Ruth Mottram
@ruth-mottram.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy
Climate scientist at DMI, Danish/British dual national, married Dutch, interested in glaciers, ice sheets, atmosphere and climate in Arctic, Greenland […]
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"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 […]
#foss #digitalsovereignty […]
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fediscience.org
November 30, 2025 at 3:15 PM
"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 […]
#foss #digitalsovereignty […]
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“The owner of a major Chinese drone parts supplier has taken a stake in one of Russia’s leading drone companies, highlighting a deepening relationship between Moscow and Beijing’s military-industrial complexes.”
Chinese parts supplier takes stake in leading Russian drone maker
Tie-up marks new level of co-operation between Moscow and Beijing’s military industrial complexes
on.ft.com
November 30, 2025 at 6:58 AM
“The owner of a major Chinese drone parts supplier has taken a stake in one of Russia’s leading drone companies, highlighting a deepening relationship between Moscow and Beijing’s military-industrial complexes.”
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This weekend in the Belgian national newspaper De Standaard, a brief article on the origins of the Dutch word "fiets".
Apparently it comes from the 1886 German neologism "Vize-Pferd", meaning "vice-horse" or horse substitute.
"Vize-Pferd" became "Vice" […]
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Apparently it comes from the 1886 German neologism "Vize-Pferd", meaning "vice-horse" or horse substitute.
"Vize-Pferd" became "Vice" […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
November 24, 2025 at 3:08 AM
This weekend in the Belgian national newspaper De Standaard, a brief article on the origins of the Dutch word "fiets".
Apparently it comes from the 1886 German neologism "Vize-Pferd", meaning "vice-horse" or horse substitute.
"Vize-Pferd" became "Vice" […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
Apparently it comes from the 1886 German neologism "Vize-Pferd", meaning "vice-horse" or horse substitute.
"Vize-Pferd" became "Vice" […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
In the field of dynamical glaciology, this would be DeConto and Pollard, 2016.
I think it's dead wrong, but it's certainly led to some very interesting studies.and some real advanced in the otherwise moribund calving dynamics sub-field.
Would love to hear other suggestions from #Climate (or […]
I think it's dead wrong, but it's certainly led to some very interesting studies.and some real advanced in the otherwise moribund calving dynamics sub-field.
Would love to hear other suggestions from #Climate (or […]
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fediscience.org
November 30, 2025 at 7:48 AM
In the field of dynamical glaciology, this would be DeConto and Pollard, 2016.
I think it's dead wrong, but it's certainly led to some very interesting studies.and some real advanced in the otherwise moribund calving dynamics sub-field.
Would love to hear other suggestions from #Climate (or […]
I think it's dead wrong, but it's certainly led to some very interesting studies.and some real advanced in the otherwise moribund calving dynamics sub-field.
Would love to hear other suggestions from #Climate (or […]
Reposted by Ruth Mottram
Playwright Tom Stoppard who won Academy Award for screenplay for “Shakespeare In Love" has died
https://apnews.com/article/stoppard-obit-britain-playwright-2721a8178c7e9691fdbd84e8fc9c0736?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-11-29-Breaking+News
https://apnews.com/article/stoppard-obit-britain-playwright-2721a8178c7e9691fdbd84e8fc9c0736?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-11-29-Breaking+News
British playwright Tom Stoppard, who won Academy Award for “Shakespeare In Love," has died at 88
British playwright Tom Stoppard, who won an Academy Award for the screenplay for 1998’s “Shakespeare In Love” has died. He was 88.
apnews.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Playwright Tom Stoppard who won Academy Award for screenplay for “Shakespeare In Love" has died
https://apnews.com/article/stoppard-obit-britain-playwright-2721a8178c7e9691fdbd84e8fc9c0736?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-11-29-Breaking+News
https://apnews.com/article/stoppard-obit-britain-playwright-2721a8178c7e9691fdbd84e8fc9c0736?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-11-29-Breaking+News
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I will be giving several talks this coming week at universities in Switzerland: Lausanne, Neuchâtel, Basel, and Bern. Hope to see some of you there!
November 29, 2025 at 1:37 PM
I will be giving several talks this coming week at universities in Switzerland: Lausanne, Neuchâtel, Basel, and Bern. Hope to see some of you there!
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UK ‘not in favor’ of dimming the sun
https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-not-in-favor-of-dimming-the-sun-but-willing-to-debate-regulation/
Government says it opposes the cutting-edge and controversial climate tech, but is willing to debate its regulation.
We don't need "regulation", just an out […]
https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-not-in-favor-of-dimming-the-sun-but-willing-to-debate-regulation/
Government says it opposes the cutting-edge and controversial climate tech, but is willing to debate its regulation.
We don't need "regulation", just an out […]
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mastodon.scot
November 29, 2025 at 4:02 PM
UK ‘not in favor’ of dimming the sun
https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-not-in-favor-of-dimming-the-sun-but-willing-to-debate-regulation/
Government says it opposes the cutting-edge and controversial climate tech, but is willing to debate its regulation.
We don't need "regulation", just an out […]
https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-not-in-favor-of-dimming-the-sun-but-willing-to-debate-regulation/
Government says it opposes the cutting-edge and controversial climate tech, but is willing to debate its regulation.
We don't need "regulation", just an out […]
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De ergste vorm van dezze klote ziekte. Schrijnende portretten met prachtige foto's
https://archive.ph/SXWjF
https://archive.ph/SXWjF
November 29, 2025 at 7:36 AM
De ergste vorm van dezze klote ziekte. Schrijnende portretten met prachtige foto's
https://archive.ph/SXWjF
https://archive.ph/SXWjF
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 […]
The LLM I'm using can very quickly correct grammar and spelling mistakes and produces much easier to understand text from occasionally tortured paragraphs […]
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fediscience.org
November 29, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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 […]
The LLM I'm using can very quickly correct grammar and spelling mistakes and produces much easier to understand text from occasionally tortured paragraphs […]
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📝 Wikimedia blog: Unifying our mobile and desktop domains
Reduced mobile response times by 20% worldwide and un-broke Google indexing.
https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2025/11/21/unifying-mobile-and-desktop-domains/
#wikimedia #mediawiki #wikipedia
Reduced mobile response times by 20% worldwide and un-broke Google indexing.
https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2025/11/21/unifying-mobile-and-desktop-domains/
#wikimedia #mediawiki #wikipedia
Unifying our mobile and desktop domains
How we achieved 20% faster mobile response times, improved SEO, and reduced infrastructure load.
techblog.wikimedia.org
November 24, 2025 at 2:49 PM
📝 Wikimedia blog: Unifying our mobile and desktop domains
Reduced mobile response times by 20% worldwide and un-broke Google indexing.
https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2025/11/21/unifying-mobile-and-desktop-domains/
#wikimedia #mediawiki #wikipedia
Reduced mobile response times by 20% worldwide and un-broke Google indexing.
https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2025/11/21/unifying-mobile-and-desktop-domains/
#wikimedia #mediawiki #wikipedia
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Har Frederiksberg brug for P-pladser eller et 'grønt åndehul'? En restaurant på Frederiksberg vil af med tre parkeringspladser for at gøre plads til et ’grønt åndehul’ med udeservering, men det stejler kommunen over. https://www.magasinetkbh.dk/indhold/frederiksberg-p-pladser-restaurant-hcorstedsvej
Har Frederiksberg brug for P-pladser eller et 'grønt åndehul'?
En restaurant på Frederiksberg vil af med tre parkeringspladser for at gøre plads til et ’grønt åndehul’ med udeservering, men det stejler kommunen over.
www.magasinetkbh.dk
November 27, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Har Frederiksberg brug for P-pladser eller et 'grønt åndehul'? En restaurant på Frederiksberg vil af med tre parkeringspladser for at gøre plads til et ’grønt åndehul’ med udeservering, men det stejler kommunen over. https://www.magasinetkbh.dk/indhold/frederiksberg-p-pladser-restaurant-hcorstedsvej
November 26, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Either this calculator is broken or people *really* don't pay much tax in the UK.*
Greetings from Denmark...
Budget 2025 calculator: how Reeves’ tax changes will affect your money - https://on.ft.com/48iAfmz via @FT
Greetings from Denmark...
Budget 2025 calculator: how Reeves’ tax changes will affect your money - https://on.ft.com/48iAfmz via @FT
Budget 2025 calculator: how Reeves’ tax changes will affect your money
Use the FT’s interactive tool to understand how a further freeze to personal tax thresholds could affect you
www.ft.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Either this calculator is broken or people *really* don't pay much tax in the UK.*
Greetings from Denmark...
Budget 2025 calculator: how Reeves’ tax changes will affect your money - https://on.ft.com/48iAfmz via @FT
Greetings from Denmark...
Budget 2025 calculator: how Reeves’ tax changes will affect your money - https://on.ft.com/48iAfmz via @FT
China is making trade impossible - https://on.ft.com/4p1B5eG via @FT
China is making trade impossible
Europe has nothing to offer and difficult decisions to make
www.ft.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:32 AM
China is making trade impossible - https://on.ft.com/4p1B5eG via @FT
"Farage has already changed the UK (for the worse) more than any other living politician. What might the country look like after a period with him in office?" Which says it all on why it is important to try to improve the UK economy
How to get the UK out of its economic hole - […]
How to get the UK out of its economic hole - […]
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fediscience.org
November 26, 2025 at 8:21 AM
"Farage has already changed the UK (for the worse) more than any other living politician. What might the country look like after a period with him in office?" Which says it all on why it is important to try to improve the UK economy
How to get the UK out of its economic hole - […]
How to get the UK out of its economic hole - […]
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Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
The Economic Impact of Brexit
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siepr.stanford.edu
November 24, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
Off to Gøteborg University to discuss #Greenland ice sheet and #amoc, including this brilliant piece of work by my @dmidk.bsky.social colleagues - currently in review but the preprint title says it all: Reversible AMOC but continuing Greenland ice sheet melt […]
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fediscience.org
November 25, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Off to Gøteborg University to discuss #Greenland ice sheet and #amoc, including this brilliant piece of work by my @dmidk.bsky.social colleagues - currently in review but the preprint title says it all: Reversible AMOC but continuing Greenland ice sheet melt […]
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Academics, looks like there's an open letter against solar geoengineering that you can sign on to here: https://www.solargeoeng.org/
Solar Geoengineering Non-Use Agreement
Our initiative stands against such emerging initiatives to explore planetary techno-fixes as a climate policy option.
www.solargeoeng.org
November 24, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Academics, looks like there's an open letter against solar geoengineering that you can sign on to here: https://www.solargeoeng.org/
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@juliette @Ruth_Mottram but this is even worse than that: there would have been experienced midwives of some sort in most communities. Those fuckers didn’t even reach that level of competence.
November 23, 2025 at 11:05 AM
@juliette @Ruth_Mottram but this is even worse than that: there would have been experienced midwives of some sort in most communities. Those fuckers didn’t even reach that level of competence.
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@Ruth_Mottram these cult leaders make women think that only one ideal process can lead to that one ideal outcome, and rely on a complete lack of awareness of what happened to many women and babies for most of history, when “natural birth” was the only option.
It angers me so much. “Natural […]
It angers me so much. “Natural […]
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mastodon.green
November 23, 2025 at 10:40 AM
@Ruth_Mottram these cult leaders make women think that only one ideal process can lead to that one ideal outcome, and rely on a complete lack of awareness of what happened to many women and babies for most of history, when “natural birth” was the only option.
It angers me so much. “Natural […]
It angers me so much. “Natural […]
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@Ruth_Mottram I came across this movement a lot while preparing to give birth, and one thought I kept having is how many of us confuse the ideal process of birthing with the ideal outcome of birthing.
I had an ideal process in mind (water birth in hospital with epidural only if I started to lose […]
I had an ideal process in mind (water birth in hospital with epidural only if I started to lose […]
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mastodon.green
November 23, 2025 at 10:37 AM
@Ruth_Mottram I came across this movement a lot while preparing to give birth, and one thought I kept having is how many of us confuse the ideal process of birthing with the ideal outcome of birthing.
I had an ideal process in mind (water birth in hospital with epidural only if I started to lose […]
I had an ideal process in mind (water birth in hospital with epidural only if I started to lose […]
Read and weep at the costs of this extraordinary grift measured in the lives of newborn and stillborn babies.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2025/nov/22/free-birth-society-linked-to-babies-deaths-investigation
https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2025/nov/22/free-birth-society-linked-to-babies-deaths-investigation
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Read and weep at the costs of this extraordinary grift measured in the lives of newborn and stillborn babies.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2025/nov/22/free-birth-society-linked-to-babies-deaths-investigation
https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2025/nov/22/free-birth-society-linked-to-babies-deaths-investigation
Pretty good analysis from @casmudde but subtleties make it difficult to translate Danish model elsewhere. It's a PR system, so always coalitions + many different flavours to vote for; Danish Peoples Party are left on welfare but not on immigration […]
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November 23, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Pretty good analysis from @casmudde but subtleties make it difficult to translate Danish model elsewhere. It's a PR system, so always coalitions + many different flavours to vote for; Danish Peoples Party are left on welfare but not on immigration […]
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How far will it go this time?
This post from #mastodon can reach the whole #fediverse, #bluesky & more.
That's #sharkey, #misskey, #pixelfed, #mbin, #lemmy, #friendica, #hometown, #Akkoma…
If you see it, please share it.
#socialmedia [email protected]
This post from #mastodon can reach the whole #fediverse, #bluesky & more.
That's #sharkey, #misskey, #pixelfed, #mbin, #lemmy, #friendica, #hometown, #Akkoma…
If you see it, please share it.
#socialmedia [email protected]
November 21, 2025 at 1:44 PM
How far will it go this time?
This post from #mastodon can reach the whole #fediverse, #bluesky & more.
That's #sharkey, #misskey, #pixelfed, #mbin, #lemmy, #friendica, #hometown, #Akkoma…
If you see it, please share it.
#socialmedia [email protected]
This post from #mastodon can reach the whole #fediverse, #bluesky & more.
That's #sharkey, #misskey, #pixelfed, #mbin, #lemmy, #friendica, #hometown, #Akkoma…
If you see it, please share it.
#socialmedia [email protected]
For a moment I was afraid I'd missed the Nordic Adventure Film Festival - but it's on next week.
This new film by Yann Bertrand looks exceptional #naff25
https://adventurefilmfest.dk/portfolio/nature-the-call-for-reconciliation/
This new film by Yann Bertrand looks exceptional #naff25
https://adventurefilmfest.dk/portfolio/nature-the-call-for-reconciliation/
November 22, 2025 at 9:43 PM
For a moment I was afraid I'd missed the Nordic Adventure Film Festival - but it's on next week.
This new film by Yann Bertrand looks exceptional #naff25
https://adventurefilmfest.dk/portfolio/nature-the-call-for-reconciliation/
This new film by Yann Bertrand looks exceptional #naff25
https://adventurefilmfest.dk/portfolio/nature-the-call-for-reconciliation/