This Friday I'm defending my PhD thesis 'Steel Beyond Coal'. With nearly 6 years of research on steel decarbonisation coming to an end, here comes a very long 🧵about steel, coal and what we can do radically reduce carbon emissions in line with a just transformation.

can music AI chill for just a second? we JUST got text-to-music like 2 days ago

Ukrainian decathlete Volodymyr Androshchuk will not be representing his country at the Paris Olympics because he was just killed by the Russian armed forces. In other news, the IOC announces that Russian athletes are welcome in Paris.

Real sloppiness by The Phoenix Magazine. Either the editor is clueless, or the Russian embassy has hoodwinked him. Or both.

The inquiry commissioned to investigate the Champions League final fiasco has found UEFA responsible for the carnage. The panel concludes Liverpool fans saved lives and it is "remarkable" that nobody died. A huge win for fans. Please read and share 👇 metro.co.uk/2023/02/13/inq…

It's 5 years since the Skripal poisonings in Salisbury, and, for Bellingcat, the first in a series of investigations that would eventually lead to uncovering more than a dozen assassination attempts by the Russian state. We started here: bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-eu…

A proposal: any journalist who refers to a country as an "ex-Soviet state" must immediately refer to the United States as the "former English colonies" and make it clear to readers that they are in idiot.

It remains to be pointed out the public support for Gary Lineker is also for shouldering what the country's official opposition has avoided doing: pointing out the inhumanity of the legislation when all the Labour Party leadership has been doing is pointing out its inefficiency.

This was high impact for me. I felt both inspired and entirely out of my depth. You can watch Ben's talk here - with full sourcing and links below. journalismfestival.com/programme/2023…

Ok we all wanna bring back mammoths with cloning, but there are some weirdos I think we should also consider. PROCOPTODON: giant pug-faced kangaroo with forward-facing eyes. We think it walked instead of hopping. Early Australians met it & I want to feel what they felt

This is genius - bsd.network/@taf/110315028… (“CO2” budget instead of “travel” budget in corporations, etc)

And the best Russian meme so far. MoD: "More than 500k Wagnerites have been neutralized, 30k tanks destroyed. And three Prigozhins were taken in captivity"

How to understand Yevgeny Prigozhin's march on Moscow and its sudden end? See my latest piece on my S-bst-ck page: "Thinking about..."

In today's #vatniksoup, I'll introduce a South African-American(!) businessman and social media figure, Elon Musk (Elon Musk). He's best-known for being the wealthiest man in the world, running Tesla Inc., SpaceX & Twitter, and for parroting Kremlin's propaganda narratives. 1/24

Great “story so far” thread:

6. Trains are fun! You meet interesting people (and their dogs). Forcing myself not to fly for a few years led me on some great adventures, and I'll now fly much less than I used to. Try it for a year, and pass on the message 🌱

The unanimous conclusion of our authors is that the only outcome to the war that can safeguard the security of Europe is a convincing Ukrainian victory. chathamhouse.org/2023/06/how-en…

Putin’s remarkably relaxed response to Finland and Sweden joining NATO is proof that he never really saw the alliance as a security threat to Russia. Putin has simply exploited the NATO issue as a smokescreen for his genocidal invasion of Ukraine

Saudi authorities are spending billions on sports-washing to improve their image. But out of public view, Saudi border guards have killed at least hundreds of Ethiopian migrants and asylum seekers, including women and children, who tried to cross the Yemen-Saudi border.