Great success for human rights www.survivalinternational.org/news/14121

It is indeed a great honor if I may contribute to these values and their implementation

It is great honor, and one I accept with humility. I appreciate the Academies perspective on arts, science and society, its commitment to making academia equitable, clarity that it currently is not (lnkd.in/eR8sKwtC), and initiatives to repair past and continued injustice (i.e. lnkd.in/esEcW9n9).

It is great honor, and one I accept with humility. I appreciate the Academies perspective on arts, science and society, its commitment to making academia equitable, clarity that it currently is not (lnkd.in/eR8sKwtC), and initiatives to repair past and continued injustice (i.e. lnkd.in/esEcW9n9).

Happy to share with you the completely updated assessment of the conservation status of Europe’s 559 known freshwater fish species. Not happy to report that nearly 50% of them are threatened. ▶️ Here is the #IUCN report 👇 sohub.io/nvoz

❗🐟 Fast die Hälfte der europäischen #Süsswasserfische ist vom Aussterben bedroht. 📉 Weitere 18% gelten als potenziell gefährdet. 📝Dies zeigt die neue Rote Liste der #IUCN, an der auch @oleseehausen.bsky.social #unibern & @eawag.bsky.social beteiligt ist. ▶️ Hier geht es zum Bericht 👇 sohub.io/nvoz

📚Book Announcement!📚 The most dangerous racist idea—great replacement theory—has become the most dominant political theory of our time. 1/3

I cannot believe that Jimmy Cliff has passed. He was a carrier of hope for me since my youth. I will never forget summer 1984 when I saw him in his Hannover concert in Germany. As a big kid, I could not afford a ticket but found a way into the concert. It was overwhelming …

Please share the announcement of this new fellowship scheme widely with your students and colleagues www.linkedin.com/posts/initia...

Our latest paper on fish communities in nearly 80 peri-alpine lakes reveals that community assembly through immigration and speciation respond to different dimensions of ecosystem size: area and depth respectively. Check it out here onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/BKFKRT...

UN commission inquiry concludes Israel has committed genocide in Gaza bbc.com/news/article...

A remarkable speach by Natasa Pirc Musar share.google/Tqe5HwUXjpoH...

dear western scientists and academics, your talking science while being silent about the horror that happens in our name frightens me to the bottom of my heart. There is so much to say, but this short clip brings it to the point. Please share it further youtu.be/b5y016zo0rM?...

Happy to share our new paper describing two new, and soooo different, species of stone loaches from Switzerland doi.org/10.1111/jfb.70108

Happy to share the description of the first two rocky reef snail crushers from Lake Victoria zookeys.pensoft.net/article/1256...

What an amazing difference a live photo in the natural habitat makes to our understanding of fish species

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 #blackbooksky #blackbookshelf #blackbooks

It is special moments when believed extinct species show up again shoalconservation.org/lipochromis-...

On Malcolm X’s 100th birthday, we honor his legacy with action. We call on the U.S. government to release ALL files tied to Malcolm’s assassination. The fight for truth, transparency, & accountability must continue — by any means necessary.

Pepe Mujica www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

Sounds of freedom from the years before neocolonialism struck: Manu Dibango with Soul Makossa 1973 youtube.com/watch?v=EF92...

Sounds of freedom from the years before neocolonialism struck: Fela Kuti’s Water no Get Enemy from 1975 youtube.com/watch?v=IQBC...

Sounds of freedom from the years before neocolonialism struck down emerging nations: Chilumbulu with The Smoke that Thunders youtube.com/watch?v=IEff...

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...

Do the young people still remember the music from the two hopeful decades after independence and before the full onslaught of neocolonialism. Here are The Witch from Zambia youtu.be/fu165_T9QuA

Fatima Hassouna and her family were killed one day after her documentary was selected to premier at the Cannes Film Festival

An incredibly relevant article on the relationship between environmentalism and racism. Racism is indeed not an accidental byproduct of environmentalism but has been a constant reference point. Please live up to your responsibility and think about this www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

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.

Amazing

Our two new fish species found their names!

This is really important: The West Bank-based film No Other Land wins this year’s best documentary feature Oscar. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma...

Looks like everyone is Getting In on the Continuing Destruction of Palestine. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Yesterday 140 years ago Western powers sidelined Africans and carved up ‘ownership’ of the continent among themselves. 140 years of cancelling the history, culture and science of African peoples and nations followed and continue to this day. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/...

Exactly

Deadline for applications is now just over 2 weeks away. Please circulate widely

Researchers from #unibern @wyssacademy.bsky.social #NaturhistorischesMuseumBern @eawag.bsky.social have discovered two new #fish species. You can actively take part in naming them! Learn more in the interview with biologist Bárbara Calegari: sohub.io/83u0.

Heros still exist

Absolutely

SHARE WIDELY. KNOW YOUR RIGHTS. With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights. You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one. (1/3)

It could hardly be a more important day than today for recalling MLKs clarity and wisdom

Here is the explanation why Jimmy Carter was so different from all other white US presidents… www.instagram.com/reel/DEtRkXD...

Digital authoritarianism www.democracynow.org/2025/1/9/met...

Everyone should finally take the tight connections of big tec to scientific racism and white supremacy seriously www.democracynow.org/2025/1/6/qui...

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