Dr. Rachel Vaughn
@rachelvaughn.bsky.social
Faculty @ UCLA Institute for Society & Genetics. Writing about waste, food, health & environmental justice. Former post-doc @ UCLA Ctr for Study of Women. Human to Juniper-the-punk-kitten. Professional consumer of cake. Opinions my own
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New essay at @prosocialworld.bsky.social from the always excellent @birdlady.bsky.social ..Ruffs!!! punchline: sex biology is complicated and a little biochemistry can go a long way www.prosocial.world/posts/the-fo...
The Four Sexes
The ruff bird’s three male morphs and one female morph offer a vivid example of why biology resists strict sex binaries.
www.prosocial.world
November 25, 2025 at 10:10 PM
New essay at @prosocialworld.bsky.social from the always excellent @birdlady.bsky.social ..Ruffs!!! punchline: sex biology is complicated and a little biochemistry can go a long way www.prosocial.world/posts/the-fo...
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The crisis of affordability is a crisis of debt. Public goods that should be public and reparative are so costly and expensive that we're going into debt for things that are free in other nations — education, health care, school lunch, expensive rents, even going into debt for our own incarceration.
November 24, 2025 at 2:04 PM
The crisis of affordability is a crisis of debt. Public goods that should be public and reparative are so costly and expensive that we're going into debt for things that are free in other nations — education, health care, school lunch, expensive rents, even going into debt for our own incarceration.
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New Texas petrochemical facilities are mostly in low income areas, communities of color, study finds | Houston Public Media
#GreenLightToPolluteInTexas #NewReport
#GreenLightToPolluteInTexas #NewReport
New Texas petrochemical facilities are mostly in low income areas, communities of color, study finds | Houston Public Media
Researchers evaluated the neighborhoods around 89 proposed or expanding petrochemical facilities across the state using a screening tool from the EPA.
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November 20, 2025 at 2:31 PM
New Texas petrochemical facilities are mostly in low income areas, communities of color, study finds | Houston Public Media
#GreenLightToPolluteInTexas #NewReport
#GreenLightToPolluteInTexas #NewReport
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SNAP is a lifeline for workers in low-wage jobs.
Meanwhile, CEOs are paid 280x as much as the typical worker.
Don’t be angry at workers for using food stamps.
Be angry at the corporations paying them so little that they need them.
Meanwhile, CEOs are paid 280x as much as the typical worker.
Don’t be angry at workers for using food stamps.
Be angry at the corporations paying them so little that they need them.
November 17, 2025 at 8:01 PM
SNAP is a lifeline for workers in low-wage jobs.
Meanwhile, CEOs are paid 280x as much as the typical worker.
Don’t be angry at workers for using food stamps.
Be angry at the corporations paying them so little that they need them.
Meanwhile, CEOs are paid 280x as much as the typical worker.
Don’t be angry at workers for using food stamps.
Be angry at the corporations paying them so little that they need them.
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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...
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www.culinarymind.org/food-microbi...
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
www.culinarymind.org
October 17, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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...
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www.culinarymind.org/food-microbi...
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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.
Among October's many exciting new titles is "Homesick," by Nicholas Shapiro. Check out all of our #newbooks coming out this month on the blog! buff.ly/oH4sMaj
October 1, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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.
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A remarkable ethnography examining toxic exposure caused by engineered wood used in FEMA trailers, accompanied by a pedagogical toolkit designed to support student learning.
Nick’s book “Homesick” comes out in a month! The book asks the question of how shelter became exposure in the US and what we can do about it. www.dukeupress.edu/homesick (discount code: E25SHPRO)
September 5, 2025 at 1:02 AM
A remarkable ethnography examining toxic exposure caused by engineered wood used in FEMA trailers, accompanied by a pedagogical toolkit designed to support student learning.
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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!
Please circulate widely!
Science, Technology, & Human Values STS School
www.sthvschool.org
August 5, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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!
Please circulate widely!
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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.
'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.
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July 29, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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.
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Israel Waging "Fastest Starvation Campaign" in Modern History in Gaza: U.N. Special Rapporteur on Food
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...
www.democracynow.org
July 23, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Israel Waging "Fastest Starvation Campaign" in Modern History in Gaza: U.N. Special Rapporteur on Food
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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
doi.org/10.70312/JXNH
June 28, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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
doi.org/10.70312/JXNH
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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.
July 8, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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.
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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!
So, here it is. Thanks to a new state law that was NEVER DEBATED, Indiana University has committed itself to abolishing majors in African-American/African Diaspora Studies: American Studies; Art History; French; Italian; Religious Studies etc. DOZENS of majors. www.ipm.org/news-section...
Indiana public colleges cut almost 20% of degrees
Public Indiana colleges and universities have eliminated 19 percent of their degree programs to meet requirements added to the state’s budget, according to the Commission for Higher Education.
www.ipm.org
June 30, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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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I am incensed. This is all so heartbreaking and despicable. The Iranian people do not deserve this violence. We do not deserve this governance. The world does not deserve this. These outrages must end.
June 22, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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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.
June 20, 2025 at 7:36 PM
A US judge has finally ordered political prisoner Mahmoud Khalil to be freed today since he hasn’t committed any crime.
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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.
This is a major win for public health.
June 16, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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.
This is a major win for public health.
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List of immigration and rapid-response resources from the UCLA Labor Center: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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:...
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June 10, 2025 at 5:36 PM
List of immigration and rapid-response resources from the UCLA Labor Center: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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A female Western Gull was recorded riding 150km in a garbage truck from San Francisco to a compost facility in Central CA, probably to forage. TWICE. An innovator, an icon, a genius.
This is one of my favorite @waterbirdsociety.bsky.social papers I've ever handled as managing editor #ornithology
This is one of my favorite @waterbirdsociety.bsky.social papers I've ever handled as managing editor #ornithology
June 4, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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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...
www.weforum.org/publications...
May 24, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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...
www.weforum.org/publications...
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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.
mitpress.mit.edu/978026204963...
mitpress.mit.edu/978026204963...
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...
mitpress.mit.edu
May 22, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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.
mitpress.mit.edu/978026204963...
mitpress.mit.edu/978026204963...
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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...
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...
May 22, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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...
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...
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Hard to think of a more pernicious and enduring myth in American social policy than the distinction between the "deserving" and "undeserving" poor.
May 20, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Hard to think of a more pernicious and enduring myth in American social policy than the distinction between the "deserving" and "undeserving" poor.
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Comrades in LA, join us at the Los Angeles Anarchist Book Fair
🗓️May 17-18
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🗓️May 17-18
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Los Angeles Anarchist Book Fair 2025
“If I can't dance to it, it's not my revolution.” - Emma Goldman
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May 15, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Comrades in LA, join us at the Los Angeles Anarchist Book Fair
🗓️May 17-18
🎟https://laabf.wordpress.com/
🗓️May 17-18
🎟https://laabf.wordpress.com/