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.

"The impression that the internet is 'down' opens up moments for rhetorical action: to reconsider our dependency on platforms that require environmental injury, to create learning experiences beyond the centralization of our digital landscape," writes @trentwintermeier.bsky.social.

yay!!!!!

On Tuesday morning, DWRL ADs @hannahhopkins.bsky.social and @trentwintermeier.bsky.social led a workshop at the Seaholm Power Plant, which explored the scales required to investigate energy's contours and expose its capacities.

DFMI 2025: ENERGY - DAY 4 On Thursday, DFMI participants logged and introduced energy through cyanotyping. Check out what @martheawebber.bsky.social, @mez-rperez.bsky.social, and Jered Mabaquiao are working on!

DFMI 2025: ENERGY – DAY 2 Today we heard from our first speaker, @apasek.bsky.social. “Energy is the Raw Material of the Cloud” focused on mapping where data is housed, alongside discussion of local land use conflicts, wobbling climate pledges, and the utopian hopes for a digital future. ⚡️🖥️🛜🔌

This July 7th MeMerMo has paired up with the Digital Field Methods Institute at UT Austin to host a night of soundscapes crafted around the theme of energetic soundscapes – the acoustic reverberations, resonances, and traces of energy composing our fields. All are invited to attend! See you there!

DFMI 2025: ENERGY kickoff begins at 1pm! Stay tuned for more updates from our online week.

The fine folks of UT Austin's Digital Field Methods Institute are hosting me as a keynote this year. This means that I get the coolest mail! Y'all are setting quite the feast.

I'm on the jury for this open call to fund works opposing tech fascism. Awards are between €1500 and € 7000. Applications due tomorrow! error417.expectation.fail/406/tech-fas...

Digital humanists! JITP is seeking submissions for Issue 27 of the journal. Deadline is June 15. Details here: cuny.manifoldapp.org/read/jitp-ca...

Out now! The "Atlas of Spatial Figures" presents new spatial imaginaries to capture the complex realities of our world. Through the interplay of analytical, narrative, and visual elements, it encourages readers to explore #sfb1265 research by thinking visually! #OpenAccess⬇️ jovis.de/de/book/9783...

New blog post: Recognizing AI Hype Masquerading as Research (a reworking of my previous LinkedIn post) refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/05/21/r...

So many Silicon places. Tomorrow. @dukepress.bsky.social www.euroethno.hu-berlin.de/de/das-insti...

[1/5] We're launching a new thing @ the Metro NY Library Council: The Cross-Reference Coalition is an experimental school tracing exuberantly🤗 interdisciplinary links btw NYC's libraries + archives; connecting its knwldg workers, grad students, artists + designers; and creating an open publicatio

New this week from the MIT Press 📚👇

My first solo-authored article is up now in RSQ! This piece was a dream to work on. I'm so humbled by the generosity of the RSQ reviewers and editors, and even more sure that my crackerjack home team of friends + colleagues is the best in the game. Check it out! bit.ly/hhopkinsrsq

My book is now out in the wild! I wish the timing of its release could have been different--things feel so dire right now--but, honestly, what I've written is more relevant than ever. I'd be honored if you'd snag a copy and/or request one for your library 🙂 www.uapress.ua.edu/978081732221...

Now in NEH program guidelines, via @jacklynch000.bsky.social :

Submissions are open for our online conference "Digital Pasts and Futures: Internet Histories, Digital Interculturality and Reimagining Digitality" with great keynotes. Please send in your abstracts by 28 Feb 2025. We're very much looking forward to reading them. 🔗 hub.redico.eu/events/95/di...

students this semester are really excited about our collaborative spotify playlist... 19 of them submitted 62 SONGS

Went from Capitol protest to @bookpeople.bsky.social to buy On Tyranny. Person at info desk hands me a copy. Another customer: “Come from the protest?”, fist bumps as I say yes. While checking out, cashier says to go to @indivisible.org, sign up for updates. Very Austin — in the best ways. ♥️

Today, we are publicly launching the new Climate, Technology, and Justice program at Data & Society I can't think of a more important moment to be doing the hard work of gathering empirical evidence to track and mitigate AI's environmental and social repercussions datasociety.net/announcement...

Hi AVAnnotate-rs! The AVAnnotate team is hosting drop-in hours every Friday from 10-11am CT beginning tomorrow (1/24). Please fill out the Google form below if you're planning to drop by so we can share the Zoom link with you. 😊🎞️

snow day in texas means writing the first 2000 words of a prospectus!! what!!! when unexpected events collide

Huge AI data centre planned near Pincher Creek; access to natural gas helped seal the deal calgaryherald.com/business/loc...