Ben Byerly, PhD
@benbyerly.bsky.social
Depth coaching, spiritual accompaniment. Interests: Africa, social identity, integral theory, Bowen family systems theory, internal family systems, depth psychology, causal layered analysis, cross-cultural teams, neurodiversity.
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The Mont Blanc range, as seen from the other side of Swiss border…
#photography #nature #art #landscape
#photography #nature #art #landscape
November 25, 2025 at 3:35 PM
The Mont Blanc range, as seen from the other side of Swiss border…
#photography #nature #art #landscape
#photography #nature #art #landscape
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“Once, after the group bought out a tamale vendor’s cart, that man found them days later to say immigration agents were spotted on his block just hours after. ‘You saved my life,’ Rosales said the man told them.” apnews.com/article/chic...
Chicagoans buy out street vendors amid a federal immigration crackdown
Across Chicago’s Latino neighborhoods, fear of a federal immigration crackdown has emptied the streets.
apnews.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:16 PM
“Once, after the group bought out a tamale vendor’s cart, that man found them days later to say immigration agents were spotted on his block just hours after. ‘You saved my life,’ Rosales said the man told them.” apnews.com/article/chic...
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4 yrs ago today, a family member managed a truly spectacular own goal, splintered his domestic bliss, & in the process, united the world for a day.
On popular request, I shall now recreate the livetweet thread from that day
So gather around children, for this is the tale of The Rice Truck Saga
On popular request, I shall now recreate the livetweet thread from that day
So gather around children, for this is the tale of The Rice Truck Saga
September 4, 2024 at 4:14 PM
4 yrs ago today, a family member managed a truly spectacular own goal, splintered his domestic bliss, & in the process, united the world for a day.
On popular request, I shall now recreate the livetweet thread from that day
So gather around children, for this is the tale of The Rice Truck Saga
On popular request, I shall now recreate the livetweet thread from that day
So gather around children, for this is the tale of The Rice Truck Saga
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New article from me about the Marshall Islands becoming the first country with a Universal Basic Income, what the details are, how it came to be, and what may come next.
Side note: It's hard to express how big a deal this is, especially for me personally. I hope this is the first of many dominoes.
Side note: It's hard to express how big a deal this is, especially for me personally. I hope this is the first of many dominoes.
The Marshall Islands Just Quietly Implemented the First National Universal Basic Income (UBI)
How the Marshall Islands built the first nationwide universal basic income, funded by a US-capitalized Compact Trust Fund, and what it means for UBI everywhere.
scottsantens.substack.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:23 PM
New article from me about the Marshall Islands becoming the first country with a Universal Basic Income, what the details are, how it came to be, and what may come next.
Side note: It's hard to express how big a deal this is, especially for me personally. I hope this is the first of many dominoes.
Side note: It's hard to express how big a deal this is, especially for me personally. I hope this is the first of many dominoes.
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October 20, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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This new study in Nature provides a comprehensive update to the "doughnut" framework.
October 6, 2025 at 4:05 PM
This new study in Nature provides a comprehensive update to the "doughnut" framework.
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Powerful scientific clues to the mystery of consciousness are emerging from its very absence.
Advanced meditation research seeks to scientifically understand profound and powerful shifts in consciousness that can arise from contemplative mastery. One such shift, which we call...
Advanced meditation research seeks to scientifically understand profound and powerful shifts in consciousness that can arise from contemplative mastery. One such shift, which we call...
September 30, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Powerful scientific clues to the mystery of consciousness are emerging from its very absence.
Advanced meditation research seeks to scientifically understand profound and powerful shifts in consciousness that can arise from contemplative mastery. One such shift, which we call...
Advanced meditation research seeks to scientifically understand profound and powerful shifts in consciousness that can arise from contemplative mastery. One such shift, which we call...
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This is such a nuanced and big-hearted piece on the evolution of autism as a diagnosis, by an anthropologist of mental health who is also the dad of a now-grown daughter on the spectrum. Great reading (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...
Opinion | Autism Has Always Existed. We Haven’t Always Called It Autism.
www.nytimes.com
September 24, 2025 at 5:25 PM
This is such a nuanced and big-hearted piece on the evolution of autism as a diagnosis, by an anthropologist of mental health who is also the dad of a now-grown daughter on the spectrum. Great reading (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...
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The Rwandans should not be underestimated this weekend 😏
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September 22, 2025 at 2:29 PM
The Rwandans should not be underestimated this weekend 😏
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Latest papers: Shahieda Jansen traces the resolution of mental health practitioners’ concerns with affliliation to psychology as they revitalise their communal personhood with the hep of the African multidimensional personhood in this open access article doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philpsy
September 18, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Latest papers: Shahieda Jansen traces the resolution of mental health practitioners’ concerns with affliliation to psychology as they revitalise their communal personhood with the hep of the African multidimensional personhood in this open access article doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philpsy
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We can't even play basketball 🏀 🤬
August 29, 2025 at 7:10 PM
We can't even play basketball 🏀 🤬
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Not to be that guy always but a better thing to critically reflect on when thinking about the postwar British state and about the logic of protest/arrest/detention might be the 150,000 rural Kenyan forced into concentration camps between 1952 and 1960.
August 10, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Not to be that guy always but a better thing to critically reflect on when thinking about the postwar British state and about the logic of protest/arrest/detention might be the 150,000 rural Kenyan forced into concentration camps between 1952 and 1960.
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In a moment when institutions are capitulating to the administration over diversity and race—
Im thinking of offering a condensed version of my short Columbia course on race, media and global history for this moment.
Would y’all sign up?
Im thinking of offering a condensed version of my short Columbia course on race, media and global history for this moment.
Would y’all sign up?
April 20, 2025 at 1:13 PM
In a moment when institutions are capitulating to the administration over diversity and race—
Im thinking of offering a condensed version of my short Columbia course on race, media and global history for this moment.
Would y’all sign up?
Im thinking of offering a condensed version of my short Columbia course on race, media and global history for this moment.
Would y’all sign up?
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Another obvious point that can’t be overstated: all of this is happening in the ongoing wake (see Christina Sharpe) of the centuries long legacy of transatlantic slavery, the largest forced mass displacement and imprisonment of human beings in the history of the planet.
This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!
April 19, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Another obvious point that can’t be overstated: all of this is happening in the ongoing wake (see Christina Sharpe) of the centuries long legacy of transatlantic slavery, the largest forced mass displacement and imprisonment of human beings in the history of the planet.
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We live in a country where about half the population thinks the other half must be FORCED TO WORK with the threat of starvation and homelessness. After universal basic income is achieved, we will live in a country where each of us knows that none need to be forced and that we all WANT TO CONTRIBUTE.
April 17, 2025 at 4:52 PM
We live in a country where about half the population thinks the other half must be FORCED TO WORK with the threat of starvation and homelessness. After universal basic income is achieved, we will live in a country where each of us knows that none need to be forced and that we all WANT TO CONTRIBUTE.
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So we had an earthquake today, and something amazing happened…
April 15, 2025 at 2:49 AM
So we had an earthquake today, and something amazing happened…
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There's a lot of misinformation out there about the concept of universal basic income. If you want to be well-informed, follow me and learn about what we know from studies in this thread:
bsky.app/profile/scot...
Here's a UBI starter pack too:
bsky.app/profile/scot...
And here's a UBI 101 link:
bsky.app/profile/scot...
Here's a UBI starter pack too:
bsky.app/profile/scot...
And here's a UBI 101 link:
An Introduction to Unconditional Basic Income For All
Why UBI is necessary now and how to get it done
www.scottsantens.com
February 16, 2025 at 7:20 PM
There's a lot of misinformation out there about the concept of universal basic income. If you want to be well-informed, follow me and learn about what we know from studies in this thread:
bsky.app/profile/scot...
Here's a UBI starter pack too:
bsky.app/profile/scot...
And here's a UBI 101 link:
bsky.app/profile/scot...
Here's a UBI starter pack too:
bsky.app/profile/scot...
And here's a UBI 101 link:
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A thread of interdimensional portals I've found on walks in the British countryside.
March 27, 2025 at 10:17 AM
A thread of interdimensional portals I've found on walks in the British countryside.
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“One cannot explain things to unfriendly people.”
- Sigmund Freud
- Sigmund Freud
March 23, 2025 at 9:28 AM
“One cannot explain things to unfriendly people.”
- Sigmund Freud
- Sigmund Freud
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And AS LONG AS THERE'S 8" THICK STEEL BEAMS BETWEEN ME AND THEM, they're really cute.
It was genuinely like something out of Jurassic Park. Every time they *brushed* against these massive steel grates, they rang out like bells, because there's just *so much force* behind any of their movements.
It was genuinely like something out of Jurassic Park. Every time they *brushed* against these massive steel grates, they rang out like bells, because there's just *so much force* behind any of their movements.
March 12, 2025 at 6:03 AM
And AS LONG AS THERE'S 8" THICK STEEL BEAMS BETWEEN ME AND THEM, they're really cute.
It was genuinely like something out of Jurassic Park. Every time they *brushed* against these massive steel grates, they rang out like bells, because there's just *so much force* behind any of their movements.
It was genuinely like something out of Jurassic Park. Every time they *brushed* against these massive steel grates, they rang out like bells, because there's just *so much force* behind any of their movements.
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“Extreme politics acts as compensatory mechanisms to project masculinity when it is lacking otherwise.”
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“extreme politics acts as compensatory mechanisms to project masculinity when it is lacking otherwise.”
New Christian nationalism study from @pauldjupe.bsky.social and @brooklynwalker.bsky.social just dropped. Been waiting for this one.
@kkdumez.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/socrel/advan...
New Christian nationalism study from @pauldjupe.bsky.social and @brooklynwalker.bsky.social just dropped. Been waiting for this one.
@kkdumez.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/socrel/advan...
Jesus and John Wayne Wannabes: How Christian Nationalism and Femininity Shape Extreme Politics Among Men in the US
Abstract. Christian nationalism, the well-known conflation of Christianity with the state, has been linked with a wide range of conservative, exclusionary,
academic.oup.com
March 10, 2025 at 12:51 AM
“Extreme politics acts as compensatory mechanisms to project masculinity when it is lacking otherwise.”
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Latest data from Sam Altman's basic income pilot found that recipients valued work MORE, not less.
People were more motivated to earn more income through work.
There was NO conclusive reduction in work, except for single parents. Every 'critic' missed this. 🧵
People were more motivated to earn more income through work.
There was NO conclusive reduction in work, except for single parents. Every 'critic' missed this. 🧵
January 13, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Latest data from Sam Altman's basic income pilot found that recipients valued work MORE, not less.
People were more motivated to earn more income through work.
There was NO conclusive reduction in work, except for single parents. Every 'critic' missed this. 🧵
People were more motivated to earn more income through work.
There was NO conclusive reduction in work, except for single parents. Every 'critic' missed this. 🧵
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kinda wild how if youre not ultra wealthy and want to hang on to a room full of shit someone left you youre a hoarder and there are whole TV shows about what a freak you are but if you want to hoard the GDP of 3/4th of the planet that's just supposed to be normal
January 11, 2025 at 8:09 AM
kinda wild how if youre not ultra wealthy and want to hang on to a room full of shit someone left you youre a hoarder and there are whole TV shows about what a freak you are but if you want to hoard the GDP of 3/4th of the planet that's just supposed to be normal
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New to BlueSky?
Interested in Psychology?
Click on this post and scroll up for a thread of 40 starter packs containing experts in different areas of psychology.
#Psychology #AcademicSky #EduSky 🧪
Interested in Psychology?
Click on this post and scroll up for a thread of 40 starter packs containing experts in different areas of psychology.
#Psychology #AcademicSky #EduSky 🧪
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November 18, 2024 at 7:14 AM
New to BlueSky?
Interested in Psychology?
Click on this post and scroll up for a thread of 40 starter packs containing experts in different areas of psychology.
#Psychology #AcademicSky #EduSky 🧪
Interested in Psychology?
Click on this post and scroll up for a thread of 40 starter packs containing experts in different areas of psychology.
#Psychology #AcademicSky #EduSky 🧪
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This is why representation matters. This is why programs that support women in STEM (or any male dominated space) is important. I wish more men had this perspective and respect for their female peers.
And yes, it’s a real letter: www.today.com/today/amp/td...
#WomenInSTEM #RepresentationMatters
And yes, it’s a real letter: www.today.com/today/amp/td...
#WomenInSTEM #RepresentationMatters
November 22, 2024 at 7:57 PM
This is why representation matters. This is why programs that support women in STEM (or any male dominated space) is important. I wish more men had this perspective and respect for their female peers.
And yes, it’s a real letter: www.today.com/today/amp/td...
#WomenInSTEM #RepresentationMatters
And yes, it’s a real letter: www.today.com/today/amp/td...
#WomenInSTEM #RepresentationMatters