Jen Dobbs-Oates

four white plastic muppet-style busts of dante, moliere, aristotle, and shakespeare, 3d printed in the style of the muppet christmas carol

GUYS

GUYS

MY BROTHER MADE ME THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL BUSTS

A sweep of magenta across a starry night sky

My first time to see the northern lights! They came right to my backyard in Indiana!

Great weather for trick or treating this year. Lots of fun to go out with my 10yo & his friends. Most surprising items?
A packet of Ramen and some maple salmon jerky.

Photo from 3/30/2019. Head and shoulders photo of baseball player Cody Bellinger looking like a stoned guy thinking about something. He’s got close cropped dark hair and a struggle beard that mostly runs along his chin and then a mustache that doesn’t quite connect. He looks like your friend’s older brother’s cute friend who you bought pot from that one time.

“What if the Matrix is real, but like, the robots made the movie to make us think it’s not.”

~Deep Thoughts with Cody Bellinger~

Comedian spots man in cardiac arrest during show, finishes set at hospital “You guys all really just came together in a really cool way,” comedian Drew Lynch told his audience between tears. “You saved that guy’s life.”

This is such a lovely story, it reinforces the idea that most people are good.

I concur. Empty Academia[.]edu of your data.

I’m so tired of never being bored.

The Human Toll The US is undergoing rapid social, economic, and policy change. If you've been impacted, we want to hear your story! To participate, visit: https://tinyurl.com/thehumantoll Study sponsored under University of Wisconsin-Madison IRB Protocol #2025-1096. PI: Dr. Jessica Calarco Participants must be at least 18 years of age and reside in the US [image of a person with their face in their hands]

How have you been impacted by the changes we've seen under the current administration? What would you want to say to those in charge?

I'm launching a new research initiative to collect and share anonymous stories of the human toll. And I'd be very grateful for your help.

tinyurl.com/thehumantoll

German probably has a word for this and not ONLY because German has words for everything, in this case for specific reasons also

this is why I have lost the ability to answer “how are you” we have no word for “everything is fine and simultaneously nothing is fine and the everything that is fine makes the nothing that is fine feel like one of those horror movie creatures that get closer every time you shut your eyes“

This was SO good

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If any of these are your reps, please take 5 min today and call. Scripts and numbers at 5calls.org. Kill this absolute travesty of a bill.

assassinations, handcuffing a senator at press conference, marines detaining a civilian, and a military parade for the president’s birthday. rough week for democracy.

It’s all worse than you imagined!

There. Saved you a doomscroll.

Flyer for a webinar on Thursday, June 12th from 1-2pm eastern titled "Breaking into Education Consulting: Exploring Independent Career Paths." The overview says: curious about what it takes to build a career as an independent consultant? In this webinar, panelists will share practical advice for researchers considering this path. I'm moderating and there are 4 dope panelists. Co-hosted by AEP, NCME, APPAM, and SREE.

Been chatting with folks who've lost their jobs and several said it would be nice to learn about how to get into consulting work. So I said I could put something together on that! Webinar next Thursday at 1pm eastern. (Thanks AEFP, APPAM, NCME, & SREE!)

Register here: aefpweb.org/ev_calendar_...

Make America Peer-reviewed Again

The RFK Jr. version of health, where health creates health and healthy people don't get sick and the thing that keeps you healthy is /living the right way/ is very seductive to a lot of people. It also places the burden of illness back on the ill, which decreases the value of human life.

This is what @MarshaBlackburn & SenatorHagerty want you to believe is helping you. Snake oil salesmen.

#TrumpsTrillionsTransfer

Just call it the Self-Inflicted Wound Era, when we took a bunch of stuff that was working largely fine (vaccines, weather monitoring, friendly relations with like 175 countries, cancer research, renewable energy credits, the FAA, global trade, etc etc) and just broke them for giggles

Scientists protest White House plan to put political appointees in charge of grant-making Trump administration proposal is seen as a way to make NIH institute and center directors political appointees.

Here's the assignment. Submit a comment by June 7th here (see link below to Federal Register). Spread the word. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

www.statnews.com/2025/05/23/n...

Everyone has one Mitch Hedberg joke stashed in their brain like a squirrel to sustain them whenever they need to feel joy for 30 seconds and mine is “they say the recipe for Sprite is Lemon and Lime but I tried to make it at home, there’s more to it than that”

"Alcoholism is a disease, but it's the only one you can get yelled at for having.

Goddamn it Otto, you are an alcoholic!

Goddamn it Otto, you have Lupus!

One of those two doesn't sound right."

Map of the U.S. showing voter support for cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, or food assistance) by congressional district. Support for SNAP cuts ranges from 5% to 14%. Created by Data for Progress.

There is not a single congressional district in the U.S. where more than 15% of voters support cuts to SNAP, the federal program that provides food assistance to millions of low-income Americans.

Unironically they should buy up the domains for about 60 defunct local newspapers in swing states. Hire two reporters to write almost exclusively about highschool sports and new restaurants opening with every 10th article about how the local GOP is screwing over people.

Speaking as a Pacers fan, I'm glad to see that at least Spike Lee's tailor agrees he's a super villian.

Everyone 6 months and older is eligible to get a flu vaccine.

It makes no sense to restrict Covid vaccines to only people who have specific medical conditions.

The FDA is basing its decisions on politics, not science.