Reatching into the Rabbit Hole – Life of a Scientist

In this edition of Reaching into the Rabbit Hole, we explore what it means to work in academia through a series of interactive formats. They make tangible how performance and decision-making pressure, competition and precarious employment conditions shape scientific practice and how these conditions affect the production of knowledge.

Through different interactive formats, we engage with issues such as structural publication pressure, grey areas of scientific practice and decision-making under pressure at different career stages. The evening concludes with a shared future-oriented question: What could a scientific system look like if it truly worked well?

Speaker and expert is Jonathan Pärli, research associate for Modern History at the University of Basel.His research focuses on education, equality and scientific institutions, and he is a co-founder of #StableJobsBetterScience, an initiative advocating for better working conditions in academia.

This is not a lecture, but a collective exercise in thinking together: How are scientific decisions made? Where do structural constraints lie? And how could a different, better academic system be imagined?

The event will be in English.