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Josh Rea @reajm.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

You should never have to deal with this harassment in the first place. Yet here you are being treated like a problem in need of solving because of it, rather than a person in need of help and protection. Gross. You certainly have room to complain, and I'm so sorry that you're going through this.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 07/09/2026

This is one of the objections I have when people talk about how useful LLMs can be for literature searches or for any kind of search, really. Even beyond the biases that inevitably (and, in some cases, intentionally) show up, part of a good literature search is seeing information *in context.*

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library gifted more than 332,000,000 books since it was first created 31 years ago.

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Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 21/08/2026

Opinion | 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

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Josh Rea @reajm.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Thanks for sharing! I hope the physical copy method works out for you. I've done that with shorter documents like resumes before and it's usually resulted in productive class periods.

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Josh Rea @reajm.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Would you mind saying a little more about the specific issues that GenAI is causing with this? I also like to use example assignments in class, so curious if I should re-evaluate as I'm planning for fall.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 08/08/2026

A good reminder that cities aren't loud. Cars are loud.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 26/07/2026

A letter from the mother of Alex Pretti, six months after he was murdered by ICE.

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Today marks the six-month anniversary of Alex's murder. No one has been held accountable, no apologies, not a single phone call from any governmental official, hospital personnel, or the mpls police dept. Six-months of pain, a roller-coaster of trauma over and over. Every time another a death, another mention, a picture, a tribute, a sorrow so deep. I wonder how to move forward. Will I ever get over this loss and this pain?
Will I ever be able to enjoy life again? How does one live knowing that I have no power to change what has happened?

And yet the outreach not only from Minnesota, but from around the world has been nothing less than spectacular. Every card, every gift, every heartfelt letter has been read, touched, held, and cherished by us all. The kindness you've all shown us is beyond words. Please never forget Alex and what he believed in ~ equality and peace for all. I will remember the things that made you, you. It will never take your memory. As long as I'm here, you will never be forgotten.

For all you asking what you can do. Continue this fight. Never give up your right to speak out, protect your neighbor, your community and don't forget to spend time with those you love...

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Josh Rea @reajm.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

The upside is they get our registration/membership money, with none of it going to Cs as a thereafter-dissolved organization for which the parent organization keeps the financial assets (in theory).

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Josh Rea @reajm.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

We do, I'll DM you the invite.

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Josh Rea @reajm.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Sorry, this was a past year (navigating interface on mobile), 2025 numbers are $49 million.

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Josh Rea @reajm.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

We might also be better equipped to understand why the organization couldn't just use some of its $45 million in stock investments to help rightsize that fiscal sustainability

Screenshot of NCTE's form 990 tax form showing they started the year with $45,232,313 in stock investments and ended with $45,625,100

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Amber Buck @ambuck.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Hey @insidehighered.com @chronicle.com Want to report on how the professional organization for college writing (including the top required college course) was just dissolved by its parent org? ncte.org/press-update...

ncte.org

NCTE Update, Decision by NCTE Executive Committee

The following is a message from the NCTE Executive Committee.

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Dr. Jennifer (she/her) @drjags.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

That "special topics conference" language is really getting under my grill. It reeks of the long history of seeing composition as an extension of and lesser than literature.

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Josh Rea @reajm.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

FYI I called right after the email went out and they said refund requests have to be done by email, if you want one.

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Josh Rea @reajm.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Sorry, y'all, I spoke the email into being with this

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Dustin Edwards @dustinedwards.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

the audacity for the NCTE EC to say they're excited about the future. i just --

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Josh Rea @reajm.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The silence from NCTE over the last two days is rather loud.

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Josh Rea @reajm.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The Disability Studies Standing Group of Cs also put out a statement

Statement reading: The Disability Studies Standing Group (DSSG) of the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) joins our colleagues across the field in expressing our deep concern regarding NCTE leadership’s reported plans to dissolve CCCC and integrate its work into NCTE’s College Section. While the exact status and future of CCCC remain unclear, we are alarmed by the lack of transparency surrounding this decision-making process and by the absence of meaningful communication and consultation with CCCC officers, Committees and Committee chairs, Standing Groups, Task forces, and the broader CCCC membership.

For DSSG in particular, CCCC has provided an essential scholarly home for researchers, teachers, and activists working at the intersections of critical disability studies, disability rhetoric, and composition studies. Through CCCC’s support of Standing Groups, DSSG has developed and sustained mentoring relationships, maintained shared resources, coordinated disability-focused panels and workshops, advocated for access, and built a community for scholars whose work has historically been marginalized within academic institutions.

The proposal to dissolve CCCC’s - especially without the communication and collaboration necessary to safeguard and sustain the organization’s long history of knowledge- and resource-building - threatens the relationships and intellectual networks cultivated through DSSG’s operations. For early-career scholars and graduate students, the community built through DSSG and other CCCC’s standing groups provides an introduction to the field and supportive mentorship. We are deeply saddened by the thought that future generations of rhetoric and composition scholars and students will not be able to benefit from all that CCCC offers. CCCC plays a critical role in pedagogical knowledge production in composition and writing studies and beyond, and the loss of disability and accessibility position statements written by composition…

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Megan McIntyre @rcmeg.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The CCCC Exec Committee released a brief statement on the NCTE’s intention to dissolve CCCC. "CCCC is the professional home for thousands of scholars, teachers, and researchers...with a decades-long record of shaping how writing is taught, studied, and understood."

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CCCC EC Quick Response July 23

Public Facing Statement To be Shared With the General CCCC Membership We, members of the CCCC Executive Committee, were alarmed to learn of the NCTE Presidential Team’s plans to dissolve CCCC, which ...

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Josh Rea @reajm.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Adding on to point two here, this makes us vulnerable not just to state legislatures but to folks within institutions on curricular and other committees who don't have much familiarity with our discipline. Cs provides institutional legitimacy to point those people to and to rely on in proposals.

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Ajuna Soerjadi 🌸 @ethicsofai.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

There is no way to use ChatGPT responsibly.

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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

ICE has fatally shot 11 people since Donald Trump's second term began. These are not isolated incidents. They are the predictable result of a cruel, violent system. Abolish ICE.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 10/07/2026

SHOCK NYT REPORT: DHS now admits the man ICE killed in Houston wasn't even their target. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a 35-year U.S. resident, was just driving to work when agents — with no body cameras — shot him dead searching for two other men who weren't even in the van. Gift link in reply.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 10/07/2026

“Cornell researchers found that at the current rate of AI growth, the burgeoning industry could represent 24 to 44 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions by 2030, the equivalent of adding five to ten million cars to US roadways.”

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The Pollution Being Churned Out by AI Data Centers Is So Severe That It's Almost Incomprehensible

The extent of the pollution being put out by thousands of data centers is shocking. Some developers are exploiting regulatory loopholes.

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Josh Rea @reajm.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Imagine writing this and sending it out to people like you thought you actually did something.

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Ali Trotta @alwayscoffee.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

JFC, STOP SHARING GEN AI IMAGERY. It's shitty. And it's bad. BONUS frustration if it has no alt text, because then you suck twice.

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Josh Rea @reajm.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Getting in this evening!

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

The integration of AI into writing classrooms should take heed on what's happening to programmers who use AI to "vibe code." These are people who already knew how to do the thing that's atrophying. Students don't have their writing practices set yet. www.404media.co/software-dev...

404media.co

Software Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains

“It's making me dumber for sure.”

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 11/05/2026

A school board in Wisconsin is probably going to censor an instrumental performance by children because the composer dedicated the piece to a queer icon. It’s why the calls by Democratic consultants to compromise on “the trans issue” is so unacceptable. You cannot compromise with this vile hatred.

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Wisconsin school board considers pulling piece from spring band concert due to LGBTQ+ history ties

Watertown High School band students have spent months preparing for their May 18 spring concert. But a piece of music will likely be struck from their set list over its history.

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witchy raerae 👍🧙🏻‍♀️ ❌👑 @rachaelnevins.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

“Use AI to brainstorm but not to write.” “Use AI to help you outline but not to write.” These are commonly proposed as “ethical” ways for undergrad students to use AI, but I’m sorry, brainstorming & outlining are just as integral to writing as the actual construction of sentences.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 16/11/2025

There's a kind of displacement in the idea that ai is both A) so easy to use that we won't need people to know how to do things B) itself something that requires significant skill and training to use

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 25/04/2026

I try hard to never to use "generative AI" because the phrase is itself industry gobbledegook that aims to erode scientific vocabulary through normalising such terms that superficially seem technical but are nonsense in their referent; more below:

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Red state: we have cut gender studies because it doesn’t support our theology Blue state: we have cut gender studies because it doesn’t support our AI institute

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Josh Rea @reajm.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

We have had several (I think four?) professors in my department retire in the three years I've been at my current institution and not one of those lines has been filled.

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 18/04/2026

The desperate campaign to push AI down our throats is just what Nestlé did with baby formula, or Monsanto with patended seeds. Manufactured Intermediation—inserting a corporate tollbooth into a process that used to be self-sustaining, using a low initial barrier to entry to destroy the alternative.

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Josh Rea @reajm.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I've been doing this (ungraded assignment, no submission required), mostly because it puts it on their calendar in the LMS and gives them a reminder. It seems like it's helped a bit with completing readings.

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

If I were a senator or congressperson, I would not be on social media right now. Actually, I would be on social media. I would be live in an airport or on a train while on my way back to the Capitol to hold a sit-in with as many colleagues and camera crews as possible over this ****.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/04/2026

I feel sick to my stomach waiting around to see what atrocity Trump has in mind for the people of Iran this evening. It's hard to fathom our other elected leaders aren't able to check him in any meaningful way. It's an indictment not just of voters but of our whole system. We're ruled by a mad king.

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Toronto Will @torontowill.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I appreciate that "it doesn't really work this way", I just don't care. An imminent threat to end a civilization is a 5 alarm fire, even by Trump standards. If he can break the constitution to start a war, you can bend some procedure to stop a genocide. At least look like you're trying.

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

my youngest grandson returns from The Waste. No food again, just metal scraps. But he's so proud, and wants a reward. "Tell me again about The Great Before. Tell me why The Green went away," he begs. "in the Before," I begin, "people had questions about who should participate in women's sports..."

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Dr Holly Nielsen @hollynielsen.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Isn’t it weird how “AI literacy” being pushed on students isn’t about learning how it works, the cost of how it works, learning to spot disinformation, media and tech literacy. But instead is just “employers will like it if you get it to write your emails :)”

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Josh Rea @reajm.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

I have a discussion on GenAI in all of my classes so that students have space to talk through their thoughts. Lately it's been one of my most lively discussions. So many are really skeptical of GenAI, and express frustration at being required to use it in other classes.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 11/03/2026

there was also a Stanford study that found that a surge in AI slop by lazy people actually created significantly more work for others who had to decipher and correct it this "I'm being efficient" (but not really) vibes well with the American obsession with artifice and appearing productive

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Stanford Study: ‘AI’ Generated ‘Workslop’ Actually Making Productivity Worse

Automation undeniably has some useful applications. But the folks hyping modern “AI” have not only dramatically overstated its capabilities, many of them generally view these tools as a…

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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 11/03/2026

You do not need the robots to creatively prompt you! Just try to take the most violent bite of yourself possible. Try to swallow yourself whole

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

I’m actually not sure we can come back from “prediction markets for war crimes”, as a society. I think this might be it for us.

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