Tracy Sweet
@tracysweet.bsky.social
She/Her ~ Statistician/Quant Methodologist at UMD ~ CMU Stats Alum ~ Researches racial equity, social networks, machine learning, Bayesian things ~ Mom of 3 kids, 2 dogs, 1 cat
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! 😆
October 9, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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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korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in
September 14, 2025 at 6:06 PM
korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in
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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! ☺️
Feel free to share! ☺️
September 4, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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! ☺️
Feel free to share! ☺️
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!
Keep using your calculators, folks!
August 29, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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!
Keep using your calculators, folks!
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The real big deal here is an assoc hire. Very few of those this year.
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
Assistant professor of higher education: apply.interfolio.com/172680
Associate/full professor of education policy: apply.interfolio.com/172632
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August 26, 2025 at 6:39 PM
The real big deal here is an assoc hire. Very few of those this year.
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This is brilliant.
🚨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/...
@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/...
August 21, 2025 at 2:36 PM
This is brilliant.
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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#...
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#...
August 11, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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#...
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#...
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
July 23, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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...
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?
Methods are not new, but we discuss algorithmic bias in education. Any ideas?
June 17, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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?
Methods are not new, but we discuss algorithmic bias in education. Any ideas?
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. 😫
June 12, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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. 😫
In one week, I'll be teaching a workshop on social network analysis? Join me!
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...
umd-cilvr.catalog.instructure.com/courses/intr...
May 7, 2025 at 4:03 PM
In one week, I'll be teaching a workshop on social network analysis? Join me!
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🧪 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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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 🧵
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
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May 4, 2025 at 5:24 PM
🧪 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 🧵
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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"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...
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...
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April 30, 2025 at 4:11 PM
"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...
buttondown.com/theswordandt...
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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!
April 30, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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!
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...
umd-cilvr.catalog.instructure.com/courses/intr...
April 28, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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...
umd-cilvr.catalog.instructure.com/courses/intr...
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.
I didn’t know I needed a time machine to do science.
April 20, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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.
I didn’t know I needed a time machine to do science.
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🙏 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
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
April 19, 2025 at 1:25 AM
🙏 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
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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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.
ICE officers. Cabinet members. White House staffers. Even the president.
April 18, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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.
ICE officers. Cabinet members. White House staffers. Even the president.
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Observe that the one that complied and the one that didn't comply are treated exactly the same way.
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
Agency staff have also been instructed to not speak about this funding freeze to grantees and applicants
April 18, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Observe that the one that complied and the one that didn't comply are treated exactly the same way.
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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.
April 18, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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.
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PAYING THE GOVERNMENT OF EL SALVADOR TO KEEP HIM AT CECOT
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”
“His answer was that the Trump administration is paying the government of El Salvador to keep him at CECOT”
Senator Chris Van Hollen is speaking live from El Salvador, where he just met with the Salvadoran VP: www.youtube.com/live/pYZPzHy...
April 16, 2025 at 6:21 PM
PAYING THE GOVERNMENT OF EL SALVADOR TO KEEP HIM AT CECOT
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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.
I'm flying to El Salvador tomorrow morning to check on his condition and discuss his return.
April 15, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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.
I'm flying to El Salvador tomorrow morning to check on his condition and discuss his return.
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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 ⬇️
Follow along for updates ⬇️
April 15, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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 ⬇️
Follow along for updates ⬇️
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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.
“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.
April 15, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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.
“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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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.
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But the Abrego Garcia case is the crisis moment.
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April 14, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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.
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But the Abrego Garcia case is the crisis moment.
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