Prof Beans
@youeatsnot.bsky.social
Just a mom in a world of supermoms and social media. Works in higher ed & some other jobs because life 🤷♀️
Posts are my own & mostly snark. Don’t be a jerk.
Posts are my own & mostly snark. Don’t be a jerk.
I dwell in Possibility
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 6, 2025 at 10:57 PM
I dwell in Possibility
this person gets it
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH
December 6, 2025 at 7:58 PM
this person gets it
those poor mediocre men
December 6, 2025 at 7:43 PM
those poor mediocre men
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If you think about it @netflix.com ceo Ted Sarandos just expertly froze all competition in place for two years, even if the company does not get past regulators, unions, Trump’s rapidly decaying body etc. The Ellisons are playing checkers and he is playing chess.
Stayed up all night calling, texting, writing, and processing a monumental moment in Hollywood history. Here's how the Netflix-Warners deal went down and what's likely to happen next. ⬇️⬇️ puck.news/is-the-netfl...
Is the Netflix-Warners Deal Really Such a Disaster?
Yes, the blockbuster $83 billion acquisition of the Warner Bros. studio and HBO Max would decisively end the streaming wars. But is Ted Sarandos getting his hands on a historic studio really the end o...
puck.news
December 5, 2025 at 9:28 PM
If you think about it @netflix.com ceo Ted Sarandos just expertly froze all competition in place for two years, even if the company does not get past regulators, unions, Trump’s rapidly decaying body etc. The Ellisons are playing checkers and he is playing chess.
Surreal stuff.
lol the ACIP committee let Aaron Siri speak for some 90 minutes and cut off CDC experts and scientists off after two minutes (sometime yelling at them to shut them up). Incredible stuff.
The country's biggest anti-vaccine lawyer, the guy behind weakened school mandates in Mississippi and West Virginia, who pulls in millions a year harassing the CDC on behalf of Del Bigtree's anti-vaxx org is ... presenting at ACIP. This panel is anti-vaccine theater. It's a cruel joke.
December 5, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Surreal stuff.
Also covid was really miserable to have. Did these people really add voluntarily pooing/“deworming” themselves on top of it?
Let's tell people to take horse dewormer instead of vaccines during a worldwide pandemic killing millions -- like how did you even think of that?
December 5, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Also covid was really miserable to have. Did these people really add voluntarily pooing/“deworming” themselves on top of it?
Who was begging to go backwards with cars?
Sean Duffy on slashing fuel economy standards: "This rule will actually allow you to bring back the 1970s station wagon. Maybe a little wood paneling on the side. We can bring back choice to consumers."
December 4, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Who was begging to go backwards with cars?
I went into my search history today to find a link for a christmas present.
I did NOT go into my search history to discover 3am searches for “world’s shittiest toilet paper”
Who even am I?!
I did NOT go into my search history to discover 3am searches for “world’s shittiest toilet paper”
Who even am I?!
December 4, 2025 at 6:45 AM
I went into my search history today to find a link for a christmas present.
I did NOT go into my search history to discover 3am searches for “world’s shittiest toilet paper”
Who even am I?!
I did NOT go into my search history to discover 3am searches for “world’s shittiest toilet paper”
Who even am I?!
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The end of academic freedom, Flowchart Edition.
TX Tech has a flow chat for guidance on what can be taught in the university system. Two things:
1. Very little content seems to be permitted. This is partisan control of the curriculum.
2. I would not enjoy teaching under these conditions, but I really would not want to be a Chair or Dean.
1. Very little content seems to be permitted. This is partisan control of the curriculum.
2. I would not enjoy teaching under these conditions, but I really would not want to be a Chair or Dean.
December 2, 2025 at 1:38 AM
The end of academic freedom, Flowchart Edition.
Fight for my career, livelihood, integrity, or just give every A’s and collect my paycheck. Tough choice.
Sooo here's a little public records request I just made to the University of Oklahoma.
December 1, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Fight for my career, livelihood, integrity, or just give every A’s and collect my paycheck. Tough choice.
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It’s useful to think about things like this in numbers of tenure track professors.
$33M is 358 assistant professors. Or about fourteen percent of the total number of full-time faculty at Michigan State.
$33M is 358 assistant professors. Or about fourteen percent of the total number of full-time faculty at Michigan State.
SOURCES: Michigan State is firing head coach Jonathan Smith, @theathletic.com has learned.
He went 9-15 in two seasons, including 1-8 in the Big Ten this year. (ESPN first reported).
MSU players meeting called for 2:45. Smith has a $33 million buyout (with offset).
He went 9-15 in two seasons, including 1-8 in the Big Ten this year. (ESPN first reported).
MSU players meeting called for 2:45. Smith has a $33 million buyout (with offset).
December 1, 2025 at 12:05 AM
It’s useful to think about things like this in numbers of tenure track professors.
$33M is 358 assistant professors. Or about fourteen percent of the total number of full-time faculty at Michigan State.
$33M is 358 assistant professors. Or about fourteen percent of the total number of full-time faculty at Michigan State.
Mommy gurus are just part of one big circlejerk that leads to this nonsense constantly being published.
COME ON.
apple.news/APUvrZNRPQqu...
COME ON.
apple.news/APUvrZNRPQqu...
I've studied over 200 kids—the happiest ones have parents who do 9 things with them every morning — CNBC
Raising happy kids starts with a calm, joyful morning routine. Child psychologist Reem Raouda has studied over 200 kids, and she's found that the happiest, most well-rounded kids have parents who do n...
apple.news
December 1, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Mommy gurus are just part of one big circlejerk that leads to this nonsense constantly being published.
COME ON.
apple.news/APUvrZNRPQqu...
COME ON.
apple.news/APUvrZNRPQqu...
Today is really windy in Detroit. Carts were going rogue in the parking lot. I felt like a really good human doing my part to collect the carts at Kroger this evening…
Until the lady next to me ditched her cart between our cars and then flipped me off when I got out & put it away.
Fuck people.
Until the lady next to me ditched her cart between our cars and then flipped me off when I got out & put it away.
Fuck people.
November 27, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Today is really windy in Detroit. Carts were going rogue in the parking lot. I felt like a really good human doing my part to collect the carts at Kroger this evening…
Until the lady next to me ditched her cart between our cars and then flipped me off when I got out & put it away.
Fuck people.
Until the lady next to me ditched her cart between our cars and then flipped me off when I got out & put it away.
Fuck people.
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NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet -- And Thanksgiving Dinner
Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Literally zooming into a dark age somehow hastened by technology and innovation is weird to think about
November 25, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Literally zooming into a dark age somehow hastened by technology and innovation is weird to think about
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BREAKING: Biff Lost the Almanac
November 23, 2025 at 11:45 PM
BREAKING: Biff Lost the Almanac
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Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges
Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
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The Repayment Assistance Plan removed many professions from the designation of professional when reviewing lending caps.
Nursing, PA, PT, & audiology are excluded from the updated list. Others not considered professional include architecture, accounting, & mental health.
Still included? Theology.
Nursing, PA, PT, & audiology are excluded from the updated list. Others not considered professional include architecture, accounting, & mental health.
Still included? Theology.
November 23, 2025 at 3:17 AM
The Repayment Assistance Plan removed many professions from the designation of professional when reviewing lending caps.
Nursing, PA, PT, & audiology are excluded from the updated list. Others not considered professional include architecture, accounting, & mental health.
Still included? Theology.
Nursing, PA, PT, & audiology are excluded from the updated list. Others not considered professional include architecture, accounting, & mental health.
Still included? Theology.
NBD, its just some new kids fresh out of college with massive student loans to start repaying
Kevin Hassett: "I think there could be a little bit of an almost quiet time in the labor market, because firms are finding that AI is making their workers so productive that they don't necessarily have to hire the new kids out of college and so on."
November 17, 2025 at 10:38 PM
NBD, its just some new kids fresh out of college with massive student loans to start repaying
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Fewer International Students Came to the U.S. This Fall
Nearly a year into the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration and visas, data reveals that new international student enrollment is down 17 percent since last fall. https://bit.ly/3JCkG16
#EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd
Nearly a year into the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration and visas, data reveals that new international student enrollment is down 17 percent since last fall. https://bit.ly/3JCkG16
#EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd
November 17, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Fewer International Students Came to the U.S. This Fall
Nearly a year into the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration and visas, data reveals that new international student enrollment is down 17 percent since last fall. https://bit.ly/3JCkG16
#EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd
Nearly a year into the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration and visas, data reveals that new international student enrollment is down 17 percent since last fall. https://bit.ly/3JCkG16
#EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd
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The executive has encouraged the legislature to compel the executive to release files the executive holds and has chosen not to release despite calls from legislators. It's unclear whether the executive will veto the legislature's bill, and whether the legislature will over-ride the executive's veto
November 17, 2025 at 4:16 PM
The executive has encouraged the legislature to compel the executive to release files the executive holds and has chosen not to release despite calls from legislators. It's unclear whether the executive will veto the legislature's bill, and whether the legislature will over-ride the executive's veto
I can smell this decor
November 15, 2025 at 7:58 PM
I can smell this decor
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our long national nightmare is over
November 15, 2025 at 3:26 AM
our long national nightmare is over
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Do you want to know why Michelle Obama won’t run for president?
Here it is, and she’s not wrong…
Here it is, and she’s not wrong…
November 15, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Do you want to know why Michelle Obama won’t run for president?
Here it is, and she’s not wrong…
Here it is, and she’s not wrong…