Giulio Mattioli
@giulio_mattioli
🇪🇺🇮🇹 citizen in 🇩🇪 (with opinions), transport researcher.
This is going to sound a little self-indulgent, but this happens to be the 50th peer-reviewed journal article I have (co-)authored. So I am giving myself a little pat on the back for achieving this over 12 years of precarious (and mostly third-party funded) contracts. 💪
New article in TRD by our ex PhD student @PinarBilgin6 (the *fourth* from her PhD work!) with @DrMalcolmMorgan & @ZiaWadud: an empirical study of the impact of ridesourcing (= services like Uber) on vehicle ownership, based on longitudinal @usociety data doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.…
A doctor was detained at Berlin Internationalist Queer Pride yesterday for wearing a pink triangle, the symbol the Nazis used to persecute gays. It looked too similar to the Palestinian red triangle
Italian lawyers have denounced the Israeli authorities to the Rome Prosecutor for the unlawful abduction, under the Italian Criminal Code, of the two Italian citizens part of Handala crew @GazaFFlotilla
Update: Nicaragua v. Germany at the ICJ On 21 July, Nicaragua submitted its Memorial in line with the time limit set by the @CIJ_ICJ in its Order of 19 July 2024. Nicaragua submits that Germany has failed to fulfill its duty to guarantee respect for international humanitarian…
It’s so disturbing to see Zionists engage in conduct worthy of a Holocaust denier. Folks if you’re starvestigating pictures of malnourished kids check yourselves and the depths to which you are losing your humanity
Is there a single "starvation" image from Gaza that is genuine, shows a complete family including adults with signs of malnutrition and isn't a medical or generic condition?
If bike lanes are "pitting fast moving cyclists with slow moving people" then aren't city streets pitting even faster-moving cars with slow moving people?
I am no engineer, but building these was always a bad idea! Pitting fast moving cyclists with slow moving people seems to me something we should always avoid by design. Surprisingly controversial! 🤔🤔🤔
The ex-head of German liberals is suing this satire magazine because it made a joke about his baby being "a low performer". Germany deeply needs "liberals" who actually believe in freedom of speech
How far can you travel in 15 minutes by walking + transit? Pretty far if you're outside the U.S.
The German government: We have a unique history which dictates our foreign policy in the middle east. This is foundational and not up for debate, no one can convince us otherwise. Also the German government:
Macron’s decision to recognize a Palestinian state "reflects the swelling global horror" at Israel's deliberate "starvation and killing of civilians in Gaza." trib.al/ltKogsI
The German establishment position now is that Israel’s actions are wrong, but so is protesting against them.
E3 leaders’ declaration on the situation in Gaza and the West Bank The third (inconsequential) statement on Gaza this week. Variations on a theme in terms of international law with regard to the call on Israel to lift restrictions on the flow of aid: "Israel must comply with…
UK ban on Palestine Action at odds with international law, says UN rights chief | Protest | The Guardian. @amnesty agrees. theguardian.com/politics/2025/…
Another piece of evidence for the "slow-moving tanker that ends up being pointed in the wrong direction most of the time" theory
Not for the first time figures like Laschet and Ischinger are misreading the EU direction of travel. Macron stuck his neck out because trends in at least a dozen other EU states indicate similar moves over the Palestinian state are imminent. It's Germany that ends up alone here
Not for the first time figures like Laschet and Ischinger are misreading the EU direction of travel. Macron stuck his neck out because trends in at least a dozen other EU states indicate similar moves over the Palestinian state are imminent. It's Germany that ends up alone here
Nein: Es ist nicht ok, wenn Mitglieder der EU außenpolitische Alleingänge starten, nachdem sie vorher eine handlungsfähige EU gepredigt haben, die mit einer Stimme sprechen soll. So wird’s nichts aus einem Europa, das von den Großmächten ernst genommen werden wird.
This is big. UN Human Rights Chief urges the UK government to lift the ban on Palestine Action and review its counter-terror legislation.
#UK Government’s decision to label ‘Palestine Action’ a terrorist group raises serious concerns that counter-terrorism legislation is being applied to a group that is not terrorist in nature & risks hindering the legitimate exercise of fundamental freedoms. The decision could…
This is unironically from the same guys who went on for months about how they will take control of Canada, Greenland, Panama, Gaza...
How clever! If Macron can just “declare” the existence of a state perhaps the UK can “declare” France a British colony! jns.org/france-to-reco… via @JNS_org
Germany is warming up to heatpumps. In a massive shift to 2023/2024 figures mid 2025 sales figures showing for the first time more heatpumps being sold then gasboilers, 139k v 133k Researched by @MKreutzfeldt
Die Wärmepumpe ist die neue Heizung Nummer 1 der Deutschen. @MKreutzfeldt hat die aktuellen Zahlen recherchiert: table.media/climate