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Jennifer Burke Reifman
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Asst. Prof. of rhetoric and writing studies. WPA. East Coaster in CA. Mom to 2. Amateur gardener. Video game lover.
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Jennifer Burke Reifman @jburkereifman.bsky.social · Mar 22
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
Picture of the cover of the journal: College Composition and Communication.
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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!
Jennifer stands in a podium in graduation regalia, speaking to the student beside her who is also in a cap and gown.
May 17, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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“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.
Tinsel the calico glares at you with a furrowed brow
May 10, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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If you’re at #4C25 I’ll be presenting on my work partnering with undergraduate researchers tomorrow morning (session GA.9) — come by! #teamrhetoric
April 11, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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I’ll also be helping to facilitate the Writing Assesment SIG work with @curiousmagpie.bsky.social

Come see us in Baltimore!
Flyer listing dates for Writing Assessment Standing Interest Group meetings at the Cs Conference in Baltimore. April 9, 9-12:30pm: Workshop April 11, 3:30-4:30pm: Annual Meeting April 12, 12:30-1:45pm Roundtable
April 2, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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I’ll be representing Xchanges Journal at the Editor’s Roundtable! Come through!
rnf4c.bsky.social rnf4c.bsky.social @rnf4c.bsky.social · Apr 1
The Research Network Forum e-program has been finalized. We are looking forward to seeing everyone at RNF next week in Baltimore! Here's a link to the e-program: tinyurl.com/rnf2025

Please share widely.
April 2, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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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
Picture of the cover of the journal: College Composition and Communication.
March 22, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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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.
drsherrypagoto.bsky.social Sherry Pagoto, PhD @drsherrypagoto.bsky.social · Mar 12
New report shows that NIH grants fueled $95 billion in economic activity and 407,782 jobs in 2024.

That's not to mention the countless lives that biomedical research has saved.

Show me a better investment than that.
www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
NIH Grants Fueled $95 Billion In FY 2024 Economic Activity, Finds New Report
National Institutes of Health grants generated almost $95 billion in economic activity nationwide in FY 2024 according to a new report by United for Medical Research.
www.forbes.com
March 13, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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So glad to see this out in the world!
February 27, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.
February 23, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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I don't think we're talking enough about the fact that the pressure to remove DEI from science means women die.
February 22, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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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...
WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Department of Education published the information collection for the 2026-27 Free Application for Federal Student Aid ( FAFSA®) form in the Federal Register, the first public step in the FAFSA development process. The Department is on track to launch the 2026-27 FAFSA by Oct. 1, 2025 as mandated by the FAFSA Deadline Act. The Department also announced that current and future FAFSA forms will rightfully reflect the biological reality that there are only two sexes: male and female. Department officials will remove “nonbinary” as a gender identification option from the current year’s FAFSA form. “The Trump Administration will correct the failures of the last Administration and ensure students and families can easily access the FAFSA form in a timely manner,” said Acting Under Secretary James Bergeron. “Resolving ongoing problems with the 2024-25 form, reflecting biological reality by referencing sex identifiers, and beginning the process for the 2026-27 form on-time will allow the Department to earn back the trust of the American people. Families and students depend on the FAFSA form to plan their futures, and any release delays or unnecessary politicization of the form is wholly unacceptable.” Screenshot showing open comment form on federal register site
February 16, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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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.
Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children. Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything. “Are you feeling all right?” I asked her. “I feel all sleepy,” she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her. On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.
February 15, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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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
www.ed.gov
February 17, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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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
SDSU IS NOW R1 | San Diego State University
www.sdsu.edu
February 13, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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The Alt National Park Service account is a real gem these days.
February 10, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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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...
NOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD
grants.nih.gov
February 8, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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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...
CSU, reeling from budget cuts to classes and faculty, decries more proposed state reductions
California State University, already reeling from budget cuts to classes and faculty amid enrollment declines, is blasting as "unacceptable" more proposed state funding reductions.
www.latimes.com
February 5, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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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...
End of Term Web Archive – Preserving the Transition of a Nation | Internet Archive Blogs
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February 1, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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“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...
Against Anticipatory Obedience
The statement that follows, prepared by a joint subcommittee of the Association’s Committee on College and University Governance and Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure, was approved for public...
www.aaup.org
January 23, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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“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...
The Great Creator Reset
The TikTok ban isn't just a platform reconfiguration, it will reshape the political leaning of the creator economy and permanently alter whose voices get heard online.
open.substack.com
January 18, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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How I feel editing a paper from a pristine APA to a ramshackle MLA #academicproblems
January 18, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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Theme of the writing retreat was boats, I think.
January 15, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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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:
Conference on Community Writing - Coalition for Community Writing
Conference on Community Writing™ Detroit, MI October 23-25, 2025 Call for Proposals Submit a Proposal Here Learn More Photo credit: Kate Sumbler Welcome to Detroit Video Keynote Speaker Donnie Johnson...
communitywriting.org
January 7, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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On Sesame Street this morning, we saw Oscar learn about the research process: Observe, Record, Annoy. Nailed it!
January 4, 2025 at 9:46 PM