The Detroit Chamber polled MI in 2024. 58% of voters believe avg student debt is about $50K. Consequently, only 8% of voters thought that a BA/BS was the "minimum to be successful in MI" and only 27% said *any college* was important to getting a good job (1/X) www.detroitchamber.com/survey-paren...

OMG. I’m dead. One of the cats came in to see why I was wheezing.

I can't stop watching and I can't stop laughing

I might be writing work emails today, but at least I’m scheduling them to go out on the 2nd.

My children fell victim to one of the classic blunders. “Never go in against an academic in a game of Balderdash.”

This is so good 😭

The 60 Minutes episode about CECOT was not only worth running, it was an exceptionally powerful work of journalism that made clear the US government has embraced torture. You can read the transcript here: www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Nobody asked, so I will spend the next couple days posting the absolute definitive thread of best Christmas music of all time. It’s not in any order, these are just the best. I won’t be taking any comments. 🤣🎄

Does anyone know the magic words that will convince a dentist to numb me enough the first time, when I tell them I’ll need it, rather than wasting half an hour trying different levels of medication until I just give up and endure the somewhat lesser pain?

I’m not going to share the letter from Epstein to Nasser because it turns my stomach but WTF is wrong with these people? Did/don’t they have ANY shame?

One of the more important stock-taking moments to watch a bootlegged news program censored in your country.

I have to say I think it was a mistake putting Barry White in charge of CBS News. Great singer but he’s no journalist, and he’s been dead for 20 years

TIL the US Post Service delivers the mail in Micronesia.

PBS FRONTLINE's "Surviving CECOT" is incredible, disturbing, moving, and they didn't self censor.

13yo: Look at the cookie I decorated! Me: What a pretty poinsettia! 13yo: What’s a poinsettia? Me: That…flower? 13yo [scornfully]: That’s a demigorgan, Mom.

Signs I’m working too hard: I dreamed that I was trying to sell the university on campus wide student learning outcomes based on fundamental human adaptations. “Long distance running” was a tough sell.

Personally I thought running for a touchdown but sure.

If you missed out on the Newgrange solstice livestream this morning you can find it here. Really worth it for the authoritative, evocative commentary. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRgu...

I believe in Newgrange supremacy. 5 millennia, zero bullshit. Older than Stonehenge and has a roof, get fucked. Solstice icon, no choice but to stan, etc. etc. etc.

My colleague Ryan McRae and I wrote our annual round up of top discoveries in human evolution from this year for the @plos.org Sci Comm blog - enjoy! scicomm.plos.org/2025/12/19/t...

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My impostor’s syndrome is better (worse?) than your impostor’s syndrome.

Once again a reminder: We can have trans rights, bodily autonomy, gender nonconformity, and freedom of expression, or we can have none of these things. There’s no third option.

Ffs. Now I have to explain this to my kid?!?

I know this isn't the point, but the "congratulations to President Kennedy" is just sending me. It's like "Frederick Douglass is an example of someone who's done an amazing job."

Stay safe out there y'all

I haven’t commented on this because it’s too personal, but when it comes time to send out the campaign money, I will remember.

Long ago, I interviewed at a highly respected department. The search chair told my male friend, who was also shortlisted, that “the women” wouldn’t let him hire a man. You’ll never believe who they finally hired (after failing the first search). 🙄

I really thought the movie’s portrayal of priesthood was beautiful and nuanced. It was by far my favorite part of the movie.

Lesson of the day: If you find yourself of interest to the IT folks, something has gone very, very wrong.

So Wiles said what everyone knows is true? OK. She is responsible for getting these people into power, so what does that say about her moral compass, patriotism, and probity? It says I really don't care what she has to say. Let the fleeing rats [careers] drown.

I do it by writing books. So, trust me, when I I encourage pre-ordering my latest novel, it's really for the safety of us all.

Holy buckets. Don’t know if it’s barometric pressure or stress or what, but my head is breaking apart.

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Anthropologist here. This is true. 👇

I was playing 6 degrees of separation but with serial killers and realizing this is a...uniquely American phenomenon. (Not serial killers, but the fact that I can reach more than one in 6 degrees)

Ugh. Not enough coffee or antidepressants in the world.

TIL Freya is a Norwegian Forest Cat. Appropriate #Caturday content and inadvertently appropriate name.

I'm no big fan of the Kirks' politics, but for heaven's sakes, people, widows are allowed to smile occasionally!

On the Third Sunday of Advent, we light three candles - perfect occasion to share the oldest preserved candles found north of the Alps. The candles were made from beeswax around 1,400 years ago. They were found in the early #medieval burial site in Oberflacht. The damp...🧵1/2 📷 me

You know what? I'm willing to empirically test this as many times as it takes to reach statistical certainty about any conclusions we reach

I try not to be cynical, but when nothing happened after Sandy Hook, it seemed clear that there was no political will whatsoever to protect our children. My eldest is the same age as the Sandy Hook kids should be. She's in college.

True facts: I used to be a woman, then I had a hysterectomy.

trying to convince my mom that she doesn't need to buy another new phone. None of them are going to be any less "complicated"

Honest question: What is meant by the conservative student saying that the student governance board is in violation of the 14th Amendment?

I wonder if the administration recognizes that it's not a sunk cost fallacy if the costs are actually sunk.

NEW: Trump’s DOJ Pressured Lawyers to “Find” Evidence That UCLA Had Illegally Tolerated Antisemitism An investigation by ProPublica and @chronicle.com reveals how the U.S. government ignored due process to gin up its attack on the University of California.

I’ve found it’s more visually appealing to just paste in his head at the inflection points