, and have their own social network as preference. eupolicy.social/@hpod16/1165...

The momentum the Liberal Democrats can build through a public perception of being the least crazy party in opposition is underestimated at the moment

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.. www.ippr.org/media-office...

I've spent a fair bit of time on Facebook recently tracking these AI posts for the thread below. It's a v grim and depressing place - but if you want to see how the far-right is managing to influence so many voters (esp within older demographic) spend some time there, too. Manipulation in extremis

To anyone emphasizing the fragmentation of Britain’s politics and the division of the country, I would point out that 1) this is true 2) it is also entirely consistent with many EU countries. Polarisation and disunity and the rise of populism (in various costumes) are not just a British phenomenon.