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Absurdist and cruel in equal measures, but important not to lose sight of how this is cultivates a willful ignorance of the larger world that punishes Americans who want to learn things

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School lunch is a major investment in that it is an engine for social reproduction: it is work that fuels our collective ability to have an economy

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Was expecting this to be generally rather than specifically accurate but indeed: so far this effort toward cost “efficiency” has been really expensive thehill.com/opinion/whit...

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My paper "Compounded extraction: An examination of early agro-extractivism in the US Heartland" is out today at EPE: Nature and Space. I argue that the land grants, particularly the railroad and education ones, used the land itself to bootstrap extractivist ag-centered development activities. 1/

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If we won’t collectively feed children because it is a good thing to do, perhaps people can be convinced that it is good for the economy www.indystar.com/story/opinio...

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Our new paper is out: "Integrating power, justice and reflexivity into transformative climate change adaptation". Co-authored with Siri Eriksen, Katharine Vincent, Lisa Schipper et al. it's open access in Global Environmental Change, so please do take a look: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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This particular attack on social reproduction hits our house - we read these books nearly every night. Indiana deems children's imagination a platform unworthy of support

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Today is publication day! I explain how agricultural inputs - which weren't even widely traded market goods 200 years ago - have become giant industries dominated by just a handful of transnational firms today. mitpress.mit.edu/978026255170... Many thanks to those who helped me along the way!

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One of the most profound Jewish teachings is that hate and violence rebound upon the oppressor www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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“Silence is not always neutrality…silence can often be complicity” - great stuff from @stephaniemasta.bsky.social. Universities do not serve the public by being silent and neutral, refusing to apply knowledge to the world

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learn about the Black Panther Party free breakfast program learn about the Zapatista uprising learn about Jane learn about the Kensington Welfare Rights Union learn about STAR learn about Act Up learn about the Battle of Blair Mountain learn about the Spanish Civil War we are not the first

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The world produces more than enough #food to feed everyone. Yet it is shamefully misallocated. BigAg firms make more profit by exporting food for animal feed, biofuels, or ultra-processed foods, than selling it to poor people. 1/3 of all food is simply wasted. ipes-food.org/only-politic...

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Our new paper, based on data from 1,705 studies, shows that pesticides are toxic to organisms they are not intended to harm, including fungi, microbes, plants, insects, & vertebrates such as ourselves. Questions the wisdom of applying over 3 million tonnes of them every year...

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Gaza: geographers analysed a year of satellite images to map the scale of agricultural destruction theconversation.com/gaza-we-anal...

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My 2 cents: Hunger persists because we allow injustice to endure. If we are serious about ending it, we need bold political action, not just scientific breakthroughs. Only political will can end world hunger: Food isn’t scarce, but many people can’t access it theconversation.com/only-politic...

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This is the kind of reasoning possible with a true commitment to defunding the humanities

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WSJ sub: “Indian Partition went smoothly enough, right? Will try to remember to check this before publishing.”

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Proud to be one of the 350 rabbis signing this statement — an ad in the NYT today and a declaration of our values. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... For more—and to sign— go to saynotoethniccleansing.org

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I wish we (democratic societies) had spent way more time with the work of 20th century geographers and anthropologists exploring culture contact, boundaries, conflict, and institutions, and way less time with the rational actor theories of neoclassical economists.

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Neat differentiation of organic agricultures with a great conclusion on the: "need to forefront social and identity-based concerns in alternative food activism if accessing toxin-free food is ever to become a reality not just for consumers, but also for farmers" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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I know we are in an emergency situation, but this Grist article is worth some serious reflection. In a forthcoming paper, I use land grants during white settlement to develop the concept of compounded extraction: using land to bootstrap extractive activities. This is a direct continuation of it.

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Astounded that one picture can contain so many internal contradictions

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Great to think about with respect to Braverman’s deskilling: if mechanization and automation reinforced the subordination of a working class in industrial manufacturing, then this use of AI updates deskilling to contemporary tech

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Very happy to announce the 2025 Wageningen Political Ecology Spring school (7-11 april): Political Ecologies of the Countryside: agrarian roots, environmental transformations and capitalist conflicts Please spread the word or consider joining! www.wur.nl/en/activity/...

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Every professor should join the AAUP right now if you haven't. www.aaup.org Also join your local campus workers union, or any other union relevant to your work (they do different things!). If the government won't protect us, and our administrations won't protect us, we need to protect each other.

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The US funds war crimes and then worries about its return on investment. May they grow like onions, with their heads in the ground and their feet in the air

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seeing takes about the aid institutions and their role in imperialism. correct. If someone said "investor-owned hospitals exploit the vulnerable to benefit shareholders" I'd nod. If their followup was "and that's why I'm turning off your mom's dialysis machine" I'd...have some followup questions

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New from me: how the Dems' lame farm policy left a gaping hole through which the odious RFK Jr has lurched, mashing up dangerous nonsense about vaccines with (some) legit critiques of food and farm policy. www.motherjones.com/food/2025/01...

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Hello out there scientists. If you're having meetings or grants or anything else impacted by freeze of NSF meetings, please feel free to reach out to me to share your story. Signal: thealexknapp.79 Email: [email protected]

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Lyall, A. Ortiz, M. Billo, E. 2025 Greenwashing at Elsevier: A political ecology of corporate publishing. Journal of Political Ecology 32(1): 6276. doi.org/10.2458/jpe.... @pollenetwork.bsky.social @researcheracad.bsky.social @thephdplace.bsky.social Giving one extra reason not to publish there

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