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

I wished leadership in my institutions would read this work

yet another story of the omission of women and men of colour from western science history writing. Yusra, a Palestinian woman, discovered first Neanderthal skeleton in the Middle East. A white scientist took the credits without recording her full name www.palestinefilminstitute.org/en/sheffield...

Listen to Alexis Okeowo about the scale of the crime at Europes southern Sea front. youtu.be/Z0NrFCnoqJg?...

please watch this, please discuss it, please dont look away. Why is it that the death rate of migrants crossing the Mediterranean in 2023 was 20x as high as in 2015 at a fraction of the migration rate? These are incredible crimes against humanity on behalf of Europe youtu.be/WC_7zICWMqQ?...

5) In this brief piece we describe important new advances in measuring global poverty. "The BNPL data indicates that the story of global poverty over the past few decades is more complex, and more troubling, than existing narratives allow..." blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities...

4) Some of our PhD students led this brilliant editorial in the BMJ, on degrowth in the imperial core as key to a just transformation of the world economy, including greater democratic control over production, and national liberation in the global South. www.bmj.com/content/387/...

3) Climate mitigation scenarios perpetuate massive inequalities between North and South through 2100. But these inequalities cannot be justified under established ethical frameworks. We need new scenarios that can achieve justice and convergence. sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

2) Around 80% of humanity lives in conditions of deprivation. But this scarcity is artificial. If we directed production toward meeting human needs rather than mindlessly pursuing capitalist growth, we could ensure good lives for 8.5 billion people👇 sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

As scientists we must open our eyes to see the structural injustices and unsustainability that western "democracies" enforce on the global South. Those that continue business as usual are seriously complicit in the destruction.