Rob Wallace

Following agriculture, infection, dialectical biology, and the practice of science. Author, "Big Farms Make Big Flu" and "The Fault in Our SARS"

[Rob Wallace @FarmingPathogen]

My piece on cow flu was picked up by MR Online.
It's long and windy--no tweet or TikTok dance this--but you will exit with as clear an understanding of what H5N1 clade 2.3.4.4b means big picture. https://t.co/YyZKvIATmv

[Rob Wallace @FarmingPathogen]

@Johnny_Marr Dad here. Thirteen years later and the kid is graduating. Still playing music. Any chance for a quick note of encouragement, @Johnny_Marr? No worries if no. Always big fans here. :)

[Rob Wallace @FarmingPathogen]

While Gonsalves skewers universities providing resources and venues to well-funded right-wing COVID denialists and Walker debunks Florida's bogus vaccine recommendations, my piece addresses the Biden end of the broken COVID response. https://t.co/CcW6zPVjjY 8/8

[Rob Wallace @FarmingPathogen]

Here's my second piece of the weekend. It's a #COVID update for @truthout that unpacks the cycle of public manipulation in which many of our more established epidemiologists are partaking.

https://t.co/pM3HY3uqlN 1/

[Rob Wallace @FarmingPathogen]

Consider it a companion piece to Gregg Gonsalves's latest in The Nation and Chris Walker's note in Truthout. https://t.co/A0hTGe9his 7/

[Rob Wallace @FarmingPathogen]

"One could model the relationship between the speed of the onset of the systemic chaos that punctuates [the cycle of] accumulation's end and the depth to which AI is adapted whatever its proximate uses, fintech scavenging, or existential damage to our ecology and society. 4/4

[Rob Wallace @FarmingPathogen]

Helene's blackouts are underscoring industry efforts to turn over the power grid to AI.

It's more than a money grab. It's a power grab (in both senses). And an exercise in expedient mimesis one also finds in the COVID response.

My latest Patreon. https://t.co/pyEW9tECUG 1/

[Rob Wallace @FarmingPathogen]

"It's an old story. The Luddites understood it well. They didn't object to technology. They objected to the way communal decision-making was folded away into the logic of a sociophysical object the capitalist alone controlled... 3/

[Rob Wallace @FarmingPathogen]

But it depended place-to-place. A geographically weighted regression showed such protection differed in direction, magnitude, and variable combination across clusters of 50-km tiles. 4/4

[Rob Wallace @FarmingPathogen]

The editors of "Land" awarded our Midwest Healthy Ag team first prize for Best 2022 Paper. https://t.co/flQYuMyBK7 @kinparaluchav 1/n

[Rob Wallace @FarmingPathogen]

Our follow-up paper mapped how such modes of ag production helped set county COVID incidence the first year of the pandemic. Our general model showed the more regenerative counties less likely to be badly hit. https://t.co/6YoEPyVxwT 3/

[Rob Wallace @FarmingPathogen]

Farming and Event Addendum 2.
I continue to follow up on responses to the first F&E series b/c situating the work will help us all: https://t.co/JazCMBBR97

Of what use is this philosophical work? Does it detract from the political work new agricultures require or supplement it?

[Rob Wallace @FarmingPathogen]

"Unpacking how agribusiness imprints upon the ontologies we all still subscribe to will take the kind of time and effort that went into new forms of agriculture to begin with. When and where does the agricultural object of the farmer turn back into a subject?" 8/8

[Rob Wallace @FarmingPathogen]

Farming and Event Addendum.
I took comments on the F&E series to heart. I'll write an easier-to-read piece for the public another day, but I took a whack at summarizing the series here, including how we got started, where we're going, and why. https://t.co/ZVqjkMlUnF 1/n

[Rob Wallace @FarmingPathogen]

"You see it there, you’re captured by it, but you can’t step into it. There is no “the kid stays in the picture”. 7/