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
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Ruth Mottram
@ruthmottram.bsky.social
· May 20
In case you were wondering why we're doing glaciology fieldwork in NW Greenland this year, here is (part of) the answer...
It's all to do with an early break up of sea ice.
❄️🧪🥼⚒️⛏️
It's all to do with an early break up of sea ice.
❄️🧪🥼⚒️⛏️
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The US-Russia plan includes a $300bn signing bonus for the US in the form of Russia's central bank frozen assets - for @foreignpolicy.com I outline how the EU could curb Trump’s interest in the deal if the bloc rushes to seize these assets before America grabs them
foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/24/t...
foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/24/t...
The U.S.-Russia Plan Gives Trump a $300 Billion Signing Bonus
If Europe moves fast to seize Russian assets, it may be able to sink this bad deal.
foreignpolicy.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:40 PM
The US-Russia plan includes a $300bn signing bonus for the US in the form of Russia's central bank frozen assets - for @foreignpolicy.com I outline how the EU could curb Trump’s interest in the deal if the bloc rushes to seize these assets before America grabs them
foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/24/t...
foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/24/t...
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Antarctic meltwater alters future projections of climate and sea level
Sadai et al 2025
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Sadai et al 2025
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 25, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Antarctic meltwater alters future projections of climate and sea level
Sadai et al 2025
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Sadai et al 2025
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Britain: funding care for the elderly by taxing houses based on what they were worth in 1991, for reasons no one can now remember.
November 25, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Britain: funding care for the elderly by taxing houses based on what they were worth in 1991, for reasons no one can now remember.
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.
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...
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.
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...
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How much carbon budget do we have left if we want to stay below 1.5˚C?
Just 2 more years at current rates. It is essentially impossible to avoid global temperature rise exceeding 1.5˚C.
climatelabbook.substack.com/p/the-shrink...
Just 2 more years at current rates. It is essentially impossible to avoid global temperature rise exceeding 1.5˚C.
climatelabbook.substack.com/p/the-shrink...
November 13, 2025 at 1:19 PM
How much carbon budget do we have left if we want to stay below 1.5˚C?
Just 2 more years at current rates. It is essentially impossible to avoid global temperature rise exceeding 1.5˚C.
climatelabbook.substack.com/p/the-shrink...
Just 2 more years at current rates. It is essentially impossible to avoid global temperature rise exceeding 1.5˚C.
climatelabbook.substack.com/p/the-shrink...
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thanks to instructions that a stranger left on a forum in July 2019 out of the goodness of their heart, I have finally located and destroyed Microsoft Auto Update and I think honestly we are too hard on the internet
November 25, 2025 at 7:47 AM
thanks to instructions that a stranger left on a forum in July 2019 out of the goodness of their heart, I have finally located and destroyed Microsoft Auto Update and I think honestly we are too hard on the internet
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This story should be covered waaaaayy more than it is.
The US has sanctioned six judges if the international criminal court ICC, because Trump didn’t like them issuing arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and former Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant.
www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...
The US has sanctioned six judges if the international criminal court ICC, because Trump didn’t like them issuing arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and former Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant.
www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...
Nicolas Guillou, French ICC judge sanctioned by the US: 'You are effectively blacklisted by much of the world's banking system'
Six judges and three prosecutors at the International Criminal Court have been sanctioned by the Trump administration. In an interview with Le Monde, Guillou discusses the impact of these measures on ...
www.lemonde.fr
November 24, 2025 at 8:13 PM
This story should be covered waaaaayy more than it is.
The US has sanctioned six judges if the international criminal court ICC, because Trump didn’t like them issuing arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and former Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant.
www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...
The US has sanctioned six judges if the international criminal court ICC, because Trump didn’t like them issuing arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and former Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant.
www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...
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Two miles of ice core on the shelf at our national ice core facility in Lakewood, Colorado. The WAIS Divide core from West Antarctica is a 3400m long (deepest US core, 2nd deepest ice core ever) 68,000 year old record of high resolution climate.
November 24, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Two miles of ice core on the shelf at our national ice core facility in Lakewood, Colorado. The WAIS Divide core from West Antarctica is a 3400m long (deepest US core, 2nd deepest ice core ever) 68,000 year old record of high resolution climate.
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🏅This Scripps Oceanography seismologist & a team of scientists from @utaustin.bsky.social & the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory just won the Nobel Prize of supercomputing! 💻⚡
Congrats to @inseismoland.bsky.social, who earned the @acm.org Gordon Bell Prize! 🧵⬇️
Congrats to @inseismoland.bsky.social, who earned the @acm.org Gordon Bell Prize! 🧵⬇️
November 22, 2025 at 12:44 AM
🏅This Scripps Oceanography seismologist & a team of scientists from @utaustin.bsky.social & the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory just won the Nobel Prize of supercomputing! 💻⚡
Congrats to @inseismoland.bsky.social, who earned the @acm.org Gordon Bell Prize! 🧵⬇️
Congrats to @inseismoland.bsky.social, who earned the @acm.org Gordon Bell Prize! 🧵⬇️
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To be fair, Neal wrote "The Baroque Cycle" longhand after a computer backup disaster ate the first five hundred pages or so.
Then he transcribed it himself in EMACS and formatted it for submission using a homebrew set of Elisp macros he wrote—
Yeah nope, that's just deranged.
Then he transcribed it himself in EMACS and formatted it for submission using a homebrew set of Elisp macros he wrote—
Yeah nope, that's just deranged.
November 22, 2025 at 7:26 PM
To be fair, Neal wrote "The Baroque Cycle" longhand after a computer backup disaster ate the first five hundred pages or so.
Then he transcribed it himself in EMACS and formatted it for submission using a homebrew set of Elisp macros he wrote—
Yeah nope, that's just deranged.
Then he transcribed it himself in EMACS and formatted it for submission using a homebrew set of Elisp macros he wrote—
Yeah nope, that's just deranged.
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I just realized that it has now been more than a year since I left Twitter/X ... and I I really don't miss it. Sure, old Twitter was good (back before it became X and everything turned to shit), but for the past year, I have genuinely not even thought about Twitter.
November 23, 2025 at 10:33 AM
I just realized that it has now been more than a year since I left Twitter/X ... and I I really don't miss it. Sure, old Twitter was good (back before it became X and everything turned to shit), but for the past year, I have genuinely not even thought about Twitter.
Read and weep at the costs of this extraordinary grift measured in the lives of newborn and stillborn babies.
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world | Childbirth | The Guardian
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 10:31 AM
Read and weep at the costs of this extraordinary grift measured in the lives of newborn and stillborn babies.
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Pretty good analysis from @casmudde.bsky.social 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
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The ‘Danish model’ is the darling of centre-left parties like Labour. The problem is, it doesn’t even work in Denmark | Cas Mudde | The Guardian
This week’s local elections are the latest reminder that when social democrats move rightwards, they’re making a mistake, says academic and author Cas Mudde
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Pretty good analysis from @casmudde.bsky.social 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
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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This was such a fun photo to set up, taken by Thomas Reiter through a sleep station window on Mir. The sun was so bright we were all squinting like crazy. But I love how it shows the texture of the Shuttle's rough, protective hide, and the glimpse of humanity (and my moustache) against the universe.
November 22, 2025 at 3:11 PM
This was such a fun photo to set up, taken by Thomas Reiter through a sleep station window on Mir. The sun was so bright we were all squinting like crazy. But I love how it shows the texture of the Shuttle's rough, protective hide, and the glimpse of humanity (and my moustache) against the universe.
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
adventurefilmfest.dk/portfolio/na...
This new film by Yann Bertrand looks exceptional #NAFF25
adventurefilmfest.dk/portfolio/na...
Nature: The Call for Reconciliation – Nordic Adventure Film Festival
adventurefilmfest.dk
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
adventurefilmfest.dk/portfolio/na...
This new film by Yann Bertrand looks exceptional #NAFF25
adventurefilmfest.dk/portfolio/na...
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This for me this je evidence of the pervasiveness of British declinism. An event that most people consider to have gone badly, that has demonstrably impaired the economy, leading to lower public spending and higher taxes, is considered simply too difficult to change. It’s all a bit too hard.
November 22, 2025 at 10:19 AM
This for me this je evidence of the pervasiveness of British declinism. An event that most people consider to have gone badly, that has demonstrably impaired the economy, leading to lower public spending and higher taxes, is considered simply too difficult to change. It’s all a bit too hard.
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Dear Europe, especially Germany,
Stop obsessing over what Trump will or won’t do. Hoping & praying America will step up so we don’t have to is dangerously stupid.
Step up yourself, destroy Russia’s war economy, & give Ukraine what they need to win.
Europe must defend Europe.
Stop obsessing over what Trump will or won’t do. Hoping & praying America will step up so we don’t have to is dangerously stupid.
Step up yourself, destroy Russia’s war economy, & give Ukraine what they need to win.
Europe must defend Europe.
October 18, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Dear Europe, especially Germany,
Stop obsessing over what Trump will or won’t do. Hoping & praying America will step up so we don’t have to is dangerously stupid.
Step up yourself, destroy Russia’s war economy, & give Ukraine what they need to win.
Europe must defend Europe.
Stop obsessing over what Trump will or won’t do. Hoping & praying America will step up so we don’t have to is dangerously stupid.
Step up yourself, destroy Russia’s war economy, & give Ukraine what they need to win.
Europe must defend Europe.
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Completely agree.
The fates of Ukraine and Europe are linked.
European security system will be destroyed without Ukraine.
The fates of Ukraine and Europe are linked.
European security system will be destroyed without Ukraine.
November 21, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Completely agree.
The fates of Ukraine and Europe are linked.
European security system will be destroyed without Ukraine.
The fates of Ukraine and Europe are linked.
European security system will be destroyed without Ukraine.
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Insane but true fact: making US roads as safe as Canadian, Australian, or European roads would save more lives than eliminating murder from the US.
November 21, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Insane but true fact: making US roads as safe as Canadian, Australian, or European roads would save more lives than eliminating murder from the US.
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Vi bliver nødt til at kikke på spillereglerne igen. Det kan ikke nytte, at vi er så tossegode
"Hundreds of English-language websites – from mainstream news outlets to fringe blogs – are linking to articles from a pro-Kremlin network flooding the internet with disinformation"
"Hundreds of English-language websites – from mainstream news outlets to fringe blogs – are linking to articles from a pro-Kremlin network flooding the internet with disinformation"
Hundreds of English-language websites link to pro-Kremlin propaganda
Thinktank says internet flooded with disinformation by Russia-aligned Pravda network, which many websites treat as credible
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Vi bliver nødt til at kikke på spillereglerne igen. Det kan ikke nytte, at vi er så tossegode
"Hundreds of English-language websites – from mainstream news outlets to fringe blogs – are linking to articles from a pro-Kremlin network flooding the internet with disinformation"
"Hundreds of English-language websites – from mainstream news outlets to fringe blogs – are linking to articles from a pro-Kremlin network flooding the internet with disinformation"
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Keep in mind that since this year, it is us Europeans who pay for all the aid to Ukraine. Nothing comes from the U.S since Trump became president. We even pay for the American weapons bought for Ukraine.
November 20, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Keep in mind that since this year, it is us Europeans who pay for all the aid to Ukraine. Nothing comes from the U.S since Trump became president. We even pay for the American weapons bought for Ukraine.
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I am not the biggest fan of how Europe has conducted itself since 2022. There is way more that could have been done, and should still be done. But I am pretty sure if Trump suddenly turns up and demands a Ukrainian surrender on Russian terms, Europe will say no.
November 20, 2025 at 11:22 AM
I am not the biggest fan of how Europe has conducted itself since 2022. There is way more that could have been done, and should still be done. But I am pretty sure if Trump suddenly turns up and demands a Ukrainian surrender on Russian terms, Europe will say no.
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This is Zelensky putting pressure on Trump. He knows Ukrainians don't want to surrender. He's talking to all Americans across the political spectrum who support Ukraine, love freedom, and hate surrender. He's telling them: "you can't allow Trump to align the US with Ru against Europe". Let's see.
NEW: Brutal to watch Zelensky address his nation just now. On the brink of being abandoned by the US.
"Right now is one of the most difficult moments in our history. At this moment, Ukraine may face a very hard choice: either the loss of dignity, or the risk of losing a key partner."
"Right now is one of the most difficult moments in our history. At this moment, Ukraine may face a very hard choice: either the loss of dignity, or the risk of losing a key partner."
November 21, 2025 at 5:41 PM
This is Zelensky putting pressure on Trump. He knows Ukrainians don't want to surrender. He's talking to all Americans across the political spectrum who support Ukraine, love freedom, and hate surrender. He's telling them: "you can't allow Trump to align the US with Ru against Europe". Let's see.