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Healthy European peatlands require specific temperature and water level parameters #Europe

Healthy European peatlands require specific temperature and water level parameters
Efforts to enhance peat accumulation in European peatlands, which contain around half of Europe's soil carbon, will require a combination of warm temperatures and a specific depth of the water table, according to a study published in PLOS One by Graeme Swindles of Queen's University Belfast, U.K. and colleagues.

Tesla's European car sales nosedive for fifth month in a row.
Tesla 'has sustained brand and reputational damage in part due to CEO Elon Musk's incendiary rhetoric and political activity.'
That's politely put.
https://www.cnb…

Tesla's European car sales nosedive for fifth month as customers switch to Chinese EVs
The U.S. EV maker has sustained brand and reputational damage in part due to CEO Elon Musk's incendiary rhetoric and political activity.

London-based stock trading app Lightyear, which operates in 25 European countries, raised $23M led by NordicNinja, sources say at a $200M-$300M valuation (Ryan Browne/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/24/european-robinhood-rival-lightyear-raises-23-…

Estonia's tech elite are getting behind a European challenger to Robinhood
A host of Estonia's top tech entrepreneurs — including ride-hailing unicorn Bolt's CEO Markus Villig — are investing in European trading app Lightyear.

Zum 20. Geburtstag der #Vorratsdatenspeicherung im Jahr 2025 freut sich die EU-Kommission über Eure Meinung zur Idee, die #VDS für Internet-Provider zum Zweck der Strafverfolgung einzuführen.
Noch bis zum 30.6. mit SMS für die Authentifizierung, danach nur mit eID, per Facebook od…

Having Microsoft organise a European Sovereign Tech Fund is like having Anheuser-Busch be your AA sponsor.
#EuropeanSovereignTechFund #microsoft #corporateCapture

https://social.cwts.nl/@LudoWaltman/114552901400267842
Always publish an open preprint first, and then, if needed, submit to a journal. If the preprint is open anyway, it probably doesn't matter whether your chosen journal is open access (of any flavour) or subscription-…

Ludo Waltman (@LudoWaltman@social.cwts.nl)
Attached: 1 image How does the adoption of preprinting differ between European countries? Preprint adoption is significantly higher in Western and Northern European countries than in their Southern and Eastern European neighbors. Switzerland has the highest preprint adoption in Europe.

Climate change remains the defining challenge of the coming decades. https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/14397-European-Climate-Law-amendment_en

Amsterdam-based Finom, a neobank targeting SMBs, raised a €115M Series C led by AVP after raising €92.7M from General Catalyst in May (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/23/smb-focused-finom-closes-e115m-as-european-…

SMB-focused Finom closes €115M as European fintech heats up | TechCrunch
Finom, an Amsterdam-based challenger bank for SMBs that claims to have doubled its revenue in 2024, closed a €115 million Series C equity round (around $133 million).

We do need a European Sovereign Tech Fund, yes.
What we don’t need is Microsoft – a trillion-dollar surveillance capitalist from the US that peddles proprietary technology and is helping Israel carry out its genocide of the Palestinian people as we speak – having anything whatsoever to do with it.
#microsoft

The only way Microsoft should be involved in a European Sovereign Tech Fund is if we fund it by taxing the living shit out of them.
But having them organise and influence it (and who gets funded by it), thereby de facto giving Microsoft EU taxpayer subsidies? Get the fuck out of here.
There are no words to describe how angry this attempt at corporate capture gets me when we’ve been working on sovereign tech in the EU for the past seven years with zero EU funding (not for lack of …

We need a European Sovereign Tech Fund
With a new feasibility study, GitHub’s developer policy team is building a coalition of policymakers and industry to close the maintenance funding gap.