"Hiring of college grads is down across the board. But certain majors are able to access opportunities in a wider array of industries, new LinkedIn data shows." ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH 69% VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS 68% www.forbes.com/sites/courtn...

The Library Publishing Coalition released a new AI Editorial Policy Guide, designed to help editors and those involved in publishing to develop AI policies for their publishing program: librarypublishing.org/lpc-releases...

A gorgeous new IP and no release date, so it’s easy to understand why there’s no books on #BloodMessage quite yet…. …but publisher NetEase Games is an industry juggernaut. Learn about their meteoric rise in the world’s biggest gaming market with this book: “China Game: Industrial History”

Absolutely thrilled to have a chapter in this book (alongside other wonderful historical game developers and academics)! Huge congrats to Esther, Nick, and Iain 🎉 Can’t wait to read the book!

This is a good read of the Granta / Commonwealth mess and quite a teachable essay for undergrads, so bookmark for your Fall syllabuses africasacountry.com/2026/05/how-...

New dataset published: this is the audio + transcripts of AI-generated podcasts using NotebookLM to analyse how it "translated" source documents from different times and cultures. My favourites are the 20 podcasts generated from an empty PDF. The paper about it is in press. doi.org/10.18710/RNT...

tell your doctor not to use AI notes

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This week was commencement for us and we had a great bunch of grads at all levels - these students, with their drives, passions, critical engagements with the world keep me feeling at least a tiny bit optimistic about the future. Congrats to all the 2026 grads out there!

I find a lot of interesting stuff appears to published on the Verge, but they embed Twitter/X posts that grab my data when I view them. Can they not just take a screenshot? Seems like that would be less work and not also support the Nazi site.

Pleased to note the release of my colleague McKinley Green's new book, At Risk: Rhetoric, Deviance, and the Politics of HIV Prevention. He does great work - highly recommend! ohiostatepress.org/books/titles...

A good cautionary tale for when someone claims that trusting data analysis done with an LLM is good because it’s “objective.” In this example, Copilot apparently decided to ignore the data it was given and just run with all the subconscious biases its (human-made) training data inevitably gave it.

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GenAI is polluting the scholarly record and the best way (currently) to prevent the damage is to not use it (bc too many authors don’t vet the sources, putting additional labor on editors).

A bit late to the party, but was delighted to find that my colleague Vivek Narayana was the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship. He's doing really amazing work, which I was introduced to in _After_, which he describes as a 'reinvention or rewiring' of the Rāmāyaṇa. Highly recommend!

Many struggle with writing alt text for charts and other other data visualizations. Amy Cesal's "Writing Alt Text for Data Visualization" hammers home the importance of explaining the chart type, the type of data, and the reason for the chart. medium.com/nightingale/...

This is a great, evocative description of genAI. Whole thread is a very worthwhile read (and it starts with a reference to Steven Harnad; I didn't know about his actual work, but he figures prominently in the early days of digital online publication - so an interesting crossing of interests).

We have a new post up at our blog/book project, Publishing Digital Scholarship, on genAI's pernicious effects: the erosion of trust in the scholarly enterprise: digital-scholarship.ghost.io/ai-and-journ...

What does it mean to live where every promise of transformation has stalled but never quite ended? Following a holoparasitic plant through centuries of human-plant encounters, Yadong Li explores political depression on China's interior frontier, where futures feel suspended but not closed.

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Wahoo! New pub in DHQ with Alan Arce, @grahamhjensen.bsky.social, and @raysiemens.bsky.social! Avail in 3 languages 🤯 Multilingualism as Infrastructural Imperative: Language Diversity in Digital Knowledge Commons [EN] dhq.digitalhumanities.org/vol/20/1/000...

Dustin’s book project started as a footnote in his dissertation but it’s clear that it’s also connected to his own lived history (the places he lived and knew); both I think important elements of the synchronicity of research. #4c26

Excited to be at the CCCC Research Network Forum， where I get to hear works in progress - a snapshot of where the field is going. Starting the day with a keynote from Dustin Edwards. #4c26

On anthropomorphizing language about AI, I'm pleased to say that this paper with @nannainie.bsky.social and Peter Zukerman is finally out in the world! firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph... >>

I almost wish I hadn't edited this book so I could read it again for the first time because, dear LORDT, there's been few weeks in my career more taxing than this one (yes, I know it's only Tuesday). I need it now

Started watching the Time Bandits series (having been irredemably warped by watching the original film when I was..young-ish. Ok, not *that* young, but much younger than I am now), and it is really fantastic. Maybe later I'll say why.

Thrilled to have galleys of my book in hand! Final corrections & index pending. Please consider preordering, gifting, & teaching. Via the archive, interviews & more I show how the crisis we face now reflects failure to listen & act on the democracy Black folks have envisioned, but we still can.

The videos can be watched in any order and are intended for normal people, not experts -- there is so much confusion and misunderstanding out there. (For instance, I'm sending it to my students and non-academic friends). I've also included a very extensive reference list. Please share these widely!

A thread on ZEN AND SLOW GAMES (MIT Press, 2026)

For all those involved in drafting so-called AI guidelines, but being overwhelmed with nonsense, this is a lifesaver. Great work by Dagmar and Ariel! Resisting Enchantment and Determinism: How to critically engage with AI university guidelines. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

I'm pleased to announce the release of issue 30.2 of Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric Technology, and Pedagogy. kairos.technorhetoric.net We'll be celebrating our thirtieth anniversary in the fall (how is it possible that I've been an editor for 30 years???)

From #MLA26 session on AI and the ‘typed self’ - Matthew Parfitt: GenAI is an answering machine, while humans *question* - we need to foreground teaching how to question (and sustain the questioning). Whole session has been fantastic.

@writerethink.bsky.social Just saw your recorded presentation for #MLA26 - really great examples and presentation and hope your call to focus on experience and intentionality when teaching writing gets wide circulation.

Useful: I’ve been looking for a good, plain-language source to help students understand that artificial neural nets are very limited representations of actual human brains news.mit.edu/2022/neural-...

Happy to announce the publication of _Composing with AI_, a new open access online anthology on teaching writing with and in the age of AI. Co-edited with my colleague Nupoor Ranade (CMU), this collection’s authors look at a broad range of issues and applications: ccdigitalpress.org/composing-wi...

UKSG webinar: The Open Access – AI Conundrum: Does Free to Read Mean Free to Train? Feb 05, 2026, noon (GMT) | UKSG https://www.uksg.org/events/free-uksg-webinar-the-open-access-ai-conundrum-does-free-to-read-mean-free-to-train/

Essentially, I think that LLM-generated dialogue only makes sense if you believe that the product of writing is words. But the product of writing isn't words, any more than the product of justice is prisoners, or the product of love is weddings. The product of writing is meaning.

And now, Writing Game Histories (2026) with cover art (courtesy of @murthynikhil.bsky.social’s Syphilisation) www.bloomsbury.com/uk/writing-g...

It's publication day! (In the UK.) @politybooks.bsky.social www.wiley.com/en-ae/Gender...

I've heard this 1,000 times a day. I believed it until 2 weeks ago. Then I learned that the 2026 National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) Jobs Outlook report found that only 10% of job ads ask for AI skills. Tell your friends.

This is starting in two hours and it's going to be so cool! Join us! issues.org/event/what-i...

Understanding Generative AI: A Primer for College Writers docs.google.com/document/d/1...

The CCCC Special Committee on Generative AI in College Composition & Writing Studies is pleased to share two docs that have been in the works since this past summer: Academic Integrity, Plagiarism, & Generative AI: Guidelines for Postsecondary Writing Teachers docs.google.com/document/d/1...

The Center for Humanities Research at GMU is hosting a hybrid book talk for my monograph Civil Blood: Vendetta Violence and the Civic Elites in Early Modern Italy this upcoming Friday from noon-12:30. Register at this link: chr.gmu.edu/events/17595

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The webpage for our upcoming book has the cover on it now which is enough of a milestone for me to write another post about the book we have coming out soon. www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

Welcome back to #FeministFridays! The Fall 2025 issue of Peitho is live, and editors Jamie White-Farnham, Bryna Siegel Finer, and Cathryn Molloy are launching two new submission formats: 🌈 Overlays & 🌟 Pedagogies Read on for details! wacclearinghouse.org/peitho/

Get Enduring Digital Damage and use the discount code "DAMAGE" to get 30% off: www.uapress.ua.edu/97808.../end...