Sumie Okazaki
@sumieokazaki.bsky.social
Retired NYU Applied Psychology professor, Asian American psychology, author, rescue dog mom, Asian+Jewish, foodie, wine nerd WSET3
New Yorkers protesting tyranny, malice, & incompetence
April 19, 2025 at 6:47 PM
New Yorkers protesting tyranny, malice, & incompetence
This 👇👇👇 - Reject false choice between Jewish safety & democracy jewishpublicaffairs.org/press-releas...
BROAD COALITION OF MAINSTREAM JEWISH ORGANIZATIONS RELEASE STATEMENT REJECTING FALSE CHOICE BETWEEN JEWISH SAFETY & DEMOCRACY - Jewish Council for Public Affairs
Today, a coalition of ten organizations representing a broad swath of mainstream American Jewry – including three of the four denominations – issued a joint statement rejecting the false choice betwee...
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April 17, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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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.
March 30, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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.
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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
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.
theatln.tc
March 24, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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
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?
March 19, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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?
Raising funds for research on rare cancers #cycleforsurvival
March 10, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Raising funds for research on rare cancers #cycleforsurvival
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🚨 Many NSF-funded Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REUs) are being cancelled for Summer 2025.
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Cancellation megathread
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February 24, 2025 at 4:02 PM
🚨 Many NSF-funded Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REUs) are being cancelled for Summer 2025.
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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?
February 11, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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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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.
February 11, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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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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...
"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...
February 11, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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...
"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...
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1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%.
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
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I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
NOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD
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February 8, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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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.
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.
January 29, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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.
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.
Happy lunar new year to all who are celebrating
a poster for 2025 with a snake and the words wisdom and strength
ALT: a poster for 2025 with a snake and the words wisdom and strength
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January 29, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Happy lunar new year to all who are celebrating
APA PsycNet
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January 22, 2025 at 10:13 PM
And here is our qualitative study of how children of working class immigrant families describe their family support on their college pathways
January 22, 2025 at 10:13 PM
And here is our qualitative study of how children of working class immigrant families describe their family support on their college pathways
Thanks for lifting up our work @agamoran.bsky.social
New article in the American Journal of education by @wtgrantfdn.bsky.social grantees H-Y S Cherng, @sumieokazaki.bsky.social, Amy Hsin, & colleagues finds prior test scores can explain diffs among Whites in who pursues STEM majors, but not for other groups. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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January 22, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Thanks for lifting up our work @agamoran.bsky.social
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!
January 21, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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!
Second time was just as magical as the first, maybe even a little more emotionally resonant. I love this show. #maybehappyending
January 19, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Second time was just as magical as the first, maybe even a little more emotionally resonant. I love this show. #maybehappyending
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.
January 9, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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.
First time venturing south of the 60th St since the congestion pricing went into effect. Park & 33rd around 5pm looked - well, non-congested.
January 8, 2025 at 1:19 AM
First time venturing south of the 60th St since the congestion pricing went into effect. Park & 33rd around 5pm looked - well, non-congested.
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 😉
December 21, 2024 at 2:29 AM
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 😉
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.
December 13, 2024 at 4:35 AM
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.