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.

Good news! #USAID FEWS NET is back up fews.net The continuous monitoring of acute food insecurity is critical if we are to understand the stability of food systems in our ever more turbulent world. Increasingly frequent conflict, climate, and price shocks make FEWS NET more important than ever

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-...

This thread provides text for proposed regulation that would replace qualified civil service service employees with political ones. Read, and then see the instructions for how to comment

Both charts are striking

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!

Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.

(Reuters) - Food rations that could supply 3.5 million people for a month are mouldering in warehouses around the world because of U.S. aid cuts and risk becoming unusable, according to five people familiar with the situation. www.reuters.com/world/us-aid...

Full Professor! I've got two article reviews to finish today and an R&R on a grant but I am going to go for a nice walk.

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker: "Never before in my life have I called for mass protests, for mobilization, for disruption. But I am now. These Republicans cannot know a moment of peace. They must understand that we will fight their cruelty with every megaphone and microphone that we have."

Steve Kerr: "I believe in academic freedom. I think it's crucial for all of our institutions to be able to handle their own business the way they want to. And they should not be shaken down and told what to teach, what to say, by our government. That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard."

Eight people in South Sudan, including five children, died on a three-hour walk to seek medical treatment for cholera after US aid cuts forced local health services to close, the UK-based charity Save the Children said reut.rs/3E9kB27

This is a great job for the right person @somoamsterdam.bsky.social, and an important one, given the times. A great organization www.somo.nl/director-of-...

Cutting FEWS NET is one of the most tragic outcomes of the atrocious Trump/Rubio/Musk/Marocco destruction.

My new article - "Navigating the Measurement Frontier: New Insights Into Small Farm Realities in Agricultural Economics" is now available in the special issue of AE publishing papers based on the 2024 IAAEA plenary talks. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

"Insanity is not a strategy" 🎯

A good thread. Like many academics, I do a lot of peer-review. I also hold editorial positions. The classification of the review and commenting on others' work as busy work or as a waste of time (a premise of the article) is really baffling and unfortunate.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court has *upheld* a lower court's order forcing USAID/State to immediately pay ~$2 billion owed to contractors for work they've alreayd performed. Alito/Thomas/Gorsuch/Kavanaugh dissent. t.co/k86ttz6Wdt

I am not going to call this a Bluetorial, because I do not want to sully that term (which, at least I, find joyful). Let’s call it a Orwellial.

Dean Karlan's job at USAID was LITERALLY to improve the efficiency of its programs. DOGE is clearly not actually after cutting fraud and waste. And its actions will clearly make the US weaker while also making the world a worse place. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

Why Dean Karlan, Chief Economist of USAID resigned yesterday: "I was ready to rebuild from wherever we ended up to identify the most effective programs, figure out how to get them back in place, and to recommend new awards. But I received no response. Zero engagement." www.npr.org/sections/goa...

Open call for papers, Risk and Risk Management in the Agricultural Economy. Conference to be held in Cambridge, MA on November 21, 2025. Submit papers by 11:59pm EDT on August 12, 2025. More information: https://www.nber.org/calls-papers-and-proposals/risk-and-risk-management-agricultural-economy

three weeks later. still offline.

A thread on USAID, and why it’s a long way from over… The wanton disruption of US assistance has been murderous. By now, kids will have died from malnutrition or one of the afflictions of camp life –perhaps dehydrating diarrhea.

this post from Pete Goldsmith is exactly right. Please share it.

Kansas Republicans sound the alarm on cutting USAID food aid. None of this is over yet.

Shockingly, the slashing of the NIH indirect rate is illegal goodscience.substack.com/p/indirect-c...

An important announcement from the Governor of Illinois.

Check out USAID’s Agriculture ties to by state drive.google.com/drive/mobile...

What can you do about the assault on USAID? Share this far and wide. Do your part! Please do retweet 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

We just launched a 16TB archive of every dataset that has been available on data.gov since November. This will be updated day by day as new datasets appear. It can be freely copied, and we're sharing the code behind it to help others make their own archives of data they depend on.

I work on using research, specifically the scientific method, to improve policy in general and programs in poor counties specifically. So until the last few weeks, most of my engagements with USAID involved me critiquing their work so to get better results for people living in poverty.

If it's true that future collection of Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) data "will cease," this would be a staggering loss to the global community. 1/6 www.science.org/content/arti...

Who benefits from today’s illegal elimination of all US aid workers worldwide? China. China will fill the gaping void. Chinese aid greatly raises pro-China attitudes & influence across the world: @adreher.bsky.social et al.—> doi.org/10.1086/729539 Ungated—> www.aiddata.org/publications...

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Elon says 90% of US aid never reaches communities. He confuses USAID's 90% reliance on intermediaries -- US companies delivering HIV drugs, WFP delivering food aid -- with waste. Comical if not so dangerous. @rachelbonnifield.bsky.social & I break down where aid goes: www.cgdev.org/blog/no-90-p...