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Sumie Okazaki @sumieokazaki.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

New Yorkers protesting tyranny, malice, & incompetence

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Michael Yarbrough (he/him) @mwyarbrough.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

This exciting resolution from Rutgers University Senate is exactly the kind of model I think higher ed needs: a mutual defense pact of, in this case, Big 10 schools. They call for member institutions to create a joint defense fund and make resources available to any member institution under attack.

Excerpt from Rutgers University Senate resolution calling for a Mutual Academic Defense Compact. The excerpt reads:

"BE IT RESOLVED THAT, the Rutgers University Senate urges the President of Rutgers University to formally propose and help establish a Mutual Academic Defense Compact (MADC) among all members of the Big Ten Academic Alliance;

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT, under this compact, all participating institutions shall commit meaningful funding to a shared or distributed defense fund. This fund shall be used to provide immediate and strategic support to any member institution under direct political or legal infringement;"

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 24/03/2025

American war planning usually takes place in highly secure facilities. But the Trump administration planned its strikes on the Houthis using a group chat—and accidentally included The Atlantic’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg. theatln.tc/IuULQFiY

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The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans

U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

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Sumie Okazaki @sumieokazaki.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

I still can’t figure out what’s in it for Elon/Trump to decimate NIH & the US research infrastructure & pipeline - is it just being anti-science? Anti-health? Some petty personal vengeance?

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Sumie Okazaki @sumieokazaki.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Raising funds for research on rare cancers #cycleforsurvival

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 24/02/2025

🚨 Many NSF-funded Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REUs) are being cancelled for Summer 2025. www.reddit.com/r/REU/commen...

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Cancellation megathread

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Sumie Okazaki @sumieokazaki.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

What’s on Google maps won’t stop me from calling it the Gulf of Mexico, but how much gov’t $ will be wasted redoing road signs and printed materials for this vanity project?

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Martha W. Alibali @marthaalibali.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

One more really important thing that IES does: It runs a program in Statistical and Research Methodology in Education that has generated MANY important advances, e.g., about identifying causal mechanisms in quasi-experimental studies, understanding heterogeneity of effects, etc.

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

From the org I work at (AIR) about IES cancellations: "This is an incredible waste of taxpayer dollars, which have been invested—per Congressional appropriations and many according to specific legislation—in long-standing data collection and analysis efforts" www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

Dana Tofig, a spokesman for the American Institutes for Research, an education research organization that holds many contracts with IES and the Education Department, said that IES has issued notices of termination for convenience on multiple contracts, including those dealing with evaluations of federally funded programs and education statistics.

“This is an incredible waste of taxpayer dollars, which have been invested—per Congressional appropriations and many according to specific legislation—in long-standing data collection and analysis efforts, and policy and program evaluations,” Tofig said. “These investments inform the entire education system at all levels about the condition of education and the distribution of students, teachers, and resources in school districts across America. Many of these contracts are nearing completion and canceling them now yields the taxpayers no return on their investment. If the purpose of such cuts is to make sure taxpayer dollars are not wasted and used well, the evaluation and data work that has been terminated is exactly the work that determines which programs are effective uses of federal dollars, and which are not.”

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 29/01/2025

This is a moral horror and a five alarm fire. To be clear, Guantanamo has always been a moral horror. But Trump is going to use it to sweep anyone he designates as an unperson / enemy beyond the easy reach of advocacy, legal support and media attention. Migrants are just the first on the docket.

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The control tower of a detention facility at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. PHOTO:
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Sumie Okazaki @sumieokazaki.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

And here is our qualitative study of how children of working class immigrant families describe their family support on their college pathways

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Sumie Okazaki @sumieokazaki.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

My co-chairs and I, with amazing support from clergy & staff, planned and pulled off an engaging Mitzvah Day on this MLK Day. And the best part was that I didn’t look at the news all day!

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Sumie Okazaki @sumieokazaki.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Second time was just as magical as the first, maybe even a little more emotionally resonant. I love this show. #maybehappyending

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Sumie Okazaki @sumieokazaki.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Thinking of everyone in harm’s way in the terrifying fires in LA. Thank you to all the firefighters and those saving lives. The devastation is unimaginable.

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Sumie Okazaki @sumieokazaki.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

First time venturing south of the 60th St since the congestion pricing went into effect. Park & 33rd around 5pm looked - well, non-congested.

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Sumie Okazaki @sumieokazaki.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Shaaray Tefila Manna for Chanukah: Because the 1st night of Chanukah falls on Christmas, we served Chinese food & donut holes. Kudos to our chef-in-residence Liz Alpern. And how cute are the takehome boxes with gelt, dreidels, & Pirket Avot fortune cookies? This is AsianJewish dream come true 😉

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Sumie Okazaki @sumieokazaki.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

We had the first-ever “Cook the Book” potluck led by our chef-in-residence Liz Alpern at Temple Shaaray Tefila. We cooked recipes from Jeremy Salamon’s Second Generation cookbook filled with reimagined Hungarian Jewish cuisine. So flavorful. So good.

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Sumie Okazaki @sumieokazaki.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Good use of the giant message board overlooking the Millennium Park

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Sumie Okazaki @sumieokazaki.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Loved, loved, loved Maybe Happy Ending! If you’re in NYC, go see it!!

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Sumie Okazaki @sumieokazaki.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Attending ElluminateWomen convening - a gathering of feminist Jewish women leaders & philanthropists. In times like these, drawing inspiration from those who are relentless in moving forward.

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Sumie Okazaki @sumieokazaki.bsky.social · 12/10/2024

Thank you Mo - you always have the most thoughtful words to connect us to one another

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That @mohu dude @handle.invalid · 08/10/2024

@democracynow.bsky.social’s amazing Amy Goodman did a segment this morning on the short documentary Julie Cohen and I co-directed. Bummed I was unable to join, but well worth your time (on this of all days). Support peacemakers & visionaries not maximalists & extremists. youtu.be/y6smYM3gAhU?...

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"The Path Forward": Palestinian and Israeli Activists Working Toward Peace Featured in New Film

YouTube video by Democracy Now!

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Sumie Okazaki @sumieokazaki.bsky.social · 02/11/2023

A successful doctoral defense of my mentee is always a joyful moment. Congratulations Dr. Christina Lee! Photo credit Lauren Mims

A screenshot of a zoom call with 6 people celebrating

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Sumie Okazaki @sumieokazaki.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

I’ve reverted back to handwriting margin comments on student manuscripts (albeit on a PDF on my iPad). It’s too easy for students to accept my suggested edits on Google docs without knowing why. Handwriting comments also makes me less likely to rewrite and ask more questions.

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Pam Davis-Kean, PhD @umpamdk.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

The reason psych research does not generalize across the population is because we do not do our research on populations-we do it on convenience samples that are from groups of people mostly around institutions of higher educ. We have serious selection bias issues in our science.

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Sumie Okazaki @sumieokazaki.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

This data visualization paper our team published was conceptualized, analyzed, written, & published in the shortest timeframe in my career, and it’s already been downloaded 700+ times in 3 weeks. Sometimes pictures are really worth a 1000 words journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Mapping Anti-Asian Xenophobia: State-Level Variation in Implicit and Explicit Bias against Asian Ame...

Using national data from Project Implicit, the authors examine state-level variations in implicit and explicit bias against Asian Americans held by non–Asian Am...

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Sumie Okazaki @sumieokazaki.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

Thanks @richleephd.bsky.social for bringing me in! Here for the academic community + more

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