Stacey L. Camp

An MSU student employee wearing a black MSU Museum t-shirt holds a laptop as she shows a visitor how to work an interactive exhibit in "Blurred Realities." In front of them, multiple screens hang around a bed with grey covers and pillow.

Two MSU Museum visitors in winter coats look into small scopes built into red frames on the wall.

An MSU Museum visitor stands next to a bed with green covers, examining colorful prints made by Artificial Intelligence. The wall behind the prints is deep purple. Underneath the bed are crumped up clothes, a skateboard, and an orange rug.

Two MSU student visitors lean close to examine a small tank of flowing water on a pedestal as part of an exhibit. Behind them on the wall, an image appearing to be a sunset but is actually from the small tank that they are examining.

We are unveiling "Blurred Realities," our latest exhibition from the CoLab Studio in our main gallery. "Blurred Realities" invites you to examine the dilemmas tied to dis/mis/information, artificial intelligence, and shifting perceptions of truth. Come and see, open through July 18, 2026!

I Dig Books and Dirt

While I try to avoid social media like the plague nowadays, I do still use my blog and a few book tracking websites. I wrote this post about my favorite books of 2025!

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Portrait of Kelly Sullivan.

Archaeology dig site with a spray bottle, buckets and trowels.

Woman sitting on the ground taking notes.

Check out the latest Graduate Voice featuring Kelly Sullivan, a 2024 MSU grad in biology and anthropology, now excavating history at Colonial Michilimackinac. #GradVoices #Archaeology
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Person holding a tablet at an archaeology dig site.

Group of students posing for a picture at an archaeology dig site.

Water bottle sitting on a rock wall.

Senior Paige Topping joined MSU students, faculty & alumni in Tuscany for the Monteverdi Field School. Read about her archaeology journey abroad! 🇮🇹 #MSUAbroad
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Is it from campus?

Read about this last night at 11pm right before bed. Did not sleep well.

I hit a deer this past fall, and the ordeal of getting a replacement parking pass for my rental car was insane. I had to go extract my pass from my car at the repair place in order to get a temporary pass for my rental. Otherwise MSU Parking wanted to charge me something like $50 for a new pass.

ACLS, AHA, & MLA Seek Injunction to Prevent Dismantling of NEH - AHA American Council of Learned Societies, American Historical Association, and Modern Language Association File Motion for a Preliminary Injunction of Dismantling of National Endowment for the Humanities...

The @acls1919.bsky.social, AHA, & @modernlanguage.bsky.social filed a motion for a preliminary injunction to enjoin the unlawful dismantling of the NEH: "Congress believed NEH to be essential to the functioning of our democracy, & the public interest would be served by honoring that determination."

I just may do so. I am up to three shrimp tanks now 😂

I want one at some point.

My middle school robotics team made it to state championships, and we are heading there today! Excited to just be there, and proud of my kids. #vexiq

Science at a crossroads: Dispatches from Friday's 'Stand Up for Science' rallies across the US Our science journalists reported on the Stand Up for Science rallies held in New York City and Raleigh, North Carolina.

"Get in Dorks, we are going protesting." - @cdelawalla.bsky.social

When an American Town Massacred Its Chinese Immigrants In 1885, white rioters murdered dozens of their Asian neighbors in Rock Springs, Wyoming. A hundred and forty years later, the story of the atrocity is still being unearthed.

Excellent @newyorker.com article on two of my colleagues' work:
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

DOGE: Department of Government Efficiency DOGE: Department of Government Efficiency

How is this an official government website? The font looks like my first website I made in the early 1990s using HTML.

doge.gov/savings

Aww thank you :)

Oh no. This is so sad. He was chair when I was at Stanford.

Super smart. We have been buying CDs and DVDs for years.

Next week, Amazon is stripping away your ability to download your ebooks. Starting next Wednesday, February 26th, Amazon isn’t going to let users download the ebooks they’ve purchased, forcing users to keep everything within the corporation’s proprietary ecosystem.…

Another reason to 1) buy paper copies of books from your local bookseller and 2) check out e-books from your local library instead of buying them from Amazon.
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I lost my job at the National Science Foundation yesterday, along with 167 of my colleagues, including some dear friends. This was the best job I've ever had, and I thought it would be my last. The PI community has been sympathetic and supportive, without exception. I will miss working for you.

'Public lands will suffer': Idaho, home to seven national forests, loses integral forest service employees across the state to Trump terminations Patrick Shea is worried about Idaho’s public lands. He’s concerned about the inconvenience of overgrown trails and dirty bathrooms, and the dangers and destruction of unchecked wildfires and floods.

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Reads for the Rest of Us: The Most Anticipated Feminist Books of 2025 - Ms. Magazine Reads for the Rest of Us: The Most Anticipated Feminist Books of 2025—new books being published by writers from historically excluded groups.

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Rage, read, organize, repeat.

WIRED is tracking numerous reports of Musk-related shenanigans across the federal govt.

We're looking for fed employees open to discussing the activity they're seeing or to help confirm other reports. Anonymity offered.

Please use @signal.org (contact dell.3030). Do not use work networks/devices.

I’m a Federal Worker. Elon Musk’s Government Data Heist Is the Entire Ballgame. Things are bleak.

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A Reddit user created an infographic to illustrate that federal employees are not the adversaries. Stay united and keep your strength!

Original Post: From the fednews community on Reddit https://buff.ly/4aZTmmJ

#FederalWorkers #CivilService #HoldTheLine #PublicService #SupportFederalEmployee

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Universities announcing job losses and/ or course closures in just the last two weeks:
*Cardiff
*University of the Creative Arts
*Dundee
*Durham
*Kent
*Lancaster
*Newcastle
*Open University
*Reading
*University of the West of England

We’re hiring a tenured historian at UMass-Amherst in the Public Histories of North American Enslavement. Please circulate to anyone you think would be interested careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u... 🗃️

NTSB safety updates only posted on X

The National Transportation Safety Board telling media they can only receive updates via the government-aligned website of the oligarch who is running the administration.
The government helping to make X relevant is one of a myriad of ways Musk's public role boosts his private businesses.

I tried :(

I've been to two ERs and both said I need a referral for an MRI. Yesterday's ER doc said I could need surgery for a tear in my hip. Called my insurance, my former orthopedic surgeon, and my osteo doc and they all say I need my primary care physician's referral. On top of all of this I have COVID :(

I am begging the national media to start taking this seriously.

Stop buying the claims that the framing of "temporary" or "pause."

They are altering the review processes of federally funded scientific research from merit-based peer review processes to political screening by ideologues.