In recent years, a revived militant left-wing movement has emerged among adjunct and graduate labor within higher education, organizing around low pay, precarious working conditions, and a deskilling of the profession amidst a decline in...
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Science academia is under tremendous pressure to change. In the past few years, marginalized groups have called for the opening up of academic institutions, especially to make STEM more accessible to a broader palette of students...
Considering how science has been practiced in the preceding four centuries, it was only a matter of time before scientists began using the revered quantitative methodology to measure their own “success.” In 2005, physicist Jorge Hirsch...
As scientists whose labor has a price, and as activists who seek to build a higher form of society (and of science), we have been compelled to reinforce the frontline of class struggle at our own workplaces.
I’m a STEM worker: a graduate student, trainee, fellow, investigator—whatever the job title may be. As someone who works in a lab, I am expected to work through the weekend and past my contracted hours in the week. I like the idea of...
Historian of science Gregg Mitman tells the surprisingly 'American' history of Liberia, revealing the complexity of an imperial and settler-colonial project carried out ostensibly in the name of Black freedom and the scientific...
From copper in Chile, gold in South Africa, to rare earth elements in China, extraction delimits world history and the current geopolitical landscape. Natural resources are not neutral; we must understand who extracts them, where do they...
Why do I keep talking about memories?
Summer falls, and I peel open the scab
I’ve chosen not to open until now.
Oil kills everything—the land, the mangrove,
the water bodies and the creek.
In the Anthropocene era, extractivism has become a core symptom of the planetary disease of late capitalism/imperialism, threatening humanity and the inhabitants of the earth in general.
Antibiotics are extracted from soil microorganisms, whose evolution for millions of years created the molecules that fueled modern medicine. But just like fossil capitalism, expropriation of nature creates an irreparable ecological rift.