Ruth Mottram
@ruthmottram.bsky.social
Climate scientist at DMI, Greenland, Antarctica, polar regions in general.
Dipping a toe in yet another social media site. Mostly on mastodon though @[email protected]
Blogging at sternaparadisaea.net
Dipping a toe in yet another social media site. Mostly on mastodon though @[email protected]
Blogging at sternaparadisaea.net
November 25, 2025 at 8:34 AM
![Opening text of the first codified laws on Denmark, known as the Jyske lov
"With law shall the country be built but if all men were content with what is theirs and let others enjoy the same right, there would be no need for a law. But no law is as good as the truth, but if one wonders what the truth is, then shall the law show the truth. If the land had no law, then he would have the most who could grab the most by force... The law must be honest, just, reasonable and according to the ways of the people. It must meet their needs and speak plainly, so that all men may know and understand, what the law is. It is not to be made in any man's favor, but for the needs of all them who live in the land. No man shall judge contrary to the law, which the king has given and the country chosen. [...] neither shall he [the king] take it back without the will of the people.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:npmoerrzaqzrlpvu3yu6i4pi/bafkreiexm25ruvymc5lrmxc2nttugtlhpg3jih7cte65konatlyru54wom@jpeg)
November 21, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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.
And we found an obscure bug in the model code 🙄
#FediWriMo.
November 11, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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.
And we found an obscure bug in the model code 🙄
#FediWriMo.
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.
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.
November 2, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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.
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.
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
Hard to be sure who is having a better time. And isn't that what life is all about?
Happy Halloween
#SimplePleasures
October 31, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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
Hard to be sure who is having a better time. And isn't that what life is all about?
Happy Halloween
#SimplePleasures
The incredible tragedy for #ArcticScience of NOAA shutting down their #methane monitoring data. 5th May 2025 is the last data we'll ever get.
#NCKF25
#NCKF25
October 24, 2025 at 10:02 AM
The incredible tragedy for #ArcticScience of NOAA shutting down their #methane monitoring data. 5th May 2025 is the last data we'll ever get.
#NCKF25
#NCKF25
The ace Sofia Ribeiro on lessons from Holocene climate for the Arctic in the future
We also cited her paper in our recent #Greenlandification article because we can learn so much about the coming Antarctic too.
#NCKF25
We also cited her paper in our recent #Greenlandification article because we can learn so much about the coming Antarctic too.
#NCKF25
October 24, 2025 at 9:44 AM
The ace Sofia Ribeiro on lessons from Holocene climate for the Arctic in the future
We also cited her paper in our recent #Greenlandification article because we can learn so much about the coming Antarctic too.
#NCKF25
We also cited her paper in our recent #Greenlandification article because we can learn so much about the coming Antarctic too.
#NCKF25
A concrete case study from Svendborg Kommune is fascinating to follow.
It's crucial to be open and honest about what we do and don't know. Use lots of different ways to talk to and connect with different groups.
#NCKF25
It's crucial to be open and honest about what we do and don't know. Use lots of different ways to talk to and connect with different groups.
#NCKF25
October 24, 2025 at 8:33 AM
A concrete case study from Svendborg Kommune is fascinating to follow.
It's crucial to be open and honest about what we do and don't know. Use lots of different ways to talk to and connect with different groups.
#NCKF25
It's crucial to be open and honest about what we do and don't know. Use lots of different ways to talk to and connect with different groups.
#NCKF25
If you are planning anything in Denmark that is more long term than about 5 years, then you should definitely be using the Climate Atlas to check your climate adaptation impacts...
I wrote about this last year too...
sternaparadisaea.net/2024/09/06/a...
I wrote about this last year too...
sternaparadisaea.net/2024/09/06/a...
October 24, 2025 at 8:29 AM
If you are planning anything in Denmark that is more long term than about 5 years, then you should definitely be using the Climate Atlas to check your climate adaptation impacts...
I wrote about this last year too...
sternaparadisaea.net/2024/09/06/a...
I wrote about this last year too...
sternaparadisaea.net/2024/09/06/a...
My colleague Lea Poropat is talking about how we integrate this data into the Danish climate atlas...
How do we get to #ClimateServices in the atlas, based on IPCC, local understanding and storm surges.. #NCKF25
How do we get to #ClimateServices in the atlas, based on IPCC, local understanding and storm surges.. #NCKF25
October 24, 2025 at 8:11 AM
My colleague Lea Poropat is talking about how we integrate this data into the Danish climate atlas...
How do we get to #ClimateServices in the atlas, based on IPCC, local understanding and storm surges.. #NCKF25
How do we get to #ClimateServices in the atlas, based on IPCC, local understanding and storm surges.. #NCKF25
2nd day of the #NCKF25 symposium and the plenary is all about the #SeaLevelRise.
This is the downstream part of our job as glaciologists and it's important to understand how the projections will, can and should be used...
This is the downstream part of our job as glaciologists and it's important to understand how the projections will, can and should be used...
October 24, 2025 at 7:37 AM
2nd day of the #NCKF25 symposium and the plenary is all about the #SeaLevelRise.
This is the downstream part of our job as glaciologists and it's important to understand how the projections will, can and should be used...
This is the downstream part of our job as glaciologists and it's important to understand how the projections will, can and should be used...
2nd day of the #NCKF25 symposium and the plenary is all about the #SeaLevelRise.
This is the downstream part of our job as glaciologists and it's important to understand how the projections will, can and should be used...
This is the downstream part of our job as glaciologists and it's important to understand how the projections will, can and should be used...
October 24, 2025 at 7:37 AM
2nd day of the #NCKF25 symposium and the plenary is all about the #SeaLevelRise.
This is the downstream part of our job as glaciologists and it's important to understand how the projections will, can and should be used...
This is the downstream part of our job as glaciologists and it's important to understand how the projections will, can and should be used...
Kicking off with brilliant plenary keynote by @riikkarinnan.bsky.social on # biodiversity + #climate feedbacks in the #Arctic - love the graphics on this... #NCKF25
October 23, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Kicking off with brilliant plenary keynote by @riikkarinnan.bsky.social on # biodiversity + #climate feedbacks in the #Arctic - love the graphics on this... #NCKF25
Another argument for veganism: I'm saving my money for coffee and chocolate...
October 22, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Another argument for veganism: I'm saving my money for coffee and chocolate...
🚨 New @oceaniceeu.bsky.social preprint🚨 why has Antarctica stopped (net) losing mass, in spite of increased discharge?
Declining sea ice is part of the answer but increasingly heavy and frequent atmospheric rivers are most important factor.
Lots of important subtleties:
arxiv.org/abs/2510.03590
Declining sea ice is part of the answer but increasingly heavy and frequent atmospheric rivers are most important factor.
Lots of important subtleties:
arxiv.org/abs/2510.03590
October 7, 2025 at 6:35 AM
🚨 New @oceaniceeu.bsky.social preprint🚨 why has Antarctica stopped (net) losing mass, in spite of increased discharge?
Declining sea ice is part of the answer but increasingly heavy and frequent atmospheric rivers are most important factor.
Lots of important subtleties:
arxiv.org/abs/2510.03590
Declining sea ice is part of the answer but increasingly heavy and frequent atmospheric rivers are most important factor.
Lots of important subtleties:
arxiv.org/abs/2510.03590
From duck/rabbit to whale/penguin...
October 2, 2025 at 9:23 AM
From duck/rabbit to whale/penguin...
Godt gået alle sammen.
Vi krydser fingre de danske politiker tage de rigtige valg nu...
#ChatControl #MasseOvervågning
Vi krydser fingre de danske politiker tage de rigtige valg nu...
#ChatControl #MasseOvervågning
September 25, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Godt gået alle sammen.
Vi krydser fingre de danske politiker tage de rigtige valg nu...
#ChatControl #MasseOvervågning
Vi krydser fingre de danske politiker tage de rigtige valg nu...
#ChatControl #MasseOvervågning
Fascinating #ClimateCoffee today - Audrey Miniere of @obssea4clim.bsky.social are presenting on how to estimate ocean warming - a subject also dear to @oceaniceeu.bsky.social's heart...
September 25, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Fascinating #ClimateCoffee today - Audrey Miniere of @obssea4clim.bsky.social are presenting on how to estimate ocean warming - a subject also dear to @oceaniceeu.bsky.social's heart...
The kind of light activity on @dmidk.bsky.social 's radar that makes me suspect migrating birds and insects...
September 23, 2025 at 7:15 PM
The kind of light activity on @dmidk.bsky.social 's radar that makes me suspect migrating birds and insects...
Have picked around 120kg of apples from a single tree (variety is Pigeon - smallish, red, good keepers, often used at Christmas in Denmark), but no way we'll manage to eat them all before they go bad. Your suggestions for recipes with apples?
September 20, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Have picked around 120kg of apples from a single tree (variety is Pigeon - smallish, red, good keepers, often used at Christmas in Denmark), but no way we'll manage to eat them all before they go bad. Your suggestions for recipes with apples?
Some outstanding talks at the joint @oceaniceeu.bsky.social @soosocean.bsky.social workshop already today: the state of the Southern Ocean, declining sea ice, snowfall processes and ice shelf cavities, now on to the carbon cycle...
September 17, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Some outstanding talks at the joint @oceaniceeu.bsky.social @soosocean.bsky.social workshop already today: the state of the Southern Ocean, declining sea ice, snowfall processes and ice shelf cavities, now on to the carbon cycle...
One of the big successes we had with @oceaniceeu.bsky.social was bringing in our friends at NASC in #Ukraine. Their deployment of floats in Bransfield strait closed one of our big gaps and now we're seeing the data... It's pretty interesting
September 15, 2025 at 12:35 PM
One of the big successes we had with @oceaniceeu.bsky.social was bringing in our friends at NASC in #Ukraine. Their deployment of floats in Bransfield strait closed one of our big gaps and now we're seeing the data... It's pretty interesting
Kicking off the @oceaniceeu.bsky.social annual meeting with some insitu observations with #ECR Shenjie Zhou.
Get the data + preprint at the QR code in the image below. Will also go into @soos map
Get the data + preprint at the QR code in the image below. Will also go into @soos map
September 15, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Kicking off the @oceaniceeu.bsky.social annual meeting with some insitu observations with #ECR Shenjie Zhou.
Get the data + preprint at the QR code in the image below. Will also go into @soos map
Get the data + preprint at the QR code in the image below. Will also go into @soos map