Andrew Flachs
@drflachsophone.bsky.social
Associate professor, Purdue Anthropology. Environmental anthropology, ethnobiology, political ecology, food, biotech, fermentation, agriculture. US Midwest, South Asia, Balkans. He/him/his
www.andrewflachs.com
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Andrew Flachs
@drflachsophone.bsky.social
· Jan 24
This delicious book on Bt and Organic cotton in India is now available to anthropologists 10 months and older, open access: uapress.arizona.edu/book/cultiva...
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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.
(Norway's oil fund is about $2 trillion [about $350k per person], built from oil reserves and past production that are about 10x smaller than America's. Which puts the hypothetical US oil fund in a parallel universe at $20 trillion or so, very roughly.)
November 10, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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.
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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...
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...
Colorado voters approve boost to free school meals program | Colorado Newsline
Two ballot measures to fund Colorado's universal school meals program, Propositions LL and MM, led in early results Tuesday night.
coloradonewsline.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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...
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
November 7, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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
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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.
Follow AP for live updates.
Live updates: US voters head to the polls in first general election since Trump's return to power
One year after Donald Trump retook the presidency, 2025 Election Day includes closely watched races for New York City mayor, New Jersey governor and California's Proposition 50.
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November 5, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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.
Follow AP for live updates.
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25 Years of the International Space Station: What archaeology tells us about living and working in space 🧪 🏺 🔭 #SpaceArchaeology
25 Years of the International Space Station: What archaeology tells us about living and working in space
Archaeologists have studied how astronauts use the International Space Station to improve its potential future successors.
theconversation.com
November 3, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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
On Threads, the usual suspects are telling ppl about to lose SNAP benefits to just start a garden. As a gardener, I had to laugh. You need at LEAST an acre of land to feed a family of 4. Start-up costs are enormous. But yes, subsistence farming on the balcony of your rental apartment is the answer
October 24, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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
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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
October 21, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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
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As a Purdue grad, this is what I want to see!
October 18, 2025 at 11:21 PM
As a Purdue grad, this is what I want to see!
And now open access!
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...
doi.org/10.1177/0278...
Ethnobiology and Degrowth: A Review of the Opportunities for Collaboration, Generative Inquiry, and Solidarity in Socio-Ecological Research - Andrew Flachs, 2025
For centuries, global political economic relations have been informed by a model of growth premised on transforming plants, animals, knowledge, labor, water, an...
doi.org
October 14, 2025 at 12:39 PM
And now open access!
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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…
link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…
October 11, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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…
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
September 25, 2025 at 7:42 PM
@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
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Israeli conductor Ilan Volkov has been arrested while protesting near the Israel-Gaza border.
Read more: clssicfm.co/4gx5aPS
Read more: clssicfm.co/4gx5aPS
Israeli conductor arrested while protesting near Gaza border
Ilan Volkov spoke out against the war in Gaza while conducting Brahms’ Symphony No.2 earlier this month.
clssicfm.co
September 22, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Israeli conductor Ilan Volkov has been arrested while protesting near the Israel-Gaza border.
Read more: clssicfm.co/4gx5aPS
Read more: clssicfm.co/4gx5aPS
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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...
September 17, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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...
doi.org/10.1177/0278...
Ethnobiology and Degrowth: A Review of the Opportunities for Collaboration, Generative Inquiry, and Solidarity in Socio-Ecological Research - Andrew Flachs, 2025
For centuries, global political economic relations have been informed by a model of growth premised on transforming plants, animals, knowledge, labor, water, an...
doi.org
September 17, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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...
doi.org/10.1177/0278...
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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.
September 16, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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
Free and open access as always from Ethnobiology Letters
September 12, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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
Free and open access as always from Ethnobiology Letters
Social reproduction, unpaid and keeping us alive as ever
When people say "We used to drink raw milk from our own cow and it was fine,"
That's... usually not the case!
In families w their own cow, the mom usually boiled it before using.
We just forgot bc that's a boring chore that mom did. And who pays attention to that?
youtu.be/vKDPast9WFk
That's... usually not the case!
In families w their own cow, the mom usually boiled it before using.
We just forgot bc that's a boring chore that mom did. And who pays attention to that?
youtu.be/vKDPast9WFk
"Everyone Drank Raw Milk!" No They Didn't
YouTube video by Farm to Taber
youtu.be
September 3, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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...
ojs.ethnobiology.org/index.php/eb...
September 3, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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...
ojs.ethnobiology.org/index.php/eb...
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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
Our statement: ipes-food.org/starvation-a...
#FoodIsNotAWeapon #ProtectGaza
Starvation as genocide - IPES-Food
IPES-Food statement on Gaza. Mass starvation is deliberately being used by Israel as a tool of genocide against the Palestinian people.
ipes-food.org
August 22, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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
Our statement: ipes-food.org/starvation-a...
#FoodIsNotAWeapon #ProtectGaza
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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"?
August 20, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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"?
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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/
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/
Who is an American farmer? Who counts in American agriculture? - Agriculture and Human Values
Agriculture and Human Values - The most recent changes in the US Census of Agriculture (CoA) have caused substantial increases in the number of farmers. At the same time, by including lifestyle and...
link.springer.com
August 19, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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/
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/
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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?
I’m kind of speechless with this one. I can’t imagine the kind of person who continues to make the argument that it doesn’t count as real starvation if the kids were already sick.
August 18, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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
In low-income countries, most people work in farming; in richer countries, they work in services
August 11, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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
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Israel’s killing of five Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza prompts global outrage and calls for accountability.
‘Targeted assassination’: Israel’s killing of Al Jazeera staff condemned
Israel’s killing of five Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza prompts global outrage and calls for accountability.
bit.ly
August 11, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Israel’s killing of five Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza prompts global outrage and calls for accountability.
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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?
August 6, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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?