DrBethAnneDance
@drbethannedance.bsky.social
Colorado grown retired registered nurse mythologist dancer reader hiker poet science nerd MA English lit PhD in mythology and depth psychology angryfeministwhoisverysweet rogue grandma.
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When science is open, classrooms become launchpads for discovery.
At @univpugetsound.bsky.social, neuroscience students used Allen Institute data to code, analyze, and explore real brain data.
🔗 https://alleninstitute.org/news/allen-institute-scientists-and-data-igniting-curiosity-of-young-minds/
At @univpugetsound.bsky.social, neuroscience students used Allen Institute data to code, analyze, and explore real brain data.
🔗 https://alleninstitute.org/news/allen-institute-scientists-and-data-igniting-curiosity-of-young-minds/
Allen Institute scientists igniting curiosity of young minds
Students at the University of Puget sound are gaining valuable real-world insight and training using the Allen Institute's cutting edge resources and data.
alleninstitute.org
December 15, 2025 at 8:02 PM
When science is open, classrooms become launchpads for discovery.
At @univpugetsound.bsky.social, neuroscience students used Allen Institute data to code, analyze, and explore real brain data.
🔗 https://alleninstitute.org/news/allen-institute-scientists-and-data-igniting-curiosity-of-young-minds/
At @univpugetsound.bsky.social, neuroscience students used Allen Institute data to code, analyze, and explore real brain data.
🔗 https://alleninstitute.org/news/allen-institute-scientists-and-data-igniting-curiosity-of-young-minds/
Absolutely fuck this
Oregon’s largest electrical utility is proposing to make residential customers pay at least part of the long-term cost of supplying large data centers, despite a new law requiring it to charge the centers’ developers, not other customers.
oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/12/15/u...
oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/12/15/u...
Utility watchdogs accuse PGE of skirting new law meant to make data centers pay for rising demand • Oregon Capital Chronicle
PGE doesn't plan to simply assign the costs of energy investments needed to support data centers, to data centers.
oregoncapitalchronicle.com
December 15, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Absolutely fuck this
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Health care is a human right. That’s why we need Medicare for All.
We need to simplify our system and make sure folks can get the care they need, when they need it. And the American people agree!
We need to simplify our system and make sure folks can get the care they need, when they need it. And the American people agree!
December 15, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Health care is a human right. That’s why we need Medicare for All.
We need to simplify our system and make sure folks can get the care they need, when they need it. And the American people agree!
We need to simplify our system and make sure folks can get the care they need, when they need it. And the American people agree!
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“If people wearing ski masks & tactical gear with no visible ID swarmed your workplace to take your coworkers away...could you tell the difference between fed law enforcement & a kidnapping?…We should not have to live in fear of masked, armed agents.” --ACLU www.americaamerica.news/p/snapshot-e...
Snapshot: Enough With the Masked Men
State and federal lawmakers are pushing back against terrorizing federal agents who hide behind masks
www.americaamerica.news
December 15, 2025 at 3:40 PM
“If people wearing ski masks & tactical gear with no visible ID swarmed your workplace to take your coworkers away...could you tell the difference between fed law enforcement & a kidnapping?…We should not have to live in fear of masked, armed agents.” --ACLU www.americaamerica.news/p/snapshot-e...
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For 22 years we have had a Senate with 1 Lindsey Graham and 0 pediatricians.
How about we try a Senate with 0 Lindsey Grahams and 1 pediatrician?
How about we try a Senate with 0 Lindsey Grahams and 1 pediatrician?
December 15, 2025 at 3:42 PM
For 22 years we have had a Senate with 1 Lindsey Graham and 0 pediatricians.
How about we try a Senate with 0 Lindsey Grahams and 1 pediatrician?
How about we try a Senate with 0 Lindsey Grahams and 1 pediatrician?
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From civil rights to gender equality, he consistently stood up for the voiceless and minorities when it wasn't easy (or popular). History has absolutely proven him right.
#AllInTheFamily #Meathead #CivilRights #TVHistory
#AllInTheFamily #Meathead #CivilRights #TVHistory
December 15, 2025 at 3:46 PM
From civil rights to gender equality, he consistently stood up for the voiceless and minorities when it wasn't easy (or popular). History has absolutely proven him right.
#AllInTheFamily #Meathead #CivilRights #TVHistory
#AllInTheFamily #Meathead #CivilRights #TVHistory
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What an unbelievable honor to have poems in with all of these stellar ✨ poems/poets 😭 Please go read!!! I'm literally just crying through every amazing poem. How does every issue of ALOCASIA just hit?
ALOCASIA #16 is here w/ queer planty writing as winter winters about!
w/ Kit Steitz, Elizabeth Hart Bergstrom, Saheed Sunday, Laura Mota-Juang, Jessica Le, Stephen Schwei, Sarp Sozdinler, Emdash, Marcy Rae Henry, & Sreeja Naskar
alocasia.org
w/ Kit Steitz, Elizabeth Hart Bergstrom, Saheed Sunday, Laura Mota-Juang, Jessica Le, Stephen Schwei, Sarp Sozdinler, Emdash, Marcy Rae Henry, & Sreeja Naskar
alocasia.org
December 15, 2025 at 3:47 PM
What an unbelievable honor to have poems in with all of these stellar ✨ poems/poets 😭 Please go read!!! I'm literally just crying through every amazing poem. How does every issue of ALOCASIA just hit?
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I’m working with a team of science and health communicators to combat misinformation and we are desperately trying to find *any* funding. It would be amazing to pay experts so they can regularly share their knowledge instead of hoping they can volunteer some free time!
December 15, 2025 at 3:53 PM
I’m working with a team of science and health communicators to combat misinformation and we are desperately trying to find *any* funding. It would be amazing to pay experts so they can regularly share their knowledge instead of hoping they can volunteer some free time!
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Outside an entrance to the Second Avenue subway station in the East Village, street artist Doug Groupp has spray-painted an artwork portraying ICE officers detaining the statue of Liberty.
New York Graffiti Shows ICE Arresting the Statue of Liberty
The artist says he drew inspiration from the subway art of Keith Haring.
hyperallergic.com
December 15, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Outside an entrance to the Second Avenue subway station in the East Village, street artist Doug Groupp has spray-painted an artwork portraying ICE officers detaining the statue of Liberty.
If you see this, we IMPLORE YOU to post a picture from whatever device you’re using without explanation.
December 15, 2025 at 7:45 AM
If you see this, we IMPLORE YOU to post a picture from whatever device you’re using without explanation.
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The world is an increasingly unpredictable and chaotic place. Check in with the people around you. You never know who might need that kindness.
December 15, 2025 at 5:13 AM
The world is an increasingly unpredictable and chaotic place. Check in with the people around you. You never know who might need that kindness.
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On a personal note.
I knew Rob Reiner & his lovely wife Michelle. One of my happiest memories was chatting with them in their kitchen, making sandwiches talking politics, and movies.
They were kind people. Extraordinarily normal and very, very kind.
I love & miss them already.
Life is short.
I knew Rob Reiner & his lovely wife Michelle. One of my happiest memories was chatting with them in their kitchen, making sandwiches talking politics, and movies.
They were kind people. Extraordinarily normal and very, very kind.
I love & miss them already.
Life is short.
December 15, 2025 at 6:10 AM
On a personal note.
I knew Rob Reiner & his lovely wife Michelle. One of my happiest memories was chatting with them in their kitchen, making sandwiches talking politics, and movies.
They were kind people. Extraordinarily normal and very, very kind.
I love & miss them already.
Life is short.
I knew Rob Reiner & his lovely wife Michelle. One of my happiest memories was chatting with them in their kitchen, making sandwiches talking politics, and movies.
They were kind people. Extraordinarily normal and very, very kind.
I love & miss them already.
Life is short.
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Rapists and sex offenders will have “no place to hide” after the largest crackdown on violence against women and girls in British history.
Rapists and sex offenders to have 'no place to hide' after huge change
www.mirror.co.uk
December 13, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Rapists and sex offenders will have “no place to hide” after the largest crackdown on violence against women and girls in British history.
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Nowadays archaeologists guess that ancient humans first entered the Americas as long as 24,000 years ago, perhaps via a sea ice bridge, or perhaps sailing south along the so-called ‘kelp highway’, the Pacific coastal current rich in seaweed, fish, and birds.
How a Pennsylvania rock shelter upended archaeology and changed our understanding of the first Americans | Daily Maverick
www.dailymaverick.co.za
December 13, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Nowadays archaeologists guess that ancient humans first entered the Americas as long as 24,000 years ago, perhaps via a sea ice bridge, or perhaps sailing south along the so-called ‘kelp highway’, the Pacific coastal current rich in seaweed, fish, and birds.
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It sucks we had to do this. We have built some amazing networks like this one and our other #altgov colleagues.
We are stronger together. We are coordinating to protect the constitution and all Americans.
We are stronger together. We are coordinating to protect the constitution and all Americans.
A hard year for federal workers offers a real-time lesson in resilience
During a year of extraordinary uncertainty, workers built resilient networks within and across boundaries and distance. An anthropologist explains how these clusters and long-distance ties help people...
theconversation.com
December 13, 2025 at 4:19 PM
It sucks we had to do this. We have built some amazing networks like this one and our other #altgov colleagues.
We are stronger together. We are coordinating to protect the constitution and all Americans.
We are stronger together. We are coordinating to protect the constitution and all Americans.
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Thailand vows to keep fighting Cambodia, despite Trump's ceasefire claim reut.rs/4aOJDBj
Thailand vows to keep fighting Cambodia, despite Trump's ceasefire claim
Thailand's leader vowed to keep fighting on the disputed border with Cambodia as fighter jets struck targets on Saturday, hours after U.S. President Donald Trump said he had brokered a ceasefire.
reut.rs
December 13, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Thailand vows to keep fighting Cambodia, despite Trump's ceasefire claim reut.rs/4aOJDBj
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A+ trolling from Zelenskyy
December 13, 2025 at 2:33 AM
A+ trolling from Zelenskyy
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Rep. Mike Levin is backing a bill to limit Supreme Court justices to 18-year terms and reduce strategic retirements.
Supreme Court Justices To Be Term-Limited, New Bill Proposes
www.newsweek.com
December 12, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Rep. Mike Levin is backing a bill to limit Supreme Court justices to 18-year terms and reduce strategic retirements.
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This is what authoritarianism looks like: Kilmar Abrego Garcia was never ordered to be removed by a judge.
The Trump Administration deported him anyway—trampling rule of law and ignoring the courts.
Good to see the court rule to release him from ICE custody.
The Trump Administration deported him anyway—trampling rule of law and ignoring the courts.
Good to see the court rule to release him from ICE custody.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia will remain free from ICE custody following judge's order
U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis ruled that the Trump administration lacked the legal authority to continue holding Abrego.
www.nbcnews.com
December 12, 2025 at 6:51 PM
This is what authoritarianism looks like: Kilmar Abrego Garcia was never ordered to be removed by a judge.
The Trump Administration deported him anyway—trampling rule of law and ignoring the courts.
Good to see the court rule to release him from ICE custody.
The Trump Administration deported him anyway—trampling rule of law and ignoring the courts.
Good to see the court rule to release him from ICE custody.
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The 25th anniversary of Bush v Gore is today. The conspiracy mongering & corruption of the GOP has been brewing for a long time.
Roberts, Barrett and Kavanaugh were all on Bush's legal team, where they pushed unfounded legal theories. SC justices were already enmeshed in voter fraud myths.
Roberts, Barrett and Kavanaugh were all on Bush's legal team, where they pushed unfounded legal theories. SC justices were already enmeshed in voter fraud myths.
Here's Sandra Day O'Connor endorsing News Max levels of voter fraud conspiracies in the 2000 election.
December 12, 2025 at 2:17 PM
The 25th anniversary of Bush v Gore is today. The conspiracy mongering & corruption of the GOP has been brewing for a long time.
Roberts, Barrett and Kavanaugh were all on Bush's legal team, where they pushed unfounded legal theories. SC justices were already enmeshed in voter fraud myths.
Roberts, Barrett and Kavanaugh were all on Bush's legal team, where they pushed unfounded legal theories. SC justices were already enmeshed in voter fraud myths.
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Inspired by trailblazing women, former NBC10 broadcast journalist Rosemary Connors, C’05, took a leap, moving out of journalism and into a successful scaffolding company she founded. @upenn.edu
Formidable Framework
Inspired by trailblazing women, former NBC10 broadcast journalist Rosemary Connors, C’05, took a leap, moving out of journalism and into a successful scaffolding company she founded.
omnia.sas.upenn.edu
December 12, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Inspired by trailblazing women, former NBC10 broadcast journalist Rosemary Connors, C’05, took a leap, moving out of journalism and into a successful scaffolding company she founded. @upenn.edu
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"It’s during cold snaps like this that we often see some of the most elaborate snowflakes fall from the sky."
Practical tips for photographing snowflakes this winter
www.bangordailynews.com
December 12, 2025 at 3:45 PM
"It’s during cold snaps like this that we often see some of the most elaborate snowflakes fall from the sky."
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Yesterday's news that yet another grand jury failed to indict NG AG Letitia James on mortgage fraud is proof of two things: 1) This case was more about retaliation than the law. 2) That our grand jury system continues to work for all of us.
abcnews.go.com/US/2nd-time-...
abcnews.go.com/US/2nd-time-...
2nd grand jury refuses to indict New York AG Letitia James: Sources
For a second time in a week, a federal grand jury in Virginia has refused to indict New York Attorney General Letitia James for alleged mortgage fraud, sources say.
abcnews.go.com
December 12, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Yesterday's news that yet another grand jury failed to indict NG AG Letitia James on mortgage fraud is proof of two things: 1) This case was more about retaliation than the law. 2) That our grand jury system continues to work for all of us.
abcnews.go.com/US/2nd-time-...
abcnews.go.com/US/2nd-time-...