Amber R. Crowell, PhD
@acrowell.bsky.social
Professor @ Fresno State | she/her | Co-director of Center for Community Voices | Director and PI @ http://themarkfossettlab.com | Sociologist, advocate, mom x 2
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The Mark Fossett Lab
A collaborative effort to digitize 1940 enumeration district boundaries and map 1940 census data across neighborhoods with the goal of understanding the origins of urban residential segregation patter...
themarkfossettlab.com
Things I'm working on and will enjoy sharing:
1. I am director and principal investigator of The Mark Fossett Lab (named after my late mentor and dear friend), a project to map data across neighborhoods in 1940. We're adding new cities on a regular basis, go check it out! themarkfossettlab.com
1. I am director and principal investigator of The Mark Fossett Lab (named after my late mentor and dear friend), a project to map data across neighborhoods in 1940. We're adding new cities on a regular basis, go check it out! themarkfossettlab.com
I'm beyond delighted to share that I have earned early promotion to Full Professor!
May 15, 2025 at 7:04 PM
I'm beyond delighted to share that I have earned early promotion to Full Professor!
I just reviewed a paper that had AI-generated citations, including a fake citation with my name on it (bad luck for them that I was their reviewer!). Out of curiosity I asked ChatGPT to summarize the fake paper. It provided a full summary of the paper. When I asked it if the paper actually exists...
March 28, 2025 at 3:35 PM
I just reviewed a paper that had AI-generated citations, including a fake citation with my name on it (bad luck for them that I was their reviewer!). Out of curiosity I asked ChatGPT to summarize the fake paper. It provided a full summary of the paper. When I asked it if the paper actually exists...
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From a journalist friend: Just spreading the word. The CDC is purging data, so people should archive their favorite CDC datasets today, namely ones around race/ethnic diversity, LGBTQ, and reproductive health. Also health data involving climate. The youth risk behavior survey has already gone down.
January 31, 2025 at 3:43 PM
From a journalist friend: Just spreading the word. The CDC is purging data, so people should archive their favorite CDC datasets today, namely ones around race/ethnic diversity, LGBTQ, and reproductive health. Also health data involving climate. The youth risk behavior survey has already gone down.
When landlords call themselves housing providers, this is what is actually happening in their heads. Sometimes it just gets said out loud (here voiced by a real estate agent).
For one listing, rent jumped nearly 86% since September. In an interview with LAist, the agent said she told her client, “People are desperate, and you can probably get good money.” via @laist.com
Asking rents skyrocket as LA fires destroy homes
For one listing, rent jumped nearly 86% since September. In an interview with LAist, the agent said she told her client, “People are desperate, and you can probably get good money.”
laist.com
January 14, 2025 at 8:30 PM
When landlords call themselves housing providers, this is what is actually happening in their heads. Sometimes it just gets said out loud (here voiced by a real estate agent).
Hello this is my cat.
December 23, 2024 at 8:14 PM
Hello this is my cat.
I'm a parent of a moderately autistic child. There are several people in my close networks who also have autistic children. More than I would've thought probable. I'm glad researchers are starting to notice. I'm afraid public schools are woefully underprepared. We are all struggling with schools.
There is no one factor that causes autism — or explains its growing prevalence. Researchers are seeking explanations for the surge. Here are some possibilities.
Research Finds Vaccines Are Not Behind the Rise in Autism. So What Is?
There is no one factor that causes autism — or explains its growing prevalence. Researchers are seeking explanations for the surge. Here are some possibilities.
www.nytimes.com
December 23, 2024 at 7:25 PM
I'm a parent of a moderately autistic child. There are several people in my close networks who also have autistic children. More than I would've thought probable. I'm glad researchers are starting to notice. I'm afraid public schools are woefully underprepared. We are all struggling with schools.
I could never wrap my head around people who were posting on X as radical social justice advocates but also had a blue check (which means they are actively giving money to X every month). Super sus.
December 6, 2024 at 5:02 PM
I could never wrap my head around people who were posting on X as radical social justice advocates but also had a blue check (which means they are actively giving money to X every month). Super sus.
Ah yes, that time of year when Spotify summarizes my music listening for the year and half of it is whatever songs my kids alternated being obsessed with listening to in the car (top song is "Selfish" by Justin Timberlake, thanks to my 7-yr-old).
December 4, 2024 at 4:47 PM
Ah yes, that time of year when Spotify summarizes my music listening for the year and half of it is whatever songs my kids alternated being obsessed with listening to in the car (top song is "Selfish" by Justin Timberlake, thanks to my 7-yr-old).
I love having all of #AcademicSky over here, but I need to find my local folks, too. The discourse on my feed is just a little too far from the ground right now. Where is #Fresno? I need a #CentralValley roll call!
November 26, 2024 at 4:56 PM
I love having all of #AcademicSky over here, but I need to find my local folks, too. The discourse on my feed is just a little too far from the ground right now. Where is #Fresno? I need a #CentralValley roll call!
We need a bot that replies to every person who tells people to read The Handmaid's Tale with "Did you mean Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler?"
November 18, 2024 at 7:25 PM
We need a bot that replies to every person who tells people to read The Handmaid's Tale with "Did you mean Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler?"
I should also share that I'm an avid #knitter. My favorite projects are blankets. It's soothing to fall in a rhythm of steady stitches working toward something big, beautiful, and comforting. They make great gifts. I get most patterns from mamainastitch.com. I also make hats, scarves, and cardigans.
November 16, 2024 at 5:44 PM
I should also share that I'm an avid #knitter. My favorite projects are blankets. It's soothing to fall in a rhythm of steady stitches working toward something big, beautiful, and comforting. They make great gifts. I get most patterns from mamainastitch.com. I also make hats, scarves, and cardigans.
It's that phase of an internet community where the people who were there prior to some big transition say lots of things about how they were there prior to the transition. Millennials from the early internet forum days know the drill.
November 15, 2024 at 11:59 PM
It's that phase of an internet community where the people who were there prior to some big transition say lots of things about how they were there prior to the transition. Millennials from the early internet forum days know the drill.
Things I'm working on and will enjoy sharing:
1. I am director and principal investigator of The Mark Fossett Lab (named after my late mentor and dear friend), a project to map data across neighborhoods in 1940. We're adding new cities on a regular basis, go check it out! themarkfossettlab.com
1. I am director and principal investigator of The Mark Fossett Lab (named after my late mentor and dear friend), a project to map data across neighborhoods in 1940. We're adding new cities on a regular basis, go check it out! themarkfossettlab.com
The Mark Fossett Lab
A collaborative effort to digitize 1940 enumeration district boundaries and map 1940 census data across neighborhoods with the goal of understanding the origins of urban residential segregation patter...
themarkfossettlab.com
November 14, 2024 at 6:02 PM
Things I'm working on and will enjoy sharing:
1. I am director and principal investigator of The Mark Fossett Lab (named after my late mentor and dear friend), a project to map data across neighborhoods in 1940. We're adding new cities on a regular basis, go check it out! themarkfossettlab.com
1. I am director and principal investigator of The Mark Fossett Lab (named after my late mentor and dear friend), a project to map data across neighborhoods in 1940. We're adding new cities on a regular basis, go check it out! themarkfossettlab.com