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Nature @nature.com · 20/08/2026

The US National Science Foundation will award about 30% fewer new research grants this fiscal year than in the last one, Nature has learnt. go.nature.com/3UcGoNW

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Exclusive: NSF set to issue lowest number of new grants in four decades

The US science-funding agency is withholding $1 billion of its budget so that the money can go to a special White House project.

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

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Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning

Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Colbert guest hosted a public access TV show in Monroe, Michigan a day after the Late Show ended. Guest star: Jeff Daniels Special appearance by: Eminem Musical director: Jack White Genius. youtu.be/jJTXB5uT_C4?...

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Only In Monroe --- May 22, 2026

YouTube video by Stephen Colbert

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Tracy Sweet @tracysweet.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

I'm teaching an introductory workshop on machine learning (in R) next month. May 7th and 8th! umd-cilvr.catalog.instructure.com/courses/intr...

Two-day online short course
Introduction to Machine Learning for the Social Sciences

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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Congress passed the Taft-Hartley Act in 1947 (over Truman's veto) to make general strikes so incredibly difficult to organize that there hasn't been one since. That there is a general strike happening in a major US city on such short notice is nothing short of a miracle.

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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 22/01/2026

Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026

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Sharon Goldman @sharongoldman.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

NEW: NeurIPS,one of the world’s top academic AI conferences, accepted research papers with 100+ AI-hallucinated citations, new report claims fortune.com/2026/01/21/n...

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NeurIPS papers contained 100+ AI-hallucinated citations, new report claims | Fortune

An analysis of NeurIPS 2025 papers by startup GPTZero reveals how AI-generated citations are slipping into elite academic research.

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Tracy Sweet @tracysweet.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

I can’t believe that UNL would need to cut four dept and merge other programs just to save 27M! Their operating budget is a billion dollars. They could have just asked every dept/office/program to cut 2.7%!

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AAUP @aaup.org · 03/12/2025

Today, UNL AAUP held a jazz funeral procession through the UNL campus to mourn the “deaths” of multiple program degrees & 120 faculty positions if UNL’s Board of Regents votes to cut $27.5 million from the budget on Friday. Help fight back. Send a letter here: actionnetwork.org/letters/one-...

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Tracy Sweet @tracysweet.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

What survey instrument are folks using to measure perceived learning in college students? This is waaaay outside my field, so any help is appreciated!

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Tracy Sweet @tracysweet.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

I found some discrepancies in the results produced by code that I recently wrote and code that I wrote 10-15 years ago. So it's a me vs me situation, and I'm not sure who to trust! 😆

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

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 · 04/09/2025

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 · 29/08/2025

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 · 26/08/2025

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

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 21/08/2025

This is brilliant.

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 11/08/2025

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 · 23/07/2025

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...

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View of Programs and Opportunities for Early Career Mathematics Education Scholars

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Tracy Sweet @tracysweet.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

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 · 12/06/2025

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 · 07/05/2025

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

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

🧪 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... 1/8 🧵

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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

"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...

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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...

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Dr. Eva Telzer @evatelzer.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

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 · 28/04/2025

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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Tracy Sweet @tracysweet.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

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 · 19/04/2025

🙏 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 · 18/04/2025

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 · 18/04/2025

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

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 18/04/2025

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 · 16/04/2025

PAYING THE GOVERNMENT OF EL SALVADOR TO KEEP HIM AT CECOT

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 16/04/2025

Mr. Abrego Garcia was illegally abducted by the Trump Admin and, by their own admission, wrongly deported to El Salvador. He shouldn’t have to spend another second away from his family. I'm flying to El Salvador tomorrow morning to check on his condition and discuss his return.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

HAPPENING NOW: At the federal courthouse in Greenbelt, Maryland, Judge Paula Xinis is set to begin a hearing on the government’s efforts – or lack thereof – to “facilitate” the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland resident who was wrongly removed to El Salvador. Follow along for updates ⬇️

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 15/04/2025

A MORAL CRISIS “The rule of law is being trampled. Innocent people are being disappeared. Court orders are being ignored. If you claim to love this country—if you believe in the Constitution, due process, order, and justice—this must be your line in the sand.” Take 3 minutes. This is important.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

I had been doubtful that we were going to have a "this is the crisis moment" with Trump, as opposed to "everything about this is a destructive catastrophe." But the Abrego Garcia case is the crisis moment. 1/

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Alt U.S. Department of Labor @alt-dol.altgov.info · 12/04/2025

Wish you could do something to help stop DOGE? Join us on Monday!

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Tracy Sweet @tracysweet.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

I tried to tag UMD in this post. Is UMD not on here?

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Michael Yarbrough (he/him) @mwyarbrough.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Local news coverage of Indiana University-Bloomington's Faculty Council endorsing a Mutual Academic Defense Compact (MADC). Faculties of three state flagships so far have called for a united front: Rutgers (whole system), IU-Bloomington, UMass-Amherst. Michigan starts voting this week Who's next?

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Tracy Sweet @tracysweet.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

How are you staying positive folks? I was fostering dogs, but my partner needs a break. We already have 2 dogs, 1 cat, and 3 kids who act like wild animals most of the time. I’m finding joy watching my kids play soccer, but I need something to soothe my soul.

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Daniel Laurison @daniellaurison.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

JOB! Please RT. Swarthmore is hiring for our Social Science Quantitative Lab Associate to support & do teaching quant methods to undergrads. Especially looking for people familiar with sociology and/or political science, and R. Apply by 4/18. apply.interfolio.com/165892 Happy to answer questions.

Responsibilities (continiued)
Providing statistical support to students during regular office hours and by appointment, including assisting students with the identification, manipulation, and analysis of data sets for their empirical research projects

Planning and hosting stand-alone workshops to train students to work with statistical software commonly used in the social sciences, such as R, Stata, Python, Matlab, and/or Geographic Information System (GIS)

Collaborating with social science faculty teaching quantitative courses on how best to support their courses and their students

Creating additional opportunities for students with less experience in quantitative and computational methods to develop skills and confidence

Offering supplementary workshops in quantitative social sciences to help students develop skills for success as research assistants and to prepare them for quantitative careers and job markets

Qualifications
A Master of Arts or Science (MA or MS), or equivalent, in Political Science, Sociology, Economics, Public Policy, Statistics, Data Science, or a related field is required; a PhD in one of these fields is preferred.

Familiarity with statistics/econometrics, causal inference methods, and preparing data for quantitative social science research is required. Familiarity with computational and simulation methods is a plus.

Programming expertise in R and Excel and ability to learn new technical skills are required. Expertise in Python, Matlab, GIS, and/or other related software is a plus.

Demonstrated excellence in inclusive and equitable teaching practices that support the success of students from diverse backgrounds and with varying levels of preparation in quantitative skills. We seek applicants who cultivate welcoming classroom environments and use pedagogical strategies that promote belonging, engagement, and academic growth for all students.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.

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Tracy Sweet @tracysweet.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Agree, but none of them were there to have heard it.

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Tracy Sweet @tracysweet.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

I attended today's hearing to support Mr. Garcia’s family, the man who was illegally detained, held, sent to El Salvador, and imprisoned in CECOT, based on a mistake admitted by the US govt. Some of the information I learned was shocking. The plaintiff was Mr. Garcia’s wife. 1/

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Michael W. Kraus @mwkraus.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

I'm old enough to remember when apa was apologizing for it's racism bc that was just 4 years ago... www.apa.org/about/apa/ad....

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Not getting much attention, but the Senate GOP is about to start voting - to make sure banks can charge higher overdraft fees. Seriously. Good time to let your Senators know what you think of that.

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Congressman Jonathan L. Jackson (D-IL 01) @jonathanjackson.house.gov · 24/03/2025

Today, I am calling on Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and other top officials in the Trump administration to resign immediately due to their reckless and unlawful disclosure of national security secrets. Their actions have put our country at risk, and immediate accountability is necessary

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

if I was an investigative reporter, I would compare how long it took for DC Metro Police to make a similar announcement about investigating violence against Asians and Asian Americans during the first part of the Covid-19 pandemic as potential hate crimes

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 21/03/2025

I helped build a government AI system. DOGE fired me, rolled the AI out to the whole agency, and implied the AI can do my job and the jobs of the others they've fired. It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵

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