The North Woods Art and Writing Workshop will take place on Sunday June 28, 1:30-3:30pm. We will meet on Flagg Rd. across the street from the Coastal Institute. Join us for an afternoon of field sketching, journaling, and place-based making in the North Woods!

"Just as monstrous and mutant algae invade the lagoon of Venice, so our television screens are populated, saturated, by 'degenerate' images and statements [...] men like Donald Trump are permitted to proliferate freely, like another species of algae"--Felix Guattari, The Three Ecologies, p.43.

CCCC deadline is tomorrow. I'm gonna spend the day sending emails encouraging folks to apply. DMs and email open if you have questions. cccc.ncte.org/cccc/call-2027

Our friends at the URI @dwell-lab.bsky.social are hosting a Spring Peeper Hike at North Woods this Friday, April 17, at 6 PM, sponsored by the Rita Allen Civic Science Media Grant. A short hike will take participants to a vernal pool to see and listen for frogs! 🌳🐸

Very excited to kick off the Uni of Rhode Island Crises in Mediated Communication Symposium this morning alongside my colleagues @ecorhetor.bsky.social and Emily Diamond

New book from our Member Bookshelf: Alaska Literary Field Guide Edited by Nancy Lord, Marybeth Holleman, & Sharlene Grace Moler. Mountaineers Books, 2026 www.asle.org/stay-informe...

Have you heard??? 👂👂👂 ARSTM’s call for submissions to both the NCA conference AND preconference at NCA are now online! 🙌 🥳 🎉 Follow this link (www.arstmonline.org/meetings/nca/) for more information about both calls, including how, when, where, and what to submit. 1/3

POROI invites expressions of interest for a Managing Editor to join the journal’s editorial leadership team. Interested colleagues are invited to submit a CV & statement of interest (1–2 pages) outlining editorial experience & vision to the editor, Nathan Johnson ([email protected]), by Mar. 9.

I was so honored to get to share work from @dwell-lab.bsky.social on the North Woods Project in this amazing feature. Thanks @asle-us.bsky.social!

2026 ASLE Grants are open for submissions! Five $1K subvention and translation grants for projects in the environmental humanities available, deadline to apply is June 10, 2026. Read more and apply: www.asle.org/stay-informe.... #academicsky #envhum

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???)

I'm thrilled to share that the open-access version of my new book, Inventing Ecosystems: The Rhetoric of Science in an Ecological Age, is now available online. The print book will ship next month. link.springer.com/book/10.1007... Direct link to the PDF: link.springer.com/.../10.1007/...

I have a new poem, "Vernal Pool, West Kingston Town Dump," out in ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. This piece is about the North Woods at URI, a place with an interesting and complex history. doi.org/10.1093/isle... @asle-us.bsky.social

For anyone who uses archival methods, we’ve offering a $4,000 fellowship to use any of our holdings on site in Storrs, CT. Easy application! Please apply! Please repost! library.uconn.edu/location/asc...

Do you do archival research? Do you know anyone who does? Our travel grant is a very easy application and we give $1,500 to come do research onsite in Storrs, CT. Apply! Repost! library.uconn.edu/location/asc...

Here it is, a modern masterpiece by my friend and colleague @drsbk.bsky.social, parlorpress.com/products/pla..., hot off the press.

How to Participate PFAS Kitchen is a free AR experience can be accessed on a mobile device (Android or iOS) through Adobe Aero. STEEP is seeking users and feedback for our original augmented reality experience, PFAS Kitchen: web.uri.edu/steep/pfas-k...

Please help share a resource DWELL Lab developed and our request for participation in a brief survey. The app will only be available to download until 11/6, so please help spread the word: web.uri.edu/steep/pfas-k...

We've extended the deadline for submission to the 2026 ASLE Spotlight series on the #envhum to October 6! Read details and get your application in (it only take a few minutes) at www.asle.org/stay-informe...

If you're a Rhode Island writer with a passion for science and the outdoors, this event is for you! The URI Department of Public and Professional Writing and @dwell-lab.bsky.social are hosting a local Write Out Oct. 16 & 17, 8 AM-5 PM, at North Woods! #uri #writeout web.uri.edu/dwell/write-...

Here and Gone: PFAS Kitchen is available until 11/16/2025 PFAS Kitchen is a free augmented reality application developed by the DWELL that can be accessed on a mobile device (Android or iOS) through Adobe Aero. You can learn about the project and access the experience here: doi.org/10.23860/pfas

Our Assistant Director Erin Edmonds was published alongside the URI @dwell-lab.bsky.social team! The North Woods Project is a blend of AR, GIS mapping, web technologies, and field‑based methods showcasing the area as a vibrant site for learning and SciComm! kairos.technorhetoric.net/30.1/topoi/j...

Join us for an introductory workshop on digital humanities tools! Visit drsmb.co/idh to register today! This workshop is open to all.

Carolyn Miller in the recent RSQ: "I will just question whether it’s helpful to think of rhetoric as having “methodologies.” Does this language engage in a kind of science-envy? Isn’t rhetoric, as a discipline, rather a set of questions, a habit of mind, an interpretive vocabulary?"

We have a webtext in the incredible new issue of Kairos, "North Woods Project: Mobilizing Digital Field Methods and Art-Based Research for Science Communication and Environmental Advocacy." NOTE: the experience may take a moment to load. kairos.technorhetoric.net/30.1/topoi/j...

Thrilled to learn that my article, “Sylvan Rhetoric in the Planes of Plato’s Phaedrus“ has been awarded the Schachterle Essay Prize from the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Don't forget - only TWO DAYS left to submit to the preconference at NCA! #ARSTM #NCA2025 #ARSTMPRECON2025

Me (Homer Simpson voice): Woohoo!

It looks like we have a cover for Inventing Ecosystems! I can't wait to share this book with the world. link.springer.com/book/9783031... The cover photo is an archival image of Eugene Odum conducting a radioecology field experiment.

🏆 Nominations for ARSTM’s Article of the Year Award (for works published during the 2024 calendar year) are now open! 🏆 Each year, we recognize the most outstanding rhetoric of science, technology, or medicine-related article or book chapter published during the preceding calendar year. 1/6

My new book, Inventing Ecosystems, now has a page on the publishers website! We're still a little ways away from publication, but it is exciting to see it online! The cover should be out soon. link.springer.com/book/9783031...

I have a new poem in storySouth today. This poem is written in memory of my cousin Bill. The whole wonderful issue is available at: storysouth.com

Big thanks to URI's @dwell-lab.bsky.social for funding my science communication research! 🌎 🌊 This grant will support the development of a StoryMap that combines interactive sea level rise viewers (ISLRVs) with resources to enhance climate reporting. How’s that for a mouthful? ⤵️ buff.ly/3kxc5RU

I'm thrilled to share that I have been recommended for tenure and promotion to Associate Professor at URI. I am so grateful to the many mentors, colleagues, friends, family, and collaborators, and especially to my wife Jane, for supporting me through the many years of hard work that brought me here.

I am so thrilled to share that DWELL’s PFAS Kitchen project has won Grand Prize from the AAEES Environmental Communication Award! web.uri.edu/artsci/news/...

Last month to use promo #NCA24 for $20 book! My book is for anyone who's wondered what the %#& has social media done to (our/your/their) opinions + how we can reclaim their nuance + pro-social possibilities. I'm not at #4C25, but this might resonate. #TeamRhetoric www.uapress.ua.edu/978081736141...

DOGE had begun rescinding previously awarded NEH grants, according to @humanitiesall.bsky.social, threatening critical work by scholars, museums, and libraries.

Drum roll please… 🥁 🥁 🥁 Our 2025 preconference call is now live!

Thrilled to share that my essay, "Writing Ecotones: Creative-Critical Inquiry in the Middle Voice," appears in the latest issue of Writers: Craft and Context (link below with CW). This was one of the hardest essays I have ever written, but the process brought out something of which I'm really proud.

Good news, everybody - it's that time of year again! #ARSTM #NCA2025 #ARSTMNCA

I'm slowly making my way over to Bluesky. Meanwhile, follow DWELL Lab here for updates: bsky.app/profile/dwel...