benmiller314.bsky.social
@benmiller314.bsky.social
Assoc Prof of English/Composition at Pitt. Infrequent poster.
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*TextGenEd: Continuing Experiments* 2025 is out now! 23 innovative and thoughtful assignments including AI, tested by teachers in higher ed, and adaptable to your classes! wac.colostate.edu/repository/c...
#oer #creativecommons #AIeducation
August 2025 - The WAC Clearinghouse
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September 4, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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Ok, I know I've been a bit absent on socials, but allow me to reemerge to beg you to circulate this excellent job on a wonderful team. Please apply!
careers.swarthmore.edu/cw/en-us/job...
Details - Academic Technologist :: Human Resources :: Swarthmore College
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August 19, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Amazing and inspiring, @the-alex-hidalgo.bsky.social !
One novel draft. 50 days. It was crazy but magical. Just finished Draft 1 of my #novel Ori and Rima. Thank you to my husband @billbowbaggins.bsky.social for #reading every chapter and giving me the best feedback! And for capturing the baby bunny that celebrated with us.
youtube.com/shorts/5JA73...
I Wrote Draft 1 of My Novel in 50 Days! (And Celebrated with a Baby Bunny)
YouTube video by Alexandra Hidalgo
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August 12, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Very proud of my wife (@morrisonlab.bsky.social) and her lab for advancing our knowledge of how dopamine works in different kinds of learning/learners! Even cooler when you know this is achieved with a mostly undergrad crew. Another reason to restore #NIHfunding
June 30, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Issue 26 of JITP is out now! Edited by Asma Neblett,
@zmuhl.bsky.social, and Kyla Yein

Issue Twenty Six: Local Networks

Find the full issue here and stay tuned for individual pieces this week: cuny.manifoldapp.org/projects/jit...
May 30, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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🧵 for NEA grantees
okay

this is an emergency assistance thread for anyone who got this National Endowment for the Arts email today

some of you can still get your money and I’m going to tell you how

article to come later this weekend but here is the Cliffs Notes version:
oh boy I hate being right
May 3, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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An extraordinary separate dissent from Justice Jackson accuses the majority of trying to pass off its dirty work under the cover of the shadow docket and explicitly invokes Korematsu, the Japanese internment case. Wow. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
April 7, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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Breaking News: The Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration could continue to deport Venezuelan migrants based on a wartime powers act for now, overturning a lower court that had put a temporary stop to the deportations.
Supreme Court Overturns Block on Trump Administration’s Venezuela Deportations
The Trump administration asked the justices to weigh in after a federal judge paused the president’s use of a wartime powers law to deport Venezuelans it accused of being gang members.
www.nytimes.com
April 7, 2025 at 11:45 PM
I just finished "The Last Survivors" in the @nytimes.com magazine. A hard read. I couldn't put it down. Well worth 20 minutes of your time to get to the end. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/m...
The Holocaust Story I Said I Wouldn’t Write
For years, my friend’s father asked me to recount his childhood escape from the Nazis. Why did it take me this long?
www.nytimes.com
April 8, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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🚨🚨CFP alert!🚨🚨

So excited to be co-editing this special issue of JITP on minimalist pedagogy broadly construed w/ Patricia Belen, @veritas44.bsky.social, @palermog.bsky.social, @danicasavonick.bsky.social . Lots more information in the CFP. Happy to chat further if anyone has interest.
Submissions deadline for our themed issue on minimalist digital humanities pedagogy is June 15

Details here: cuny.manifoldapp.org/read/jitp-ca...

Editors are Patricia Belen, @veritas44.bsky.social, @palermog.bsky.social, @danicasavonick.bsky.social and @walshbr.bsky.social
JITP are seeking submissions for a forthcoming themed issue on minimalist digital humanities pedagogy and what it might mean to work with what we have while at the same time advocating for what we need

Submissions are due June 15. Call for Issue 27 here: cuny.manifoldapp.org/read/jitp-ca...
March 11, 2025 at 3:05 PM
@nytimes.com , where is your coverage of the NIH freeze-out? No study sessions, no communication... and no comment from the paper of record? Really? @washingtonpost.com had it three days ago: wapo.st/3EeF3hF
Health researchers alarmed as Trump administration pauses travel, communications
The halt has frozen research grants, meetings and key health updates. “Everything is basically in chaos,” said one cancer researcher.
wapo.st
January 27, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Anyone have a substitute / update for Madeleine Sorapure's ["Playing Lev Manovich"](kairos.technorhetoric.net/8.2/coverweb...) in @kairosrtp.bsky.social? I'm looking for interactive, undergrad-friendly explanations of modularity, automation, variability, etc that don't rely on Flash. #comprhet #dh
Five Priniciples of New Media: Or, Playing Lev Manovich
kairos.technorhetoric.net
December 23, 2024 at 8:58 PM
Hey, #teamrhetoric, #candwcon, #techcomm, #attw, Pitt is hiring! Renewable, promotable, full-time teaching track in Composition / Digital Narrative and Interactive Design, focused on UX/UI.

Get more detail and apply here by January 5, 2025: cfopitt.taleo.net/careersectio...
Teaching Assistant or Teaching Associate Professor of Composition and Digital Narrative and Interactive Design
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
cfopitt.taleo.net
December 13, 2024 at 2:17 PM
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This inaugural issue of ours for #ReviewsInDH is special! @danicasavonick.bsky.social and I welcome your engagement w/ featured works + editorial note, esp. as we think through new q’s + urgencies connected w/ social justice pedagogies in DH. 💜 to @roopikarisam.bsky.social for scaffolding + support!
November 26, 2024 at 2:01 AM
What are your current favorite database GUIs for beginners? (Think: humanities grad student with an increasingly non-rectangular spreadsheet on people & texts & relations among them.) #dhpedagogy
November 25, 2024 at 3:58 PM
Happy pi day, all! Still love [this composition]( youtu.be/NmxPeBeX_38 ) by the inimitable Devin C Powell – not on Bluesky, but at www.devincpowell.com
LullaPi: A Piano Piece Inspired by Pi
Mnemonists have a lot of clever tricks for memorizing pi. As a pianist and singer, I tried translating its digits into musical notes. The seemingly arbitrary...
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March 14, 2024 at 7:39 PM
ICYMI: Pitt is hiring for two techrhet-friendly teaching positions, in [Public/Professional Writing](cfopitt.taleo.net/careersectio...) and in [Technical Writing / Digital Composition & Narrative](cfopitt.taleo.net/careersectio...). 3/3 with path to promotion. Apps accepted through tomorrow, Feb 1!
Teaching Assistant Professor of Public and Professional Writing (online and in-person) _English
Mobile
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February 1, 2024 at 4:25 PM