Reposted by Doug EymanKairos Journal @kairosrtp.bsky.social · 25/09/2026#CFP for Kairos' Disputatio docs.google.com/document/d/1...docs.google.com2026_CCCC Disputatio CFPPromotional Material Website CFP Call for Submissions: Disputatio Responds to CCCC On July 24, 2026, the Executive Committee of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE-EC) put in motion th... 142
Reposted by Doug EymanAlex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 22/09/2026"Claims of incipient, dangerous superintelligence are not based in good scientific or engineering practice. Rather, they are narratives based in ideologies of transhumanism, eugenics, and wishful thinking about imagined future digital humans." - @timnitgebru.blacksky.app + @emilymbender.bsky.social 213743
Reposted by Doug Eymanscott b. weingart @scottbot.net · 22/09/2026Join my team! Help us figure out how to be as careful stewards of today's born-digital archives of state as we've been for physical archives over the last 200 years. Seeking experience in digital archives/collections/preservation, or related cultural heritage work. Due 10/6. Up to $91k.jobs.virginia.govBorn-Digital Collections Coordinator #00220 - Richmond, Virginia, United StatesTitle: Born-Digital Collections Coordinator #00220 State Role Title: Library Specialist III Hiring Range: Commensurate with experience up to $91,080 Pay Band: 5 Agency: The Library of Virginia Locatio... 27273
Reposted by Doug EymanDonnie Johnson Sackey @donniejsackey.bsky.social · 20/09/2026CCCC Leadership Response to NCTE’s De-Chartering of CCCC. Please read and sign. theorganizationformerlyknownascccc.com 12733
Reposted by Doug EymanBrandon Walsh @walshbr.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Embedded Pedagogies is out! Available freely online through @openbookpublish.bsky.social and for purchase in a variety of different formats. It's a tough time to teach, and it's easy to feel helpless. In this book I argue for an expansive view of teaching and the work it can do in the world. 157535
Reposted by Doug Eymantengrrl @tengrrl.com · 22/08/2026Academic Writing vs. Technical Communication Infographic via WordPress www.tengrrl.com/blog/2026/08/22/aca… August 22, 2026 at 07:56AM 042
Reposted by Doug EymanInside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 21/08/2026Opinion | The Crisis in College Composition and Communication The dissolution of the field’s premier organization couldn’t have come at a worse time. By Jason Godfrey and Anne Ruggles Gere: bit.ly/4gtUvWI #EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky 012
Doug Eyman @kairosdoug.bsky.social · 15/08/2026I've been reading around LitRPG books lately, as someone with an interest in game studies/TTRPGs and just finished @chriswarcraft.bsky.social's _Shades of Forever_. Highly recommend! Would love to spend more time in that world. 1121
Reposted by Doug EymanShelton Weech @sheltonweech.bsky.social · 06/08/2026If you’re teaching research methods in Technical Communication and are looking for some great readings, consider taking a look at this book. I have a chapter in here (written with Holly Baker and Suzan Flanagan) mapping the literature review process. wacclearinghouse.org/books/tpc/re...wacclearinghouse.orgResearch Practice in Technical and Professional Communication - WACEdited by Michelle McMullin, Valerie Smith, and Lisa Melonçon Designed by Mike Palmquist The stories we tell about what happens in the course of our research require more attention. The complications,... 031
Doug Eyman @kairosdoug.bsky.social · 23/07/2026I found out my favorite craft beer brewpub in Yantai closed, probably due to Qungdao creating a bunch of ‘craft brews’ that were much cheaper (and I’m told most people preferred the super cheap Yantai beer, which is good for what it is - I like it! - but isn’t serious craft beer RIP Blue. 100
Reposted by Doug EymanAnna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 27/06/2026"Hiring of college grads is down across the board. But certain majors are able to access opportunities in a wider array of industries, new LinkedIn data shows." ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH 69% VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS 68% www.forbes.com/sites/courtn... 35722288
Reposted by Doug EymanCoalition for Networked Information @cni-org.bsky.social · 10/06/2026The Library Publishing Coalition released a new AI Editorial Policy Guide, designed to help editors and those involved in publishing to develop AI policies for their publishing program: librarypublishing.org/lpc-releases...librarypublishing.orgLPC releases new AI Editorial Policy Guide | Library Publishing Coalition 021
Reposted by Doug EymanThe Video Game Library 📚 @thevideogamelibrary.org · 06/06/2026A gorgeous new IP and no release date, so it’s easy to understand why there’s no books on #BloodMessage quite yet…. …but publisher NetEase Games is an industry juggernaut. Learn about their meteoric rise in the world’s biggest gaming market with this book: “China Game: Industrial History” 1114
Reposted by Doug EymanDr Holly Nielsen @hollynielsen.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Absolutely thrilled to have a chapter in this book (alongside other wonderful historical game developers and academics)! Huge congrats to Esther, Nick, and Iain 🎉 Can’t wait to read the book! 14714
Reposted by Doug EymanKarl Steel @karlsteel.bsky.social · 25/05/2026This is a good read of the Granta / Commonwealth mess and quite a teachable essay for undergrads, so bookmark for your Fall syllabuses africasacountry.com/2026/05/how-...africasacountry.comHow to read postcolonial writingThe Granta controversy surrounding a Commonwealth Prize-winning story tells us less about AI than about the enduring metropolitan expectation that writing from the South should sound opaque, excessive... 0166
Reposted by Doug EymanJill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 20/05/2026New dataset published: this is the audio + transcripts of AI-generated podcasts using NotebookLM to analyse how it "translated" source documents from different times and cultures. My favourites are the 20 podcasts generated from an empty PDF. The paper about it is in press. doi.org/10.18710/RNT...doi.orgA dataset of AI-generated podcasts created using NotebookLMAudio files and transcripts of AI-generated podcasts created using Google's NotebookLM. Four podcasts were created by uploading specific PDFs. Twen... 16698243
Reposted by Doug Eymanrom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social · 18/05/2026tell your doctor not to use AI notes 3503136
Reposted by Doug EymanTrustfnd @trustfnd.com · 18/05/2026Share this with all of Bluesky: Trustfnd is fresh out of beta! Now all independent journalists with Ghost and Beehiiv can team up and offer audiences limited-time access to their publications in a bundle. And grow faster than ever. 1288
Doug Eyman @kairosdoug.bsky.social · 18/05/2026This week was commencement for us and we had a great bunch of grads at all levels - these students, with their drives, passions, critical engagements with the world keep me feeling at least a tiny bit optimistic about the future. Congrats to all the 2026 grads out there! 030
Doug Eyman @kairosdoug.bsky.social · 17/05/2026I find a lot of interesting stuff appears to published on the Verge, but they embed Twitter/X posts that grab my data when I view them. Can they not just take a screenshot? Seems like that would be less work and not also support the Nazi site. 120
Doug Eyman @kairosdoug.bsky.social · 11/05/2026Pleased to note the release of my colleague McKinley Green's new book, At Risk: Rhetoric, Deviance, and the Politics of HIV Prevention. He does great work - highly recommend! ohiostatepress.org/books/titles...ohiostatepress.orgAt Risk: Rhetoric, Deviance, and the Politics of HIV PreventionAdvances a rhetoric of deviance to show how young people with HIV defy public health recommendations in favor of their own risk mitigation strategies informed by structural inequities. 010
Reposted by Doug EymanKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 10/05/2026A good cautionary tale for when someone claims that trusting data analysis done with an LLM is good because it’s “objective.” In this example, Copilot apparently decided to ignore the data it was given and just run with all the subconscious biases its (human-made) training data inevitably gave it. 361495471
Reposted by Doug EymanPress Start Journal @psjournal.bsky.social · 02/05/2026🧑🎓CALL FOR EDITORS📷 The editorial board of Press Start is currently seeking to recruit new editors to join our team! 🌟 Please see the next post in the thread for more details. Applicants must be current graduate/postgraduate students or have graduated within the past year. 21210
Reposted by Doug EymanChaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 30/04/2026Fynde somebodye who doth love thee as much as universityes love replacinge regular forms and phone calls wyth a complicated and buggy software program that will be chaunged everye fyve yeares 19713
Doug Eyman @kairosdoug.bsky.social · 21/04/2026GenAI is polluting the scholarly record and the best way (currently) to prevent the damage is to not use it (bc too many authors don’t vet the sources, putting additional labor on editors). 010
Doug Eyman @kairosdoug.bsky.social · 20/04/2026A bit late to the party, but was delighted to find that my colleague Vivek Narayana was the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship. He's doing really amazing work, which I was introduced to in _After_, which he describes as a 'reinvention or rewiring' of the Rāmāyaṇa. Highly recommend! 010
Reposted by Doug EymanAccessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 15/04/2026Many 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/...medium.comWriting Alt Text for Data VisualizationHow 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 05841
Doug Eyman @kairosdoug.bsky.social · 18/04/2026This is a great, evocative description of genAI. Whole thread is a very worthwhile read (and it starts with a reference to Steven Harnad; I didn't know about his actual work, but he figures prominently in the early days of digital online publication - so an interesting crossing of interests). 140
Doug Eyman @kairosdoug.bsky.social · 02/04/2026We have a new post up at our blog/book project, Publishing Digital Scholarship, on genAI's pernicious effects: the erosion of trust in the scholarly enterprise: digital-scholarship.ghost.io/ai-and-journ...digital-scholarship.ghost.ioAI and Journal Editing: The Erosion of TrustGenerative AI is eroding trust between authors, editors, and reviewers. Journal editors may want to change their citation policies in an unexpected way to ensure scholarly publishing remains a trustwo... 120
Reposted by Doug EymanMade in China Journal @madeinchinajournal.com · 24/03/2026What does it mean to live where every promise of transformation has stalled but never quite ended? Following a holoparasitic plant through centuries of human-plant encounters, Yadong Li explores political depression on China's interior frontier, where futures feel suspended but not closed.madeinchinajournal.comTracing the Unfinished: Human–Plant Encounters and Their Echoes in China’s Interior FrontierIn a town on the edge of a desert, a holoparasitic plant threads together memories of hardship, dreams of prosperity, and the feeling that development has come to a halt. Following centuries of human–... 042
Reposted by Doug EymanBritt A @balloonleap.bsky.social · 16/03/2026Wahoo! New pub in DHQ with Alan Arce, @grahamhjensen.bsky.social, and @raysiemens.bsky.social! Avail in 3 languages 🤯 Multilingualism as Infrastructural Imperative: Language Diversity in Digital Knowledge Commons [EN] dhq.digitalhumanities.org/vol/20/1/000... 322
Doug Eyman @kairosdoug.bsky.social · 04/03/2026Dustin’s book project started as a footnote in his dissertation but it’s clear that it’s also connected to his own lived history (the places he lived and knew); both I think important elements of the synchronicity of research. #4c26 020
Doug Eyman @kairosdoug.bsky.social · 04/03/2026Excited to be at the CCCC Research Network Forum, where I get to hear works in progress - a snapshot of where the field is going. Starting the day with a keynote from Dustin Edwards. #4c26 020
Reposted by Doug EymanEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 22/02/2026On anthropomorphizing language about AI, I'm pleased to say that this paper with @nannainie.bsky.social and Peter Zukerman is finally out in the world! firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph... >>firstmonday.org De-anthropomorphizing “AI”: From wishful mnemonics to accurate nomenclature | First Monday 67327
Reposted by Doug EymanJoshua Barsczewski @joshuabarsczewski.bsky.social · 10/02/2026I almost wish I hadn't edited this book so I could read it again for the first time because, dear LORDT, there's been few weeks in my career more taxing than this one (yes, I know it's only Tuesday). I need it now 051
Doug Eyman @kairosdoug.bsky.social · 09/02/2026Started watching the Time Bandits series (having been irredemably warped by watching the original film when I was..young-ish. Ok, not *that* young, but much younger than I am now), and it is really fantastic. Maybe later I'll say why. 120
Reposted by Doug EymanSarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 28/01/2026Thrilled to have galleys of my book in hand! Final corrections & index pending. Please consider preordering, gifting, & teaching. Via the archive, interviews & more I show how the crisis we face now reflects failure to listen & act on the democracy Black folks have envisioned, but we still can. 23603171
Reposted by Doug EymanAndrew Perfors @perfors.net · 22/01/2026The videos can be watched in any order and are intended for normal people, not experts -- there is so much confusion and misunderstanding out there. (For instance, I'm sending it to my students and non-academic friends). I've also included a very extensive reference list. Please share these widely!docs.google.comAll about AIAll about AI video series Supporting documentation Professor Andrew Perfors January 2026 Hello! Welcome to the list of references and supporting resources for my “All about AI” video series on Youtu... 5546
Reposted by Doug EymanVictor Navarro-Remesal @vthewanderer.bsky.social · 22/01/2026A thread on ZEN AND SLOW GAMES (MIT Press, 2026) 27922
Reposted by Doug EymanOlivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 18/01/2026For all those involved in drafting so-called AI guidelines, but being overwhelmed with nonsense, this is a lifesaver. Great work by Dagmar and Ariel! Resisting Enchantment and Determinism: How to critically engage with AI university guidelines. doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 3197119
Doug Eyman @kairosdoug.bsky.social · 15/01/2026I'm pleased to announce the release of issue 30.2 of Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric Technology, and Pedagogy. kairos.technorhetoric.net We'll be celebrating our thirtieth anniversary in the fall (how is it possible that I've been an editor for 30 years???)kairos.technorhetoric.netIssue 30.2 (Spring 2026) - Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy.Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy is the premier online, peer-reviewed journal in computers and writing. 0105
Doug Eyman @kairosdoug.bsky.social · 10/01/2026From #MLA26 session on AI and the ‘typed self’ - Matthew Parfitt: GenAI is an answering machine, while humans *question* - we need to foreground teaching how to question (and sustain the questioning). Whole session has been fantastic. 030
Doug Eyman @kairosdoug.bsky.social · 10/01/2026@writerethink.bsky.social Just saw your recorded presentation for #MLA26 - really great examples and presentation and hope your call to focus on experience and intentionality when teaching writing gets wide circulation. 120
Reposted by Doug EymanMiriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 10/01/2026Useful: I’ve been looking for a good, plain-language source to help students understand that artificial neural nets are very limited representations of actual human brains news.mit.edu/2022/neural-...news.mit.eduStudy urges caution when comparing neural networks to the brainNeuroscientists often use neural networks to model the kind of tasks the brain performs, in hopes that the models could suggest new hypotheses regarding how the brain itself performs those tasks. But ... 2308
Doug Eyman @kairosdoug.bsky.social · 10/01/2026Happy to announce the publication of _Composing with AI_, a new open access online anthology on teaching writing with and in the age of AI. Co-edited with my colleague Nupoor Ranade (CMU), this collection’s authors look at a broad range of issues and applications: ccdigitalpress.org/composing-wi...ccdigitalpress.orgComposing with AI 1114
Reposted by Doug EymanOpen Access Tracking Project @oatp.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 06/01/2026UKSG webinar: The Open Access – AI Conundrum: Does Free to Read Mean Free to Train? Feb 05, 2026, noon (GMT) | UKSG www.uksg.org/events/free-uksg-webin…uksg.orgFREE UKSG webinar: The Open Access – AI Conundrum: Does Free to Read Mean Free to Train? - UKSGThis is a fantastic opportunity to listen to expert speakers with no travelling required. This is a free webinar - Please note that advance registration is required. This webinar will be recorded and all registrants will receive a link to the recording after the session. 011
Reposted by Doug EymanChris Gardiner @chrisgardiner.bsky.social · 23/12/2025Essentially, I think that LLM-generated dialogue only makes sense if you believe that the product of writing is words. But the product of writing isn't words, any more than the product of justice is prisoners, or the product of love is weddings. The product of writing is meaning. 3830201039
Reposted by Doug EymanEsther Wright @enwright.bsky.social · 13/12/2025And now, Writing Game Histories (2026) with cover art (courtesy of @murthynikhil.bsky.social’s Syphilisation) www.bloomsbury.com/uk/writing-g... 813150