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Fernando Racimo @ferracimo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"Denise Utochkin was a postdoc at UCPH investigating how AI could be used in the diagnosis of diabetes. However, Denise was fired for starting a campaign that sought to abolish AI altogether. New episode of Planet: Critical: "Why we must abolish AI": planetcritical.com/denise-utochkin/

A photo of Denise in the podcast Planet: Critical

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Fernando Racimo @ferracimo.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Great, climate goals it is then.

Headline that says: Europe must choose between AI and climate goals, data center lobby says

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Fernando Racimo @ferracimo.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

This week in May 1965 was the biggest teach-in during the Vietnam war, driving 30,000 people to @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social's campus. Next week 28/5 I'll give a talk at Berkeley on the topic of teach-ins & the challenges of organizing academia for socio-ecological liberation. Come one, come all!

Photo of the Berkeley teach-in, held on May 21–22, 1965, which attracted over 30,000 people to the university campus.

Poster of my book launch event at UC Berkeley - detailing the date and time of the talk: Thursday, May 20th, 12:30 - 14:00 at UC Berkeley Dwinelle Hall room 145.

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Fernando Racimo @ferracimo.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

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 👇

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Fernando Racimo @ferracimo.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Applications Open! LowTech, Luddism and Liberation: join us in beautiful Saulkrasti, Latvia, July 24-31 for a week-long study retreat on regaining control of technology, nurturing low-tech & dismantling techno-fascism, as part of the family-friendly NSU summer session: www.nsuweb.org/circle-9-deg...

“A prosthesis maintenance day at the hackerspace (and more)”. Image Credit: The.lemonaut.ukr / Wikimedia Commons / CC license

A gathering of two study circles at the last summer session in Finland.

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Fernando Racimo @ferracimo.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

And if you're interested in the topic of exnovation, you can sign up for our next session, in July in Latvia, on "LowTech, Luddism and Liberation: reclaiming technology for the collective good", which has just opened for registration! n/n www.nsuweb.org/circle-9-deg...

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Fernando Racimo @ferracimo.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

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

See Monster - a repurposed oil rig art installation in Weston-upon-Mare, UK: https://seemonster.co.uk/

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Fernando Racimo @ferracimo.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Grab your wrenches! "Low-Tech, Luddism & Liberation: reclaiming technology for the collective good." Our upcoming Nordic Summer University summer session to learn & critically discuss how to dismantle techno-fascism while fostering conviviality is open 4 registration: www.nsuweb.org/circle-9-deg...

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Fernando Racimo @ferracimo.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Worried about the role of science in a world on fire and under rising fascism? Then come to my lunch talk tomorrow, Jan 21 at 12 PM CET, with @jeannetteeggers.bsky.social on Researcher's Desk, where we'll talk about my new book Science in Resistance. Open to all! us02web.zoom.us/j/6639856178

Notebook with info about my talk tomorrow, on Jan 21 at 12 PM on zoom

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Fernando Racimo @ferracimo.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

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

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Fernando Racimo @ferracimo.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

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

Student occupation of Erasmus University Rotterdam

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Fernando Racimo @ferracimo.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

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

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Fernando Racimo @ferracimo.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

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

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Fernando Racimo @ferracimo.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

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

Protest at the University of Cambridge denouncing its fossil ties.

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Fernando Racimo @ferracimo.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

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

Investigative article on Shell's ties to Erasmus University Rotterdam

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Fernando Racimo @ferracimo.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

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

Image from SR action at DTU campus protesting the university's ties to the fossil industry

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Fernando Racimo @ferracimo.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

In Chapter 6 of the book, I explore how extractive industries have infiltrated academia, to influence curricula and research agendas, and greenwash their own image. 2/n

Investigative reporting article from Investigate Europe about fossil fuel money being poured into academia

Second page of the chapter The Enemy Within

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Fernando Racimo @ferracimo.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

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

Beginning of Science in Resistance's Chapter 6 - "The Enemy Within"

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Fernando Racimo @ferracimo.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

My university's management: "Hurray! We're providing you with new tools to detect plagiarism." Also my university's management: "Hurray! We're providing you with new tools to plagiarize as much as you can, while burning the planet in the process"

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Fernando Racimo @ferracimo.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Abolishing the Fossil Regime - Ext. Deadline (15/12). We have a few spots in our Nordic Summer Univ circle on exnovation! How do we free ourselves from domination by extractive industries & authoritarian elites? We'll learn, discuss and work towards fossil liberation: www.nsuweb.org/circle-9-deg...

Screenshot of website that says: "Circle 9: Degrowth and Exnovation - Abolishing the fossil regime"

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Fernando Racimo @ferracimo.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Today's the day! Science in Resistance is officially out! www.ucpress.edu/books/scienc... Thanks as usual to all @scientistrebellion.bsky.social members who lent their courageous voices to the book and to @ucpress.bsky.social for the support from the start!

Cover of the book, along with quotes about the book by reviewers Farhana Sultana, Wolfgang Cramer and Jennie Stephens

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Fernando Racimo @ferracimo.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Towards a humbler, braver and kinder science. My new blog post @ucpress.bsky.social about my upcoming book Science in Resistance, coming out Oct 28th: www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/t... @scientistrebellion.bsky.social @ucpress.bsky.social

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Fernando Racimo @ferracimo.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

𝐃𝐞𝐧𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐚 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐜𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭. But resistance is mounting. 1 hour west of Copenhagen, the collective Skovmagt are building houses in the trees, to resist the advance of Denmark's largest motorway project. Join or support here: linktr.ee/skovmagtdk @scientistrebellion.bsky.social

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Fernando Racimo @ferracimo.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Thanks a lot Max! A small preview here citing your work :)

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Fernando Racimo @ferracimo.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

It is also an exploration of the many ways in which academic institutions today are complicit in colonial and capitalist systems of oppression, and of how academia could be transformed to become an environment that fosters socio-ecological transformation. 4/n

The Rafah Garden encampment at the University of Copenhagen

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Fernando Racimo @ferracimo.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

The heart of it is an in-depth look at what it means for scientists to leave the comfort of the ivory tower, and step out into the streets. In other words, how scientist-activists come to change themselves even as they attempt to change the world around them. 3/n

Members of Scientist Rebellion Ecuador protesting against oil licenses at the Ministry of the Environment in Quito.

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Fernando Racimo @ferracimo.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

The book comes out Oct 28th. And from mid-Nov to mid-Dec I'll be participating in book events across Denmark, Sweden, Netherlands, Switzerland, UK, Ireland, Portugal, Spain and France. I'm so excited to talk about the book with people interested in learning more about scientist activism. 2/n

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Fernando Racimo @ferracimo.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Welp, it's here! Advanced copies of Science in Resistance have just arrived. Thanks a lot to the team at @ucpress.bsky.social for sending them. www.ucpress.edu/books/scienc... And related news: I'll soon be going on a train tour to give talks and readings of this book - more info below 1/

Advanced copy of the book "Science in Resistance: the Scientist Rebellion for Climate Justice"

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Fernando Racimo @ferracimo.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Do you wonder what a radically abundant university could look like? And how could we get there? Then check out our paper "Degrowth and decolonisation in academia: Intersecting strategies towards transformation" Now out in the community-run #Degrowth Journal: www.degrowthjournal.org/publications...

Communal planting of an olive tree during the lifting of the Rafah Garden pro-Palestine encampment at the University of Copenhagen, 2024.

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Fernando Racimo @ferracimo.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

How did @scientistrebellion.bsky.social emerge & spread so quickly? My new book @ucpress.bsky.social, documenting the evolution of this movement, will be out in Oct & includes interviews with SR members from around the world. Half the proceeds go to SR & allied groups www.ucpress.edu/books/scienc...

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Fernando Racimo @ferracimo.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Jeppe also gave us an account of the evolution of DGUB and an inside look into his publishing house and the cooperative eco-farm Muld, where he lives. Thanks to both Mikkel and Jeppe for an engaging and mind-opening session! 4/n

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Fernando Racimo @ferracimo.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

The lecture was centered around discussion of the 2015 article “Imaginaries of Hope: The Utopianism of Degrowth” byKallis and March, as well as Le Guin’s essay “A Non-Euclidean View of California as a Cold Place to Be”: cpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/sites.ucsc.e... 3/n

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Fernando Racimo @ferracimo.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Together, we discussed how to work towards utopias in the here & now as well as the role of the imagination and practices of care in degrowth. We wrote our visions of utopia in a futuring exercise & delved into sci-fi works incl. The Dispossessed, Always Coming Home & The Ministry for the Future 2/n

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Fernando Racimo @ferracimo.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

*A lecture on Degrowth Utopianism* This week was session 3 of our #Degrowth and Socioecological Justice course at the University of Copenhagen. This time, the course featured Assoc. Prof. Mikkel Frantzen, with Jeppe Svan representing @dengroenneung.bsky.social & the publishing house Økotopia. 1/n

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Fernando Racimo @ferracimo.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

How can we organize along principles of sufficiency & conviviality? The summer session of our NSU Study Circle on #Degrowth & #Exnovation w/ @kristiinav.bsky.social is now open for registration. Let's discuss ways to build community while dismantling fossil capitalism! www.nsuweb.org/circle-9-deg...

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