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Wil Flores, PhD @wilflores.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Rare day of no meetings / grading. Time to write all day and listen to trans dis 🥰

Wil Flores, PhD @wilflores.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Teaching my writing studies class using the Octalogs is fun because I get to tell my students which living scholars have mis-typed or mispronounced my name or called me by some other Latino person's name (quite a lot, actually!)

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Wil Flores, PhD @wilflores.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

One thing that sucks is that I actually really like my job—it's just the city / workplace itself that feels untenable. For the first time ever, I had a student come up to me at the start of class and told me how it important it was for him to see a Latino professor with a PhD. 🥺

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Donnie Johnson Sackey @donniejsackey.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

CCCC Leadership Response to NCTE’s De-Chartering of CCCC. Please read and sign. theorganizationformerlyknownascccc.com

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Wil Flores, PhD @wilflores.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Girl, I wonder what my librarians think of me because everything I've been requesting (ILLs, scans) have words like AIDS, PrEP, BAREBACKING, SEX, GAY SEX, among other fun words. 😳

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Wil Flores, PhD @wilflores.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Also, I got looped into an HIV/AIDS research network spanning the Carolinas because I gave a talk and some STEM folk really liked it. They put out a call for so-called small grants starting at $50K. Like damn, that’s how the other side lives? 🫪

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Wil Flores, PhD @wilflores.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Getting really positive article reviews is just the kind of professional win I need right now because my place of employment is putting me *through* it. 🫨

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Wil Flores, PhD @wilflores.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

People in Chicago are looking me up, and yes—you should hire me please 🙏

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Stacy Wittstock @curiousmagpie.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Hi all, The Marist University English Department is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Creative Writing specializing in Fiction. I am chairing the committee and am happy to answer any questions. Please share widely! careers.marist.edu/cw/en-us/job...

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Careers at Marist - Marist University

Thank you for your interest in a career with Marist University!

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*One Faculty Member in Particular* Joseph W. Robertshaw (he/him) @jwrobertshaw.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Not to diminish the work that Sackey and Hassel are doing--it is fine and difficult work serving and preserving the community and should be praised-- but the recent NCTE and CTT updates make it clear to me that CCCCs was dissolved to remove dissent in the Google Ai take-over of education.

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

You’ve gotta use AI because it’s the future. But also it’ll take your job. But also it’ll create a paradise on earth and solve most of our problems. But also it’ll end humanity soon. But also you’ll get left behind if you don’t use it right now.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Refusing to use AI isn’t a recalcitrant position. It’s the moral one. There is too much wrong with how this is happening to just “if you can’t beat em join em” this. It’s a lack of consent machine. An environmental destruction machine. An emotional and cognitive numbing machine.

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Wil Flores, PhD @wilflores.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Severance by Ling Ma, as well as Hyperion by Dan Simmons (one of the best sci-fi novels ever written), are both on sale in the Kobo e-book store. 🙇🏻‍♂️

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Wil Flores, PhD @wilflores.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

When I was writing my dissertation during the COVID lockdowns, I would do long writing sessions of 3+ hours. Lately, though, I've been incredibly productive with 30-minute to 1-hour writing sprints in the morning and throughout the day. 😌

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Wil Flores, PhD @wilflores.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Also, I've been wrapping up a sample chapter for my book, and it involved quite a bit of archival work, which also involved learning about which gays were beefing amid the AIDS crisis. Journalists who had it out for certain organizers. Doctors shading one another. People cheating on each other. Fun!

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Wil Flores, PhD @wilflores.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Morning writing session was super productive! * *all I did was update my website

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ElizabethwithaZ @elizabethwithaz.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The AI Literacy we get: "Here's a piece of software founded on theft, labor exploitation, and environmental devastation. It consistently produces bias and falsehoods, so be sure to use it ethically and responsibly!" The AI Literacy we need:

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Wil Flores, PhD @wilflores.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Girl, this mess comes as CCCC is dechartered by NCTE, in part, because the org allowed for people to advance the notion that we CAN refuse to be part of this Big Tech ruse (not even that we as writing instructors HAVE to; we just have that option through the organization ethos). Flops.

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Wil Flores, PhD @wilflores.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

WHY is every job in Texas (and I say that as a born-and-raised Texan).

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Wil Flores, PhD @wilflores.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Being gay on the internet is interesting, because I'll get on Facebook to check out marketplace and get "People You May Know" suggestions that include 1) random academics I kind of know about and 2) the husbands of gay adult performers who are also just a doctor or something.

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Wil Flores, PhD @wilflores.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

There are other 80 year olds who could have... Ugh.

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Wil Flores, PhD @wilflores.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Totally unrelated to anything and anyone, but my hair is real and it's great. 😌

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Wil Flores, PhD @wilflores.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Living in hope means engaging in the shifting living politic of creating and fostering betterments all around. I just hope something good comes my way soon. 🥲

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Wil Flores, PhD @wilflores.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Wow I really miss feeling like I'm part of an intellectual community!

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Wil Flores, PhD @wilflores.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

“Dear colleagues, as our field falls apart—partly because of political machinations as a large literacy orgs cows to GenAI adoption, takes Big Tech money, and makes your job even more precarious—please consider submitting to another GenAI and writing project.”

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Wil Flores, PhD @wilflores.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Perhaps technical and professional communication are incompatible with social justice.

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Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

There is no good use of generative AI because the technology was built on theft of creative labor. If that position surprises you from an artist whose life's work was scraped and used without permission to train trillion dollar technology, educate yourself. www.michaelwhelan.com/faq/#digital...

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Wil Flores, PhD @wilflores.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Bought myself a fancy, new water bottle for the coming semester since my last one was a few years old and... not in great shape.

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Wil Flores, PhD @wilflores.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Hmm. I'm co-chairing the Lavender Rhetorics Awards for CCCC (now de-chartered), and if they're going to keep the awards and such going at least for this next year, I'm conflicted about doing anything for NCTE / transition team. That said, these awards typically go to grad students / junior faculty 🤔

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Wil Flores, PhD @wilflores.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Why are graduate students working on books?

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

it's always odd when "you should expose yourself to more diverse ideas" always means a certain kind of conservatism instead of like, Indigenous art, new fusion foods, math paradoxes, or the Dvorak keyboard layout

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Wil Flores, PhD @wilflores.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

NCTE with the Google Grant. Anna Mills working as a consultant for OpenAI and then going on to usher in the GenAI adoption of writing studies. The list goes on in higher education 🫩

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 31/07/2026

We're in the era of incompetence & cybercrimes headlined as "unprecedented model capabilities gone rogue." So OpenAI & Anthropic are trying to one up each other with such incompetence because the "press release as a service" performing media & clueless politicians parrot pre IPO CEO talking points.

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Wil Flores, PhD @wilflores.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

My department was folded, my discipline is liquidating, and people in my department are sharing bad-faith blog posts from Eric Smith. NEED a change asap lol.

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Wil Flores, PhD @wilflores.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I saw Eartheater in New York City this past Saturday. And while the players were setting up, “Little Star” off Ray of Light by Madonna started playing by what seemed like mistake. But looking back at it, I think it was intentional given how the song resonates with her last album!

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Megan McIntyre @rcmeg.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Imagine the conversation we could have about this travesty if NCTE didn’t require Cs officers and executive committee members to sign confidentiality agreements. Folks should also ask NCTE about how and whether their lucrative grant/partnership with Google was part of what Cs “culture” threatened.

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NCTE Dissolves 77-Year-Old Composition Association

The National Council of Teachers of English’s decision was met with swift backlash from Conference on College Composition and Communication members, who say their organization is vital to advancing co...

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/07/2026

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

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TH @tylerhower.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I look around the world, with its wars and genocides, its poverty and displacements, its deep injustices and inequalities, and scream, "But, who will think of the LLMs?" I am rewarded for my Socratic bravery and insight with never-ending funding—and, a promise that I will be uploaded in the end.

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Wil Flores, PhD @wilflores.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

What humanistic values? "Rather than engaging in a winner-takes-all existential struggle that pits human writing against machine writing, they wrestle with GenAI platforms in ways that ... offer writers and writing instructors agency to enact humanistic values and uphold disciplinary expertise.

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Writing and Rhetoric Studies in the Loop: A GenAI Prompt Library - WAC

Edited by Anuj Gupta and Brian Gogan Copy edited by Anuj Gupta and Brian Gogan. Designed by Mike Palmquist. Writing and Rhetoric Studies in the Loop: A GenAI Prompt Library is an open-access, peer-rev...

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Dan Martin @danmartin7.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Just think of all the pedagogical innovations and research on best practices for teaching over the decades that have gotten zero support and funding for implementation, but AI has no proven pedagogical value and is literally sucking up all the funding available in higher ed. These are facts.

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Wil Flores, PhD @wilflores.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

My favorite thing about academic dramas (watching Rooster) is that you get to see the interim dean meet with the college president to talk about how they can support junior faculty on their way to getting tenure. That’s how you know it’s fiction 🙂

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Wil Flores, PhD @wilflores.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Writing in the loop. Encircled by fascist logics and fascist technologies. Stuck in the loop.

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Wil Flores, PhD @wilflores.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Flops use generative AI. Using GenAI is flop behavior.

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Wil Flores, PhD @wilflores.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I just remembered how, when my grad department brought in DEI consultants because Things Were Bad in the department, one of the consultants said they were "trying out they/them pronouns" and went to misgender a non-binary PhD student who actually uses they/them.

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Wil Flores, PhD @wilflores.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

This can't be the same brain that wrote an awards-wining dissertation in 3 months during the long COVID summer of 2021. 🫩

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Eric Ansley Díaz 🏳️‍🌈 @geekboyeric.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

RIP Bonnie Tyler. And RIP Tandi Iman Dupree. This remains the best stage entrance by a drag queen of all time, even some 25 years later, and the best use of Tyler’s “Holding Out for a Hero” ever. youtu.be/IHQA5vqn6rw?...

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Wil Flores, PhD @wilflores.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

God, teaching this online summer class after being on research leave feels great. I love working with students (even if we're online and asynchronous), and it's a nice break from wracking my brain and writing all day like I have been thus far. 🌞

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bijan (spooky version) @bijan.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

every job i see these days is like: LEAD CONTENT ANALYST, Puppy Killing Factory (remote). $350,000 - $500,000. You will edit our internal newsletter (circulation 500). Associate Editor, Nonprofits, Global Good Magazine (in office, NYC). $27,000 - $28,000. Lead ALL of our fundraising efforts!

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Wil Flores, PhD @wilflores.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Maybe, if I change my entire WFH desk set up, I can finish writing my book. Maybe, if I rearrange my entire apartment and get new furniture, I can finish my book. Maybe, if I reinvent my personal style and clean out my closet, I can...

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