@ashattuck.bsky.social giving a great lecture in the horticulture department at Purdue! To know about the risks of the global pesticide complex we first need to have usable data about who sprays what and where it’s made

Israeli conductor Ilan Volkov has been arrested while protesting near the Israel-Gaza border. Read more: clssicfm.co/4gx5aPS

The Andhra Pradesh Community-managed Natural Farming team and the good folk at the Kasisi Agricultural Centre in Zambia have some *very* exciting results from their trials. Can't say much more, but it'll be a gamechanger. events.futureeconomy.forum/natural-farm...

New paper on the intersections of ethnobiology and degrowth: two ways of understanding our place in the world through action-oriented, imaginative research into socioecological relationships. doi.org/10.1177/0278...

We offer these resources as we enter the High Holy Days this year in grief and in outrage. Our movements have grown to greater power than ever, and yet we have not yet had enough power to shut down the US-Israeli war machine waging death, destruction, and famine on Palestinians in Gaza.

Great intersection of ethnobiology, food security, and food sovereignty from Kaminski and colleagues: communities manage political ecological change by combining long-distance and local food systems ojs.ethnobiology.org/index.php/eb... Free and open access as always from Ethnobiology Letters

Social reproduction, unpaid and keeping us alive as ever

Fabulous ethnobiology research from Tassel et al. on ‘Akkoub (Gundelia spp. and Asteraceae) in Palestine, newly out in Ethnobiology Letters ojs.ethnobiology.org/index.php/eb...

The intentional denial of food and water in Gaza is a crime against humanity, a violation of the international human rights to food and water, and a breach of humanitarian law. Our statement: ipes-food.org/starvation-a... #FoodIsNotAWeapon #ProtectGaza

What's the point of a university education if you come out of it not being able to write the first draft of a letter without "AI assistance"?

Here's my open access paper "Who is an American farmer? Who counts in American agriculture?"! I show that using $1,000 sales value as the threshold to be considered a farmer in the Census of Agriculture + increasing the # of operators per farm results in vast overestimates of "farms" & "farmers" 1/

Is Weiss aware, and if she is does she care, that Holocaust Deniers have made *exactly* this same argument about how the death tolls in the camps are inflated?

The assumption here is that this ag produces food and spares land, but in a food regime intent on growing capital, these factory-inspired farms expand monocultures while not providing more food for hungry human consumption

Israel’s killing of five Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza prompts global outrage and calls for accountability.

If anyone is curious about the current list of search terms being used by right wing activist organizations to harass university professors, here's a public records request I received today from Mike Howell of the Heritage Foundation. Not intimidating or meant to curtail by my speech at all, right?

As I detailed in WHITE FLIGHT, segregationists in Atlanta absolutely loved public services -- buses and trolleys, parks and pools, golf courses and tennis courts, etc. -- right until they were forced to desegregate and "stolen" from them. They abandoned them and built up private alternatives.

The @aaup.org report on AI is so hugely important. Among other key takeaways is the fact that most AI programs have been introduced by administrative fiat and by circumventing meaningful faculty, student, & staff consultation. shorturl.at/InI5Q

Some people dismiss ghost-writing as inconsequential. In our latest paper, Sasha Kaurov & I show that is NOT the case. Thanks to @sfoucart.bsky.social @stephanehorel.bsky.social who first alerted me to the #Monsanto Papers and also Paul Thacker. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

“Yet with Neanderthals, I find that almost every win is secretly a loss. That turned out to be the case with hypercarnivory. One thing everyone seemed to agree on: Neanderthals were weird.” johnhawks.substack.com/p/bizarre-fo...

Stop the bombs. Stop targeting aid drops. Allow aid to enter

Thank you to @monachalabi.bsky.social for this powerful graphic, which starkly pictures the severity of the Israeli government’s policy of mass death through forced starvation.

“In May, analysts at Earth Economics, a nonprofit, studied three of Elizabeth’s microforests and found that for each dollar invested, the public will gain on average $10.90 in benefits like air quality and heat reduction.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/c...

Fabulous work by great food scholars - what would it look like to feed the world as if people, environment, and actual food for human consumption mattered?

The white students who are struggling to make ends meet are not struggling because Black and immigrant students got into our university. They are struggling because of a shitty social safety net & high tuition because people like Andreesen don't pay sufficient taxes/the state doesn't pay its share.

The hate is also materialist

🚨Who holds the power in our #foodsystems? A handful of corporations control seeds, supermarkets, farm equipment, soft drinks, & ultimately what ends up on our plates. It's bad for prices, choice, livelihoods, & democracy—write @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social et al. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

These cascade through local cuts, including the aftercare program at our own local public elementary school - if we don’t have a system for our kids, how can we go to work in the first place? Siphoning social reproduction is back with a vengeance

👀 THIS is how BigAg’s fake “food security” narrative fuels #hunger and deprivation while making them rich. Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill”: ✂️cuts food aid for millions, 💸 hands $67B to BigAg to plant corn & soy (for feed & biofuels) ENRICHING BIG AG WILL NEVER FEED THE HUNGRY

This is quite remarkable. So Canada's efforts to eliminate Indigenous languages may have reinforced generations of terrible health outcomes. Talk about structural determinants of health www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

If the purpose of learning is to repeat information accurately at high speed, a computer will always win. We are here to struggle through the quirks. If curiosity is inefficiency then what are humans for?

Hi, BlueSky! Delighted to📣 Decolonizing Environmentalism (bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social) is hitting the virtual book-shelf later this month & the bookstores in the new year. We wrote it esp. for the youth environmental & climate activists. Plz help spread the word. www.bloomsbury.com/us/decoloniz...

there is no safe jewish america without a safe muslim america

Amazing colleagues and brilliant friends at the best conference: society of Ethnobiology

Trump’s chaotic first months back in office have sent America’s farmers into a tailspin. “It would seem like they’re trying to create fewer farms," said one farmer in Maine. The latest from our partners, @thefern.org:

They found it. The antisemitism.

Want a paperback copy of my book for under ten bucks? CODE BLOOM50 baby!!! press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

I can’t believe I have to make this statement but here it is: There are experts who believe in BOTH modern vaccines and medicines AND traditional plant medicine/ natural remedies. And we dont really conjure the media or capture audiences like the extremists do. 👀

🍎 SSN Member & Media Fellow @drflachsophone.bsky.social makes the case for universal free school meals in IndyStar, linking them to student success, local farms & long-term cost savings. He’s now using the piece to engage Indiana lawmakers directly. 🔗 Learn more: scholars.org/features/mem...

By deskilling household surveys, AR4D produces poor social science, devalues field officers and perpetuates colonial hierarchies of knowledge. Ben Eyre and I argue that to challenge this we need alternative repertoires of 'scientific rigor' like 'situated knowledges'. doi.org/10.1177/0030...

Great day to join @aauppurdue.bsky.social

As an anthropologist, if the only thing I ever did all day was remind people that before the privatization and commodification of land humans had way more free time and peace of mind, it would still not do a dent in how deep this myth has burrowed into people's colonized minds like a parasite

NEW on Academe: “It’s time to call out the big lie for what it is: an effort to silence dissent & smear protesters. Pro-Israel advocates have aligned themselves w/ the forces of repression….Cloaking right-wing commitments to racism under the guise of fighting antisemitism will never keep us safe.“

Amazing unessays untangling anthropological theory from great students: an 8 bit choose your adventure applied anthropology game, tapestries, food, films, and more!

Our latest paper engages @gdstone.bsky.social's theory of agricultural deskilling. We introduce the theory of ‘agrarian skilling’ to expand and complement Stone's theory of agricultural knowledge production. Open access at this link: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @drflachsophone.bsky.social

The attached paper unravels some of the claims that #GMO crops lead to input and land-use reductions. Instead, we are using MORE of the land and #pesticides these GE technologies were supposed to curtail. #OrganicFarming shows us healthier ways to feed the 🌎 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Red for Ed and Barbara Dane (aleha hashalom) blasting in the office @aaup.bsky.social @aauppurdue.bsky.social

30 years on, GM crops encounter the Jevons paradox: initial efficiencies in pesticide use have led to massive increases in those pesticides: doi.org/10.1111/joac...

G. Hirsutum hybrid monocultures are particularly poorly suited to these pest and climate conditions, while Desi cotton systems have been under-researched - this would be a major shift toward farming more diversely: doi.org/10.1177/0278...

Chrome’s irony filter is really top notch this morning

Comer hear Dr. Grenz speak about her amazing work, today! DM me for the zoom link details