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Roland Harwood 🌍

@rolandharwood.bsky.social
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Compulsive Connector | Climate Tech | Responsible AI | Smart Cities | Physics PhD | Piano Player | Failed Astronaut | Runner | Dad of Three | On The Edge 🌍

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Martin Robbins @mjrobbins.com · 20/09/2026
Obviously going to regret this when Claude starts a nuclear war on Monday.
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The AI Apocalypse is Extremely Boring Now
Elites are obsessed with the end of the world. Most people have bigger problems.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
One reason England does so well is our second generation immigrants outperform their peers which is not true in most OECD countries. We are also very good at integration. And it's v sad that this is never acknowledge in debates on immigration.
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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This is very good to see. But it’s weird the UN is only *now* catching up to what National Geographic fixed in 1988. www.npr.org/2026/09/04/n...
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The U.N. backs a new world map showing Africa in its true relative size
The U.N. has backed a new map showing Africa in its true relative size, with the U.S. standing alone in opposition.
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Oli @oliaworth96.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
It's exhausting.
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Roland Harwood 🌍 @rolandharwood.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Is anybody actually using the non air conditioned tube lines this week in London during the heatwave? I can’t think of anything worse and so have chosen to cycle slowly around town with multiple changes of clothes.
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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Enjoyed writing this for @iandunt.bsky.social excellent substack. Labour does have a genuinely inspiring vision and impressive track record. It's called net zero and if the government talked about it more it might start to improve its fortunes. iandunt.substack.com/p/guest-post...
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Guest Post: Labour's Net Zero triumph
In the face of frenzied right-wing attacks, this government has successfully executed one of the most ambitious climate change projects in the world. It's time to give credit where it's due.
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Roland Harwood 🌍 @rolandharwood.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
It’s a big day for Hungary and the world. The times they are a-changing
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
happy anniversary of when almost nothing happened
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Spaghetti @spaghettibeaver.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
maybe my favorite thing on the internet: neal.fun/deep-sea/
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The Deep Sea
Scroll down the deep sea in this interactive page.
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National Emergency Briefing @nebriefing.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Please sign an open letter to Sir Keir Starmer and the UK broadcasters calling for a televised emergency briefing on the #climate & #nature crisis. www.nebriefing.org/open-letter-... Highlights from actor Olivia Williams' powerful reading. Full version link below. #NEB2025 #TimeToStepUp
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Portland enacts emergency powers of nudity to check federal overreach.
Emergency World Naked Bike Ride planned in Portland, with blurred photi of naked bicyclists.
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Roland Harwood 🌍 @rolandharwood.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Quote of the day: "Litter picking is the gateway drug to tackling the climate crisis."
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
The 2025 Happy City Index is in, and @momentummag.bsky.social is pointing out that many of the world’s happiest cities are also some of the best places to ride a bike. Vancouver is #11, the highest ranked city in North America (cue the usual debates).
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The Happiest Cities in the World are Also the Most Bicycle Friendly
The 2025 Happy City Index is in and the world's happiest cities are also some of the best places to ride a bike.
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Roland Harwood 🌍 @rolandharwood.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Timing is everything.
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Roland Harwood 🌍 @rolandharwood.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
London and Paris aren't just rivals - they are the spine of Europe's #NewPaloAlto. From #AI to #ClimateTech, this week showed why their proximity and partnership matters more than ever. 🌍 🇬🇧 🇫🇷👇 www.linkedin.com/pulse/superc... #Paris #London #ProjectHafnia #NetZeroLiving #GTC2025 #LTW2025 #VivaTech
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The Supercluster Spine
Last week I attended five major conferences in London and Paris - London Tech Week, London Design Biennale , Viva Technology, NVIDIA’s GTC and the Smart Data Forum - which gave me a chance to compare ...
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Olaf Falafel @ofalafel.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Wise words #RIPBrianWilson
'Beware the lollipop of mediocrity; lick it once and you'll suck forever?'
Brian Wilson, The Beach Boys
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Roland Harwood 🌍 @rolandharwood.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
“This is an extraordinary moment. AI is a great equalizer. The new programming language is ‘human’ - just ask nicely!” Jensen Huang “Britain is defiantly and unashamedly open for business and investment." Keir Starmer #LondonTechWeek #LTW2025 #AI #EthicalAI #Tech #Innovation #UK #ProjectHafnia
Keir Starmer (UK Prime Minister), Jensen Huang (NVIDIA CEO) and Poppy Gustafsson (Minister for Investment) in conversation at London Tech Week this morning
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Roland Harwood 🌍 @rolandharwood.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Meanderthals!
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Helen Barnard @helenbarnard.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
It's absolutely peak Britain that the crown jewel of a new EU agreement is us getting access to better queues.
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Roland Harwood 🌍 @rolandharwood.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Pssst Keir and Ursula! 👋 Whilst you are putting the finishing touches to the UK-EU reset you might want to take a look at the Climate Tech SuperCluster; designed to accelerate climate impact at speed and scale. 👇 🌍 🚀 www.climatetechsupercluster.com #ClimateTech #NetZero #EUUKSummit #NewPaloAlto
A picture of Keir Starmer and Ursula Von Der Leyen looking wistfully over a balcony, about to negotiate a reset to the UK-EU relationship.
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Roland Harwood 🌍 @rolandharwood.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
On Trees, Tragedy, Transition, and Collective Ambition 🌳🌲 www.linkedin.com/pulse/tale-t...
The Sycamore Gap Tree in Northumberland
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Karthik Sankaran @rajakorman.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Mark Carney has a mandate to rename the Great Lakes as Eau Canada.
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
This is amazing www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Opinion | To Understand Global Migration, You Have to See It First
These estimates, drawn from the location data of three billion Facebook users, provide a view of human migration in extraordinary detail.
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Roland Harwood 🌍 @rolandharwood.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Can we live in a world that gives, rather than takes? Can we build a system that works for us, not one we work for? These questions underpin a new book called Stellar by James Arbib and Tony Seba, who answer both resoundingly in the affirmative. My review. 👇🦋 www.linkedin.com/pulse/world-...
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David Pfau @davidpfau.com · 03/04/2025
Interesting thoughts from the former head of AI safety at DeepMind: adaptiveagents.org/robustness
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Beyond Alignment: Robustness in AI Safety
Beyond Alignment: Robustness in AI Safety " Advanced AI is highly adaptable yet inherently unpredictable, making it nearly impossible to embed a fixed set of human values from the start. Traditional...
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Roland Harwood 🌍 @rolandharwood.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Channelling my inner Dean Martin… On the Street Where You Live 🎶
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Roland Harwood 🌍 @rolandharwood.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
I am very proud to share that we have been working in stealth mode on #ProjectHafnia which was announced publicly yesterday at #GTC25. Check it out. 🇩🇰🌍▶️👇 hafnia.milestonesys.com/joinwaitlist — * Hafnia is the original name for Copenhagen. #AI #EthicalAI #ResponsibleTechnology
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Project Hafnia
Project Hafnia
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Roland Harwood 🌍 @rolandharwood.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
I have been following the work of @rethinkx.com for a while and so am really looking forward to reading their latest book Stellar having attending their launch event in London last night. 📚🌍👇 stellarworld.com #StellarWorld #Stellar #Disruption #Transformation #Rethink
Photo of the launch event of the new book Stellar with Jamie Arbib and Tony Seba from Rethink X last night.Photo of the launch event of the new book Stellar with Jamie Arbib and Tony Seba from Rethink X last night.Photo of the launch event of the new book Stellar with Jamie Arbib and Tony Seba from Rethink X last night.
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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
The news has been more than a bit grim of late, so hooray for @carbonbrief.org providing some genuine and really meaningful **good** news: the UK's carbon emissions in 2024 were the lowest since 1872, because demand for fossil fuels just keeps decreasing. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-...
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Roland Harwood 🌍 @rolandharwood.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Rate our spice cupboard!
A photo of our spice cupboard
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Roland Harwood 🌍 @rolandharwood.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
“When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” Sherlock Holmes
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Roland Harwood 🌍 @rolandharwood.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Scaling Through Chaos www.indexventures.com/scaling-thro... The Founder’s Guide to Building and Leading Teams from 0 to 1,000 from Index Ventures. #ScaleUp #Scaling #Ventures #Chaos #OnTheEdge
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Scaling Through Chaos | Index Ventures
The founder's guide to building and leading teams from 0 to 1,000
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Roland Harwood 🌍 @rolandharwood.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Competence used to be the least we could expect from our leaders. Now it seems like the exception.
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Roland Harwood 🌍 @rolandharwood.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
“The UK’s finances are stretched more tightly than an elephants jock strap in an extreme yoga class.” 🐘 What a vivid and under appreciated description by @zaltzcricket.bsky.social in this weeks #NewsQuiz
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Roland Harwood 🌍 @rolandharwood.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Spring is sprunging
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Roland Harwood 🌍 @rolandharwood.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Every accusation is a confession. www.ft.com/content/dc98...
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Donald Trump calls Volodymyr Zelenskyy a ‘dictator’ as US rift with Ukraine deepens
US president warns Ukrainian leader he ‘better move fast or he is not going to have a country left’
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Roland Harwood 🌍 @rolandharwood.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Satire going full circle. If it’s a bit true it can be very funny. But if it’s completely true it’s completely unfunny.
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Roland Harwood 🌍 @rolandharwood.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Danify Califørnia NOW! 🇩🇰🇺🇸 denmarkification.com From Hygge to Hollywood! Because why not? #danophilia
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Help Denmark Buy California – Because Why Not?
Buy it from Trump, the bigliest crowdsourcing ever
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Roland Harwood 🌍 @rolandharwood.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
A beautiful and contemporary improvised piano duet clearly reminiscent of Miles Davis' classic In A Silent Way by Gwilym Gold and The Vernon Spring thevernonspring.bandcamp.com/track/out-of...
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Out of Silence, by The Vernon Spring, Gwilym Gold
from the album Still
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Nicholas Colloff @ncolloff.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
"Hope is an ability to work for something because it is good, not because it stands a chance to succeed. It is not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense regardless of how it turns out." Vaclav Havel
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Tom Forth @tomforth.co.uk · 01/02/2025
What are clusters? Why do they matter? Should we even bother? > I decided to write about economic geography as a special treat to the people in my replies furious that I don't have a degree in either economics or geography for some reason. tomforth.co.uk/clustersands...
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Clusters and sectors.
What are clusters? Why do they matter? Should we even bother?
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Roland Harwood 🌍 @rolandharwood.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Here are a few thoughts on Rachel Reeves speech this morning on boosting growth in the UK. I genuinely welcome many elements of this vision but also recognise how difficult some of these proposals are and would urge the government to think bigger. 🌍 www.linkedin.com/posts/roland...
A map of the Climate Tech Supercluster within 4 hours travel from London.
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Roland Harwood 🌍 @rolandharwood.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
"Innovation starts with human relationships: with the confidence to have a go, to explore, to make something new or take something else apart and show it to your friends, or ask for help and support."👏👇
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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Project Drawdown is still searching for a Director of Private Sector Partnerships! Please see the ad below. The deadline is 27 January! drawdown.org/careers/dire...
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Director of Private-Sector Partnerships
Our mission is to help the world reach “Drawdown" as quickly, safely, and equitably as possible.
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Carole King @carolekingofficial.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.” - Dr. Martin Luther King
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Roland Harwood 🌍 @rolandharwood.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
I went round to his house once. He was friendly and shook my hand with an impressive handshake saying “Hi, I’m Denis Law” assuming I knew who he was. But I didn’t. Football just wasn’t a thing in our house growing up. So I just said “Hi, I’m Roland Harwood”. Have since done my homework. RIP The King
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Roland Harwood 🌍 @rolandharwood.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
🚨 Check out our new role, Head of Network at LIS: The London Interdisciplinary School. apply.workable.com/lisacuk/j/61...
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Head of Network (partnerships/ecosystem) - The London Interdisciplinary School
ABOUT LISThe challenges humanity is facing aren't the stuff of dystopia, science fiction, or textbooks. They're happening today – and they've never been more complex and interconnected.Yet our higher ...
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Jon Agar @jonagar.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
The AI Opportunities Action Plan (Matt Clifford report), trailed in today’s morning news is now out in full. I’ve read it, and here’s a few observations 1/10 Link to full report assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6784eb...
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