*New preprint* The life sciences are becoming the sciences of the dead. Countless papers, reports and conferences, yet we are still barreling through a mass planetary extinction. Why are we failing to activate society? and what can we do instead? doi.org/10.5281/zenodo… 🧵1/n Up to 1 million species are threatened with extermination, and human societies are already feeling the consequences of ecosystems breakdown. We are becoming exceedingly good at recording, modeling and predicting death all around us, & exceedingly bad at preventing more death 2/n

*New preprint*: the dominant academic publishing system is deeply unethical. We all know this to some extent, but how can we transition to better alternatives? 1/n 🧵@GaltierNicolas @ThomasGuillem @benflips @naubertbonn @vdeherde82 @BourguetD doi.org/10.5281/zenodo… We first review what we all know: dominant publishers are driving subscription & open-access fees above levels that can be sustainably maintained by universities and library systems worldwide. Money that the public is told goes into science is being funneled away from it. 2/n

I never thought I'd see the day: I'm an associate professor in Denmark, and I've just been blocked from entering a conference that I paid to attend. Here’s a thread that gets oilier and murkier as you scroll down… 👇🔥⚫️ #dkpol #dkmedier #dkgreen 1/n Some background: as an academic, a climate activist and a concerned citizen, I follow the science on the climate crisis. I read the IPCC reports, follow papers on climate projections and study the progress (or lack thereof) made to avoid ecological breakdown this century. 2/n