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Tracy Sweet @tracysweet.bsky.social · 9d

When was the last time they updated their base R? Could they be trying to run RStudio with a very old version of R?

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 24d

korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in

Their waists and hands were tied together, forcing them to bend down and lick water to drink. The unscreened bathrooms contained only a single sheet to cover their lower bodies. Sunlight barely penetrated through a fist-sized hole, and they were only allowed access to the small yard for two hours. Detained by US immigration authorities for eight days, the workers and their families expressed shock, describing human rights violations and absurdities they could not have imagined as ordinary Koreans living in 2025.

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Heather Farmer, PhD 🏳️‍🌈 @drheatherfarmer.bsky.social · Sep 4

I am excited to share that I’m looking to recruit a PhD student to join my Stress and Health Equity lab in Fall 2026. We are located in the HDFS department at the beautiful University of Delaware.

Feel free to share! ☺️

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Tracy Sweet @tracysweet.bsky.social · Aug 29

I was on a zoom call where an LLM trained on ChatGPT4 accepted an arithmetic error. It was a sum of 4 numbers. Correct answer was 60, and it accepted an answer of 61. 🙃
Keep using your calculators, folks!

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · Aug 26

The real big deal here is an assoc hire. Very few of those this year.

Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · Aug 26

My department is searching for two tenure-line positions to start in August 2026. Come join our growing team and make a difference in building the future!

Assistant professor of higher education: apply.interfolio.com/172680

Associate/full professor of education policy: apply.interfolio.com/172632

Apply - Interfolio {{$ctrl.$state.data.pageTitle}} - Apply - Interfolio

apply.interfolio.com

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · Aug 21

This is brilliant.

Colette Delawalla @cdelawalla.bsky.social · Aug 21

🚨ACTION OF THE DAY🚨
@standupforscience.bsky.social

Day 21! QUACK-O-GRAM THURSDAY!

For $3 we will hand deliver an "IMPEACH THE QUACK" rubber ducky to your House Representative! (By one of our team members in a duck suit!)

DO IT (AND TELL YOUR FRIENDS)

act.standupforscience.net/fundraising/...

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · Aug 11

Officer David Rose was murdered in the line of duty, protecting our community from domestic terrorism.

He leaves behind a pregnant wife and two young children. Let’s stand with his family after this terrible loss:

Link:
give.cdcfoundation.org/give/715122#...

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Tracy Sweet @tracysweet.bsky.social · Jul 23

Check out this article about the various programs that are available to early career #STEMEd researchers, where each author describes their experience with the program. Note that the NSF training/methods institutes are always changing. journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/jm...

View of Programs and Opportunities for Early Career Mathematics Education Scholars

journals.library.columbia.edu

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Tracy Sweet @tracysweet.bsky.social · Jun 18

Thank you! This is a good idea!

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Tracy Sweet @tracysweet.bsky.social · Jun 17

Help appreciated! I'm looking for an education journal that publishes illustrations of statistical methods. It could be teaching corner for education researchers. It could be a case study.
Methods are not new, but we discuss algorithmic bias in education. Any ideas?

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Tracy Sweet @tracysweet.bsky.social · Jun 12

You know the joy of a canceled meeting? It is far overshadowed by a scheduled day-long meeting that was advertised as ending at 2pm to still be going on at 3pm with no end in sight. 😫

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Tracy Sweet @tracysweet.bsky.social · May 19

I got one of those too!

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Tracy Sweet @tracysweet.bsky.social · May 7

In one week, I'll be teaching a workshop on social network analysis? Join me!

Tracy Sweet @tracysweet.bsky.social · Apr 28

Anyone interested in learning social network analysis in R? I'll be teaching a workshop soon. May 15/16th.
umd-cilvr.catalog.instructure.com/courses/intr...

Two-day online short course: Introduction to Social Network Analysis taught by Tracy Sweet. $395 and $195 student discount!

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · May 4

🧪 PRACTICAL tip for NSF PIs with terminated grants:

You're entitled to recover more closeout costs than a DOGE-fueled NSF may lead you to believe.

➡️ Do this NOW: Send fed reg 2 CFR 200.472 on allowable "termination costs" to your sponsored research office:

www.ecfr.gov/current/titl...

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a man wearing glasses and a green and white shirt looks at the camera

Alt: A man wearing glasses and a green and white shirt looks at the camera

media.tenor.com

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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · Apr 30

"You know, as an example, red lead was used to make cheddar... A can of coffee could be coffee, but it could be ground bone, or charred shells, or dirt." Deborah Blum on our bad food past -- and how to avoid it being our future:
buttondown.com/theswordandt...

How to Not Get Poisoned in America

The minute I saw that Robert Kennedy Jr., a notorious disease-loving health crank, was going to be responsible for the nation’s health—and the health of its...

buttondown.com

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Dr. Eva Telzer @evatelzer.bsky.social · Apr 30

We’re hiring postdocs to join my lab at UNC. If you’re interested in adolescence, brain, and social development, DM me. Our work incorporates fMRI, social media, and longitudinal methods. We study risks and opportunities in adolescence. If you’re at #SRCD2025 and want to meet, please reach out!

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Tracy Sweet @tracysweet.bsky.social · Apr 28

Anyone interested in learning social network analysis in R? I'll be teaching a workshop soon. May 15/16th.
umd-cilvr.catalog.instructure.com/courses/intr...

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Tracy Sweet @tracysweet.bsky.social · Apr 23

My advisor "Gopen and Swan"-ed me, and I have passed along that article to help students with writing. cseweb.ucsd.edu/~swanson/pap...

cseweb.ucsd.edu

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Tracy Sweet @tracysweet.bsky.social · Apr 20

“agency’s”

Tracy Sweet @tracysweet.bsky.social · Apr 20

Just had a grant canceled. It longer aligns with agency priorities. Know what it aligns with? The agencies priorities when we wrote and were awarded the grant!

I didn’t know I needed a time machine to do science.

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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · Apr 19

🙏 We need your help 🙏

The government continues to cancel grants at both NIH and NSF to censor science it doesn't like.

We're tracking terminations to organize and advocate. Please report your terminated grants:

NIH:
forms.gle/J2znQ7y7YpeP...

NSF: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...

w/ @noamross.net

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Tristan Snell @tristansnell.bsky.social · Apr 18

Not sure who needs to hear this, but any govt official who violates someone's constitutional rights -- and is acting outside the scope of their lawful authority -- can be PERSONALLY liable in a civil suit.

ICE officers. Cabinet members. White House staffers. Even the president.

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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · Apr 18

Observe that the one that complied and the one that didn't comply are treated exactly the same way.

Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · Apr 18

Per source, NIH has been instructed to hold off from issuing ALL awards to Harvard, Cornell, Columbia, Brown, and Northwestern (including med schools)

Agency staff have also been instructed to not speak about this funding freeze to grantees and applicants

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · Apr 18

I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.

Photo of Senator Chris Van Hollen with Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · Apr 16

PAYING THE GOVERNMENT OF EL SALVADOR TO KEEP HIM AT CECOT

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · Apr 16

Van Hollen says that he asked the VP of El Salvador why his government continues to hold Abrego Garcia even though he’s not charged with any crime and there’s no evidence that he’s MS-13.

“His answer was that the Trump administration is paying the government of El Salvador to keep him at CECOT”

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · Apr 16

Senator Chris Van Hollen is speaking live from El Salvador, where he just met with the Salvadoran VP: www.youtube.com/live/pYZPzHy...

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