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pvonhellermannn, 27 days ago to random

Wow, reading all these letters by NYU faculty to the office of the president is quite something. Do read them all. Highlighting one by History Professor Steven Hahn, as it encapsulates everything (in one screenshot).
#Gaza #campusprotests

https://facultyforpalestine.education/statements/faculty-letters-to-the-office-of-the-president-and-the-office-of-the-provost/

pvonhellermannn, 2 months ago to Massachusetts

#ClimateDiary

“In a drastic attempt to protect their beachfront homes, residents in Salisbury, Massachusetts, invested $500,000 in a sand dune to defend against encroaching tides. After being completed last week, the barrier made from 14,000 tons of sand lasted just 72 hours before it was completely washed away”

#massachusetts #CoastalErosion

https://www.thedailybeast.com/dollar500k-dune-designed-to-protect-massachusetts-homes-last-just-3-days

pvonhellermannn, 5 months ago to humanrights

Today is the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights!

Adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 10th December 1948, the declaration was a response to Nazi atrocities and presents the foundational principles for human rights across the world.

Never has it been more important to remind ourselves of their existence and validity.

I invite you to read and share them today! A brief 🧵 1/n

#HumanRights #UDHR #NeverAgain #NieWieder #Gaza
#UN

https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights

pvonhellermannn, 18 days ago (edited 17 days ago) to random

I keep on looking at this map. The Gaza strip itself is already so small , one of the most densely populated parts of the world. And now everyone is supposed to cram into a minute part of this? And we are all supposed to appreciate this“humanitarian zone” - which has itself been repeatedly bombed already, too. #Gaza

pvonhellermannn, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

My discipline, anthropology, is not seen as a “growth" discipline, and departments are being closed down. But the world needs Anthropology and Anthropologists now more than ever!

Here are my 8 reasons for this:

1. POSSIBILITIES
   At a time of polycrisis, when the destructive fallouts of capitalist modernity are ever more apparent, anthropology highlights that there are myriad alternative ways of thinking and living; that there is so much to learn from other peoples in the world. 1/n

pvonhellermannn, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

Malaysia asks for the abolition of the veto of the 5 permanent UN Security Council members, especially in the case of "situations involving mass atrocity crimes such as genocide" . 💯 backibg this. This is crucial. Go #Malaysia! #UN

pvonhellermannn, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to random

#ClimateDiary It just does my head in that the billionaires who are destroying our world are all building bunkers for themselves and yet the rest of the world continues to admire them, bedazzled, distracted by the billionaires social media platforms

https://www.wired.com/story/mark-zuckerberg-inside-hawaii-compound/

pvonhellermannn, 10 months ago to random

#ClimateDiary Saturday morning I was wondering whether people I know in real life even see these kinds of graphs. I decided to find out by sharing it in WhatsApp groups I am in (not all but was quite brave - included colleagues, family, etc) posting it with this message.

Entirely unscientific, badly worded etc, but I am so glad I did! I learned a number of interesting things:

1. In every group, 70-90 % of people had never seen this graph and do not normally see these graphs. 1/x

pvonhellermannn, 20 days ago (edited 19 days ago) to Palestine

BREAKING: super proud and excited to share that our formidable students were not only amongst the first to start a #Palestine #Gaza occupation back in February - the occupation has now been resolved in the following agreement! There will be Palestine scholarships, a review of investments, and more!

Protest works! #Studentprotests

#ProtestWorks 🧵 1/n

https://www.gold.ac.uk/about/responses-statements/g4p/
https://mastodon.green/@pvonhellermannn/111969910024680198

pvonhellermannn, 2 months ago to random

#ClimateDiary Hope you enjoy these beautiful buildings and their stories in Burkina Faso as much as I did. These are the kinds of positive, healing stories I crave, I think we all crave so much at the moment amongst all the cruelty: beauty, simplicity, sustainability, justice, from the Global South. #FrugalAbundance

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/29/we-dont-need-air-con-how-burkina-faso-builds-schools-that-stay-cool-in-40c-heat?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

pvonhellermannn, 9 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to Anthropology

*** We are hiring! ***

We are looking for an experienced researcher to lead "Health, Migration, Climate Change: Human Stories in Complex Systems" - a project inspired by #ClimateDiary and one which I am hoping to build up together with whoever gets this post.

Please share widely and feel free to contact me with any questions

Deadline: 7th Sep

#Anthropology #Ethnography #PlanetaryHealth #ClimateMigration #ClimateCrisis @academicchatter @RadicalAnthro @AnnaAnthro

https://jobs.gold.ac.uk/vacancy/university-research-leader-health-migration-climate-change-533900.html

pvonhellermannn, 3 months ago to random

Really lovely how #censorship has been thriving in German institutions these last few months. Countless academics, writers and artists who have expressed solidarity with Palestine or dared to criticise Israel have had their contracts and engagements cancelled or withdrew themselves when asked to retract statements.

I hope one day there will be some realisation that this was deeply, deeply the wrong moral high horse to sit on.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/feb/01/laurie-anderson-ends-german-professorship-pro-palestine-letter

pvonhellermannn, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to climate

Our paper “No Research on a Dead Planet” is out today! Aaron Thierry is very much the lead author, but it’s been great working on this together with AT, Laura Horn and Charlie Gardner. Why do #Universities, #ClimateEmergency declarations and all, still largely continue with #BusinessAsUsual? For us it’s about #CognitiveDissonance as well as the structures of neoliberal #HE. HE needs to change & lead on true #ClimateAction. Open access
@ScientistRebellion

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feduc.2023.1237076

pvonhellermannn, 6 months ago to random

#ClimateDiary I am meeting more and more people who have decided not to have children for environmental reasons. Admirable, understandable, complex in each case, but also sad that this is now a wider, recognised phenomenon

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/09/more-people-not-having-children-due-to-climate-breakdown-fears-finds-research?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

pvonhellermannn, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

How can it be that the killing of white aid workers is now seen as a “turning point”? That newspapers are NOW saying “Enough” ? Like, it was all ok up to now - killing 40,000 people, systematic starvation, destroying virtually the whole of Gaza - but now it’s “Enough”? All of this so problematic.

But yes, of course I too hope that this is a turning point; that Western support for Israel’s war is waning. #Gaza

pvonhellermannn, 1 month ago to UKpolitics

#ClimateDiary Rapidly reaching the surreal stage

Farmers who have their entire cropping land submerged underwater have found they are ineligible for a government flooding hardship fund – because their farms are too far from a major river. #Floods #ukpolitics #farming

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/11/flooded-farms-england-ineligible-compensation-distance-from-rivers

pvonhellermannn, 7 months ago to random

#ClimateDiary There is so much other terrible stuff going on in the world right now, but this too is really scary.

“Every seed company is facing these problems, but they probably wouldn’t want to tell you that,”

#SeasonChaos #Michigan #Seeds

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/16/seed-farmers-climate-change?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

pvonhellermannn, 7 days ago to random

Sums up everything #Gaza #AI #ChatGPT #Racism

pvonhellermannn, 1 month ago to random

A little-discussed detail in the Lavender AI article is that Israel is killing people based on being in the same Whatsapp group [as a suspected militant.

https://blog.paulbiggar.com/meta-and-lavender/

pvonhellermannn, 22 days ago to random

Meanwhile things continue to get worse and worse in #Gaza

Water is in desperately short supply, not just for drinking but sanitation. In Rafah there is approximately one toilet for every 850 people. The situation is four times worse for showers. That is, around one shower for every 3,500 people.

A military offensive in Rafah will be catastrophic because it is a city of children – some 600,000 of them.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/may/01/rafah-graveyards-children-european-hospital-injured-dying

pvonhellermannn, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to Palestine

Excellent piece on the British roots of the conflict in #Palestine and the impact of colonial “divide and rule” strategies here and elsewhere:

“In British India, they pushed the Hindu-Muslim divide, sometimes favoring one population, sometimes the other. In Cyprus, they pitted the Greeks against the Turks. In Sri Lanka, it was the Tamils against the Sinhalese. In Ireland, it was the Catholics against the Protestants. The list goes on.“

#Israel #Gaza #Colonialism

https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/10/20/the-british-roots-of-the-conflict-in-palestine/

pvonhellermannn, 4 months ago to random

👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏
The president of Namibia, Hage Geingob, taking a strong, fantastic lead in speaking out against "Germany's inability to learn from its horrific history".

Full text of the Namibian statement below.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-67974067

pvonhellermannn, 24 days ago to random

Great news: UK university divests from Israel-linked arms companies following pressure

“The University of York has been forced to divest from weapons and arms manufacturers tied to Israel after a series of protests from a student-led coalition.”

Protest works!

#Gaza #Divest #studentprotests #campusprotests

https://www.newarab.com/news/uk-university-divests-israel-linked-arms-companies

pvonhellermannn, 27 days ago to random

“We later found out that Hamas had offered on October 9 or 10 to release all the civilian hostages in exchange for the IDF not entering the Strip, but the government rejected the offer.”

It is unbearable to think what the remaining hostages and their families have been going through all this time. Netanyahu does not care about the hostages. Just as he does not care about people in #Gaza.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/no-doubt-netanyahu-preventing-hostage-deal-charges-ex-spokesman-of-families-forum/

pvonhellermannn, 5 months ago to random

Half thinking of starting an #AcademicVenting hashtag here, about the dire, dire state of UK (global?) higher education. Sharing nuggets of senior management decisions, neoliberal language, and overall slow collapse.

Won’t work of course because most of us can’t risk honesty, but honestly: the everyday reality of what is happening deserves recording in all its depressing and damning detail. #Universities #AcademicChatter #neoliberalism