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Giulio Mattioli
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Transport researcher with views on + than 1 topic - EU / Italian citizen with views on + than 1 country. Used to be in the UK. Now in Germany at TU Dortmund. Views my own https://t.co/ltfHVOHZe4

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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · Dec 5
We have published a new paper and it's one I'm really happy with. A collaboration with Janina Welsch of ILS Dortmund. rdcu.be/eS96s

We look at the relationship between migration background / ethnicity and travel behaviour, using UK data.

THREAD on the findings

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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 18h
Ladies and gentlemen, the king of bulls****ers
jimhenleymusic.bsky.social Jim Henley Music @jimhenleymusic.bsky.social · 23h
BREAKING: “in my 24th year of my quest to settle the planet Mars, I have just been informed of a basic fact of celestial mechanics.”
Screenshot of Elon Musk post on Ex: “Elon Musk y X @elonmusk For those unaware, Space has already shifted focus to building a self-growing city on the Moon, as we can potentially achieve that in less than 10 years, whereas Mars would take 20+ years. The mission of SpaceX remains the same: extend consciousness and life as we know it to the stars. It is only possible to travel to Mars when the planets align every 26 months (six month trip time), whereas we can launch to the Moon every 10 days (2 day trip time). This means we can iterate much faster to complete a Moon city than a Mars city. That said, SpaceX will also strive to build a Mars city and begin doing so in about 5 to 7 years, but the overriding priority is securing the future of civilization and the Moon is faster.”

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Jim Henley Music @jimhenleymusic.bsky.social · 23h
BREAKING: “in my 24th year of my quest to settle the planet Mars, I have just been informed of a basic fact of celestial mechanics.”
Screenshot of Elon Musk post on Ex: “Elon Musk y X @elonmusk For those unaware, Space has already shifted focus to building a self-growing city on the Moon, as we can potentially achieve that in less than 10 years, whereas Mars would take 20+ years. The mission of SpaceX remains the same: extend consciousness and life as we know it to the stars. It is only possible to travel to Mars when the planets align every 26 months (six month trip time), whereas we can launch to the Moon every 10 days (2 day trip time). This means we can iterate much faster to complete a Moon city than a Mars city. That said, SpaceX will also strive to build a Mars city and begin doing so in about 5 to 7 years, but the overriding priority is securing the future of civilization and the Moon is faster.”

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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 10d
Looking forward to this event
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📣 Joins us for the (Anti)motormativity days in Lausanne

With @ianwalker.bsky.social @criscaim8.bsky.social, @giuliomattioli.bsky.social, R Braun, R Randell, L Drozda, T Dubois, @dklopfenstein.bsky.social

Org: Suzy Blondin @unil.bsky.social / OUVEMA
Info: www.unil.ch/news/1769503...

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Patrick Rérat @patrickrerat.bsky.social · 12d
📣 Joins us for the (Anti)motormativity days in Lausanne

With @ianwalker.bsky.social @criscaim8.bsky.social, @giuliomattioli.bsky.social, R Braun, R Randell, L Drozda, T Dubois, @dklopfenstein.bsky.social

Org: Suzy Blondin @unil.bsky.social / OUVEMA
Info: www.unil.ch/news/1769503...

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Emmet Ó Briain @emmet.quiddity.ie · 14d
OUVEMA's (Anti-)Motonormativity Days

19th & 20th February

Really interesting workshop on understanding and challenging motornormativity, car dependence and dominance feat. @ianwalker.bsky.social, @criscaim8.bsky.social + @giuliomattioli.bsky.social + more!!

Info: www.unil.ch/events/17689...

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Mischa Honeck @honeckmischa.bsky.social · 14d
Was passiert gerade in den USA?

Deutsche Tageszeitung:

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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 18d
I was interviewed yesterday by Italian Radio Channel
@radiopopolare.bsky.social on sustainable transport and climate policy - here at around min. 41
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Il giusto clima di mercoledì 21/01/2026 | RADIO POPOLARE
Ambiente, energia, clima, uso razionale delle risorse, mobilità sostenibile, transizione energetica. Il giusto clima è la trasmissione di Radio...
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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 19d
On the 19-20.2 I will present at the "Anti-)Motonormativity days" event at @unil.bsky.social, with a presentation on car dependence.

Event page (in French): unil.ch/events/fr/17...

Full programme: (in English): api.unil.ch/newsunil/v1/...
(Anti-)Motonormativity Days
Pourquoi l'usage de la voiture demeure-t-il si important malgré ses conséquences pour notre climat, notre santé et nos villes ?
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CNN @cnn.com · 27d
The woman killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis last week served on the board of her son’s school, which linked to documents encouraging parents to monitor ICE and directing them to training. https://cnn.it/49yoNEa

Reposted by Katharine Hayhoe, Giulio Mattioli

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Kelly Hereid @kellyhereid.bsky.social · 27d
Where is climate research being talked about the most?

Using the new @carbonbrief.org list of top 25 climate papers of 2025 and @altmetric.com, I found that compared with Twitter, these papers were discussed

*** 58% more on Bluesky ***

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Number of users citing each of top 25 Carbon Brief papers for Bluesky and X

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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 27d
Interesting-looking on study on the environmental footprint of German dietary patterns - apparently "among the most environmentally intensive in the world" 😯 doi.org/10.1016/j.ec...

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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 29d
Interesting-looking new study mapping different "archetypes of car dependence" in England and Wales doi.org/10.3389/frsc...

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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · Jan 7
Very interesting-looking new study assessing the affordability of EVs and how subsidies would impact that doi.org/10.1016/j.re...

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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · Jan 7
Thank you, I couldn't find the handle somehow 🙈

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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · Jan 7
The lead author is on Bluesky actually, apologies for not tagging! @jaimesierra.bsky.social

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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · Jan 7
Very interesting new empirical study by Jaime Sierra Munoz & colleagues on car dependence in Lombardy (Italy).

While most studies to date have tried to map car dependence as a continuous property, they identify multidimensional clusters of it doi.org/10.1016/j.jt...

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Kaja Kallas @kajakallas.bsky.social · Jan 3
I have spoken with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and our Ambassador in Caracas. The EU is closely monitoring the situation in Venezuela.

The EU has repeatedly stated that Mr Maduro lacks legitimacy and has defended a peaceful transition. (1/2)

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · Jan 2
BREAKING: Tesla loses its crown as the world's bestselling electric vehicle maker to Chinese rival BYD as sales fall for a second year in a row.
Tesla loses title as world's biggest electric vehicle maker as sales fall for second year in a row
Tesla lost its crown as the world’s bestselling electric vehicle maker on Friday as a customer revolt over Elon Musk’s right-wing politics and stiff overseas competition pushed sales down for a second year in a row.
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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · Dec 30
Thank you Larry! I don't know, I don't think so.

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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · Dec 29
Thank you Soren! And yes very different kinds of dependency, for this one perhaps we can stop the process before it's too locked in - that's the intention behind me using the same term.

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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · Dec 28
My presentation at this seminar series is now available online at euroreg.uw.edu.pl/dane/web_eur...

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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · Dec 28
Interesting-looking new study by Dawid Krysinski & colleagues on how experiencing the negative sides of car dependence can lead people to support car use restrictions doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...

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Robin Brooks @robin-j-brooks.bsky.social · Dec 25
The threat to German auto producers isn't from Chinese cars flooding Germany. It's from Chinese cars flooding to emerging markets (red), where they're killing the market for German cars. That's not something EU tariffs on China are going to be able to fix...
robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/chinas-inv...

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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · Dec 23
Yes I think that could be an implication.

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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · Dec 19
Very interesting-looking new study on how carmakers in the US, Germany and Japan have fought the transition to electric vehicles through the decades doi.org/10.1016/j.erss…

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · Dec 19
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵

Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

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Felix Hamer • electricfelix @electricfelix.bsky.social · Dec 18
@giuliomattioli.bsky.social:
"This is an under-discussed aspect of the EV transition. Why on earth would an oil-less country like Germany be so keen on sticking to the internal combustion engine?"
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#alwaysbecharging ⚡️⚡️⚡️
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · Dec 16
🇪🇺 EU: We are watering down the 2035 ban on new petrol and diesel cars

🇨🇳 China: Thanks very much

#electriccars
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
EU plans to water down ban on new petrol and diesel cars
Commission proposes cutting obligation for 100% zero emission vehicles beyond 2035 to 90% after pressure from industry and some EU states
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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · Dec 16
This looks like a much-needed Comment article by Milad. nature.com/articles/s44...

I often say jokingly that I'm an "EV Centrist"

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C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · Dec 16
As a person who has been studying extreme far right ideologies for the last decade (and did a PhD on immigration) I find the entrance of “remigration” into the mainstream American political lexicon so profoundly disturbing
Homeland security twitter screenshot - “all America wants for Christmas is remigration”