🌊I have a new gig. 🌊 Introducing: OCEAN EMPIRE, my new column about U.S ocean policy and foreign affairs for @sciencepolitics.bsky.social. We are a brand new online magazine housed at Georgetown University. I'm thrilled to bring in-depth news analysis about what's happening to 70% of our planet.

Submarine data cables, carrying 99% of intercontinental internet traffic, are the backbone of modern life and the European economy 👩‍💻⚙️🛠️ In the face of increasing risks to this critical infrastructure, we are stepping up our efforts to enhance our security and resilience by ⬇️

The EU is hiring graduates - from all study field! The main entry-level competition (AD5) is opening again for the first time since 2019. All you need is a university degree, fluency in two official EU languages, and EU citizenship. 👉 Apply via EPSO: link.europa.eu/gmMgbk

Great #Draghi speech indeed. "Individually, most EU countries are not even middle powers (...) each bringing distinctive assets to the table (...). But collectively, we have something greater: scale, wealth, political culture, and 75 years of building the institutions of a common project." 🇪🇺 👇

Attacks against Sanchez like this one are taking up most of the feed that X's algorithm is forcing onto me today, proving Sanchez's point.

Here is a 400BCE plate from souther Italy for serving fish. Three species of sparids (sea bream) are shown. Sea bream were among the first farmed fish this plate represents a common group of species from that area. 🧪🐡

The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions! This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...

Despite the snow and cold, a chess game is in full swing in one of Dnipro’s parks. 📹 dnipro. brand / Instagram

To put it another way: the most important aircraft in WWII was unarmed

Here is an image of the building you can see through the window I shared a picture of above. As Kate said yesterday evening: it used to be a beautiful building.

It was an honor and a pleasure to meet with @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social yesterday at the 1654 cafe in Kharkiv. I have learned so much from her account the past few years. We had never met before but I have long felt like I had a friend here telling me what was going on in this city.

Key recommendations from #MPAEurope!

When photos speak louder than words. A new @unrwa.org photo exhibition, with EU support, opened in Brussels, documenting life in #Gaza despite immense personal risk. Thank you @hadjalahbib.bsky.social and Philippe Lazzarini for opening the exhibition. ➡️ bit.ly/4a7zIFa @bxllaville.bsky.social

...and by science we mean real science. We have another internship for economists.

#GEOMARJobs 🌊 Postdoctoral scientist position (m/f/d) on the ecosystem modelling of climate and MPA effects on fish 🌊 Postdoctoral position (m/f/d) “Seagrass-pathogen interactions under global change” 🌊 Studentische Hilfskraft (m/d/w) & Ausbildungsplatz (m/w/d) 🔗 www.geomar.de/karriere-cam...

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#danslaflaque, #Bruxelles, #Brussels, #Brussel, #Ixelles, #artpovera, #street, #rue, #paysageurbain, #urban, #reflets … encore hier matin, au cours d’une balade urbaine autour des étangs d’Ixelles …

Hello BlueSky! 👋 We’re here to start conversations on how the EU keeps people safe in emergencies and crises. 🇪🇺 Part of @ec.europa.eu 🌍 Active in Europe & beyond 🚨 Our acronyms: ECHO, HERA, FPI, Copernicus Follow us for updates on disaster preparedness, crisis response and humanitarian action!

Facing intensified flooding, Kigali, Rwanda, began working nearly a decade ago to restore its natural defenses. In three years, the city converted a degraded swamp into a functioning wetland, and is now restoring an integrated wetland system that will eventually span more than 18,000 acres.

Happy Groundhog Day! I am a fan of the absurdity of weather prognosticating rodents and celebrate Groundhog Day with my thermochromic linocut. The shadow is visible if the ambient temperature is <30°C and disappears when >30°C (and it’s a safe bet winter is over or you are overheating your home). 🧵

Blanca Peñas-Cabanillas @blancapc.bsky.social will give a talk entitled "Deciphering the secret message of the oceans" at Escuela de Adult@s (Lucena) on February 3, 2026 #CHARLAS11F #UCOCIENTÍFICAS, to celebrate the #InternationalDayofWomenInScience

It’s time for Free February 2026! You’re all invited to visit Stromness Museum free of charge this month. Those becoming Stromness Museum ‘Friends’ in Feb will also enter a prize draw for a £25 gift voucher! We’ll be open today & every day Mon-Sat at 11am-3.30pm (closed Sun). Come and see us soon! 🎟️

Doing wet chemistry 5 km below the sea surface? Of course, we can do that! Take a bow @noc.ac.uk engineers. New ocean sensors could transform how scientists track the marine carbon cycle | Horizon Magazine projects.research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/en/horizon-m...

Great to see @mspglobal2030.bsky.social offering #maritimespatialplanning 🌊🗺️ training in the #Mediterranean. A shared sea requires a shared vision, and preparing that is not always easy. 👏👏

🌊 We developed a series of factsheets to support policy makers, competent authorities, and Med MSP experts with clear, structured, and visually supported information on key MSP themes in Arabic, English and French. 📥 Fctsheets can be freely accessed and shared at: medigreenproject.eu/results-2/

"You have to put a lot of effort into not going mad." - @rolandoliphant.bsky.social relaying a message from his friend in Kyiv

Illustrations from the Logbooks of Nantucket Whaleships, from @publicdomainrev.bsky.social

Anyone interested in buying a research vessel together? Germany is selling R/V Meteor III. Happy to chip in a few $/€ www.vebeg.de/de/aktuelles...

"we will be offered the reasons that we should find this normal: (...) the fiery talk about subhumans; (...) the frozen bureaucratic passive-voice institutional boilerplate suggesting that all is (...) inevitable and that no one need take personal responsibility for what (...) must happen" 👀👇

Quand on se plaint d’un supposé manque de parking, il faudrait toujours s’associer aux initiatives visant à décourager ou interdire la possession de véhicules aussi grands. Sinon, c’est de la posture bagnolarde d’une hypocrisie crasse. 2,3t 5,6m de long 1,9m de large Ici comparé à une 🏠

OMFG 10+% of drivers controlled are under a driving ban !

"…ICE does not say what it accepts as definitive proof of legal status. Is it a driver’s license? A green card? A folder of immigration documents?" I'm hoping it's a passport card. 😬

I went to the American embassy today to get a passport card that I could carry in my wallet to show my citizenship in case masked men try to kidnap me when I’m in the US. Seriously.

I am accepting applications for a postdoc to work with me at the University of Toronto Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. Area of Research: Democratic Institutions, Public Engagement, American History Due by February 23rd munkschool.utoronto.ca/current-oppo...

I wrote about the INR building at Flagey and how it fitted into the inter-war modernisation of Brussels here. www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/1264...

🐙🌌 Nebula Octopus Sculpture 🌌🐙 ⭐✨ Hand sculpted from clay and lovingly painted 🎨 #ArtYear #Art #Artist #Handmade #ArtGallery #Octopus #Cephalopods #Ocean #Underwater #Nature #MarineLife #JanuArty 🦑🐡

Something interesting and good is happening to the euro www.ft.com/content/1ad4...

'L’ange protecteur (Guardian Angel)' by Niki de Saint Phalle, at Zurich Main Station #WomensArt

Good to read how @simonkuper.bsky.social sees the #EU 🇪🇺 (-HU,+UK+CA) as the only order still getting its act together, but on the other hand, there’s this 👉 „When this order ends, there’s a risk it might go out with a bang“.

#Belgium. #Belgique, #Bruxelles, #Brussels, #Ixelles, #Flagey, #INR, #reflets Ancienne Maison de la Radio, place Flagey à Ixelles (région de Bruxelles-Capitale)

Here I argue that Ukraine cannot wait for the EU’s slow accession process; I advocate fast-tracking membership as a security imperative, and revising the Copenhagen criteria and enlargement rules. The EU must reform its decision-making to anchor Ukraine and salvage its sovereign integrity.

At last an AI tool I can get behind “Upload an architectural render. Get back what it'll actually look like on a random Tuesday in November.” antirender.com

I need you to know that you can buy individual crabs from LEGO and they are 21¢ each www.lego.com/en-us/pick-a...

Chateau Val-Duchesse

The chart analyses 6-digit PINs. Birthdays dominate, simple keypad patterns pop out, and repeats like 121212 or 454545 are everywhere. Humans are predictable. Hackers know this. Source: buff.ly/IbdbRw1

🔊 We are hiring! Applications are invited for the post of Executive Secretary at the Helsinki Commission Secretariat. The post, which is based in Helsinki, Finland, will become vacant on 1 February 2027. Vacancy announcement 👉 buff.ly/CpiN6AL