networksofny2026.bigcartel.com/product/netw... hi, did you like my book Networks of New York when it came out in 2016? you might like the updated 2026 edition which I'll be releasing in September and you can pre-order now

After 9 hours of debate, another #Florida county says no to a data center proposal (but it's not most sincerely dead yet). www.tampabay.com/news/environ... via @tampabaytimes.bsky.social

U of Pittsburgh Press, Dec 2026. Exciting diversity of perspectives + topics: astrology, Christopher Rufo, ancient Egypt, QAnon, + “Afterwards” dialogue of 4 scholars + a journalist. Pre-order + ask library: upittpress.org/books/978082... #TeamRhetoric #AcademicSky #PostTruth

Hi all, I have a desperate need for editors! The publisher wants me to provide a few, I have a handy form here or you can DM me for more details. Please share widely! tinyurl.com/AISlopEditor (Ignore the date I forgot to update the image)

I'm attending a digital humanities event in Montreal. There was a keynote on AI and something about the talk made me wonder if it had been written by Claude. I said as much in the Q&A. As I posed the question, the speaker shifted, looking slightly uncomfortable. What he said next shocked the room +

It's Earth Day, which means you should preorder my new book, "Building Postcarbon Futures: Land, Justice, and Energy Transitions." cup.columbia.edu/book/buildin...

Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, is pleased to announce its 2026 award winners! Congratulations to the winners for their outstanding achievements.

The #ACH2026 program is now available! buff.ly/Wtmsofy Join us virtually June 24–26 for 70+ presentations on DH, transnationalism, and solidarity (especially in the Americas). Registration is open through June 17 buff.ly/3QFYlOS

gotta brag on a student who published their op-ed from my Rhetoric of AI class... go read "What the Casualties of the Iran War Tell Us About the Dangers of AI in Modern Warfare": thetexasorator.com/2026/05/31/w...

hi i'll be at RSA tomorrow morning presenting on a panel titled "Rhetoric Beyond Words" about community-engaged soundwalking, two of which i conducted in germany and england last week. a preview below: images of our walks over fossil fuel pipelines argued to cause infrasound

🎬 AVinDH SIG turns 10 at #DH2026! A full-day mini-conference celebrating a decade of AudioVisual & Digital Humanities — panel, lightning talks, tool cavalcade, networking. 📅 Mon, July 27, 2026 🔗 avindh.org/workshops/2026/ Open to all DH2026 attendees, no SIG membership required.

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We have extended the submission deadline for the call for abstracts for open panels. New deadline is: May 5. 1. Submissions to Open Panels 2. Closed Panels 3. Making & Doing 4. Meet-Ups 5. Roundtables Submit here: www.xcdsystem.com/4sonline/mem...

Digital Scholarship in the Humanities Vol. 41, Suppl 1. (2026) academic.oup.com/dsh/issue/41... @adho-org.bsky.social @eadhorg.bsky.social ‘Digital Humanities 2023: Collaboration as Opportunity @bernhardbaver.bsky.social @trentwintermeier.bsky.social @tanyaclement.bsky.social

📢 CfP for #CHR2027 is out! Submissions on all aspects of computational humanities research welcome; all details available here: 2027.computational-humanities-research.org/cfp/ And yes, CHR2027 will take place a little later than usual. So you *could* start later… but we suggest starting now!

More evidence that Canada is falling behind in the energy transition. We will pay the economic costs for backward looking policies. www.theenergymix.com/canadas-emis...

I'm starting a new project with my friend, Douglas Robb, that aims to document and better understand a process we refer to as "recarbonization", or the sites and systems driving a growth in emissions and reindustrialization alongside growth in renewable energy supply. recarbonization.cargo.site

Last week, a 20 year-old man threw a molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's mansion; two days later, people fired a gun at it. Earlier that week, someone fired gunshots into an city councilman's house who approved a data center. Why the AI backlash has turned violent:

Experimentation. Iteration. Time. These are pretty much the core ingredients of everything related to DATA BY DESIGN, and the cover is no exception. But now it is final and out there on the internet and also right here for you to see! Preorder at: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205618...

today my rhetoric of AI class went on a field trip to the texas advanced computing center and we got to stick our fingers in the mineral oil used for cooling servers :)

LA weirdos! It appears that @uchicagopress.bsky.social is giving away my book OIL BEACH for FREE this month (as an e-book) Link is here: press.uchicago.edu/books/freeEb...

HireHumanArtists.com is open again for a short 45 more artists as we work through the backlog, so if you missed it before, now's your chance to squeak in!

I’ve posted the text of my talk from today’s DH Day at Purdue: “Anemoia, AI, & Skeuomorphism” is part of a longer piece I’m working on that tries to theorize the current “Material Turn in Digital Humanities”—essentially: why are so many DH folks printing & making & crafting? #dhmakes

A citizen group working to prevent large data centers from being built on prime farmland are seeking a noise expert who can speak to detrimental effects of noise from data centers, especially low frequency sound. They're able to pay. Any recs, incl names/contact info, asap would be so appreciated 🙏

I've been trying to understand what it means to speed up mining approvals in Ontario. Here's the story of a huge internal shakeup that has excited industry and left First Nations feeling concerned about what might be lost when you speed everything up. thenarwhal.ca/ontario-1p1p... #onpoli

We've published a new #openaccess article ahead of print in 'Plant Perspectives', being Justin A. Dowdall on 'Pyrological Rhetorical Ecologies: Contested Discourse in the Redwood Forest'; online here: doi.org/10.3197/WHPP... #plantstudies #envhum #forests #sequoia @plantperspectives.bsky.social

Stressed in recent years by climate change–fueled drought and government mismanagement, Iran’s water supplies are now facing another threat: war. @carbonbrief.org examines when Iran may hit “water day zero” and climate change’s role in the crisis:

more thoughts coming from my rhetoric of AI course: we're testing out what it would look like to do prompt engineering *without* AI... so that turned into a short assignment i'm calling "rhetorical context engineering": drive.google.com/file/d/1hCqr...

prepping zine kits (inspo: Tum Wuthipol's "zine dummy kit") for some talking + workshopping on AI and zines in @drbrowne.bsky.social's class next week... 🧵

question for *media studies* folks: what are some journals that invite short (3K word ish?) commentaries with a quick (ish) turnaround time? this would be for themes like tech, data, infrastructure, media, enviro, etc thanks!

Reporting in @insidehighered.com on the CCCC Resolution on Academic Freedom and Upholding Students' and Teachers' Right to Refuse Generative AI in the Writing Classroom that was passed at the #4c26 Annual Business Meeting.

ChatGPT boss Sam Altman on AI "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter"

my students and i used @avannotate.bsky.social to build a synthetic media rhetorical analysis project! check it out here: trentwintermeier.github.io/synthetic-me...

Queen's University, Film & Media, has a call open for a new 2-year Post-Doc in Emerging Media Practices. www.queensu.ca/filmandmedia... (PDF) (sorry that they don't seem to have a simple html link for this)

GW‘s student newspaper appears to have broken the story that the institution has sold a satellite campus to Amazon to be turned into a data center, which is just about chef’s kiss for the state of American higher education rn

DIY Methods is back!! this conference is really the ideal way to engage in/with research: via zine exchange! this year there are three streams: conventional, risograph, and self-published/experimental. i'm so excited to be a part of it again! :) check out what it was like in 2024... 🧵

Until our nomination deadlines, Kairos will be spotlighting specific categories from our annual awards. Today we want to spotlight the Kairos Awards for Graduate Students and Contingent Faculty, due March 15, 2026. (For full descriptions of all the awards check out kairos.technorhetoric.net/awards.)

Kinda wild to think I delivered the CCCC Chair's Address almost a year ago. It's finally available in College Composition and Communication, and it's titled "Timely, (Un)Disciplinary, and Solutions-Oriented: The Affective Politics of Writing Technologies & Where We Might Go from Here" 🔗👇

The latest Department of Homeland Security AI use case inventory, released last week, details over 200 applications across DHS component agencies, including CBP and ICE. DHS is rapidly deploying these tools in US cities, while engaging in violence and defying court orders.

Jan 22 @ 2pm ET: For our first event of 2026, we’re taking a close look at Trump administration AI policy. Join us online as @alondra.bsky.social @edwardongwesojr.com & @telliotter.bsky.social talk to D&S's Brian J. Chen about the admin’s actions & their consequences. datasociety.net/events/one-y...

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...

Settler colonialism oppresses every aspect of Mapuche life—including sound. Books in brief review: Acoustic Colonialism: Acts of Mapuche Interference, Luis E Cárcamo-Huechante @DukePress #Chile #Argentina #Mapuche #SoundStudies #LatinAmericanStudies latamrob.substack.com/p/the-noise-...

“I considered transferring out of U.T., because if my professors are unable to teach me, and I’m not able to have candid conversations to get a proper education, what am I here for?” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...

Our spring term events will be posted in the next couple weeks, but we've already got one posted: "Zines All Day" in April! Drop in any time 10am-5pm for a full day of back-to-back public zinemaking tutorials restarting at the top of every hour. Part of @uvalibrary.bsky.social's Zines Now! series +

📣We're hiring! The Research Portfolio Lead will embed oversight and quality assurance into every stage of our work. The role will ensure our research is conducted with integrity, and within a culture of care and support. Deadline: 1st December 2025. www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/job/research...

is there a hotline for being called "so unc" by a student before 9:30am on a wednesday

Call for reviews! Kairos is actively seeking reviews of technologies (games, software, tools, etc.) and nonprint and print texts. This list is not exhaustive, and we welcome the opportunity for inquiry.

Tell all your friends. It's coming in June 2026.