Yesterday we heard that our grant to help federal agencies become more effective and efficient at identifying and stopping labor trafficking has been terminated, effective immediately, with no reason other than it not aligning with current federal priorities . 🧵

#FAMU-FSU college of engineering has a booth at the #NSBE Conference in Chicago! Stop by our booth and say hi between 10am and 2:30pm today at Booth 3056! #nsbe50 #orms

@jschwartznv.bsky.social provides great review of how fed research funds benefit everyone! 1. Securing America’s Competitiveness & Safety 2. Improving Healthcare While Lowering Costs 3. Building Jobs, Community by Community Consider sharing with your non-academic communities #AcademicSky #PhDSky

I did not have "needs to justify why federal scientific research benefits us all" on my 2025 bingo card, but here we are... #AcademicSky

New starter pack if you're looking for the #orms community on here: go.bsky.app/SvBND16 Also if you have recommendations of people to add, feel free to send them my way.

#NIJ and all #DOJ opportunities for funding have been cancelled. This will have negative impacts on our public safety. #AcademicTwitter #Orms

Unfortunately I got the same one... I am at a loss for words. This is devastating to so many people working to improve our Public safety systems.

I am very nervous for what this means as a new prof who was planning on submitting/being a part of several NIH grant proposals this year...

"Women full professors are 19% more likely than men at the same career stage to leave academia, as compared with 6% for women assistant professors and 10% for associates."

Really nice paper - when you mix generative AI and perverse incentives in academia, you risk decreasing research quality and stifling researcher development. 🧪 It's telling to see junior (fragile!) academics call for caution about practices that may shape their career for the worse.

Fellow human: "Do you have any kids?" Me: "Do my dissertation and cat count?" 😂 @AcademicChatter

Excited to share our pre-print, "Evaluating diversion and treatment policies for opioid use disorder" by@lauraalbertphdand me. https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.05076 Thrilled to celebrate this milestone! 🎉 Thanks to everyone who has supported me through your mentorship and camaraderie 💕

So thrilled to have been featured in the @INFORMS ORMS Today "what's your stORy?"https://pubsonline.informs.org/do/10.1287/orms.2023.02.23/full/ and am already looking forward to @INFORMS2023, hope to see you there!

Do you find yourself saying, "There must be a better way to do this!"? Maybe Operations Research (OR) is for you! Our @INFORMS DEI blog post discusses what OR is, how to get an OR Ph.D. degree, what OR professionals do, & more. ( #careers #whattodo

Just completed our first High School Student Outreach event for our @INFORMS DEI ambassadors project. It was so wonderful to talk with students and seeing them get so excited about #ORMS. If they are the future, then I can't wait 😊 🎉

You might familiar with the term "recidivism", but have you heard of "desistance"? If not, I recommend giving NIJ's podcast episode a listen: https://justicetoday.buzzsprout.com/1861872/10499946-desistance-it-s-a-process-not-an-event After listening, I am thinking of ways to incorporate the id...

So excited to share that our 2022 INFORMS DEI Ambassador project of generating excitement & interest for #ORMS in high school students of color was not only funded but is now an @INFORMS strategic initiative! 🎉https://connect.informs.org/diversity/ambassador-program 🧵1/6

I came across the proof assistant, @leanprover, for solving/teaching proofs today, and WOW! I'm excited about teaching proofs in the future. Has anyone in #ORMS tried it? #Mathematics folks, do you think other fields can currently use Lean for teaching & solving proofs?

I read an #orms paper today that referred to people w/ substance use disorder as "diseased" throughout the text😣 When in doubt use person-first language, see attached. Also, read papers outside your field to be well versed in other areas' word choices. https://journals.lww.com/journaladdictionmed...

#informs2021 Come join @apschmidt96 and my virtual session today at 11am PST, VWC54 "Simulation applications for Public Policy"

How are you actively improving #research culture? Me: I am allowing myself to be vulnerable, having purposeful conversations about #mentalhealth, & encouraging others to do so! Thanks @ZJAyres for this great, concise article! #AcademicChatter https://www.nature.com/articles/s41578-021-00...

Tips for mentoring undergraduates: 👂Ask regularly what they want to learn 📊If they're stuck, have them draft a presentation of what they know 🥅 Be specific with weekly & long term goals 💜 Have patience & grow their love for research #AcademicChatter @PhDVoice What are your's?

Happy #InternationalCatDay to my fluffiest coworker

So excited to share this work done in collaboration with @madisonpolice @SafeCommMDC, my lab mate, Sebastian, and my advisors Dr. Zayas-Cabán, and @lauraalbertphd Impact of a community-policing initiative promoting SUD treatment https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0376871621004105

"Dear sisters, Feminist art is when your mirrors become windows." - Rita Mae Brown, 1977. Saw this gem at the Smithsonian american art museum! No matter your artistic medium express yourself and share your experiences so others can see the world more through your eyes.

Great piece summarizing LGBTQIA+ research today (and lack thereof...) Although I have yet to work in this space, I am extremely interested in doing research in this area in the future. If anyone is interested in collaborating, please reach out! https://doi.org/10.1287/orms.2021.03.25

Want to apply your data science and machine learning skills to a societal problem? Check out the NIJ forecasing challenge for identifying key variables of recidivism, while controlling for bias. Submissions due June 30th! #ArtificialIntelligence #ORMS https://nij.ojp.gov/funding/recidivism-forec...

Wisconsin is redrawing its historically unfair political districting maps! Thankful the process is transparent @GovEvers and for all of the work the #ORMS community has done to model fair maps. What do you think could make the process even better? https://evers.wi.gov/Documents/PMCCriteriaMemoD...

Being list-less has me listless. Going to write down my to dos, let's hope that fixes it #AcademicChatter

For anyone in the Madison, WI area still looking for where to get vaccinated check out my latest blog post that lists direct links of where to sign up! https://vmwhite.github.io/2021/04/15/COVID_Vax.html #Madison #vaccines

Watching Picture A Scientist. Thank you @UWMadLibraries for making this acessible for the uw community. Here is the link: https://video-alexanderstreet-com.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/watch/picture-a-scientist/cite?context=channel:academic-video-online #WomenInScience #WomensHistoryMonth #WomenSupp...

The problem: there is no easy way to search the internet for dresses that match a specific color. The solution: we need more women in computer science #WomenInSTEM

Graduate Students interested in doing Criminal Justice Research, check out my blog post on applying for the National Institute of Justice Graduate Research Assistantship Program (NIJ-RAP): https://vmwhite.github.io/blog.html Application is due 1/25/2021: https://nij.ojp.gov/funding/nijs-research...