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Wesley Dean

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Sociologist of the food system at the University of Copenhagen, interest in food poverty and food access, lapsed fed, lapsed philosopher, lapsed baptist, lapsed Texan, Malmönian, he, him, his.

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After an unexpected layoff, I am looking for more freelance work! A larger portfolio is available on my site, nearbirdstudios.com (big updates coming this week), but I'm also going to be sharing more work on here. Direct email is rebecca(at)nearbirdstudios.com 🐡

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Wesley Dean's avatar Wesley Dean @wesleydean.bsky.social
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*in. Damn you iPhone autocomplete.

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Wesley Dean's avatar Wesley Dean @wesleydean.bsky.social
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Solaris is extraordinary and the Tarkovsky adaptation is a masterwork. A Perfect Vacuum is a side splitter. It collects his reviews of fictional works of literature.

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I read one of Lem’s Pirx stories in Omni when I was a youngster and then consumed everything. The whole Pirx collection is brilliant although I’m more of a serious tone than The Cyberiad.

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Yes to piping plovers. No to Space X!

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If you’ve never seen Dorothea Lange’s photographs of the World War II internment camps and the Japanese-Americans who were imprisoned there, today is a good day to see them and to commit to making sure this never happens again.

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Wesley Dean's avatar Wesley Dean @wesleydean.bsky.social
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I second Zotero. Although you usually need to do a bit of quality control for non-academic citations.

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Wesley Dean's avatar Wesley Dean @wesleydean.bsky.social
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My neighbour the whistle pig just paid me a visit.

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Wesley Dean's avatar Wesley Dean @wesleydean.bsky.social
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This house sparrow is looking a bit disheveled. 🪶

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Wesley Dean's avatar Wesley Dean @wesleydean.bsky.social
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Spotted Sandpiper on my recent trip to Mississauga, Ontario. 🪶

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Wesley Dean's avatar Wesley Dean @wesleydean.bsky.social
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My alma mater can usually be expected to fall on the wrong side of history.

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Wesley Dean's avatar Wesley Dean @wesleydean.bsky.social
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I take advantage of family visits to the US, living in Sweden, and working in Denmark to get at least two a year!

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Wesley Dean's avatar Wesley Dean @wesleydean.bsky.social
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This former fed and my old colleagues are reeling. The consequences of this latest court ruling are sweeping and immensely dangerous.

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Wesley Dean's avatar Wesley Dean @wesleydean.bsky.social
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It takes a lot of labor and expertise that Congress simply doesn’t have to transform legislation into workable policy. Once upon a time I was involved in this process and I just can’t get my head around the absurd implications of this ruling.

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Wesley Dean's avatar Wesley Dean @wesleydean.bsky.social
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I remember how happy I was when I walked past on an early trip to Paris.

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Upon the release of the Supreme Court's Chevron decision, the FTC announced that its iconic sculpture would be revised. The man will now be portrayed as broken and bloody, while the horse actively destroys the building. Piles of manure will be spread across the sidewalk, making passage impossible.

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Wesley Dean's avatar Wesley Dean @wesleydean.bsky.social
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I spend most of my time overseas so I haven't seen one yet. I suspect I'll be exposed when I visit my family in Houston later this summer. Then I can jeer in person!

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Wesley Dean's avatar Wesley Dean @wesleydean.bsky.social
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I wonder if the drivers understand our intentions when they see us photograph their silly cars? Or do they think we’re impressed by their display of masculine virtues?

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Wesley Dean's avatar Wesley Dean @wesleydean.bsky.social
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I'd like to see a reprint of that John Dewey stamp!

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Wesley Dean's avatar Wesley Dean @wesleydean.bsky.social
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I rarely think of Rome but I do think of the Columbian exchange on a daily basis. I suppose they both share a penchant for colonialism and rapacious exploitation.

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The irony is the salaries of congress critters and supreme court justices outstrips that of us more ordinary feds. They have less need but somehow greater corruption.

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Wesley Dean's avatar Wesley Dean @wesleydean.bsky.social
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I remember all those times I had to decline an offer to buy me a cup of coffee, drink, or dinner at conferences when I was a federal grant manager. My colleagues and I would often pay out of pocket to attend conferences and sign up for professional memberships. The court is infuriating.

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We adopted the capybara as our semi-official mascot at my tiny USDA agency about halfway through the Trump administration. They saw us through some rough times. Visitors wanted to know why they were on display all around. Why wouldn't they be?

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Wesley Dean's avatar Wesley Dean @wesleydean.bsky.social
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I bet the Pentax will be available on the used market before too long if you can bear the wait.

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Wesley Dean's avatar Wesley Dean @wesleydean.bsky.social
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Wearing a mask on public transit has improved my quality of life so much. This is so infuriating.

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Wesley Dean's avatar Wesley Dean @wesleydean.bsky.social
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Yes indeed. He was entirely blasé about them. The rest of us, not so much!

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Wesley Dean's avatar Wesley Dean @wesleydean.bsky.social
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One afternoon over beers at the local watering hole he pulled out a pill bottle from his pocket and tipped a pile of baby brown recluse spiders into his hand. They scrambled around for a bit and then he scooped them back into the bottle! He assured us that they were sweet little critters.

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Wesley Dean's avatar Wesley Dean @wesleydean.bsky.social
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I remember back in college going on a hike with a top notch spider researcher. Lots of pauses. What I found fascinating was that he identified spiders just from the structure of their webs!

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Wesley Dean's avatar Wesley Dean @wesleydean.bsky.social
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It feels as if those Brunner novels like The Sheep Look Up and Stand on Zanzibar have just fallen off the cultural radar.

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Wesley Dean's avatar Wesley Dean @wesleydean.bsky.social
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Google translate and the translation engine in Word do a fantastic job of translating Danish. I say this as someone who just can’t seem to find the time or will to learn Danish but have to work with Danish text on a daily basis.

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Gregg Gonsalves's avatar Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social
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John Moore, virologist/immunologist from Cornell Weill Med in NYC and I take the NYTimes to task for two opinion pieces on #COVID earlier this month. Both pieces are examples of "science opinion", where non-experts weigh in on topics beyond their ken. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

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Wesley Dean's avatar Wesley Dean @wesleydean.bsky.social
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A friend of mine somehow accumulated three separate offices on campus, all of which looked like this one!

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Wesley Dean's avatar Wesley Dean @wesleydean.bsky.social
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Giving people access to greater resources means they have more resources. Poverty researchers demonstrate this obvious finding over and over and we still have trouble shifting US social policy!

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Wesley Dean's avatar Wesley Dean @wesleydean.bsky.social
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So I found another article from Korea which compares the products to different chiles. The 3x spicy is hotter than a jalapeño but not much hotter. I'll be on the DTU campus where this ministry has offices to visit some food safety people on Friday and I plan to give them a hard time!

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Wesley Dean's avatar Wesley Dean @wesleydean.bsky.social
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Likely. An Italian friend who lives here told me the most serious squabble she ever had with her Danish boyfriend was after too many complaints about the blandness of the local cuisine. Fighting about food seems to be one of the less offensive ways we can express our nationalist sentiments.

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There's a popular expression among bike fanatics that the appropriate number of bikes is n + 1 where n = the the number of bikes you already have. May I propose this as n + 1. I've been coveting one ever since I moved to Scandinavia.

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Yes. I suspect it is pretty spicy, but probably not as spicy as some of the crazy things some friends and family might eat. Danish food can be pretty tasty. A good loaf of rye bread is magnificent. But, spicy or hot it is not by any stretch of the imagination!

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