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Karsten Schulz
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Assistant Professor Governance & Innovation @ University of Groningen | Climate Governance | Sustainability & Digital Innovation | Energy Transition | Geopolitics

I have a background in Geography and Political Science
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Karsten Schulz @kas.eurosky.social · Jul 30
Our latest article "Major intensification of fire weather across southern Europe in recent decades" has been published in Nature's Scientific Reports (Open access). Link: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Major intensification of fire weather across southern Europe in recent decades - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Major intensification of fire weather across southern Europe in recent decades
www.nature.com
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climateanalytics.org
“when those impacts are as tangible as they have been recently – many hundreds if not thousands dead from flooding in Nepal, tens of thousands from heatwaves across Europe, economic damages already estimated in hundreds of billions of dollars – the wake-up call is deafening.”
Deafening wake-up call sounded over sea level rise
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www.emergingrisks.co.uk
September 2, 2026 at 7:29 AM
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wxnb.bsky.social
New analysis reveals that the flood wave traveled the first 25 km (15 miles) of its catastrophic descent at an average speed of 150 km/h (93 mph), reaching a maximum velocity of 190 km/h (120 mph) at the Nepal–Tibet border. Data: Geopera/Vantor
August 28, 2026 at 12:04 PM
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esrig.bsky.social
Join the Groningen Sustainability Conference 2027 ( @rug.nl) to share research, ideas & experiences shaping sustainable development beyond 2030.

5–10 April 2027 | University of Groningen
Deadline for Submission: 25 Oct 2026

Submit: gsc.beyondsdg.eu

#GSC2027 #Sustainability #SDGs #Beyond2030
August 27, 2026 at 10:08 AM
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esrig.bsky.social
Save the Date: The 2027 Groningen Sustainability Conference will take place from 05–10 April 2027 in Groningen, bringing together global voices to discuss sustainability beyond 2030.

Read more: www.rug.nl/research/esr...

#GSC2027 #Sustainability #SDGs #ESRIG
@prajdhan.bsky.social
May 27, 2026 at 2:24 PM
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tedmccormick.bsky.social
refuting every claim anybody makes is not in fact how science, or any discipline, works

discarding approaches that have proven fruitless or wrongheaded, not stopping to re-litigate them every time someone digs up a junk data set or a retracted article they wish were true, is how disciplines move
August 24, 2026 at 2:48 PM
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copernicusecmwf.bsky.social
The daily global average sea surface temperature has reached its highest level on record. On 22 August 2026, data from the #CopernicusClimate showed 21.1°C, exceeding the previous record set in March 2024.

🔗Read the press release: climate.copernicus.eu/copernicus-d...

@ecmwf.int
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August 24, 2026 at 10:39 AM
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campaigncc.bsky.social
Essential reading on the consequences of El Niño.

Its impacts on staple crops, rice in particular, will land on top of fertiliser shortages and low US harvests due to drought.

“A sufficiently large El Niño is not a weather anomaly at all. It is going to be a global food shock on a 12 month fuse.”
Scorched Harvest: The Strongest El Niño Ever Forecast, the Crops in Its Path, and the Hunger It Will Leave Behind
How 3.6 degrees of warm water in the tropical Pacific is about to redraw the map of global hunger and why, this time, no one in power can claim they were not warned.
www.4hunger.org
August 22, 2026 at 10:06 AM
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climatenewsnow.bsky.social
Dutch Pension Fund Pulls Nearly Half a Billion Euros From Climate ‘Megapolluter’ BlackRock.

“This is a massive win for Dutch pensioners—not to mention all living creatures on Earth.” #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming

www.commondreams.org/news/blackro...
Dutch Pension Fund Pulls Nearly Half a Billion Euros From Climate 'Megapolluter' BlackRock | Common Dreams
Dutch pension fund Recreatie just ditched BlackRock, a major investor in fossil fuels, for Cardano.
www.commondreams.org
August 21, 2026 at 6:00 PM
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sundersays.bsky.social
Ghent University suspends Cofnas, a supporter of eugenics and biological racism. Prior to his role in the Arday controversy, the department in Ghent had issued an account doubting the opaque recruitment process was on merit, or that he was qualified for the role

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Academic who accused Jason Arday of plagiarism suspended by university
Nathan Cofnas says he is being investigated for discriminating against the late Cambridge professor.
www.bbc.co.uk
August 20, 2026 at 6:26 PM
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xlix.me
Libraries are the last proof that the richest things in life are free.
Photo by Talha Resitoglu. A library reading room seen from the rear. A barrel-vaulted ceiling opens to a long skylight of pale glass. Tiered wooden shelves hold books along two galleries, with a stained glass window, a round clock, and carved lions on marble at the right. Below, people read and work at long tables, laptops and bottles beside them. A white-haired man in a pale shirt sits nearest, turned away. Red and cream patterned carpet covers the floor.
August 19, 2026 at 9:42 AM
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frediotto.bsky.social
Europe’s seas are experiencing heat that would have been virtually impossible in a pre-industrial climate. In the Mediterranean, summer SSTs have intensified by 3°C, far exceeding global warming, destroying marine life & dramatically altering our seas.
www.worldweatherattribution.org/climate-chan...
a map of sea surface temperature anomalies in July 2026 around the European coast showing very warm anomalies in the Atlantic and Mediterranean
August 19, 2026 at 10:08 AM
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itamilradar.com
Today, NATO is conducting a large-scale operation near the Kaliningrad exclave, involving numerous air assets, including some unusual ones.
This does not appear to be a routine operation.
www.itamilradar.com/2026/08/18/n...
NATO massed a large air package near Kaliningrad in an unusually complex Baltic operation
NATO assembled an unusually large and diverse group of air assets over Poland and the Baltic region today, operating close to Russia’s Kaliningrad exclave. U.S. and Norwegian fighters, an E-3A AWACS, ...
www.itamilradar.com
August 18, 2026 at 4:36 PM
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sustainable2050.bsky.social
Frontpage of Dutch newspaper @Trouw tomorrow:
This is the Summer of Truth.

Quote: Climate change is no longer a scenario for the distant future. The time of playing gams is over now.
By David van Reybrouck.
kcsmouter.bsky.social Karel Smouter @kcsmouter.bsky.social · Aug 17
Voorpagina @trouw.nl van morgen, waarop David van Reybrouck woorden geeft aan deze zomer van de waarheid:
August 17, 2026 at 8:24 PM
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thegarbagequeen.bsky.social
Please be mindful about what you say online right now about climate change — especially if you are a scientist. Young people on TikTok, Instgram, and Reddit are giving up on their activism and future education/careers because they are interpreting our posts as saying that things are truly hopeless.
August 17, 2026 at 12:13 PM
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deaidua.org
ICYMI: With €11.61 billion planned for 2027, German military assistance to Ukraine would once again reach a record high. As things stand, a restructuring of funds would provide Ukraine with more than €740 million more than it will receive in 2026.

🔗 deaidua.org/news/2026/08...
August 17, 2026 at 4:14 PM
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sarahobolt.bsky.social
📢 LSE Political Theory job opening

We’re looking for a political theorist to join us at @lsegovernment.bsky.social - it is an open rank search, so we welcome applications at Assistant, Associate or Full Professor level

Reach out with questions & please share widely!

jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/...
Assistant/Associate/Professor in Political Theory
Assistant/Associate/Professor in Political Theory, , <p>&nbsp;</p> <p style="text-align: center;">LSE is committed to building a diverse, equitable and truly inclusive university</p> <p style="margin:...
jobs.lse.ac.uk
August 17, 2026 at 3:25 PM
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argohdes.bsky.social
Sounds like straight out of an evil sci-fi novel: Amazon is buying massive quantities of books, scanning them for AI training data, and destroying them in the process.
August 17, 2026 at 1:33 PM
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sustainable2050.bsky.social
The water flow in the Rhine keeps plummeting. It had never been below 780 m³/s in summer. When we were at 650, an expert told us it couldn't go much lower. Now we're at 572 m³/s, the lowest on record, even below the ice blocked flow in the winter of 1929.
August 15, 2026 at 10:44 AM
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ketanjoshi.co
Here's Amazon's two new planned fossil-fuelled AI data centres next to the ENTIRE POWER GRIDS OF SEVERAL LARGE COUNTRIES

Together, the two gas-burning data centres will emit more than Spain's entire grid, if built
Bar chart comparing 2025 national grid CO2e emissions (grey bars) with two Amazon fossil‑fuelled AI data centres (red bars), showing the Amazon sites at about 33 and 17.5 megatonnes CO2e—higher than many countries' entire power grids.
August 14, 2026 at 10:39 AM
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chadbourn.bsky.social
This is awful.
Jason Arday 'found dead after being found unresponsive at home'
FORMER Cambridge professor Jason Arday has been found dead at an address in south London, The Telegraph reports. Mr Arday, 41, was found “unresponsive” at a property in Battersea on Friday afternoo…
www.thesun.co.uk
August 14, 2026 at 7:23 PM
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annamerlan.bsky.social
NEW: I had the pleasure of profiling Paulina Borsook, whose book Cyberselfish, about the early tech industry, is a great key to understanding why it’s so bad today. For her trouble, Borsook has had a very weird and bad 25 years, something she calls “a curse.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
A Tech Prophet Finally Gets Her Second Coming
In 2000, Paulina Borsook published a book foretelling the anti-government sentiments of the tech world. Now that it’s too late, people are ready to listen.
www.motherjones.com
August 11, 2026 at 12:38 PM
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404media.co
Research Gold's team of human methodologists are either AI generated or using the identity of real people without their permission
Company Offering '100% Human-Written, Never AI' Peer Review Is Entirely AI
Research Gold's team of human methodologists are either AI generated or using the identity of real people without their permission
www.404media.co
August 11, 2026 at 1:48 PM
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brandonfriedman.bsky.social
Axios writer: I melted my brain with AI. Not only can I no longer read, but I don't even understand the purpose of reading anymore. Here's how you can also do this.

www.axios.com/2026/08/11/r...
Axios: AI has become my reading buddy as I've plowed through my summer book list, helping me keep track of plots and characters, unpack themes, and make sense of wordy, old prose. Why it matters: The way many of us actually read books — a few pages before bed, a chapter at the beach, another on a plane — makes it easy to lose the thread. AI can help you pick it back up without starting over. 📖 I really got into using AI while reading James Fenimore Cooper's "The Last of the Mohicans." The text was far too dense for casual vacation reading. My first prompt asked: "I'd like a guide as I read The Last of the Mohicans who can help me understand what I've read and where the story is, without giving spoilers or getting ahead of my progress. Can you do this, chapter by chapter?" The robot agreed: "Cooper's sentences are long and his diction is archaic."
August 11, 2026 at 3:12 PM
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sarahkirchberger.bsky.social
“The evidence is pretty unambiguous that one of the United States’ superpowers is its ability to attract the top talent from essentially every other country in the world and put them to work here for a time, if not for their full careers,” Gross said. “I think that’s what’s at stake right now.”
mclem.org Michael Clemens @mclem.org · Aug 10
If you listen closely, you can hear the sound of our future innovation capacity, prosperity, and national security crumbling.

Shattering our university research system and international student pipeline will harm all Conservative & Liberal Americans.

From the American Institute of Physics—>
Physics PhDs Are Leaving the US at a Record-high Rate
The exodus of non-US citizens has “certainly” been influenced by science funding and visa policy changes under Trump, a new AIP report says.
www.aip.org
August 10, 2026 at 10:51 AM
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jeffrybazooka.bsky.social
"According to the statement, the exact timeline depends on when German-made infrared seekers from Diehl Defence arrive."

english.nv.ua/nation/fire-...
Fire Point teases FP-7X interceptor production by end of August
Ukrainian defense contractor Fire Point could start serial production of its FP-7X interceptor missile by the end of August, the company said on Aug. 6.
english.nv.ua
August 9, 2026 at 8:21 PM