Tracy Sweet

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! 😆

When was the last time they updated their base R? Could they be trying to run RStudio with a very old version of R?

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.

korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in

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! ☺️

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!

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

This is brilliant.

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#...

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...

Thank you! This is a good idea!

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?

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. 😫

I got one of those too!

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

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

🧪 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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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...

"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...

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!

Two-day online short course: Introduction to Social Network Analysis taught by Tracy Sweet. $395 and $195 student discount!

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...

My advisor "Gopen and Swan"-ed me, and I have passed along that article to help students with writing. cseweb.ucsd.edu/~swanson/pap...

“agency’s”

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.

🙏 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

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.

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

Photo of Senator Chris Van Hollen with Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

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.

PAYING THE GOVERNMENT OF EL SALVADOR TO KEEP HIM AT CECOT

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.

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 ⬇️

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.

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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