Rebecca Dean
@rmdean.bsky.social
Anthropologist (archaeology, biological anth, ecology). Director of Assessment and Data Analytics. Former Michigan diaspora now home but missing Minnesota. UMich grad working at MSU. Never speaks for MSU.
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Rebecca Dean
@rmdean.bsky.social
· Sep 21
and what doth the Lord require of thee but to do justly and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
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The Detroit Chamber polled MI in 2024. 58% of voters believe avg student debt is about $50K. Consequently, only 8% of voters thought that a BA/BS was the "minimum to be successful in MI" and only 27% said *any college* was important to getting a good job (1/X)
www.detroitchamber.com/survey-paren...
www.detroitchamber.com/survey-paren...
December 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
The Detroit Chamber polled MI in 2024. 58% of voters believe avg student debt is about $50K. Consequently, only 8% of voters thought that a BA/BS was the "minimum to be successful in MI" and only 27% said *any college* was important to getting a good job (1/X)
www.detroitchamber.com/survey-paren...
www.detroitchamber.com/survey-paren...
OMG. I’m dead. One of the cats came in to see why I was wheezing.
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 8:21 PM
OMG. I’m dead. One of the cats came in to see why I was wheezing.
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I can't stop watching and I can't stop laughing
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 8:01 PM
I can't stop watching and I can't stop laughing
I might be writing work emails today, but at least I’m scheduling them to go out on the 2nd.
a cartoon of spongebob and patrick with the word boundaries
Alt: a cartoon of spongebob and a rainbow with the word boundaries
media.tenor.com
December 26, 2025 at 5:01 PM
I might be writing work emails today, but at least I’m scheduling them to go out on the 2nd.
My children fell victim to one of the classic blunders. “Never go in against an academic in a game of Balderdash.”
December 26, 2025 at 2:51 PM
My children fell victim to one of the classic blunders. “Never go in against an academic in a game of Balderdash.”
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This is so good 😭
Okay, so at the request of the lovely @trance.bsky.social , I'm going to tell a story about what happens when a shitty person is "just joking", and then discovers there are consequences.
AKA That Time Kat Started An Antifascist Hallway Riot In The Third Grade.
Grab your beverage of choice.
AKA That Time Kat Started An Antifascist Hallway Riot In The Third Grade.
Grab your beverage of choice.
December 24, 2025 at 2:15 PM
This is so good 😭
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The 60 Minutes episode about CECOT was not only worth running, it was an exceptionally powerful work of journalism that made clear the US government has embraced torture. You can read the transcript here: www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Read the CBS Report Bari Weiss Doesn’t Want You to See
A transcript of the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, the notorious prison in El Salvador.
www.thenation.com
December 24, 2025 at 1:04 PM
The 60 Minutes episode about CECOT was not only worth running, it was an exceptionally powerful work of journalism that made clear the US government has embraced torture. You can read the transcript here: www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Nobody asked, so I will spend the next couple days posting the absolute definitive thread of best Christmas music of all time. It’s not in any order, these are just the best. I won’t be taking any comments. 🤣🎄
December 24, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Nobody asked, so I will spend the next couple days posting the absolute definitive thread of best Christmas music of all time. It’s not in any order, these are just the best. I won’t be taking any comments. 🤣🎄
Does anyone know the magic words that will convince a dentist to numb me enough the first time, when I tell them I’ll need it, rather than wasting half an hour trying different levels of medication until I just give up and endure the somewhat lesser pain?
December 23, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Does anyone know the magic words that will convince a dentist to numb me enough the first time, when I tell them I’ll need it, rather than wasting half an hour trying different levels of medication until I just give up and endure the somewhat lesser pain?
I’m not going to share the letter from Epstein to Nasser because it turns my stomach but WTF is wrong with these people? Did/don’t they have ANY shame?
December 23, 2025 at 12:55 PM
I’m not going to share the letter from Epstein to Nasser because it turns my stomach but WTF is wrong with these people? Did/don’t they have ANY shame?
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One of the more important stock-taking moments to watch a bootlegged news program censored in your country.
December 23, 2025 at 12:12 AM
One of the more important stock-taking moments to watch a bootlegged news program censored in your country.
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I have to say I think it was a mistake putting Barry White in charge of CBS News. Great singer but he’s no journalist, and he’s been dead for 20 years
December 22, 2025 at 8:47 PM
I have to say I think it was a mistake putting Barry White in charge of CBS News. Great singer but he’s no journalist, and he’s been dead for 20 years
TIL the US Post Service delivers the mail in Micronesia.
December 22, 2025 at 9:32 PM
TIL the US Post Service delivers the mail in Micronesia.
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PBS FRONTLINE's "Surviving CECOT" is incredible, disturbing, moving, and they didn't self censor.
Surviving CECOT | FRONTLINE | PBS | Official Site | Documentary Series
The story of three Venezuelan men branded as gang members and deported to CECOT.
www.pbs.org
December 22, 2025 at 1:48 AM
PBS FRONTLINE's "Surviving CECOT" is incredible, disturbing, moving, and they didn't self censor.
13yo: Look at the cookie I decorated!
Me: What a pretty poinsettia!
13yo: What’s a poinsettia?
Me: That…flower?
13yo [scornfully]: That’s a demigorgan, Mom.
Me: What a pretty poinsettia!
13yo: What’s a poinsettia?
Me: That…flower?
13yo [scornfully]: That’s a demigorgan, Mom.
December 21, 2025 at 5:00 PM
13yo: Look at the cookie I decorated!
Me: What a pretty poinsettia!
13yo: What’s a poinsettia?
Me: That…flower?
13yo [scornfully]: That’s a demigorgan, Mom.
Me: What a pretty poinsettia!
13yo: What’s a poinsettia?
Me: That…flower?
13yo [scornfully]: That’s a demigorgan, Mom.
Signs I’m working too hard: I dreamed that I was trying to sell the university on campus wide student learning outcomes based on fundamental human adaptations. “Long distance running” was a tough sell.
December 21, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Signs I’m working too hard: I dreamed that I was trying to sell the university on campus wide student learning outcomes based on fundamental human adaptations. “Long distance running” was a tough sell.
Personally I thought running for a touchdown but sure.
December 21, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Personally I thought running for a touchdown but sure.
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If you missed out on the Newgrange solstice livestream this morning you can find it here. Really worth it for the authoritative, evocative commentary. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRgu...
Winter Solstice Live Streaming - 21 December 2025
YouTube video by Office of Public Works
www.youtube.com
December 21, 2025 at 11:03 AM
If you missed out on the Newgrange solstice livestream this morning you can find it here. Really worth it for the authoritative, evocative commentary. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRgu...
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I believe in Newgrange supremacy. 5 millennia, zero bullshit. Older than Stonehenge and has a roof, get fucked. Solstice icon, no choice but to stan, etc. etc. etc.
December 21, 2025 at 8:26 AM
I believe in Newgrange supremacy. 5 millennia, zero bullshit. Older than Stonehenge and has a roof, get fucked. Solstice icon, no choice but to stan, etc. etc. etc.
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My colleague Ryan McRae and I wrote our annual round up of top discoveries in human evolution from this year for the @plos.org Sci Comm blog - enjoy! scicomm.plos.org/2025/12/19/t...
Top Stories in Human Evolution of 2025 - PLOS SciComm
By Ryan McRae and Briana Pobiner 2025 has been quite the wild year! With more exciting stories in human evolution than we…
scicomm.plos.org
December 20, 2025 at 2:02 AM
My colleague Ryan McRae and I wrote our annual round up of top discoveries in human evolution from this year for the @plos.org Sci Comm blog - enjoy! scicomm.plos.org/2025/12/19/t...
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Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
December 19, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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My impostor’s syndrome is better (worse?) than your impostor’s syndrome.
December 19, 2025 at 5:37 PM
My impostor’s syndrome is better (worse?) than your impostor’s syndrome.
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Once again a reminder: We can have trans rights, bodily autonomy, gender nonconformity, and freedom of expression, or we can have none of these things.
There’s no third option.
There’s no third option.
In addition to this administration trying to kill kids, and they're also coming for our binders? OUR BINDERS.
December 19, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Once again a reminder: We can have trans rights, bodily autonomy, gender nonconformity, and freedom of expression, or we can have none of these things.
There’s no third option.
There’s no third option.
Ffs. Now I have to explain this to my kid?!?
It's not just TomboyX, by the way! Trump's FDA has sent these warning letters to 11 companies that sell Binders.
- TransGuy Supply
- ShapeShifter Apparel
- GenderBender
- gc2b
- TomboyX
- FLAVNT Streetwear
- Early to Bed
- TOMSCOUT
- For Them
- Fluxion
- UNTAG
www.fda.gov/inspections-...
- TransGuy Supply
- ShapeShifter Apparel
- GenderBender
- gc2b
- TomboyX
- FLAVNT Streetwear
- Early to Bed
- TOMSCOUT
- For Them
- Fluxion
- UNTAG
www.fda.gov/inspections-...
December 19, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Ffs. Now I have to explain this to my kid?!?