Jared Hutchins
@pablohutch.bsky.social
Assistant professor in Agricultural Economics at University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Research interests: agriculture/livestock/productivity/institutions/economic history/data viz
Research interests: agriculture/livestock/productivity/institutions/economic history/data viz
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Today I am publishing what I believe to be the most detailed available map of Trump's job approval rating. Powered by over 12,000 interviews for our Strength In Numbers/Verasight poll. I hope this generates many stories, and hours wasted exploring data!
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/a-very-det...
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/a-very-det...
A very detailed map of Trump's job approval
Explore our new interactive map of Trump's job approval, powered by 12,000 survey interviews conducted in 2025 and 2026
www.gelliottmorris.com
January 22, 2026 at 12:00 PM
Today I am publishing what I believe to be the most detailed available map of Trump's job approval rating. Powered by over 12,000 interviews for our Strength In Numbers/Verasight poll. I hope this generates many stories, and hours wasted exploring data!
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/a-very-det...
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/a-very-det...
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my Blackest opinion is that the presumption of conflict between "America has a long and deeply rooted history of violence" and "we can and should fight against today's version of that, as did those who came before us" is less a philosophical debate about how to treat the past and more a skill issue
January 22, 2026 at 5:38 PM
my Blackest opinion is that the presumption of conflict between "America has a long and deeply rooted history of violence" and "we can and should fight against today's version of that, as did those who came before us" is less a philosophical debate about how to treat the past and more a skill issue
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ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing he’s a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals.
January 19, 2026 at 5:41 AM
ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing he’s a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals.
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"Made in China" has been synonymous with "cheap crap." But that's changing, especially in solar, batteries and consumer electronics, where they lead the world.
This report from a trade show found Chinese companies were "light-years ahead" of US companies.
www.pcmag.com/opinions/chi...
This report from a trade show found Chinese companies were "light-years ahead" of US companies.
www.pcmag.com/opinions/chi...
I Came to CES to Check Out Energy and Solar Power Innovations and Found That China Is Running Laps Around Us
In Las Vegas, I saw a tale of two nations’ energy priorities. The US needs to get its act together.
www.pcmag.com
January 15, 2026 at 6:35 PM
"Made in China" has been synonymous with "cheap crap." But that's changing, especially in solar, batteries and consumer electronics, where they lead the world.
This report from a trade show found Chinese companies were "light-years ahead" of US companies.
www.pcmag.com/opinions/chi...
This report from a trade show found Chinese companies were "light-years ahead" of US companies.
www.pcmag.com/opinions/chi...
January 15, 2026 at 5:43 PM
Yet more ad-hoc payments revealing that crops like cotton get generous payments... despite being not impacted by any of the trade disruptions.
Plug for my colleague's work on this topic, who found that cotton and sorghum also got generous payouts in MFP:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Plug for my colleague's work on this topic, who found that cotton and sorghum also got generous payouts in MFP:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
January 7, 2026 at 5:29 PM
Yet more ad-hoc payments revealing that crops like cotton get generous payments... despite being not impacted by any of the trade disruptions.
Plug for my colleague's work on this topic, who found that cotton and sorghum also got generous payouts in MFP:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Plug for my colleague's work on this topic, who found that cotton and sorghum also got generous payouts in MFP:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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New paper alert: Plastic waste imports & coastal litter: Evidence from citizen science data
doi.org/10.1016/j.ec...
Plastic waste is an internationally traded commodity, yet there are concerns that the importation process creates plastic litter in importing countries. 1/8
doi.org/10.1016/j.ec...
Plastic waste is an internationally traded commodity, yet there are concerns that the importation process creates plastic litter in importing countries. 1/8
January 5, 2026 at 5:59 PM
New paper alert: Plastic waste imports & coastal litter: Evidence from citizen science data
doi.org/10.1016/j.ec...
Plastic waste is an internationally traded commodity, yet there are concerns that the importation process creates plastic litter in importing countries. 1/8
doi.org/10.1016/j.ec...
Plastic waste is an internationally traded commodity, yet there are concerns that the importation process creates plastic litter in importing countries. 1/8
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This essay from @bschmidt.bsky.social on how history rejected computational methods, & so "quantitative history" ended up in the social sciences, & "digital humanities" in literature, with no historians doing computational work, is fascinating, & worth a read: dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/read/computa...
![The first is a working paper by three economists—Elliott Ash, Daniel Chen, and Suresh Naidu—from 2017. While the authors are economists, the actual contribution—summed up in a title that few historians would think debatable, “Ideas Have Consequences”—is about legal or intellectual history. It presents a powerful and discrete account of the transmission of ideas across social networks through textual analysis. The substance argues that privately funded Manne seminars in law and economics—which were attended by a substantial proportion of the federal judiciary—affected the language, decisions, and sentencing of federal justices who attended them and thus, by implication, allowed large-value conservative donors to capture the federal judiciary. The effect seems robust to a variety of covariates [...]
Reading this paper was exciting, but looking through the tools and tricks and sources also made me feel like someone in a science fiction movie encountering an artifact sent back from a few decades in the future. The extraordinary quality of data that economists can obtain is almost unimaginable to humanists. It is not just a million or so circuit court votes and 300,000 opinions but also the institutional capacity to file Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests to get the exact years of attendance for every judge who went to the Manne program and the disciplinary capacity to casually use relatively new methods like word embeddings without spending pages slowly, gently analogizing them to some “simpler” concept. Humanists wandering through algorithms seem to have to justify using an algorithm by first identifying which Borges short story—whether about the Map of the Empire, the analytical language of John Wilkins, or Pierre Menard and the Quijote—it most closely resembles.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:643p6z4ydk2xnwv77maa6eec/bafkreidctt57eseamimgzctkjtu2ly2vmsugcjwcrargerohe5bljg7jie@jpeg)
November 4, 2025 at 3:34 AM
This essay from @bschmidt.bsky.social on how history rejected computational methods, & so "quantitative history" ended up in the social sciences, & "digital humanities" in literature, with no historians doing computational work, is fascinating, & worth a read: dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/read/computa...
My nieces and nephews (high school aged) had the AUDACITY to start quoting the Supa Hot Fire rap battle video in front of me and then say to me “you wouldn’t get it.”
Also those absolute noobs didn’t know about the sequels.
Also those absolute noobs didn’t know about the sequels.
a man wearing glasses and a hoodie says but i 'm not a rapper .
Alt: Supa Hot Fire saying “but I’m not a rapper”
media.tenor.com
December 24, 2025 at 4:30 PM
My nieces and nephews (high school aged) had the AUDACITY to start quoting the Supa Hot Fire rap battle video in front of me and then say to me “you wouldn’t get it.”
Also those absolute noobs didn’t know about the sequels.
Also those absolute noobs didn’t know about the sequels.
December 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Segregation was not just a Southern phenomenon, it was a national issue. Explore the spatial history of racial segregation and discover how it connects to our communities today: greenbookproject.osu.edu #GreenBookProject #CommunityMap #EconSky
December 8, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Segregation was not just a Southern phenomenon, it was a national issue. Explore the spatial history of racial segregation and discover how it connects to our communities today: greenbookproject.osu.edu #GreenBookProject #CommunityMap #EconSky
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This is a point the “AI inevitability” folks simply do not engage convincingly—We would not accept this technological caveat in any other context
“Our machine lets everyone make their own custom pharmaceuticals—but now every drug everywhere is maybe poison—better do your research!”
Yeah no thanks
“Our machine lets everyone make their own custom pharmaceuticals—but now every drug everywhere is maybe poison—better do your research!”
Yeah no thanks
Here's the reality this example illustrates:
It's not even just about people blindly trusting what ChatGPT tells them. LLMs are poisoning the entire information ecosystem. You can't even necessarily trust that the citations in a published paper are real (or a search engine's descriptions of them).
It's not even just about people blindly trusting what ChatGPT tells them. LLMs are poisoning the entire information ecosystem. You can't even necessarily trust that the citations in a published paper are real (or a search engine's descriptions of them).
December 7, 2025 at 7:05 PM
This is a point the “AI inevitability” folks simply do not engage convincingly—We would not accept this technological caveat in any other context
“Our machine lets everyone make their own custom pharmaceuticals—but now every drug everywhere is maybe poison—better do your research!”
Yeah no thanks
“Our machine lets everyone make their own custom pharmaceuticals—but now every drug everywhere is maybe poison—better do your research!”
Yeah no thanks
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The glyphosate debate has been a disaster from the jump.
This isn't the first time Monsanto meddled with the research when they were supposed to be hands-off.
But the association with GMOs meant many people *really* wanted glyphosate to be bad, so there's lots of crap research on that side too.
This isn't the first time Monsanto meddled with the research when they were supposed to be hands-off.
But the association with GMOs meant many people *really* wanted glyphosate to be bad, so there's lots of crap research on that side too.
The entire glyphosate (Roundup herbicide) saga is an appalling example of politicized science and motivated reasoning. Now key anti-Roundup papers AND key pro-Roundup papers have been retracted. Worse, I'd be willing to take odds that partisans of both sides will be completely unbothered by this.
December 3, 2025 at 4:43 PM
The glyphosate debate has been a disaster from the jump.
This isn't the first time Monsanto meddled with the research when they were supposed to be hands-off.
But the association with GMOs meant many people *really* wanted glyphosate to be bad, so there's lots of crap research on that side too.
This isn't the first time Monsanto meddled with the research when they were supposed to be hands-off.
But the association with GMOs meant many people *really* wanted glyphosate to be bad, so there's lots of crap research on that side too.
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seems like as good a time as any to remind y'all of the work we did showing that the rollout of GM soy (which tolerates glyphosate application->brought an increase in agrotoxin application) is associated with increased child leukemia mortality
www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
December 1, 2025 at 8:20 PM
seems like as good a time as any to remind y'all of the work we did showing that the rollout of GM soy (which tolerates glyphosate application->brought an increase in agrotoxin application) is associated with increased child leukemia mortality
www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Ok, I have been hearing about how seaweed will reduce methane emissions for going on a decade. Yet, I have never seen it actually adopted, despite how effective it's supposed to be?
Something does not add up.
Something does not add up.
I appreciate this piece including some limitations & criticisms. But best case scenario for feed additives is that they are one component of climate action re: food sector. We still have to talk about eating less beef, something that's often left out of reporting. www.marketplace.org/story/2025/1...
Could an early diet of seaweed produce climate-friendlier beef?
A UC Davis study shows promising results.
www.marketplace.org
November 19, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Ok, I have been hearing about how seaweed will reduce methane emissions for going on a decade. Yet, I have never seen it actually adopted, despite how effective it's supposed to be?
Something does not add up.
Something does not add up.
#EconSky
I am trying to send out a survey to several farms and I need to validate the addresses I received (from state govt) with the USPS database (to make sure they are deliverable). Google Maps does not validate, just checks if it looks like address.
Anyone have a way that they've done this?
I am trying to send out a survey to several farms and I need to validate the addresses I received (from state govt) with the USPS database (to make sure they are deliverable). Google Maps does not validate, just checks if it looks like address.
Anyone have a way that they've done this?
November 5, 2025 at 5:15 PM
#EconSky
I am trying to send out a survey to several farms and I need to validate the addresses I received (from state govt) with the USPS database (to make sure they are deliverable). Google Maps does not validate, just checks if it looks like address.
Anyone have a way that they've done this?
I am trying to send out a survey to several farms and I need to validate the addresses I received (from state govt) with the USPS database (to make sure they are deliverable). Google Maps does not validate, just checks if it looks like address.
Anyone have a way that they've done this?
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Hey, the Anxious Bench was on local radio WEFT last night! Our intro starts at 42:55 or so in the stream www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/d9i27...
www.dropbox.com
October 28, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Hey, the Anxious Bench was on local radio WEFT last night! Our intro starts at 42:55 or so in the stream www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/d9i27...
Regarding this work, my co-author and I had the privilege of being invited onto a roundtable discussion about our paper and implications for policy today. Thank you to Lawrence Lucas for inviting us!
Part 1:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QDj...
Part 2:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDrq...
Part 1:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QDj...
Part 2:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDrq...
October 27, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Regarding this work, my co-author and I had the privilege of being invited onto a roundtable discussion about our paper and implications for policy today. Thank you to Lawrence Lucas for inviting us!
Part 1:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QDj...
Part 2:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDrq...
Part 1:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QDj...
Part 2:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDrq...
Happy Halloween!
October 27, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Happy Halloween!
Good data viz instincts here!
Here's an alternative way of looking at this data - the scatter plot of "% unfavorable" on "% familiar".
October 24, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Good data viz instincts here!
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Seeing this Space Shuttle in person is genuinely one of the most breathtaking things I’ve witnessed—even knowing the scale of it, I was unprepared—& as an 80s kid I still romanticize NASA—what a loss this would be
btw the white house isn't the only thing these guys are destroying, they want to chop up the Smithsonian's space shuttle so they can let it rot in a Texas museum
www.space.com/space-explor...
www.space.com/space-explor...
The Smithsonian might have to cut space shuttle Discovery into pieces
"You'd be doing irreparable damage."
www.space.com
October 23, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Seeing this Space Shuttle in person is genuinely one of the most breathtaking things I’ve witnessed—even knowing the scale of it, I was unprepared—& as an 80s kid I still romanticize NASA—what a loss this would be
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Here's the key takeaway from our new Nature Climate Change piece.
October 22, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Here's the key takeaway from our new Nature Climate Change piece.
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saw this clip of the NYC mayor debate and i had tears in my eyes, perhaps the most insane section of any debate ever
October 17, 2025 at 2:40 PM
saw this clip of the NYC mayor debate and i had tears in my eyes, perhaps the most insane section of any debate ever
Attempting to add to the drama here: someone taught me to do this and I never looked back.
Buy a Costco bag of garlic, spend an hour crushing it all at once, freeze it into a bag.
Break off chunks of delicious garlic popsicle when you need it.
Buy a Costco bag of garlic, spend an hour crushing it all at once, freeze it into a bag.
Break off chunks of delicious garlic popsicle when you need it.
October 17, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Attempting to add to the drama here: someone taught me to do this and I never looked back.
Buy a Costco bag of garlic, spend an hour crushing it all at once, freeze it into a bag.
Break off chunks of delicious garlic popsicle when you need it.
Buy a Costco bag of garlic, spend an hour crushing it all at once, freeze it into a bag.
Break off chunks of delicious garlic popsicle when you need it.