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Fernando Racimo

@ferracimo.bsky.social
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Researcher and activist. Author of Science in Resistance.

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Fernando Racimo @ferracimo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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
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Professor forsvandt med dags varsel: RUC's anklager mod mig
Den 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 · 25/09/2026
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!
Members of Abolish AI! and SR Denmark holding a banner that says "You cannot hide from the science" while standing on the podium of one of the conference's events.
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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
We're still here, but many of us are doing different things because the things that made us visible will now land us in jail
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Where have all the climate activists gone?
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Fernando Racimo @ferracimo.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Thank you for participating, Arun! And if still in the spirit of resistance within academic spaces and looking for a summer read, I can't help but recommend this: www.ucpress.edu/books/scienc...
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Science in Resistance by Fernando Racimo - Paper
Scholarship 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.
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Fernando Racimo @ferracimo.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
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.
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Wolfgang Cramer @cramer-bondeau.fr · 25/06/2026
A good conversation I had this week with Owen Jones from the UK, about the ongoing heatwave www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikvf... @owenjones.bsky.social
screenshot from the conversation with Owen Jones
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Fernando Racimo @ferracimo.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
www.politico.eu/article/euro...
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Europe must choose between AI and climate goals, data center lobby says
Tech sector says only carbon-emitting gas plants are reliable enough today to power the EU’s AI goals.
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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 · 25/05/2026
Join this upcoming book talk at UC Berkeley on Thursday, featuring environmental justice scholar Julie Sze and scientist-activist Greg Sponer: events.berkeley.edu/ib/event/322... If you're not in the area, feel free to DM me and I'll share a Zoom link!
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“Science in Resistance”
In the face of climate breakdown and rising authoritarianism, as many are being silenced simply for speaking truth to power, how can we ...
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ANU School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) @anuregnet.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Join author Fernando Racimo for a discussion of his book Science in Resistance, a first-person account of the Scientist Rebellion, a global movement of scientists and scholars rising in collective resistance for climate and social justice. Learn more and register: regnet.anu.edu.au/event/scienc...
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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 · 04/05/2026
I haven't seen a documentary that summarizes the fascist, racist and extractivist logics behind degenerative intelligence as well as Ghost in the Machine. If you watch one documentary about "AI", make it this one: kinema.com/films/ghost-...
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Ghost in the Machine
Host a screening of Ghost in the Machine
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David Palumbo-Liu @palumboliu.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
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.
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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 licensePhoto of a beach in Saulkrasti, LatviaA wrench in between two gears.A gathering of two study circles at the last summer session in Finland.
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Scientist Rebellion Turtle Island (US/Canada) @srti.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Last month, a handful of us went and delivered a couple of oversized cards and a bouquet of flowers (above) to the EPA offices. youtube.com/shorts/dbm0W... Join us April 14th for a larger vigil, mourning the loss of the Endangerment Finding. actionnetwork.org/events/vigil...
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Condolence Cards to EPA 2026-03-19
YouTube video by Scientist Rebellion Turtle Island
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Fernando Racimo @ferracimo.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
"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
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Fernando Racimo @ferracimo.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Thank you for having me, David! It was a wonderful conversation.
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Scientist Rebellion Finland @scirebelfinland.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
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.
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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...
A wrench stuck between two gears.
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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 · 26/02/2026
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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Fernando Racimo @ferracimo.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
In it, she also interviews the scholar who first introduced me to the topic, @jenniecstephens.bsky.social. In her words: "There is a strong focus in academia on innovation and change through coming up with something new rather than achieving change by stopping something." 2/n
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Fernando Racimo @ferracimo.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
"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
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Professor vil ha meir forsking på korleis vi kan slutte å øydeleggje verda
Er «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 · 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...
Luddite posterA wrench in between two gears“A prosthesis maintenance day at the hackerspace (and more)”. Image Credit: The.lemonaut.ukr / Wikimedia Commons / CC license
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Fernando Racimo @ferracimo.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Not as far as I know, but here is a recording of a similar talk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLp2...
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Science in Resistance – Fernando Racimo
YouTube video by Scientist Rebellion Turtle Island
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Fernando Racimo @ferracimo.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Join me in Oslo on March 4th @uio.no for a conversation on building counter-power in academia: www.uio.no/english/abou...
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Science in Resistance: Book presentation and Q&A - University of Oslo
How can we build collective counterpower in academia in the face of the climate crisis and growing fascism?
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Scientist Rebellion Turtle Island (US/Canada) @srti.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
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…
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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 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 · 28/01/2026
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-...
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Open Letter: SERI must terminate its "Lead Agency" bilateral research agreement with Israel | Framaforms.org
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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 zoomCover of my book Science in Resistance
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 19/01/2026
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

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Also, energy security is served by massive, rapid reductions in fossil fuel use, and worsened by sustained or increased reliance on fossil fuels.
11:19 PM · Jul 11, 2022FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 2022
THE SYDNEY MOR
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Gas, our best weapon against Putin
Australia could help reduce Russia's leverage over Europe - especially if this war drags on for years.
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T The war in Ukraine has descended so quickly into crimes so great that the moral case for a powerful response grows stronger by the day. The latest atrocity, the bombing of a maternity hospital in Mariupol, only adds to the urgency about what else can be done to stop the Russian invasion.
The primary hope is to break the Russian economy. Australia has joined global sanctions to impose a crushing financial penalty that might be enough to halt the attacks, impose extreme pressure on Vladimir Putin and convince other autocrats that similar ventures will trigger the same costs.
But the economic assault is yet to stop the Russian President after almost two weeks of radical steps designed to crash his currency and paralyse his central bank. These steps are certain to bring severe financial hardship to millions of ordinary Russians, yet success depends on whether this pain can force Putin to relent, if not retreat.
The reality is Australia has few ways to add to this pressure. It is doing less than in recent conflicts: there are no Australian boots on the ground. This reflects the essential calculation, which is cold but correct, that NATO and its allies must not go into direct combat with Russian forces and risk turning this into a nuclear confrontation.
It is on the economy, then, that Australia can bring some pressure to bear. Any pressure is worth considering
when Australia is a huge energy supplier with the capacity, in theory, to reduce some of Putin's leverage. It has been on federal cabinet's agenda for good reason.
The war is now a test of whether banks stop tanks. The West has launched an experiment to see if economic war can defeat an army of more than 150,000 troops. History shows that stronger economies win wars. Experience shows the victory does not come quickly.
The…
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Jeannette Eggers @jeannetteeggers.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
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...
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Fernando Racimo @ferracimo.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Thanks Aaron! Hope you enjoy it. There are several citations peppered throughout the book to your (super valuable) work!
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
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
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Fernando Racimo @ferracimo.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Thanks to Yale @climateconnections.bsky.social for featuring Science in Resistance in their "toolkit of books to help you survive 2026" among great titles, incl @lukekemp.bsky.social's Goliath's Curse & @amitavghosh.bsky.social's Wild Fictions. Check it out yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/01/a-pr...
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A preview of the new year — in 12 new books » Yale Climate Connections
A toolkit of books to help you survive 2026.
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Jeannette Eggers @jeannetteeggers.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
"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."
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Interview with Abi Perrin: "academia isn’t responding robustly to a world that’s literally and metaphorically on fire" - All Our Yesterdays
Dr 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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Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution @official-smbe.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
SMBE2026 Symposium L05 | The role and responsibilities of the SMBE community in facing the polycrisis 📨 Abstract submission smbe2026.org/abstracts 📋 Programme details smbe2026.org/programme #SMBE2026
SMBE2026 Symposium L05 | The role and responsibilities of the SMBE community in facing the polycrisis
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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"Cover of the book Science in Resistance
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Fernando Racimo @ferracimo.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
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
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Science in Resistance by Fernando Racimo
Scholarship 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.
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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
Student protest against EACOPClimate protest by SR Uganda
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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
Photo of Total's EACOP pipeline
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Fernando Racimo @ferracimo.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
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
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UK universities take £40m in fossil fuel funding since 2022
FoI requests show Shell and BP among firms giving funds to institutions which have pledged to divest
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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 academiaSecond 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"Cover of the book Science in Resistance
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Fernando Racimo @ferracimo.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
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.
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