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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 3d

Video: ICE agents clash with Forest Park cemetery workers attempting to help man in Des Plaines Rive

YouTube video by WGN News

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Mike Murphy @mjamurphy.bsky.social · 9d

Multiple man-made food crises are ongoing globally.

Famine is currently occurring in Gaza and Sudan. South Sudan is at risk of famine.

Areas of Yemen, Haiti and Mali are experiencing catastrophic levels of food insecurity (IPC level 5).

Food and Nutrition Crises Burgeon in Face of Conflict, Funding Cuts: GRFC Mid-Year Update Released | Food Security Portal

Hunger and food crisis have reached catastrophic levels in multiple places around the world, according to the Global Report on Food Crises Mid-Year Update. Famine has been confirmed in the Gaza Strip ...

www.foodsecurityportal.org

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Marshall Burke @marshallburke.bsky.social · Aug 15

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!
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Stanford | Faculty Positions: Details - Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Social Sciences (Global Environmental Policy)

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Cleo O'Brien-Udry @cobrienudry.bsky.social · Aug 11

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!

Assistant Professor in Political Behavior
Department of Political Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

The Department of Political Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign invites applications for a full-time tenure stream Assistant Professor position in Political Behavior, broadly defined. Candidates with research and teaching interests in comparative political behavior, comparative political psychology, or race, ethnicity, and politics are particularly encouraged to apply. Successful candidates are expected to teach courses in Political Behavior at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, to establish and maintain an active and independent research program, and to provide service to the department, the university, the profession, and the people of Illinois in keeping with the university’s land-grant mission. Successful candidates should demonstrate evidence of creativity and effectiveness in teaching and scholarly research. In addition, successful candidates should demonstrate experience with fostering or the ability to foster an inclusive and collaborative teaching, learning, departmental, and research environment where all can thrive. Applicants are encouraged to include in their cover letter information about how they will further our commitment to the university’s values.
Applicants at the Assistant Professor level must demonstrate evidence of a promising research agenda and a commitment to undergraduate and graduate teaching. Ph.D. in Political Science or related field required. Candidates whose PhD may be delayed but will complete all the Ph.D. requirements within the first appointment year may be appointed at the rank of Instructor. After the Ph.D. requirement is met, the appointment will be changed to Assistant Professor. Target start date is August 16, 2026. The budgeted salary range for the position is $105,000 - $110,000 at the Assistant Professor level, for a 9-month service basis.

Assistant Professor in American Political Institutions
Department of Political Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

The Department of Political Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign invites applications for a full-time tenure stream Assistant Professor position in American Political Institutions. Successful candidates are expected to teach courses in American Political Institutions at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, establish and maintain an active and independent research program, and provide service to the department, the university, and the profession. Candidates should demonstrate evidence of creativity, teaching and scholarly research effectiveness. In addition, the successful candidate will demonstrate experience with fostering or the ability to foster an inclusive and collaborative teaching, learning, departmental, and research environment where all can thrive.

Applicants at the Assistant Professor level must demonstrate evidence of a promising research agenda and a commitment to undergraduate and graduate teaching. Ph.D. in Political Science or related field required. Candidates whose PhD may be delayed but will complete all the Ph.D. requirements within the first appointment year may be appointed at the rank of Instructor. After the Ph.D. requirement is met, the appointment will be changed to Assistant Professor. Target start date is August 16, 2026. The budgeted salary range for the position is $105,000 - $110,000 at the Assistant Professor level, for a 9-month service basis.

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SeppeKuehnLab @seppekuehnlab.bsky.social · Jul 17

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...

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Paul Bruno @paul-bruno.com · Jul 16

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...

Assistant Professor- Economics

Duties & Responsibilities

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · Jul 15

"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."

For MAGA, Ignorance is Strength

Research cuts aren’t about shrinking government, they’re about killing science

paulkrugman.substack.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Jul 9

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/...

USAID served for decades as a vehicle for both US soft power and foreign aid. Within the first days of the Trump administration, the agency was effectively closed, its staff told to go home and its funding frozen. It is impossible to understand the demise of USAID without understanding the broader contours of American governance during the early days of the second Trump administration. The agency was the victim of online conspiracy theories and suspicion of state institutions that shape Trump's populist movement, falsely accused of criminality and corruption. Its elimination violated traditional understandings of the separation of powers, testing an expansive novel theory of presidential authority. It was underpinned not just by spending changes, but by the mass purging of government officials by a entity led by Elon Musk. The end result is both to weaken US administrative capacity and its credibility on the international stage, as well leading to thousands and potentially millions of the world's most vulnerable people to face disease, disaster, and death.

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ASSA Meeting @assameeting.bsky.social · Jul 8

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

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Weston Anderson @agroclim.bsky.social · Jun 24

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

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NBA @nba.com · Jun 24

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

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · Jun 23

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"

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Hope Michelson @hopecm.bsky.social · Jun 23

ALEX!!!

NBA @nba.com · Jun 23

Undrafted out of Texas A&M in 2016 and now 2x NBA CHAMPION in Year 8... Alex Caruso!

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Tatyana Deryugina @tderyugina.bsky.social · Jun 19

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.

Heartland – Environmental and Resource Economics Workshop at Illinois

Environmental and Resource Economics Workshop at Illinois

publish.illinois.edu

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Hope Michelson @hopecm.bsky.social · Jun 18

voxdev.org/topic/instit...

What happens when humanitarian aid is cut or delayed?

Humanitarian aid systems are under mounting pressure, with key donors like the US and UK cutting funding despite growing needs. New research in one of the world’s largest refugee camps shows that aid ...

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Steph Noh @stephnoh.bsky.social · Jun 17

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

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Forbestonow @forbestonow.bsky.social · Jun 3

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.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jun 3

wow -- @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com chokes up while talking about how the Trump administration is killing kids who relied on USAID to get life-saving medicine

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Charles Kenny @charlesjkenny.bsky.social · May 30

Blog: The Famine Early Warning System is Back Online. Its Warnings Are Dire.

www.cgdev.org/blog/famine-...

The Famine Early Warning System is Back Online. Its Warnings Are Dire

FEWS NET, the US-financed famine early warning system, was one of the casualties of the US foreign assistance “pause.” The good news is that it has resumed operations. But what it has to report is dee...

www.cgdev.org

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Amy W. Ando @awando.bsky.social · May 21

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

Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · May 20

This would dramatically politicize NIH and increase the turnover of key positions, limiting longer-term planning and execution.

Any regulation must go through a notice and comment period in which the public can weigh in on the regulation and its wisdom

The comment period is open to May 23rd

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Olivier Simard-Casanova @o.simardcasanova.net · May 26

Both charts are striking

Agathe Demarais @agathedemarais.bsky.social · May 26

Trump's assault on universities is act of self-harm that will undermine US long-term interests
• Funding cuts will slash government spending on research, making US less attractive for top-notch researchers
• Uncertainty around visas will deter world's brightest minds from applying to US universities

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Gc Rox @gcrox.bsky.social · May 23

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!

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Dani Rodrik @drodrik.bsky.social · May 22

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.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · May 16

(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...

Exclusive: US aid cuts leave food for millions mouldering in storage

The food stocks have been stuck inside four U.S. government warehouses since the Trump administration's decision in January to cut global aid programs.

www.reuters.com

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Hope Michelson @hopecm.bsky.social · May 16

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.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · Apr 29

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."

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