Karsten Schulz
@ks260.bsky.social
Assistant Professor Governance & Innovation @ University of Groningen | Climate Adaptation | Climate Governance | Sustainability & Digital Innovation | Energy Transition | Geopolitics
I have a background in Geography and Political Science
I have a background in Geography and Political Science
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Karsten Schulz
@ks260.bsky.social
· Oct 31
Webinar: Climate Technology Progress Report 2024 - UNEP-CCC
2024 Climate Technology Progress Report highlights the urgent need to accelerate renewable energy and identifies high-impact climate action.
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🌱 Join us on November 1st for the release of the 2024 Climate Technology Progress Report on expanding #renewable energy capacity: unepccc.org/events/webin...
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ChatGPT sends a Roomba into the past to kill Sarah Conner because her son reminds humans how to make toast
December 9, 2025 at 3:43 PM
ChatGPT sends a Roomba into the past to kill Sarah Conner because her son reminds humans how to make toast
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Reuter's own graph shows this change is within the margin of error... yet they still manage to narrate this as positive for Trump.
President Donald Trump's approval rating edged up to 41% in the past week as Republicans warmed to his handling of the cost of living, a sign the administration's new focus on affordability might be supporting his popularity, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll. reut.rs/48J0wuA
December 9, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Reuter's own graph shows this change is within the margin of error... yet they still manage to narrate this as positive for Trump.
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President Trump
if Europe keeps going the way it's going, in my opinion, many of those countries will not be viable countries any longer.
if Europe keeps going the way it's going, in my opinion, many of those countries will not be viable countries any longer.
December 9, 2025 at 12:11 PM
President Trump
if Europe keeps going the way it's going, in my opinion, many of those countries will not be viable countries any longer.
if Europe keeps going the way it's going, in my opinion, many of those countries will not be viable countries any longer.
Is anyone listening at all? They say it openly on TV all the time: Germany and France should "cease to exist." These are the same people who are seen as potential strategic partners by European far-right parties like the AfD and RN. Strategic partners for what? Treason?
December 9, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Is anyone listening at all? They say it openly on TV all the time: Germany and France should "cease to exist." These are the same people who are seen as potential strategic partners by European far-right parties like the AfD and RN. Strategic partners for what? Treason?
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Thread — How rage-bait discourse traps you, and how to beat it
A strange thing happened in 21st-century online culture.
Debate stopped being about persuasion, and became a kind of public blood sport.
A strange thing happened in 21st-century online culture.
Debate stopped being about persuasion, and became a kind of public blood sport.
December 7, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Thread — How rage-bait discourse traps you, and how to beat it
A strange thing happened in 21st-century online culture.
Debate stopped being about persuasion, and became a kind of public blood sport.
A strange thing happened in 21st-century online culture.
Debate stopped being about persuasion, and became a kind of public blood sport.
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62% of Germans say that Germany can no longer rely on the US nuclear umbrella for its security.
Source koerber-stiftung.de/site/assets/...
Source koerber-stiftung.de/site/assets/...
December 8, 2025 at 8:07 AM
62% of Germans say that Germany can no longer rely on the US nuclear umbrella for its security.
Source koerber-stiftung.de/site/assets/...
Source koerber-stiftung.de/site/assets/...
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Please help share this vacancy for a 4-year postdoc in Disinformation and European Democracy at Maastricht University
#Polisky #EUsky #Commsky #Academicsky
#Polisky #EUsky #Commsky #Academicsky
Great opportunity at @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social: we have 4-year postdoc position on disinformation and European democracy. Possible disciplinary focus includes, e.g., political science and computational social science. Interdisciplinary approaches to disinformation are encouraged.
Post-doctoral researcher in Disinformation and European Democracy (4-year)
Post-doctoral researcher in Disinformation and European Democracy (4-year)
vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl
December 8, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Please help share this vacancy for a 4-year postdoc in Disinformation and European Democracy at Maastricht University
#Polisky #EUsky #Commsky #Academicsky
#Polisky #EUsky #Commsky #Academicsky
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So Europe now knows what the official US strategy is, and its main hope lies in the Trump administration being too incompetent to implement it.
Banking on the (selective) incompetence of your most important ally is not a great position to be in.
Banking on the (selective) incompetence of your most important ally is not a great position to be in.
December 8, 2025 at 7:32 AM
So Europe now knows what the official US strategy is, and its main hope lies in the Trump administration being too incompetent to implement it.
Banking on the (selective) incompetence of your most important ally is not a great position to be in.
Banking on the (selective) incompetence of your most important ally is not a great position to be in.
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The 🇺🇸 Nat Sec Strategy is celebrated by the Kremlin. It's no surprise, as Trump and Putin share largely the same world view. They want a weak and divided Europe they can dominate. That's the reality we're facing and the reality we MUST handle. Failure is not an option!
December 7, 2025 at 7:04 PM
The 🇺🇸 Nat Sec Strategy is celebrated by the Kremlin. It's no surprise, as Trump and Putin share largely the same world view. They want a weak and divided Europe they can dominate. That's the reality we're facing and the reality we MUST handle. Failure is not an option!
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Two thirds of Reform donations come from donors resident overseas or with offshore interests overseas - astonishing story by @catneilan.bsky.social in @theobserveruk.bsky.social observer.co.uk/news/politic...
Reform’s record £9m crypto donation is just the latest offering from abroad | The Observer
observer.co.uk
December 7, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Two thirds of Reform donations come from donors resident overseas or with offshore interests overseas - astonishing story by @catneilan.bsky.social in @theobserveruk.bsky.social observer.co.uk/news/politic...
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I once asked Germany’s former Chancellor Helmut Schmidt whether it would need a common enemy for the EU to unify one day. He looked at his cigarette, then at me, smiled wryly, looked out the window and said: ‘how many more does it need?’
December 6, 2025 at 9:07 PM
I once asked Germany’s former Chancellor Helmut Schmidt whether it would need a common enemy for the EU to unify one day. He looked at his cigarette, then at me, smiled wryly, looked out the window and said: ‘how many more does it need?’
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Watch out Europe, Trump is coming for your elections next
MAGA’s mission to meddle in European politics should terrify Starmer, Macron and Merz. Will any of them fight back?
MAGA’s mission to meddle in European politics should terrify Starmer, Macron and Merz. Will any of them fight back?
Watch out Europe, Trump is coming for your elections next
MAGA’s mission to meddle in European politics should terrify Starmer, Macron and Merz. Will any of them fight back?
www.politico.eu
December 6, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Watch out Europe, Trump is coming for your elections next
MAGA’s mission to meddle in European politics should terrify Starmer, Macron and Merz. Will any of them fight back?
MAGA’s mission to meddle in European politics should terrify Starmer, Macron and Merz. Will any of them fight back?
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The EU’s €120M fine on Musk’s X is a first step, yet the platform remains a vector for a broader US agenda steering Europe to the right, says Alexandra Geese, a Member of the European Parliament from Germany. Digital oversight must match the scale of the threat to Europe’s sovereignty, Geese argues.
Europe Fined X, But It's Still Avoiding the Real Threat to Democracy | TechPolicy.Press
The European Commission's enforcement action is not sufficient to address the systemic risks posed by X, says MEP Alexandra Geese.
www.techpolicy.press
December 6, 2025 at 3:06 PM
The EU’s €120M fine on Musk’s X is a first step, yet the platform remains a vector for a broader US agenda steering Europe to the right, says Alexandra Geese, a Member of the European Parliament from Germany. Digital oversight must match the scale of the threat to Europe’s sovereignty, Geese argues.
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The new US National Security Strategy, in its predictable and characteristic ugliness, is a good occasion for Europe to finally let go of the time-consuming transatlantic crisis management efforts and start focusing on a proper and proactive own strategy instead.
Europe Needs A New Strategy Too
The new US National Security Strategy helps - or forces - European leaders to let go of the consuming transatlantic crisis management efforts and to focus on an own strategy instead.
open.substack.com
December 6, 2025 at 12:49 PM
The new US National Security Strategy, in its predictable and characteristic ugliness, is a good occasion for Europe to finally let go of the time-consuming transatlantic crisis management efforts and start focusing on a proper and proactive own strategy instead.
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Ah, I appear to have once again written my op-ed for the Independent about Europe needing to be ready to face Russia without the support of the United States. It's getting harder and harder to find different words to say it each time.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...
Europe needs to stop its magical thinking and ready for war with Russia
Europe is still paralysed by denial over the threat it faces from Putin, writes Keir Giles. Unless European leaders change tack, they will be a soft target for Moscow
www.independent.co.uk
December 6, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Ah, I appear to have once again written my op-ed for the Independent about Europe needing to be ready to face Russia without the support of the United States. It's getting harder and harder to find different words to say it each time.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...
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This shitshow has to stop. Europe's security, our lives and freedoms, are being vetoed by corrupt kleptocrats. We just cannot accept this anymore. We are taken hostage, we lack control over our destiny.
Hungary formally ruled out issuing eurobonds to support Ukraine on Friday, a move that robs the EU of a potential Plan B should it fail to find a way to use frozen Russian state assets to finance a €165 billion loan to Kyiv.
Hungary shoots down eurobonds as alternative to EU’s Russian asset plan
Friday’s veto of a joint debt issue raises the stakes for efforts to convince Belgium to release frozen assets.
www.politico.eu
December 5, 2025 at 6:39 PM
This shitshow has to stop. Europe's security, our lives and freedoms, are being vetoed by corrupt kleptocrats. We just cannot accept this anymore. We are taken hostage, we lack control over our destiny.
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This evening on Kremlin TV: state TV host Vladimir Solovyov called for assassinations of Ursula von der Leyen, Kaja Kallas and others. Solovyov notes that Trump’s national security policy is copied directly from Putin youtu.be/ELu3gHgofBI
Vladimir Solovyov calls for assassinations of European officials
YouTube video by Russian Media Monitor
youtu.be
December 5, 2025 at 8:34 PM
This evening on Kremlin TV: state TV host Vladimir Solovyov called for assassinations of Ursula von der Leyen, Kaja Kallas and others. Solovyov notes that Trump’s national security policy is copied directly from Putin youtu.be/ELu3gHgofBI
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A whopping 65% of Germans say Germany is acting too cautiously in asserting its interests towards the United States.
December 5, 2025 at 7:18 PM
A whopping 65% of Germans say Germany is acting too cautiously in asserting its interests towards the United States.
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This is literally neo-Nazi talking points that I've been tracking for years.
This is what white nationalists have been promoting & is the thesis of mass shooters and terrorists such as Anders Breivik.
Now? GOP talking points.
Are they doing politics "the right way?"
www.bbc.com/news/article...
This is what white nationalists have been promoting & is the thesis of mass shooters and terrorists such as Anders Breivik.
Now? GOP talking points.
Are they doing politics "the right way?"
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Trump administration says Europe faces 'civilisational erasure'
European politicians have begun to react, with Germany's Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul saying his country did not need "outside advice".
www.bbc.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:24 PM
This is literally neo-Nazi talking points that I've been tracking for years.
This is what white nationalists have been promoting & is the thesis of mass shooters and terrorists such as Anders Breivik.
Now? GOP talking points.
Are they doing politics "the right way?"
www.bbc.com/news/article...
This is what white nationalists have been promoting & is the thesis of mass shooters and terrorists such as Anders Breivik.
Now? GOP talking points.
Are they doing politics "the right way?"
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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🇺🇸‼️🇺🇦 In 2025, Ukraine received almost nothing from the US government: infographic of support for Ukraine from the Kiel Institute
🇪🇺🇬🇧 All aid comes from Europe and other countries.
🇪🇺🇬🇧 All aid comes from Europe and other countries.
December 5, 2025 at 1:40 PM
🇺🇸‼️🇺🇦 In 2025, Ukraine received almost nothing from the US government: infographic of support for Ukraine from the Kiel Institute
🇪🇺🇬🇧 All aid comes from Europe and other countries.
🇪🇺🇬🇧 All aid comes from Europe and other countries.
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What about Europe? It is mentioned quite a bit, with one primary focus: European identity and the alleged elites and minority governments that restrict core liberties and democratic processes. This is extremely close to JD Vance’s Munich speech.
December 5, 2025 at 9:59 AM
What about Europe? It is mentioned quite a bit, with one primary focus: European identity and the alleged elites and minority governments that restrict core liberties and democratic processes. This is extremely close to JD Vance’s Munich speech.
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The United States is now not only pro-Russia, it is also taking a stand against Europe, and has a clear objective to meddle in European affairs. The U.S. will support European patriotic parties (pro-Russia fascists). The U.S. with its current regime is an enemy of a free Europe.
December 5, 2025 at 3:18 PM
The United States is now not only pro-Russia, it is also taking a stand against Europe, and has a clear objective to meddle in European affairs. The U.S. will support European patriotic parties (pro-Russia fascists). The U.S. with its current regime is an enemy of a free Europe.
Playing Cassandra gives me no joy, but here we are. Europe needs to act quickly and decisively now. The NSS is very clear. We're on our own.
NATO Article 5 is dead. Change my mind
December 5, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Playing Cassandra gives me no joy, but here we are. Europe needs to act quickly and decisively now. The NSS is very clear. We're on our own.