congratulations, Josh! great to see this out.
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congratulations, Josh! great to see this out.
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
How it feels watching Ayo DOSUNMU hoop
BEST PICKUP AT THE TRADE DEADLINE 😮💨
“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.
open access. Please do share widely.
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...
let's go
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.)
This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings
A Chicago-style No Kings Day. #NoKings
No Kings-Chicago, IL
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
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.
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...
