“The researchers found that 40% of workers had encountered workslop within a month, and then spent an average of 3.4 hours a month dealing with it – which the study estimates adds up to $8.1m in lost productivity for a 10,000-person organization.” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Mortal Kombat was actually based on a Scandinavian church song. It was a Finnish hymn

Hey did you know you can find radically awesome protest posters for printing and flyering at justseeds.org? I love the work this cooperative does, and they are generous enough to share their work openly for anyone looking to adding some post-up action to their days 🤗❤️

President Trump's threat to wipe out Iran's "whole civilization" is genocidal. Thousands of civilians have been killed in Iran and throughout the region. The U.S. is already carrying out war crimes—and now it is threatening to commit more. This must stop. Tell Congress: End this war now.

All bloody principles and practices, as to our own particulars, we utterly deny; with all outward wars and strife, and fightings with outward weapons, for any end, or under any pretense whatsoever; this is our testimony to the whole world.

Making. #quakersopposeallwar

Resonance (UC Press) is looking for humanities research across the following topics: Sound in Political Crisis, Sound and Social Justice, Experiments in Sound, Sound Archives and Preservation, and we're convening a permanent series that'll examine "Film and Cinema Sound" this Fall. Please circulate!

"Health workers are sounding the alarm of healthcare jobs being lost in Ottawa and across Ontario due to provincial underfunding." "It's mind-boggling to hear about frontline job cuts at our hospital when care is already at breaking point." #Ontario #Canada #Healthcare #Labour

Today in AI: Canada rejected the PR application of a McMaster postdoc from the Sorbonne who works in the immunology of aging because the generative AI being used to process applications (😱) entirely hallucinated her credentials. Everyone involved should be fired. archive.is/ELrCI#select...

Planning to be good to each other— Preventing harm by building infrastructure. [WOW] briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/vie...

Shame can have positive implications for sure. Also: the statement "Using AI to write" is one of those that sounds easy enough and yet, as a writing studies scholar, I have to wonder what "to write" means here. Put words on a digital screen? Compose? Proof read?

But search engines are NeUtRaL

When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist. - Hélder Câmara Pic of the day #photography

“Researchers from Cornell University have developed what they call "the Corporate Bullshit Receptivity Scale," a tool designed to measure how impressed people are by business school-style jargon that sounds strategic but says very little.” www.theregister.com/2026/03/15/c...

I'm seeing alot of writing is/as thinking comments these days, particularly in response to AI + writing. While there is absolutely an epistemological element with writing, some socio-rhetorical theorists would say that writing is also SOCIAL ACTION.

Watch our latest webinar, From Peer Review to the Public: Re-imagining Academic Freedom & Advocacy, co-presented with @federationhss.ca. This timely conversation explores what academic freedom means in a moment of democratic backsliding. buff.ly/eaWDH2V

Yes!

Obsessed with my latest scholarship.

Are you studying #ScholComm, #research dissemination or doing a research project in #DigitalHumanities? #CoalitionPublica, an @erudit.org + @pkp.sfu.ca project, is accepting #scholarship applications until April 19 2026, at 11:59pm PT! Learn more and apply: www.coalition-publi.ca/scholarship-...

“Prompt engineering” is the funniest term. A: How are you? B: Oh you know, we are in this event engineering phase. So I spent my day email engineering for the organizers. How about you? A: Was busy lecture engineering this morning. But then, my afternoon was free for some manuscript engineering.

Wahoo! New pub in DHQ with Alan Arce, @grahamhjensen.bsky.social, and @raysiemens.bsky.social! Avail in 3 languages 🤯 Multilingualism as Infrastructural Imperative: Language Diversity in Digital Knowledge Commons [EN] dhq.digitalhumanities.org/vol/20/1/000...

→ Enhancing the Sustainability and Innovation of Érudit’s Infrastructure Our 3-year project aims to modernize our research infrastructure and explore the responsible integration of AI into our scholarly knowledge discoverability services. Read the announcement: apropos.erudit.org/innovation-f...

Man, one of the most depressing aspects of modern scholarship is finding a great article and then looking up the scholar to see what else they’ve done and just catching a glimpse of an abbreviated career hopping between visiting positions and publishing great pieces before disappearing from academia

SocArxiv @socarxiv.bsky.social just released an AI policy, which I had a hand in crafting. @phillewis.bsky.social sums up the spirit of the policy well. socopen.org/2026/03/09/s...

on this sunday-est of sundays, syllabus-ing for a new term you're not alone against the oligarch agenda of cognitive deskilling, data capture, surveillance, and bias: we've got assignment ideas, memes, recommended readings, o' captain speeches, syllabus policies, and so much more against-a-i.com

@wolfproofpress.com LOVE the concept / organization / interface of the site and, of course, your scholarship..thanks for putting it on my radar

This is relevant to academic writers too—after a big successful writing sprint, it’s common to feel a bit flat. Nothing to worry about, it’s just part of a natural cycle. ✨📚

💡 Another way to understand the word 'settler' (and practice / habits thereof): "‘I’ve now settled in, and I can erase the fact that I was foreign or different.'" www.vice.com/en/article/w...

Happy birthday to the great revolutionary and theorist, Rosa Luxemburg, born on this day in 1871.

What?! I am absolutely shocked that glasses with a camera would present any concerns, privacy, ethical, or otherwise... If we can't trust corporations who can we trust? What's next? Capitalism is failing? Omg.

If you would like to know what @balloonleap.bsky.social and I think about the relationship between generative AI chatbots and the teaching of writing, we have an article for you to read! 1/ #writingstudies #genai+writing #teamrhetoric cjsdw.journals.publicknowledgeproject.org/index.php/dw...

🤯 Sounds promising 😸 wish I could join! Sharing in case others are interested and able.

One of the greatest bollard walks in history. #WorldBollardAssociation

I need people to understand that "AI" used in moderation isn't necessarily the "AI" of ChatGPT + friends or synthetic text extruding machines, or LLMs. There's stuff lumped under "AI", as the term is a marketing term, that is actually useful and important for flagging stuff on social media.

Students deserve better. Doug Ford’s OSAP cuts mean fewer grants, more loans, and higher debt. Students are paying more to get in — and leaving with even more to pay back. Join me and thousands of Ontarians calling on Doug Ford to reverse the cuts: SaveOSAP.ca

I'm doing a Catherine O'Harathon with my friends. So far it's been: 1) Best in Show 2) For your Consideration Also on the list: - Beetlejuice - Some SCTV eps if I can find them Schitt's Creek is obvious. Home Alone is a no (watched it so many times). Any orher lesser known gems?

Join us! 👇🏾✨

Whale Evolution: Flamingo-Legged Watermelon Mouse Mutant Sewer Rat King Gator Wolf Steel-Jawed PollyWorg Titan MerSausage

The very idea of what is recognized, broadly speaking, as technology—or what is not—is so tangled up with Eurocentricism & settler colonialism that it may hard to envision a future w tech that differs from what 'we' 'see' RN but wow thank goodness worlds & tech exists beyond settler colonial views.

"I was wondering why I was put in prison for working in an African language when I had not been put in prison for working in English. So really, in prison I started thinking more seriously about the relation between language and power." Audio: milkweed.org/between-the-...

Impressive community organizing 🤟🏼

Catherine O'Hara. Not enough said.

Which brings me back to one of my rules, it doesn't matter if you're right when you're an asshole, because someone else is making the same point without being an asshole.

Life: Beautiful, Broken, Simultaneously.

“Unpaywalling” is good not only for democracy but for business, writes FPF board member @johncusack.bsky.social. Outlets that dropped paywalls for their FOIA-based reporting, like @wired.com and @404media.co, saw significant increases in subscriptions and revenue.

Event: Embedding an Equity Lens to Generative AI’s Impact on Libraries. February 3, 1 PM Eastern. Speaker: Janice Kung. Register here: uvic.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

#writingstudies scholarship is often invisible when people talk about „the essay“ or in this case „the formal essay.“ bsky.app/profile/kpan...