@Amtrak I had a ticket on Empire Builder 8 from Whitefish-Minot today. First, the train was delayed 10 hours. Now, it's cancelled. There's no service to Minot til Monday, so my only choice was to book a flight for $500. I want to love rail, but this is unacceptable. Can you help?
Blog: First there was the post-Soviet #Arctic, when all the walls came down. Then they started coming back up. Now, after having to reconsider the Arctic post-Crimea & post-Ukraine, we need to brace ourselves for pre-Trump 2.0–but not without some history.
https://t.co/UqenU4d53t
An interesting @nytimes map of the airship Norge's flight across the North Pole – the first verified flight over the extremity – from Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard to Teller, Alaska in 1926. Notice the "Unexplored Area" 👀 #Arctic#maps
Does anyone know whether former @QuintillionNet CEO Elizabeth Pierce, who was sentenced to five years in prison in June 2019 for defrauding investors of $270 million, was released this year? #Alaska@adndotcom
https://t.co/9dg54uzCE1
Scandinavian Airlines @SAS has cut its route between Copenhagen and Shanghai as of 7 Nov 2024 due to "difficult market conditions" – aka not being able or willing to access Russian airspace. Meanwhile, China plows ahead...
https://t.co/uwY892WewD
Remembering when the Transpolar Dream was alive and well when Russian and American air traffic regulators would regularly meet in cities like Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Anchorage, and...Las Vegas to discuss flight planning across Siberia.
Photos of Russian icebreaking research vessel Akademik Fedorov looking for an ice floe in Sept 2024 in which to position Severnyy Polyus (in the back) as it floats for 2 years (!) across the #Arctic.
Source: Russia's Arctic & Antarctic Research Institute https://t.co/0mcPkDMBL5
‘Some token of being there’: Visuality and the Inuit Body in Early Modern England - a really interesting piece by @ali_wedderburn: https://t.co/y5Rch3j6ul via @niche_canada
Coming out in February 2025: A Russian movie "North Pole" (Северный полюс) about the Soviet submarine K-3 Leninsky Komsomol, which was the country's first to surface at the North Pole in 1962.
https://t.co/dMTJQSgQ4w
I'm recruiting a PhD student to join my group @uw_ischool in 2025-26. If you like the mountains and interdisciplinary research that blends data and culture, this could be a good fit!
PhD apps due Dec 2: https://t.co/S2dMirSr0d
More info about my group: https://t.co/2jHUw4O74S
When NATO and natas meet 🥚:
A Portugese submarine, Arpão, carried out a 70-day deployment to the #Arctic, sailing under the marginal ice zone, ice shelf, and even making a port call in Nuuk.
https://t.co/F1nNzrO6EV
TIL that the second-tallest structure in Iceland is this 1,000 ft guyed mast, which is used for communicating with US and NATO submarines.
the mind boggles
@AleksisOresch a big yes to 'weighing' such things in! :) relatedly, i'm working with @zacharycudney to conceptualize a geopolitics of mass through the example of objects in orbit, i.e. megaconstellations like Starlink
@AleksisOresch yeah! it also depends on the materiality of the substrate. from what i'm reading, one reason the USSR/Russia's ELF Zevs transmitter (whose 82 Hz signals have a wavelength of 3,500 km!) was built on the Kola Peninsula was because of the geology's low electrical conductivity.
What a fascinating article by @KennyHolston about life aboard a US nuclear submarine. It appears that even underneath the #Arctic sea ice miles from any internet connection, we remain tethered to our phones.
https://t.co/BxiXdczknT