As we enter the New Year remember fear of making bad art is holding you back. Fear of people not liking your work is holding you back. Rejection is holding you back You'll make bad art, you'll have people not like your work, and you'll be rejected. Moving past it is half the job of being a creative

Ruth Wilson Gilmore's definition of racism gets at why it's not something that can be ignored: "the state-sanctioned and/or extralegal production and exploitation of group-differentiated vulnerability to premature death". --- THE PREMATURE DEATH part is not something that can be "ignored"

Hey so, if a [white] person self-identifies as an “ally” to Black people, it’s safe to assume they are NOT one. Anti-racist allyship is something ✨others✨ identify within the vanishing few who exhibit it. Kinda like someone insisting they’re funny—it’s an assessment more accurately left to others.

I haven’t gotten a single OOO email reply. Everyone is still working! We are in a RECESSION, y’all.

(slow, deep breath) Woosah. Okay, then. Moving on.

I am writing an entire academic book with my own critical thinking skills and orginal research. Nothing is touched by GenAI. Outlines, summaries of secondary sources, finding said sources, thinking though organization, writing, re-writing, cutting material. All of it done by my own human brain.

How come every time I mention my Black experience, I get a few replies with what about (other marginalized groups)? What makes you feel I’m that limited in my understanding of oppression, especially considering my job and what I teach?

Done* with meetings for the year and started holiday prep. And now reading my first 2026 book: Critical Health Communication: Theory and Practice edited by Sastry, Zoller, & Basu. www.routledge.com/Critical-Hea...

As everywhere: carolinapublicpress.org/73953/cultur...

Looking forward... www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...

is this a presidential address or a QVC ad

Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google. My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence! go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT

This is likely going to get me yelled at or at least grumbled about again but lots of young people were not told the truth about PhD programs over the past 2 decades. There wasn't an honest accounting that most of them were not going to get tenure track jobs even if they really wanted them.

🗣🗣 You betta tell em Victor (If you've never read The Racial Contract, strong recommend)

Stop linking affirmative action to discrimination. You are looking for different words to describe white men getting preferential treatment. Try racism or sexism. The things affirmative action rectifies.

What sounds like “human” writing can never be disentangled from the fact that most of the world’s population has never been considered fully human by mainstream institutions

Indiana and Michigan 😵‍💫

Final lecture of the year is done! Still need to grade 😶.

Do what you can to end suffering.

Looking for new papers to include in my syllabus for an #EMCA course for undergraduates in health, pre-health, pre-med tracks. Please share new/forthcoming #EMCA (+adjacent) papers on patient-provider interaction (+tech +teams) beyond the well-knowns/wiki. Would love to include newer researchers.

New preprint with Thomas Graves and @annayahprosser.bsky.social: "Getting Creeped Out? Open Science, Qualitative Methods, and the Dangers of Positivism Creep". osf.io/preprints/so...

“Positivism Creep” “The subtle, often unacknowledged infiltration of positivist or post-positivist assumptions into methodologies where they do not naturally, philosophically, practically, or epistemologically belong.” By @thomasgraves.bsky.social @maddipow.bsky.social @annayahprosser.bsky.social

I get sad when I see sun dried tomatoes on examples of cringe "dated" food trends because it's got to be one of the best tomato innovations in tomato history.

For whoever needs to see this 💗

Gen Z grad unemployment rate high. Skilled gov workers (mainly millennials and X) shoved out. Artists with decades of experience have had careers eroded (e.g. “The Gen X Career Meltdown”). Science/research taken hits. Kids getting a message that nothing matters but speed, not accuracy nor learning.

The problem with “kids who use gen ai learn less” is that kids may no longer care if they learn less. They’re told to prioritize speed and quick answers. Worse, if they regularly see the people who “learned more” before gen ai gain no actual benefit from it, the incentive to “game” school increases.

Sunday is one of my writing days. Today I’m finishing a handbook chapter, compiling notes for an article revision due soon, and sketching out articles for the spring. There’s a half of a foot or more of fresh snow outside. So, I’m choosing to be inspired (rather than annoyed) by nature’s beauty.

There is (1) research that aims to prove antiblackness is real and (2) research that seeks to reveal the mechanisms that reproduce antiblackness. Overlapping circles, and other types. The literature is flooded with (1). I don’t ask why anymore. Nod to June Jordan’s note on Host-Parasite relations.

Whew, you talking good, Pastor!!! The student-as-customer also shifted the idea of learning for the value of learning to a kpi and quarterly goal, if you catch my drift. I’m ready to build something different because this ain’t it and it’s wearing my spirit LOW.

This entire thread is soberingly accurate. I teach class now, and most days I just want to find something else. I love teaching. I’ve also seen this coming since 2010/11 when I taught high school right by after undergrad. There is a real timeline to this but we’re experiencing the symptoms of a

📌 this.

A tactic of this system is to humanize what’s not human and dehumanize actual humans. Doing this normalizes the sociopathy of the elites and aspiring elites.

📌 New paper: “Producing Trustworthiness: Locating the Adequacy of Findings in Interactional Research,” published in Qualitative Inquiry. #EMCA (EMCA-adjacent) #LSI #QualitativeInquiry doi.org/10.1177/1077...

Get a library card!

"We are not our ancestors" is not gonna yet us through this moment. You better wish you were your ancestors who survived the middle passage, chattel slavery, who consistently revolted, who made ways as maroons. We definitely need to connect with Black legacies of survival for now.

Alice Wong, a writer and activist who was born with muscular dystrophy and who fought relentlessly for equal rights and access for people with disabilities, died on Friday. She was 51. nyti.ms/4r9WqEr

This country and the social contracts we’ve all lived under can never be reinstated. We’ve shown the fallacy in them by letting this shit show run amuck. You can’t talk about merit ever again. The rule of law? Baby… might as well forget about it. Society in decline and nothing can patch it up.

I wish we could take the rest of the year off. Like, as a species let’s sit down and rethink this lived experience because we don’t have to live like this.

Rosalind Franklin, 1920-1958 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalin...

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

I think you should join in with others especially when it's easy to do.

Three high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced.

Me ready to destroy a presenter with a tough question (jk!). In all seriousness, I had the best time at @lansi2024.bsky.social sharing about @francescaorfw.bsky.social my upcoming book, "Race talk in institutional settings: A language and social interaction perspective" and learning from others!

In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.

I just had a creative meeting where our team solved four problems and made a huge leap towards achieving our goal and I regret to inform you — truly — that sometimes an in-person meeting truly is the best, most efficient use of your time.

Knowing who to be mad at truly is praxis.