Posts by Kajsa Hallberg Adu
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Parliament in Senegal adopted a bill on March 11 to double prison sentences to 10 years and criminalise speaking up for LGBT+ rights. The President still hasn’t signed it. Sign now to stop this anti-LGBT+ law: a.allout.org/s/Pa3jX/
End of academia? Line up of speakers at this April 4 Zoom roundtable are scholars who were removed or demoted for their stance on Palestine. Zoom/Registration Link:
zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Sweden's voters are against the deportation policies of the current government and September 2026 is around the corner...
#Val2026 #svpol #migration #ICE
✨Listening to @rutgerbregman.com and the @bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social #Reithlectures I agree we need less ultra rich people, and more of working together for a better world! www.bbc.com/audio/play/m...
✨Starting the year nerding out with researcher colleagues in a #migrationstudies workshop in Oslo organised by @jorgencarling.bsky.social. See colleagues @earth-andrew.bsky.social @stacherandy.bsky.social in photos - how are you beginning your professional year?
New year, new me?
I have decided to dig where I stand in a DEEP YEAR, completing, simplifying and focusing on already started projects (except at work where applying for new grants is a must).
My phone is also moving out of my bedroom and I have thrown away my Fitbit to have less data disturb me!
“We can not continue to have science that is an embassy in your country, Africa needs your sciences in our households!” #ARUA2025
Hon Dr Musenero Monica Masanza, Uganda’s Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation critiques the publish or perish idea.
#ARUA2025
“Yes, it’s the universities’ output, but so is the economy of your country.
We need to address our needs…What must we change?”
Jambo Uganda🇺🇬
Spending the week at the African Research Universities Alliance Biannual Conference with @palmowski.bsky.social and other colleagues discussing how Africa’s transformation can be realized through research and AI. #AfricaEuropeCore
”Sluta döda Gazas barn”
”Stopp killing the children of Gaza” was chanted on the streets of Stockholm today #freepalestine 🍉🍉 (a chant I personally struggle with as I start crying as we have been demanding this for a year but the situation is just getting worse)
Protests filling my timeline 🙏🏽 from #nokings to #freepalestine
So what leader will be the grown up in the room and explain why defense spending isn’t the answer?
”Alternatively, become such a star player that you can simply refuse.” 😅
Good advise in this case:
”Be a little unapproachable, ready to say “no”, and always ask who else has already been tapped for this favour, and whether the person asking you to step up can’t do the task themself. Take a bit too long responding to texts and calls. Be hopeless at PowerPoint.”
Are there any demos planned to highlight this issue? I’d like to attend to draw attention to the colonial and and careless way adoption has been organized in Sweden.
Unique situation in Sweden when our primeminister is highly involved in a sector - #adoption - that has been investigated with a list of serious conclusions.
On top, as this article asks, how can one be pro-adoption but anti-migration?
❤️🙏🏽❤️
Knowledge is insufficient, Waterstone says. How to take action?
The good prof compared popular Happily Ever After (HEA) lit with anthropology titles like ”Progressive Dystopia” and ”Overheating”- will anthropology inspire? Change the world?
Waterstone highlights academia’s (and ultimately our own) ability to self-reflect on opaque language, decolonizing knowledge, omitting important connections, being wrong.
Morning seminar at Swedish Collegium for Advanced Studies with Prof Emerita Alisse Waterstone City University New York on Silencing in Academia - great talk and you can follow online! #academiclife
www.swedishcollegium.se/archives/upc...
Medvind och sol på den stora demonstrationen för Palestina i Stockholm nu.
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Just when you thought it couldn't possibly get any worse.
Useful reminder #freespeech
”Freedom of expression is not merely an abstract principle, or even a constitutional right, but a practical necessity for meaningful advisory work.”
Quote of the year (✨take a breath and let it sink in):
”Populism is antipluralism”
- Göran Sundström, Professor in Political Science @stockholm-uni.bsky.social
#folkochforskning