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sarahkbowen.bsky.social
Sociologist at NC State who studies food and food systems. I wrote a book about tequila, and another one about cooking. Now writing a book about food insecurity.
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#HeadsUpNC: #NC has long had high infant mortality, and rate doubled between '19 and '21; nine rural counties have eliminated labor and delivery services entirely; these and more powerful findings on women's "health deserts" from Carolina Public Press #NCPol carolinapublicpress.org/69149/labor-...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away. They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.

submitted 3 days ago • 617 comments

This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH

submitted 5 days ago • 749 comments

One columnist, a professional pundit, is living in a paranoid delusion. The other, a sociologist, is living in America.

submitted 5 days ago • 365 comments

New Yorkers: Call Sen. Gillibrand’s office to vote NO on cloture and NO on the Republican Spending Bill. They vote in the morning. ☎️: (202) 224-4451

submitted 6 days ago • 1083 comments

Trump tells US farmers to grow for the home market Then he cancels local food purchase programs He says he 'loves farmers' but this latest move only benefits giant food corporations www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

We need some better language for pushing back against what the administration is doing. They’re not “ending DEI.” No. They're firing women and people of color in the military. They’re forbidding whole fields of research. They’re erasing trans people from existence.

submitted 12 days ago • 66 comments

Oh my. Each graf worse than the one before www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/u...

submitted 13 days ago • 74 comments

I'm doing a deep dive into the history of the food stamp program today. I found this little tidbit: Kennedy's FIRST executive order was the pilot food stamp program (which led to the program we have today, which feeds 1 in 8 Americans.

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

This is a loudly blown whistle.

submitted 17 days ago • 29 comments

Every single philanthropic institution needs to do this rather than retracting right now. abcnews-go-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/abcnews....

submitted 21 days ago • 41 comments

Eff this ahole. Most people on SNAP have jobs. www.cbpp.org/research/foo...

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

So - I've actually led Ebola outbreak response at USAID. This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC. What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.

submitted 21 days ago • 479 comments

Remember way back in the beginning of the 2020s when the U.S. federal government provided free breakfast and lunch to children at public schools across the entire country from sea to shining sea for like two whole years?

submitted 25 days ago • 5 comments

They've fired nearly all of their staff. The court rulings are meaningless if DOGE has demolished the administrative state.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

While I’d love this to be true, for those of us on the ground, the freeze on federal funding continues. He’s continuing to violate court orders. And the purging of agencies means they won’t be actually able to implement the spending Congress authorizes.

submitted 23 days ago • 3 comments

I wish more people knew about the 1920s Klan because they—perhaps more than European fascists—are the model for Trumpism. This is a good summary and a nice reminder that they do a lot of damage, but in the end, fascists always lose.

submitted 24 days ago • 95 comments

I was thrilled to give the keynote at a conference on geographical indications at the FAO this week. There are 400+ people from 54 countries here. Truly a professional highlight. And surreal to have these conversations and realize the US is just out of them now— not a reliable partner in any way.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

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!

submitted 30 days ago • 20 comments

Basically we are looking at a pandemic/Great Recession sized disaster heading toward higher ed in the US, for no other reason than the fact that the Republican Party is in a culture war with academics.

submitted 33 days ago • 27 comments

FANTASTIC ICPSR at U Mich is coordinating the archiving of at-risk federal data (all of it?) You can upload data you have & search for data you don’t have www.datalumos.org/datalumos/

submitted 34 days ago • 9 comments

This really is an extraordinary thread about how a community worked together to deal with the devastation of the Eaton Fire, and it actually gave me hope for the country because it reminds me what people are capable of when organized and motivated and caring. Stunning. avesoncommunity.org

submitted 39 days ago • 2 comments

I expect DOE, NSF, and others to follow NIH’s lead. This is a disaster for university finances. Even if you think the current system is imperfect, abruptly cutting off hundreds of millions of dollars annually flowing into a university’s budget is going to cause utter chaos.

submitted 40 days ago • 3 comments

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

submitted 44 days ago • 1327 comments

Update: I am glad to hear this. I will delete my earlier post.

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

Over lifetime, each additional year of union membership reduces the odds of mortality by 1.5%. Effects primarily occur between ages of 41 and 67. Nice work @tvanheuvelen.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

submitted 99 days ago • 9 comments

Nearly four years to the day, and in light of the Nobel letter re: RFK Jr, this op-ed that @sarahkbowen.bsky.social and I wrote about Trump and Nobel laureates is relevant again. “Elites” shouldn’t have opinions on stuff, just conspiracy theorists and billionaires. www.nytimes.com/2017/12/20/o...

submitted 100 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 112 days ago • 0 comments

This is terrible NCAN devotes itself to making college accessible It is a big, big deal for them to recommend that filing the FAFSA is too dangerous for some families

submitted 114 days ago • 6 comments

New feed just dropped! A place to find or discuss social science funding opportunities. Aggregates posts that include #FundSocSci. If you see opportunities to share, post with #FundSocSci. Pin feed to browse. Envisioned by & co-moderated @judychevalier.bsky.social. bsky.app/profile/did:...

submitted 116 days ago • 0 comments

And the Republican governor lost the next election because of it! Terrible to see this.

submitted 119 days ago • 1 comment

This is our second coffee tour of the week in Colombia, and I am definitely committing to never buying cheap coffee again. When you see everything that goes into it, it should be double or triple the price!

submitted 122 days ago • 1 comment

Huh. I’m a cruncher. We’ve been traveling for a year, and now I’m trying to categorize the food from all the countries we visited. I loved Vietnamese food, and there is a lot of crunch (especially relative to its neighbors?). But I also loved Georgian food, which veers a bit toward smoosh.

submitted 124 days ago • 0 comments

“Don't eat anything your grandparents wouldn't recognize as food” The grandparents:

submitted 124 days ago • 6 comments

genuinely immaculate work all the way through

submitted 125 days ago • 11 comments