𝐃𝐞𝐧𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐚 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐜𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭. But resistance is mounting. 1 hour west of Copenhagen, the collective Skovmagt are building houses in the trees, to resist the advance of Denmark's largest motorway project. Join or support here: linktr.ee/skovmagtdk @scientistrebellion.bsky.social

Thanks a lot Max! A small preview here citing your work :)

You're too kind Charlie, thanks so much!

Thanks so much for the kind words about the book, Oscar!

No clue if they usually do that, but I will ask the press, and just tag them here to signal there's interest for an audio book :) @ucpress.bsky.social

What makes scientists leave the lab and take to the streets?

I've had the honour of reading this insider's account of Scientist Rebellion and the academic activist movement, and it's brilliantly insightful, challenging and uplifting

Members of Scientist Rebellion Germany blocking one of the bridges leading to the German Reichstag in Berlin.

Special thanks to the members of @scientistrebellion.bsky.social who I interviewed, and to the wonderful people who have reviewed the book: @jksteinberger.bsky.social @charliejgardner.bsky.social @wolfgangcramer.net @jenniecstephens.bsky.social @farhanasultana.com @lauralohorn.bsky.social n/n

The Rafah Garden encampment at the University of Copenhagen

It is also an exploration of the many ways in which academic institutions today are complicit in colonial and capitalist systems of oppression, and of how academia could be transformed to become an environment that fosters socio-ecological transformation. 4/n

Members of Scientist Rebellion Ecuador protesting against oil licenses at the Ministry of the Environment in Quito.

The heart of it is an in-depth look at what it means for scientists to leave the comfort of the ivory tower, and step out into the streets. In other words, how scientist-activists come to change themselves even as they attempt to change the world around them. 3/n

The book comes out Oct 28th. And from mid-Nov to mid-Dec I'll be participating in book events across Denmark, Sweden, Netherlands, Switzerland, UK, Ireland, Portugal, Spain and France. I'm so excited to talk about the book with people interested in learning more about scientist activism. 2/n

Advanced copy of the book "Science in Resistance: the Scientist Rebellion for Climate Justice"

Welp, it's here! Advanced copies of Science in Resistance have just arrived. Thanks a lot to the team at @ucpress.bsky.social for sending them.

www.ucpress.edu/books/scienc...

And related news: I'll soon be going on a train tour to give talks and readings of this book - more info below 1/

"Calls for transforming academia have multiplied over the past decade. These include demands for a change in how the university responds to the climate crisis, how it engages with its colonial past &present &how it is governed [with]calls for truly democratic governance" @ferracimo.bsky.social et al

Special thanks to co-authors Ekaterina Chertkovskaya, Rebecca Rutt & @madsejsing.bsky.social & to the social movements from which we drew inspiration: @scientistrebellion.bsky.social, @scientistsforxr.earth, @endfossilbcn.bsky.social, Fossil Free Academia, Academics for Palestine & SMB, among others

Communal planting of an olive tree during the lifting of the Rafah Garden pro-Palestine encampment at the University of Copenhagen, 2024.

Do you wonder what a radically abundant university could look like? And how could we get there?

Then check out our paper "Degrowth and decolonisation in academia: Intersecting strategies towards transformation"

Now out in the community-run #Degrowth Journal: www.degrowthjournal.org/publications...

**Strategies for transformation in social movements**
How do social movements transform the worlds they are embedded in? Announcing a new call for papers for the collectively-run journal ephemera , together with Ekaterina Chertkovskaya & Anna Kalinina. Check it out!
ephemerajournal.org/node/5137

Remember if you're looking for some reading (for yourself of somebody else) this Easter, there's a 10% discount on our new book, Scientists on Survival, via bookshop.org. Just use the code SURVIVAL10 between now and 8 May.

uk.bookshop.org/a/596/978178...

#ScientistsOnSurvival

How did @scientistrebellion.bsky.social emerge & spread so quickly? My new book @ucpress.bsky.social, documenting the evolution of this movement, will be out in Oct & includes interviews with SR members from around the world. Half the proceeds go to SR & allied groups www.ucpress.edu/books/scienc...

Science in Resistance by Fernando Racimo - Paper Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

How did @scientistrebellion.bsky.social emerge & spread so quickly? My new book @ucpress.bsky.social, documenting the evolution of this movement, will be out in Oct & includes interviews with SR members from around the world. Half the proceeds go to SR & allied groups www.ucpress.edu/books/scienc...

YouTube video by Animal Behaviour Live ABL Round table Series 2024/ Round table 2: Dr. Fernando Racimo

🔄 REPLAY FRIDAY 🔄
Last year, we hosted 3 roundtables on the future of academic publishing. Watch now the second roundtable of this series 😊

🎥 Exploring Ethical Publishing & Collective Action
In this roundtable, with Dr. Fernando Racimo

📽️ Watch now 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=heGi...

The fact that the most thorough and technologically advanced genocide of our time, the rise of fascism & destruction of US academia, are all being justified under the umbrella of opposing antisemitism is not just a heinous trick of history. It means something quite profound.

🦖 The dinos didn't have a choice. We do.

Today at @cphairports.bsky.social the dinos protested the ultra-rich's climate destruction and air pollution together with activists from ExtinctionRebellionDK and @scientistrebellion.bsky.social

#staygrounded #banprivatejets

How to build community while dismantling the fossil economy? There's still time to apply to the 2nd instance of our NSU Study Circle on Degrowth & Exnovation. This summer in Finland, our focus will be on organizing towards degrowth futures: xhttps://www.nsuweb.org/circle-9-degrowth-and-exnovation/

I wish I could unfollow anyone not skeeting about Gaza and Palestine right now. There is a for-real genocide going on RIGHT NOW and people are still skeeting about sandwiches and art and USians having protest signs. It makes me want to throw up.

Why do so many people still suggest "calling your Congressional office or the White House" as like the go-to form of "resistance." Just saw this in a comment by Nicholas Kristof, the NYT columnist, but have been seeing it all over. I thought it was clear that was deader than dead as a useful thing

Conference season is near.
Dear fellow academics, first of all you shouldn't be flying anywhere for a conference, the climate crisis is real ffs.
Second, DO NOT GO TO THE US unless you are cool with being detained, harmed and potentially deported to Salvadoran prison camps.
So: DO NOT GO TO THE US.

Jeppe also gave us an account of the evolution of DGUB and an inside look into his publishing house and the cooperative eco-farm Muld, where he lives. Thanks to both Mikkel and Jeppe for an engaging and mind-opening session! 4/n

The lecture was centered around discussion of the 2015 article “Imaginaries of Hope: The Utopianism of Degrowth” byKallis and March, as well as Le Guin’s essay “A Non-Euclidean View of California as a Cold Place to Be”: cpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/sites.ucsc.e... 3/n

Together, we discussed how to work towards utopias in the here & now as well as the role of the imagination and practices of care in degrowth. We wrote our visions of utopia in a futuring exercise & delved into sci-fi works incl. The Dispossessed, Always Coming Home & The Ministry for the Future 2/n