Universities today operate like businesses — prioritising markets and reputation over academic freedom. Researchers are being pressured to avoid publishing findings that might “upset” donors, institutions, academia, or student markets. #academia #universities
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www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Reality check in #academia :
👉 Getting a grant has become a pure lottery.
👉 It is no longer about advancing science — it’s about keeping your job.
👉 Only 3% of PhDs secure a permanent position at a university. Only 0.4% make it to professor level.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Forever pollution: "Due to the lack of widespread environmental testing for PFAS, the true extent of contamination is underrepresented."
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www.lemonde.fr/en/les-decod...

A researcher resigned because university censored her research on the petrochemical industry’s health impacts (cancer) and on racial disparities in hiring, as it had upset donors and elected officials.
#academicfreedom #universities
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apnews.com/article/canc...

Staff and students could now face 2 years of prison and unlimited fines for holding campus protests without permission of the university boards.
#corporatisationofhighereducation
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www.theguardian.com/law/2025/jun...

Migrants send or bring back over three times the amount of money provided by global foreign aid.
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ourworldindata.org/great-global...

Harvard hired a researcher to study its ties to slavery, but warned him "not to find too many slaves” because “it is a source of shame for Harvard". The researcher did his job too well and was fired for finding more slaves than Harvard could comfortably ignore.
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www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ju...

Universities choose to repress contemporary struggles for social justice while valorizing historical ones. At what point do stories of struggle become institutionally palatable? #highereducation #universities #higherEd
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www.sapiens.org/culture/prot...

"Faculty and staff in Swedish higher education and research declare their objection to collaborate with Israeli institutions complicit in illegal occupation, apartheid, genocide, and other violations of international law." 🇵🇸
uppsaladeclaration.se

www.dn.se/sverige/fors...

Nature Global PhD Survey - the main factors behind lower satisfaction among female PhDs are their higher probabilities of encountering gender discrimination and sexual harassment and difficulties in attaining a work-life balance.
#academia #PhD #belonging
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Cambridge University tried to hide the grim results of an internal survey about bullying.
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www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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#academia #highereducation #universities

Belief in a better future for humanity has plummeted to 11% in Finland.
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www.sitra.fi/en/news/futu...

An interview about our research on radicalization of Swedish youth in connection with the tragic school shooting 💔
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sweden.igdore.org/efter-skolsk...

Happy International Day of Women & Girls in Science! 🎓 💚 A yearly reminder: until science is a viable career path for women, we should be talking about women in science.
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#gendergap #womeninscience

People have a fundamental need to matter. When this need is frustrated people can radicalize and use violence. Social support can counteract radicalization. Never was our research on Swedish youth so painfully relevant as right now 💔
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journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Study shows that doing a PhD is very detrimental to mental health. More that loosing a parent.❤️‍🩹 🎓 🤯
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#HigherEd #academia #universities #highereducation
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www.nature.com/articles/d41...