Antonia Mochan
@antoniamochan.com
European official and opsimath.
Job: EU policy lab - Strategic foresight, behavioural insights & design for policy. Life: Knitting, crochet, theatre, my family, my friends and my dogs.
FRSA, Eisenhower Fellow.
#EUsky for EU-related stuff
Job: EU policy lab - Strategic foresight, behavioural insights & design for policy. Life: Knitting, crochet, theatre, my family, my friends and my dogs.
FRSA, Eisenhower Fellow.
#EUsky for EU-related stuff
Thinking that Johannes Radebe should be prescribed on the NHS…#scd
December 1, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Thinking that Johannes Radebe should be prescribed on the NHS…#scd
Smart procurement could be such an amazing driver for innovation in govt, but as done now, it usually ends up doing just the opposite. #fwd50
November 4, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Smart procurement could be such an amazing driver for innovation in govt, but as done now, it usually ends up doing just the opposite. #fwd50
I’m not sure if it makes me feel better or worse that so many of the problems Canadian speakers are raising at #fwd50 are the same as wec are dealing with in the EU…🤷♀️
November 4, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I’m not sure if it makes me feel better or worse that so many of the problems Canadian speakers are raising at #fwd50 are the same as wec are dealing with in the EU…🤷♀️
Interesting example of community co-creation. #fwd50
The art of the possible: the Nottingham art gallery being run by citizens’ assembly
The art of the possible: the Nottingham art gallery being run by citizens’ assembly
New Art Exchange believes it is first cultural institution in world to hand permanent leadership to the community
www.theguardian.com
November 4, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Interesting example of community co-creation. #fwd50
A great example of AI for good via @londoncentric.media onodi.co/bisect/
I Made a Binary Search Tool for Videos To Embarrass British Transport Police Into Doing Their Job
onodi.co
October 26, 2025 at 8:00 AM
A great example of AI for good via @londoncentric.media onodi.co/bisect/
I’m in a train that goes through three countries! Liege-Maastricht-Aachen. Europe in action right there. Also, am on this train because the faster one from Liege to Aachen is ending halfway and not going all the way to Aachen…
October 21, 2025 at 4:08 PM
I’m in a train that goes through three countries! Liege-Maastricht-Aachen. Europe in action right there. Also, am on this train because the faster one from Liege to Aachen is ending halfway and not going all the way to Aachen…
What is this nonsense? How can face cream be neurotech? Has some marketing AI gone rogue?
October 7, 2025 at 6:29 PM
What is this nonsense? How can face cream be neurotech? Has some marketing AI gone rogue?
My best thing today? Finding out that Neil Hannon ( @divinecomedyhq.bsky.social )’s wife has set up an animal rescue called My Lovely Horse. (ps Neil, see you next year when you come to Bxl!)
October 5, 2025 at 12:10 PM
My best thing today? Finding out that Neil Hannon ( @divinecomedyhq.bsky.social )’s wife has set up an animal rescue called My Lovely Horse. (ps Neil, see you next year when you come to Bxl!)
It’s going to be a three-coffee day…
September 3, 2025 at 6:34 AM
It’s going to be a three-coffee day…
I’ve been getting (back) into sewing this summer. Bags seem about my right level of expertise
August 25, 2025 at 7:46 AM
I’ve been getting (back) into sewing this summer. Bags seem about my right level of expertise
Is there some kind of tracker to monitor how much tacky gold colouring Trump is introducing into the White House decor? It looks like there’s more every time the cameras go in.
August 18, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Is there some kind of tracker to monitor how much tacky gold colouring Trump is introducing into the White House decor? It looks like there’s more every time the cameras go in.
One of my "Brussels is quiet, do some deep work" activities this summer is a good look into Serious Games. If you've got any advice for me - good examples, bad examples, literature - please send it my way! #policylab
August 1, 2025 at 1:15 PM
One of my "Brussels is quiet, do some deep work" activities this summer is a good look into Serious Games. If you've got any advice for me - good examples, bad examples, literature - please send it my way! #policylab
Can you sign this petition to get a parliamentary debate on supporting people with Parkinson’s? I could tell you about my personal connection, but I don’t think it should need that to get our representatives to address such an important topic: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
Petition: Increase funding for people with Parkinson’s and implement the "Parky Charter"
We want the government to take the decisive five steps set out in the Movers and Shakers' "Parky Charter" and to fulfil the Health Secretary’s promises.
petition.parliament.uk
July 7, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Can you sign this petition to get a parliamentary debate on supporting people with Parkinson’s? I could tell you about my personal connection, but I don’t think it should need that to get our representatives to address such an important topic: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
Proud cousin klaxon! My very talented cousin Ninfea is in the Guardian writing about her Under Milk Wood composition: www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...
Dylan Thomas’s Under Milk Wood invites us to laugh at ourselves – I wanted my music to do the same | Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade
Dylan Thomas’s evocative radio play has been adapted into films, a ballet, even a jazz suite. From its drunkards and nosey-parkers, to its ghosts and dreamers, Ninfea Crutwell-Reade’s new reimagining ...
www.theguardian.com
July 1, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Proud cousin klaxon! My very talented cousin Ninfea is in the Guardian writing about her Under Milk Wood composition: www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...
Some evidence of empirical observations…
BREAKING. Alert 🚨
News users disable notifications from news organizations.
Over use by news providers? Part of news avoidance? Result of many simultaneous world crises?
“It is definitely alert fatigue”
#commsky #journalism
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/j...
News users disable notifications from news organizations.
Over use by news providers? Part of news avoidance? Result of many simultaneous world crises?
“It is definitely alert fatigue”
#commsky #journalism
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/j...
Rise in ‘alert fatigue’ risks phone users disabling news notifications, study finds
Publishers could see audiences uninstall apps, as some users receive up to 50 alerts a day, analysis shows
www.theguardian.com
June 21, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Some evidence of empirical observations…
Tim Marshall again. Can you guess what is underneath the blacked out words?
June 21, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Tim Marshall again. Can you guess what is underneath the blacked out words?
A useful overview of where we are at this point in time with consumer neurotech, that I can't help feeling is about to have its breakout moment...
🧠 Neurotech is leaving the lab and heading into your earbuds.
60% of neurotech firms now target consumers, not patients, using brain-sensing headbands, earbuds & wristbands.
What could go wrong?
Our new study examines the emerging consumer neurotechnology market.
cfg.eu/neurotech-ma...
60% of neurotech firms now target consumers, not patients, using brain-sensing headbands, earbuds & wristbands.
What could go wrong?
Our new study examines the emerging consumer neurotechnology market.
cfg.eu/neurotech-ma...
June 20, 2025 at 3:37 PM
A useful overview of where we are at this point in time with consumer neurotech, that I can't help feeling is about to have its breakout moment...
This take on the EU in Tim Marshall’s fascinating Prisoners of Geography made me laugh out loud on an airplane.
June 18, 2025 at 12:19 PM
This take on the EU in Tim Marshall’s fascinating Prisoners of Geography made me laugh out loud on an airplane.
Today’s story of the day
Part of Pairi Daiza zoo closed as brawl breaks out among sea lions
Part of Pairi Daiza zoo closed as brawl breaks out among sea lions
www.brusselstimes.com
June 10, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Today’s story of the day
Home for tonight. Not too shabby.
June 7, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Home for tonight. Not too shabby.
Am in Luxembourg for work. Find to my astonishment that all public transport is free. If nothing else it reduces a source of friction for the visitor. Chapeau, Luxies.
June 6, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Am in Luxembourg for work. Find to my astonishment that all public transport is free. If nothing else it reduces a source of friction for the visitor. Chapeau, Luxies.
Great rejoicing that our report on emerging applications of neurotechnology and their implications for policymakers is now out. Applying tech foresight to think about governance of an emerging technology: policy-lab.ec.europa.eu/news/explori...
Exploring the horizons of neurotechnology: foresight for governance
Neurotechnology is a rapidly emerging field. Our mission started as an exploration of neurotechnology and identifying questions it might raise for policymakers.
policy-lab.ec.europa.eu
May 27, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Great rejoicing that our report on emerging applications of neurotechnology and their implications for policymakers is now out. Applying tech foresight to think about governance of an emerging technology: policy-lab.ec.europa.eu/news/explori...