Hey #TeamRhetoric, I heard you like metaphors

“The Auburn University Board of Trustees on Friday gave itself complete control over course offerings, curriculum, degree requirements and academic credentials while eliminating shared governance at the Alabama land-grant university… The policy leaves many questions unanswered”

I finished reading Persepolis for the first time last night. 💔

Half of surveyed Texas Tech faculty changed course content on their own after the chancellor's memos restricting teaching on race, gender, and sexuality. More than half say they're now looking for other jobs as a result of the memos. #HigherEd @chronicle.com www.chronicle.com/article/half...

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Rainbow capitalism actually is a good thing but it's as a warning light, not as actual social progress; when the rainbow capitalism stops, it's a sign that capital doesn't feel that paying lip service to queers' humanity is currently advantageous

1/ I've been getting a lot of questions about Covid lately: Are we heading into a summer wave? Should high-risk people get a spring booster? And will there even be a vaccine this fall? So I thought now would be a good time to round up those questions and let you know where things stand 👇

It’s the first of June, the beginning of Pride month. Stonewall was a riot. Trans rights are human rights. No one gets to erase us from history. Fight back against book bans. Fuck anybody who thinks we don’t deserve love or bodily autonomy. They don’t get to steal our joy.

Two-factor authentication, my beloathed

An Update! refusal.blog/2026/05/26/j...

Excellent thread on teaching students about the writing process:

Something I hope people will consider is that the reason there are so many enraging anti-education pieces coming out right now is that there's a full-court press from PR departments in tech & asset management. Nothing about the last year went according to script for their investments.

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Children are people. They deserve rights and respect. This should be an ice cold take.

Thanks for a restorative #RSA26 Portland! Two favorite stickers I spotted:

Y’all!! #RSA26

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🧓: In my day, we live-tweeted the conference, which was the style at the time. Get on the hashtag! #RSA26 #TeamRhetoric @rhetsoc.bsky.social

UC Berkeley Law creates new AI policy that bans AI for "conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing any work submitted for credit" or exams because "thinking remains the sine qua non of good lawyering (and of a quality legal education)." That's what I'm talking about.

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STEM fields are Absolutely Not free from this literal exact type of error, and humanities training can help catch it.

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Psychic damage

Published in The New England Journal of Medicine. Peer-reviewed. Large sample size. Sound methodology. An antiviral pill has, for the first time, been shown to prevent COVID-19 in individuals exposed to SARS-CoV-2. Ensitrelvir blocks the enzyme coronaviruses need to make new copies of themselves.

For the love of Gritty PLEASE contact your reps and demand a push for this to be approved here in the states. At the very least do it for at-risk folks like myself.

So what now? If the students--all the students--are our charge, then we keep working and teaching. And in so doing we must celebrate Juniper's life. Must recognise that silence will neither honour her nor save the rest of us, that it won't save the institution. Advocacy must ring with pride.

Here's my Canvas discourse: I like being able to put a "sticker" on my student's work. But the stickers they have are quite limited. I hate that the default time for assignment submission deadlines changed from 11:59 pm to 12:00 am. Those are very different times on the same date.

Sigh: “Humanities chairs feel helpless in the face of societal and administrative forces beyond their control.“ www.amacad.org/publication/...

most millennial songs, best movies by presidential term, the timeline is PERIODIZING CULTURE! everybody loves humanities knowledge, let the people learn

Of course I bought it. @libro.fm rules. #everythingisinfinitejest

While the Texas Tech Board Met, Students Attended a Funeral Students held a mock funeral for academic freedom Thursday, four weeks after the university system introduced policies that censor women’s and gender studies content. https://bit.ly/4nrHyQb #EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd

I feel like I owe @dieworkwear.bsky.social tuition after reading his threads and this is no exception.

My university's Canvas is back up (for) now. community.instructure.com/en/kb/articl...

Great thread:

Is this anything?

Notch another one for Judge McMahon, whose recent ruling on a romantasy copyright case was full of its own golden prose.

What does a university have that Google cannot offer its workers? Art History departments, Classics departments, History departments, Music Theory, etc. The humanities are what distinguishes universities in an AI economy. Universities defunding the humanities are digging their own graves.

The paradox, however, is that the long term survival of public higher education rests in distinguishing it from the type of training that corporate America offers people debt free & with a salary. W/o this distinction, universities don’t give people a reason to attend.

Well this is going into the style class lesson on active and passive voice.

Read the entire Protest Letter submitted by Friends of Great Salt Lake EVERYTHING that has been accomplished and negotiated over the last few years to #SaveGSL is jeopardized by the O’Leary data center project in Box Elder County. SB132 was essential PDF here: waterrights.utah.gov/docImport/06...

Guys! GUYS! It's back! It's coming back!!! The single greatest literacy promotion in human history* is coming back! All you 80s and 90s kids know what's up! *(this point may be a little hyperbolic, but just a little) people.com/pizza-huts-b...

The president of Texas Tech’s accreditor says they have not received any complaints about the system-wide censorship against gender and sexuality. Here’s how to file one! sacscoc.org/app/uploads/...

This book is titled “Disabling Intelligences” for many reasons. First, because so-called “AI” is built from historical commitments to the excision of disability from the classification of humanity. link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

Well well well, looks like SOMEONE regrets scraping every single post from tumblr

9 GW is flat out insane. If you assume 80% utilization, that's 56 TWh of electricity. That's more than 26 states used in 2024.

“The memo bars professors from discussing LGBTQ+ topics in core and lower-level courses and eliminates entire fields of study across the five-university system.” Absolutely terrifying assault on LGBTQ folks and on academic freedom.

Meet “ASU Atomic,” a subscription platform that claims to offer customized learning modules for fee-paying users. None of the ASU faculty whose course materials were harvested for the module I generated were aware that their image, lectures, lessons, or other teaching materials are being used.