Wolfgang Cramer

#Climate & #biodiversity scientist, professor of global #ecology, CNRS 🌍 (npub1s2d…mv62), #IMBE, #MedECC, #IPCC, Académie d'Agriculture de France, Chief Editor Regional Environmental Change (Springer Nature).

I support #SustainableDevelopment, particularly in #transport 🚶🚲 🚂 and #agricultural systems 🐏🌾. #TransformativeChange

https://standupforscience.fr

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2025-05-19 04:19:44

Off this morning on #velotrain2025 to Germany, on interrail, with my bicycle. Will be taking lots of regional trains along the way and am starting unnecessarily early, such as to be able to buffer possible delays later during the day.
I will report observations in this thread (thanks for the 50+ encouragements!).
#BikeTooter @npub1g6t…3774
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2025-04-15 09:48:50

“Parkinson’s is a man-made disease,” he says. “And the tragedy is that we’re not even trying to prevent it.” https://www.politico.eu/article/bas-bloem-parkinsons-pesticides-mptp-glyphosate-paraquat/
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2025-04-13 11:20:21

Aujourd'hui, très exceptionnellement, la publicité : pour les excellents fours solaires que mon ami Alain Paret fabrique dans la Drôme.
https://alainparetebeniste.wixsite.com/fours-solaires
#TransitionEcologique
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2025-03-11 13:19:13

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one!

2025-03-04 20:05:40

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Il est donc urgent de réaffirmer le rôle fondamental des sciences comme moteur d’émancipation et de progrès social, et de renforcer la culture scientifique au sein de la société. L’Europe peut se ressaisir et surmonter son déclin scientifique, technique et économique, à condition de choisir l’investissement dans le savoir, la recherche et l’innovation. En s’appuyant sur l’héritage des Lumières, elle peut bâtir un avenir durable fondé sur la construction et la transmission des savoirs.
Le 7 mars, mobilisons-nous, affirmons notre soutien aux sciences et défendons un savoir libre et éclairé, seul rempart contre l’obscurantisme et la désinformation. Nous appelons les scientifiques, citoyens et citoyennes à rejoindre le mouvement Stand Up for Science (standupforscience.fr) et à organiser des actions partout en France.
Liste complète des signataires disponible sur le site : https://standupforscience.fr/qui-sommes-nous/
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2025-03-04 20:03:51

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Face à cette offensive obscurantiste, nos collègues américains se mobilisent. Ce sont avant tout les jeunes scientifiques qui portent ce mouvement, rappelant que la science est un commun de la connaissance et qu’elle est essentielle à une société démocratique, inclusive et éclairée. Des rassemblements sont prévus le 7 mars prochain, pour rappeler que produire, partager et rendre accessibles les connaissances scientifiques est crucial pour la société.
Défendre la liberté
En tant que défenseurs des libertés académique et scientifique, nous appelons solennellement l’ensemble des acteurs du savoir à se mobiliser pour défendre ces libertés, valeurs essentielles à nos démocraties. Cet ensemble inclut évidemment les scientifiques ainsi que les organisations représentant la communauté académique (académies, institutions médicales, sociétés savantes, syndicats, etc.), mais aussi les acteurs de la transmission : enseignants, étudiants, professeurs – de la maternelle à l’université –, médiateurs et journalistes scientifiques.
Ensemble, nous voulons rappeler l’importance des faits scientifiques, notamment pour la santé, la compréhension des inégalités sociales, les défis climatiques et la biodiversité. Ce qui se joue aujourd’hui aux Etats-Unis pourrait bien préfigurer ce qui nous attend si nous ne réagissons pas à temps.
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2025-03-04 20:02:31

« Défendons les sciences face aux nouveaux obscurantismes » https://www.lemonde.fr/sciences/article/2025/03/04/defendons-les-sciences-face-aux-nouveaux-obscurantismes_6576330_1650684.html
#standupforscience
En écho au mouvement américain de protestation contre la politique de Donald Trump, un collectif de personnalités françaises appelle citoyens et scientifiques, dans une tribune au « Monde », à rejoindre le mouvement « Stand up for Science », ainsi qu’à une journée de mobilisation nationale, le 7 mars.
L’université et la recherche sont aujourd’hui la cible d’attaques sans précédent aux Etats-Unis, menaçant l’un des piliers de la démocratie : la liberté académique et scientifique. Sous la pression de la nouvelle administration, les coupes budgétaires brutales affectent directement la société, notamment en matière de santé publique et d’environnement.
La censure idéologique s’étend, retirant des informations scientifiques essentielles sur les inégalités sociales, la santé et la protection des milieux naturels. A cela s’ajoute une restriction de l’enseignement de l’évolution et des études de genre, couplée à des attaques contre l’intégrité des agences scientifiques. Enfin, les licenciements de jeunes scientifiques et l’interdiction de collaborations internationales se multiplient, aggravant ce tableau alarmant.
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2025-02-25 22:11:38

US research in danger: solidarity with our colleagues https://clads.ch/en/us-research-in-danger-solidarity-with-our-colleagues/
#standupforscience

2025-01-26 09:11:54

Still one more week to go this January, but so far 20 out of 24 days have seen all-time records of global average temperature for those dates. https://pulse.climate.copernicus.eu/
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2025-01-23 14:24:21

Just a note for those who say, "but who knows which way bluesky heads in the future - it might become as bad as X": Indeed, but freedom includes the capacity to leave a network when it is no longer tolerable - as we just demonstrate with that hate speech place.
For now, I am there and also here on mastodon.

2025-01-13 11:35:29

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...it seemed to work for me...

2025-01-13 09:03:45

Very pleased to notice that starter packs exist in the #fediverse as well, and there is a lot of them already: https://fedidevs.com/starter-packs/
#StarterPacks
(Danke, @npub1jtg…c6qw für den Hinweis!)

2025-01-08 14:10:10

Yet another day warmer than ever before on this date since beginning of the observations. https://sites.ecmwf.int/data/climatepulse/timeseries/era5_daily_series_2t_global_2025-01-05.png
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2025-01-06 14:42:14

When I was a young undergraduate student and first heard about anthropogenic global heating and its disastrous consequences, CO2 had risen by 6% relative to the year when I was born. https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/carbon-dioxide/?intent=121
Now it is 34% higher and we pass one temperature record after another.
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2024-12-29 14:16:21

Just a little wintery ride in the #Diois today
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2024-12-22 09:59:43

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And a crazy aspect of this is that discussions about "the economy" are made without even thinking of the greatest risks for today's economy: the global environmental and equity crisis.

2024-12-20 14:19:40

If it was not clear before, then it is now. Every single well-meaning post on that hate speech platform is direct support to the extreme right in several European countries. No public institution should be posting there.
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2024-12-16 21:53:01

Netflix faces calls for a boycott after it removed its “Palestinian Stories” collection this October. This includes approximately 24 films. https://theconversation.com/reel-resistance-netflixs-removal-of-palestinian-films-adds-to-the-erasure-of-palestine-244724
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2024-12-12 10:08:26

Atlantic circulation collapse? New clues on the fate of a crucial conveyor belt https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/12/atlantic-circulation-collapse-new-clues-on-the-fate-of-a-crucial-conveyor-belt/
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2024-12-10 11:56:38

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I have been getting invitations for all sorts of cardiology-related events and journal editorial boards for years now, and I keep wondering whether this could be due to the heart surgery I had (as a patient!) five years ago...
I keep thinking that our colleagues who write, edit or review for MDPI should consider this abusive behaviour before they decide on their next engagement with these criminals.

2024-12-09 10:14:50

2024 now clearly en route to be hotter than the previous record, 2023 https://pulse.climate.copernicus.eu/
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2024-11-15 11:06:26

During these days of negative vibes coming across the Atlantic, I felt a need to (re-)connect to the best of American culture (and also my own youth).
#BeautifulPeople
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2024-11-10 08:13:17

(A scientific editor's musing on a Sunday morning)
What if someone wrote an AI bot that just automatically wrote angry rejection letters to all those authors who send me clearly AI-generated and meaningless journal paper submissions? And I could do more pleasant things on a Sunday morning?
I also fear that every rejection letter I write just helps them to improve their machine learning algorithm.

2024-11-07 12:28:28

Yet one more day with global surface air temperature above anything observed at this time of the year. https://pulse.climate.copernicus.eu/
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2024-11-06 12:43:03

Global surface air temperature still above anything observed at this time of the year. https://pulse.climate.copernicus.eu/
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2024-11-06 12:32:08

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OK, but my main point is that I do not see this need, expressed by some people, to maintain some sort of "presence" on X. Let them have the place and do whatever hate and fake nonsense they want to do - our mere presence there tends to validate the existence of the platform and I am not going to be part of that.
Maintaining a presence on X now likely means direct support for the person firing thousands of US government employees.

2024-11-06 11:08:48

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As far as I know (I have not checked), nobody has ever "stolen my username" on X, but maybe I am just not important enough for that.

2024-10-28 07:09:48

Scientists have discovered that Earth’s carbon sinks are not really carbon sinking at the moment https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2024/oct/28/scientists-have-discovered-that-earths-carbon-sinks-are-not-really-carbon-sinking-at-the-moment
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2024-09-04 17:53:47

Sweden’s reputation as ‘nature friendly’ is being shot to pieces (commentary) https://news.mongabay.com/2024/09/swedens-reputation-as-nature-friendly-is-being-shot-to-pieces-commentary/

2024-08-13 18:41:11

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Before disembarking in Stockholm, a superior SJ guy, in something like a North Korean uniform, told me sternly that he had "made an exception" to let me travel on this train. I reminded him of the luggage rules made by his company ... Did he really need to demonstrate his authority?
Here is how the competing Mälartågen handles this, on my last leg to Uppsala tonight. The confusing announcements of their various delayed trains were probably not their fault.
#NorthernEuropeTrainBike2024
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2024-08-13 18:31:38

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On the fast ride to Stockholm, no great photos of the landscape, but it's always a beautiful ride, and we arrived perfectly on time.
#NorthernEuropeTrainBike2024
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2024-08-13 16:04:30

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In Malmö it was time again to pack the bicycle and hope they would let me take it on the X2 train to Stockholm. It worked and I even got a compliment from the train manager about my "nice packaging". But there really is no reasonable space for anything of this size here (travelling with 2 bikes would not work), and SJ really ought to get serious in this respect.
#NorthernEuropeTrainBike2024
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2024-08-13 15:54:59

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Someone asked for videos, so here is from the Öresundsbridge (famous location of a much copied Danish-Swedish TV-series called "Bron").
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2024-08-13 15:19:02

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In the Öresundstrain to Sweden, where no bicycle reservation is needed, staff was very helpful in getting everyone on board, and I briefly became part of a German family that had all chosen the same pannier colour that I have.
#NorthernEuropeTrainBike2024
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2024-08-13 15:08:45

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The "rubber nose train" arrived on-time in Copenhagen and catching the next train to Malmö was easy (with spacious elevators and all - why do French station elevators lack the few cm you'd need to get the bicycle in easily?) - and Copenhagen main station all in rainbow colours.
#NorthernEuropeTrainBike2024
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2024-08-13 15:02:19

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I had an official DSB bicycle reservation for a later train, but I checked just in case one was available for the next one to Copenhagen, and so I bought it in the very well-built DSB app - and surely the (extremely friendly) controller wanted to see it.
#NorthernEuropeTrainBike2024
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2024-08-13 14:57:03

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My cycling had to end today at Vordingborg station, just over 50 km pure pleasure. The station is in perfect shape for future traffic on this line, but I fear most trains will just race through it.
#NorthernEuropeTrainBike2024
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2024-08-13 14:52:22

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The new bridge is being built further west, no doubt in connection with future high speed train connections to "the continent", along with the Fehmarn belt tunnel.
#NorthernEuropeTrainBike2024
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2024-08-13 14:48:54

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Now something bigger, and from the series "infrastructure that wasn't very old when I first came here but might be gone next time": Storstrømsbro bridge, just south of Vordingborg.
#NorthernEuropeTrainBike2024
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2024-08-13 14:41:49

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I love those little crossings between islands with wind and sunny weather, like here at Guldborgsund, between Lolland and Falster.
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2024-08-13 14:35:47

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The art of sensible nudging for a good cause (seen in Sakskøbing, Denmark)
#NorthernEuropeTrainBike2024
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2024-08-13 14:31:23

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Onwards this morning through Lolland's and Falster's flat but variable agricultural landscapes. Beautiful day again, despite the growing wind from the East.
#NorthernEuropeTrainBike2024
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2024-08-13 14:20:11

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Spent the night in the Kirkely Bed and Breakfast, extremely comfortable and with the nicest possible welcome by its owner, Joanne. Highly recommended!
Actual cycling today from Travemünde 103 km.
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2024-08-13 14:13:53

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After arrival in Rødby and smooth disembarking about 20 km more evening cycling in marvelous conditions to Øllebølle (yes, that IS the name of the place).
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2024-08-12 20:53:29

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The other goal had been to get back on the Puttgarden - Rødby ferry, which I have taken multiple times by train.
No more trains since some years, and soon maybe even no ferry as Denmark has decided they really need a tunnel.
Always fun to cycle on board of a ship, and this was easy and well managed.
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2024-08-12 20:45:26

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Crossing Fehmarn Island was easy, except that I would not have minded to stay for a drink in Burg where everyone seemed to be doing just that. Their bicycle infrastructure is remarkable: a particular type of cobblestone that are surprisingly pleasant to cycle on (sorry no pictures).
(In Aix-en-Provence, they hardly have any cycle paths, but those that exist are all used by tourists with suitcases, as they are the only smooth AND car-free surface in town)
#NorthernEuropeTrainBike2024
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2024-08-12 20:38:19

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My nostalgic plan had been to cycle across the Fehmarnsundbrücke, a futuristic land mark when I was young, and with a great ("where the birds fly"), but there are roadworks on it, and you can neither walk nor cycle. Instead, they offer a free and marvellously equipped bus shuttle, with an extremely friendly driver.
#NorthernEuropeTrainBike2024
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2024-08-12 20:31:24

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For me, from here onwards was lovely cycling with the best possible conditions, no wind, gentle temperatures and bicycle paths everywhere, occasionally with gravel, but even the gravel was mostly well kept. The worst parts are where tree roots crack the asphalt from below, but there was not much of that.
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2024-08-12 20:23:23

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The huge terminus station of this train has a name (Lübeck Travemünde Strand), but designers thought it more important to let travellers know how to get out of this lovely place as fast as possible.
#NorthernEuropeTrainBike2024
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2024-08-12 20:17:08

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It could be that today this regio was exceptionally busy - lots of people from Hamburg seemed just to head to the beach of the Baltic. The bicycle area had also seats, so the bike had to "stand in the entrance", but that was fine.
I had an official ticket for it, but nobody came to see anything (nor was there any DB staff to help anybody).
#NorthernEuropeTrainBike2024
16/n
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2024-08-12 07:32:19

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A special treat of Deutsche Bahn: several hundred passengers, some with children, wheelchairs or even bicycles, stand ready for the regional train to Travemünde - and they change the departure platform one minute before scheduled departure.
#NorthernEuropeTrainBike2024
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2024-08-12 05:27:35

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This nightjet from Wien and Innsbruck gets earlier to Hamburg than the one I took in Zürich (as it doesn't pass through Bremen), so changing in Hannover is actually offered by ÖBB.
Not sure the slightly messy bicycle arrangement is normal, but this morning it seems to work.
#NorthernEuropeTrainBike2024
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2024-08-12 05:21:34

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This night's sleep was good though, and the nightjet caught almost up with its schedule, allowing to unload the bike and reassemble it in Hannover easily, ÖBB's breakfast in hand.
First planned regional train (to Uelzen) delayed though, and clearly DB has no idea by how much, so I ask the friendly manager from the shining new Innsbruck nightjet whether I could join them to Hamburg and she invites me on board.
#NorthernEuropeTrainBike2024
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2024-08-11 19:15:43

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Getting one's bicycle into an ÖBB nightjet, without a dedicated reservation, is risky and may fail or not, depending on the specific car you are in. I barely managed, packing my bike like on the picture in a bag with sbb logos on it, and having paid a steep fare for a bed in a twin sleeper cabin.
This being one of the old CNL 'cave people' cars, I could sort of hang the bag outside the cabin...not great.
#NorthernEuropeTrainBike2024
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2024-08-11 19:00:36

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Nice evening on Lake Zürich...
#NorthernEuropeTrainBike2024
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2024-08-11 17:19:00

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Arriving in Zürich has become something like an underground experience. I now have three easy hours on the waterfront before taking the night train northwards.
#NorthernEuropeTrainBike2024
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2024-08-11 14:50:00

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The bike storage solution on this IC 1 towards Zürich is only half-convincing for me, but at least there is one and it was easy to reserve.
Train moderately full to Bern, but there it really filled up.
#NorthernEuropeTrainBike2024
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2024-08-11 14:43:32

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Changing trains in Geneva is easy (as long as border control imagines you're likely to hold a European passport...), and walking your bike to the next train convenient.
#NorthernEuropeTrainBike2024
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2024-08-11 13:11:16

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The train keeps filling up with travellers, many likely going to the airport, and the capacity problem is now different: people come with these huge suitcases, and as there is no room for those elsewhere, they occupy the bicycle area. And since they roll around so easily, it is up to us cyclists to sit there and regularly put them back where they don't belong in the first place.
#NorthernEuropeTrainBike2024
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2024-08-11 13:03:01

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After Chambéry follows the Lac de Bourget, generally nice cycling land, but today I race through in this increasingly packed TER.
#NorthernEuropeTrainBike2024
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2024-08-11 11:47:56

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Between Grenoble and Chambéry.
I am now in my third TER today, taking me all the way to Geneva - the change in Grenoble was easy and, so far, there are even some spaces for bicycles free.
#NorthernEuropeTrainBike2024
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2024-08-11 09:50:00

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People asked me for videos from #NorthernEuropeTrainBike2024 , so here is an attempt, approaching Grenoble.
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2024-08-11 09:45:44

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Fourteen minutes to change to the next TER in Valence and we were many who wanted to use the elevator, but everybody made it easily.
This part of the train has six 🚲 hooks (there may be more elsewhere) but nobody minded a few extra bikes.
#NorthernEuropeTrainBike2024
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2024-08-11 08:56:33

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We had rather more than the officially allowed 3 🚲 on that first TER, and there was coming and going in each station, with 🇳🇱, 🇬🇧, 🇩🇪 and 🇫🇷 cyclists - but the truly wonderful lady from SNCF made sure everyone was relaxed.
#NorthernEuropeTrainBike2024
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2024-08-11 08:42:03

This morning, I start my 🧵 to report from my #NorthernEuropeTrainBike2024 trip and here is just the opening. Cycled about 1 km from my home to the station to take a sequence of regional trains to Geneva and beyond.
Lots of smiling people this morning, including the super-friendly contrôleuse of #SNCF and quite some people with bicycles.
[@fedibikes_de](https://a.gup.pe/u/fedibikes_de ) @npub1g6t…3774
#BikeTooter
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2024-08-10 12:32:50

Hello #BicycleTour and #TrainTravel bubbles!
Tomorrow, I'll take off for a modest combined train&bicycle trip around N Europe (11 days). I'd be happy to make a thread with some photos and practical details.
Is it worth my effort? A few favourites or boosts would encourage me to do the posting.
[@fedibikes_de](https://a.gup.pe/u/fedibikes_de ) @npub1g6t…3774 #bicycle #train

2024-06-03 05:29:12

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Someone at SJ is probably reading this thread...
(if this were an 🛬 they would have probably given updated info and tons of excuses)
14/n
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2024-06-03 05:10:10

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Train rolling along with occasional stops in the middle of nowhere. So I installed the SJ app to figure out whether we might be late...
This is what SJ knows about their own train. What about a new estimated arrival? (with detective work and the GPS I can figure out it's at least 90 minutes)
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#EuropeByTrain
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2024-06-02 20:12:53

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This is the SJ 2nd class sleeper cabin tonight which I will share with a nice young man. Looks just good enough for me.
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