Fernando Racimo

Fernando Racimo

@ferracimo.bsky.social

Researcher and activist. Author of Science in Resistance.

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Fernando Racimo
@ferracimo.bsky.social

A professor at @roskildeuni.bsky.social got fired using fabricated changes, after reading Pal3stinian poetry aloud and organizing panel debates about the gen0cide. Great article by @politiken.dk showing what little academic freedom means today in Denmark: politiken.dk/danmark/art1... #dkpol

politiken.dkProfessor forsvandt med dags varsel: RUC's anklager mod migDen internationalt anerkendte professor Michelle Pace står for første gang frem og fortæller om sin opsigtsvækkende afgang fra RUC. Under hele sagen gnaver konflikten mellem Israel og Palæstina i univ

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Scientist Rebellion Denmark
@scirebdenmark.bsky.social

Yesterday: members of Abolish AI! ( https:// abolish-ai.net ) and Scientist Rebellion Denmark interrupted the seminar "How do we decarbonize data centers?" at the Data Center Forum in Copenhagen. Down with data centers! Down with AI!

Fernando Racimo
@ferracimo.bsky.social

Happy to have participated (if only remotely) in this great initiative on (Neuro)science in resistance! Thank you @ohbmenvironment.bsky.social and @clarekelly.bsky.social for the invitation.

OHBM Sustainability & Environmental Action SIG (SEA-SIG)@ohbmenvironment.bsky.social

We also held our own roundtable "Neuro(science) in Resistance"! We had a number ofstimulating discussions on this topic, spearheaded by talks from @clarekelly.bsky.social, Maximilien Chaumon, and Fernando Racimo! We were so happy with the attendance and engagement we got for this session 💗

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David Palumbo-Liu
@palumboliu.bsky.social

we are conditioned to trust AI to know what kinds of lives we should prefer and the choices we should make. Véliz argues instead we should embrace the uncertain to build resilience, to prepare for contingency but not be determined by what we cannot see, and to foster curiosity and imagination.

Fernando Racimo
@ferracimo.bsky.social

Academic journal corps like Elsevier are not just funneling away public research money. They are pouring it into fossil fuels 💸 I document the complicity of academic publishing in Science in Resistance where I interview an employee of Cell fired after digging into its ties to Big 🛢️ Excerpt below 👇

Fernando Racimo
@ferracimo.bsky.social

"Speaking out of place" is probably one of the most important things we need to be doing now, so I was very happy to be invited to @palumboliu.bsky.social's podcast to discuss my book Science in Resistance and paths to liberating and democratizing education institutions @ucpress.bsky.social

David Palumbo-Liu@palumboliu.bsky.social

We talk about the connection between power and knowledge, between ecocide and genocide, and the need to democratize education and research if we are going to have the kind of world we want to both live in, and to pass on to other generation

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Scientist Rebellion Finland
@scirebelfinland.bsky.social

Today Nordea voted to continue financing new oil from the Arctic. Nordea's claim to be a sustainability leader has watered down - they not only continue to be the biggest investor in fossil fuel companies in Finland but also retracted from their climate pledges. Our polar coalition is not happy.

Fernando Racimo
@ferracimo.bsky.social

"𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐁𝐢𝐠 𝐎𝐢𝐥?" I was recently interviewed by @kgjengedal.snabelen.no.ap.brid.gy for @forskerforum.bsky.social, as part of a great article on the topic of exnovation and its glaring absence from research priorities. www.forskerforum.no/reportasje/p... 1/n

forskerforum.noProfessor vil ha meir forsking på korleis vi kan slutte å øydeleggje verdaEr «eksnovasjon» vegen til berekraft? Innovasjon pregar mykje av debatten om berekraftig omstilling. No tek nokre forskarar til orde for meir forsking på korleis vi kan slutte å gjere skadelege ting. ...
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Fernando Racimo
@ferracimo.bsky.social

We will delve into these questions next week at our study circle on "Abolishing the fossil regime", in Oslo, the oil capital of Europe. Hosted by the Nordic Summer University, we are bringing together scholars, change-makers and policy-makers to figure out how to undo extractivist institutions. 4/n

Fernando Racimo
@ferracimo.bsky.social

"𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐁𝐢𝐠 𝐎𝐢𝐥?" I was recently interviewed by @kgjengedal.snabelen.no.ap.brid.gy for @forskerforum.bsky.social, as part of a great article on the topic of exnovation and its glaring absence from research priorities. www.forskerforum.no/reportasje/p... 1/n

forskerforum.noProfessor vil ha meir forsking på korleis vi kan slutte å øydeleggje verdaEr «eksnovasjon» vegen til berekraft? Innovasjon pregar mykje av debatten om berekraftig omstilling. No tek nokre forskarar til orde for meir forsking på korleis vi kan slutte å gjere skadelege ting. ...
Fernando Racimo
@ferracimo.bsky.social

Where are the institutes for deconstructing oil rigs? For closing down pipelines? For dismantling capital? When do we get a research center on how to drive Equinor & Total to oblivion? A lab for experimental studies on undoing the fossil grip on our lives & building smthing better in its stead? 3/n

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Scientist Rebellion Turtle Island (US/Canada)
@srti.bsky.social

SRTI Actions in 2025 – Part 1 Actions matter! Scientist Rebellion Turtle Island rose to many of the challenges of 2025, showing up to challenge the climate backsliding, the attacks on science, and the rise of authoritarianism over the year. Here's a rundown of over forty ways SRTI Rebels turned…

srturtleisland.orgSRTI Actions in 2025 – Part 1Actions matter! Scientist Rebellion Turtle Island rose to many of the challenges of 2025, showing up to challenge the climate backsliding, the attacks on science, and the rise of authoritarianism over the year. Here's a rundown of over forty ways SRTI Rebels turned outrage into action in the first half of 2025 (Part 2 coming soon). Petition Biden - Declare Climate Emergency…

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Prof Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism
@jksteinberger.bsky.social

Btw, we are still collecting signatures to stop Swiss academic collaborations with Israel via our national funding agency. Please sign here! framaforms.org/open-letter-...

framaforms.orgOpen Letter: SERI must terminate its "Lead Agency" bilateral research agreement with Israel | Framaforms.org
Prof Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism@jksteinberger.bsky.social

"Settler-states by their very definition and national goals are inevitably genocidal. Israel is not hostage to its far-right politicians: it is accelerating its formally slow genocide to a fast one." Paraphrasing Maya Wind, right now speaking at @unil.bsky.social .

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KetAnthropic JoshAI
@ketanjoshi.co

May I once again not-at-all-humbly reiterate what I said back in 2022: the centrist brain-worm that "energy security" comes from crawling from dependence on one fossil fuel supplier to another is absolute bullshit: Europe could and should have been reducing gas reliance faster for the past 3 years

Clean Energy Wire | CLEW@cleanenergywire.bsky.social

Fears grow over Europe’s soaring dependence on US gas imports American LNG was meant to be a safe alternative to Russian gas. That’s no longer a given, with transatlantic relations in crisis

politico.euFears grow over Europe’s soaring dependence on US gas importsAmerican LNG was meant to be a safe alternative to Russian gas. That’s no longer a given, with transatlantic relations in crisis.

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Jeannette Eggers
@jeannetteeggers.bsky.social

On Wednesday Jan 21 at 12 noon, Fernando Racimo will present his new book “Science in Resistance: The Scientist Rebellion for Climate Justice” at a @researchersdesk.bsky.social lunch seminar. The Zoom link is: us02web.zoom.us/j/6639856178. Welcome! bsky.app/profile/rese...

Jeannette Eggers@jeannetteeggers.bsky.social

I have thoroughly enjoyed reading Science in Resistance: The scientist rebellion for climate justice by Fernando Racimo. Maybe not very surprising, after all, it was reading a paper by Fernando that made me join Scientist Rebellion three years ago. 🧵

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Dr. Aaron Thierry
@thierryaaron.bsky.social

This one by @ferracimo.bsky.social ... "If you're a researcher & want to have real-world impact, this is essential reading"- @charliejgardner.bsky.social "A vital read for academic relevance in our century of climate, ecological & political crises'- @jksteinberger.bsky.social

Yale Climate Connections@climateconnections.bsky.social

Which of these books will you read first? yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/01/a-pr...

yaleclimateconnections.orgA preview of the new year — in 12 new books » Yale Climate ConnectionsA toolkit of books to help you survive 2026.

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Jeannette Eggers
@jeannetteeggers.bsky.social

"It’s far from unreasonable to expect scientists and the academic community to act in line with their own knowledge and warnings, and I think it’s fair to say that (like most other parts of society) academia isn’t responding robustly to a world that’s literally and metaphorically on fire."

allouryesterdays.infoInterview with Abi Perrin: "academia isn’t responding robustly to a world that’s literally and metaphorically on fire" - All Our YesterdaysDr Abi Perrin, who was one of the advised the presenters at November’s National Emergency Briefing kindly did an email interview. Her website is here. This post is especially worth your time. She is o...

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Fernando Racimo
@ferracimo.bsky.social

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐦𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧: 𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐛𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐟𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐥 𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 We often think of universities as sites of knowledge creation & critical thinking. And in a (decreasing) number of ways, they are still so. But as I explain in my new book Science in Resistance, they are also pillars of the fossil economy 1/n

Fernando Racimo
@ferracimo.bsky.social

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐦𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧: 𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐛𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐟𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐥 𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 We often think of universities as sites of knowledge creation & critical thinking. And in a (decreasing) number of ways, they are still so. But as I explain in my new book Science in Resistance, they are also pillars of the fossil economy 1/n

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Fernando Racimo
@ferracimo.bsky.social

Many students and academics have risen in resistance in Uganda and Tanzania against the EACOP pipeline, many suffering violence & arrest in prisons where cholera is widespread. 10/n

Fernando Racimo
@ferracimo.bsky.social

To learn more about the many fossil ties running within university hallways, and how students, academics and civil society groups are organizing and fighting back, check out my new book Science in Resistance: www.ucpress.edu/books/scienc... n/n

ucpress.eduScience in Resistance by Fernando RacimoScholarship 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.
Fernando Racimo
@ferracimo.bsky.social

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐦𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧: 𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐛𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐟𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐥 𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 We often think of universities as sites of knowledge creation & critical thinking. And in a (decreasing) number of ways, they are still so. But as I explain in my new book Science in Resistance, they are also pillars of the fossil economy 1/n

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Fernando Racimo
@ferracimo.bsky.social

Ayo Fola is a Nigerian academic I interviewed, witnessing similar university donations to cover up Shell's pollution in the Niger delta. As he says: "They are taking advantage of poverty. They use money to close people's eyes." 8/n

Fernando Racimo
@ferracimo.bsky.social

But students & academics are fighting back. Erasmus was host to a climate occupation back in 2023: management responded by calling for the arrest of their own students. 9/n

Fernando Racimo
@ferracimo.bsky.social

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐦𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧: 𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐛𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐟𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐥 𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 We often think of universities as sites of knowledge creation & critical thinking. And in a (decreasing) number of ways, they are still so. But as I explain in my new book Science in Resistance, they are also pillars of the fossil economy 1/n

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Fernando Racimo
@ferracimo.bsky.social

These are not isolated cases. In 2022 alone, oil & gas companies funneled over 40 million pounds to UK universities in what has been termed a "colonization of academia". www.theguardian.com/environment/... Still, oil companies are practicing the old-fashioned form of resource colonization too... 6/n

theguardian.comUK universities take £40m in fossil fuel funding since 2022FoI requests show Shell and BP among firms giving funds to institutions which have pledged to divest
Fernando Racimo
@ferracimo.bsky.social

Total sponsors PhD programs in Makerere University in Uganda, even as it builds the EACOP pipeline on that same territory, destroying people's livelihoods and ecosystems at a massive scale, to be able to daily pump as much oil out of the continent as Finland consumes in a day. 7/n

Fernando Racimo
@ferracimo.bsky.social

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐦𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧: 𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐛𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐟𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐥 𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 We often think of universities as sites of knowledge creation & critical thinking. And in a (decreasing) number of ways, they are still so. But as I explain in my new book Science in Resistance, they are also pillars of the fossil economy 1/n

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Fernando Racimo
@ferracimo.bsky.social

Another example is Erasmus University Rotterdam, which secretly received hundreds of thousands of dollars for oil giant Shell to have a say in its curriculum, as well as power to decide who could be allowed in the university, and featured spots in campus career fairs. 4/n

Fernando Racimo
@ferracimo.bsky.social

And in the University of Cambridge, generous donations from oil corporations have resulted in a "BP professorship", a "Shell professorship" and a local branch of the Schlumberger company, all while claiming to be a "green university" 5/n

Fernando Racimo
@ferracimo.bsky.social

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐦𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧: 𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐛𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐟𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐥 𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 We often think of universities as sites of knowledge creation & critical thinking. And in a (decreasing) number of ways, they are still so. But as I explain in my new book Science in Resistance, they are also pillars of the fossil economy 1/n

Fernando Racimo
@ferracimo.bsky.social

A classic example of this is the Danish Technical University, which has signed several multi-million kroner contracts with oil company Total, to build research centers to extract and burn more fossil fuels, like the DTU Center for Oil and Gas, recently rebranded to DTU Offshore: offshore.dtu.dk 3/n

Fernando Racimo
@ferracimo.bsky.social

My interview at @ceis20.bsky.social in Coimbra is now online! I talk about my book Science in Resistance, about how universities must stop being ruled by extreme hierarchies, and the crucial role of collective action and labor power in this transformation, which is needed now more than ever.

ceis20.bsky.social@ceis20.bsky.social

🎧 𝗖𝗘𝗜𝗦𝟮𝟬 𝗣𝗢𝗗𝗖𝗔𝗦𝗧 Fernando Racimo was interviewed by João Teixeira for the CEIS20 Podcast. ➥ shorturl.at/nnSP9 _________________________________________ 🎧 𝗣𝗢𝗗𝗖𝗔𝗦𝗧 𝗖𝗘𝗜𝗦𝟮𝟬 Fernando Racimo foi entrevistado pelo investigador João Teixeira para o Podcast CEIS20. ➥ shorturl.at/53WjX © CEIS20

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Jeannette Eggers
@jeannetteeggers.bsky.social

I have thoroughly enjoyed reading Science in Resistance: The scientist rebellion for climate justice by Fernando Racimo. Maybe not very surprising, after all, it was reading a paper by Fernando that made me join Scientist Rebellion three years ago. 🧵