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Trent Wintermeier

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Rhetoric & Writing PhD Candidate @ University of Texas at Austin | Digital Rhetorics, Community Literacy, Sound Studies On the academic job market! www.trentwintermeier.com

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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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Trent Wintermeier @trentwintermeier.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
anyone else been on a rejections heater recently?? who did we upset?
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Dan Martin @danmartin7.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Harvard eliminated its writing center so obviously this was the plan. At some point they will eliminate their writing courses and tell students to use AI and then complain about the writing. Watch. 💯 www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
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Harvard Humanities Faculty Push Back on Deming’s Call for AI Use in Writing Courses | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard faculty in the humanities and social sciences expressed broad concern over an email Harvard College Dean David J. Deming sent students Wednesday suggesting that artificial intelligence be inte...
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/09/2026
If Trump wants Greenland, he can just order Microsoft to switch off Office 365 for the country and every ministry and significant firm will be shuttered in an instant, along with many households: pluralistic.net/2026/04/04/d... 40/
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Pluralistic: EU ready to cave to Trump on tech (04 Apr 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 30/08/2026
Saw a colleague on another app posting it & verified: As of this morning, Google has already conceded to the ridiculous “Lake America” nonsense but Apple has not—But they did eventually cave on the Gulf so it’s just lag Interesting to think about how dynamically-updating maps aid fascist bullshit
Google surrendering to fascist nonsense by calling Lake Ontario “Lake America” in Google Maps Apple still naming Lake Ontario correctly in Apple Maps
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Le Ca-ghoul @lecagle.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
[apparates into your timeline] please note: there are zero (0.0) writing studies researchers involved in this [disappears in a puff of smoke]
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University of South Carolina Press @uscpress.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Congrats Jessica L. Ouellette for her new book, Affective Rhetorics! By identifying the affective energies that sustain or disrupt online movements, she offers a framework for understanding and transforming the rhetorical currents that shape contemporary digital life uscpress.com/Affective-Rh...
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Trent Wintermeier @trentwintermeier.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
an ai confession box? lovely website, terrifying results :) www.whatwetellai.com
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What We Tell AI
Anonymous handwritten notes about people's relationship with AI — an anthropological art project documenting its growing presence in the most intimate details of our lives.
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
For the past six months @mariaa.bsky.social and I have been working on creating an improved research experience on atproto. It's now live! Check out: lea.ac
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Lea: research-oriented social media
Introducing a beta-version of our new research-focused social media platform
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*One Faculty Member in Particular* Joseph W. Robertshaw (he/him) @jwrobertshaw.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Vershawn Ashanit Young has started a GoFundMe for the CCCC to help the leadership team secure legal representation. The hope is to keep the discipline united as CCCCs moves forward. gofund.me/28a7175ac
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Donate to Help the Undefeated CCCC Chairs and Members Unite, organized by Vay Young
The undefeated CCCC group is a coalition of CCCC chairs and members who ha… Vay Young needs your support for Help the Undefeated CCCC Chairs and Members Unite
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Donnie Johnson Sackey @donniejsackey.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Update on CCCC 2027 I just got off a call with Antero Garcia and Emily Kirkpatrick. 1/21
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Trent Wintermeier @trentwintermeier.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
@ncte.org is wimpy as hell. but thanks for "acknowledging" (ignoring) our communications and dissolving our "special topics conference" (the largest professional org for writing studies) that has been happening for "many years" (literally 77!!!!)... wish y'all asked us to help write that lazy letter
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PlaySta-Sean 🎮 @seemtoggle.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
There it is. #CCCC #NCTE
Email from NCTE Executive Committee acknowledging messages received and the following:

For many years, the Conference on College Composition & Communication (CCCC) played a critical role in serving the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) & its mission. In recent years, however, CCCC has struggled with its fiscal sustainability, declining participation, & governance challenges. As a result, earlier today the Executive Committee of NCTE made the difficult decision to de-charter its special topics conference CCCC. To clarify, today’s decision to de-charter does not mean that NCTE has altered its commitment to supporting teachers at the college and university level. This is exemplified by the fact that the NCTE College Section is thriving.  The process in making this decision spanned several years, with attempts to work collaboratively with CCCC’s executive committees across multiple iterations. While the organization appreciates the years of collaboration with CCCC, after deep evaluation and thoughtful consideration, the Executive Committee concluded this step was necessary to more effectively serve the college English and writing and composition community and NCTE membership as a whole.

Although this has been a very difficult decision, we are excited about the future. This change will allow us to provide better support to the college English and writing and composition community. In the coming days and weeks, we will be working hard to make this transition as smooth as possible. We thank CCCC, its leaders, and its members for its many years of contributions and look forward to continuing to involve the composition, rhetoric, and writing communities as we move forward. NCTE remains devoted to improving the teaching and learning of English and the language arts at all levels of education. As future planning takes place, NCTE will communicate updates.

A transition team focused on supporting composition, rhetoric, & writing studies will be named imminently.
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kay slater @kslater.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
paneling with Maria T. Accardi, Sam Popowich, and Tessa Withorn for @libraryjuicepress.bsky.social about critical AI & librarianship is all this as inevitable as some companies want us to think? 8/19 @ 1pm EST; virtual, free, register here! libraryjuiceconnections.org/events/a-cri...
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A Critical Conversation on AI in Librarianship • Library Juice Connections
How is AI affecting our work in librarianship and what can we do about it? A conversation with librarians about AI in librarianship
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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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Dan Libertz @dlib24.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
From Kathleen Blake Yancey with clearest info about possible actions: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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CCCC Kathleen Blake yancey
About CCCC. ****Please share widely.**** It is my understanding that the full NCTE Executive Committee has NOT voted to dissolve CCCC. It is my understanding that the NCTE Executive Committee is meet...
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Donnie Johnson Sackey @donniejsackey.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
A couple hours ago, I woke up to messages about CCCC being dissolved and absorbed into NCTE's College Section. I don't know what this means for the 2027 conference, but I do know it'll be different, if it's held at all.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Pls read my blog which contains the words: "Four men in camo waders are in the pool. Water, the color of fresh Mountain Dew, laps at their thighs as they dredge the bottom with poles like cranberry farmers on a faraway radioactive planet."
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Trump’s Peeling Green Gift to America
The Reflecting Pool fiasco says everything about how the Trump administration operates.
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
We are in a full on dictatorship, rivaling the most entrenched ones in the world. Anti ICE activists, who printed a zine, are labeled “terrorist” and sentenced to 30-100 years in federal prison. By this metric we’re all targets. Genuinely chilling. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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‘This is injustice’: how leftist zines were used to sentence anti-ICE protesters to decades in prison
Advocates sound alarm after zines were used as evidence to convict protesters of terrorism charges tied to 2025 protest at Texas ICE facility
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Anne Pasek @apasek.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
A new toolkit is out on data centre fights in Canada! It is very good! aicivilsociety.ca/ResistingAID... Read on for key info, tactics, and case studies, written by academics and activists in the trenches. #AI #Canada
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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
2: Energy, Laura Watts "Energy cannot end and it cannot be made. Energy is always conserved, physics tells us. In some ways, it has no future and no past." ...
2: Energy, Laura Watts
"Energy cannot end and it cannot be made. Energy is always conserved, physics tells us. In some ways, it has no future and no past. It can only change form, shifting through one artefact, place, body and time, into another. So what might be the biography of one little flash of a photon carried in a fibre optic cable?"
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Grantham Research Institute at LSE @granthamlse.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
We regret that our event on Extreme Heat: Improving governance and strengthening action around the world has been cancelled due to the red extreme heat warning issued by the UK Met Office. Our apologies to everyone who was planning to attend the event.
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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 15/06/2026
networksofny2026.bigcartel.com/product/netw... hi, did you like my book Networks of New York when it came out in 2016? you might like the updated 2026 edition which I'll be releasing in September and you can pre-order now
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Networks of New York, 2026 Edition (PRE-ORDER)
SHIPPING SEPTEMBER 2026! Networks of New York is a book by me, Ingrid Burrington. It helps readers identify indicators of physical internet and telecommunications infrastructure in New York City. Usin...
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Craig Pittman @craigtimes.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
After 9 hours of debate, another #Florida county says no to a data center proposal (but it's not most sincerely dead yet). www.tampabay.com/news/environ... via @tampabaytimes.bsky.social
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Citrus County board denies data center proposal, siding with residents
Officials voted against the proposal after nine hours of debate. But the proposal is still alive.
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Caddie Alford @caddiealford.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
U of Pittsburgh Press, Dec 2026. Exciting diversity of perspectives + topics: astrology, Christopher Rufo, ancient Egypt, QAnon, + “Afterwards” dialogue of 4 scholars + a journalist. Pre-order + ask library: upittpress.org/books/978082... #TeamRhetoric #AcademicSky #PostTruth
Book cover of forthcoming edited collection titled "Rhetoric Before and Beyond Post-Truth."
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Dr J. Rosenbaum @jrosenbaum.com.au · 18/06/2026
Hi all, I have a desperate need for editors! The publisher wants me to provide a few, I have a handy form here or you can DM me for more details. Please share widely! tinyurl.com/AISlopEditor (Ignore the date I forgot to update the image)
AI SLOP
Call
For Editors
Submit your EOl to help edit a collected book on Al slop.
Editor EOl closes April 30.
Submit now!
https://tinyurl.com/AISlopEditor
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Crystal Fleming is on sabbatical @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
I'm attending a digital humanities event in Montreal. There was a keynote on AI and something about the talk made me wonder if it had been written by Claude. I said as much in the Q&A. As I posed the question, the speaker shifted, looking slightly uncomfortable. What he said next shocked the room +
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Billy Fleming @joobilly.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
It's Earth Day, which means you should preorder my new book, "Building Postcarbon Futures: Land, Justice, and Energy Transitions." cup.columbia.edu/book/buildin...
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Building Postcarbon Futures | Columbia University Press
What would a postcarbon future look like? How would a more just, decarbonized world require us to change the way we live? What would it take to build this wo... | CUP
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Kairos Journal @kairosrtp.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, is pleased to announce its 2026 award winners! Congratulations to the winners for their outstanding achievements.
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ACH @ach.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
The #ACH2026 program is now available! buff.ly/Wtmsofy Join us virtually June 24–26 for 70+ presentations on DH, transnationalism, and solidarity (especially in the Americas). Registration is open through June 17 buff.ly/3QFYlOS
ach2026.ach.org
Schedule
Please see below the schedule for ACH 2026. Please note the schedule is set at Central Standard Time (CST).
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Trent Wintermeier @trentwintermeier.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
gotta brag on a student who published their op-ed from my Rhetoric of AI class... go read "What the Casualties of the Iran War Tell Us About the Dangers of AI in Modern Warfare": thetexasorator.com/2026/05/31/w...
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What the Casualties of the Iran War Tell Us About the Dangers of AI in Modern Warfare
The United States’ attack on the Shajareh Tayyebeh elementary school in Minab reveals dangerous truths about Project Maven
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Trent Wintermeier @trentwintermeier.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
hi i'll be at RSA tomorrow morning presenting on a panel titled "Rhetoric Beyond Words" about community-engaged soundwalking, two of which i conducted in germany and england last week. a preview below: images of our walks over fossil fuel pipelines argued to cause infrasound
A field in england with many sheep and a pole signaling a gas pipeline underneath!A sign for a gas pipeline in germany, surrounded by leaves from trees around our path!a window looking out into a courtyard in an apartment building in germanyanother sign in a field from the same gas pipeline, this time behind a fence!
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DH2026 | X/Twitter (@DH2026_Daejeon) @dh2026daejeon.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
🎬 AVinDH SIG turns 10 at #DH2026! A full-day mini-conference celebrating a decade of AudioVisual & Digital Humanities — panel, lightning talks, tool cavalcade, networking. 📅 Mon, July 27, 2026 🔗 avindh.org/workshops/2026/ Open to all DH2026 attendees, no SIG membership required.
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Workshop at ADHO DH 2026, Daejeon, South Korea | AudioVisual & Digital Humanities
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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Is this anything?
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Society for Social Studies of Science @4sweb.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
We have extended the submission deadline for the call for abstracts for open panels. New deadline is: May 5. 1. Submissions to Open Panels 2. Closed Panels 3. Making & Doing 4. Meet-Ups 5. Roundtables Submit here: www.xcdsystem.com/4sonline/mem...
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Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Digital Scholarship in the Humanities Vol. 41, Suppl 1. (2026) academic.oup.com/dsh/issue/41... @adho-org.bsky.social @eadhorg.bsky.social ‘Digital Humanities 2023: Collaboration as Opportunity @bernhardbaver.bsky.social @trentwintermeier.bsky.social @tanyaclement.bsky.social
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Volume 41 Issue Supplement_1 | Digital Scholarship in the Humanities | Oxford Academic
An official journal of the European Association for Digital Humanities. Publishes original contributions on all aspects of digital scholarship in the Humanities including, but not limited to, the fiel...
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Computational Humanities Research @comphumresearch.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
📢 CfP for #CHR2027 is out! Submissions on all aspects of computational humanities research welcome; all details available here: 2027.computational-humanities-research.org/cfp/ And yes, CHR2027 will take place a little later than usual. So you *could* start later… but we suggest starting now!
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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
More evidence that Canada is falling behind in the energy transition. We will pay the economic costs for backward looking policies. www.theenergymix.com/canadas-emis...
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Canada’s Emission Reductions Stall, Oil Sands Pollution Rises, While Global Data Show Surging Solar
Canada’s annual greenhouse gas reductions stalled out at 2.2 million tonnes in 2024, or just 0.3% of the year’s total of 685 megatonnes, even though the rest of the world was on the cusp of a surge in...
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Billy Fleming @joobilly.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
I'm starting a new project with my friend, Douglas Robb, that aims to document and better understand a process we refer to as "recarbonization", or the sites and systems driving a growth in emissions and reindustrialization alongside growth in renewable energy supply. recarbonization.cargo.site
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Recarbonization
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Last week, a 20 year-old man threw a molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's mansion; two days later, people fired a gun at it. Earlier that week, someone fired gunshots into an city councilman's house who approved a data center. Why the AI backlash has turned violent:
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Why the AI backlash has turned violent
And why it's probably only going to get worse from here.
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Lauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Experimentation. Iteration. Time. These are pretty much the core ingredients of everything related to DATA BY DESIGN, and the cover is no exception. But now it is final and out there on the internet and also right here for you to see! Preorder at: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205618...
The book cover for Data by Design: Visualization and Power from Abolition to the Dawn of Data Science. The title is in large block letters at the top left; a hand-drawn area chart in a black to yellow gradient takes up the right side of the image.
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Trent Wintermeier @trentwintermeier.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
today my rhetoric of AI class went on a field trip to the texas advanced computing center and we got to stick our fingers in the mineral oil used for cooling servers :)
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professor tools for commensality (red scare edition) @inquiline.myatproto.social · 03/04/2026
LA weirdos! It appears that @uchicagopress.bsky.social is giving away my book OIL BEACH for FREE this month (as an e-book) Link is here: press.uchicago.edu/books/freeEb...
vivid cover of said book, depicting a sickly yellow sky, orange sun, and inky black ocean water. the coastline is dotted with oil wells
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Aimee Cozza Illustration @aimeecozza.com · 10/04/2026
HireHumanArtists.com is open again for a short 45 more artists as we work through the backlog, so if you missed it before, now's your chance to squeak in!
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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 08/04/2026
I’ve posted the text of my talk from today’s DH Day at Purdue: “Anemoia, AI, & Skeuomorphism” is part of a longer piece I’m working on that tries to theorize the current “Material Turn in Digital Humanities”—essentially: why are so many DH folks printing & making & crafting? #dhmakes
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Anemoia, AI, and Skeuomorphism: The Material Turn in Digital Humanities | Ryan C. Cordell
Book history, digital humanities, old newspapers, and information sciences
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Le Ca-ghoul @lecagle.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
A citizen group working to prevent large data centers from being built on prime farmland are seeking a noise expert who can speak to detrimental effects of noise from data centers, especially low frequency sound. They're able to pay. Any recs, incl names/contact info, asap would be so appreciated 🙏
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Fatima Syed @fatimabsyed.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
I've been trying to understand what it means to speed up mining approvals in Ontario. Here's the story of a huge internal shakeup that has excited industry and left First Nations feeling concerned about what might be lost when you speed everything up. thenarwhal.ca/ontario-1p1p... #onpoli
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Inside Ontario’s push to speed up mining | The Narwhal
Ontario says its ‘one project, one process’ (1P1P) framework will speed mining approvals. Many First Nations leaders have questions
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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
We've published a new #openaccess article ahead of print in 'Plant Perspectives', being Justin A. Dowdall on 'Pyrological Rhetorical Ecologies: Contested Discourse in the Redwood Forest'; online here: doi.org/10.3197/WHPP... #plantstudies #envhum #forests #sequoia @plantperspectives.bsky.social
Decorative article cover page with stylised painted image of a forest fire.
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Covering Climate Now @coveringclimatenow.org · 21/03/2026
Stressed in recent years by climate change–fueled drought and government mismanagement, Iran’s water supplies are now facing another threat: war. @carbonbrief.org examines when Iran may hit “water day zero” and climate change’s role in the crisis:
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Q&A: How climate change and war threaten Iran’s water supplies - Carbon Brief
Climate change, war and mismanagement are putting Iran’s water supply under major strain, experts have warned.
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