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Hope Michelson
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Development Economist. Ag econ.
Professor UIUC ACE
Co-editor, Food Policy
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An incredible mullet out of Dutch bronze medal winning long-track speed skater Jorrit Bergsma. ✂️🇳🇱

#MilanoCortina2026
February 13, 2026 at 5:20 PM
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BEST PICKUP AT THE TRADE DEADLINE 😮‍💨
How it feels watching Ayo DOSUNMU hoop
February 10, 2026 at 3:26 AM
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www.nu.nl/323575/video...
Video | Nederlandse zandkunstenaar maakt eerbetoon aan Renee Good en Alex Pretti
Met een VR-bril projecteert de kunstenaar het beeld op ware grootte op het zand.
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January 29, 2026 at 8:47 PM
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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:
voxdev.bsky.social VoxDev @voxdev.bsky.social · 17d
🆕 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...
January 28, 2026 at 2:46 PM
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🆕 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...
January 28, 2026 at 9:39 AM
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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.
January 25, 2026 at 9:18 PM
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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...
Official estimates of global food insecurity undercount acute hunger - Nature Food
The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification system is the global method for classifying food insecurity severity and allocating humanitarian aid. An evaluation of 10,000 Integrated Food Security...
www.nature.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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let's go
ohnohedidnt24.bsky.social Oh No He Didn't @ohnohedidnt24.bsky.social · Dec 10
Keldon Johnson says he would buy llamas with the prize money from the NBA cup
December 10, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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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.
II. Credibility The Court next addresses the credibility of the parties’ evidence and witnesses. After reviewing all the evidence submitted to the Court and listening to the testimony elicited at the preliminary injunction hearing, during depositions, and in other court proceedings, the Court finds Defendants’ evidence simply not credible. [FN 6] Plaintiffs submitted a mountain of evidence, providing the Court with over eighty declarations, numerous videos and articles, and other evidence. Defendants did not rebut anything that Plaintiffs set forth in their declarations or testimony, even with BWC footage. [FN 6] In another case considering some of the same evidence presented to this Court, another court in this district also found that the perceptions of certain of Defendants’ declarants, such as Hott and Parra, were not reliable. See Illinois v. Trump, No. 25-cv-12174, 2025 WL 2886645, at *5 (N.D. Ill. Oct. 10, 2025) (noting a “troubling trend of Defendants’ declarants equating protests with riots and a lack of appreciation for the wide spectrum that exists between citizens who are observing, questioning, and criticizing their government, and those who are obstructing, assaulting, or doing violence”), motion to stay denied in part, 155 F.4th 929 (7th Cir. 2025).
November 20, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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Javonte Green wiping his sweat on the ball again between free throws. Gross and hilarious!
November 19, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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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.
November 18, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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Nikola Vucevic gives the Bulls a 4-point lead with 30-some seconds left in the game.
November 18, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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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
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Bulls beat the Sixers in a game where Chicago held the lead for 3.2 total seconds.

6-1, first place in the East.
November 5, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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❤️❤️
hoopinformatics.bsky.social Hoop Informatics @hoopinformatics.bsky.social · Oct 30
LaVine and DeRozan visit with their former teammates
October 30, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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The key to D66's success tonight: winning voters from two camps - the left and the center.
October 29, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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owning the paint.
the 32nd player in NBA history to reach this milestone and the second active player (LeBron James.)
October 28, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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well said expatriarch.substack.com/p/usaid-is-u...
USAID Is Unlikely to Be Replaced With Something Better Any Time Soon, So Stop Pretending
Why Rajiv Shah is wrong, wrong, wrong, and kind of insulting
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October 21, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings
October 18, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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A Chicago-style No Kings Day. #NoKings
October 18, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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No Kings-Chicago, IL
October 18, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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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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October 9, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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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
October 2, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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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!
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Stanford | Faculty Positions: Details - Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Social Sciences (Global Environmental Policy)
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August 15, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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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.
August 11, 2025 at 4:03 PM