How the lived experience of farmworkers shaped the Fair Food Program Christian Science Monitor on the Coalition of Immokalee Workers: In many ways, the coalition was built to change a culture of privilege: no singular leader, no hierarchy of moral authority, no person ...

ciw-online.org/blog/2026/04...

Read about how the CIW's internal, democratic structure has helped it to remain resilient throughout the years, and how farmworkers managed to forge the @fairfoodprogram.bsky.social to safeguard their rights based on their own experiences in the fields.

Students at Yale University are turning up the heat on their administration to ensure that the food served at their historic university meets the highest human rights standards in the agricultural industry by joining the Fair Food Program!

Read More: ciw-online.org/blog/2026/04...

Goodbye Anthropology and Archaeology at NSF. If Congress accepts this. So call FFS.

10 Art Books for Your Spring Reading List Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s first catalog in 25 years, Molly Crabapple chronicles the Jewish Bund, a photographer captures a Black Southern waterway, and more

Thank you, @hyperallergic.com!

"Photographer Virginia Richards swam in these haunted canals, spoke with descendants of the communities around them, and came back with a body of work composed of fragments of personal histories alongside 60 remarkable photos."

Are lost ancient civilizations real? YouTube video by Doha Debates

BIG NEWS: In September last year, I was invited to Buenos Aires, Argentina for a debate hosted by the Doha Debates (Al Jazeera) to discuss if lost civilizations are real. I was with @flintdibble.bsky.social Dr Ed Barnhart, and Dr Eduardo Neves. It's a banger, please share
youtu.be/vs6iFDo3YSY?...

Satellite image of a series of agricultural ridge/earthwork features, with the remains of a canal channel running between them.

Did enslaved people build the monumental agricultural earthworks of Early Islamic Iraq?

#Archaeology sheds light on the impact of the Zanj rebellion, Mongol invasion, plague and climate change on the Iraqi landscape.

🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

#NationalAgricultureWeek 🏺

Machu Picchu with text overlaid reading 'South American Archaeology: Antiquity'.

Check out our South American Archaeology collection, with FREE and #OpenAccess #archaeology such as:

⛰️ A new interpretation of an iconic Andean monument
🦙 Hunting traps in the Chilean highlands
🗺️ The expansion of the pre-Inca Tiwanaku state

& more! 🏺
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The Limits of Revolution The role of Bolivian mining families in revolution and politics. In 1952, Bolivia’s Revolutionary Nationalist Movement (MNR) swept into power, promising co...

You can buy it here: utpress.utexas.edu/9781477333297/ Please consider assigning this book for your classes and asking your library to order a copy. I would also be delighted to come give a talk at your institution if you think it might be appropriate!

A small crop of a work-in-progress digital painting. The crop shows a puppy, maybe a wolf, maybe a dog, standing and facing the viewer. Their head is lowered to the ground, sniffing a dirt surface. They are a mix of light and dark browns with some cream on their legs and nose.

Current WIP. Wolf pup or dog pup? Stay tuned…
#SciArt #Archaeology

Aerial view of pre-Contact agricultural fields in the Bolivian Amazon.

Here's a link to a podcast episode from my friends at Pieces of History podcast. I had a great time talking with Colum McGrath about the Llanos de Moxos and all of the great research that is going on there.

Spotify - open.spotify.com/episode/0YXX....
iTunes - podcasts.apple.com/.../engineer....

Preventable atrocities uncovered in India’s sugar industry underscore urgent need for WSR Indian Sugar Workers Association (ISWA) release: To remedy – and ultimately prevent – this outrageous exploitation, ISWA urgently calls on the global brands that purchase Indian sugar to engage with w...

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Indian Sugar Workers Association (ISWA) release: “To remedy – and ultimately prevent – this outrageous exploitation, ISWA urgently calls on the global brands that purchase Indian sugar to engage with workers and collaborate..."

Editorial: New College is far from a success story A recent New York Times story painted a rosy picture at Florida’s New College in the wake of its hard-right turn. It left out a lot of details.

www.orlandosentinel.com/2026/01/07/t...

Here's a story from the Orlando Sentinel that makes some good points about higher education in Florida.

The 27th of December... “I think Dad got too many books for christmas this year.” Says a daughter. “Don't worry, he'll get through them.” Says the mother, looking up from her book. “But until then..?” Asks the daughter. “He'll be fine on turkey sandwiches until he's reduced the front piles” The father is completely surrounded by high teetering walls of stacked books. He is reading within and the daughter has thrown a sandwich in to him.

My latest cartoon for @theguardian.com books.

I got an e-reader for Christmas and I'm kind of obsessed. Its like staring at my phone, which is my favorite hobby. Instead of doomscrolling, though, I'm reading a book!!!

"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—"

You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.

The Floods Kept Coming. He Needed to Grow a Crop That Would Thrive in Water — or to Quit. One Illinois man’s decadeslong fight to convert his fields into rice paddies demonstrates how it’s possible to bring diversity to the Corn Belt, but improbable so long as federal farm policy remains f...

The floods kept coming.

He needed to grow a crop that would thrive in water — or to quit.

Published Sept. w/ @capitolnewsil.bsky.social, Saluki Local Reporting Lab

Woman Struggles To Put Down Bags While Holding Coffee Like Dog Trying To Fit Stick Through Door

Woman Struggles To Put Down Bags While Holding Coffee Like Dog Trying To Fit Stick Through Door theonion.com/woman-struggles-to-put-d...

AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.

“I’m imagining an instructor somewhere making a syllabus with ChatGPT, assigning reading from books that don’t exist. But the students don’t notice, because they are asking ChatGPT to summarize the book or write the essay.”
🧪

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Red and Green Flags, According to Protagonists of Hallmark Christmas Movies RED FLAG: He sometimes has to work late and Q4 is his busy season. GREEN FLAG: His full-time job is directing the local middle school Christmas pag...

RED FLAG: He has an expensive haircut.

GREEN FLAG: He owns 150 snow globes.

NSF pares down grant-review process, reducing influence of outside scientists Memo cites overburdened staff, but some say move also aims to elevate White House priorities

“The changes permit as few as one outside review rather than the current minimum of three, end the routine use of expert panels to discuss those individual reviews, and give program managers greater authority to recommend which proposals should or should not be funded.”

This is figure 1, which shows a map indicating the location of the Tulán archaeological sites and the sampling location of the previously published modern South American camelid individuals used in this study.

Ancient Andean societies relied on now-extinct lineages of camelids for resources such as food and transport, according to a genetic analysis in Nature Communications. go.nature.com/48WhPbA 🏺 🧬 🧪

Farmworkers Are Frequently Exploited. But Few Farms Participate in a Program That Experts Say Could Prevent Abuse. Experts say the Fair Food Program has helped improve conditions for farmworkers. But farms and produce buyers across the country have resisted joining.

NEW: A lax regulatory environment has led to the widespread abuse of farmworkers — including threats of violence, stolen wages and forced labor.

Experts say the Fair Food Program's reforms could help.

But few farms have signed on.

Title: Wenceslas Variations 1. Good King Wenceslas: King bestows gifts on peasant. 2. Bad things Wenceslas: King steals gifts from peasant. 3. Indifferent King Wenceslas: No gifts 4. Two Kings Wenceslas: Kings exchange gifts. 5. No King Wenceslas: Gifts divided between peasants. 6. Philosopher King Wenceslas: King and Peasant discuss gift-giving. 7. Quantum King Wenceslas: Gifts given and simultaneously not given. 8. Apex Predator King Wenceslas: King devours gifts and peasant.

A Christmas cartoon from my new book of science cartoons PHYSICS FOR CATS. In good bookshops and online now: www.tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2

Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera. Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...

Sad story from ProPublica: www.propublica.org/article/usai...

This poster showing a stunning array of crayfish species in Georgia helps deliver the message that freshwater ecosystems of the southeastern U.S are among the most diverse in the world. 🧪

I read this classic again every time I see it.

Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :)

The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used

> neal.fun/size-of-life/