In an era of mass surveillance capitalism in which companies collect and store massive amounts of personal genomic data, direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic ancestry testing companies reuse and share customer information with a variety of...
Scientific publishing functions less as a service to science and more as a feudal rent extraction system. Publishers act as gatekeepers of recognition and career advancement, while universities and funding bodies reinforce the dynamic by...
To make OIST into an institution that truly values all its workers and serves Okinawa, radical reforms are needed. To achieve them, scientists must dismantle their own positions as a detached elite, earning wider public support and...
The divestment movement must reckon with the financialization of US universities—their subjection to the imperative of growth and reliance on interest-accruing wealth to reproduce themselves. Student-workers at this intersection of the...
What does it mean for researchers to go on strike? What lessons can be drawn from this strike for other unionizing researchers?
Universities promoting Open Science operate in a clear contradiction; they call for global knowledge sharing while funding the destruction of knowledge systems in the Global South.
Now more than ever there is a need to understand science, data, and knowledge as products of historically contingent political and economic interests and arrangements.
It is undeniable that science generally and GW research specifically are shaped by the politics of the society in which they are done. Rather than pretend to exist in a politically neutral space, GW scientists should embrace their part in...
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Since 2014, activists across the United States and in Mexico have rebuilt the organization, which now has about a dozen active local chapters and numerous working groups that bring people in different locations together to work on specific...
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