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Dr. Rebecca Ottman

@rebeccaottman.bsky.social
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PhD in Rhetoric currently working on a book theorizing eloquence and its horizons. Endlessly fascinated by rhetorical theory/classical rhetoric/multilingual pedagogy/digital writing. First-Gen. Fan of memes, 2000s emo lore, and pumpkin spice everything ☕️

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Dr. Rebecca Ottman @rebeccaottman.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
It’s a strange time to be a rhetorician, but I am nonetheless excited and grateful to see my words on eloquence, ambiguity, and rhetorical resistance published in the Journal for the History of Rhetoric. If you need a break from the bleakness this week, you can find the full article linked below!
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Ambiguous Eloquence: Asignification as Rhetorical Resistance
Abstract. This article explores the relationship between eloquence and ambiguity as well as how the ambiguous nature of eloquence in Cicero manifests in our contemporary moment. Eloquence in Cicero re...
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Kendall Gerdes 📚🐦‍⬛ @kendalljoy.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Anybody on Reddit want to upvote a call to leave NCTE? www.reddit.com/r/ELATeacher...
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Dr. Rebecca Ottman @rebeccaottman.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Just goes to show that money can’t buy well-written LinkedIn bios.
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Michelle Chen @michellechn.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
NCTE: We look forward to continuing to involve the composition, rhetoric, and writing communities as we move forward. The Entire CCCC Membership: new Cs who dis
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Dr. Rebecca Ottman @rebeccaottman.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Great to see that NCTE is “excited about the future” given that the future will remember their cowardice.
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Dr. Rebecca Ottman @rebeccaottman.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Here’s an absolutist position: people in the poor, rural areas where AI-supportive data centers are being built have dwindling access to clean water and affordable electricity as a result. We should ask them how ethical AI is.
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Dr. Rebecca Ottman @rebeccaottman.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Hey Canvas, is the “scheduled maintenance” in the room with us?
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Dr. Rebecca Ottman @rebeccaottman.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Trying to grade while recovering from surgery and learning to take care of a newborn is the most dystopian thing I’ve ever done. 🙃
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Dr. Rebecca Ottman @rebeccaottman.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Living vicariously through the subtweets I’m reading rn
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Dr. Rebecca Ottman @rebeccaottman.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
If I look rough in my #4c26 virtual presentation this afternoon, mind your business I had a baby 3 days ago. 😂
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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
I could write for days, months, years. I could read decades of sci-fi from the most annoying Golden Age authors. I could peruse the most cringe things on TikTok. And still, I could never come up with the deeply embarrassing things Sam Altman says on any given Tuesday
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Dr. Rebecca Ottman @rebeccaottman.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Sitting in on a meeting about promoting ai at my university while simultaneously receiving emails about how the university is using ai to censor and align all of our syllabi ideologically is beyond dystopian.
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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Option 3. Hemlock will be provided in the faculty lounge for those who turn down options 1 and 2.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 15/12/2025
“At Texas A&M, internal emails show staff are using AI software to search syllabi and course descriptions for words that could raise concerns under new system policies restricting how faculty teach about race and gender.” www.texastribune.org/2025/12/15/t...
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Texas universities deploy AI for course audits
Records obtained by The Texas Tribune show how universities are using the technology to reshape curriculum under political pressure, raising concerns about academic freedom.
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Dr. Rebecca Ottman @rebeccaottman.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
It’s so funny to me that the powers that be think adding an AI-themed Gen Ed is going to do anything beyond fostering a deep resentment for AI in students. AI fatigue is real, and it’s coming soon to a campus near you.
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Dr. Rebecca Ottman @rebeccaottman.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Wake up, new fresh hell just dropped!
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Tim Maughan @timmaughan.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
if I see another academic describe LLMs - a tech owned by a small elite of white billionaires, built from extracting data from humans and minerals from the earth, and refined by the labor of underpaid workers in the global south - as an ‘important tool for decolonization’ I may simply just explode
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Dr. Rebecca Ottman @rebeccaottman.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Somehow, I inevitably end up back at Roland Barthes.
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Dr. Rebecca Ottman @rebeccaottman.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Really don’t know how to face my students today in light of the institution being all over the news for all the wrong reasons.
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Dr. Rebecca Ottman @rebeccaottman.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
The tech companies, I fear, do not care about our input on their destruction of our learning sites, water infrastructure, or democracies.
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Dr. Mag 🌿👾 @nobugsnous.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
“higher ed must steer AI adoption” as a position is incompatible with academic freedom.
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bleddwgan @radekllundain.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
"this meeting could have been a clay tablet"
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Dr. Rebecca Ottman @rebeccaottman.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Pretty sure this flavor of dudebro showed up in all my grad seminars lmao.
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Claire Jackson @claire.northsky.social · 11/09/2025
This is the political project every AI booster in higher education is facilitating
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Dr. Rebecca Ottman @rebeccaottman.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
This semester, I’m teaching Plato’s Republic in my freshman writing class in that state everyone is talking about, and I’m not totally sure how to face my students tomorrow in the aftermath of my institution blatantly deciding that justice is indeed the advantage of the stronger.
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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Education is for liberation, not control.
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Clapping back at other academics (or tech apologists) making ridiculous claims about their favorite shiny toy is not punching down.
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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
I don't use feedback on my writing from an LLM because it can't read and I write for readers. When students say they find LLM feedback "helpful" what are we signaling about what's important about their writing? Helpful for what goal? Helpful how? What values are being reinforced?
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 08/09/2025
TBH I think it's hard to overstate the gap between the assumed guard rails and reality. people think "well it might be wrong on the details sometimes" and the reality is that it is **coaching children to commit suicide** you wouldn't expect that from ANY product! why would that exist!
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Dr. Rebecca Ottman @rebeccaottman.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
I hope James Dobson is having the afterlife he deserves.
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Dr. Rebecca Ottman @rebeccaottman.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Opened my email to discover the university libraries kindly made an online version of one of my assigned textbooks available on Proquest, which now uses an AI-based “Research Assistant” that handles all the pesky reading so students don’t have to. 🙃🙃🙃
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Dr. Rebecca Ottman @rebeccaottman.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Looks like handwritten feedback is back on the menu!
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Megan McIntyre @rcmeg.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Hi. Hello. GRAMMARLY IS NOT A WRITING TOOL. IT IS SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM AND LINGUISTIC HOMOGENIZATION IN A TRENCHCOAT.
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Dr. Rebecca Ottman @rebeccaottman.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
My personal theme for teaching FYC this year is slowness. Slow notes, slow reading, slow writing. Slowing down the process. Learning is a lifelong pursuit, and I’m over the pressure to optimize based on the whims of tech billionaires and admin who see students as nothing more than profit margins.
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Dr. Rebecca Ottman @rebeccaottman.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Has Sam Altman ever talked to an expert or is pretending to be one enough? 🤔
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Avery @averyofbirds.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
It happened again
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Dr. Rebecca Ottman @rebeccaottman.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
What a time to A. Be a rhetorician B. Live in Texas C. Try to write anything rn
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Dr. Rebecca Ottman @rebeccaottman.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Happy Sunday scaries season of the academic year to all who celebrate!
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Alex Shevrin Venet @asv.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
I hate the argument that AI is being used in lots of jobs so students have to learn how to use it in school. AI is not that hard to use. Lots of jobs also use job-specific convoluted enterprise software and we don't teach them how to use those in school.
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 22/07/2025
mean girls screenshot overlaid with text “get in losers, we're Al shaming”
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Maddy "Boo!" Hare @mbhare.eurosky.social · 22/07/2025
literal historical sophists would look at this one and tell the writer to tone down the bullshit a bit
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
the title of this paper is - and I am not kidding - “AI Could Have Written This: Birth of a Classist Slur in Knowledge Work”
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Dr. Rebecca Ottman @rebeccaottman.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Just saw someone unironically use the term “Anti-AI extremists” on this app. 🙃
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Dr. Rebecca Ottman @rebeccaottman.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Tech bros are just theory bros who didn’t do the reading but want to talk over everyone anyway.
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
A.I. enthusiastes are lyke "A.I. will open newe worldes" and the new worldes are price gouging
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Dr. Rebecca Ottman @rebeccaottman.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
What stage of “we must all learn to use AI tools for the future” is this?
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Dr. Rebecca Ottman @rebeccaottman.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
20% of degree programs across all Indiana universities. Absolutely disgusting and utterly heartbreaking, and just pure evil. Hoosiers deserve better than this.
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Dr. Rebecca Ottman @rebeccaottman.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
I’m way too proud of this 😂
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Dr. Rebecca Ottman @rebeccaottman.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
C’s proposal due on day 1 of the RSA Institute has me frantically revising in the Nashville airport between flights and thinking that God really does give the toughest battles to the bravest soldiers. 😂
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