The Modern Language Association "Calls upon law- and policymakers, LMS vendors, and companies offering agent-based AI browsers to cooperate... to prevent misuse and to ensure that academic institutions have the ability and option to block agentic AI when needed." 1/

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Cottey College is seeking an adjunct faculty member to teach College Writing, a general education writing course, during the Spring 2026 semester. In-person courses preferred; hybrid or online considered. To view the full job ad, visit cottey.edu/employment/. #job #rhetcomp #teamrhetoric

If you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow.

The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.

I have never read The Power Broker, and I know almost nothing about Robert Moses, but I am thoroughly enjoying listening through @99pi.org's series of breakdown episodes

Thinking of putting together a panel about parents in academia for next year's 4Cs in which each presenter just cries for 10-15 min. Plus a respondent cryer. #4C26

I've actually been kind of shocked by the lack of consensus surrounding the ethics of generative ai among folks at #4C25...

New Buying Power: I wrote about how America built the postwar world order and its own society on “consumer choice” and cheap goods, and what happens if Trump strips that out while also gutting the social safety net. Gift link:
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Also, I appreciate hearing others refer to the text it generates as average. It averages the text it was trained on. Personally, I aim for better than average when I write. #4C25

She talks about the haptic habit--muscle memory becoming ambient rhetoric--of doomscrolling, as explored in this article: enculturation.net/sneaky_rheto...
(Sano-Franchini #4C25)

Catch me at session #I.29 at #4C25 talking about doing pre-tenure WPA work

Please, y'all, use your microphones. #4c25

Very much looking forward to #4C25! Between the pandemic and the birth of my second child, it'll be my first in-person Cs experience since 2019!

Just back from my first time at the First Year Experience conference. Returning to negative temps in MO after NOLA was a tough switch 🥶

Trying to divest from meta has really highlighted for me just how heavily Facebook is still used as a communication platform. Maybe particularly so in small/rural communities