Also, to be clear, the original Bt cotton produced in #BurkinaFaso was (unsuccessfully) developed to have long fibre length - as we reported both in the current paper and previous work. 2/

It is imperative that GM crop evaluations in Burkina Faso and elsewhere be transparent and methodologically diverse to best assess their performance for all types of farmers. I would expect that Alliance for Science and others could support this call. FIN

Who Gets to Breathe Clean Air in New Delhi? nyti.ms/2WpKYax

Exciting new piece on the pesticide industry from @akshattuck. I recently read and loved her recent piece on Toxic Uncertainty – I'm looking forward to reading this one.

Overjoyed to watch Allyson Felix, a fellow USC Trojan while I was on the track team there. Watched with my 3 year old! Inspired by Allyson’s work to stand up for moms and for Black women’s health. Fight on!

I've got a new article that explores the relationship between organic's focus on purity and the reproduction of racialized imaginaries: "The paradoxes of purity in organic agriculture in Burkina Faso": Open access for 50 days authors.elsevier.com/a/1dsfH3pILWMfm

European colonialism helped create a planet in crisis - Amitav Ghosh's brilliant The Nutmeg's Curse explains why theguardian.com/books/2022/jan…

The Sociology Department at Colorado State is hiring for two Assistant Professor positions: 1) Race, and 2) Critical Criminology. CSU and Fort Collins are great places to work and live! Race and Ethnicity Sociology of Race & Ethnicity Black Geographies. Please share! jobs.colostate.edu/postings/109960

Deadline extended to September 9! Colorado State University is hiring for 2 Tenure Track positions: in Sociology of Race and Criminal Justice #SocTwitter Sociology of Race & Ethnicity Race and Ethnicity Black Geographies Jeni Cross jobs.colostate.edu/postings/109960

I was invited to give this year’s James Baldwin lecture at Princeton. My message: quantitative methods have become tools to justify discrimination and excuse inaction. If quantitative scholars want to help, we must radically change our ways. Transcript: cs.princeton.edu/~arvindn/talks…

via New York Times Opinion nytimes.com/2022/12/15/opi…

Why are there African huts at the zoo? What stories are zoos telling about race and nature? My new paper explores the racialized spectacle of conservation Brian Dowd-Uribe @brainilliams Matthew Chrulew Joeva Rock Jim Igoe Robert Fletcher Mara Goldman doi.org/10.1080/232510…

This is really important work. See Annie’s whole thread on this.

Check out myself and Burkinabe Sociology prof and social movement leader Gabin Korbéogo's recent chapter "Environmental Inequality in West Africa." We wrote this with an undergraduate audience in mind, so useful for teaching! ResearchGate: researchgate.net/publication/37…

Just finished reading this piece and I wanted to highlight half the paper. Phenomenal contribution that raises so many important and interesting questions.

Looking forward to the annual meeting of the African Studies Association in San Francisco. Please join us for our session tomorrow afternoon at 1:15 African Studies Association

Looking forward to lots of great sessions on food, environment, and agriculture at African Studies the next few days in SF. Thanks to Laura Ann Twagira for organizing these sessions with me! African Studies Association