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Rebecca Dean@rmdean.bsky.social |
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Archaeologist (animals, agriculture, ecology, and social systems). Higher Ed Assessment (student success and learning are more important than box-checking). Former Michigan diaspora now home but missing Minnesota. UMich grad working at MSU.
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Rebecca Dean
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Usually if it's too wet to walk, I go work out at the community center. Unfortunately, today there were literally people kayaking down the street in front of the center. www.fox47news.com/neighborhood...
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Rebecca Dean
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Luckily nothing important was ruined!
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Rebecca Dean
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The remnants of Beryl hit Michigan last night. My office window blew open and knocked everything around. My plants are hurricane casualties, alas.
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Rebecca Dean
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Thanks!
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Rebecca Dean
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It's summer, so 14yo created a complicated probability problem for himself and is coding a model to get the right answer. In case anyone wondered if he was truly my kid. LOL.
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Rebecca Dean
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6 months after my bout with covid, I'm still having gastrointestinal fallout. Bleh.
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Jens Notroff
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This flaking red-coloured #CavePainting of three people around a big pig discovered in #Indonesia might be the oldest #narrative artwork humans created, about 51,000 years ago as a new study suggests:
phys.org/news/2024-07... šŗ
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Rebecca Dean
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So nope! Not small! Lol That would have pissed me off too.
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Rebecca Dean
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Thatās really frustrating. Was it a smaller college? Sometimes theyāre more stingy about that stuff.
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Rebecca Dean
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I can see that. I only took two AP tests (I didnāt know it was possible to take them without the class, and I didnāt realize until I got to college what the advantage would have been) but if the U says they will take the credit then they should get you closer to graduation!
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Rebecca Dean
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For me it makes a difference if itās a topic, like math or physics, where everyone agrees on the skills and knowledge required from an entry-level student, vs a complex skill like writing that improves with use regardless of the specific level of the class.
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Rebecca Dean
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They did that at my previous institution as well.
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Rebecca Dean
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18yo just got her AP scores. Iām glad a 5 lets her skip calculus I but not actually thrilled about her 4 in Lit allowing her to skip College Writing. The development of that set of skills and knowledge is just so different.
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Rebecca Dean
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I honestly think everyone would have been very understanding, I just wanted to avoid the attention.
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Rebecca Dean
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Thank you, that's true. He was a good man and we were all blessed to have him in our lives.
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Rebecca Dean
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My dad's birthday is next week, so I've been thinking about him. Then today we sang one of the hymns from his funeral, so I ended up with tears running down my face and ducking out so nobody would notice. Spent some time with him in the memorial garden. Grief gotta grief, I guess.
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Rebecca Dean
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I love how they love each other.
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Rebecca Dean
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Lolol
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Rebecca Dean
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Well. Crap.
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Rebecca Dean
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Woohoo!
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Rebecca Dean
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Damnit.
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Rebecca Dean
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ForƧa Portugal!šµš¹
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Moira Donegan
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#Metoo ruined lives: the womenās. For the summer issue of Bookforum, I wrote about Christine Blasey Fordās memoir āOne Way Back,ā the aftermath of disclosure, and what it means to be a public survivor when storytelling has proven futile. www.bookforum.com/culture/disp...
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Rebecca Dean
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I had a conversation like this with my 18yo today. She knows Nirvana and some of their music. Had not, however, heard of Pearl Jam and didn't recognize the songs I played. OTOH, when we went to watch Barbie in the theaters, she recognized the Indigo Girls song.
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Rebecca Dean
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LOL. I would have lost it.
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Rebecca Dean
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My mulberry is barely producing anything this year. Iām so bummed.
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Rebecca Dean
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Wuv. Twue wuv.
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Rebecca Dean
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My mom was a public librarian for 30+ years. She's a big part of who I became.
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Rebecca Dean
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LOL. Totally. A decade ago, when I started hearing classic Gen X music in the grocery store, I gave up any delusions of being young. It was tough.
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Rebecca Dean
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lol. Same, but for me itās bursitis. I totally still have the health of a teenager. šš¤£
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Rebecca Dean
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I was a teen when Smells Like Teen Spirit came out. Now Iāmā¦not. (The song I had stuck in my head was actually Come As U Are. Also, I actually preferred Pearl Jam back in the day.)
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Today in feeling ancient: I had a Nirvana song stuck in my head so I played it on YouTube. The ads included AARP and prescriptions for arthritis medication.
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Rebecca Dean
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Ugh. Much whizz. Very bang. All the kitties under the bed.
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Nina Willburger
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Amazing! Archaeologists have discovered the only brewery from the #Roman times in Italy.
www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2024/07/t...
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Rebecca Dean
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Honestly, same.
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Rebecca Dean
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LOL. Pretty sure some of my childhood priests would have considered beer an absolute human right.
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Rebecca Dean
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Honestly, some of the medieval popes stooped to murder to get into the vatican, so we've really got bigger fish to fry.
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Rebecca Dean
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Ugh! Sometimes I remind my students that Mendel was a priest. And because they're American, they're often surprised that a highly religious person could found modern genetics and evolutionary theory. Which says a lot more about our country than the Catholic church. It's honestly sad.
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LOL. Yes. I taught RCIA once at a pretty progressive church and one of the wanna-be Catholics started saying that all popes should be beatified if they haven't already and totally didn't understand why the priest, nuns, and I started cracking up.
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Rebecca Dean
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Yeah. I'm a cradle Catholic who recently decided to switch to Presbyterian. I've never had issues with my super-Catholic family (like, curing diseases with cloth soaked in the blood of a martyr Catholics) but man those converts are a frightening cult in some cases.
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Rebecca Dean
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This is 100% true.
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Not this actual performance, although this is great. I usually have them watch the one where a bunch of his descendants read it. But JEJ's voice, man.
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I always make my kids listen to this on the 4th. Which is probably why my kids are so eager to move out of the house. š¤£
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Dominique Baker
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Yes I ended my talk with a poetry reading. I send this poem to my parents every 4th of July. Here it is in full if you've never read it: poets.org/poem/let-ame...
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Rebecca Dean
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Happy Birthday to our republic...if we can keep it.
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Rebecca Dean
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Etymologically speaking, that is not a redundant name. Smdh. (I like to complain about crosswords.)
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David M. Perry
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Iāll say a little more about this later. But the fun part of this essay was that I wasnāt allowed to assume any knowledge at all about gaming for my reader. None. I had amazing editors work me really hard for each sentence.
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Rebecca Dean
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I had whooping cough while 6 months pregnant and my lungs were squeezed up into the top of my torso. Definitely the sickest Iāve ever been. And for a year afterwards every cold went to my lungs and was 10x worse than normal. 0/10 would not recommend.
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Rebecca Dean
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šÆ that last part. I have serious concerns about the future of my previous institution but, frankly, even knowing most of the faculty and administrators I donāt think I would get a straight answer. Not that anyone is hiding anything. They donāt really know either.
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Rebecca Dean
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Hereās my cynical Gen X take on the Supreme Court: this country has no history of holding powerful people accountable, and nothing has changed.
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