@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.
"AI is not a magical tool built by people in San Francisco making millions of dollars a year and pushing their companies to insane valuations. Artificial intelligence is an extractive technology that relies on the brutal labor of underpaid workers around the world"
www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...
For years on my old blog I published the names of servicemembers who died in Iraq & Afghanistan. No other outlets were.
These are the first 4 Americans to die in the Iran War.
Capt. Cody A. Khork, 35
Sgt. 1st Class Noah L. Tietjens, 42
Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, 39
Sgt. Declan J. Coady, 20
13yo was there yesterday and loved it! But on the way home, just as they were leaving Detroit, he texted to say that a long line of cop cars with their sirens going had just blown past the bus, and everybody was worried about what had happened. Which is how I found out about the synagogue attack.
Font-de-gaume artwork used datable charcoal, not just manganese. archaeology.org/news/2026/03...
I was looking for this earlier. *For some reason* it’s all over my feed today.
Did you ever see them play baseball in canoes when the field flooded? Good times!
We use it extensively and I honestly quite like it. I don’t know of training documentation but I’d be happy to meet (over Teams!) and give you an overview or show you any particular parts you’re interested in.
It’s usually hard to tell that the Red Cedar is flowing at all.
Yes, and, quite a significant portion of colonial America was Muslim, and those communities passed down both cultural and religious traditions, often in coded or hidden forms, into our local and national identities. (Hint: what’s the dominant religion of west Africa?)
This is not a paid endorsement (although I wouldn't mind, hint hint), but my doctor recommended Megafoods Blood Builder because I have chronic low iron and my intestines really object to most iron supplements. After using it for a month, I highly recommend. YMMV
This is absolutely brilliant.
Canada is the country from which my ancestors immigrated most recently, but that's still in the 1870s, so...
Although I was wrong. It was 1849.
Lolol
Thus dies 19yo’s dream of EU citizenship.
I read. Like, a lot. So I keep a spreadsheet of what I've read and take a few notes. Otherwise, I can't remember if it's worth reading again or if I'm willing to read the sequels. I was looking at my notes for the last couple of months. Not sure how helpful they really are. LOL
The risk for babies who get measles under the age of 6 months to develop this within 10 years is 1 in 600.
Please. You really, really want this vaccine. Not only did I go through hell at the time, but it took 4 years (4 years!) for the pain to fully go away, and I still sometimes get phantom itching when I'm stressed.
I think the imposter syndrome that is common among academics -- and particularly first gen or academics of color -- is related to belonging. Or lack thereof.
It's got all my loves: anthropological understandings of community; intersectionality and identity; racial/ethnic identity development; politics; hating on greek life; theories around learning, etc., etc.
I'm really enjoying this topic. And I'm sure I'll find out that it's either really original and useful or I'm just restating what everyone else already knows. LOLOL
I honestly just couldn't keep working this evening, even though I've got an important deadline Wednesday. I am just wiped out.
But, I found my motivation in writing about belonging in higher ed, and I'm up to 5k words in my article draft.
Even my greatest generation grandparents needed two incomes (or two people working the farm). Also they all died in their early 60s.
Is this some kind of universal thing? I’m having the same damn problem.
He was so obviously guilty that the police were following him around, but I remember my mom’s boss saying, “oh it can’t be him. Our families attend the same church and he’s there every Sunday!”
The crimes can happen anywhere. It’s the denial that seems particular to small towns. East Lansing is bigger than Morris but there was a similar dynamic around the serial killer who was active when I was a kid.
Are you truly a small town if your Facebook group isn’t arguing about whether a lifelong resident is a bad person just because she was convicted for making and dealing meth and then either caused or at least didn’t get help for a baby’s brain injury in her in home daycare?
One seriously under-stressed aspect to the Salem trials: the sheriff, who was related by blood and marriage to a lot of the judges, was confiscating and redistributing the estates and belongings of everyone convicted of witchcraft, whether they were executed or not.
Yeah. I mean, I like a good gossip as much as the next person, but when you're still holding a grudge about which toys you got for Christmas 70 years earlier, it's time for some serious medication.
