Ole Seehausen
@oleseehausen.bsky.social
Ecologist, evolutionary biologist. Educator, #BLM, social justice, environmental justice, inclusive science. Opinions my own.
https://www.aqua.iee.unibe.ch/about_us/index_eng.html
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Happy to share our new paper describing two new, and soooo different, species of stone loaches from Switzerland
doi.org/10.1111/jfb.70108
doi.org/10.1111/jfb.70108
July 5, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Happy to share our new paper describing two new, and soooo different, species of stone loaches from Switzerland
doi.org/10.1111/jfb.70108
doi.org/10.1111/jfb.70108
Ngugi wa Thiong‘o passed. He was a true giant of African literature. His writings have illuminated the path to liberation and will continue to do so
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May 30, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Ngugi wa Thiong‘o passed. He was a true giant of African literature. His writings have illuminated the path to liberation and will continue to do so
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Sounds of freedom from the years before neocolonialism struck down emerging nations: Here is an introduction to the music of The Witch.
youtube.com/watch?v=YPZa...
youtube.com/watch?v=YPZa...
May 4, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Sounds of freedom from the years before neocolonialism struck down emerging nations: Here is an introduction to the music of The Witch.
youtube.com/watch?v=YPZa...
youtube.com/watch?v=YPZa...
Omar el Akkad captures the essence of the total failure of western society to stand up against the crimes perpetuated in its name at the time they are being perpetuated.
March 21, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Omar el Akkad captures the essence of the total failure of western society to stand up against the crimes perpetuated in its name at the time they are being perpetuated.
we are hosting Kenyan author and critical conservation biologist Dr Mordecai Ogada for a public lecture at the University of Bern on Monday 17 March at 13:00. The author of The Big Conservation Lie, Ogada is uncovering uncomfortable truth about nature conservation in the Global South.
March 14, 2025 at 11:57 PM
we are hosting Kenyan author and critical conservation biologist Dr Mordecai Ogada for a public lecture at the University of Bern on Monday 17 March at 13:00. The author of The Big Conservation Lie, Ogada is uncovering uncomfortable truth about nature conservation in the Global South.
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 11 of 20
Joseph Ki-Zerbo Histoire de l’ Afrique noire
in 1985 it restored my belief in history
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Day 11 of 20
Joseph Ki-Zerbo Histoire de l’ Afrique noire
in 1985 it restored my belief in history
#blackbooksky
#blackbookshelf
#blackbooks
January 11, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 11 of 20
Joseph Ki-Zerbo Histoire de l’ Afrique noire
in 1985 it restored my belief in history
#blackbooksky
#blackbookshelf
#blackbooks
Day 11 of 20
Joseph Ki-Zerbo Histoire de l’ Afrique noire
in 1985 it restored my belief in history
#blackbooksky
#blackbookshelf
#blackbooks
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 10 of 20
Aime Cesaire’s „Disclosures On Colonialism“ on its 70th anniversary
#blackbooksky
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Day 10 of 20
Aime Cesaire’s „Disclosures On Colonialism“ on its 70th anniversary
#blackbooksky
#blackbookshelf
#blackbooks
January 2, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 10 of 20
Aime Cesaire’s „Disclosures On Colonialism“ on its 70th anniversary
#blackbooksky
#blackbookshelf
#blackbooks
Day 10 of 20
Aime Cesaire’s „Disclosures On Colonialism“ on its 70th anniversary
#blackbooksky
#blackbookshelf
#blackbooks
This must be a wakeup call to the people of the world
December 31, 2024 at 7:08 PM
This must be a wakeup call to the people of the world
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 9 of 20
Chinua Achebe‘s timely story of Okonkwo - Things Fall Apart
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Day 9 of 20
Chinua Achebe‘s timely story of Okonkwo - Things Fall Apart
#blackbooksky
#blackbookshelf
#blackbooks
December 30, 2024 at 2:28 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 9 of 20
Chinua Achebe‘s timely story of Okonkwo - Things Fall Apart
#blackbooksky
#blackbookshelf
#blackbooks
Day 9 of 20
Chinua Achebe‘s timely story of Okonkwo - Things Fall Apart
#blackbooksky
#blackbookshelf
#blackbooks
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 8 of 20
read it in the 1980s and it shaped me: Biko was murdered at 31 for writing his mind
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Day 8 of 20
read it in the 1980s and it shaped me: Biko was murdered at 31 for writing his mind
#blackbooksky
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#blackbooks
December 29, 2024 at 11:51 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 8 of 20
read it in the 1980s and it shaped me: Biko was murdered at 31 for writing his mind
#blackbooksky
#blackbookshelf
#blackbooks
Day 8 of 20
read it in the 1980s and it shaped me: Biko was murdered at 31 for writing his mind
#blackbooksky
#blackbookshelf
#blackbooks
Please circulate widely:
We are hiring two Ass Prof tt at the Institute of #ecology and #evolution at @unibern.bsky.social in conservation biology; mathematical & computational ecology
We are committed to diverse, inclusive and equitable leadership in research and education
tinyurl.com/IEEjobs
We are hiring two Ass Prof tt at the Institute of #ecology and #evolution at @unibern.bsky.social in conservation biology; mathematical & computational ecology
We are committed to diverse, inclusive and equitable leadership in research and education
tinyurl.com/IEEjobs
December 28, 2024 at 4:52 PM
Please circulate widely:
We are hiring two Ass Prof tt at the Institute of #ecology and #evolution at @unibern.bsky.social in conservation biology; mathematical & computational ecology
We are committed to diverse, inclusive and equitable leadership in research and education
tinyurl.com/IEEjobs
We are hiring two Ass Prof tt at the Institute of #ecology and #evolution at @unibern.bsky.social in conservation biology; mathematical & computational ecology
We are committed to diverse, inclusive and equitable leadership in research and education
tinyurl.com/IEEjobs
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 7 of 20
Another classical: Ngugi wa Thiong’o “The River Between”
#blackbooksky
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Day 7 of 20
Another classical: Ngugi wa Thiong’o “The River Between”
#blackbooksky
#blackbookshelf
#blackbooks
December 28, 2024 at 10:59 AM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 7 of 20
Another classical: Ngugi wa Thiong’o “The River Between”
#blackbooksky
#blackbookshelf
#blackbooks
Day 7 of 20
Another classical: Ngugi wa Thiong’o “The River Between”
#blackbooksky
#blackbookshelf
#blackbooks
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 6 of 20
Ayi Kwei Armah “the beautiful ones are not yet born”
I read it 40 years ago, struck a deep chord with me and stayed
Day 6 of 20
Ayi Kwei Armah “the beautiful ones are not yet born”
I read it 40 years ago, struck a deep chord with me and stayed
December 27, 2024 at 11:04 AM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 6 of 20
Ayi Kwei Armah “the beautiful ones are not yet born”
I read it 40 years ago, struck a deep chord with me and stayed
Day 6 of 20
Ayi Kwei Armah “the beautiful ones are not yet born”
I read it 40 years ago, struck a deep chord with me and stayed
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
I read Chinua Achebes A Man of the People 40 (!) years ago and it stayed with me ever since
#blackbooksky
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#blackbooks
I read Chinua Achebes A Man of the People 40 (!) years ago and it stayed with me ever since
#blackbooksky
#blackbookshelf
#blackbooks
December 26, 2024 at 10:38 AM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
I read Chinua Achebes A Man of the People 40 (!) years ago and it stayed with me ever since
#blackbooksky
#blackbookshelf
#blackbooks
I read Chinua Achebes A Man of the People 40 (!) years ago and it stayed with me ever since
#blackbooksky
#blackbookshelf
#blackbooks
5/20 of my responses to the 20 Black books challenge. Apologies for the irregular posting scheme. Still on the theme of decolonizing the mind. After Fanons classical work this is a recent treatment of 500 years of Atlantic history I never want to miss again
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December 25, 2024 at 5:26 PM
5/20 of my responses to the 20 Black books challenge. Apologies for the irregular posting scheme. Still on the theme of decolonizing the mind. After Fanons classical work this is a recent treatment of 500 years of Atlantic history I never want to miss again
#blackbooksky
#blackbookshelf
#blackbooks
#blackbooksky
#blackbookshelf
#blackbooks
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Here is the fourth book in what I consider Frantz Fanon‘s foundational contributions to decolonization of minds and peoples
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Here is the fourth book in what I consider Frantz Fanon‘s foundational contributions to decolonization of minds and peoples
December 13, 2024 at 9:15 AM
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Here is the fourth book in what I consider Frantz Fanon‘s foundational contributions to decolonization of minds and peoples
#blackbookshelf
#blackbooks
Here is the fourth book in what I consider Frantz Fanon‘s foundational contributions to decolonization of minds and peoples
#blackbooksky
#blackbookshelf
#blackbooks
I did not share one yesterday. So I share two today. Written 70 years ago, Frantz Fanon could not be more relevant today.
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I did not share one yesterday. So I share two today. Written 70 years ago, Frantz Fanon could not be more relevant today.
December 11, 2024 at 6:54 AM
#blackbooksky
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I did not share one yesterday. So I share two today. Written 70 years ago, Frantz Fanon could not be more relevant today.
#blackbookshelf
#blackbooks
I did not share one yesterday. So I share two today. Written 70 years ago, Frantz Fanon could not be more relevant today.
December 8, 2024 at 4:42 PM
We are hiring two Assistant Professors tt at the Institute of #ecology and #evolution at @unibern.bsky.social in conservation biology; mathematical & computational ecology
We are committed to building more inclusive, equitable and diverse leadership in research and education
tinyurl.com/IEEjobs
We are committed to building more inclusive, equitable and diverse leadership in research and education
tinyurl.com/IEEjobs
December 6, 2024 at 8:36 AM
We are hiring two Assistant Professors tt at the Institute of #ecology and #evolution at @unibern.bsky.social in conservation biology; mathematical & computational ecology
We are committed to building more inclusive, equitable and diverse leadership in research and education
tinyurl.com/IEEjobs
We are committed to building more inclusive, equitable and diverse leadership in research and education
tinyurl.com/IEEjobs