Jen Dobbs-Oates
@jendobbsoates.bsky.social
Professor, administrator, & advocate for experiential education
Mom, wife, & gun sense advocate
Mom, wife, & gun sense advocate
My first time to see the northern lights! They came right to my backyard in Indiana!
November 12, 2025 at 3:31 AM
My first time to see the northern lights! They came right to my backyard in Indiana!
Great weather for trick or treating this year. Lots of fun to go out with my 10yo & his friends. Most surprising items?
A packet of Ramen and some maple salmon jerky.
A packet of Ramen and some maple salmon jerky.
November 1, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Great weather for trick or treating this year. Lots of fun to go out with my 10yo & his friends. Most surprising items?
A packet of Ramen and some maple salmon jerky.
A packet of Ramen and some maple salmon jerky.
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“What if the Matrix is real, but like, the robots made the movie to make us think it’s not.”
~Deep Thoughts with Cody Bellinger~
~Deep Thoughts with Cody Bellinger~
December 3, 2024 at 4:30 AM
“What if the Matrix is real, but like, the robots made the movie to make us think it’s not.”
~Deep Thoughts with Cody Bellinger~
~Deep Thoughts with Cody Bellinger~
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This is such a lovely story, it reinforces the idea that most people are good.
Comedian spots man in cardiac arrest during show, finishes set at hospital
“You guys all really just came together in a really cool way,” comedian Drew Lynch told his audience between tears. “You saved that guy’s life.”
wapo.st
September 25, 2025 at 12:44 PM
This is such a lovely story, it reinforces the idea that most people are good.
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I concur. Empty Academia[.]edu of your data.
Please do this if you did not long ago. Delete everything. Agree to nothing. The people who run this going concern despise academics, are likely very illiquid right now, & will show now compunction about selling all your data, as their revised user agreement makes clear.
In addition to cancelling your Disney accounts, now is also a great time to delete academia.edu
September 21, 2025 at 10:18 PM
I concur. Empty Academia[.]edu of your data.
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I’m so tired of never being bored.
September 4, 2025 at 4:50 PM
I’m so tired of never being bored.
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How have you been impacted by the changes we've seen under the current administration? What would you want to say to those in charge?
I'm launching a new research initiative to collect and share anonymous stories of the human toll. And I'd be very grateful for your help.
tinyurl.com/thehumantoll
I'm launching a new research initiative to collect and share anonymous stories of the human toll. And I'd be very grateful for your help.
tinyurl.com/thehumantoll
![The Human Toll
The US is undergoing rapid social, economic, and policy change.
If you've been impacted, we want to hear your story!
To participate, visit: https://tinyurl.com/thehumantoll
Study sponsored under University of Wisconsin-Madison IRB Protocol #2025-1096. PI: Dr. Jessica Calarco
Participants must be at least 18 years of age and reside in the US
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July 30, 2025 at 10:19 AM
How have you been impacted by the changes we've seen under the current administration? What would you want to say to those in charge?
I'm launching a new research initiative to collect and share anonymous stories of the human toll. And I'd be very grateful for your help.
tinyurl.com/thehumantoll
I'm launching a new research initiative to collect and share anonymous stories of the human toll. And I'd be very grateful for your help.
tinyurl.com/thehumantoll
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German probably has a word for this and not ONLY because German has words for everything, in this case for specific reasons also
July 20, 2025 at 6:44 AM
German probably has a word for this and not ONLY because German has words for everything, in this case for specific reasons also
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this is why I have lost the ability to answer “how are you” we have no word for “everything is fine and simultaneously nothing is fine and the everything that is fine makes the nothing that is fine feel like one of those horror movie creatures that get closer every time you shut your eyes“
July 20, 2025 at 6:42 AM
this is why I have lost the ability to answer “how are you” we have no word for “everything is fine and simultaneously nothing is fine and the everything that is fine makes the nothing that is fine feel like one of those horror movie creatures that get closer every time you shut your eyes“
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If any of these are your reps, please take 5 min today and call. Scripts and numbers at 5calls.org. Kill this absolute travesty of a bill.
These are the weak points. You know what to do. First thing tomorrow, use 5calls.org and raise hell.
July 2, 2025 at 7:01 PM
If any of these are your reps, please take 5 min today and call. Scripts and numbers at 5calls.org. Kill this absolute travesty of a bill.
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assassinations, handcuffing a senator at press conference, marines detaining a civilian, and a military parade for the president’s birthday. rough week for democracy.
Governor Waltz has now confirmed that Hortman and her husband were killed in the attack.
June 14, 2025 at 3:14 PM
assassinations, handcuffing a senator at press conference, marines detaining a civilian, and a military parade for the president’s birthday. rough week for democracy.
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It’s all worse than you imagined!
There. Saved you a doomscroll.
There. Saved you a doomscroll.
June 4, 2025 at 12:02 AM
It’s all worse than you imagined!
There. Saved you a doomscroll.
There. Saved you a doomscroll.
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Been chatting with folks who've lost their jobs and several said it would be nice to learn about how to get into consulting work. So I said I could put something together on that! Webinar next Thursday at 1pm eastern. (Thanks AEFP, APPAM, NCME, & SREE!)
Register here: aefpweb.org/ev_calendar_...
Register here: aefpweb.org/ev_calendar_...
June 3, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Been chatting with folks who've lost their jobs and several said it would be nice to learn about how to get into consulting work. So I said I could put something together on that! Webinar next Thursday at 1pm eastern. (Thanks AEFP, APPAM, NCME, & SREE!)
Register here: aefpweb.org/ev_calendar_...
Register here: aefpweb.org/ev_calendar_...
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Make America Peer-reviewed Again
This is what happens when you put internet conspiracy theorists in charge of major government departments.
The MAHA Report Cites Studies That Don’t Exist
The Trump administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” report misinterprets some studies and cites others that don’t exist, according to the listed authors.
www.notus.org
May 29, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Make America Peer-reviewed Again
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The RFK Jr. version of health, where health creates health and healthy people don't get sick and the thing that keeps you healthy is /living the right way/ is very seductive to a lot of people. It also places the burden of illness back on the ill, which decreases the value of human life.
May 17, 2025 at 2:28 AM
The RFK Jr. version of health, where health creates health and healthy people don't get sick and the thing that keeps you healthy is /living the right way/ is very seductive to a lot of people. It also places the burden of illness back on the ill, which decreases the value of human life.
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This is what @MarshaBlackburn & SenatorHagerty want you to believe is helping you. Snake oil salesmen.
#TrumpsTrillionsTransfer
#TrumpsTrillionsTransfer
May 28, 2025 at 3:12 PM
This is what @MarshaBlackburn & SenatorHagerty want you to believe is helping you. Snake oil salesmen.
#TrumpsTrillionsTransfer
#TrumpsTrillionsTransfer
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Just call it the Self-Inflicted Wound Era, when we took a bunch of stuff that was working largely fine (vaccines, weather monitoring, friendly relations with like 175 countries, cancer research, renewable energy credits, the FAA, global trade, etc etc) and just broke them for giggles
May 24, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Just call it the Self-Inflicted Wound Era, when we took a bunch of stuff that was working largely fine (vaccines, weather monitoring, friendly relations with like 175 countries, cancer research, renewable energy credits, the FAA, global trade, etc etc) and just broke them for giggles
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Here's the assignment. Submit a comment by June 7th here (see link below to Federal Register). Spread the word. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
www.statnews.com/2025/05/23/n...
www.statnews.com/2025/05/23/n...
Scientists protest White House plan to put political appointees in charge of grant-making
Trump administration proposal is seen as a way to make NIH institute and center directors political appointees.
www.statnews.com
May 24, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Here's the assignment. Submit a comment by June 7th here (see link below to Federal Register). Spread the word. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
www.statnews.com/2025/05/23/n...
www.statnews.com/2025/05/23/n...
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Everyone has one Mitch Hedberg joke stashed in their brain like a squirrel to sustain them whenever they need to feel joy for 30 seconds and mine is “they say the recipe for Sprite is Lemon and Lime but I tried to make it at home, there’s more to it than that”
May 23, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Everyone has one Mitch Hedberg joke stashed in their brain like a squirrel to sustain them whenever they need to feel joy for 30 seconds and mine is “they say the recipe for Sprite is Lemon and Lime but I tried to make it at home, there’s more to it than that”
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"Alcoholism is a disease, but it's the only one you can get yelled at for having.
Goddamn it Otto, you are an alcoholic!
Goddamn it Otto, you have Lupus!
One of those two doesn't sound right."
Goddamn it Otto, you are an alcoholic!
Goddamn it Otto, you have Lupus!
One of those two doesn't sound right."
Everyone has one Mitch Hedberg joke stashed in their brain like a squirrel to sustain them whenever they need to feel joy for 30 seconds and mine is “they say the recipe for Sprite is Lemon and Lime but I tried to make it at home, there’s more to it than that”
May 23, 2025 at 3:35 PM
"Alcoholism is a disease, but it's the only one you can get yelled at for having.
Goddamn it Otto, you are an alcoholic!
Goddamn it Otto, you have Lupus!
One of those two doesn't sound right."
Goddamn it Otto, you are an alcoholic!
Goddamn it Otto, you have Lupus!
One of those two doesn't sound right."
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There is not a single congressional district in the U.S. where more than 15% of voters support cuts to SNAP, the federal program that provides food assistance to millions of low-income Americans.
May 22, 2025 at 4:23 PM
There is not a single congressional district in the U.S. where more than 15% of voters support cuts to SNAP, the federal program that provides food assistance to millions of low-income Americans.
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Unironically they should buy up the domains for about 60 defunct local newspapers in swing states. Hire two reporters to write almost exclusively about highschool sports and new restaurants opening with every 10th article about how the local GOP is screwing over people.
NEWS:
Democratic mega-donors are debating plans to spend tens of millions of dollars on a range of influencer plans to "find the liberal Rogan."
We've got pitch decks, investor meetings, and internal docs.
One Democrat has a spreadsheet of 26 different proposals.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/u...
Democratic mega-donors are debating plans to spend tens of millions of dollars on a range of influencer plans to "find the liberal Rogan."
We've got pitch decks, investor meetings, and internal docs.
One Democrat has a spreadsheet of 26 different proposals.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/u...
Democrats Throw Money at a Problem: Countering G.O.P. Clout Online
www.nytimes.com
May 21, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Unironically they should buy up the domains for about 60 defunct local newspapers in swing states. Hire two reporters to write almost exclusively about highschool sports and new restaurants opening with every 10th article about how the local GOP is screwing over people.