Here's a really awesome video showing how western views of science can stifle researches from learning from #AncestralWisdom. When you dismiss ideas before even taking the time to look into them because you look down on indigenous and ancestral cultures, we can miss important discoveries at worst or delay them at best. Dr. Fatima takes a look at three particular cases and gives some good commentary.

https://youtu.be/eQdTmvqCgxI?si=7t13KZLorWOrpsWd

#science #DecolonizeScience #DrFatima

Today in #DecolonizeScience:

evidence suggests that African peoples were familiar with fossils and what they were/meant well before any white people found a name for their study.

https://www.livescience.com/animals/dinosaurs/dinosaur-finger-bone-from-lesotho-rock-shelter-suggests-africans-discovered-fossils-centuries-before-british-did

We just had the Kick-off meeting for a large EU project on irregular(ized) migration - and the non-EU partners didn't get visa to participate 🙊🙉🙈

#migration
#academicchatter
#decolonization
#decolonizeScience
#Bureaucrazy
#Europe
#visa

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O Bira mais próximo de voltar pra casa. Ainda temos muito chão pela frente, ainda sim isso aqui é uma vitória. Que o Bira volte logo e volte pro CARIRI, e ñ pra algum museu do sudeste, colonialismo interno tmb precisa ser combatido. +
#UbirajaraBelongstoBR #DecolonizeScience https://twitter.com/alinemghilardi/status/1549140686255030273

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/pilgrimcetus_/status/1549147873694162948