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John Gallagher @johnrgallagher.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Free preview of AI Through the Experts’ Eyes! (introduction) upittpress.org/wp-content/u...

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Ian Linkletter @linkletter.org · 19/08/2026

“We have decided not to renew our contract beyond the end of the 2026-27 academic year and will begin phasing out the use of [Turnitin] immediately." Link (must be logged in with free account): www.timeshighereducation.com/news/southam...

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Southampton dumps Turnitin over use of students’ work to train AI

Academic integrity giant denies accusations as university declines to renew contract in favour of ‘other options’

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Alexis Coe @alexiscoe.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I wish doctors prescribed a month in the archives as a cure for certainty.

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John Gallagher @johnrgallagher.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

my friends, we might even call it template rhetoric. I wrote about it in my book, Update Culture. Chapter 1 is titled template rhetoric. And in the last chapter, I ask, “In what ways are machines becoming audiences for our writing?” Full book as a PDF below! www.researchgate.net/profile/John...

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JB Smiley Jr. @jbsmileyjr.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Here’s a snippet from my official statement regarding the data center moratorium I am sponsoring: “When discussions about expansion occur without notifying elected officials or the communities we represent, it becomes difficult for us to effectively serve as the voice of the people.”

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Will Duffy @willduff901.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

“You get the hammer” -A real professor talking about his students who violate his AI policy

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Anything that disrupts the transactional mindset around education is an experiment worth doing. I'm indifferent as to whether or not this will help student mental health. I acknowledge that grades creature pressure, but I'm more interested in the way they interfere with learning.

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AAUP Alabama @alabamaaaup.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Please fill out this survey and share your experience as a faculty member in the South.

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David Dark @daviddark.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Like a magic ring, it draws an energy out of people, amplifying our capacity for the demonic as well as the prophetic insofar as it serves the ends of public dramatization, escalating and heating things (or our perception of things) up. daviddark.substack.com/p/nobodys-an...

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Nobody's An Authority In Someone Else's Experience.

I have a number of people to thank for the above image.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Sure, two seconds of user research would have told you this was a stupid idea, but it was much more fun to do it the slow and expensive way that makes everyone hate you

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Microsoft starts removing Copilot buttons from Windows 11 apps

The underlying AI features are here to stay, though

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Will Duffy @willduff901.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

My linguist colleague just referred to pollen as “allergy squigglies” and I approve.

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

That response is really interesting to me because by mindset I'm immune or even hostile to a productivity mindset, but I think so much of our culture treats productivity as a virtue in and of itself, so having the AI agent do it just feels good to them, so why stop?

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Will Duffy @willduff901.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

I can confirm that this collection is spectacular. Congrats to @emilyskaja.bsky.social.

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Joshua Barsczewski @joshuabarsczewski.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

I'm on a podcast! And @timothyoleksiak.bsky.social too! Come listen to us promote Adequate: Rewriting the Logics of Success in Rhetoric and Composition. We're a fucking delight, if I do say so myself.

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Will Duffy @willduff901.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Excuse me while I ignore education hot takes from ivy league insiders.

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Data Workers’ Inquiry @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

🚨NEW INQUIRY! - Behind the Face of AI🚨 In this short comic, two data workers describe their work impersonating an “AI” chatbot for a major social media platform. Sleepless nights, penalties for sounding “too human,” and emotional drain are just a few of the job hazards. ➡️ data-workers.org/france

Illustrated cover image titled “Behind the Face of AI,” showing a split face: one half is a tired human with a worried expression, the other half is a glowing robot face. The contrast suggests a human hidden behind an artificial intelligence persona, set against a blue comic-style background.

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John Gallagher @johnrgallagher.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

The one thing I’ll say that AI has done: made a lot of people demonstrate their definitions of learning, most of which are wrong or not backed up by empirical evidence.

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

As promised earlier my Q&A with @mattseybold.bsky.social on technofeudalism and how edtech has steadily been eroding our freedoms and capturing the value of our labor (and student work) for themselves. academicfreedomontheline.substack.com/p/the-techno...

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The Technology That's Taking Your Freedom

It's more than AI. A Q&A with Matt Seybold.

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Will Duffy @willduff901.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Apropos of ~everything~, I highly recommend this edited volume: From a Whisper to a Movement” Like chapter 3: “Shooting Bullets and Frames per Second: Recording the Police as Whistleblowing” sunypress.edu/Books/F/From...

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From a Whisper to a Movement

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Joshua Barsczewski @joshuabarsczewski.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Print copies of Adequate: Rewriting the Logics of Success in Rhetoric and Composition, edited by @timothyoleksiak.bsky.social and me, came in the mail today! Thanks to @upcolorado.bsky.social for publishing it!

Front Cover of the book Adequate: Rewriting the Logics of Success in Rhetoric and Composition, edited by Timothy Oleksiak and Joshua Barsczewski. Cover art by Nafís White. Piece is entitled Oculus (Black, Brown, Navy, Teal) and consists of braided hair woven into a pattern.

Back cover text: Barsczewski and Oleksiak collect chapters that tell stories, build theories, and make cases for what a healthy academic life looks like. Acknowledging that the academy will always take as much as you give, this collection gives readers material for imagining their own "adequacy" barometers. This is essential reading for graduate students and early career faculty as they seek to build sustainable careers.”
—Holly Hassel, Michigan Technological University

“These excellent contributions illuminate how, for so many of us, the dream of a dignified, well-remunerated academic position is just out of reach. Instead, our working lives are mostly shaped by austerity, contingency, overwork, and underpayment. Adequate dares to name these conditions, calling attention to the innumerable falsehoods and broken promises of the neoliberal university, and articulates a powerful new vision of academic labor.”
—James Rushing Daniel, Seton Hall University

Adequate: Rewriting the Logics of Success in Rhetoric and Composition proposes a fresh approach to teaching rhetoric and composition—a field awash with unrealistic labor expectations and untenable and often unattainable requirements for both the educator and the educated—that takes “success” and “failure” out of the equation and advocates for the concept of adequacy over that of perfection.

Adequate reimagines what the concept of adequacy holds for the future of academic work. An invaluable resource for scholars, graduate students, and advanced undergraduate students in the rhetoric and composition field, this volume covers the realities of teaching rhetoric and composition in the modern college environment, as well as potential paths forward for educators in need of a better work-life balance.

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Dustin Edwards @dustinedwards.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

New publication out: "Weathering the Rhetorical Climates of AI." I'm really excited that it's open access! publicationsncte.org/content/jour...

Screenshot with text of an abstract. "In a relatively short time, market and political forces have intensified the reach of artificial intelligence (AI). AI has become, in a word, climatic—not only a discrete technological system but also a creeping assemblage of ideological, material, and political forces. This article tracks these forces by developing rhetorical climates of AI as a conceptual framework. In doing so, I aim to (1) link the harms of climate change with the rapid buildout of AI infrastructure and (2) shift the frame of the conversation by emphasizing the extractive, exploitative, enclosed, and knotted supremacist conditions that have been prerequisites for building AI systems at scale. While these pervading rhetorical climates may seem unchangeable, I track how microclimates of resistance have developed, in the past and in the present. In particular, I emphasize the importance of bodily intelligence in navigating asymmetrical conditions of power felt in the AI industry. The article concludes by discussing how rhetoric and writing studies can weather the unfolding rhetorical climates of AI by diagnosing conditions, seizing moments, and plotting futures to imagine a less extractive and less harmful world."

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Will Duffy @willduff901.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

@paulscheer.com ‘s legs and my PhD diploma. To me this is like a background pic version of getting one of the hosts of Wait Wait to record a voicemail greeting. Also, no context makes this funnier.

Paul Scheer’s legs next to a coffee table with my diploma on it next to various computer parts

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Will Duffy @willduff901.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Best take I’ve read on Nuzzigate is from @biblioracle.bsky.social : “Pardon me for saying the obvious, but for a book to sell, it must please readers in some tangible way that induces those readers to tell others that this is a book they should read”

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Will Duffy @willduff901.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Sharing because this is the first and no doubt last time I will be acknowledged in the same sentence BEFORE Hans Zimmer, Maya Angelou, and Rick Rubin. 🤣🥸

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Will Duffy @willduff901.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

SCENE: @awscloud.bsky.social : remember that battery you bought 2+ years ago? Yeah, the company issued a recall. Go to this email address they gave us to find out what to do. 2 MINUTES LATER: (Cut to image of undeliverable message because the email address doesn’t exist)

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Will Duffy @willduff901.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Random #teaching and #highered hot take: Everyone who complains about how college students don’t, can’t, refuse, etc. to “read” don’t understand students as end users.

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Seth Kahn (he/him) @badpacifist.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

I don't wish I lived in Tennessee, but I'd be honored to vote for him. He's a badass.

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Will Duffy @willduff901.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

#teamrhetoric here’s an OA choose-your-own-adventure style introduction to rhetoric. wac.colostate.edu/docs/books/w...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

CENSORED: “They refused to run my column this week. Too critical of Trump, they said.” Writer Dan Conway left The Daily Memphian after editors rejected his column for criticizing Trump’s unconstitutional military incursions into US cities. Read the censored column: www.facebook.com/share/p/16uP...

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

As a birthday bonus, here’s one more audiogram for Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 Ep 63 www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/epis... w/ @alexhanna.bsky.social production by Ozzy Llinas Goodman

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

When faculty are silenced it's not just about what those individuals. The community is also degraded. A new project is documenting these injustices. academicfreedomontheline.substack.com/p/a-new-proj...

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A New Project Exploring Attacks on Academic Freedom

Faculty on the Front Lines: AAUP Members Share Stories of Repression and Resistance

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NEH Union - AFGE L3403 @nehafge3403.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

What if we got this kind of Big Energy for the National Endowment for the Humanities so that all the fired staff, terminated grants, and cancelled programs were reinstated? Hmm hmm? #NEH

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Donald Trump is way less popular than he wants you to believe. And you are significantly more powerful than he wants you to think.

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Will Duffy @willduff901.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Everyone in the room is shouting and arguing, “Can anyone help us make sense of how this works. I thought language was easy?” Humanist in the room:“Better not get involved. But I’ll express my displeasure”

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

*freeze frame* *curb your enthusiasm music plays*

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Marie Pruitt @mariepruitt.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

The DRC Writing with Data Syllabus Repository is LIVE: www.digitalrhetoriccollaborative.org/syllabus/wri... Check out and share this incredible collection of teaching materials on writing with data in composition, digital rhetoric, and technical and professional communication classes!

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Syllabus Category: Writing with Data

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John Gallagher @johnrgallagher.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

I'm proud to share my newest study, completely open-access. "When collaborating turns into dishonesty: A data-driven heuristic comparing human and AI collaborators"

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Blessings to Michael Roth going to the HxA conference and telling it like it is to their faces. These people seem happy to let higher ed be destroyed provided they get to be in charge of the ashes. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

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Scholars Lambaste Higher Ed While Trump Upends It

This year’s Heterodox Academy conference—the first since Republicans retook the White House—featured similar complaints about academe as in years past. But the federal government’s sweeping interventi...

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Alex Boyd @alexboyd.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Still playing with this but I've been trying to write about an emerging peddler of false claims on Canadian X but they produce SO much stuff. This allows me to dump in screenshots of the feed. Are the results gospel? No. But it points me at more reading way faster than I'd do on my own.

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Will Duffy @willduff901.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

I’m offended no one engaged with this.

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John Gallagher @johnrgallagher.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

🚨 Calling all writing tutors & instructors! 🚨 We're studying non-directive AI writing feedback—no text suggestions, just thoughtful guidance. Help shape the future of ethical AI tools! 🧠💬 📝 Try it out 🧾 Take a short survey 🎁 Raffle to win $20 Join here 👉 tinyurl.com/writor-system

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Writor Feedback Survey

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

MEMPHIS VS. MUSK — Rep. @justinjpearson.bsky.social: “We deserve clean air. That’s not radical. It shouldn’t be political.”

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Michelle Chen @michellechn.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

At the #aupresses25 panel on Advancing #HBCU Scholarship and hearing a lot about scholars' need for $ support for indexing, etc. Seems a good time to remind folks that @upcolorado.bsky.social has MMU Mini Grants to help with just that. Obvs we'd hope you publish with us, but it's not a requirement!

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University Press of Colorado MMU Scholar Mini-Grants

Thank you for working with the University Press of Colorado on your manuscript! We hope that these mini-grants for multiply marginalized and/or underserved (MMU) scholars will support our authors and ...

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Will Duffy @willduff901.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

I swear I will never watch a TV show or any form of media for that matter about golf.

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Ted Cruz called the FBI on me @weareronin.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

San Diego neighborhood makes ICE agents retreat

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Doc_Charles @tampaguy15.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

I read David Joy's Those We Thought We Knew a year ago and was moved. The author's recent appeal on Instagram has reinforced the impression. It is prescient and timely, taken during an era when we are told to ignore the truth and turn from history. It hits! Read it soon. @davidjoy.bsky.social

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Will Duffy @willduff901.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Last cup of coffee before a 30 hour trip to Nepal to talk #AI literacy and #teamrhetoric at #Pokhara University and #Tribhuvan University.

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