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Hannah Hopkins

@hannahhopkins.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor of Rhetoric & Composition. Into infrastructure, sensation, habits of attention, and my dog.

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michael röbbins @alienvsrobbins.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Lots of people will weigh in with thoughts on Anne Carson in the coming days, but I will just note that she wins the epigraph game
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Hannah Hopkins @hannahhopkins.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Our machines are disturbingly lively INDEED
A Spotify playlist cover that reads "genuine hopeless Monday morning" and described as "Here's some genuine, doom, hopeless, avoidant, relatable, heartache [music] inspired by your li..."
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Josh Hadro @hadro.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
How do you show a whole digitized book in one thumbnail? Modern books have illustrated covers, but in research collections the cover is often a plain library binding. So I made Flipbook: hover over a book from any #IIIF source and flip through its pages. hadro.github.io/flipbook/ #GLAMsky 📚📜
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NPR @npr.org · 25/09/2026
Across the country, lost-and-found networks seek to reunite objects with disaster survivors. The work can take years. In some cases, it's impossible to pick up all the pieces. n.pr/4rBLq3m
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Hannah Hopkins @hannahhopkins.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Join Jen Clary-Lemon and me at RSA Institute! FIELD NOTES ON NATURECULTURE takes us from the Louisville Nature Center to downtown Louisville to learn from and with practices of noting. We'll walk, we'll experiment with field research tech, we'll make zines. All the info: bit.ly/naturecultur...
Promo graphic for Field Notes on Natureculture. RSA Institute Workshop, June 10-11, 2027. Louisville, Kentucky. Hannah Hopkins, Georgia State University & Jen Clary-Lemon, University of Waterloo. Background includes a photograph of green plants against a stone wall.
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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 02/09/2026
Graphic design is now, always has been, and forever will be our passion.
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Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
This weekend I encountered the Boss Level of Technical Education: teaching my 94-year-old grandma how to watch Traitors on a streaming service by herself.
Hand-written tutorial for how to watch Traitors on Amazon prime, with 5 steps and diagrams of a TV remote with arrows pointing to key buttonsVery badly hand-drawn TV remote with arrows pointing to key areas with descriptions
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 23/07/2026
It’s not “your” data, it’s data about you. 🙃
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Why you can't access surveillance data collected about you in Georgia
You're probably being recorded all over Atlanta. But what if you want to see the data being collected about you? Credit: AJC|WANF|GDOT|O.C.G.A. Title 35
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Alan Liu @alanyliu.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
A first-of-its-kind feature of _Critical Infrastructure Studies & Digital Humanities_ is the inclusion of authors' "infrastructure manifests": dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/read/critica...
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Appendix | Critical Infrastructure Studies and Digital Humanities | Debates in the Digital Humanities
This volume reimagines the digital humanities (DH) through the expanding field of critical infrastructure studies as it explores how DH builds on and extends the field’s theories and technologies. Inc...
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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Data, AI, and infrastructures of resistance under authoritarianism by Prince K. Guma in Urban Geography www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Data, AI, and infrastructures of resistance under authoritarianism
Existing studies across Geography and related fields have yet to develop a sustained account of how new and emergent digital technologies reconfigure popular resistance and dissent under authoritar...
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
I know this place is no 🐦app when it comes to crowdsourcing creative ideas, but... Might anyone be able to share e.g. of urban exploration-oriented viewfinders — e.g. kits to focus + frame observation in the physical world? Here's my class experimenting w/ Katie Giritlian's photo frames.... [1/2]
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Alberto Cairo @albertocairo.com · 26/05/2026
BIG NEWS in the Open Visualization Academy: openvisualizationacademy.beehiiv.com/p/data-femin... We're launching 'Data Feminism for Data Visualization' by @laurenfklein.bsky.social and @kanarinka.bsky.social #dataViz #infographics #dataVisualization #dataJournalism
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Data Feminism for Data Visualization
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Hannah Hopkins @hannahhopkins.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
By the time I prove I’m not a robot, run dual-factor authentication, reject cookies, and turn off AI summaries… I really do forget what/why I was trying to read in the first place.
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Hannah Hopkins @hannahhopkins.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Thinking about "rational, comprehensible, even sympathetic" design
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How Ikea Designs Its (In)famous Instruction Manuals
Love 'em or hate ‘em, a lot of thought goes into that Ikea stuff you throw away after assembly.
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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 15/05/2026
Coming tomorrow to Canvas, if your university subscribes at the Canvas Next tier (IDK what that is either) and your IT department enables "Ignite AI." community.instructure.com/en/discussio...
Sample screenshot from a Canvas page called Lesson Introduction: Introducing Psychology features a sidebar called "Study Tools" that contains a summary of the text on the main page. Caption: The Summarize option displays a summary of the page content [1]. Students can provide feedback using the like and dislike buttons to indicate helpfulness [2].
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 02/04/2026
This is the @ainowinstitute.bsky.social's North Star Data Center Policy Toolkit, a set of policy and action recommendations for fighting against "AI" data centers at the local, state, and federal level. datacenters.ainowinstitute.org
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North Star Data Center Policy Toolkit
This policy toolkit is primarily geared toward stopping, slowing, and restricting rampant data center development in the US at the local and state level.
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Hannah Hopkins @hannahhopkins.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Dreamy report design for the tech comm hive.
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Quinn Daedal @quinnanya.me · 27/04/2026
Looking for something joyful, fulfilling, and very human that lets you assure the Powers That Be that you're making students "AI ready"? Tell them you're doing what they do at Stanford! The #DataSittersClub is delighted to share little tl;dr #3 on bringing textile dataviz to the classroom. #DHmakes
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Getting 'AI Ready' with Textiles
No computers required!
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Hannah Hopkins @hannahhopkins.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Thinking about sidewalks: forms, materials, textures, maintenance, disrepair. Loved learning more about tabby: "[It] wasn’t the preservation of this one site that interested me, so much as these relations that reached across time and distance." placesjournal.org/article/tabb...
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Tabby Concrete: An Eroding Architectural History
Linked through Black and Indigenous heritage, tabby concrete is a cross-generational, transnational building material that architectural historians must preserve.
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Scholars' Lab @scholarslab.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Check out @winnieepm.bsky.social's new site & learn about her work: "My craft is asking difficult questions. I believe community-making & kinship drive the world for the better." A DHer focused on design+infrastructure studies, completing a cultural studies PhD in Spanish while working at SLab:
winnieepm.github.io
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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Many struggle with writing alt text for charts and other other data visualizations. Amy Cesal's "Writing Alt Text for Data Visualization" hammers home the importance of explaining the chart type, the type of data, and the reason for the chart. medium.com/nightingale/...
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Writing Alt Text for Data Visualization
How do you write text that conveys the whole meaning of a visualization? You probably can’t. But that doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t try
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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
This has been restored! Thanks to folks in Mexico who'd made a copy and re-shared it with me... not sure how it got deleted but it's back! Open biblio that anyone can copy/paste and add to (please add anything that fits!) CRITICAL DATA CENTER STUDIES docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Critical Data Center Studies
Critical Data Center Studies Books Amoore, Louise. 2020. Ethics Algorithms and the Attributes of Ourselves and Others Duke https://www.dukeupress.edu/cloud-ethics Bedir, M; Groen. L; Kuijpers. M; S...
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Kate Schapira: "Well Put & Generalizable" @kateschapira.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
This thread is good & also what a great, low overhead, citywide project for a team of artists, planners, local historians/archivists, & people with screw guns
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Gregg Mitman @greggmitman.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
And the second in the series. #Biodiversity and carbon offsets—cornerstones of neoliberal conservation—have become critical tools for mining companies, with consequential social and ecological costs in #Liberia and #Guinea. #envhist #convivialconservation
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Where mining and conservation meet
Far from signaling a break from the past, the convergence of mining and conservation in West Africa underscores a recurring pattern that stretches back to colonialism.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 01/04/2026
Add some bushy eyebrows and it’s a full surveillance Groucho Marx look.
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I gave my Meta smart glasses a nose and now they last all day long
The BoboVR CG2 charges my Ray-Ban Meta and Oakley Meta glasses at home and on the go.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 30/03/2026
This is an absolutely astonishing journey
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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Senators Demand to Know How Much Energy Data Centers Use www.wired.com/story/senato...
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Senators Demand to Know How Much Energy Data Centers Use
In a letter sent Thursday morning, Elizabeth Warren and Josh Hawley press the Energy Information Agency to mandate annual electricity disclosure for data centers.
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Dustin Edwards @dustinedwards.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
"If the data centers we rely on are built on the infrastructural remains of colonial and imperial ideologies, we must interrogate how these spaces and histories shape our engagement with the newest manifestation of these ideologies."
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The Rhetorical Power of Data Centers: Case Studies from the Global North and Global South
This Yack article explores the rhetorical power of data centers from Global North and Global South perspectives.
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Anne Pasek @apasek.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
We're doing an online book launch for our new book on climate action, equity, and research methods. Register for whichever date works best for you + tune in for some short readings, further musings, and good company :) April 6: trentu.zoom.us/meeting/regi... April 7: trentu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
A posterer that reads ONLINE BOOK LAUNCH, April 6 and 76h 2026, 11am-12pm EDT. Join the authors for a discussion on research methods, carbon emissions, and epistemological and equity gains. It also features the book's cover, which has a set of pencils in row descending size. The first has shavings/graphite coming out of the top, looking like a smoke stack. The last one has a circular curl and radiant marks, looking like a sunrise.
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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Screenshots of Claude’s “thinking” while it loads its responses. For example: “Vibing…” “Spelunking…”
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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
"From a strategic perspective, in efforts to resist data centers, we need to be principled about including the supply chain as part of our political analysis as we raise the profile of this issue," write Hannah Lipstein and @tamigraph.bsky.social.
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Jennifer Sano-Franchini @jsanofranchini.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Also mark your calendar for the third reading circle as @nobugsnous.bsky.social, @vymanivannan.bsky.social, & Travis Margoni will facilitate a workshop on applying these conversations to the teaching of writing. Happening on Monday, Jan 12, 4–5 PM ET! my.ncte.org/event-inform...
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Jennifer Sano-Franchini @jsanofranchini.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
The next CCCC Reading Circle on Land, Labor, Water & Writing: The Costs of Gen AI in the Writing Classroom is happening in 1 week! Join @hannahhopkins.bsky.social & @donniejsackey.bsky.social for a discussion of @dustinedwards.bsky.social's Enduring Digital Damage on Wed Dec 10, 4–5 PM ET.
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Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · 11/10/2025
He's still got it
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Hannah Hopkins @hannahhopkins.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
I look forward to talking about corporate tech sustainability reports with the undergrads every semester, but it's really just this bizarre image from Google's 2024 and 2025 reports that haunts me. Starting today, he haunts a whole new class of tech writing students.
A worker with solar panels. He holds a tablet above which is projected a map of a housing development. A worker with solar panels. He holds a tablet above which is projected an imagined "rooftop solar potential" dashboard.
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Current concerns about AI’s adverse climate impacts are largely confined to operational energy and water use by data centers. While these impacts are important, they represent only a fraction of the ways in which AI can influence climate outcomes, write Felippa Amanta and Charlie Wilson.
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The Overlooked Climate Risks of Artificial Intelligence | TechPolicy.Press
Felippa Amanta and Charlie Wilson explore how AI contributes to climate risks beyond data centers.
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DWRL @dwrl.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
On Tuesday morning, DWRL ADs @hannahhopkins.bsky.social and @trentwintermeier.bsky.social led a workshop at the Seaholm Power Plant, which explored the scales required to investigate energy's contours and expose its capacities.
Front door of seaholmDFMI group listening to speakerDFMI participants writing
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Hannah Hopkins @hannahhopkins.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
AI, but for predicting the exact date and time you're going to get REALLY into Marconi Union
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Hannah Hopkins @hannahhopkins.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
AI, but for telling you which jobs are going to require you to switch from Gmail to Outlook
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Hannah Hopkins @hannahhopkins.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
My first solo-authored article is up now in RSQ! This piece was a dream to work on. I'm so humbled by the generosity of the RSQ reviewers and editors, and even more sure that my crackerjack home team of friends + colleagues is the best in the game. Check it out! bit.ly/hhopkinsrsq
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A Sense of Direction: Rhetoric, Energy, and Infrastructure
This article argues for a sense of proprioception as a conceptual frame for how energy materializations tangle with digital infrastructure, suggesting terms through which rhetoricians might advance...
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Hannah Hopkins @hannahhopkins.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
AI, but for choosing a first day icebreaker that won’t mortify me or anyone else
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Hannah Hopkins @hannahhopkins.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
AI, but for predicting how and where I’ll mess up the lyrics when I sing in my car
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Hannah Hopkins @hannahhopkins.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Is the Instagram targeted ads team… okay?
An ad for a rug. The text reads “I’m excited to introduce my newest collection with Ruggable. Enjoy war…” and then cuts off
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Hannah Hopkins @hannahhopkins.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
I line-dried my laundry today. It is December 29.
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a cartoon of a staircase with the words something is quite wrong
Alt: Ms. Clavel from Madeline, running down the stairs. Saying “Something is not right, something is quite wrong, and so… I sing this song!”
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Hannah Hopkins @hannahhopkins.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
In the end, maybe the undeletable Microsoft Word section breaks are the friends we made along the way
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Hannah Hopkins @hannahhopkins.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
AI, but for predicting how often I’ll forget about the tea I just brewed (it’s every time, help)
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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
WHO HOG
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