With the earlier possible transport available, I made it back to Groningen. In half an hour, I am teaching a lecture on Self-Construals and Identities - mostly covering the work of my advisor. Last night’s talk was a great refresher

For me, this story illustrates that the whisper network is not sufficient. Despite having been in the same field, parts of overlapping social networks, and near enough topically to have corresponded with him several times, the Bloomberg piece is the first I had heard of it!

I couldn't agree more. My own former advisor wasn't aware of it until last summer. I do give him all the whispers whenever we meet. There's also an aspect of "Oh I thought you already knew" feeling. We need to do better.

"We call our readers, reviewers, authors—those who constitute Organization’s epistemic community—to act with us in solidarity with the people of Palestine."

"As researchers, we lack neither analytical tools nor methods to critically examine organized violence (Abdelnour, 2023). What we need is political will and courage."