Dr. Rachel Vaughn

Online Symposium on Food and Microbiome Research center and academic network promoting philosophical thinking on food. Based at University of Milan and established in 2017

If you missed the symposium “Food and Microbiome” with Jane Dryden, Christopher Mayes, and Lisa Heldke, you can catch up here and share!
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www.culinarymind.org/food-microbi...

I (Max) highly recommend this book. The ethnography is beautiful. The methods of an activist/researcher are exceptional. The theories of change are poetic and grounded. The case study is holy shit.

A remarkable ethnography examining toxic exposure caused by engineered wood used in FEMA trailers, accompanied by a pedagogical toolkit designed to support student learning.

Science, Technology, & Human Values STS School

Join @sthv.bsky.social next June for the 2026 STS summer school! Esp for early career researchers, it will include seminars, workshops, and keynotes to advance research/professional careers. Asia-Pacific scholars preferred. (I'll be a keynote instructor!) Apply by Dec 10.

Please circulate widely!

'No Other Land' Contributor Odeh Hadalin Killed in West Bank Settler Attack Odeh Hadalin, a contributor to the Oscar-winning documentary 'No Other Land,' was reportedly killed in an attack by Israeli settlers in the West Bank.

Palestinian activist Odeh Hadalin (a.k.a. Awdah Hathaleen), who was featured in the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, was shot to death in the West Bank on Monday.

Israel Waging “Fastest Starvation Campaign” in Modern History in Gaza: U.N. Special Rapporteur on Food “The world needs to impose wide-scale sanctions against the state of Israel to force it to end the starvation and genocide of civilians.” More than 100 humanitarian organizations are demanding action...

Israel Waging "Fastest Starvation Campaign" in Modern History in Gaza: U.N. Special Rapporteur on Food

My new article, "Twilight Shift," on how the global shipping industry drives thermal inequality, commodity fetishism under climate change, and the debilitating heat exposure experienced by warehouse workers and delivery drivers, out now in Limn!

doi.org/10.70312/JXNH

In this post I compiled a literature review of research about such gendered service disparities. These dynamics contributed to my resignation from a tenured full professorship last week.

kind of gives the game away that they’re doing this cost-cutting slaughter on the basis of number of majors rather than, like, the cost of the programs. makes you think!

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A US judge has finally ordered political prisoner Mahmoud Khalil to be freed today since he hasn’t committed any crime.

BREAKING: A federal judge reversed National Institutes of Health's terminations of hundreds of critical research grants that were canceled because of their alleged connection to disfavored topics, including diversity, equity, inclusion, and gender identity.

This is a major win for public health.

Immigration Resources Last updated: 6.9.25 Immigration Resources 24/7 Emergency Hotline If you or someone you know is in immediate need of support, please contact one of the following 24/7 emergency hotlines: National:...

List of immigration and rapid-response resources from the UCLA Labor Center: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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If you work in women's health, or you're a woman, or you're a doctor to women, please read the new World Economic Forum report, Prescription for Change, which lays out the problem of women's exclusion from research. Impressive suggestions. So much work to do!
www.weforum.org/publications...

Feminism in the Wild In Feminism in the Wild, Ambika Kamath and Melina Packer reveal how scientists studying animal behavior have long projected human norms and values onto anima...

Shipping off a copy of this essential new book to a former student. The postal worker wants to know about it. I give the spiel. Their coworker says, “So I take it you’re not a Trumper.” And there’s never been more cackling at the post office.

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A flyer for the TABLE event "Counting on Nature: How should we value nature in our food systems?" hosted by TABLE and the Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Food on Monday 2 June from 4-5:30pm.

How should we value nature in our food systems?

Join us Monday 2 June from 4-5:30pm at the Oxford Martin School's lecture theatre for the panel discussion "Counting on Nature", co-hosted w/ @oxfutureoffood.bsky.social

Attend online or in-person

Register here: www.tabledebates.org/event/counti...

Hard to think of a more pernicious and enduring myth in American social policy than the distinction between the "deserving" and "undeserving" poor.

Los Angeles Anarchist Book Fair 2025 “If I can't dance to it, it's not my revolution.” - Emma Goldman

Comrades in LA, join us at the Los Angeles Anarchist Book Fair

🗓️May 17-18
🎟https://laabf.wordpress.com/

Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.

"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging."

Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.

I wrote about my decision in TIME.

time.com/7285045/resi...

Naomi Klein | Challenge Inequality

What an honor it was to have @naomiaklein.bsky.social give the Institute's Third Annual Distinguished Lecture in Ideas and Organizing. "Climate justice is not a luxury policy for better days. It is how we fight fascism." View her full lecture here>> challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/naomi-klein/

My Family’s Daily Struggle to Find Food in Gaza In my homeland, where we used to cook and celebrate together, my relatives are eating animal feed to keep from starving.

Mosab Abu Toha’s Commentary on the devastation in Gaza in the @newyorker.com won a @pulitzerprizes.bsky.social as it should be!!!! www.newyorker.com/news/essay/m...

Really enjoyed this conversation with
@xavierbonilla.bsky.social !

Insurgent Ground: Land, Housing, Property | Challenge Inequality Edited by Ananya Roy, Terra Graziani, Annie Powers via UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy

Hot off the press🔥"Insurgent Ground: Land, Housing, Property"📚An edited volume of collective scholarship from Freedom School 2024, which brought together a phenomenal group rooted in movements and engaged in organizing knowledge towards liberation. challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/2025/05/05/i...

American Journal of Human Biology The American Journal of Human Biology publishes reports of original research, theoretical articles and timely reviews, and brief communications in human biology.

Good news: my paper has been named Editor's Choice for the April issue of the American Journal of Human Biology. Also good news, the article is freely downloadable, BUT the bad news is, ONLY FOR TWO MONTHS. So get it while it's hot.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

This is the funnest piece I've ever written. It's a choose-your-own-lab-adventure w/ multiple endings based on contamination training in our lab- based on true stories.
There's also some theory about purity and fragility. ;)
Thanks to editors @jrmdns.bsky.social Fernando Rubio & David Pontille

Mohsen Mahdawi is free, but his federal case still continues. He wasn’t charged with a crime. He is a green card holder and eligible for naturalization. What about Mahmoud Khalil and Rumeysa Ozturk?

Congratulations Miriam! That is fantastic news. May the Prosecco flow in celebration 🎊