I mean, it's almost like they've never heard of Betteridge's law..

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your energy bills are rising because they're forcing you to use millions-years-old sunlight instead of today's

"Pokrovsk is not the end of the story, but should be a wake-up call. “Russia has gained a sense of courage,” says intelligence source. “It is time for everyone at home + in the West to stop messing around.” Ukraine’s valiant defence of Pokrovsk is nearing its end www.economist.com/europe/2025/...

Science is facing *a lot* of obstacles these days. The final episode of BBC's Science in Action looks at where things are heading, with @michaelemann.bsky.social @naomioreskes.bsky.social & @angierasmussen.bsky.social @drdebhoury.bsky.social : www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w... #science #antiscience

If you think mis- and disinformation is no big deal , read this: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The return of the night train? Copenhagen Prague via Berlin and Copenhagen -Basel both starting next year! 🎉🚄🚅🛤️🎉 And the EU is pushing for fast trains between all European capitals. (Though that's definitely going to take longer). 🇪🇺🛤️🎉🇪🇺 www.zetland.dk/historie/s08...

You're telling me that there's a black ichor under the earth, made from the ancient dead, whose burning can realize all the dreams of man but only at the price of slowly returning the earth to its primordial state?

🚨 New Blog Alert🚨 “𝐖𝐞 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐳𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐬𝐩𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜 𝐀𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐨𝐥 𝐈𝐧𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 (𝐒𝐀𝐈) 𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐞 𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐠𝐚𝐬 𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬” www.solargeoeng.org/we-know-enou... 🧵1/6

Yeah, being dead is not any kind of an achievement. Most of us manage it.

Sindberg: "En sådan renskuring bør ikke tilfalde Dick Cheney. Han levede et langt liv på den forkerte side af historien, fra apartheid til klimakrisen til den eksploderende ulighed og selvfølgelig krigen i Irak. Vi bør huske ham for, hvad han var: krigsforbryder." www.information.dk/udland/dick-...

My opinion on vehicle taxes. 🇮🇲

Incredible Arctic heat in October. Highest average temperature on record for land and seas north of 60ºN. In Canada, Yukon Territory and Nunavut second warmest, Northwest Territories third warmest. Alaska and Svalbard fourth warmest. Data courtesy ERA5. #akwx #Arctic #Canada #Climate

10,000 space scientists and engineers, memory holed to feed the billionaire dreams of Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson, Eric Schmidt of a fully privatized and militarized space future.

En spade er en spade #dkpol #dkmedier

Hello from the first ever #Copenhagen 🇩🇰 to #Hamburg 🇩🇪 #DSB #EuroCity #Talgo service 🥳🎉. The trainset is brand new, rather stylish and there’s, almost, level boarding throughout. No #DiningCar though, but I spotted a ☕️ vending machine. And I’m in seat 61 😉. @seatsixtyone.bsky.social @talgo.com

Is it weird that I don’t care who blew up the Nord Stream pipeline? No matter your stance before, we all learned in 2022 at the latest that this pipeline was a bad idea because it ties Europe to Russia. We had to shut it down fast, which would have been complicated. This explosion un-complicated it.

Always has been. open.substack.com/pub/moiradon...

It would be a terrible mistake to see this cash call as merely a painful exercise in annual budgeting. Instead, it is a historic opportunity to shift the balance of power between Europe and Russia by exposing the Kremlin’s financial frailty... it is also a bargain www.economist.com/leaders/2025...

Sunday started at 6.30am with some work, urgent deadlines that can't wait. But sitting on the sofa under a blanket reading science, drinking tea, listening to sublime classical music on DR with a cat purring away next to me, turns out to be actually really nice. I should do this more often.

In 1519, the year Spaniards arrived in Mexico, the population there was between 15 - 30 million. By 1600, that dwindled to 2 million. For lots of reasons, but as much as 70% of those deaths were the result of an UNKNOWN hemorrhagic fever. Let's talk about the mystery of the COCOLIZTLI epidemics.

EPIC thread of films. Guess we should have a film festival somehow?

I would add that IME robot vacuum cleaners are a bit of a gimmick, they're good at hard smooth floors but rubbish with rugs and you can't do under the sofa cushions, dust bookshelves or deal with cobwebs hanging from the ceiling. In many ways they add to housework rather than reducing it.

"for the rest of us who don’t have the technical knowledge and time to follow his accomplishments, his advice is to “Never use your primary WiFi network for IoT devices” and to “Treat them as strangers in your home.” " www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...

Don’t let Europe’s deregulatory temptations weaken its democracies on.ft.com/438bqIq | opinion

It would seem they're still flaring in the Bakken.

2nd Nov. 2025 marks the 25th anniversary of the ongoing human presence off-world. That is, humans have continuously occupied the ISS for exactly 25 years today. So if you're <= 24 years old, you've never lived in a world where humans were *only* terrestrial-based. Image by HEO (from above!) 🔭🧪

👋Hello Bluesky! here's a starter pack of our water research community. If your account is not here, please reply in comments. go.bsky.app/rofcg4

Delighted to announce a new paper, led by Mansi Mungee, which studies insect populations over the UK using weather radar and is covered by the Guardian: www.theguardian.com/environment/... more below... #entomology #radar #biodiversity #insect #research #conservation #data #tech #sustainability

NEW: Extraordinary scenes in the Serbian city of Novi Sad right now. Hundreds of thousands of students have marched for days across Serbia. A huge protest against Vučić’s government as they commemorate the anniversary of the Novi Sad rail station disaster, a year ago today. (🎥 Lazar Stojakovic)

I sometimes think that people think Americans are somehow smarter than Europeans and that's why so much great science comes from there. They're just better funded. (Or were, anyway).

There aren’t enough jobs at universities and research centres for PhD students and graduates in their own countries, what makes you think that they’ll have enough for everyone who wants to leave the US?!

Adherence to plant-based diets (diets rich in #plantbased foods and low in #meat & sugars) may protect from gastric #cancer, i.e. dietary change has a potential role in cancer prevention: doi.org/10.1093/eurp... #health #nutrition #diets

On this point, the biggest single contributing organisation to reducing meat-heavy food currently might turn out to be German supermarket chain Lidl. Their #vegan alternatives are awesome, cover many different types of food without being super expensive and their shops arr everywhere.

Of course, we need system-level changes! But under no circumstances should we discourage people from changing high-impact behaviors like eating less meat, reducing air travel, or consuming less. If people can change now, they should. There’s no reason to wait for the perfect system to arrive first!

One common argument is that individual-focused narratives are alienating or guilt-inducing. This concern has merit. However, solely focusing on system change can also be alienating, particularly for those with no or limited political, economic, or organizational power. AND...

Update @soechting.bsky.social who made #LEXcube is here on #BlueSKy. Thank you for the very nice work! 👏👏👏 See post 👇 on how to put YOUR OWN datasets into it.. bsky.app/profile/soec...

Major update to Lexcube.org - our interactive Earth System Data Cube visualization tool & my PhD project! ➡️ What’s new? 🌍 Region borders (or any GeoJSON) overlaid in the visualization! 🌎 Record GIF/MP4 animations! 🌏 Progress & dataset boundary indicators! ...and many more improvements 👇

So. This is a nice visualisation tool to play with! Both #ERA5 and @esaclimate.bsky.social datasets visualised for the whole world in a beautiful interface. It would be fantastic to see it updated for the last 10 years. #SciViz www.lexcube.org

I am immensely amused by husband's gleeful handing out sweets to assorted neighbourhood kids ranging from about 4 to 16 years of age. Hard to be sure who is having a better time. And isn't that what life is all about? Happy Halloween #SimplePleasures

NEW from me: Political hostility, high visa fees and (in the case of the UK) stagnant incomes are making the UK and US less attractive destinations for top international talent. That steep decline in the appeal of moving to the US after 2016 is 👀

Interesting paper! When you ask people about the most important issue "facing the country," they often say immigration. But when you ask them about issues facing them personally, it doesn't crack the top 10. This indicates that voters are reacting to media narratives, not their own experience.

Melissa was one of the strongest storms on record. NOAA’s Hurricane Hunters flew into it without pay. Crews are asked “To be fully mentally present, especially in this environment, and it’s hard to do that when you know you can’t potentially make ends meet.” www.cnn.com/2025/10/31/w...

Is the answer "his wife"?

Wild thread indeed bsky.app/profile/pett...

"...it seems unsustainable for those who care about British democracy to remain on a platform whose owner is fixated on its very destruction."

Everything sounds better in French. Including this live version of Suède playing the power, or rather "La Puissance" that unexpectedly came up on my @qobuz.bsky.social feed just now... La Puissance (The Power) by Suede on Qobuz open.qobuz.com/track/281108...

Really excellent @h2020protect.bsky.social + @oceaniceeu.bsky.social paper by @climateclara.bsky.social + coauthors. Went to the top of the To Read list this morning. Worth a good dive into.

Up to 59% of Antarctic ice shelves may be at risk of disappearing under high-emission scenarios by 2300, according to an analysis of the effect of ocean warming in Nature. This could result in up to 10 m of global sea-level rise. go.nature.com/47Ag4k1 🌊 🧪

Government has published one of those quiet but important documents that might get overlooked as it is not 'newsy'. The headline finding is that £1 of public R&D investment generates £8 in net economic benefits for the UK over the long term www.gov.uk/government/p...