Being on the faculty side of graduation is actually pretty special. Presenting one of the undergraduate researchers I worked with this year (who’ll be starting as an MA student in the fall) being the highlight. Yay for the end of year 1!

“I asked chatGPT-“ ok, and I asked Tinsel, and she said you’re an uninspired, vapid dork who needs a computer to think for them.

If you’re at #4C25 I’ll be presenting on my work partnering with undergraduate researchers tomorrow morning (session GA.9) — come by! #teamrhetoric

I’ll also be helping to facilitate the Writing Assesment SIG work with @curiousmagpie.bsky.social Come see us in Baltimore!

I’ll be representing Xchanges Journal at the Editor’s Roundtable! Come through!

There’s something so gratifying about getting a print copy of a new article. Check out the digital version here: www.proquest.com/docview/3171... @curiousmagpie.bsky.social #TeamRhetoric

The thing about scientific research is that it’s one of the few national investments that’s a clear public good even if you entirely discount the actual ostensible point of it.

So glad to see this out in the world!

El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.

I don't think we're talking enough about the fact that the pressure to remove DEI from science means women die.

Department of Education FAFSA changes are open for public comment. The changes include requiring trans students to misgender themselves and removes the nonbinary option on forms. Note: comment period is 60 days, and comments are publicly visible. Form here: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

Department of Education letter naming DEI programs discriminatory and illegal and therefore a threat to federal funding…. Read it for the most twisted of arguments. #Education #DepartmentofEducation

Becoming an R1 is a really interesting turn for a CSU. What this means against the backdrop of the system’s budget crisis, mandated AI integration, and the greater Higher Ed funding crisis though? No idea. 🙃 #TeamRhetoric #AcademicNews #SDSU www.sdsu.edu/r1

The Alt National Park Service account is a real gem these days.

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

That Cal State adopted AI amidst massive layoffs & cuts does not mean AI caused the cuts; the (v Democratic) state legislature enacted them. But it’s also neither coincidence nor conspiracy: it’s conjunctural - layoffs & AI r both different articulations of austerity www.latimes.com/california/s...

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

“In such a crisis, it becomes the obligation of the university as an institution to oppose such measures and actively to defend its interests and its values.” This is undoubtedly such a time. www.aaup.org/report/again...

“TikTok is the only platform where left-leaning news influencers outnumber right-leaning ones. TikTok has more than double the concentration of creators who identify LGBTQ+ … and 73% of teens who identify as Democrats or lean left use TikTok.” open.substack.com/pub/taylorlo...

How I feel editing a paper from a pristine APA to a ramshackle MLA #academicproblems

Theme of the writing retreat was boats, I think.

2025 Conference on Community Writing Theme: Designing Justice Across Space, Place, and Time" Detroit, October 23-25 The submission deadline is Monday, February 17, 2025. To access the CFP, proposal portal, and other conference information, visit the conference website:

On Sesame Street this morning, we saw Oscar learn about the research process: Observe, Record, Annoy. Nailed it!

great article about the devaluation of absolutely anything where women achieve 50%. which is a thing.

For me the more relevant linguistic distinction is not between monolingual and multilingual people but rather between those whose linguistic border crossing is marked as a first step to policing them and those whose linguistic border crossing remains unmarked or even celebrated as innovative.

Posting Dr. Jamila Lyiscott’s insta post here. Her descriptions of the internalized lies around code switching are important reminders for people who engage in literacy instruction and who care about linguistic justice. #teamrhetoric

Last day of class in my first classroom here at SDSU. I really do love teaching first-year students.