The Department of Agriculture said it will end a longstanding annual food insecurity survey. Experts say the move will obscure the effects of recent changes that will lead to people losing food aid.
Rather than self-fulfilling prophecies (the actual quiz answer), I had a student write self-deprecating prophecies. Now I can't stop thinking about what a self-deprecating prophecy would sound like.
@plaidsicle.bsky.social
An answer to the question circulating this week about whether to use US flags at protests
Today is the day! ASHR first Friday forum at noon central time. #teamrhetoric
Join ASHR's first Friday forum this Friday. Lots of smart people taking about how to do work on the history of rhetoric. I'll talk about music as rhetoric and doing diachronic rhetorical work. Should be a great discussion of the variety of work done on rhetorical history!
Join ASHR's first Friday forum this Friday. Lots of smart people taking about how to do work on the history of rhetoric. I'll talk about music as rhetoric and doing diachronic rhetorical work. Should be a great discussion of the variety of work done on rhetorical history!
headlines from a week ago as an incident near DCA appears to be the deadliest aviation disaster in the US since 9/11 www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
I have updated the Academic Workload Tracker for 2025. I strongly encourage all academics to track how long you actually work, and at what tasks. It's a crucial way to counter the deliberate wage-theft of obfuscatory university workload models.
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Nine years ago(!) Amazing how time flies - where did it go? Here is my co-authored book (with Heppell and Dorey) on Mrs Thatcher's rhetorical and oratorical styles, and how they crafted a winning persona that appealed to voters. Available here! link.springer.com/book/10.1057...
If service takes up 90% of your time, in part b/c male colleagues won’t do it (but someone must) yet doesn’t “count” for anything, what do we expect? Women are still living in the crappy 20th c academy men had built, some of us never even make full for these reasons
Just had an idea
(12/20) “The Rhetoric of Kamikaze Manuals,” (2020). The annus mirabilis, when four papers aligned. This paper began when I was browsing in a bookstore and flipped through a book on kamikaze pilots to find excerpts of what appeared to a manual. They had a manual? Wait, manuals are tech comm!
A version of the kermit vs darth kermit meme where good kermit tells the online academic that they should grade, while darth kermit tells them they should eat more pie.
Every academic right now
This is why science communicators are so important. And we saw what happened when reporters who weren't used to covering science got put on the SARS-CoV-2 beat.
They did not do well at it.
Campus construction is prime entertainment for the kiddo.
Always exhausted and energized and inspired after #NCA. Just the final push to the end of semester still to go.
Thank you for doing this important work ❤️
Pulitzer-winning rapper Kendrick Lamar decided to pop out and show the world his sixth album, “GNX,” on Friday — sans promotion or warning.
The 12-track album, mostly Jack Antonoff-produced, features vocals from SZA and mariachi singer Deyra Barrera on “Gloria,” among other highlights.
#ASHR business meeting this morning at 8!
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We just refreshed our how-to guide:
Can people who lost their belongings in "sweeps" of homeless encampments recover them?
Some cities have storage programs, but as one advocate says, they offer only an “illusion of compassion.”
Here's what we found ⬇️
