Suzanna Crage
@smcrage.bsky.social
Sociologist at SFU, writing an intro applied stats book that challenges the authority of numbers much less p-values; cocktail nerd; reader of feminist romance novels. Wanting good vocab for ADHD as a type of person, not an illness.
“The attorney in the New York office spoke in depth about the plan being recently updated to include mosques and liberal synagogues in the wake of Zohran Mamdani’s recent win in the New York City mayor’s race.”
In case anyone still thought this had anything to do with… whatever they say it’s about.
In case anyone still thought this had anything to do with… whatever they say it’s about.
"Agencies within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, including ICE, ERO, and CBP intend to implement a comprehensive plan to target Spanish-speaking churches across the country during the upcoming holiday season between Thanksgiving, Nov. 27, and Christmas, Dec. 25."
Exclusive: Trump DHS Plans Immigration Raids on Churches Over Holidays
The Trump Dept. of Homeland Security is briefing federal agencies on plans for immigration enforcement operations inside churches over holidays.
thisweekinworcester.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:10 PM
“The attorney in the New York office spoke in depth about the plan being recently updated to include mosques and liberal synagogues in the wake of Zohran Mamdani’s recent win in the New York City mayor’s race.”
In case anyone still thought this had anything to do with… whatever they say it’s about.
In case anyone still thought this had anything to do with… whatever they say it’s about.
“McMahon has said the recent government shutdown proved that the Education Department isn’t necessary.”
Is this how I expected the Trump administration to use the shutdown? Why yes, yes it is.
Journalists: time to start asking people in education whether the shutdown mattered, and how.
Is this how I expected the Trump administration to use the shutdown? Why yes, yes it is.
Journalists: time to start asking people in education whether the shutdown mattered, and how.
McMahon Breaks Up More of the Education Department
Trump officials announced six agreements with four agencies to take over some of ED’s responsibilities.
www.insidehighered.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:01 PM
“McMahon has said the recent government shutdown proved that the Education Department isn’t necessary.”
Is this how I expected the Trump administration to use the shutdown? Why yes, yes it is.
Journalists: time to start asking people in education whether the shutdown mattered, and how.
Is this how I expected the Trump administration to use the shutdown? Why yes, yes it is.
Journalists: time to start asking people in education whether the shutdown mattered, and how.
“Fostering intellectual diversity” by going after people who teach things you don’t like.”* In a grad class. Yup.
*Or use a standard graphic, when one of your students likes to complain to U.S. Senators instead of asking a question in class.
*Or use a standard graphic, when one of your students likes to complain to U.S. Senators instead of asking a question in class.
Indiana Professor Removed From Class Over White Supremacy Lesson
www.nytimes.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:06 PM
“Fostering intellectual diversity” by going after people who teach things you don’t like.”* In a grad class. Yup.
*Or use a standard graphic, when one of your students likes to complain to U.S. Senators instead of asking a question in class.
*Or use a standard graphic, when one of your students likes to complain to U.S. Senators instead of asking a question in class.
The article is worth reading for the brief history synopsis (and the broader context it provides), as well as for yet another example of how straightforward this administration is allowed to be. There’s just no mystery.
Netherlands WWII cemetery removes displays honoring Black soldiers
ABMC, however, told Dutch news outlets that one panel is “off display, though not out of rotation,” although a second panel was “retired.”
www.militarytimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:48 AM
The article is worth reading for the brief history synopsis (and the broader context it provides), as well as for yet another example of how straightforward this administration is allowed to be. There’s just no mystery.
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to safely dispose of these hats, eat them. natural fibers — such as cotton, wool, silk, and linen — breakdown in the digestive track. synthetics do not. thus, if you eat your hat, the synthetics will pass through the other side. smush through the poop to find the synthetic fibers and recycle them.
November 16, 2025 at 1:42 AM
to safely dispose of these hats, eat them. natural fibers — such as cotton, wool, silk, and linen — breakdown in the digestive track. synthetics do not. thus, if you eat your hat, the synthetics will pass through the other side. smush through the poop to find the synthetic fibers and recycle them.
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this is also true in the humanities, publishing, and non-profit management
even though those are numerically majority-female fields, men wield disproportionate power
even though those are numerically majority-female fields, men wield disproportionate power
If women are underrepresented in STEM, it's at least partly because men like this offer mentoring, then embarrass themselves by assuming their mentees must be into them, then decide the best solution is to cut ties, which sends the signal to other faculty that the mentee must not be good enough.
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 16, 2025 at 12:40 AM
this is also true in the humanities, publishing, and non-profit management
even though those are numerically majority-female fields, men wield disproportionate power
even though those are numerically majority-female fields, men wield disproportionate power
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1/ Egalitarianism should begin at home. I link to this article by @bencasselman.bsky.social in light of the communications between Larry Summers and Jeffrey Epstein that have just been released. The released emails and the fact of friendship are vile.
www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/b...
www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/b...
For Women in Economics, the Hostility Is Out in the Open (Published 2021)
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:32 PM
1/ Egalitarianism should begin at home. I link to this article by @bencasselman.bsky.social in light of the communications between Larry Summers and Jeffrey Epstein that have just been released. The released emails and the fact of friendship are vile.
www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/b...
www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/b...
Does anyone know of research on national and intl cultures of border control agencies? #sociology
“Richard Falk, retired professor, a UN special rapporteur on human rights in occupied Palestine, was on his way to Ottawa to speak at [a conference,] the Palestine Tribunal on Canadian Responsibility.”
“Richard Falk, retired professor, a UN special rapporteur on human rights in occupied Palestine, was on his way to Ottawa to speak at [a conference,] the Palestine Tribunal on Canadian Responsibility.”
Prominent legal scholar detained at Canadian border while on his way to a conference on Palestine | CBC News
A well-known academic and former UN special rapporteur says he was detained by customs agents in Toronto while on his way to speak at a conference on human rights violations against Palestinians.
www.cbc.ca
November 16, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Does anyone know of research on national and intl cultures of border control agencies? #sociology
“Richard Falk, retired professor, a UN special rapporteur on human rights in occupied Palestine, was on his way to Ottawa to speak at [a conference,] the Palestine Tribunal on Canadian Responsibility.”
“Richard Falk, retired professor, a UN special rapporteur on human rights in occupied Palestine, was on his way to Ottawa to speak at [a conference,] the Palestine Tribunal on Canadian Responsibility.”
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FUCK YES
Open AI loses copyright case in Germany.
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Blow for OpenAI in Germany as court rules song lyrics used illegally
A German court ruled on Tuesday that OpenAI violated copyright on nine popular songs in a lawsuit that marked another attempt to prevent the free use of artists' content online. The Munich Regional Co...
www.yahoo.com
November 15, 2025 at 3:31 AM
FUCK YES
So unhappy we let “gender ideology” be a term. And that reporters let people use Orwell as a manual.
Admins setting limits on the curriculum is not “policing individual speech.”
“This does not diminish academic freedom. It reinforces the balance between academic freedom and academic responsibility.”
Admins setting limits on the curriculum is not “policing individual speech.”
“This does not diminish academic freedom. It reinforces the balance between academic freedom and academic responsibility.”
November 14, 2025 at 4:39 PM
So unhappy we let “gender ideology” be a term. And that reporters let people use Orwell as a manual.
Admins setting limits on the curriculum is not “policing individual speech.”
“This does not diminish academic freedom. It reinforces the balance between academic freedom and academic responsibility.”
Admins setting limits on the curriculum is not “policing individual speech.”
“This does not diminish academic freedom. It reinforces the balance between academic freedom and academic responsibility.”
Canadian court:
“Judges are experts in law, not [science].” They must “stay out of scientific debates and focus on whether the decision-makers used their expertise to make reasonable and procedurally fair decisions.”
“Procedural fairness is about the decision-making process itself, not the outcome."
“Judges are experts in law, not [science].” They must “stay out of scientific debates and focus on whether the decision-makers used their expertise to make reasonable and procedurally fair decisions.”
“Procedural fairness is about the decision-making process itself, not the outcome."
ANALYSIS | How the son of Russian spies paved the legal path for the cull of B.C. ostriches | CBC News
In his battle for Canadian citizenship, Alexander Vavilov got an opportunity denied to the owners of B.C.'s Universal Ostrich Farms — a chance to argue his case before Canada's top court. In the proce...
www.cbc.ca
November 7, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Canadian court:
“Judges are experts in law, not [science].” They must “stay out of scientific debates and focus on whether the decision-makers used their expertise to make reasonable and procedurally fair decisions.”
“Procedural fairness is about the decision-making process itself, not the outcome."
“Judges are experts in law, not [science].” They must “stay out of scientific debates and focus on whether the decision-makers used their expertise to make reasonable and procedurally fair decisions.”
“Procedural fairness is about the decision-making process itself, not the outcome."
And I don’t care what you think about languages being alive “data” is a plural noun.
The more I see people using "casted" instead of "cast" the more I realize that I am a grumpy old fart who only wants to see the language evolve in my preferred directions, nevertheless I will happily judge you for it if I catch you doing it, look, my dude, the accepted past tense is shorter okay
November 5, 2025 at 2:46 AM
And I don’t care what you think about languages being alive “data” is a plural noun.
I have been finally hanging the art that I’ve collected for my office over the last several years and my husband thinks I should also put a showerhead on the wall as a conceptual piece and I am so tempted.
I just need to think of a concept for it.
I just need to think of a concept for it.
October 31, 2025 at 12:41 AM
I have been finally hanging the art that I’ve collected for my office over the last several years and my husband thinks I should also put a showerhead on the wall as a conceptual piece and I am so tempted.
I just need to think of a concept for it.
I just need to think of a concept for it.
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Spoiler alert: it's better to have a good theoretical understanding and design appropriate statistical models than it is to throw zillions of superficially "okay, fine" models at a poorly specified (and often deliberately vague) target.
A bit of good thinking >>> lots of poor thinking.
Shocking!
A bit of good thinking >>> lots of poor thinking.
Shocking!
October 23, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Spoiler alert: it's better to have a good theoretical understanding and design appropriate statistical models than it is to throw zillions of superficially "okay, fine" models at a poorly specified (and often deliberately vague) target.
A bit of good thinking >>> lots of poor thinking.
Shocking!
A bit of good thinking >>> lots of poor thinking.
Shocking!
Useful thread about their paper critiquing the use of LLMs to generate samples of …respondents?… instead of finding human participants. It addresses claims of worldwide generalizability, and draws links to using MTurk for data collection.
Its focus is cognitive science, but applies to other fields.
Its focus is cognitive science, but applies to other fields.
I hope you enjoy the paper! There are fun easter eggs hidden throughout, particularly the definition of AI that somehow made it past peer and editorial review and into the glossary. 13/
October 22, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Useful thread about their paper critiquing the use of LLMs to generate samples of …respondents?… instead of finding human participants. It addresses claims of worldwide generalizability, and draws links to using MTurk for data collection.
Its focus is cognitive science, but applies to other fields.
Its focus is cognitive science, but applies to other fields.
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It is literally making bubble shapes
Another depiction if the circularity of capital flows between OpenAI, Microsoft, Nvidia, CoreWeave, AMD, and Oracle.
October 22, 2025 at 12:10 PM
It is literally making bubble shapes
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They’re not against academic freedom, you see, but what you do isn’t real scholarship. They’re not trampling freedom of the press, you just happen not to be a real journalist. They believe in the democratic process. You just happen not to be a real party, interest group, citizen, human being… (2/2)
October 21, 2025 at 6:23 PM
They’re not against academic freedom, you see, but what you do isn’t real scholarship. They’re not trampling freedom of the press, you just happen not to be a real journalist. They believe in the democratic process. You just happen not to be a real party, interest group, citizen, human being… (2/2)
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"It is not about upholding English and shared values, but about denigrating Spanish and those who speak it. It is about turning Spanish into second-class speech, about making us wary of using it in public, about keeping us quiet and submissive."
October 21, 2025 at 8:08 AM
"It is not about upholding English and shared values, but about denigrating Spanish and those who speak it. It is about turning Spanish into second-class speech, about making us wary of using it in public, about keeping us quiet and submissive."
There is an argument here. It depends on a rock-solid self-identity as a Good Guy. If you’re a GG, your crowd is clearly a Good Crowd. The list of people who’ve done bad things? That just shows the Good Crowd is inclusive. It doesn’t mean the crowd isn’t Good. Of course it is. It’s your crowd.
“All my friends murdered and raped, sometimes they hung out at my house. Get over yourself.”
October 20, 2025 at 2:17 AM
There is an argument here. It depends on a rock-solid self-identity as a Good Guy. If you’re a GG, your crowd is clearly a Good Crowd. The list of people who’ve done bad things? That just shows the Good Crowd is inclusive. It doesn’t mean the crowd isn’t Good. Of course it is. It’s your crowd.
Today I learned about Singapore’s magic cup. In an early COVID update, the PM pause to drink tea before every language switch. Then he did it again in a later update… using the same cup. Clearly, a magic language-changing cup.
And it is still sold! My office has a perfect spot, next to a maple leaf.
And it is still sold! My office has a perfect spot, next to a maple leaf.
October 18, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Today I learned about Singapore’s magic cup. In an early COVID update, the PM pause to drink tea before every language switch. Then he did it again in a later update… using the same cup. Clearly, a magic language-changing cup.
And it is still sold! My office has a perfect spot, next to a maple leaf.
And it is still sold! My office has a perfect spot, next to a maple leaf.
The world is so large, but then I’m traveling and at a museum and I end up talking about urban planning with an Australian architect but then it turns out he’s from Vienna and that’s why neither of us has to explain its housing model or why it’s relevant.
(And finally his accent makes sense.)
(And finally his accent makes sense.)
October 17, 2025 at 7:47 AM
The world is so large, but then I’m traveling and at a museum and I end up talking about urban planning with an Australian architect but then it turns out he’s from Vienna and that’s why neither of us has to explain its housing model or why it’s relevant.
(And finally his accent makes sense.)
(And finally his accent makes sense.)
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“The question of who gets to live as long as they should isn’t moral but systemic.
We often say that death is the great unifier as it’s the one thing that we all have in common. But sometimes, I look around and wonder if even the after-life is segregated.”
We often say that death is the great unifier as it’s the one thing that we all have in common. But sometimes, I look around and wonder if even the after-life is segregated.”
Diane Keaton, Miss Major, D'Angelo...
Who gets to live a "long" life in America?
open.substack.com
October 16, 2025 at 10:17 PM
“The question of who gets to live as long as they should isn’t moral but systemic.
We often say that death is the great unifier as it’s the one thing that we all have in common. But sometimes, I look around and wonder if even the after-life is segregated.”
We often say that death is the great unifier as it’s the one thing that we all have in common. But sometimes, I look around and wonder if even the after-life is segregated.”
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BREAKING: 7th Cir leaves in place court order preventing unlawful use of federal troops in Chicago. We proudly filed an amicus brief for retired national security leaders highlighting the dangers of such deployments. Read the 7th circuit ruling: bit.ly/47gACOl
And the amicus: bit.ly/48Ad4Gu
And the amicus: bit.ly/48Ad4Gu
October 16, 2025 at 10:00 PM
BREAKING: 7th Cir leaves in place court order preventing unlawful use of federal troops in Chicago. We proudly filed an amicus brief for retired national security leaders highlighting the dangers of such deployments. Read the 7th circuit ruling: bit.ly/47gACOl
And the amicus: bit.ly/48Ad4Gu
And the amicus: bit.ly/48Ad4Gu