There is a rightwing student network targeting faculty who engage in research and teaching or simply exist in ways that contradicts their political views and we have to develop strategies to avoid falling into their traps while collectively organizing to protect academic freedom from their attacks

So honored to be included in The Emerging Voices interview series from the @wacclearinghouse.bsky.social! Thank you Zakery Muñoz for putting this together! You can watch the full interview here: wacclearinghouse.org/media/interv...

Stuck-at-home-nothing-to-do-but-work-on-my-dissertation weather.

I swear, no matter how much I write, my current dissertation draft remains 88 pages long.

Saw my work in print for the first time today. Very cool feeling 😎

Today I broke out the watercolors and painted a picture…and it was actually FOR my dissertation, not a procrastination method.

It’s so hard to stay motivated during the fall semester when you’re on the job market because it really feels like you’re sending your applications into the void. Please tell me it gets better? 😭

Interesting that we’re seeing ads for ChatGPT now. It’s almost like they over-promised and under-delivered and are having trouble finding people who are actually willing to pay to use it.

I actually don't really care if AI is useful/interesting/good for some things in education actually - it is besides these things clearly a big problem already that maybe need listing yet again:

Today I graded my students’ resume writing assignments and found out that one of them has an op-ed in the local newspaper, another has a pretty successful YouTube channel, and another has A WIKIPEDIA PAGE. They are so damn cool, ya’ll.

*The 2025-26 RhetMap has goes live* Every poor soul on the job market this year:

The millennial tax for gen z

If there’s one thing I’ve learned from living in the Midwest, it’s always keep an umbrella with you no matter what the forecast says.

One of my favorite interactions with a student happened on the last day I taught at Miami University while finishing my master's Throughout the spring semester, it had come up once or twice that I was getting married the following summer. 1/3

lmaaaooo oh my God I know it's bad to stan politicians but my heart wants to make a Zohran exception

And guess what they’re using the funds for instead. AI programs and institutes. This is why AI refusal is important and necessary.

Came across a (currently in-progress) series on YouTube by fellow DRC alum Sarah Fischer about the academic job market in rhet/comp. Definitely check it out if you're going on the market this year! Can't wait to watch the next episode! www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPvv...

CycLOUvia, July 13th, 2025, Frankfort Ave, Louisville, KY (part 1) Canon T3i Canon EF 50mm f/1.8

CycLOUvia, July 13th, 2025, Frankfort Ave, Louisville, KY (part 2) Canon T3i Canon EF 50mm f/1.8

Really can't emphasize enough that Character.AI is a predatory company profiting off of vulnerable children and if you're a teacher using the platform - or other LLMs - to "talk" with fictional or historical figures just stop.

The DRC Writing with Data Syllabus Repository is LIVE: www.digitalrhetoriccollaborative.org/syllabus/wri... Check out and share this incredible collection of teaching materials on writing with data in composition, digital rhetoric, and technical and professional communication classes!

I just read through a manuscript I recently submitted to a journal and found the phrase "...is an important consideration to consider." 🤦‍♀️

Once humanities professors start quoting ChatGPT generated notes about theory in grad classes, this thing that we do is completely over. Either we're modeling lateral thinking for future professors or the humanities should be shut down.

Best city in the world, baby!

Seeing a dude this happy, even though he lost, because he's happy a good person won, and a shithead lost. More of this please! This is teamwork!

Going into the last year of my Ph.D., I decided to pick up an old hobby to keep myself sane. So I dusted off my old Canon T3i and snapped a few shots of the two most beautiful subjects I could find.

ONE MORE DAY to submit your "Writing with Data" syllabus to the DRC repository! Deadline is 6/25! Check out the full call here: www.digitalrhetoriccollaborative.org/2025/05/30/c...

The deadline for the DRC Writing with Data Syllabus Repository is only a week away! If you recently taught a writing with data course and you'd like to share your syllabus with other instructors, please consider submitting to the repository! www.digitalrhetoriccollaborative.org/2025/05/30/c...

It's the last day of the DRC Blog Carnival on Digital Circulation in Rhetoric and Writing Studies! Our final post, "Collage as Socialist Circulation," comes from Stephen Paur. Read it here: www.digitalrhetoriccollaborative.org/2025/06/15/c...

Day Six of the DRC Digital Circulation Blog Carnival, "Play, Rhetoric, and the Circulation of J.D. Vance Photoshops," comes from Kyle Cunningham. Read Kyle's post here: www.digitalrhetoriccollaborative.org/2025/06/14/p...

Boy, I sure miss New York 🤣

Day 5 of the Digital Circulation in Rhetoric and Writing Studies Blog Carnival comes from Jaclyn Ordway: "Attending to Scales of Intensity: A Viral/Chronological Method for Researching the Circulation of Activist Rhetoric" Read it here: www.digitalrhetoriccollaborative.org/2025/06/13/a...

Day 4 of the DRC Blog Carnival brings you "Is This for Real? Implications of Deepfakes on Learning and Research" by Lauren Downs! Read it here: www.digitalrhetoriccollaborative.org/2025/06/12/i...

Day 3 of the DRC Blog Carnival on Digital Circulation in Rhetoric and Writing studies is authored by Alexandra Gunnells: www.digitalrhetoriccollaborative.org/2025/06/11/d...

I don't care if em dashes are becoming associated with AI writing. You can pry them from my cold, dead hands. These resource-guzzling plagiarism machines haven ruined enough things. I won't let them tarnish the em dash's reputation like this.

DRC Blog Carnival 23: Digital Circulation in Rhetoric and Writing Studies Day 2 is here! Today's post, "The SEO to Skibidi Pipeline: Investigating Digital Linguistic Transference" is by Sophia Lyons. www.digitalrhetoriccollaborative.org/2025/06/10/t...

DRC Blog Carnival 23: Digital Circulation in Rhetoric and Writing Studies has begun! The inaugural post, "The Circulation of Rhetoric from Stall Walls to Social Feeds: Notes from the Analog Underground" is from Jonathan Marine. www.digitalrhetoriccollaborative.org/2025/06/09/t...

Have you taught a rhetoric, writing studies, or TPC course that includes a unit or project on writing with or about data? If so, please consider submitting to this syllabus repository I'm creating for the Digital Rhetoric Collaborative by 6/25: www.digitalrhetoriccollaborative.org/2025/05/30/c...

I loved reading and writing this review for Lynn Lewis’s "Pivotal Strategies: Claiming Writing Studies as Discipline" If you want to learn more about how scholars and practitioners in the field "pivoted" to writing studies, check out this edited collection! compositionforum.com/issue/55/rev...

Google "AI Overviews" aren't just infringing on scholars' intellectual property. They are also reducing click-through for publishers, which is impacting profits. Maybe it wasn't a good idea to sell your entire catalogue to the AI companies, huh? www.timeshighereducation.com/news/ai-sear...

I wonder what effect the grant freezes will have on the publishing industry. Because if scientists aren’t getting by grants, they’re not doing research and therefore not producing things for journals to publish (without paying the authors or editors, mind you).

For a long time, I thought my editorial experience wasn’t compatible with teaching writing because it was too “product-oriented,” but the more editorial work I do, the more I realize they can actually co-exist.

Over the last few days, I’ve been writing a section of my diss about the history of scholarly publishing, and the field has a real life evil villain: Robert Maxwell He helped develop one of the most unethical and profitable industries by essentially using public funds to privatize knowledge.

I never realized how much inaccessible, paywalled research disrupts my workflow until I started writing about open access publishing. Because everything I was reading was, of course, open access, and it's SO MUCH easier to do research.

I've had a bunch of people ask me for access to my #4C25 Chair's Address transcript, so after taking a bit of time to clean it up, I've made it available, here: docs.google.com/document/d/1... #teamrhetoric #rhetcomp #techcomm @ncte.org

This slide in @jsanofranchini.bsky.social keynote at #4C25 is all anyone should need to decide to drop generative AI like a hot potato. Stop making billionaires richer and make that 💩 whither and die.

I'm so excited to share that my very first peer-reviewed journal article has officially been published in Technical Communication Quarterly! Please share and read if you're interested! doi.org/10.1080/1057...

I can’t make it to #4C25 to support my fellow grad students this year, so if you see a presenter from the University of Louisville, please sit in the front row and nod enthusiastically for me!