Thanks Aaron! Hope you enjoy it. There are several citations peppered throughout the book to your (super valuable) work!

To learn more about the many fossil ties running within university hallways, and how students, academics and civil society groups are organizing and fighting back, check out my new book Science in Resistance: www.ucpress.edu/books/scienc... n/n

Many students and academics have risen in resistance in Uganda and Tanzania against the EACOP pipeline, many suffering violence & arrest in prisons where cholera is widespread. 10/n

But students & academics are fighting back. Erasmus was host to a climate occupation back in 2023: management responded by calling for the arrest of their own students. 9/n

Ayo Fola is a Nigerian academic I interviewed, witnessing similar university donations to cover up Shell's pollution in the Niger delta. As he says: "They are taking advantage of poverty. They use money to close people's eyes." 8/n

Total sponsors PhD programs in Makerere University in Uganda, even as it builds the EACOP pipeline on that same territory, destroying people's livelihoods and ecosystems at a massive scale, to be able to daily pump as much oil out of the continent as Finland consumes in a day. 7/n

These are not isolated cases. In 2022 alone, oil & gas companies funneled over 40 million pounds to UK universities in what has been termed a "colonization of academia". www.theguardian.com/environment/... Still, oil companies are practicing the old-fashioned form of resource colonization too... 6/n

And in the University of Cambridge, generous donations from oil corporations have resulted in a "BP professorship", a "Shell professorship" and a local branch of the Schlumberger company, all while claiming to be a "green university" 5/n

Another example is Erasmus University Rotterdam, which secretly received hundreds of thousands of dollars for oil giant Shell to have a say in its curriculum, as well as power to decide who could be allowed in the university, and featured spots in campus career fairs. 4/n

A classic example of this is the Danish Technical University, which has signed several multi-million kroner contracts with oil company Total, to build research centers to extract and burn more fossil fuels, like the DTU Center for Oil and Gas, recently rebranded to DTU Offshore: offshore.dtu.dk 3/n

In Chapter 6 of the book, I explore how extractive industries have infiltrated academia, to influence curricula and research agendas, and greenwash their own image. 2/n