2025-11-20 20:51:49
A century of glaciers melting, condensed into a few seconds. Impressive video: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQWfDRejcPw/?igsh=Zm51d2Qzb2xtNHM4
A century of glaciers melting, condensed into a few seconds. Impressive video: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQWfDRejcPw/?igsh=Zm51d2Qzb2xtNHM4
Wow, already 3 years on the #Fediverse, meaning I have been running my #Mastodon instance just as long... crazy how fast time flies by...
My instance here in Switzerland is still small, so if someone needs a home, you may join!
The University of Zurich said that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee, known for their work in development economics, will move from the US to Switzerland, amid Donald Trump's attacks on universities.
https://www.
»Schweiz plant Überwachung schlimmer als die USA:
Die Revision des Schweizer Überwachungsgesetzes VÜPF würde sich direkt gegen VPN- und verschlüsselte Chat- und E-Mail-Anbieter mit Sitz in der Schweiz richten.«
Ja dem ist so und doch ist dies den meisten Scheizer*innen nicht mal im Ansatz bewusst, denn anscheinend hat ja niemensch was zu verbergen.
😡
SNF (Switzerland) restrictions proposed: only 1 concurrent research grant per PI (plus maybe one coop), only 1 proposal per year.
🔥 Hot take (since I'm not at all operating like this currently): I actually think this might be a good idea? It would curb some of the biggest "research mills", where one PI has a huge pyramid scheme underneath them, and might encourage more careful grant proposals, slower science. And might even put more emphasis back into the basic research funding (instead of the grant lotteries)?
(Maybe naive, I know, and I have no idea how this would be implemented)
#academicChatter #researchGrants
https://www.snf.ch/de/7qymWfJMG1z9XR2S/news/einschraenkungen-in-der-projektfoerderung
Johnny Harris (he doesn't seem to have a presence here) has a really good video out right now on public transportation in Switzerland. "By law, every village in Switzerland, which has people living all year round, they have the right of public transportation. It can be a train, it can be a gondola, it can be a bus. Whatever." That's pretty cool.
#Switzerland #PublicTransportation #JohnnyHarris
"Switzerland forecasts 1.5 GW annual solar growth through 2027"
#Switzerland #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables
Switzerland launches a preliminary investigation into whether Apple's terms for granting third-party access to NFC tech on iPhones violate its antitrust laws (Tim Hardwick/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/12/12/apple-pay-swiss-antitrust-probe-nfc/
Nobel-winning economists Duflo and Banerjee will leave US for Switzerland (Le Monde)
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/article/2025/10/10/nobel-winning-economists-duflo-and-banerjee-will-leave-the-us-for-switzerland_6746307_19.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251010/p143#a251010p143
"If there is one magic ingredient for Switzerland’s enduring economic success, I found, it is that its businesses often combine blue-collar know-how with white-collar innovation. Switzerland, like Germany, built its 20th-century industrial economy on training and valuing all types of workers—those that work with their hands and those that work at a desk."
If I hadn't left the Netherlands or Switzerland to move to the country where ambition goes to die, I could have my white whale this week. Alas. Anyway, time to go put in another day of backbreaking physical labor for no reward!
June 2nd to 4, 2026, the #WritingResearch community will meet in #Winterthur, #Switzerland, for the
If Switzerland has to invest $200B in the US, perhaps they could turn Nevada into a Cocoa plantation and bring down the price of chocolate.
Switzerland is covered in solar PV — if the Swiss can see the economic benefits, then sunnier countries can get over themselves
#Switzerland #Swiss #Schweiz
A 260 meter, 65 floor sky scraper in Zermatt... "a symbolically disruptive gesture that radicalizes the densification trend found in mountain resorts"
Very much hoping this proposal will be shut down before it gets traction! 🤬
https://www.domusweb.it/en/news/gall…
«Hayek, whose company is the world’s largest watchmaker, said the CEOs’ visit sent a signal of weakness. Instead, he suggested that Switzerland — the seventh-largest investor in the US — should retaliate by threatening to cut investment, or ditch a deal to buy US-made F-35 jets.
“Are we William Tell,” he quipped in reference to the Swiss hero of folklore, “or are we a vassal?”»
"Für jede Trafostation eine LEG" [‘A local energy community for every transformer station’]
It is fascinating how local energy communities are encouraged in Switzerland (so not governed by EU law, that also creates that role), and how the (local) utilities are also actively involved in this.
https://www.
Trump’s Tariffs Leave Swiss Farmers With Too Much Milk - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/business/switzerland-tariffs-trump-milk-cheese-cows.html
Spotify raises UK prices by £1 after previously raising them in April 2024; the Premium individual monthly plan will now cost £12.99 (Mandy Dalugdug/Music Business Worldwide)
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/spo
🍝 The 1957 “Spaghetti-Grows-on-Trees” Hoax: One of TV’s First April Fools’ Day Pranks
https://www.openculture.com/2025/11/the-1957-spaghetti-grows-on-trees-hoax.html
"Swiss unemployment stands at a mere 2.8%, meaning the country is near full employment. And, its median salary of approximately over $90,000 per year, is about 50% higher than in the U.S. despite having a similar GDP per capita."
https://fortune.com…
Maybe Switzerland could have waited for Trump to discover that he can’t make Swiss watches in the US either.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-tariffs-coffee-beef-fruit-4fe084c2724ec6d92096efa263fdcf76
Maybe Switzerland could have waited for Trump to discover that he can’t make Swiss watches in the US either.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-tariffs-coffee-beef-fruit-4fe084c2724ec6d92096efa263fdcf76
1,000 Swiss glaciers already gone, and the melting is speeding up #Switzerland
Cryogenic In-Memory Computing with Phase-Change Memory
Davide G. F. Lombardo (IBM Research Europe, Ruschlikon, Switzerland), Siddharth Gautam (IBM Research Europe, Ruschlikon, Switzerland), Alberto Ferraris (IBM Research Europe, Ruschlikon, Switzerland), Manuel Le Gallo (IBM Research Europe, Ruschlikon, Switzerland), Abu Sebastian (IBM Research Europe, Ruschlikon, Switzerland), Ghazi Sarwat Syed (IBM Research Europe, Ruschlikon, Switzerland)
Switzerland is covered in solar PV — if the Swiss can see the economic benefits, then sunnier countries can get over themselves
#Switzerland #Swiss #Schweiz
"Value each part of a corporate ecosystem, from the factory worker to the competitor next door. Be altruistic and self-interested at the same time: if you have success, invest your proceeds in nascent and innovative companies.
And don’t try to save pennies in manufacturing or other built-up know-how by outsourcing, if it could lose you pounds (or billions of Swiss Francs) down the line."
Glossar »Nachhaltigkeit in der Werbebranche«
https://www.designerinaction.de/kreativwirtschaft/glossar-nachhaltigkeit-in-der-werbebranche-zum-downloaden/
"Der Bundesverband Digitale Wirtschaft (BVDW) und die IA…
The USA has only a million elevators, about as many as Italy, and they cost four times as in Switzerland.
https://web.archive.org/web/20250827193631/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/08/opinion/elevato…
Overview of the 5 utilities in Switzerland offering dynamic network tariffs next year: #Flexibility
"In 2019 a team of web development and design celebrities gathered in CERN, to build an emulator of the original web browser created by Tim Berners-Lee, known as WorldWideWeb. This emulator is available online and, fittingly enough, runs on a modern web browser.
The team included John Allsop, Kimberly Blessing, Mark Boulton, Martin Chiteri, Jeremy Keith, Craig Mod, Angela Ricci, Brian Suda, and Remy Sharp, who kept a diary of the project in his blog."
Why do I always get that urge of "Someone is wrong on the internet!" when @… posts about Switzerland? 🙄
Probing the accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar SAX J1808.4-3658 using the evolution of its spectral and aperiodic timing properties
Aman Kaushik (TIFR, India), Yash Bhargava (TIFR, India), Sudip Bhattacharyya (TIFR, India), Maurizio Falanga (ISSI, Switzerland,University of Bern, Switzerland)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01207
Characterisation of Thick Gaseous Electron Multipliers as charge readout operated in pure argon
G. Eurin (IRFU, CEA, Universit\'e Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France), A. Delbart (IRFU, CEA, Universit\'e Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France), R. De Oliveira (CERN, The European Organization for Nuclear Research, 1211 Meyrin, Switzerland), A. Drozd (CERN, The European Organization for Nuclear Research, 1211 Meyrin, Switzerland), P. Granger (IRFU, CEA, Universit\&…
Switzerland-based Mimic Robotics, which is building AI models to enable human-like robotic hands to adapt to complex, high-precision tasks, raised a $16M seed (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/11/04/mimic-raises-16m-build-a…
@… Regarding quotes, I'd add that in Germany and Austria, guillemets are an alternative to „…“ and are used like this: »…«
In Switzerland, only «…» are used for all national languages, but they are only spaced in French.
@… Regarding quotes, I'd add that in Germany and Austria, guillemets are an alternative to „…“ and are used like this: »…«
In Switzerland, only «…» are used for all national languages, but they are only spaced in French.
"Ghana, Switzerland partner on $200 million rooftop solar rollout"
#Ghana #Switzerland #SolarPower #Energy
You know that you’re teaching in #Switzerland when you catch the majority of students running the live broadcast of today’s #ski competition in a separate window while doing learning tasks
#AcademicChatter
I just realized that the International Organization for Standardization ISO uses a picture from Switzerland to illustrate their popular standards page about ISO8601.
But do you know where it was taken?
https://www.iso.org/iso-8601-date-and-time-format.html
12th Low-Level RF Workshop (LLRF2025)
Dmitry Teytelman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07603 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.07603
Tried to have two groups of students debate each other, but this doesn’t work in #Switzerland: “Well, maybe both sides have a point…"
#AcademicChatter
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- Beethoven and Schubert from the Chiaroscuro Quartet and cellist Christian Poltéra
Beethoven's 'Razumovsky' String Quartet and Schubert's String Quintet in C, D.956 performed in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002l0b5
Saturday was beautiful in the #swiss mountains, while the city was in the clouds.
Got a very nice close-up show by a bearded #vulture!
#birdwatching #Switzerland #hiking
Baidu and Swiss Post's PostBus plan to launch Baidu's Apollo Go autonomous vehicle service in Switzerland, testing in December ahead of rollout by Q1 2027 (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/baidu-expands-robotaxi-push-swit…
If anybody has a job going in Switzerland in corporate IT management, datacenter management, vendor management, or even compliance management adjacent, I'm open to getting off this blighted island. Experience in both education and financial sectors. Technical background in network ops/eng, Linux/UNIX syseng.
Die #Klimakrise trifft die #Schweiz:
Der #Griesgletscher in der #Schweiz hat zwischen 20…
Can't help but wonder if this might be relevant to the legal challenge to the orange toddler's #tarriff actions. It must be hard for the Thomas wing of the courts to ignore these abuses.
Swiss gold and Rolex gifts to Trump raise questions over personalisation of US presidential power
Cryptomixer platform raided by European police; $29 million in bitcoin seized https://therecord.media/cryptomixer-service-takedown-bitcoin-seized
"Climate change linked to landslide that buried Swiss village"
#Switzerland #Climate #ClimateChange
Rolex says Trump “joked” his invite to their private box at the U.S. Open was to get favorable tariff terms for Switzerland,
a quip that “brought a round of laughter all around
https://meidasnews.com/news/exclusive-rolex-cour…
Predictive Criteria for Electrospray-Assisted Droplet Dynamics in Aerodynamic Flow Fields
Ethan Kahn (Unaffiliated, Z\"urich, Switzerland)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22676 …
Our conference is preceeded by a «research school» for junior researchers (typically: PhD students). The RS starts in the afternoon of day 1, then two full days (day 2 and day 3), and ends around noon of day 4 (with transportation to the main conference).
What is a typical program for such a #ResearchSchool? I can also include tourist activities or some hiking (it‘s in Switzerland,…
"French startup unveils solar canopy for motorhomes"
#France #SolarPower #Energy
Temperature Optimisation in Data Centres
Vlad C. Coroam\u{a}
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26163 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.26163
Tried to have two groups of students debate each other, but this doesn’t work in #Switzerland: “Well, maybe both sides have a point…"
#AcademicChatter
Tried to have two groups of students debate each other, but this doesn’t work in #Switzerland: “Well, maybe both sides have a point…"
#AcademicChatter
I like my individualized mail addresses. I just received a phishing mail to update my data with a Swiss payment system (TWINT) - but it was sent to an address I created for a doctor's appointment system (Onedoc).
The message also contains my postal address from the time I created that account.
#databreach
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ClassicalLive
- The Mendelssohn Octet
Exclusive music-making including Mozart's Prague Symphony from Switzerland and highlights from this year's Bath Mozartfest.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002mcr4
@… it's funny you say that! I really like the concept of a common Waschküche as is standard in Switzerland, as you can get 6 really good industrial washing machines and a person to maintain them for like a tenner a month, rather than every flat having to spend €600 on some shitty consumer-grade Siemens crap.
European countries proposed an alternative Ukraine peace plan on Sunday that omits some of the pro-Russia points made in the original US-backed document and calls for Kyiv’s sovereignty to be respected.
The counter-proposal emerged as US, Ukrainian and international negotiators met in Switzerland.
The 28-point US document leaked last week demands Ukraine hand over territory to Russia, limits the size of its army and agrees not to pursue the Kremlin for alleged war crimes.
A…
Rumble plans to roll out a bitcoin tipping feature, developed in partnership with Tether, to its 51M creators in December; Tether has invested $775M in Rumble (Francisco Rodrigues/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/10/25…
Die Tessiner Nationalrätin Greta Gysin und der Waadtländer Nationalrat Raphaël Mahaim, beide Abgeordnete der Grünen, haben bei der Bundesanwaltschaft Strafanzeige erstattet. Sie fordern eine strafrechtliche Untersuchung jenes Treffens schwerreicher Schweizer Geschäftsleute mit US-Präsident Donald Trump Anfang November in Washington, das mutmasslich den Durchbruch im sogenannten Zollstreit zwischen den USA und der Schweiz gebracht hat.
https://www.woz.ch/2548/korruptionsvorwurf/gruene-zeigen-team-switzerland-an/!1MRADPBSF5BG
I always enjoy having visitors from no-matter-which EU country discovering that no, Switzerland is not part of the EU, only Schengen
“There’s no roaming, right? I need to print and screenshot everything in advance?!”
Sure, there’s roaming, it only has a different price tag. And can you imagine, when I visit you, I pay the same absurdly high fees
"Swiss glaciers shrank by a quarter in past decade: study"
#Switzerland #Glaciers #Climate #ClimateChange