Brutkey

Scientist Rebellion Germany
@scientistrebellion_GER@climatejustice.global

𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗦𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗶𝘁

📅 11.10.2025
📍 Berlin
✏️ Sign up: https://blogs.fu-berlin.de/scientistsresponsibilitysummit/
💻 Online participation possible

What is the appropriate stance of scientists and scholars in the polycrisis? Can they still afford to simply do their research and leave the rest up to the other systems of society? The political and economic experience of the last decades strongly suggests otherwise! On this one-day event we want to draw the conclusions from this diagnosis and develop practical pathways for a transformative role of academia.

We want to bring our knowledge of historical dynamics of science and social change, of media systems and economical power, and of the psychology of pro-environmental behavior to their practical consequences for scientists and scholars from all disciplines. What can we demand from individual academics and from academic institutions and what practical and epistemic tools can we make available to them? How can we protect researchers and the scientific process from the attacks by rising authoritarianism?

Historical evidence suggests that it has very often been social movements from outside or between the existing pillars of power that have generated progressive change. How can we exercise our responsibility as scholars and scientists and strengthen the environmental, decolonial, anti-capitalist movement from inside the scientific community? How can we help achieve a better, healthier and more just future for human well-being and for our more-than-human fellows?