Dr. Víctor Penchaszadeh played a crucial role in connecting the Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo with scientists such as Mary-Claire King to develop the index of grandparentage and forging the international networks that sustained what would...
The crises of recent years, particularly with the shocks of the pandemic and climate breakdown, have highlighted problems that cannot be solved within existing parameters and exposed the inadequacies of other intellectual alternatives. So...
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 shortcomings of how society currently organizes science are plain to see. The solution is more elusive. To chart our way forward, we must first understand how knowledge is produced under capitalism.
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.
Ending biopiracy requires more than financial redistribution. It requires legal and epistemic justice, i.e., implementing prior informed consent, enforcing traceability for DSI, and ensuring that communities themselves govern access to...
Today, data centers, AI research platforms, and education technologies continue to capture the collective intelligence of researchers, teachers, and students, transforming our cooperation into proprietary infrastructure. AI’s progress is...
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.
The recent and explosive wave of unionization drives demonstrates that the scientific workforce is recognizing its collective power. The strategic advantage of scientific labor—its inherently collaborative and interdependent nature—is...
According to UMaine’s Office of Research Administration, in just the past decade, DoD investment at the university has shot up 700 percent—up from ~$8,200,000 in FY 2017 to nearly $66,000,000 in FY 2025. The University of Maine is an...
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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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