Ruth Mottram

Climate scientist at DMI, Danish/British dual national, married Dutch, interested in glaciers, ice sheets, atmosphere and climate in Arctic, Greenland, Antarctic
Live in 🇩🇰, work in 🇬🇱 often
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Blog: https://sternaparadisaea.net/

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2026-04-11 18:32:47 UTC

I had Jehovah's Witnesses round this morning (not a very common occurrence round here).
Them: "Do you ever think about the future?"
Me: "I'm a climate scientist, I think it about the future all the time.."

2026-03-23 19:16:39 UTC

I mean this is to he surprise of absolutely nobody, surely? It's been obvious for years and the EU should long ago have worked out how to eject members.
https://mstdn.social/@VoltEuropa/116279815175012177
@npub1uw5…aftn - Viktor Orbán has turned Hungary into a Trojan horse inside the European Union. And the problem is - our current rules allow this to keep happening 🤯
Orbán’s foreign minister was calling Moscow during breaks in EU meetings to give his Russian counterpart “live updates” on what we were discussing.
Think about that for a second.
(1/3)
#Orban #Hungary #Uktraine #Russia #Putin #EUpol #Volt

2026-03-22 08:42:47 UTC

"The European Union covers a largely urbanised continent, but it sometimes feels like a farming-subsidy club with a flag and a parliament. Around a third of the bloc’s budget goes to farmers".
https://www.economist.com/europe/2026/01/15/europes-farmers-no-longer-rule-the-roost-unchallenged?giftId=ODY0MmMxODAtMDg2My00YzUyLThkZDgtM2Q2NWRjMDY3OTA2&utm_campaign=gifted_article

2026-03-21 12:48:46 UTC

If there is one thing we have failed in, it's not moving away from fossil fuels fast enough. The geopolitical warnings alone were already there in 1953..
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:npmoerrzaqzrlpvu3yu6i4pi/post/3mhl2u73a322l
ruthmottram.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy - "Imagine being told, amid the Opec crises of the 1970s, that one region’s fossil fuels would still have this hold over humankind half a century in the future"
The new old world - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
The new old world

2026-03-20 06:14:14 UTC

🚨 new study alert🚨
Antarctica, after net losing ice through the noughts and teens started to level off and gain ice the last 5 years.
We show that westerly winds and atmospheric rivers as well as sea ice loss helps to explain the pattern.
The brilliant @npub1a4g…3drq led a fine paper with colleagues at DMI, KNMI and in New Zealand.
I will post a pop sci blog on it later, but read the whole thing here:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-026-03242-3

2026-03-19 07:51:13 UTC

RE: https://fediscience.org/@Ruth_Mottram/116250388094443741
For the morning team: We're looking for scientists excited to work at the cutting edge of Polar science with the latest high resolution climate models and Earth Observation data.
Funding support available for travel, accomodation + food costs covered
#Arctic #Antarctic #Polar #ClimateScience #ClimateModelling #EarthObservation #Climate #IceSheets #SeaIce #Permafrost
#note1tm3…ycqk

2026-03-18 13:22:30 UTC

The Polar Climate Space:
Our next hackathon/bootcamp on polar climate processes is now open for applications.
Funded by European Space Agency - ESA's climate programe under the #ESApisco project, and in association with the Horizon Europe project #SnowPI, we are looking for talented ECRs and senior researchers who are interested in working with them on small group problems tackling key processes in the #Arctic and #Antarctic.
We will bring together Earth Observation data with high resolution regional climate models to get deeper insights into polar climate processes.
Deadline to apply is 1st May, more details here:
https://climate.esa.int/en/observations-and-modelling/PISCO/news-events/news/the-polar-climate-space-hackathon-save-the-date-and-pre-registration/

2026-03-18 08:56:32 UTC

This whole thread is such a joy to read, about migrating away from big tech and taking back control of a digital life. #TechSovereignty #TechEmpowerment
https://mastodon.green/@CiaraNi/115877848035381822
CiaraNi@mastodon.green - ’Denmark Switches.’ A national campaign to collectively move off Big Tech. March 20th is Big Switch Day. I’ve named my goal now. I’m already almost deMicrosofted, except for my photo archive. I moved to Libre & Tuta mail and have been purging photos as I await the release of Tuta drive. Now I’m committing myself to just get the photos off OneDrive and on to my computer, that I own, in my house, by March 20th. Then I’ll delete Microsoft. Then I’ll boast about it on the Fediverse.
#DanmarkSkifter

2026-03-12 10:41:57 UTC

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they're beautiful. And I just looked up the hens, they're beautiful too!

2026-03-12 09:39:10 UTC

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what beautiful colours though! What lays the green/blue eggs?

2026-03-11 06:36:51 UTC

I quibble a bit with the title, how can any knowledge be useless, but there's some lovely examples in this.
The usefulness of useless knowledge - https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/47a9e8ac-e0c5-4578-98a2-0dd25cf21ad2 great piece by @npub1rqw…spp9

2026-03-09 06:22:48 UTC

It appears that I'm not the only European cross about the German car lobby...
Germany needs to get a grip, the curve has been bent, EVs are basically inevitable now.
https://newsletter-cdn.europeancorrespondent.com/go/85v3kj8tcubod0gp6fwyi8c8ogv3yn8ko02ogcwgc6ml/2866

2026-03-08 15:16:20 UTC

"What on earth should we otherwise use the money for?" meet the Danish multimillionaire who will be happy to pay an additional "fortune tax" after the election this month...
https://www.information.dk/indland/2026/03/milliardaer-forstaar-rigestes-modstand-formueskat-pokker-bruge-penge?kupon=eyJpYXQiOjE3NzI5NjE2MDMsInN1YiI6IjM4NTExMTo4Mzc2NzkifQ.D5cGqY4u-AM4GjyQhPavqw

2026-03-08 07:49:18 UTC

We could have had these cool EV innovations developed in Europe before if German carmakers hadn't been so bloody stubborn about petrol and diesel engines.
I will never not be cross about their delaying the green transition.
https://mastodon.social/@clim8_solutions/116191427518755095

2026-03-07 08:19:59 UTC

A very worthwhile long read on how different State actors are trying to undermine European democratic values.
"small, deniable physical actions are rapidly followed by coordinated online activity designed to confuse the public, assign blame and undermine trust in authorities and the wider system."
https://ecfr.eu/publication/from-shield-to-sword-europes-offensive-strategy-for-the-hybrid-age/#lessons-from-then-and-now

2026-03-07 07:58:43 UTC

Boy I was wrong about the Fediverse https://matduggan.com/boy-i-was-wrong-about-the-fediverse/

2026-03-03 16:55:44 UTC

Proud PhD supervisor moment: @npub1vv6…u963 have nice write up to Elke Schlager's brilliant work, (now a preprint in @npub1hum…wvx8) on how we can use #MachineLearning methods to emulate #Greenland ice sheet melt via European Weather Cloud computing
https://europeanweather.cloud/use-cases/machine-learning-emulation-accelerate-climate-science

2026-03-03 06:38:48 UTC

Shout outs to both blue sky and mastodon in this morning's @eurcorrespond.bsky.social on network effects, plus the role of misinformation in #TheWarOnWind which is seriously starting to hamper the green transition, and how Europe's economic heart is migrating S + E.
"Denmark generates 54% of its electricity from wind while maintaining a GDP per capita of $71,026 (the 12th highest globally)"
https://newsletter-cdn.europeancorrespondent.com/go/rr03kj8tcubn00ufgk463ev9dgptv6k2fwm8k0occ6wh/2866

2026-03-02 17:19:29 UTC

Imagine having to live with this.
😞
https://fediscience.org/@falk/116159992257575910
falk - #UkraineWar week 9

2026-03-01 10:23:01 UTC

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le sigh. I appreciate your input to my thread. I think I may mute it though since no-one else has actually answered the question. . I should have known 🤦‍♀️

2026-03-01 08:44:48 UTC

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yes indeed - I think this piece in the FT, part of @jbu's series is good on this too. It's definitely my experience working with young students - They're much faster getting code up and running than they used to be
Is AI making work more intense? - https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/eaf0cedf-d53a-4053-9d83-f8b62d39316a via @FT

2026-03-01 08:14:02 UTC

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yes I think so too!

2026-03-01 07:49:25 UTC

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it took me half an hour to do something that would normally have taken at least a day (and for which reason I have been procrastinating over it)
This piece on the climate brink is spot on:
https://www.theclimatebrink.com/p/the-ai-augmented-scientist

2026-03-01 07:42:09 UTC

I realise on the fediverse this is maybe asking for a flaming, but yesterday out of sheer curiosity I tried Claude for a simpleish coding task that I'd been putting off (largely inspired by @npub1smx…sjc0 's latest on #theclimatebrink). The performance of Claude was seriously impressive. I am convinced the AI cycle is more than hype (and have been for a while), the chatbots have been a huge attention Jogger, misleadingly so.
Now I'm wondering if there is any serious EU competition to Anthropic? - Mistral's codestral perhaps?
Because this kind of performance changes everything and we can't afford to lag behind...
#AIcoding #ML

2026-02-27 13:55:22 UTC

RE: https://eupolicy.social/@finnmyrstad/116141082378515849
This is actually brilliant.
#note1yew…x2t4

2026-02-27 10:43:00 UTC

And this week I heard there is not one single seat available between Copenhagen and Hamburg the weekend *before* Easter. That effectively means no-one from anywhere in Scandinavia can travel to the rest of Europe by train, because there isn't enough capacity in the system 🤬
https://mastodon.social/@europeanspodcast/116141784022064980
europeanspodcast@mastodon.social - 🚄✈️ Why is it still so hard to choose a train over a plane?
On many long-distance routes in Europe, choosing the train can feel like a borderline heroic decision. It’s often more expensive, takes longer, and can be less reliable when connections are tight.
This week we spoke to cross-border rail advocate @jon about what Europe would need to change to make rail the obvious choice, not a moral gesture.
Here’s his recipe. THREAD:
#trains #travel #europe #infrastructure

2026-02-21 20:55:14 UTC

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A week after the invasion, I met a Ukrainian colleague. I asked after his family (all safe thankfully) and I told him then, in my view Putin had already lost when he invaded, the question is how many will need to die to show him that.
We now know the cost is horrifying, appalling, inconceivable..

2026-02-21 20:55:14 UTC

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I think it is because so few have bothered to learn the history + culture of our Eastern European friends. But in that sense it's hardly surprising that an invasion seemed such a frankly *bizarre* idea.
But Brexit had already taught us that weird misunderstandings of history + ideology trumps logic

2026-02-21 20:55:14 UTC

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One thing I didn't understand 4 years ago, but which I think is clearer now. Ukraine is fighting for all of us in Europe. We should be grateful and support them more.
https://dendanskeukrainekomite.dk/

2026-02-21 20:55:13 UTC

https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2026/feb/20/a-war-foretold-cia-mi6-putin-ukraine-plans-russia
4 years ago I was listening to the news while gardening on an unusually mild day. I thought it completely mad that an invasion could happen, but nevertheless emailed my signal id to my Ukrainian colleagues just in case they suddenly needed something.

2026-02-21 20:55:13 UTC

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Funnily, in light of what this piece says, I never doubted that resistance would be fierce + Ukraine would make Russia pay. How could it not? Ukraine has the heroes of the Maidan, and a lived experience of what Russian occupation means. How could UK/US doubt they'd fight to the last?

2026-02-21 10:29:44 UTC

This is also why the US far right are coming for the EU now..
https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/109906653535473465
mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io - Students of US history understand what Lincoln knew: One reason you can't have slavery in some parts of the country and not in others, is because slaves run to the free parts.
But many of those same students don't realize that you can't block women's reproductive rights in some parts of the country and let it be legal in others. People travel to California. This frustrates the racists.
The racists are coming for women's rights everywhere. Nationwide. And they will use racism to accomplish it.

2026-02-21 10:27:07 UTC

Hvis du er dansk statsborger og interesseret i #privatliv og #DanmarkSkifter, så er der en borgerforslag til at afskaf Palantir i Danmark. Underskriv her:
https://www.borgerforslag.dk/se-og-stoet-forslag/?Id=FT-22854

2026-02-18 21:21:40 UTC

What they don't tell you is resistance is fun.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/opinion/minneapolis-ice-resistance-minivans.html?unlocked_article_code=1.NFA.wbDA.KriQ2If4X9IV&smid=url-share

2026-02-17 10:52:29 UTC

If you are remotely interested in #Antarctica , #ClimateChange and #SeaLevelRise, check out the latest brilliant @npub124s…27ps contribution on how the risk of crossing a tipping point varies per basin
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-025-02554-0

2026-02-17 07:17:57 UTC

"forget the “high” and “low” labels, lean into what comes naturally, study what you love, and hope for the best."
I heartily agree!
We have to stop calling some jobs ‘low skilled’ - https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/9034d6d6-a333-487d-b4a7-de294be67e8b

2026-02-15 18:20:34 UTC

This👇
https://hachyderm.io/@skinnylatte/116076016524108627
skinnylatte@hachyderm.io - So many people here are like, oh I wish I could move to (another country, that is also having a hard far right turn, and anti-immigrant horrors, just in a language they don’t speak)
It’s totally fine to feel you need to get away for safety and yes white cis Americans will likely face less of a threat in many places
However
I’m so irritated by the pretense that all of the current problems in the world are limited to US borders. We are going through a rough time of it.. but a lot of these problems are structurally global. ‘America is the worst’ is also a form of American exceptionalism.

2026-02-13 07:36:50 UTC

Super interesting pieceon the race between China and the US and damning on European weakness, but one can't help wondering whither the rest of the world?
I will certainly be reading the book next
https://danwang.co/2025-letter/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

2026-02-12 16:50:38 UTC

"Most importantly, it means countries should do everything they can to retain their best homegrown entrepreneurs"
The exorbitant privilege of the US brain gain is fading - https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/70036c24-2423-4078-97bb-7e5596645063

2026-02-12 07:20:10 UTC

Leaving Antarctica with computers full of data, notebooks full of notes + numbers and just about as much kit as we brought (+ some waste for correct disposal). Travelling out via the gobsmacking #WhiteDesert.
#Antarctica, you've been wonderful, who knows when we'll meet again... #iQ2300
https://fediscience.org/system/media_attachments/files/116/056/444/747/483/616/original/a030fd662f011747.jpg

2026-02-04 12:15:27 UTC

So, #ClimateScience mastofriends, solve an argument between co-authors: When writing a paper specifically using outputs from #CMIP6 models, do you prefer to use GCM or ESM as descriptor?

2026-02-02 12:48:49 UTC

A common effort between 23 different local authorities* in Denmark to develop FOSS alternatives to big US tech in Danish schools.
I am here for this
Ja, tak 🙏
*But not apparently my local authority...
@npub16mc…kv2c - @bettina alle kan læse mere om projektet her:
Https://www.os2.eu/OS2skole

2026-02-02 09:44:07 UTC

DKK 60 million on Microsoft and Google software licences *every year* paid Danish state schools. And imagine how much government IT is paying on top.
It's time to start calling it the #MicrosoftTax
HT@npub1j43…cz8e
https://ing.dk/artikel/her-er-regnestykket-saa-meget-koster-det-smide-google-og-microsoft-ud-af-folkeskolen

2026-01-31 08:35:27 UTC

For, reasons, I find myself looking up serpulids on Wikipedia and look at this beauty.
The name Christmas tree worm doesn't really do it justice. Not for the first time I wonder if I should have pursued marine biology as a specialism...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serpulidae#/media/File%3ASpirobranchus_giganteus_(Red_and_white_christmas_tree_worm).jpg

2026-01-29 18:03:00 UTC

These ice lenses are giving me a tough time in processing today, they're everywhere. But if I believe the satellite data, they also shouldn't exist. It appears we are underestimating surface melt* in Antarctica.
*But not runoff! These are refrozen meltwater layers
#iQ2300 #DronningMaudLand #Fieldwork
https://fediscience.org/system/media_attachments/files/115/979/699/719/518/931/original/08de9c69ebab0e44.jpg

2026-01-19 21:44:11 UTC

Given my physics teacher (35 years ago) said repeatedly that girls couldn't do physics, I feel like this is a slight improvement 🙄
#sigh #HistoryRepeating
https://fediscience.org/@freyablekman/115921698028403685
freyablekman - I heard last week that the physics teacher of the daughter of one of my colleagues told the daughter that girls who do their nails don’t do physics. Sigh.
So, here are the nails of an internationally leading particle physics professor. My nails.
Don’t believe the gatekeepers! #womeninSTEM

2026-01-19 12:12:58 UTC

I just had a paper accepted on #AtmosphericRivers in # Antarctica (expect more on that later), this is a great piece on what they are and how they're observed
European aircraft to track ‘rivers in the sky’ blamed for flooding - https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/df1f3e7f-6463-4616-85ca-49591fa9ec00 via @FT

2026-01-19 10:29:42 UTC

We're also #hiring a coupled climate and ice sheet modeller for a 3 year position @dmidk.bsky.social
Come and work with me + colleagues on the @icelink-project.bsky.social developing #ECEarth + #Pism in both Greenland + Antarctica
Job based @npub1a0d…6hwu in Copenhagen
🇩🇰🇬🇱🇦🇶🇪🇺🌍
#AcademicJobs #FediHire #Fedijobs
https://candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationInit.aspx?cid=5001&ProjectId=192267&DepartmentId=10155&MediaId=5

2026-01-19 10:12:45 UTC

Want to be my new section lead?
These jobs don't come up very often, but if you want to work with a friendly and diverse bunch of scientists at the leading edge of high resolution regional climate and climate services development, give it a look. 🇪🇺🇩🇰🇬🇱🌍🇦🇶
https://candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationInit.aspx?cid=5001&ProjectId=192370&DepartmentId=6145&MediaId=5

2026-01-18 18:49:43 UTC

This piece could just as easily have been written about atmospheric scientists and climate modellers.
We all need to get out of the computers and into the real world more often
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-04150-w

2026-01-18 09:13:33 UTC

If you're in the Netherlands (or have a VPN I guess), and would like to know more about our current. #Antarctic fieldwork, sea level rise and how we make projections@bureaubuitenland.bsky.social has a piece about us today, filmed in the field the last 2 weeks...
https://www.vpro.nl/bureau-buitenland

2026-01-17 20:29:54 UTC

The really classic Greenlandic band is Sume, there was a wonderful documentary about them a couple of years ago called The sound of a revolution (tilgængelig på Filmstriben i Danmark) - really worth checking out..
https://mastodon.social/@drmikepj/115912235545818870
drmikepj@mastodon.social - I’m going to recommend #greenland alt-rock band Atsinnermiut and their self-titled album. It’s not online, but you can buy a copy here. https://atlanticmusicshop.gl/en/rock-213/atsinnermiut-p4135
Lots of other bands’ albums are available from the same company, have a look!

2026-01-16 00:09:41 UTC

https://pixelfed.social/p/IceClimate/917562328858243801
Good night all...

2026-01-14 17:08:00 UTC

Greenland thoughts from Antarctica..
Greenland is all over the press at the moment for all the wrong reasons. But Greenland is also on my mind, not just because of geopolitics, but also because the Copernicus Climate service has just put out their annual global climate highlights for 2025 with some disturbing messages about Antarctica. Understanding Greenland can help us to understand also what is happening here.
http://sternaparadisaea.net/2026/01/14/greenland-thoughts-from-antarctica/

2026-01-14 14:55:54 UTC

For reasons I am revisiting an old classic: Manabe and Stouffer, 1980.
The field of climate science is now effectively mostly about proving how correct those first simulations of the gigantic carbon experiment in the atmosphere were.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/247488071_Sensitivity_of_a_Global_Climate_Model_to_an_Increase_of_CO2_Concentration_in_the_Atmosphere

2026-01-14 11:38:28 UTC

Fantastic work by @npub13av…8hhw visualising Climate Change through 2025 - the Antarctica numbers are eye-opening (+1.06°C)-> higher anomaly recorded in 2025 than almost anywhere else, except of course the Arctic +1.37°C
#PolarAmplification
https://climate.copernicus.eu/global-climate-highlights-2025

2026-01-11 20:03:13 UTC

https://pixelfed.social/p/IceClimate/916050221936983395

2026-01-10 07:08:16 UTC

I'm off for a few days of remote field work away from the Wasa research station here in Antarctica.
Try not to break or lose anything while I'm gone. Like NATO.
Or Greenland.

2026-01-04 08:27:12 UTC

Does your local newspaper have a space news column? I wish mine did...
#news #localnews #spacenews
https://mastodon.scot/@fionaorkneynews/115835654661135458
fionaorkneynews@mastodon.scot - Space Notes January 2026
In a month when the heavyweight players in space have been relatively quiet, this is a good moment to take note of two important spacecraft which are no longer with us.
https://theorkneynews.scot/2026/01/04/space-notes-january-2026/

2026-01-03 10:37:43 UTC

Whilst waiting for weather to clear would love to spend some time prepping Loops/peertube clips, editing together music, text etc with some very short videos I've shot (very roughly -> don't expect BBC style nature documentaries), while in the middle of fieldwork.
EDIT: I just discovered @npub12k0…e2sz have added creator mode to the @npub17gp…7p4g app! Awesome work - will test it out right now. If it works from #Antarctica, guess it will work anywhere?
What are your recommendations for easy lightweight + ideally #FOSS apps for video editing on an android phone? Don't mind paying but privacy is essential...
#HiveMind #FediRecommends

2026-01-02 21:08:12 UTC

On feeling stupid. I read this pretty much every year...
https://web.stanford.edu/~fukamit/schwartz-2008.pdf

2026-01-02 18:01:22 UTC

Computer scientist Yann LeCun: ‘Intelligence really is about learning’ - https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/56c46ea8-e1d8-45ff-ab32-4dcd4c93be8d via @FT

2026-01-01 09:59:14 UTC

Not that many people here will need it, but as an indicator it's interesting:
In case you're looking for an alternative New Year resolution, Denmark has a new people's movement: Danmark skifter, Denmark switches, which aims to help people regain focus, change their social media habits and get off US big tech platforms.
Here's their English website:
https://danmarkskifter.dk/en/

2025-12-28 11:19:23 UTC

Unthinkable now, so far has Winter receded in Europe...
📝 https://www.ndr.de/geschichte/Die-grosse-Schneekatastrophe-in-Norddeutschland-1978-79,schneechaosindex100.html?at_medium=mastodon&at_campaign=NDR.de
#NDR #Schneekatastrophe1978 #Norddeutschland

2025-12-27 19:16:14 UTC

https://pixelfed.social/p/IceClimate/910608535425368875

2025-12-25 11:34:11 UTC

Back at Basen*
Working out in the field in Dronning Maud Land, the first results from LISA and finally "home" for Christmas..
http://sternaparadisaea.net/2025/12/25/back-at-basen/

2025-12-24 09:59:11 UTC

Tilbage på Wasa station for juleaftensdag -
Jeg skal snakke med @andreasnyholm.bsky.social på TV2 news cirka kl12.15 om vores #iQ2300 projekt og hvad det er jeg egentlig gøre i Antarktis lige nu, hvis i er ikke ellers optaget og synes det lyder interessant..
https://fediscience.org/system/media_attachments/files/115/773/953/909/723/778/original/f3e33ee6d2a08161.jpg

2025-12-21 10:37:13 UTC

A small change of plan since I wrote this, we're off this afternoon with a good weather window
Settling in..
It's been a busy few days at Wasa station but we've been settling in with various trainings and some tantalising hints of interesting data ...
http://sternaparadisaea.net/2025/12/20/settling-in/

2025-12-18 21:33:25 UTC

Also on the #iQ2300 expedition and posting in the fediverse is @npub1vxm…777g - an early #FF for more #Antarctic #FieldPhotos
https://pixelfed.social/p/IceClimate/907370919769941146
IceClimate@pixelfed.social - Wasa station. After a morning of safety training and snow scooter training, we unpacked and I took our snow optical sensors for a walk to test the surface snow grain sizes. All present and correct.
A good view from the moraine over the station and the vast whiteness of the #iceSheet beyond.
#iQ2300 #Antarctica #FieldworkPhoto #OceanIceEU #PRECISEnnf

2025-12-16 16:02:11 UTC

Massive thanks to my colleague @npub1u6h…xuxu who did most of the work ..
https://mstdn.social/@curt_nordgaard/115729412214157904
curt_nordgaard@mstdn.social - Two excellent guest posts from Carbon Brief today:
[@Ruth_Mottram](https://fediscience.org/@Ruth_Mottram ) and DMI colleague provide an update on the Greenland ice sheet, with thought-provoking and accessible data:
https://www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-how-the-greenland-ice-sheet-fared-in-2025/
1/2
#ClimateChange #SeaLevel #ClimateAdaptation

2025-12-15 22:00:49 UTC

"The fragility of Africa’s coasts is further exacerbated by the deteriorating condition of its marine ecosystems... under mounting pressure from both climate + anthropogenic stressors, including unregulated development, dam-induced sediment trap + habitat degradation"
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-025-02965-z

2025-12-15 10:04:52 UTC

Internet based on massive constellations of satellites you say?
What could possibly go wrong?
theverge@c.im - Starlink and Chinese satellites nearly collided last week https://thever.ge/VMJt #Science #SpaceX #Space #News

2025-12-13 12:33:22 UTC

The #iQ2300 expedition has actually been in the field a couple of weeks already - you can follow our progress and all the complex logistics around working #Antarctica as well as the joys and problems of #Fieldwork on the expedition blog:
https://www.polar.se/en/expeditions/iq2300-202526/

2025-12-12 21:48:26 UTC

The first step in the ~14,500 km journey (as the crow flies) to Wasa was a taxi to the airport. The second is a flight to Oslo*.
It's masks on time.
*Yes, this #fieldwork involves *a lot* of carbon. Let's hope the data is worth it...
http://sternaparadisaea.net/2025/12/11/heading-south/

2025-12-11 21:34:51 UTC

Heading South
But not for the warmth.. Tomorrow I'm taking the first stage of the journey to Antarctica, ironically enough though, I'm heading south by first heading north, to Oslo, where the Norwegian Polar Institute have organised an almost direct flight from Oslo to Troll station with a short stopover in Cape Town. Bags almost packed and ready to go... I'm super excited and also suffering a little trepidation.
http://sternaparadisaea.net/2025/12/11/heading-south/

2025-12-11 17:36:44 UTC

For a deep dive with some very excellent analysis of *that* white house security strategy, @npub1zz4…hv6n 's latest is a must view, and deeply discomfiting.
Anders ends with a suggestion to move off Meta + X for blue sky. Which while I appreciate that a rivalry between masto + BSky is probably unhelpful should maybe also come with the caveat that Blue sky *really* needs some other servers that federates with the US patent...
https://youtu.be/YAh-xEteBz4?si=yjXMUHc9qm_mxge2

2025-12-11 17:10:41 UTC

Want to try an imagine how difficult things could get for us in the EU? (Or elsewhere?) You dont even have to try hard.
If you are responsible for planning, running, maintaining or procuring IT infrastructure of any kind for any organisation, this is essential reading.
https://ecfr.eu/publication/get-over-your-x-a-european-plan-to-escape-american-technology/

2025-12-09 07:00:54 UTC

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I have often thought it curious that people (+ e.g. NGOs) will fiercely criticise the grindadráp in Faroe islands, like they do Japanese whaling in the south Atlantic, but the slaughter of narwhal and beluga by hunters in Greenland is somehow seen as "traditional" + "sustainable harvesting", and attracts much less ire.
I would prefer it if neither existed, but that's probably unrealistic at this moment in time. In any case there is somehow a double standard about who is doing the killing.

2025-12-08 06:22:51 UTC

A message much better stated than I could say it, but which I try to give to ECRs I work with. There are seasons in research and sometimes it is harvest time, but sometimes the seeds are just sitting in the ground resting and waiting for Spring. https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-harvest-will-come/

2025-12-03 08:20:25 UTC

I'm preparing a briefing on #SeaLevelRise and my hunt for an image led me to the wikipedia page and holy moly it's good...
If you want to learn about many different aspects, I'd definitely start there.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_level_rise

2025-12-03 06:51:14 UTC

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I must admit I hadn't even heard that Tiger mosquitoes had made it to Europe. They sound like pretty awful diseases..

2025-12-03 06:46:03 UTC

Exactly the kind of study that makes me rejoice in science. And now to make a new land cover surface type for The Model™️ #HCLIM.. https://theconversation.com/temperatures-in-a-patch-of-antarctic-moss-can-vary-as-much-as-an-entire-mountain-range-269801

2025-12-03 06:02:03 UTC

The most dystopian daily news from Europe yet: climate change helping to spread West Nile Virus + Chikungunya, segregation in Hungary and the militarisation of the EUs borders. It's not fun, but it is important 🙏 @eurcorrespond.bsky.social https://europeancorrespondent.com/en

2025-12-02 20:43:34 UTC

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Danes occasionally say this. But honestly I've never met a nation as rude/direct as the Dutch...

2025-12-01 21:26:09 UTC

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even more than usual.

2025-12-01 18:06:58 UTC

Who needs Reviewer 2 when your coauthors are Dutch?
This exasperated post brought to you in the Netherlands however with affection...

2025-11-30 15:14:49 UTC

"All programmers, from hobbyists to those working at Microsoft or Google, use open-source software, which is present in between 70% and 90% of the computer applications we use today"
#FOSS #DigitalSovereignty
https://english.elpais.com/technology/2025-11-30/adriana-groh-the-internet-works-thanks-to-a-shared-infrastructure-that-nobody-owns-but-that-we-must-take-care-of.html

2025-11-29 08:13:26 UTC

The LLMs are useful for some tasks, I'm currently tidying up, proof reading and editing a document written by many international co-authors.
The LLM I'm using can very quickly correct grammar and spelling mistakes and produces much easier to understand text from occasionally tortured paragraphs. It still needs an experts eye (mine!) to check no mistakes have been introduced or complexities over-simplified.
This is actually the first time I've used an LLM for this task. It's making it much faster and less painful.
It also explains a lot about academic publishing lately..

2025-11-23 15:35:45 UTC

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really interesting post! We are currently working on an ensemble of high Res model projections looking at cloudiness and it's quite interesting how they all represent the present day. I remain a bit unconvinced by the satellite data..it seems to have big biases that coincide with snow and ice covered surfaces which makes me a little bit suspicious of how good it actually is in the Arctic. @npub1z0w…vryl

2025-11-16 16:26:33 UTC

Beautiful and important piece on #rewilding, what we stand to lose, what we've gained and the hidden costs. (From 2 years ago, worth revisiting).
https://www.codastory.com/climate-crisis/rewilding-beavers-conservation/

2025-11-13 18:47:23 UTC

The inside beef on how and why the US (a developing gangster state on this evidence) managed to delay Shipping's Big Plan for Decarbonization, What Now? Tristan Smith
#GreenTransition
Episode webpage: https://cleaning-up-leadership-in-the-age-of-climate-change.simplecast.com/episodes/e229-tristan-smith-1JfVRjj3

2025-11-13 09:19:31 UTC

Next week I will participate with the @npub124s…27ps @npub1x6a…9xyp + @npub1t0f…ajkw + Horizon funded research projects in a policy briefing in Brussels, with MEP Group on Climate Change, Biodiversity & Sustainable Development +@eupolarcluster.bsky.social
Remote participation possible if you're interested in what we have to say about Polar Science for Global Action and Strengthening Climate Preparedness through EU Leadership
https://polarres.eu/polarresevents/polar-science-for-global-action/

2025-11-11 21:41:11 UTC

Daily #AcWriMo: not as much writing as I wanted but completed first 1/4 of main paper, got final draft from colleague on 2nd, ok comments back from reviews on 3rd AND 4th & 5th paper a colleague is leading now out as preprint online. 🙌
And we found an obscure bug in the model code 🙄
#FediWriMo.
https://fediscience.org/system/media_attachments/files/115/533/235/535/543/298/original/797d88747fa15906.jpg

2025-11-10 10:10:08 UTC

Anyone know anything about solidagent.io?
They appear to be an EU hosted AI agent - in the sense that they have the trained models on their own platforms, rather than using an API so presumably queries etc stay on their servers.
Their statements of #privacy etc look good and the test queries I posted (on quite complex #coding problems) were very impressive, but I don't think it's strictly FOSS otherwise.
Would be happy to hear if others have good/bad experience with them as they seem quite new.
https://www.solidagent.io/privacy

2025-11-10 09:52:43 UTC

RE: https://fediscience.org/@Ruth_Mottram/115524389043511540
🚨 new paper alert🚨
How to include freshwater fluxes from ice sheets in #ClimateModels - and kicking off the #FediWriMo #AcWriMo25 conversation...
(But also an excuse to try the new quote post functionality)
#note16uj…0ydh

2025-11-10 08:11:23 UTC

Freshwater Writing
How to handle freshwater fluxes from ice sheets in climate models, where there isn't an ice sheet model component? A new paper just out reveals all...
http://sternaparadisaea.net/2025/11/10/freshwater-writing/

2025-11-07 18:31:15 UTC

I can't believe Science In Action is ending! We're going to miss you @npub1vvc…lyln !
A very serious warning encoded in this final episode for everyone to listen to.
How science got here, and where next
Episode webpage: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct6yg7

2025-11-06 06:28:43 UTC

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). 🇪🇺🛤️🎉🇪🇺
https://www.zetland.dk/historie/s08iwB5C-moGnNy6v-ff4d0

2025-11-02 06:12:13 UTC

"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.” "
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/manufacturer-issues-remote-kill-command-to-nuke-smart-vacuum-after-engineer-blocks-it-from-collecting-data-user-revives-it-with-custom-hardware-and-python-scripts-to-run-offline

2025-11-01 07:49:53 UTC

So. This is a nice visualisation tool to play with! Bothe #ERA5 and ESAcci datasets visualised for the whole world.
It would be fantastic to see it updated for the last 10 years.
#SciViz
https://www.lexcube.org/