SellaTheChemist

@sellathechemist
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🇺🇦🇺🇦 Born at 318 ppm CO2, UCL Prof, chemistry, climate change, energy waste, chemical weapons, #ClassicKit, bicycles, Lab_14, #UCLChemAirPoll. Timeblind and tired. Ask about my heat pump. @SellaTheChemist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy.
“Real” nameAndrea Sella
Official webpagehttps://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/4658-andrea-sella
LinkedInhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/andrea-sella-26ba44b/
Current statusTired and stressed. But learning.

I hosted an event at Cheltenham Science festival yesterday called “How to Win The World Cup”.

Stupidly I forgot to wear my W(h)ales shirt!

We've gone from Russia saying "take this deal cos the next one will be worse" to Ukraine saying it. I remain a master strategist.
Doonesbury 1982 cartoon on 'terrorist doctors and nurses'
Same old shit in Lebanon
Superpower

The @EUCommission just released a statement positioning open source as central to #Europe’s #TechSovereignty.

We couldn’t agree more. #OpenSource is critical to a robust and independent society.

Here’s our full statement: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/06/europes-new-tech-strategy-puts-open-source-front-and-centre/

#Mastodon #Fediverse #SocialWeb #OpenWeb #DigitalSovereignty

Europe's New Tech Strategy Puts Open Source Front and Centre

Mastodon's thoughts on the EU's newly released tech and open source strategy

Mastodon Blog

Tuta joins Euro-Office 🇪🇺 - one week before its first launch! 🔥

➡️ https://tuta.com/blog/tuta-joins-euro-office

Let's bring freedom from #Microsoft and #Google to Europe, @nextcloud @openproject @xwikiorg @soverin #EuroStack

Let's build a better web! 💪🏼 🎉

So if I understand correctly, Mandelson was a venal, corrupt backstabbing individual who should never have been appointed and whose advice was deeply flawed and corrupted by conflicts of interest.
But now his every statement about Starmer is considered to be so important and insightful that we hang on every word, And his views displace everything else from the front page.

Forgive me for feeling a little confused.

The natives are restless in Highbury tonight.
Lovely exhibition inspired by The Second Law by the Japanese artist Reijiro Wada. The man does things to titanium that will make you marvel. At the Anglo Japanese Daiwa Foundation in Regent’s Park. #free #microstates #entropy #Boltzmann #titanium