I just finished a three-year term as an editor at an international relations journal. I began at the start of the LLM era but ended right in the middle of it. Our volume of submissions tripled and our desk reject rate rose to 75%. I have some thoughts.
open.substack.com/pub/hegemon/...
open.substack.com/pub/hegemon/...
The Age of Academic Slop is Upon Us
what happens when AI automates "normal science"?
open.substack.com
January 26, 2026 at 5:57 AM
As the unofficial #TeamRhetoric ambassador I give you permission to do literally anything else other than watch the SOTU.
February 24, 2026 at 2:03 AM
As the unofficial #TeamRhetoric ambassador I give you permission to do literally anything else other than watch the SOTU.
Did I do this right? Starter pack for folks in rhetoric & writing studies.
#writingstudies #teamrhetoric #genrestudies
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#writingstudies #teamrhetoric #genrestudies
go.bsky.app/SCyxbJN
October 20, 2024 at 12:56 AM
Did I do this right? Starter pack for folks in rhetoric & writing studies.
#writingstudies #teamrhetoric #genrestudies
go.bsky.app/SCyxbJN
#writingstudies #teamrhetoric #genrestudies
go.bsky.app/SCyxbJN
Is it unprofessional to say “HELL YEAH”? Probably, but whatever.
#4C25 #go #teamrhetoric #bannedbooks
#4C25 #go #teamrhetoric #bannedbooks
April 12, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Is it unprofessional to say “HELL YEAH”? Probably, but whatever.
#4C25 #go #teamrhetoric #bannedbooks
#4C25 #go #teamrhetoric #bannedbooks
“History shows us that the right to literacy came at a heavy cost…those oppressed recognized that literacy is liberation. To my students & to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write & think when others once risked their lives & died for the freedom to do so”
I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking.
"Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."
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November 22, 2025 at 4:43 AM
I find it very embarrassing for our field that we've been having to repeat this about "AI" and writing instruction since I was one-year old
(from an article by Fred Kemp in a 1987 issue of Writing Center Journal)
(from an article by Fred Kemp in a 1987 issue of Writing Center Journal)
July 1, 2026 at 7:32 PM
May 21, 2025 at 7:48 PM
This is for folks who lead civic organizations or campus things: want to join the Aggie Lyceum in doing a NIFI 1776, What Should We Do Civic Conversation in your community? We're doing ours on July 2 (the day the Continental Congress debated revolution): nifi.org/nifi-issue-g...
1776: What Should We Do? | National Issues Forums
Historic Decisions Issue Guides
nifi.org
April 22, 2026 at 8:01 PM
WAIT WE CAN HASHTAG NOW #teamrhetoric
March 5, 2024 at 10:46 PM
WAIT WE CAN HASHTAG NOW #teamrhetoric
I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇
June 11, 2026 at 1:16 AM
The University Press of Colorado / Utah State University Press wholeheartedly supports #CCCC and our #writingstudies and #teamrhetoric scholars in their endeavor to maintain this important association for the field.
From Kathleen Blake Yancey with clearest info about possible actions: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
July 23, 2026 at 4:25 PM
The University Press of Colorado / Utah State University Press wholeheartedly supports #CCCC and our #writingstudies and #teamrhetoric scholars in their endeavor to maintain this important association for the field.
Excellent speech. One for #teamrhetoric
Donald Trump is attacking me because he is desperate to distract from his war on working people. We must and we will fight back.
July 2, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Excellent speech. One for #teamrhetoric
#TeamRhetoric
Vy is one of our own. Please boost this message. Any ideas on how to pressure Aetna?
Vy is one of our own. Please boost this message. Any ideas on how to pressure Aetna?
How can I tag Aetna health insurance company with this horrifying story of how they are denying my friend a surgery she needs to literally save her life? tinyurl.com/2k3w6ubw
Aetna Denies Life-Saving, Physician-Recommended Surgery, Surprising Exactly No One
A few weeks ago, I shared that, after an exhausting 3 years of searching for a diagnosis during which my quality of life and capacities rapidly deteriorated, I was finally diagnosed with bilateral int...
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September 30, 2026 at 4:44 PM
#TeamRhetoric
Vy is one of our own. Please boost this message. Any ideas on how to pressure Aetna?
Vy is one of our own. Please boost this message. Any ideas on how to pressure Aetna?
January 1, 2026 at 3:19 PM
I took a couple rhetoric classes and one “stylistic” class as an undergrad literature major, and a couple propaganda and critical theory classes as a grad student. They’ve been so useful in my life *as a citizen*.
February 24, 2025 at 1:43 PM
New essay by my colleague Jill Walshaw posted to the CHA teaching blog. What she learned about AI in the classroom from teaching her History of Money course cha-shc.ca/teachers-lea... @cndhistassoc.bsky.social #skystorians 🗃️
Is the Research Essay Dead? What My History of Money Course Taught Me About AI in the Classroom | Canadian Historical Association | Société historique du Canada
Historians are familiar with revolutionary change. Investigating pivotal moments in the past is central to what we do. The Print Revolution accelerated the spread of information, facilitating social a...
cha-shc.ca
April 7, 2026 at 3:58 PM
So, @elsevierconnect.bsky.social added an AI question and answer to my article in Computer & Education.
The answers are wrong!
They did not ask permission!
The answers are WRONG!
How is this science?!
The answers are wrong!
They did not ask permission!
The answers are WRONG!
How is this science?!
April 2, 2025 at 2:24 PM
what does ‘misbehaviour’ sound like? in new open access work i ask this question in the context of school discipline policies, looking at how ideologies of ‘im/proper language’ and ‘im/proper behaviour’ coalesce and get co-constructed with one another. doi.org/10.1080/0962...
March 20, 2025 at 7:13 PM
The American academy, as it exists, depends on being recognized as a beacon of scholarship (manifested by citations, English as lingua Franca, desirability of degrees, etc) by the rest of the world. It is at immanent risk of losing that.
July 14, 2026 at 2:51 AM
Hello #TeamRhetoric, the CCCC Queer Caucus is now on Blue Sky!
December 14, 2024 at 9:05 PM
Hello #TeamRhetoric, the CCCC Queer Caucus is now on Blue Sky!
May 17, 2026 at 4:22 PM
"We suggest that the scientific community needs to think carefully about where we find worth in what we do. LLMs are eroding that space."
#writingstudies #cdnwrds #teamrhetoric #genai+writing
#writingstudies #cdnwrds #teamrhetoric #genai+writing
January 27, 2026 at 4:58 AM
"We suggest that the scientific community needs to think carefully about where we find worth in what we do. LLMs are eroding that space."
#writingstudies #cdnwrds #teamrhetoric #genai+writing
#writingstudies #cdnwrds #teamrhetoric #genai+writing
More goodness coming out of "Rhetoric + Digitality"!
#TeamRhetoric 😮💨🔥
#TeamRhetoric 😮💨🔥
Maybe today is a good day to say my book is up on the UAP website: www.uapress.ua.edu/978081736219...
Enduring Digital Damage
Examines digitality’s connection to land, water, and landscapes, and its implication in conditions of environmental harm.
www.uapress.ua.edu
January 14, 2025 at 5:13 PM
More goodness coming out of "Rhetoric + Digitality"!
#TeamRhetoric 😮💨🔥
#TeamRhetoric 😮💨🔥
Excellent mail day featuring @jeremydavidjohnson.com’s highly anticipated Algorithmic Worldmaking, part of Alabama’s new “Rhetoric + Digitality” series. 🥳
#TeamRhetoric
#TeamRhetoric
February 11, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Excellent mail day featuring @jeremydavidjohnson.com’s highly anticipated Algorithmic Worldmaking, part of Alabama’s new “Rhetoric + Digitality” series. 🥳
#TeamRhetoric
#TeamRhetoric
#BeyondTheColdWar Presidential Rhetoric in Central and Eastern Europe
#teamrhetoric #CEE #CentralEasternEurope
#teamrhetoric #CEE #CentralEasternEurope
November 9, 2024 at 11:35 PM
#BeyondTheColdWar Presidential Rhetoric in Central and Eastern Europe
#teamrhetoric #CEE #CentralEasternEurope
#teamrhetoric #CEE #CentralEasternEurope