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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I have been reading all the "students these days" threads from various sides and I have an essay's worth of thoughts -- there's a lot of complexity and heterogeneity that is hard to communicate on social media. There are a couple of things I will say here though. 1/
November 29, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Ffs. We had them at 3rd down and some numpty head butts the ref?!???
a stuffed white cat is sitting on top of a box and asking why ?
ALT: a stuffed white cat is sitting on top of a box and asking why ?
media.tenor.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Ffs. We had them at 3rd down and some numpty head butts the ref?!???
This is actually really funny if you know that in real life I swear like a sailor.
@rmdean.bsky.social has swears! They've used 10 profanities in their last 440 posts.
🥇 "pedophile" (2 times)
🥈 "crap" (2 times)
🥉 "lolita" (1 times)
🥇 "pedophile" (2 times)
🥈 "crap" (2 times)
🥉 "lolita" (1 times)
November 29, 2025 at 2:52 PM
This is actually really funny if you know that in real life I swear like a sailor.
@profanity.accountant I suspect you’re going to make me look a lot better on here than I do in real life. Lol
November 29, 2025 at 2:29 PM
@profanity.accountant I suspect you’re going to make me look a lot better on here than I do in real life. Lol
I like this idea! Lansing urban wildlife for me:
Deer 🦌
Heron
Woodchuck
Ducks 🦆
Coyote
Deer 🦌
Heron
Woodchuck
Ducks 🦆
Coyote
I wanna do this but with 5 animals I’ve seen in the wild on my early morning walks in downtown Vancouver…
Skunk 🦨
Raccoon 🦝
Bald eagle 🦅
Harbour Seal 🦭
River Otter 🦦
What a place to live 😍🥲🥹
Skunk 🦨
Raccoon 🦝
Bald eagle 🦅
Harbour Seal 🦭
River Otter 🦦
What a place to live 😍🥲🥹
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Caribou
Ravens
Seals
Kea
Turkeys
Caribou
Ravens
Seals
Kea
Turkeys
November 29, 2025 at 2:04 PM
I like this idea! Lansing urban wildlife for me:
Deer 🦌
Heron
Woodchuck
Ducks 🦆
Coyote
Deer 🦌
Heron
Woodchuck
Ducks 🦆
Coyote
I think I underestimated how much Pence’s colleagues hate his former boss.
Indiana Senate Republican Greg Walker “said he would have reported the alleged violation to federal authorities “if I thought that there was anyone of integrity in Washington that would follow through on my accusation ..”
@adamwren.bsky.social #redistrict
dailyjournal.net/2025/11/26/s...
@adamwren.bsky.social #redistrict
dailyjournal.net/2025/11/26/s...
November 29, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I think I underestimated how much Pence’s colleagues hate his former boss.
Reposted by Rebecca Dean
Indiana Senate Republican Greg Walker “said he would have reported the alleged violation to federal authorities “if I thought that there was anyone of integrity in Washington that would follow through on my accusation ..”
@adamwren.bsky.social #redistrict
dailyjournal.net/2025/11/26/s...
@adamwren.bsky.social #redistrict
dailyjournal.net/2025/11/26/s...
November 29, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Indiana Senate Republican Greg Walker “said he would have reported the alleged violation to federal authorities “if I thought that there was anyone of integrity in Washington that would follow through on my accusation ..”
@adamwren.bsky.social #redistrict
dailyjournal.net/2025/11/26/s...
@adamwren.bsky.social #redistrict
dailyjournal.net/2025/11/26/s...
TIL that 13yo thought fish sticks were made from chicken. 🤔
November 28, 2025 at 5:25 PM
TIL that 13yo thought fish sticks were made from chicken. 🤔
Someone in my group in this online game i play just said he’s had covid 5 times but he’s not going to get the “worthless vaccine”. Like, ok, dude. 🤷♀️
November 28, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Someone in my group in this online game i play just said he’s had covid 5 times but he’s not going to get the “worthless vaccine”. Like, ok, dude. 🤷♀️
This was a critical funding source for my graduate career. Sad to see it destroyed.
NEW from me - NSF cancels grant scheme for social science research.
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
Today's biggest science news: Doomed comet explodes | Comet 3I/ATLAS course alteration | Dark matter detected?
Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025: Your daily feed of the biggest discoveries and breakthroughs making headlines.
www.livescience.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:12 PM
This was a critical funding source for my graduate career. Sad to see it destroyed.
Happy Butterball Day!
November 27, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Happy Butterball Day!
Reposted by Rebecca Dean
This Thanksgiving, read a Native American poet’s song of healing. https://to.pbs.org/3hJeiqq
This Thanksgiving, read a Native American poet’s song of healing
When Allison Adelle Hedge Coke wrote her poem “America, I Sing Back,” she considered each word a note in a larger song about the nation. “I thought about America singing. That’s why this poem is a song -- a voice calling for reclamation.”
to.pbs.org
November 27, 2025 at 4:03 PM
This Thanksgiving, read a Native American poet’s song of healing. https://to.pbs.org/3hJeiqq
Hear me out: CSPAN for parades.
November 27, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Hear me out: CSPAN for parades.
Every t-day I make a wonderful wild rice stuffing. 20 years ago, when I wrote down the recipe, I doubled it so we had enough for dinner and leftovers. Every year, when I make the stuffing, I forget it’s doubled and I double it. Every year I swear I won’t double double it again. #SwimmingInStuffing
November 27, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Every t-day I make a wonderful wild rice stuffing. 20 years ago, when I wrote down the recipe, I doubled it so we had enough for dinner and leftovers. Every year, when I make the stuffing, I forget it’s doubled and I double it. Every year I swear I won’t double double it again. #SwimmingInStuffing
My faith in the transformative power of education is like my faith in the Almighty: unshakeable, even in the face of all evidence to the contrary.
November 25, 2025 at 2:27 PM
My faith in the transformative power of education is like my faith in the Almighty: unshakeable, even in the face of all evidence to the contrary.
The MSU career portal has a profile page that asks you to choose a title. "Dr" is not one of the options. 🤔
November 25, 2025 at 12:39 PM
The MSU career portal has a profile page that asks you to choose a title. "Dr" is not one of the options. 🤔
This is giving so much joy
yes, hello, I would like to place an order for everyone’s funniest stories of holiday food-related family grudges / drama / chaotic incidents / lore
I feel like we need this
I feel like we need this
November 25, 2025 at 10:39 AM
This is giving so much joy
Updating my CV and realizing that I've been publishing for 25 years. When the heck did that happen?!?
November 24, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Updating my CV and realizing that I've been publishing for 25 years. When the heck did that happen?!?
I have a unique ability to destroy any computer device that comes within my aura. In related news, I can no longer use a mouse on my computer, and even failing to connect my husband's mouse to mine cause it to die.
November 23, 2025 at 8:24 PM
I have a unique ability to destroy any computer device that comes within my aura. In related news, I can no longer use a mouse on my computer, and even failing to connect my husband's mouse to mine cause it to die.
Is it too much to hope for ONE Big 10 win?? I feel for these kids. It’s tough.
November 23, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Is it too much to hope for ONE Big 10 win?? I feel for these kids. It’s tough.
Reposted by Rebecca Dean
Omar El Akkad's One Day, Everyone will have Always Been Against This has won the National Book Award. This is a deserving, necessary win. His words need to be on all of our minds and in all of our hearts.
"When it mattered, who sided with justice and who sided with power?"
"When it mattered, who sided with justice and who sided with power?"
November 21, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Omar El Akkad's One Day, Everyone will have Always Been Against This has won the National Book Award. This is a deserving, necessary win. His words need to be on all of our minds and in all of our hearts.
"When it mattered, who sided with justice and who sided with power?"
"When it mattered, who sided with justice and who sided with power?"
Reposted by Rebecca Dean
This fascinating short article is highly recommended for anyone interested in marine mammals, zooarchaeology, history, folklore, Orkney and the links between humans, seals and the sea.
@mammalsociety.bsky.social
@coastalpaleo.bsky.social
@nesmammals.bsky.social
@marinemammalogy.bsky.social
@mammalsociety.bsky.social
@coastalpaleo.bsky.social
@nesmammals.bsky.social
@marinemammalogy.bsky.social
What a privilege to be among the final contributing authors for @sapiens.org. This piece grows out of my Earth fellowship in Orkney, Scotland, exploring deep-time human–seal relations.
Grateful for the chance to share it and keen to hear what you think. www.sapiens.org/culture/seal...
Grateful for the chance to share it and keen to hear what you think. www.sapiens.org/culture/seal...
Connections and Conflicts With Seals in a Scottish Archipelago
An environmental archaeologist investigates deep-time, mythical, and contemporary relations between seals and Orkney Islanders.
www.sapiens.org
November 22, 2025 at 10:26 AM
This fascinating short article is highly recommended for anyone interested in marine mammals, zooarchaeology, history, folklore, Orkney and the links between humans, seals and the sea.
@mammalsociety.bsky.social
@coastalpaleo.bsky.social
@nesmammals.bsky.social
@marinemammalogy.bsky.social
@mammalsociety.bsky.social
@coastalpaleo.bsky.social
@nesmammals.bsky.social
@marinemammalogy.bsky.social
The one and only thing I know about Ryan Lizza is that he greatly overestimates how much I give a flying fig about knowing more.
November 22, 2025 at 12:22 PM
The one and only thing I know about Ryan Lizza is that he greatly overestimates how much I give a flying fig about knowing more.
Reposted by Rebecca Dean
🚨 MORAES DECRETA PRISÃO PREVENTIVA DE JAIR BOLSONARO
O ministro Xands de Moraes, do STF, determinou neste sábado (22) a prisão preventiva do ex-presidente Jair Bolsonaro, condenado a 27 anos e 3 meses por tentar um golpe de Estado após perder as eleições de 2022.
O ministro Xands de Moraes, do STF, determinou neste sábado (22) a prisão preventiva do ex-presidente Jair Bolsonaro, condenado a 27 anos e 3 meses por tentar um golpe de Estado após perder as eleições de 2022.
November 22, 2025 at 9:39 AM
🚨 MORAES DECRETA PRISÃO PREVENTIVA DE JAIR BOLSONARO
O ministro Xands de Moraes, do STF, determinou neste sábado (22) a prisão preventiva do ex-presidente Jair Bolsonaro, condenado a 27 anos e 3 meses por tentar um golpe de Estado após perder as eleições de 2022.
O ministro Xands de Moraes, do STF, determinou neste sábado (22) a prisão preventiva do ex-presidente Jair Bolsonaro, condenado a 27 anos e 3 meses por tentar um golpe de Estado após perder as eleições de 2022.