Nikolaj Kornbech
@nikolajkornbech.bsky.social
PhD Fellow at Roskilde University. Capitalist science, capitalist nature and nature in capitalism. Interests in geoengineering, carbon removal and industrial agriculture. He/him.
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Open letter for a Global University - from Roskilde University Staff to the Roskilde University Board of Directors and Rectorate
To sign, please fill out the form below the letter.
Current signatories.
17 September 2025
We strongly condemn the statement issued today by Dea Forchhammer, Acting Chair of the Board of Directors ...
forms.gle
My university has shockingly proclaimed that it "should be primarily for students from Zealand and Denmark, not for Bangladesh or elsewhere". Colleagues, please support us in this difficult time by signing the staff's open letter to the Board of Directors and Rectorate: forms.gle/Z4U6Z6qDePHm...
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Sharing the video of this because it’s such a ghoulish thing to say that I’m honestly in disbelief that I even heard her properly
November 19, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Sharing the video of this because it’s such a ghoulish thing to say that I’m honestly in disbelief that I even heard her properly
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Every "population crisis" article in western media is just "WHERE ARE THE WHITE BABIES" in disguise and we absolutely do not have to give any credence to any of them
November 13, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Every "population crisis" article in western media is just "WHERE ARE THE WHITE BABIES" in disguise and we absolutely do not have to give any credence to any of them
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Danmark er blevet storeksportør af sprøjtegifte, som er ulovlige i DK og resten af EU.
Med en aktindsigt afslører vi for første gang omfanget af eksporten: Sidste år var der planlagte eksporter af 2.650 tons forbudte sprøjtegifte - EU's ottende største eksportør.
ekstrabladet.dk/nyheder/poli...
Med en aktindsigt afslører vi for første gang omfanget af eksporten: Sidste år var der planlagte eksporter af 2.650 tons forbudte sprøjtegifte - EU's ottende største eksportør.
ekstrabladet.dk/nyheder/poli...
Danmark eksporterer tusindvis af ton EU-forbudt sprøjtegift
Læs mere her
ekstrabladet.dk
November 8, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Danmark er blevet storeksportør af sprøjtegifte, som er ulovlige i DK og resten af EU.
Med en aktindsigt afslører vi for første gang omfanget af eksporten: Sidste år var der planlagte eksporter af 2.650 tons forbudte sprøjtegifte - EU's ottende største eksportør.
ekstrabladet.dk/nyheder/poli...
Med en aktindsigt afslører vi for første gang omfanget af eksporten: Sidste år var der planlagte eksporter af 2.650 tons forbudte sprøjtegifte - EU's ottende største eksportør.
ekstrabladet.dk/nyheder/poli...
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“My friends, the world is changing. It's not a question of whether that change will come. It's a question of who will change it.” @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
People are choosing real alternatives instead of continuity. Mamdani stands for an antifascist economics in the name of the many. 🧵
People are choosing real alternatives instead of continuity. Mamdani stands for an antifascist economics in the name of the many. 🧵
November 6, 2025 at 2:23 PM
“My friends, the world is changing. It's not a question of whether that change will come. It's a question of who will change it.” @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
People are choosing real alternatives instead of continuity. Mamdani stands for an antifascist economics in the name of the many. 🧵
People are choosing real alternatives instead of continuity. Mamdani stands for an antifascist economics in the name of the many. 🧵
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Now that election season is over, Norway again shows its true imperial face: Ethical guidelines for the Sovereign Wealth Fund to be loosened because of fear that they'll *actually* safeguard against investment in genocide.
www.ft.com/content/12a5...
www.ft.com/content/12a5...
Norway suspends $2.1tn oil fund’s ethics rules to avoid selling Big Tech stakes
Jens Stoltenberg says move will avoid forced sale of shares in Amazon, Microsoft and Alphabet over their work for Israel
www.ft.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Now that election season is over, Norway again shows its true imperial face: Ethical guidelines for the Sovereign Wealth Fund to be loosened because of fear that they'll *actually* safeguard against investment in genocide.
www.ft.com/content/12a5...
www.ft.com/content/12a5...
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As an alumni of Syracuse University, it's appalling that they are capitulating against a right-wing campaign against Professor Farhana Sultana for exercising her first amendment rights. Do consider signing this letter calling on Syracuse University to reinstate her docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Letter of Support for Professor Farhana Sultana
As scholars within and beyond academia, we write in solidarity with academic freedom of expression with our colleague, Dr. Farhana Sultana, an internationally recognized scholar and tenured Full Profe...
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October 29, 2025 at 9:08 PM
As an alumni of Syracuse University, it's appalling that they are capitulating against a right-wing campaign against Professor Farhana Sultana for exercising her first amendment rights. Do consider signing this letter calling on Syracuse University to reinstate her docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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This will be a long thread on yesterday police massacre in Rio.
In nothern Rio de Janeiro city, there is a couple of hills called Complexo da Penha. It's Comando Vermelho("Red Command", a drug gang), or CV, territory.
CV is the greatest gang in Rio, second in the whole Brazil.
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In nothern Rio de Janeiro city, there is a couple of hills called Complexo da Penha. It's Comando Vermelho("Red Command", a drug gang), or CV, territory.
CV is the greatest gang in Rio, second in the whole Brazil.
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🧵 Awful awful massacre in Brazil
Gente, é o maior massacre no Brasil desde o Araguaia. Entendo quem quer puxar pra Canudos ou Contestado ou etc, mas não podemos livrar a ditadura de 64 só porque ela escondia melhor seus corpos.
Morreram 41 guerrilheiros comunistas e mais de 1200 camponeses no Araguaia.
Morreram 41 guerrilheiros comunistas e mais de 1200 camponeses no Araguaia.
October 29, 2025 at 11:52 PM
This will be a long thread on yesterday police massacre in Rio.
In nothern Rio de Janeiro city, there is a couple of hills called Complexo da Penha. It's Comando Vermelho("Red Command", a drug gang), or CV, territory.
CV is the greatest gang in Rio, second in the whole Brazil.
+
In nothern Rio de Janeiro city, there is a couple of hills called Complexo da Penha. It's Comando Vermelho("Red Command", a drug gang), or CV, territory.
CV is the greatest gang in Rio, second in the whole Brazil.
+
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I can think of at least seven ways fossil fuel producers could wiggle out of this, but still: holy shit this is huge.
October 28, 2025 at 11:17 AM
I can think of at least seven ways fossil fuel producers could wiggle out of this, but still: holy shit this is huge.
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Eurocentrism - the Acemoglu version
October 22, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Eurocentrism - the Acemoglu version
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A first look at tomorrow's front page of The National 📰
How genocide happened
How genocide happened
October 12, 2025 at 8:00 PM
A first look at tomorrow's front page of The National 📰
How genocide happened
How genocide happened
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Four photos from the Cor Vos agency. This first one is Joop Zoetemelk doing some motor-pacing in a time when road safety and childcare was a bit different...
October 1, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Four photos from the Cor Vos agency. This first one is Joop Zoetemelk doing some motor-pacing in a time when road safety and childcare was a bit different...
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One confusing thing about the liberal media is that it's extremely right-wing
September 18, 2025 at 3:34 AM
One confusing thing about the liberal media is that it's extremely right-wing
My university has shockingly proclaimed that it "should be primarily for students from Zealand and Denmark, not for Bangladesh or elsewhere". Colleagues, please support us in this difficult time by signing the staff's open letter to the Board of Directors and Rectorate: forms.gle/Z4U6Z6qDePHm...
Open letter for a Global University - from Roskilde University Staff to the Roskilde University Board of Directors and Rectorate
To sign, please fill out the form below the letter.
Current signatories.
17 September 2025
We strongly condemn the statement issued today by Dea Forchhammer, Acting Chair of the Board of Directors ...
forms.gle
September 18, 2025 at 12:45 PM
My university has shockingly proclaimed that it "should be primarily for students from Zealand and Denmark, not for Bangladesh or elsewhere". Colleagues, please support us in this difficult time by signing the staff's open letter to the Board of Directors and Rectorate: forms.gle/Z4U6Z6qDePHm...
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Hostility towards #academia and #immigrants is widespread. #Denmark is no exception. Under political and media pressure, earlier this week @roskildeuni.bsky.social decided overnight to close its Master's degree in Business Administration and Leadership (BAL) from 2026.
🧶 1/20
🧶 1/20
September 17, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Hostility towards #academia and #immigrants is widespread. #Denmark is no exception. Under political and media pressure, earlier this week @roskildeuni.bsky.social decided overnight to close its Master's degree in Business Administration and Leadership (BAL) from 2026.
🧶 1/20
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No diga comunicado, diga tunda.
September 16, 2025 at 7:05 AM
No diga comunicado, diga tunda.
Just a major sports publication manipulating a leading cyclist's (Jonas Vingegaard) quote to obscure his sympathy with protests against Israel. Cowardice in the face of genocide
At least it’s not velo leaving out the important bits holy shit
September 8, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Just a major sports publication manipulating a leading cyclist's (Jonas Vingegaard) quote to obscure his sympathy with protests against Israel. Cowardice in the face of genocide
For Danish-speakers, I have co-written an op-ed in @politiken.dk about Israels ecocide in Gaza and the necessity of thinking rising militarialism, imperialism and ecological crisis together. politiken.dk/del/Rg8Jg_AE...
Forskere:Israel slår ikke kun ihjel med bomber og sult, men gennem systematisk ødelæggelse af Gazas natur og miljø
Vi har en tendens til at tænke på krig og miljø som to adskilte problemer. Men krigen i Mellemøsten og de igangværende økologiske kriser deler en række af de samme underliggende strukturer.
politiken.dk
August 29, 2025 at 8:54 AM
For Danish-speakers, I have co-written an op-ed in @politiken.dk about Israels ecocide in Gaza and the necessity of thinking rising militarialism, imperialism and ecological crisis together. politiken.dk/del/Rg8Jg_AE...
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If you ask such a system to explain a previous 'decision' it won't explain its process, it will generate words that read as a statically plausible sentence(s) which describe that sort of process.
August 11, 2025 at 5:59 PM
If you ask such a system to explain a previous 'decision' it won't explain its process, it will generate words that read as a statically plausible sentence(s) which describe that sort of process.
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Great piece on LLMs codepoetics.substack.com/p/the-tain-o...
The Tain of the Mirror
What is a Large Language Model, for us?
codepoetics.substack.com
July 12, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Great piece on LLMs codepoetics.substack.com/p/the-tain-o...
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🔥 Thrilled to host the 3rd Annual Socio-Economic Research Networking Day @roskildeuni.bsky.social —with 20+ brilliant minds and 12 sharp presenters from across Scandinavia 🇩🇰🇸🇪🇳🇴 from #Economics, #Sociology, #Anthropology, #Political #Ecology & #Development #Studies.
💡Join us next year at RUC!
💡Join us next year at RUC!
May 28, 2025 at 1:59 PM
🔥 Thrilled to host the 3rd Annual Socio-Economic Research Networking Day @roskildeuni.bsky.social —with 20+ brilliant minds and 12 sharp presenters from across Scandinavia 🇩🇰🇸🇪🇳🇴 from #Economics, #Sociology, #Anthropology, #Political #Ecology & #Development #Studies.
💡Join us next year at RUC!
💡Join us next year at RUC!
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So I wrote about why I declined my Fulbright grant and canceled my research stay at NYU.
Free Khalil, free all political prisoners, free Palestine 🇵🇸
politiken.dk/del/mN-u9dAE...
Free Khalil, free all political prisoners, free Palestine 🇵🇸
politiken.dk/del/mN-u9dAE...
Dansk forsker: Forskningsopholdet ville fremme min forskning og karriere. Alligevel takker jeg nej til Trumps USA
Som hvid mand med papirerne i orden er risikoen ved indrejse til USA begrænset for mig. Alligevel tager jeg ikke imod legatet til et forskningsophold i landet.
politiken.dk
May 20, 2025 at 8:43 AM
So I wrote about why I declined my Fulbright grant and canceled my research stay at NYU.
Free Khalil, free all political prisoners, free Palestine 🇵🇸
politiken.dk/del/mN-u9dAE...
Free Khalil, free all political prisoners, free Palestine 🇵🇸
politiken.dk/del/mN-u9dAE...
Blatant attack on freedom on speech in Denmark - the Parliament forbids schoolchildren (!!) and youth party activists from discussing Palestine in schools. 'Orwellian' is usually hyperbole, but it applies straightforwardly here. Shame on Danish politicians politiken.dk/danmark/poli...
Folkeskoleelever får forbud mod at debattere Palæstina
Flere ungdomspartier står uforstående tilbage, efter at Folketingets Præsidium helt ekstraordinært har besluttet, at de ikke får lov at gå til valg på at debattere Palæstina til næste års skolevalg.
politiken.dk
May 16, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Blatant attack on freedom on speech in Denmark - the Parliament forbids schoolchildren (!!) and youth party activists from discussing Palestine in schools. 'Orwellian' is usually hyperbole, but it applies straightforwardly here. Shame on Danish politicians politiken.dk/danmark/poli...
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2/2 As a reminder, the abstract of the workshop is: Why is it that certain forms of environmental knowledge are held in higher regard than others? How can this be reconciled? How can both forms of knowledge be treated on equal par? In other words, how can decision-making processes be democratised?
May 15, 2025 at 10:21 AM
2/2 As a reminder, the abstract of the workshop is: Why is it that certain forms of environmental knowledge are held in higher regard than others? How can this be reconciled? How can both forms of knowledge be treated on equal par? In other words, how can decision-making processes be democratised?