Ruth Mottram

I thought I might try the same experiment with a bit more context, and - I dunno - it seems to have stumbled a bit with the basic facts…

QUIZ Indfødsretsprøve | DR I dag har mange været til indfødsretsprøve. Prøv kræfter med den her.

Det er denne tid af året igen...

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New paper: Introducing dimensionless sliding & flow laws for ice sheets & glaciers, decoupling coefficients from exponents. This makes sensitivity studies and ensemble modelling far simpler. Demonstrated in #SICOPOLIS. ❄️📘 doi.org/10.1017/jog....

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13th International Workshop on Sea Ice Modelling, Assimilation, Observations, Predictions, and Verification

9 – 11 June 2026, Copenhagen, Denmark
Hosted by the Danish Meteorological Institute
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OpenSAFELY team awarded Queen Elizabeth Prize for Higher and Further Oxford’s OpenSAFELY team wins the prestigious Queen Elizabeth Prize for revolutionising secure NHS data research, protecting patient privacy while unlocking life-saving health insights.

I'm delighted to say we have won the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Education with our work on OpenSAFELY, inventing new methods that let researchers analyse NHS GP data while protecting everyone's privacy, and with complete transparency, in a hugely productive platform!
www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-11...

We still need to get from a situation where Russia pretends to negotiate to a situation where they need to negotiate.

Extract from my press remarks following today’s informal Foreign Affairs Council ↓

Photo of persistent contrails spreading out to form a hazy layer. Contrast enhanced.

Some aircraft contrails persist and spread out to form a hazy layer.

This hazy layer may be responsible for 1-2% of global warming.

Who gave the airline industry permission to alter our sky in this way?

contrails.org

Anti-Feminist Media Is Trying to Make Young Women Turn on Birth Control In the aftermath of the 2024 election, explanations for Donald Trump’s decisive...

“We’ve seen far less attention paid to how young women are also being radicalized in digital spaces, similarly lured by seemingly apolitical content”

@kylietcheung.bsky.social, author of Coercion, writing for @talkingpointsmemo.com:
talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/anti-...

Yes it is really extremely difficult to compare. I have no idea either, but it feels like a higher quality of at least day-to-day life here and I think that maybe more important than income ultimately

I just checked, apparently an average tax of 31 (rising to 33)% on £100,000 is in fact correct in the UK. No wonder the infrastructure feels like it's crumbling.

(My income tax starts at 38% and I'm far from that kind of income in Denmark)..

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

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 - on.ft.com/48iAfmz via @FT

Anson's fundraiser for Oracle Head and Neck Cancer UK Help Anson Mackay raise money to support Oracle Head and Neck Cancer

@ans.bsky.social's running the Spine (268 miles up the Pennine Way in January!) and raising money for Oracle Head and Neck Cancer. If you can chuck in a bob or two to support, that would be marvelous! www.justgiving.com/page/anson-m...

One day I'd like to see Farage and Cameron and Johnson in court to account for what they did to the country, quite thoughtlessly, carelessly and with only an eye out for themselves.

China is making trade impossible Europe has nothing to offer and difficult decisions to make

China is making trade impossible - on.ft.com/4p1B5eG via @FT

How to get the UK out of its economic hole Reeves’ challenge is to remedy the disaster that Brexit has been for the country

"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 - on.ft.com/4iq4UmP

Vi spiser lige så lidt vegetarisk som for ti år siden: Her er de vegetarretter, vi alligevel spiser mest Danskernes foretrukne vegetariske retter viser sig at være mere beige end grønne.

Antallet af danskere, der er villige til at ændre på deres madvaner af hensyn til klimaet, er faldet fra 21 % i 2022 til 16 % i 2025. Og her taler vi ikke engang om at afstå fra de klimatunge kødretter, men blot at skære ned.

Hvorfor? Det er så lille en ting, som alle kan gøre.

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.

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...

Antarctic meltwater alters future projections of climate and sea level
Sadai et al 2025
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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...

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...

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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

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 ...

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...

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.

🏅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! 🧵⬇️

Handwriten manuscript of the Baroque Cycle, a three-volume speculative epic set in the 17th century, when the scientific revolution was beginning to take shape. Author Neal Stephenson says, "The Baroque Cycle fits under the broader vision of what sclence fiction is about... fiction that's not considered good unless it has interesting Ideas in it." The Baroque Cycle: Quicksilver, The Confusion, and The System of the World, by Neal Stephenson, William Morrow Books, New York, 2003-2004 The manuscript consists of two stacks of handwritten foolscap pages; one stack is approximately 60cm deep, the one beside it is 40cm thick.

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.

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.