Ridgeline chart showing the distribution of global daily air temperature differences from the pre-industrial reference period (1850-1900), for every year between 1940 and 2024. Each individual year resembles a hill, shaded in a darker shade of red and further to the right for warmer years. The trend is clearly towards warmer years, with 2024 standing out as first year above 1.5C.

NEW: 2024 has just been confirmed as the warmest year on record, and the first to breach the 1.5C threshold.

We used a ridgeline (Joy Division inspired) chart to visualise daily temperature anomalies since 1940.

2024 clearly stands out with 100% of its days above 1.3C and 75% above 1.5C.

This is a thread about remaking the tech sector.

A picture of a road bike with a black dot at the centre is f the pedals

I’ve tried this at home and apparently it’s 100% accurate 🤷‍♂️ #cyclingbluesky

The Separation and Reunification of Germany: Rethinking a Natural Experiment Interpretation of the Enduring Effects of Communism (Spring 2020) - German separation in 1949 into a communist East and a capitalist West and their reunification in 1990 are commonly described as a natural experiment to study the enduring effects of co...

Zu den langfristigen Wirkungen der deutschen Teilung gibt es natürlich zahllose Studien. Stattdessen ein Papier von @essobecker.bsky.social @lukasmergele.bsky.social @woessmann.bsky.social, das fragt, ob ein Teil der Unterschiede nicht viel länger zurückreicht: www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Would you look at that: a great new handbook! Congrats to the editors! And thanks for letting me be part of it!

A graph titled "Cost of Transport" showing the relationship between body weight (in kilograms) and energy consumption for distance traveled (calories per gram per kilometer) for various animals and machines. It highlights that a person on a bicycle ranks first in efficiency.

A person on a bicycle is by far the most energy-efficient among animals and machines per distance traveled relative to body weight. The bicycle is magic.

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A strange aspect is that the two ministers pushing this agenda are former academics: Robbert Dijkgraaf (formerly Princeton) and Eppo Bruins (formerly MIT and Leiden U). It cannot be that they don’t understand what they are doing to the country and to its universities.

The Dutch government threatens not to allow university degree that are taught in English (as many are) in order to reduce the number of foreigners in the country. This will make NL substantially poorer. It serves no other purpose than to please the xenophobes at the cost of the whole country.

Captions should be above figures. Always.

Not an expert on this but I think “gemeinnützig” may the best equivalent. There are also “Vereine” and other forms of nonprofits.

Just made this first 10 million! 🎉