"The document itself is an odd grab-bag of micromanaging grant processes, assertion of presidential power, and airing of cultural grievances... Its lack of coherence, however, will not prevent it from causing staggering damage to the US scientific system." 👇 arstechnica.com/science/2026...

when alex caruso shoots this well he is objectively one of the best basketball players alive

Alex Caruso 15 points in 24 minutes and tied for a game best +28 in Game 3. He…might be the Thunder’s second-best player?!

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The State Dept. painted humanitarian aid cuts as a necessary “disruption.” For the World Food Program, that disruption meant telling 300,000 refugees half of them would receive a meager portion of rice, lentils and oil. The rest would get nothing. (Published Dec. 2025)

I have to say, it is a particular relief to publish my job market paper, which was mostly written while stuck at home during the pandemic. This paper occupied a huge amount of my time and attention during a very weird and stressful time.

🆕 The leading global early warning system for food insecurity misses millions in crisis Today on VoxDev w/ @hopecm.bsky.social (UIUC), Erin Lentz (UT Austin), Chungmann Kim (JHU) & Kathy Baylis (@ucsantabarbara.bsky.social): voxdev.org/topic/method...

An incredible mullet out of Dutch bronze medal winning long-track speed skater Jorrit Bergsma. ✂️🇳🇱 #MilanoCortina2026

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“Explanations for low agricultural productivity tend to be… biased towards what’s easiest to observe and measure, and that is to the neglect of other potentially important explanations and mechanisms”. @hopecm.bsky.social on VoxDevTalks today:

🆕 African agriculture's underappreciated supply side Today on VoxDevTalks, @hopecm.bsky.social (UIUC) discusses how understanding the risks, incentives, and constraints faced by agro-dealers is essential for sustained productivity gains: voxdev.org/topic/agricu...

The National Basketball Players Association releases a statement following the Trump regime’s murders of Alex Pretti and Renee Good, saying that NBA players “can no longer remain silent.” The NBPA is standing up for free speech, civil liberties, and the people of Minnesota demanding justice.

Globally, more people are living in acute hunger than we think! Our new paper analyzing the official global method for classifying food insecurity - the IPC - is out in Nature Food. We show IPC analyses underestimate the number of acutely hungry, missing ~ one in five www.nature.com/articles/s43...

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THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos. I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.

Javonte Green wiping his sweat on the ball again between free throws. Gross and hilarious!

The Chicago Bulls win after a really tough 2OT loss just last night. They move to 7-6 and snap their 5 game losing streak.

Nikola Vucevic gives the Bulls a 4-point lead with 30-some seconds left in the game.

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

Bulls beat the Sixers in a game where Chicago held the lead for 3.2 total seconds. 6-1, first place in the East.

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The key to D66's success tonight: winning voters from two camps - the left and the center.

owning the paint. the 32nd player in NBA history to reach this milestone and the second active player (LeBron James.)

well said expatriarch.substack.com/p/usaid-is-u...

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

A Chicago-style No Kings Day. #NoKings

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Stanford Doerr School is hiring at assistant prof level in Global Environmental Policy. Search is broadly scoped and aimed at anyone in quantitative social sciences or related fields, including econ, polisci, env policy, or data science as applied to env policy. Plz share, RT! tinyurl.com/3enzuubc

UIUC is hiring this year!! Two positions in American Political Institutions and Political Behavior! Applications due 6:00pm (CST) on September 16, 2025 through jobs.illinois.edu. Our department is lovely and friendly and brilliant--happy to chat about our department and the positions!

New paper in @nature.com! With @kiseokmicro.bsky.social , Siqi Liu, Kyle Crocker, Jojo Wang, Mikhail Tikhonov & Madhav Mani — a massive dataset and simple model reveal a few conserved regimes that capture how soil microbiome metabolism responds to perturbations. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

PSA: UIUC is hiring in economics at the assistant level, looking for "expertise in Macroeconomics, International Economics, and Industrial Organization". illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

"two first-rate economists, David Cutler and Ed Glaeser, have made a stab at estimating the impact of cuts at NIH. Their analysis suggests that these cuts might save $500 billion in federal spending over the next 25 years — while imposing more than $8 trillion in losses."

Musk said USAID was wasteful. A new review published int he Lancet estimated it saved more than 90 million lives over 20 years, and that shutting it will cause 14 million unnecessary deaths over the next five years. Open access link to my paper on USAID onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Announcing the #ASSA2026 Distinguished Lecturer, Leah Boustan of Yale University. She will be speaking on her work related to migration, assimilation, and economic opportunity.

2x Champ Alex Caruso checking in from the Thunder championship celebration with some accessories! 💍 🏆

Isaiah Hartenstein explaining that Alex Caruso had to teach them how to open champagne bottles and that's why the celebration was so brief, why Tim Reynolds asked if he really didn't know he said: "No, when I won in Lithuania they just drank hard tequila"

ALEX!!!

The call for abstracts for the 15th Heartland Conference is now live! Conference will take place Oct 25-26 at UofI. Submit your environmental/resource papers by June 30, and spread the word! More details in link.

Caruso swimming on hardwood to recover a loose ball is peak Caruso

Thank you, @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com The people who are dying as a result of Trump and Musk's cruelty should not be voiceless. All who speak up for them are doing humanity's basic work - seeing even humans who are not directly connected to them.

Blog: The Famine Early Warning System is Back Online. Its Warnings Are Dire. www.cgdev.org/blog/famine-...

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All of NIH funding to Northwestern University is frozen. This pause includes noncompeting approved funding, new and competing grants with fundable scores. No reimbursements for money already spent have been received since March. This situation is rarely reported so please Please get the word out!