“We can not continue to have science that is an embassy in your country, Africa needs your sciences in our households!” #ARUA2025

Hon Dr Musenero Monica Masanza, Uganda’s Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation critiques the publish or perish idea.
#ARUA2025

“Yes, it’s the universities’ output, but so is the economy of your country.
We need to address our needs…What must we change?”

#freePalestine in Stockholm, Sweden 🇸🇪

#nokings

”Sluta döda Gazas barn”
”Stopp killing the children of Gaza” was chanted on the streets of Stockholm today #freepalestine 🍉🍉 (a chant I personally struggle with as I start crying as we have been demanding this for a year but the situation is just getting worse)

”Alternatively, become such a star player that you can simply refuse.” 😅

Are there any demos planned to highlight this issue? I’d like to attend to draw attention to the colonial and and careless way adoption has been organized in Sweden.

❤️🙏🏽❤️

Knowledge is insufficient, Waterstone says. How to take action?

The good prof compared popular Happily Ever After (HEA) lit with anthropology titles like ”Progressive Dystopia” and ”Overheating”- will anthropology inspire? Change the world?

Waterstone highlights academia’s (and ultimately our own) ability to self-reflect on opaque language, decolonizing knowledge, omitting important connections, being wrong.

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Quote of the year (✨take a breath and let it sink in):

”Populism is antipluralism”

- Göran Sundström, Professor in Political Science @stockholm-uni.bsky.social

#folkochforskning