Amber R. Crowell, PhD

Under a guaranteed basic income pilot program in CA, families began to pay off debt, pursue new career options, and create opportunities for their children, says ASA member and program evaluator Amber Crowell @acrowell.bsky.social (Fresno State Center for Community Voices ).

Thank you for sharing our work! This project is so important to us. You can read the full report here: bit.ly/afcgireport

“Understanding Latino & Asian Panethnic & Ethnic Subgroup Residential Segregation”: @acrowell.bsky.social et al. recommend that researchers adopt the described measurement practices "to accurately assess patterns of ethnic group segregation.” @tamusoci.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

I'm beyond delighted to share that I have earned early promotion to Full Professor!

How wonderful!! Congratulations!!

So long story short, peer-reviewed scholarship is heading in a really healthy direction.

A screenshot of a ChatGPT query. The question was: "Why did you summarize a paper that doesn't seem to exist?" ChatGPT said: Good catch! I initially assumed the paper was real based on its citation format and typical topics covered by Crowell and Fossett. I provided a general summary based on their known work on residential segregation. However, after checking, it seems this specific paper doesn't exist. That was my mistake—I should have verified it before summarizing. Thanks for pointing that out! Would you like help finding real papers on this topic?"

It admitted that the paper was not real, and that it had created that summary based off of other work that Mark and I had published. When I asked it why it summarized a paper that doesn't exist, it gave an excuse that sounded like a student caught plagiarizing

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...

I think this, too. It's a much broader concept.

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).

Hello this is my cat.

But just like class and race privilege shapes how parents secure opportunities for their kids in school, it's also shaping how they secure accommodations. In my parent groups, it's very easy to notice who is struggling more than others. Who has to fight and threaten, and who can just ask nicely.

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.

This is so unserious.

If you are one of those people, I'm dying to understand the rationale.

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).

My sense is that orgs are still figuring out how to automate posting on blue sky like they are able to do on the mainstream platforms. Otherwise it's labor intensive to manually keep a stream of news stories going. I don't know about the Bee these days, but Fresnoland has a small staff.

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!

First paper out of my historical segregation project accepted into an oral session at #PAA2025. Hooray!

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?"

A child holding up a multicolored knit blanket.

My younger child is a sweet, sensitive, wild ball of energy. He shows his love so openly and is his sister's best friend. He's so bright and creative and fun. I made him this blanket, he chose the colors and color order.

A closeup of a mustard yellow knit cardigan showing a purple pocket with a green beetle.

A child sitting on the floor wearing a mustard yellow knit cardigan.

I'm a mom to two super cool little kids, 7 and 5. My older child is autistic and amazing and the foremost bug expert and enthusiast. I made her the cardigan with beetles on the pockets (beetles are her fave)

A multicolored knit blanket draped on a chair.

A multicolored knit blanket draped on a chair.

A multicolored knit blanket draped on a chair.

A light gray knit blanket draped on a chair.

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.

My 5YO screamed "THIS IS THE WORST DAY EVER" at 7:40 AM in front of his school this morning because we didn't get there in time for him to wave hi to the driver of the bus that stops outside.

2. I'm co-director of the Center for Community Voices and lead evaluator of the Fresno Guaranteed Income program. We're currently collecting data and supporting the narratives of families in the program. It's only the second guaranteed income program in the Central Valley and it is exciting work!

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...

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