New title! We're excited to announce the publication of Visualizing Captions and Subtitles: The Embodiment of Accessible Multimodal Communication, by Janine Butler! Butler visualizes captions & subtitles as instruments of connection that embody how we communicate through multiple modes.

PREORDERS available now - Digital Literacies for Human Connection: 25 Ways to Engage Students in People-Centered Digital Practices. @mettalrose.bsky.social @ambuck.bsky.social, Rich Shivener, and authors of 25 chapters have pour our heart and soul into this book. Check it out at #4C26!

We're excited to launch our latest book, Composing with AI, edited by Nupoor Ranade and Douglas Eyman. This collection provides educators with frameworks & strategies to integrate AI responsibly into composition practices, emphasizing critical literacy. ccdigitalpress.org/composing-wi...

Via Andrea Tinker: Alabama’s two Democratic U.S. representatives want the University of Alabama to reinstate two student magazines suspended earlier this month. https://ow.ly/sOi350XKBro

On Dec. 1, university officials told student journalists at Nineteen Fifty-Six, a magazine celebrating Black student culture, and Alice, a magazine centered on women’s fashion and lifestyle, that their publications would be shuttered immediately.

Over the last year, you could have given into anger and despair. Instead, you’ve organized in the largest numbers this country has ever seen to reclaim the power of the pro-democracy majority. We could not be more thankful for you and everything you’re doing to defy Trump’s agenda.

X (RIP Twitter) is "a Russian nesting doll of bullshit." www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.

60% of eligible Black voters turned out in Alabama for Obama in 2012, and it hasn't been that high ever since. Here's an earlier story from @rchapoco.bsky.social at @alabamareflector.com with the data and potential reasons. alabamareflector.com/2025/03/18/s...

"Among households with extremely low incomes, Alabamians pay nearly a quarter of their earnings for electricity—the highest percentage in the country." alabamareflector.com/2025/11/04/h...

There are so many terrible things about SNAP funding being willfully throttled, and just one of them is being an org trying to figure out how to help without being overwhelmed.

This is one of the best analyses of the total grift and scammery of AI in education I’ve seen, and it is a MUST Read: “Higher Ed’s Rush To Adopt AI Is About So Much More Than AI - defector.com/higher-eds-r...

Our ability to comprehend daily events has been corrupted by a toxic info environment where political & attentional dynamics distort & manipulate our “collective sensemaking” processes. Our “official” sources are now products of that same environment. Reality fractures, along with the social fabric.

"Living through the rise of a dictatorship just means inhabiting a space that is gradually shrinking. There’s no point in resisting, not at first. You just make do with whatever breathing room you still have—until you lose that too."

As a historian of computing, can confirm, this is exactly what happened

🔥 “If I’m willing to drive three hours to come here and talk, I’m gonna ask you to get off your phone and listen to what I have to say.”

This from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social hit me over the head like a mallet of truth. This is the thing. This is what I’ve been trying to warn people about perfectly crystallized. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/o...

The US could see a 30-40% decline in new international student enrollment, resulting in nearly $7 billion in lost revenue and more than 60,000 fewer American jobs. https://www.nafsa.org/fall-2025-international-student-enrollment-outlook-and-economic-impact

"As a college professor, watching the dismantling of America’s education system has been among the most discouraging events of my life." We agree @aaup.org @higheredlabor.bsky.social

Things I have searched for in the past week: 1. How do you get children to sleep in their own beds? 2. Are all 5 year olds sociopaths? 3. How to manage time out effectively 4. How to treat poison ivy It’s been quite a summer.

If you have the means, can I also recommend setting up a recurring donation? Clinics like WAWC need steady funding that they can rely on, and the attention economy tends to provide funds in surges that then dry up as attention shifts. Recurring donations can help to cover the leaner times.

With all of the chaos brought upon us from this administration, remember: We are the Revolution. We, the people, deserve better. And, we must fight to get it. Together. #PoliticalRevolution #WeThePeople #FiftyFiftyOne #ThePeoplesMovement #Grassroots @50501movement.bsky.social

Everyone's on edge—fighting Trump, Congress, Elon Musk, even each other. Meanwhile, millions are hitting the streets, standing up for rights under threat. In our latest package, we’ve put together guides to help you stay safe and fight back—wherever you are.

Want to push back against the bigoted attacks targeting trans and gender-nonconforming people? Here are specific ways you can help—with your time, money, and everyday actions.

There are not, generally speaking, magic thresholds in social systems. Engaging 3.5 percent of the population in protests does not make change inevitable. The sustained work involved in making so many people turn out can make change much more likely.

I'm seeing a lot of blue state/red state discourse today. This is a reminder that Sarah is right: we're all purple like a bruise. The large protests in states run by the GOP prove that. They're not red, they're hurting.

Demonstrators gathered at the Federal Building and Courthouse in Tuscaloosa as part of the nationwide 'No Kings' protests on Saturday, June 14, 2025. In one photo, a motorist can be seen shouting at protesters. More: https://www.al.com/galleries/YI42GPDVTJA2JF6HKOSJC447PI/  📸: Ben Flanagan

Truly wild photos coming in from Los Angeles right now.

#JournoRequest Hoping I can find #Alabama college students from these countries who have been banned/restricted. Signal: wmorris.07. Afghanistan, Chad, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Myanmar, Republic of the Congo, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen, Burundi, Cuba, Laos. Sierra Leone

Int’l students make America stronger and shape our world. Trump’s attacks on‬ @harvard.edu don’t just threaten one school. They deprive our country of influential‬ leaders for generations. If u came to the U.S. to study at schools under attack,‬ SHARE UR STORY:‬‭ forms.gle/pNpThs2wtSzX1

Tuscaloosa friends, I hope you will join us on June 14th at 6PM. www.mobilize.us/nokings/even... Think Trump and his band of cronies have gone too far? Want to say enough is enough? This event is for you. Our event will be happening DURING his $45 million parade #NoKings @indivisible.org

A large proportion of these canceled awards are focused on broadening the participation of underrepresented groups in STEM, which NSF was mandated to do by Congress. At what point does Congress plan to act to restore the balance of power?

"We are not the elites the billionaires claim we are. Most professors don’t have tenure. The humanities professoriate don’t even have full time jobs, have been known to sleep in their cars. How did these inconsequential people become enemies of the state?" www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outl...

Trump’s feud with elite universities like Harvard and Columbia grabs headlines, but <1% of U.S. college students attend these schools. The real story? Nearly 40% attend community colleges, and most are at regional public universities, not Ivy League schools. theconversation.com/trumps-battl...

Have a digital project you're thinking about turning into a born-digital book? Want to learn more about publishing with us? Join editors @ambuck.bsky.social and Crystal Van Kooten today at 3:15 in MLC 253 for our CCDP office hours session. #cwcon25

Having a great time at #cwcon! If there's a group of people thinking reflectively and critically about AI (and everything else technology), this is it.

So you're telling me that the Chair of the Alabama Republican Party (the organization currently pushing anti-trans legislation at the state and federal level) goes by a chosen name different from the one on his birth certificate?

I had the honor of hooding Dr. Sara Whitver at graduation yesterday. Congratulations, Dr. Whitver!

It's been a rough year. We're trying to support our students any way we can, even when the state and upper administration won't.

NEW TODAY: 200 college and university presidents band together to condemn “unprecedented government overreach” in higher education and reaffirm the “essential freedom to determine, on academic grounds, whom to admit and what is taught, how, and by whom.” www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...

"Honored to have been selected" That's Southernese for "we didn't invite him and created a new event from scratch overnight under immense outside pressure."

The current president cancels research grants & fed research funding, guts the Dept of Education, and detains our students for deportation. Then my employer invites him to speak at a "special ticketed event" prior to graduation. He is actively destroying everything we supposedly stand for. FFS.

A beautiful story of courage.

This morning the Starbucks’ barista wrote “I’m tired” on my cup. I’m not sure if it was directed towards me or them, but I felt it. Oof 😕

I loved this episode of Song Exploder's Key Change series. Samin is always great to listen to, and it reminded me of a time in my life when this same Ani Difranco song was important to me too.

I was traveling and missed the event, but there was a good turn out at the Hands Off protest in Tuscaloosa yesterday.

Excellent team job @al.com rounding up #HandsOff protests around Alabama. Sarah plus Ashley, Will and contributors sent in photos. Birmingham, Tuscaloosa and...wow, Opelika! www.al.com/news/birming...