Steven Kahn, director of the UW Diabetes Research Center, was removed by police from a national conference as he and others handed out copies of an editorial.

It's that time of year when I'm reach out to my network to find folks who would be interested in giving students feedback on their design portfolios. If you are willing to view a 7-minute video of a student sharing a case study from their portfolio, it would mean a lot! forms.gle/wijQvzFGkcVe...

Join us this morning at 10:10am PT for this talk by Dr. Stephens! DM for Zoom link.

Are you in Tacoma? Want to join us for a little nature walk, look at plants, use an app, and chat about your experience? We're doing a research study at Point Defiance on May 1. If you'd like to join us, learn more here: forms.gle/kGfGDae9hcgu...

Join us at UW Tacoma for a talk by Dr. Sonia Stephens on species ID apps and user experience! This talk will be in person and hybrid, register below for the link. dubnet.tacoma.uw.edu/iige/rsvp_bo...

Hey! Have you ever had a research failure? Want to share about it? We're co-editing a special issue for Technical Communication and Social Justice and want to reframe and explore research in a productive way. See the CFP here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Volume 13, Issue 4 of Communication Design Quarterly has been published. The issue includes 4 articles, as well as 3 book reviews. To access CDQ, please follow this link: cdq.sigdoc.org/wp-content/u...

A good description of the realities of being a writing professor these days. open.substack.com/pub/charlott...

Interested in getting involved with SIGDOC? Become a reviewer for the 2026 Proceedings! Use our link to share your contact information, availability, and expertise. go.osu.edu/sigdoc2026

Wonderful conference so far. Lots of amazing student research at the SRC!

New pub alert! The Multifaceted Purposes of Storytelling in User Experience Design Practice (w/ Putnam and MacDonald) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Since COVID, I've been teaching the tech comm service course online, but returning to in-person this fall (for reasons). I need ideas for a super-engaging day 1 activity to get students social. Anyone have any great ideas?

This year in a nutshell

On Friday, I got promoted to full Professor. Today, got a paper rejected, and the first thing reviewer 2 said about the paper was that "In academic writing, the use of short forms of words such as "we've" are not allowed." 😂 Stay humble!

Appreciate this post from @banvillemorgan.bsky.social about why @sigdoc-acm.bsky.social chose to leave X cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/del...

This is today! Please join us to hear from Scott.

For folks in the South Sound interested in #ux and #design, please join us tomorrow, April 29 @ 5:30 for a talk from Scott Berkun @berkun.bsky.social on his new book Why Design is Hard. www.meetup.com/tacolyux/eve...

For folks in the South Sound interested in #ux and #design, please join us tomorrow, April 29 @ 5:30 for a talk from Scott Berkun @berkun.bsky.social on his new book Why Design is Hard. www.meetup.com/tacolyux/eve...

ATTW has joined Bluesky! Follow this account to stay up to date with all things #ATTW. We'll be sharing more details about our upcoming hybrid conference, including local food recommendations and places to visit. #TechComm #TechnicalCommunication #ATTW2025

The new few weeks, months, years, will likely not be pretty. Get this guide to surveillance self-defense to your communities. It has printable PDFs as well as tailored reccomendations for certain activities, types of people, etc. ssd.eff.org

It's getting increasingly harder to tumble out of bed and stumble to the kilchen and pour myself a cup of ambition.

I lied, not next week but proposals are due Feb 1 (not sure how I messed that up), here is the CFP for folks looking for it @sigdoc-acm.bsky.social sigdoc.acm.org/conference/2...

Today someone called my office phone while I was in my office. This marks the second time that has happened in the past 12 years.

I'm sort of fascinated (aka appalled) at what the AI slop that comes at the top of each Google search does to screen real estate. Slop + Sponsored links + then eventually legitimate links and what the potential impact is (1/2)

I woke up today realizing that SIGDOC proposals are due next week. Feels early this year! Need to figure out which of my projects has something ready to share. Who else is proposing?

I’m hiring a (well paid) Ph.D. intern to work with me and the Viva UX research lead on a qualitative research project about employee connection, organizational culture, and Copilot adoption. Based in Cambridge MA. Deadline January 31. jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo...

Googling Stuff: Then v Now.

Have a huge pile of grading, so of course feeling extra motivated to write instead.

This is definitely the feeling of 2024 academia in the US

Made a bit of progress on the book project, spent 5 hours in Zoom faculty meetings, and have about 80 things to grade, but not a bad way to end the last week of the quarter.

📣📕As a journal focused on cultural rhetorics, we’re thrilled to bring together these scholars, instructors, practitioners, and all-around magnificent humans. Are you interested in cultural rhetorics? Let us know and we’ll add you! go.bsky.app/Mzw3HSc #AcademicSky #WritingCommunity

It is a Thanksgiving miracle, I'm all caught up on grading heading into the break.

I created a Starter Pack for Technical and Professional Communication Scholars. If you want to be added/removed, please reach out! go.bsky.app/GfiKAgg

Stefan Frei.

@heatherturner.bsky.social Fyi!

My son’s team is playing in the WA cup today and the Sounders play LAFC. Nervous for both! Excited for a day of ⚽️

Just spent the past two days with other school board directors from across the state. Feeling hope and optimism and appreciation for the laws and policies in WA state that help us focus on children.

Scenes of academic absurdity in times of scarcity, during our faculty meeting yesterday we were told not to throw away any garbage in our meeting room because otherwise we'd be charged for it (in other words pay custodians).

Oh, looks like Angela already did one for Writing Studies/Rhetoric/Tech Comm! Thanks @angelawcrow.bsky.social

Are you an academic in technical and professional writing and/or technical communication? Trying to build more community here - reply so @mfeble.bsky.social and I can help create connections.

Who’s gonna do the TPC starter pack?

Am writing. Is there a term for that feeling when you think a thing is never going to be done and then you delete two paragraphs and write a new intro and it feels almost done?

Tacoma is set to take a $450,000 per year budget for Vision Zero, already far from enough funding, down to $45,000 with the budget that was proposed this fall. www.theurbanist.org/2024/10/18/t...

I volunteer with an org in Seattle that supports kids experiencing foster care, many of them immigrants, LGBT, BIPOC. They're always looking for donations & volunteers, and I bet lots of places have similar local orgs that would also love more support 💚 Treehouseforkids.org

Trying to find some positive energy today. Had a productive meeting with folks at a local nonprofit about doing a community-engaged project with my Winter design class. That feels like a tiny thing in a sea of despair.

Just reached out to a UX research tool to see if there was an educational discount or a possibility of using the tool in class with my students, and the company (which I won't name) responded and said...yes, how about an enterprise subscription starting at 30K, is that in your budget? LOL.

Just like all of social media, I need a reset button.