And you know families have relocated here hoping they'd get care, too. Such a betrayal.

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

I don't usually sign emails best but I was, except I signed "beat." Truth.

That's so hard. Sending you lots of love.

Although wheelchair access around here is crap

Boston is the best

So cool!!!

Today I gave my students some sample papers that were older than them. So I think that means it's time to retire.

A Message from Your University President on the Recent Hippopotamus Attacks Dear Faculty, Staff, Students, and AI Summarization Tools, I want to express my deepest gratitude for your patience as we explore innovative soluti...

Saving this for if I ever get to teach my rhetorics of the university class. LOL. A Message from Your University President on the Recent Hippopotamus Attacks www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-m...

"BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED that we affirm the rights of students and teachers to refuse to sign up for, prompt, or otherwise use generative AI in the writing classroom."

College writing teachers have spoken, y'all.

The CCCC resolution affirming students' and teachers' right to refuse generative AI in the writing classroom passed by an overwhelming majority at the #4C26 Annual Business Meeting this past Friday, March 6.

Link to the full resolution below.

Also there are some presses that straddle the border between academic books and popular books. My first academic book that has been cited a TON is not technically peer reviewed but would have been had I known to ask for it.

Being "accepted" to an edited collection doesn't mean that collection is accepted or has a publisher.

Adult Anti-Trans Legal Risk Assessment Map of the United States. Three states are marked "Do Not Travel" with dark crosshatched shading: Florida, Kansas, and Texas. Fifteen states are dark red for "Worst Laws Passed": Alabama, Arkansas, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, West Virginia, and Wyoming. Six states are orange for "High Risk Within 2 Years": Georgia, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, and South Carolina. Three states are salmon for "Moderate Risk Within 2 Years": Alaska, Kentucky, and North Carolina. Nine states plus DC are light blue for "Low Risk Within 2 Years": Arizona, Delaware, Maine, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Wisconsin, and DC. Fifteen states are teal for "Safest States With Strong Protections": California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington.

3. For trans adults, For adults, expanding bathroom bans are driving much of the change—Kansas has escalated due to establishing a bathroom bounty, while Indiana’s ID policy now places it among the harshest anti-trans states in the country.

One state improves: Montana.

Wait what?!? And YESSSS!!!

BREAKING: Indiana wants to eliminate “low-earning” college degrees before the federal Earnings Test is even finalized.

Degrees flagged right now include library science, teacher education transfer programs, music, dance, English, and mental & social health fields.

I'm in it!! Yay!

Awww! Thanks!

Thanks!

It was Oct 2016, what can I say, I had more effort in me.

My fav Halloween costume I did was Orphan Black. Showed up at the party, changed 4 times, reintroduced myself each time. Fooled the host (although he didn't know me well)

Thinking of our South Dakota days!

Adequate: Rewriting the Logics of Success in Rhetoric and Composition, edited by Timothy Oleksiak and Joshua Barsczewski has been published with University of Colorado Press! The collection of 14 essays "reimagines what the concept of adequacy holds for the future of academic work."

This #FeministFridays, we congratulate editors @timothyoleksiak.bsky.social & @joshuabarsczewski.bsky.social and all the contributing authors on the publication of Adequate: Rewriting the Logics of Success in Rhetoric and Composition with @upcolorado.bsky.social 👏

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Congrats!!

Book cover for The Pipeline is Broken: Graduate Students of Color on Racism, Justice, and Joy in the Academy edited by Orly Clerge, Asia Ivey, Michelle Harris, and Sherrill Sellers

INORDINATELY excited about this book, forthcoming in March. Serious kudos to the brave grad students in this collection willing to tackle the realities of being a POC in academia (spoiler alert: it's hard)

Yes! This is why I kinda like the idea of cryo. Just take a break, wake up find out what's been happening, go back to sleep for 100 years or so.

Court orders IU to remove reprimands from protesters' permanent records The case was originally two separate lawsuits, one against no-trespass orders and another against IU’s expressive activity policy written in August 2024.

A federal court ruled on Thursday that IU violated the First Amendment rights of pro-Palestine protesters it banned from campus in 2024 and found the expressive activity policy it passed that August unconstitutional.

2026 Trans Girl Scouts To Order Cookies From! This year, consider ordering your Girl Scout cookies from a trans girl scout to make their day!

1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts?

Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from.

Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!

Indiana Republican State Rep Bruce Borders wants to check your chromosomes to be sure you're in the right public restroom - or else charge you with a misdemeanor in

IN HB 1198

legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB11...

I only took the ACT!