Bren Ram phd
@brenram.bsky.social
<1% of the phds in the United States belong to islanders and one of them is me!!! 🇫🇯 artist, conservationist, apocalypse studies guy, word understander, friend to birds, enjoyer of vertical sports ⛷️🤿🧗♀️ https://linktr.ee/brenmakesthings
One of the reasons I’m not scared of aging/looking older is that I have a lot of old people that I love & admire and I don’t think it would be bad to look like them. I wonder how ppls attitudes about bodies would change if we had more opportunities to hang out w old people
May 14, 2025 at 8:50 AM
One of the reasons I’m not scared of aging/looking older is that I have a lot of old people that I love & admire and I don’t think it would be bad to look like them. I wonder how ppls attitudes about bodies would change if we had more opportunities to hang out w old people
My partner today: “if I was two worms, which one would you love more”
April 25, 2025 at 5:49 PM
My partner today: “if I was two worms, which one would you love more”
Tired of pretending I don’t love ska
April 24, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Tired of pretending I don’t love ska
Me this morning: why does my stomach muscles hurting so bad and feeling so sore? It’s different than period cramp pain what is it??
Me yesterday: I wonder how long I can hold a plank for
Me yesterday: I wonder how long I can hold a plank for
April 16, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Me this morning: why does my stomach muscles hurting so bad and feeling so sore? It’s different than period cramp pain what is it??
Me yesterday: I wonder how long I can hold a plank for
Me yesterday: I wonder how long I can hold a plank for
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Technically, I'm trained as a journalist and instructional designer.
So, I have a very specific skillset.
This is a PDF that's meant to be easy and actionable. It's first steps. It's hyperlinked. If it's helpful, share it.
Preview in images:
www.mediafire.com/file/1877vh7...
So, I have a very specific skillset.
This is a PDF that's meant to be easy and actionable. It's first steps. It's hyperlinked. If it's helpful, share it.
Preview in images:
www.mediafire.com/file/1877vh7...
April 6, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Technically, I'm trained as a journalist and instructional designer.
So, I have a very specific skillset.
This is a PDF that's meant to be easy and actionable. It's first steps. It's hyperlinked. If it's helpful, share it.
Preview in images:
www.mediafire.com/file/1877vh7...
So, I have a very specific skillset.
This is a PDF that's meant to be easy and actionable. It's first steps. It's hyperlinked. If it's helpful, share it.
Preview in images:
www.mediafire.com/file/1877vh7...
"Catastrophizing" is a weird and wistful piece of ecofiction by Katie McIvor. Check it out here in our issue 16:
Catastrophizing - Small Wonders
It isn’t always the water that frightens me. What scares me is the waste the water leaves behind.
smallwondersmag.com
April 13, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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U.S. Imposes Tariffs On Remote Island Of Penguins And Seals
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theonion.com/u-s-imp...
April 10, 2025 at 9:30 PM
U.S. Imposes Tariffs On Remote Island Of Penguins And Seals
theonion.com/u-s-imp...
theonion.com/u-s-imp...
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NEW: Entire scientific fields have been wiped out by the nearly 800 grants cancelled at NIH, finds a @nature.com analysis of the unprecedented cuts.
About half of all 2024 NIH projects related to LGBT+ health or vaccine hesitancy — gone.
See the other topics and US states hardest hit here:
About half of all 2024 NIH projects related to LGBT+ health or vaccine hesitancy — gone.
See the other topics and US states hardest hit here:
How Trump 2.0 is slashing NIH-backed research — in charts
Nature analyses which fields of science and US states are being hit hardest by grant terminations.
www.nature.com
April 10, 2025 at 8:36 PM
NEW: Entire scientific fields have been wiped out by the nearly 800 grants cancelled at NIH, finds a @nature.com analysis of the unprecedented cuts.
About half of all 2024 NIH projects related to LGBT+ health or vaccine hesitancy — gone.
See the other topics and US states hardest hit here:
About half of all 2024 NIH projects related to LGBT+ health or vaccine hesitancy — gone.
See the other topics and US states hardest hit here:
Sometimes white ppl say “wowww i never thought of it this way before” and you just have to be like 😀 I can tell
April 10, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Sometimes white ppl say “wowww i never thought of it this way before” and you just have to be like 😀 I can tell
Oscar wearing Nietzsche as a tiny hat
April 7, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Oscar wearing Nietzsche as a tiny hat
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April is National Poetry Month. In celebration of poetry’s vital necessity, we put together a list of poetry books that contain stories of resistance, sorrow, solidarity and hope in our struggles to change the world.
“Poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.”
“Poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.” —Audre Lorde
April is National Poetry Month. To celebrate, we put together a list of poetry books that tell stories of resistance...
www.haymarketbooks.org
April 1, 2025 at 2:14 PM
April is National Poetry Month. In celebration of poetry’s vital necessity, we put together a list of poetry books that contain stories of resistance, sorrow, solidarity and hope in our struggles to change the world.
Hell yeah hell yeah hell yeah
April 2, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Hell yeah hell yeah hell yeah
The YouTube search bar hates to see me logging on at 5am. Been watching time lapse videos of snails laying eggs for 30 minutes hell yeah
April 2, 2025 at 10:14 AM
The YouTube search bar hates to see me logging on at 5am. Been watching time lapse videos of snails laying eggs for 30 minutes hell yeah
I think the best way to watch lost highway is the way im doing it (on my phone, on my desk, in between meetings)
March 20, 2025 at 4:38 PM
I think the best way to watch lost highway is the way im doing it (on my phone, on my desk, in between meetings)
As an artist and a bird person I must say I am really not a fan of the weird AI macaw mutations that adobe is using for creative cloud project loading screens 😭 they are uncanny and frightening to me. Here’s an oscar pic to cleanse the palette
March 3, 2025 at 4:06 PM
As an artist and a bird person I must say I am really not a fan of the weird AI macaw mutations that adobe is using for creative cloud project loading screens 😭 they are uncanny and frightening to me. Here’s an oscar pic to cleanse the palette
Tbf? Some of yall do need to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting
March 2, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Tbf? Some of yall do need to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting
New great grandpa single featuring lead singer @al-menne.bsky.social ‘s new voice out now and everyone on earth needs to listen immediately now
February 26, 2025 at 4:48 PM
New great grandpa single featuring lead singer @al-menne.bsky.social ‘s new voice out now and everyone on earth needs to listen immediately now
If I see the brutalist for a fourth time do you guys think I’ll finally be able to stop thinking about it
If I see the brutalist for a third time do you guys think I’ll finally be able to stop thinking about it
February 26, 2025 at 4:38 PM
If I see the brutalist for a fourth time do you guys think I’ll finally be able to stop thinking about it
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“I’ll tell you what freedom is to me. No fear.” —Nina Simone was born February 21, 1933
February 21, 2025 at 4:30 PM
“I’ll tell you what freedom is to me. No fear.” —Nina Simone was born February 21, 1933
I’m about to go to the opera 2 nights in a row wish me luck doing anything related to this reality for the next week
February 12, 2025 at 9:24 PM
I’m about to go to the opera 2 nights in a row wish me luck doing anything related to this reality for the next week
Blah blah blah, ask not for whom the hotline blings; it blings for thee
February 10, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Blah blah blah, ask not for whom the hotline blings; it blings for thee
If I see the brutalist for a third time do you guys think I’ll finally be able to stop thinking about it
January 27, 2025 at 7:51 PM
If I see the brutalist for a third time do you guys think I’ll finally be able to stop thinking about it
I really like that they put a guy with a parrot in the new dragon age game
January 22, 2025 at 5:41 AM
I really like that they put a guy with a parrot in the new dragon age game
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For the good people of slate dot com I enlisted Elia Kazan and Shakespeare to try to explain Guy Pearce, one of the few contemporary actors to intentionally turn down the big career for a smaller, steadier body of work:
slate.com/culture/2025...
slate.com/culture/2025...
After 31 Years of Great Performances, He’s Set to Get His First Oscar Nomination. What Took So Long?
The Brutalist actor was once bound for leading-man Hollywood stardom. Now he’s set to get recognized for a very different kind of role.
slate.com
January 18, 2025 at 3:42 PM
For the good people of slate dot com I enlisted Elia Kazan and Shakespeare to try to explain Guy Pearce, one of the few contemporary actors to intentionally turn down the big career for a smaller, steadier body of work:
slate.com/culture/2025...
slate.com/culture/2025...