Delf Rothe
@delfrothe.bsky.social
Senior researcher @IFSHHamburg | Critical security and resilience, climate change and the Anthropocene, technology and surveillance. Views my own
🌤️ Sonnenlicht dimmen, um die Erde zu kühlen – eine gute Idee? Im #CLICCS-Workshop der Hamburger Horizonte spielen wir Szenarien zum Solar Climate Engineering durch: Welche Folgen hätte es? @delfrothe.bsky.social 📅 19.11., 18–20 Uhr · Haus der Erde · Eintritt frei 👉 lnkd.in/eZtHNNG4
Our forum on ”The Politics of Repair in a Broken World“ is out in @geopoliticsjournal.bsky.social! With @delfrothe.bsky.social, @tasniemanwar.bsky.social, @debbielisle.bsky.social, Nathaniel O‘Grady and Matthew Gravlin. @europeanisa.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The Politics of Repair in a Broken World
Much of the world is currently bearing witness to major transformations to the liberal-modern geopolitical order that has defined it for some time. Amid this crisis, an array of new political orien...
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While scientists have long braced for climate change, the growing severity of its impacts is shocking them. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
Extreme Heat Stuns Even Climate Scientists Who Saw It Coming
Record-breaking heat waves are even stunning scientists monitoring the acceleration of climate change.
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NEW BLOG FOR YOU Google's energy consumption numbers in their new climate report are mind-blowing. 2 years ago they flipped from linear to exponential growth, and their climate impact is blowing out, too. A WILD testament to the obscene bloat and waste of GenAI: ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/g...
I've been a broken record on this for three years and I'll be a broken record for as long as that fucking website exists: X is a viciously racist far-right organising platform that ONLY WORKS because a huge number of centrists, lefties and progressivs cannot stop propping it up
Elon Musk accused of fuelling unrest after Belfast knife attack
The use of social media in planning violent protests over the Belfast knife attack has drawn condemnation, with Britain's ruling Labour Party accusing Elon Musk of stoking divisions. The tech billiona...
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Last winter, 16 master's students in the Peace and Security Studies programme at @ifshhamburg.bsky.social spent a semester researching the politics of AI and digital security. Their project results are now publicly accessible at www.digital-security-studies.de A thread on their results:
Digital Technology and Global Security — Student Research Projects
Student research projects from a project seminar at IFSH Hamburg, Master of Peace and Security Studies, Winter Semester 2025/26. Doing Critical Security Studies with (and against) AI.
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Trump just openly stating his intention to commit genocide at this point: "A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again."
Nach dem Zyklon „Harry“ werden immer mehr Leichen an Italiens Küsten angespült. Die Berichterstattung bleibt aus – und mit ihr das öffentliche Interesse.
Flüchtlingsleichen in Italien angespült: Ein Massensterben, das niemanden kümmert
Nach dem Zyklon „Harry“ werden immer mehr Leichen an Italiens Küsten angespült. Die Berichterstattung bleibt aus – und mit ihr das öffentliche Interesse.
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I have said for more than a year now that we are going backwards And here's the latest evidence We are digging our own grave
Ok the world may be going down, but at least the visual politics classes are flourishing (where they are still allowed to be taught)
Nicolai von Ondarza@nvondarza.bsky.social · 9mo agoGood diplomatic reasons for Europeans to try to appeal for calm and work it out behind the scenes with the US. But just this morning Trump posted pictures of him putting the flag on Greenland, and presenting his conquests of Greenland and Canada to European leaders.
REGISTRATION IS OPEN FOR #BISA2026!! Take a look at the conference programme and register now via the conference website: conference.bisa.ac.uk Participant registration deadline: 2 March See you in Brighton 🌊🏖️ @simonrushton.bsky.social @julietdryden.bsky.social @visitbrighton.bsky.social
The fight against fascism is also a fight for a shared sense of reality. We see demagogues twisting the facts and blatantly lying, while legacy media are keen to present every story as a matter of conflicting interpretations. With social media drowning in #AIslop, this is only going to get worse 1/
“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...” A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today. lithub.com/renee-nicole...
Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, was a prize-winning poet. Here’s that poem.
Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered earlier today by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune: [An ICE agent] s…
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10,000 people honoring Renee Nicole Good at the site of her murder
Berlins Bürgermeister Wegner spricht nach dem Brandanschlag aufs Stromnetz von Linksterrorismus. Aber das Bekennerschreiben wirft Fragen auf. Hinweise auf Russland sehen Behörden bisher nicht. Aktivist @tadziomueller.bsky.social fordert innerlinke Debatte über Sabotage. taz.de/Nach-Anschla...
Nach Anschlag auf Stromkabel in Berlin: Stochern im Brandnebel
Nach dem Anschlag aufs Berliner Stromnetz spricht Berlins Bürgermeister von Linksterrorismus. Doch das Bekennerschreiben wirft Fragen auf.
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Die Sparkasse und die GLS-Bank kündigen der Roten Hilfe alle Konten. Als Grund vermutet die linke Solidaritätsorganisation Druck aus den USA. Auf deren »Terrorliste« steht nun auch eine angebliche »Antifa Ost«. buff.ly/BevhORC
»Die Zeiten werden härter«
Die Sparkasse und die GLS-Bank kündigen der Roten Hilfe alle Konten. Als Grund vermutet die linke Solidaritätsorganisation Druck aus den USA. Auf deren »Terrorliste« steht nun auch eine angebliche…
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📆 One week left to apply for our PhD position on extreme climate adaptation in the field of defense and security All information below 👇
Delf Rothe@delfrothe.bsky.social · 11mo ago❓How is climate adaptation becoming a security practice – and what does that tell us about the future of governance? 🚨 @ifshhamburg.bsky.social is seeking a PhD researcher on extreme adaptation in the field of security and defence. www.ifsh.de/institut/ste...
With Fiona Schrading, I will host the standing section "IR in the Anthropocene" at the upcoming @europeanisa.bsky.social PEC in Lisbon, 1-4 Sept. This year we will focus on "Stuckness in the Anthropocene and Landscapes of Destruction". We are looking forward to your contributions! Deadline 19. Feb
🛡️ We are hiring! Our partner @ifshhamburg.bsky.social is looking for a #PhD Researcher on Extreme Adaptation to #Climate Change, within #CLICCS. Research how security & defence actors adapt to severe climate futures. 👉 www.cliccs.uni-hamburg.de/career/jobs.... @delfrothe.bsky.social
Es ging nie um die Hochschulen, nie um Wissenschaft, nie um die Freiheit von Forschung und Lehre. Es ging immer schon darum, mit rechtem Kulturkampf Stimmung zu machen, die immer gleichen reaktionären Diskursmuster endlos zu recyclen, mit den immer gleichen Anekdoten Clicks zu generieren
Johannes Franzen@johannesfranzen.bsky.social · 11mo ago8000 Artikel über zu viel "Wokeness" an den deutschen Unis; vornehmes Schweigen dazu, dass diese Unis gerade im Rahmen einer harten Austeritätspolitik abgewickelt werden.
Undichte Dächer, wegfallende Tutorien, eingeschränktes Angebot. Deutsche Universitäten in Zeiten der Austeritätspolitik. www.br.de/nachrichten/...
Sparzwang an Universitäten kommt im Hörsaal an
Viele Unis in Bayern haben Geldprobleme und müssen sparen. Studierende werden das jetzt zu Semesterbeginn auch spüren – obwohl die Staatsregierung sagt, dass noch nie so viel in Hochschulen investiert...
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❓How is climate adaptation becoming a security practice – and what does that tell us about the future of governance? 🚨 @ifshhamburg.bsky.social is seeking a PhD researcher on extreme adaptation in the field of security and defence. www.ifsh.de/institut/ste...
#climateresearch | Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg (IFSH)
🚨 Job alert - Are you looking for an excellent job opportunity in #ClimateResearch? 👇 👇 IFSH is seeking a PhD-Researcher (m/f/d) for the research project 'Extreme Adaptation to Climate Change' in th...
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Call for Papers: Dutch IPS Series Are you a PhD or early postdoc in (or associated with) the Netherlands engaging with themes in IPS? Then please send us your abstracts by 15 December 2025 to present your work, receive in-depth feedback, and become part of our supportive community!
The Trump administration’s systematic targeting of US knowledge infrastructure spans the entire production chain, from soup to nuts. Without reliable statistics, research funding, or accessible data, information asymmetries will surely increase, writes Amelia Acker.
Week After Week, The US is Dismantling Knowledge Infrastructure | TechPolicy.Press
Without reliable statistics, research funding, or accessible data, information asymmetries will surely increase, writes Amelia Acker.
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NEW: The End of the Line: the centrepiece of Saudi Arabia’s Neom gigaproject - a 500m tall, 170km long wall-like building intended ultimately to house 9 million people - can’t get out of the ground, say more than 20 former Neom architects, engineers and senior executives. ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...
End of The Line: how Saudi Arabia’s Neom dream unravelled
Mohammed bin Salman’s utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance
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Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
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On my way to the annual conference of the @dvpw.bsky.social Critical Security Studies working group. You can still register for our roundtable "Ten years of critical security studies in Germany: Taking stock", tonight at 6:15 p.m., with a stellar lineup of speakers www.linkedin.com/posts/jochen...
Roundtable | 'Gaia’s Lifeboats & Its Stewards' Speakers | @delfrothe.bsky.social , @jefhuysmans.bsky.social, Stephanie Wakefield Moderated by | @francakappes.bsky.social 🗓 Tues, 24.11.25 | 14:15–15:30 CET 📍 Geneva Graduate Institute & ONLINE 🔽 More information 🔽
