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Assoc Prof of English/Composition at Pitt. Infrequent poster.

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Seth Kahn (he/him) @badpacifist.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
For folks interested in the de-chartering of #CCCC and whatever comes next, Traci Gardner (Ten Grrl) is doing heroic work compiling/archiving materials and maintaining a working FAQ doc on this website.
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CCCC-L – Community for College Composition and Communication
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benmiller314.bsky.social @benmiller314.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
DEADLINE TONIGHT at 11:59pm: Post a comment on the OMB rule that would place political appointees above peer review for all federal grants. This is not just about science – all academics should care about this! See elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/what-we-ne... for an overview and tips. #teamrhetoric
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What We Need to do NEXT: OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule (OMB-2026-0034)
What OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule Means in Practice
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Stefano Morello @veritas44.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Issue no. 28 of @jitp.bsky.social is out! Congrats to @inesvano.bsky.social , @lauriehurson.bsky.social , and all the authors! cuny.manifoldapp.org/projects/jit...
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Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy, no. 28 | Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy | Manifold @CUNY
<h3> Edited by Inés Vañó García and Laurie Hurson</h3> <p> "A critical approach to pedagogy and technology must address the institutional realities that shape our use of technologies and the conditio...
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Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy @jitp.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
There’s still time! Submit your work to Issue 29 by June 5, 2026!
Journal of Interactive
Technology and
Pedagogy
Call for Submissions

Issue 29: Rethinking Making in the Digital Humanities
The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy
(JITP) invites critical discourses on making with digital and computing technology that consider the following questions:
• How do making epistemologies shape our use of an approach to digital tools and techniques?
• How have we come to understand the form, constitution, genealogies, and politics of digital tools and techniques through making practices?
• What new vocabularies of partnership, praxes, of anti-oppression, and approaches to making labor visible emerge through making practices?
Look to our website for
more information
Deadline:
Jun 5, 2026
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benmiller314.bsky.social @benmiller314.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
I don't often post, here or on govt actions, but this really gets my hackles up. As I said in my public comment: trans characters are not offensive. I am far more offended that this is even up for debate. We should not teach kids that only *some* people are entitled to dignity or self-determination.
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Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy @jitp.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Did you hear? Issue 27 is hot off the presses with an amazing set of new articles. In the first, Cassandra Hradil and Christin Washington share how the digital humanities labs at the University of Maryland, College Park, use minimal computing to help students understand and build computing systems.
Journal of
Interactive
Technology and
Pedagogy
Issue 27
This article focuses on ecosystem of digital
humanities labs at the University of Maryland,
College Park, the African American Digital and
Experimental Humanities (AADHum) research and design lab and the NarraSpaceXR immersive storytelling lab which have creative computing workshops that adhere to the fundamental tenets of minimal computing to help students understand, build, and critique the computing systems we engage daily.

Keywords: minimal computing, physical computing, libraries,
public schools, digital humanities, workshops, technical literacy
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Annette Vee @anetv.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
*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
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August 2025 - The WAC Clearinghouse
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Dr. Amanda Licastro @amandalicastro.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
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...
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Details - Academic Technologist :: Human Resources :: Swarthmore College
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benmiller314.bsky.social @benmiller314.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Amazing and inspiring, @the-alex-hidalgo.bsky.social !
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Lyle Solla-Yates @lyle.cville.online.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2025
www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025/… #UVa #HigherEd #academia #antisemitism #DEI #USPolitics #Virginia
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A statement by 40 Jewish faculty and staff on antisemitism and DEI at U.Va.
As scholars and teachers, we know that dissent and debate strengthen our intellectual commitments and moral judgments rather than threaten them. We reject any attempt to deny these basic truths.
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benmiller314.bsky.social @benmiller314.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
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
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Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy @jitp.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
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...
Cover of Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy, Issue 26, a general issue edited by Asma Neblett, Zach Muhlbauer, and Kyla Yein, with a summary highlighting community-based educational practices and a logo showing "JITP 26."
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Jason Rhody @jasonrhody.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
🧵 for NEA grantees
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
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...
I lament that the Court appears to have embarked on a
new era of procedural variability, and that it has done so in
such a casual, inequitable, and, in my view, inappropriate
manner. See Department of Education v. California, 604
U. S. ___ , ___ (2025) (JACKSON, J., dissenting) (slip op., at
1–2). At least when the Court went off base in the past, it
left a record so posterity could see how it went wrong. See,
e.g., Korematsu v. United States, 323 U. S. 214 (1944). With
more and more of our most significant rulings taking place
in the shadows of our emergency docket, today’s Court
leaves less and less of a trace. But make no mistake: We
are just as wrong now as we have been in the past, with
similarly devastating consequences. It just seems we are
now less willing to face it.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 08/04/2025
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.
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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.
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benmiller314.bsky.social @benmiller314.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
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...
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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?
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Brandon Walsh @walshbr.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
🚨🚨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.
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benmiller314.bsky.social @benmiller314.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
@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
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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.
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benmiller314.bsky.social @benmiller314.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
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
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Five Priniciples of New Media: Or, Playing Lev Manovich
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benmiller314.bsky.social @benmiller314.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
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...
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Teaching Assistant or Teaching Associate Professor of Composition and Digital Narrative and Interactive Design
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
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Dr Kush Patel @kshpatel.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
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!
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benmiller314.bsky.social @benmiller314.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
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
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benmiller314.bsky.social @benmiller314.bsky.social · 14/03/2024
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
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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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benmiller314.bsky.social @benmiller314.bsky.social · 01/02/2024
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!
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Teaching Assistant Professor of Public and Professional Writing (online and in-person) _English
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