Great review, and excellent questions to ask if we’re invested in feeding the world as if people, not capital gains, mattered

Anthropology friends going to SfAA and readers more widely, you can preorder my new book (and others from the press) with code AZSFAA26 for 40% off! uapress.arizona.edu/book/feeding...

What does a fair food system actually look like? In this Democracy Does podcast episode, @aroundrobin.bsky.social interviews @drflachsophone.bsky.social (Purdue) about tariffs, farm economics, universal school meals, SNAP cuts, and building resilient food systems. Learn more & listen. ⤵️

Fun conversation with Robin Hill on the Democracy Does Podcast: Why Food Policy is Everyone's Business (www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfbd...). We talk tariffs, solidarity, and better ways to feed the world as if people mattered in anticipation of my forthcoming book

The Epstein files document what many women researchers have long experienced but rarely seen laid bare so starkly: exclusion operating behind closed doors, shaping who gets funded, invited, mentored, and taken seriously. How many of these networks, norms, and gatekeepers remain in place?

“farmers’ in-difference also troubles a more fundamental paradigm of ‘technology adoption,’ which inevitably assumes technologies to be at the center of analysis, rather than the farm, good working conditions …” link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Opportunity for early- and mid-career journalists on the food system beat—and those who aspire to be. Applications open for the 2026 Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future Food System Fellowship is now open. Please apply and/or share! clf.jhsph.edu/about-us/new...

Mapping food apartheid in its intersections of racial discrimination, economic segregation, and market consolidation - terrific layer to emphasize for this established pattern of food injustice

47,900,000 Americans, including one in five children, were food insecure in 2024. That was before restrictions to SNAP and higher food prices. The Trump administration has since ceased publication of these reports. Read the final one, by the dedicated USDA ERS team, here ers.usda.gov/sites/defaul...

Maybe my NYT essay can create common ground: Factory farms should be regulated like factories. Animal poop should be regulated like human poop. We can still fight about other stuff but this should be Big Ag against Everyone Else. nytimes.com/2026/01/20/opinion/manure-population-rivers-water.html

#Poland: A sample of #farmers who diversified, i.e. who sell 15-50% of their products into short food #supplychains (and not only into normal/long food supply chains), have higher perceived #resilience, i.e. higher perceived adaptability & transformability of their farms: doi.org/10.1186/s401...

It's an incredible effort of imagination to see how much better the world might be with less crap in it. The Anthropause, out today, is Stan Cox's wonderous hymn to the joys of less stuff and more connection. Read it! bookshop.org/p/books/anth...

Glyphosate expanded massively with a combination of generics and gmo monocultures - the problem with encouraging one poison instead of many is that you’re still encouraging poison doi.org/10.1111/joac...

Flachs knows about this.

As ever, important to differentiate between GMOs, which are just a handful of commercial crops grown for industrial agricultural systems, not including wheat mentioned here… (www.ers.usda.gov/topics/crops...)

Closing out 2025 with lessons on quiet sustainability from Bosnian home gardeners: productive agrobiodiversity and mutual aid, but frustration with a stymied opportunity. Gardens keep a home that one might return to...someday journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

One thing 2025 made clear: Durable progress on climate in the US will require structural reform to our corrupted political systems. Otherwise, steps forward will always be vulnerable to the bloody clawbacks we saw this year. A political strategy that doesn't center system reform is not "pragmatic."

Great conversation between two people who don’t agree about the solution to a shared problem - no gotchas or barbs, but we see value of deconstructing simple stories of tech and progress, and pushing us past talking points to see ag as political

It is also grossly ironic to use faulty data to cut the statistics program. www.dailynebraskan.com/news/unl-use...

It's over. Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut. www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...

This is key: "Atlanta officials spent years trying to lure major chain grocery stores to neighborhoods that don’t offer residents big supermarkets with fresh, healthy food [but] large private operators have been reluctant to open a store in poorer neighborhoods." Gov't addressing a market failure.

The university released a statement saying that it was “committed to academic freedom, following policies that uphold due process for faculty and provide a framework to best serve our students.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

Imagine a parallel-universe US with a ~$20 trillion public wealth fund, built from the profits that O&G owners/executives/major shareholders took in our universe. Imagine how much better US health care, education, infrastructure, childcare, retirement support, etc. could be. Breaks the brain a bit.

One in 5 kids in the US doesn’t know when their next meal will come. Universal free school meals improve academic performance, dramatically decrease food insecurity, and cut the bureaucracy preventing access to healthier, climate-friendly food. coloradonewsline.com/2025/11/04/c...

Awesome student fun in How we feed the world class: building an industrial farm ecology-economy-society and then repairing the metabolic rift piece by piece - students really excited to design a better world after 2 units of problems

BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students. Follow AP for live updates.

25 Years of the International Space Station: What archaeology tells us about living and working in space 🧪 🏺 🔭 #SpaceArchaeology

Flippantly saying Garden to replace SNAP is a cruel response not only because of these size/skill/work/access issues; but also because places good at fighting hunger like Brazil and India work with networks of farms, gardens, and brokers to feed people through govt programs

And, at the same time as that many graduate programs are being defunded, some states, such as Indiana, are putting pressure on public-university programs to graduate more students or be eliminated. You can't do both of those things. #AcademicSky

As a Purdue grad, this is what I want to see!

And now open access!

This book is titled “Disabling Intelligences” for many reasons. First, because so-called “AI” is built from historical commitments to the excision of disability from the classification of humanity. link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

@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...