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Laura Dobusch

@loradob.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor | Institute for Leadership & Strategic Change @ WU Vienna | climate crisis, inclusion/exclusion, just transition, organizational change, open social innovation | she_they | also mastodon: @loradob@chaos.social

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Ralf Steeg 🇺🇦🇬🇱 @herrvonschilf.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Was nicht eingetreten ist: Das es der Wirtschaft gut geht, wenn wir Klimaschutz nicht umsetzen. Was eingetreten ist: Das es der Wirtschaft schlecht geht, wenn wir Klimaschutz nicht umsetzen. Konsequenzen aus der schlecht laufenden Wirtschaft: Noch weniger Klimaschutz.
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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 02/08/2026
I'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
The Prime Minister of Spain: “This climate emergency is exceeding every threshold and scale that scientists have long warned all of Spain and Europe about.” This is the realistic climate discourse the world needs. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/w...
"These are difficult hours," Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said
Monday afternoon during a news conference in Castellón, on Spain's eastern coast, where a new fire raged and forced thousands of new evacuations.
In the face of what his government has called the largest fires in the country's history, and after a summer of record-breaking heat waves, he called for a national pact with all Spain's political parties to work together to prevent blazes that he attributed to climate change.
"This climate emergency is exceeding every threshold and scale that scientists have long warned all of Spain and Europe about," he said.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 03/07/2026
Climate change is literally canceling US independence Day celebrations. The July 4 parade in Philadelphia, the birthplace of American independence, has been canceled due to extreme heat. Heat waves aren’t new - what’s new is that climate change is making them hotter and more dangerous.
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Philadelphia cancels 4th of July parade due to extreme heat, organizers say
Philadelphia's Salute to Independence parade has been canceled due to extreme heat in the weather forecast.
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Niklas Höhne @niklashoehne.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Dies ist wohl einer der eher kühleren Sommer, die wir noch erleben werden. Jede neue Gasheizung, jeder neue Verbrenner, jede neue fossile Industrieanlage verschlimmert die Situation.
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Christian Stöcker @christianstoecker.de · 22/06/2026
Das hier ist keine Vorhersage. Das waren die Temperaturen gestern Abend um halbsieben in Frankreich und Nordspanien. Vielerorts jenseits von 40 Grad Celsius. Das kann noch tagelang so weitergehen. Und der Sommer fängt gerade erst an. #KlimakriseIstJetzt
Temperaturkarte von Meteociel.fr, tiefrot bis violett, Temperaturen in Westfrankreich oft über 40 Grad. Sonntag 21.06., 18:27 Uhr.
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Janoschki @janoschki.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Die Zukunft wird heiß, tödlich und teuer.
taz-Artikel vom 18. Juni 2026 mit der Überschrift „431 Millionen Euro Kosten pro Tag" aus der Rubrik „Hitzewelle in Deutschland". Der Vorspann erklärt, dass jeder Hitzetag der deutschen Wirtschaft Hunderte Millionen Euro kostet, und berichtet über Forderungen der Linkspartei nach besserem Hitzeschutz für Arbeitnehmer. Das Foto zeigt einen Bauarbeiter von hinten in orangem Overall bei der Arbeit auf einem Asphaltbelag. Bildunterschrift: „Heißes Pflaster: ein Bauarbeiter bei seiner schweißtreibenden Arbeit." Foto: Jochen Tack/imago.
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Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
This isn’t actually funny but I keep cackling to myself when people say we should pursue AI because it will tell us how to solve climate change. Like, we *know* how, we’re just not. ::burns so much fossil fuel to ask:: hey AI, what do? AI: “stop burning fossil fuel”
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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
this is just crushing a beautiful tribute www.theplayerstribune.com/yan-diomande...
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Dear Roxane | By Yan Diomande
I wrote this because I can’t speak about it. I wrote this because I want you to know that I will make sure that you live on.
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Florian Aigner @florianaigner.at · 27/05/2026
Politikdiskurs 2026: Linke: 500 Personen besitzen 40% des Vermögens. Wir brauchen Erbschaftssteuern! Rechte: Nein, wir müssen verhindern, dass unsere Kinder mit Transpersonen in Kontakt kommen! Mitte: Die Linke redet immer nur über Gender. Gäbe es nicht Wichtigeres? Dann wähle ich jetzt eben rechts.
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Tini Paspertini @gruenwald.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Wenn ein öffentlich subventioniertes Kulturfestival Peter Thiel zu einer Diskussionsveranstaltung holt, ist das so, als würde die Sau den Schlachter in ihren Stall einladen, um dort mit ihm bei Kaffee und Kuchen über die neuesten Bolzenschussgeräte fachzusimpeln.
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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Like, I cannot believe that capital took at look at climate breakdown and said, “yeah no, we’re not going to decarbonize; we’re going to build tens of thousands of huge conglomerates of machines that use a shit ton of water and methane instead.”
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
New study: most climate models underestimate the decline of the Atlantic overturning circulation #AMOC. The AMOC is on course to slow by more than 50% by the end of the century. 🌊 Very likely the AMOC will then be past the tipping point for full shutdown. 😨 us.cnn.com/2026/04/16/c...
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A vital system of Atlantic Ocean currents is weakening and closer to collapse than thought, new studies find | CNN
New research provides alarming evidence this ocean circulation is slowing and could be heading toward a shutdown, which would have catastrophic impacts on the planet’s weather and climate.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 27/03/2026
This is how disciplines die. Now that Sociology courses don't count for GenEd credit, far fewer students will take them, let alone choose Sociology as a major. And so, Sociology department budgets will shrink, meaning fewer faculty and fewer courses offered. www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...
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Florida bans sociology from core curriculum at state universities
For years, Republican lawmakers and education leaders have argued that sociology — especially high-enrollment introductory courses — has been overtaken by progressive ideology
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Matt Lanza @mattlanza.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
This is completely outside of the realm of anything remotely normal for abnormal weather.
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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
The best time to have invested in renewables, walkable cities and transit to avoid the oil crisis shock was twenty years ago. The second best time is today.
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Fossil capital throwing its weight behind authoritarians is a reaction to the democratic power of the global climate movement 2017-2022. Remember: over those years everyone discovered that carbon-dioxide removal is hard, so for fossil capital global decarbonization would have been apocalyptic. 1/2
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 07/03/2026
“Everything we can save is worth saving. Everything we can do is worth doing. We’ve already lost a lot, but we don’t have to lose everything. We don’t have to surrender.” 💯 - @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/m...
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Rebecca Solnit Says the Left’s Next Hero Is Already Here
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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
The case for gender studies programs has never been stronger.
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Anne Fausto-Sterling @birdlady.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
The science bros. (Add in Pinker and Trivers to the list at the end of the articles) This is the world I inhabited as a working scientist. No wonder I always felt out of place and blamed my own personality failings. www.science.org/content/arti...
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Meet three scientists who said no to Epstein
The warning signs included a web search, a mother’s doubts, and inklings of a “sexist attitude”
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Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
“Technologieoffen” = auf ewig gefangen in der Straße von Hormus. www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2...
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Ölversorgung: Irans Revolutionsgarde prognostiziert Ölpreis von 200 US-Dollar
Der Iran droht damit, jedes Schiff zu verbrennen, das die Straße von Hormus zu passieren versucht. Auch Pipelines würden attackiert. Kein Tropfen Öl solle durchkommen.
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Laura Dobusch @loradob.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Interesting Interview on many levels.
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Ac Tro (Spooktober-Era)🦋📎 @actrophp.de · 11/02/2026
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Der Emissionshandel sollte die marktwirtschaftliche Lösung der Klimakrise sein - und sie funktioniert. Nun soll Lobbydruck all die Firmen bestrafen, die entsprechend investiert haben, und die Versager belohnen. Das darf nicht wahr sein 🤯! www.taz.de/!6151799
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Geplante Lockerungen der EU: Emissionshandel hat als Klimaschutzinstrument versagt
Ökonomen schwärmten immer vom Emissionshandel als kapitalismusfreundliche Lösung für den Klimawandel. Nun ist klar: Das hat nicht funktioniert.
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Claudia Zettel @claudiazettel.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Das ist ein hörenswertes Gespräch u.a. zu den aktuellen Epstein-Files - und welche Netzwerke sie offen legen, wie sich bestimmte Menschen einfach alles nehmen und alles machen können, ohne Konsequenzen. Super Wortmeldungen dabei. www.zdf.de/play/talk/au...
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Folge 42: Melania-Doku und Epstein Files
Epstein-Files, Texas-Wahlen und Iran-Spannungen: Was steckt hinter den Entwicklungen – und wie wirken sie auf Trumps Politik?
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Sonja M. Lauterbach @solaut.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Die Epstein-Files belegen: Extreme Vermögenskonzentration schafft unantastbare Parallelgesellschaften, die den Rechtsstaat zersetzen. Eine progressive Vermögenssteuer ist daher nicht nur legitim, sondern die demokratische Notwehr gegen eine zersetzende Parasitokratie.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 26/01/2026
Cannot reccomend this strongly enough. For me personally so many elements of fascism whenever it emerges in the world seem to have a seed in the fossil fuel economy, the outrageous lies of climate denial. Fighting against fossil fuels = fighting against the tools of fascism.
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Christian Stöcker @christianstoecker.de · 25/01/2026
Kolumne (wirkt fast nebensächlich heute, aber es hängt eng mit dem zusammen, was in den USA gerade passiert): Das sind die Leute, die tatsächlich hinter Trumps #Grönland-Obsession stecken. Die wahren Geschichten sind so grotesk wie furchteinflößend.Es ist aber alles belegt.
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
10/ Politicians igored them because warnings alone do not compel action in the face of organised vested interests. Fossil capital. Extractive industries. Short-term political incentives. Institutional inertia. These were always the real obstacles, not a lack of credibility.
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Maximilian Mayer @maximilianiras.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Was wir 2025 normalisiert haben und bereuen werden: LLM beruhen auf dem größten Raub von geistigem Eigentum in der Geschichte der Menschheit. LLM produziert eine Generation ohne analytische Denkfähigkeiten. LLM brummt als globale anti-demokratische Manipulationsmaschinerie.
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Katharina Hoppe @katharinahppe.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Aus der Reihe: Männer, die die Welt verbrennen. #thisisfine
Unionspolitiker in einem altmodischen Raum. Alle gönnerhaft um Manfred Weber
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Sam Altman: hey I made a machine that stole literally all your stuff in order to make CSAM of your child actors, sometimes it encourages people to kill themselves Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.
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Achim Landwehr @achland.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
So, jetzt mal Reposts hochjazzen ... HALLO BUCHVERLOSUNG! "Zeiten haben" für umme. Wo gibt's das schon?! Zwei Hauptgewinne in der Lostrommel! Alle Reposts nehmen teil, die bis 4. Juli 2025, 21.00 Uhr MEZ eingehen. Und - ich muss bekloppt sein - es gibt noch einen formschönen Recycling-Kuli dazu!
Zwei Exemplare des Buchs "Zeiten haben" und zwei Kulis der Uni Konstanz.
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RadReduction (Larry Edwards) @radreduction.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
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Reinhard Steurer @steurer.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
"Die Menschheit hat beschlossen, ungebremst in die ökologische Katastrophe zu gehen – dieser Satz trifft im Großen und Ganzen leider zu." Nicht als bewusste kollektive Entscheidung aber als Summe vieler Teile. Danke fürs nicht mehr so tun als wäre es anders oder noch offen, @derbernd.bsky.social
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Ökologische Katastrophe: Ungebremst in die ökologische Katastrophe
(Das kann doch wohl nicht wahr sein! Und wenn doch?)
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Laura Dobusch @loradob.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
An excellent text why the "constructive" use of AI in university courses is more than limited. And another "funny" thing I just realized is that LLMs do everything and worse that poststructuralist thinking has been falsly accused for decades: establish a disconnect between language and materiality.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 19/11/2025
Nearly every panel I spoke on this year ended with the same question: "What gives you hope?" My friends, that question expired years ago. (If you need receipts, my book Saving Us is literally a 300-page answer.) The real question is: How are you PRACTICING hope? Because Greta is right ..
A quote by Greta Thunberg stating that, "The one thing we need more than hope is actoin. Once we start to act, hope is everywhere." 

It's in white font on a blue sky background with puffy white clouds.
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Bernd Ulrich @derbernd.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Vorerst gescheitert? Was die Klimabewegung falsch gemacht hat – und was sich daraus lernen lässt. Auch für @_FriedrichMerz #Klima www.zeit.de/2025/47/klim...
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Klimabewegung: Jetzt sind die Ökos einen Schritt voraus
Die Klimabewegung hat Historisches erreicht – und ist trotzdem irre gescheitert. Ist sie selbst schuld am Backlash? Die Antwort sollte Friedrich Merz interessieren.
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Nico Beckert @nicobeckert.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Die Zahlen des Tages: - 1 Billion US-Dollar könnte Elon Musk in den nächsten 10 Jahren verdienen - 7 Milliarden US-Dollar Schaden hat Hurricane Melissa allein in Jamaika angerichtet - nur 800 Millionen US-Dollar haben die reichen Staaten für einen Fonds zur Kompensation von Klimaschäden mobilisiert
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Laura Dobusch @loradob.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Exactly. So called identity politics and class politics go hand in hand. A good life for the many can only be created by acknowledging and embracing their empirical entanglement.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
The most insanely frustrating thing about the #ClimateCrisis is how the breakthrough we so clearly need isn’t technological. It’s just a collective willingness, a determination even, to change in ways that would clearly be SO MUCH BETTER than the clear and obvious consequences of NOT changing.
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
I was recently invited to present my thoughts on the role of universities in the #climate crisis Several audience members asked that I share my slides, so I've decided to post them here too as an open resource I'd love any feedback, & for you to share examples of projects & best practice. Long 🧵😊
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Neil Stenhouse @nstenhouse.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
So No Kings 2 protests were: 75x as big as initial Tea Party rally in Philly About 200x in DC 200x in Boston 20x in Austin 7x in Houston
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
I think I understand the many reasons why people believe it's not worth it to phase out fossil fuels, but I also feel exhausted and vaguely insane living my life knowing that while the world seems normal on the surface, the fossil-fuel economy is, right now, breaking the world forever.
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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Reminder: We spent YEARS reading thousands and thousands of articles on the Tea Party and how it was a true expression of the American people's will, and it never mounted anything nearly as big as Saturday's No Kings rallies. [1/3]
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Kristian Steensen Nielsen @kristiansn89.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Examining our own behavior may also reveal the structural barriers to low-carbon living: inadequate public transport, meat-heavy food systems, fossil fuel subsidies, and norms that promote consumption. Recognizing those barriers is the first step toward dismantling them.
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Laura Dobusch @loradob.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Wie immer absolute Empfehlung 👇 Abonniert den Newsletter von @mspr0.de. Widerständig gegen die Verrohung, den Menschen und ihrer unteilbaren Würde zugewandt.
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