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Doug Eyman @kairosdoug.bsky.social · 1d

Really appreciate the transparency and explanations. Currently trying to figure out how to get Anubis running on our servers, as Kairos is basically getting DDOS'd by AI bots scraping our content. Alas, we don't have the resources to go to Cloudflare.

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Cheryl E. Ball @cherylball.bsky.social · 29d

It's Peer Review Week, so what better time than to get on my soapbox about OPEN peer review?? @kairosdoug.bsky.social and I have a series of posts, with the first one out today—a brief introduction to open peer review models: digital-scholarship.ghost.io/open-peer-re...

Open Peer Review Models

Today's Peer Review Week post is a brief introduction to open peer review, the value it holds for academia, and a call to participate in a survey about humanities journal peer review.

digital-scholarship.ghost.io

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Cheryl E. Ball @cherylball.bsky.social · 28d

Another fun post by @kairosdoug.bsky.social and I on #openpeerreview for #peerreviewweek digital-scholarship.ghost.io/peer-review-...

Peer Review Models: Crowdsourced Open Review

Crowdsourced peer review takes many forms—as pre-print review, modified open review, crowdsourced review, and post-publication review. This post defines and details some examples from each model.

digital-scholarship.ghost.io

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · Sep 15

"Students like the LLM feedback because it helps them get done faster." Not always a good thing! One of my most effective teaching moves was to withhold evaluation and substitute inquiry by asking students questions in response to their questions. Learning isn't always efficient.

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Mike Duncan @theophrastean.bsky.social · Sep 14

Vol. 3, Issue 2 of TCSJ is now live.

This has been a horrible week for higher education, so I’m glad to have something positive to share.

techcommsocialjustice.org/index.php/tcsj

Technical Communication and Social Justice

techcommsocialjustice.org

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · Sep 11

I posted my script, my slides, and photos of — along with a full bibliography of — all the library materials we featured in the event!!

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Salvo @salvo7.bsky.social · Aug 4

New book; free download!

Artificial Infrastructures investigates how AI reshapes technical & professional writing across high-technology industries.

Salvo & Sherrill interview 3 experts to historicize, analyze, and contextualize the emergent disruptive technology

wac.colostate.edu/books/practi...

Cover of the book Artificial Infrastructures by Salvo & Sherrill. Writing & Artificial Intelligence, literacy & technology: Artificial Infrastructures investigates how generative AI is reshaping the work of technical and professional writing across high-technology industries.

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Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · Jul 25

My article "The Separation of Analog and Digital Game Studies" has now been published as part of this mammoth 781-page edited volume Historiographies of Game Studies.

Congrats to the editors and fellow authors for getting this into the world!

punctumbooks.com/titles/histo...

Historiographies of Game Studies: What It Has Been, What It Could Be – punctum books

punctumbooks.com

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Doug Eyman @kairosdoug.bsky.social · Jul 20

It’s a lotus bloom kind of day here.

A pink lotus in the foreground, surrounded by large green leaves; more lotus flowers in the background.

A field of lotus flowers, stretching to the horizon, a stand of pine trees in the distance.

A single white lotus flower, surrounded by large green leaves.

4 pink lotus flowers in full bloom, 7 closed up buds (not yet blooming), 3 post-bloom stems. All scattered amongst large green lotus leaves.

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Doug Eyman @kairosdoug.bsky.social · Jul 19

Sneak it/sneak out - pretty much equivalent.

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Doug Eyman @kairosdoug.bsky.social · Jul 19

It took almost a decade but I have finally managed to sneak it and pay for a meal with friends in China (also was one of the best meals I’ve had here, and that’s saying something indeed.)

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Amy Earhart @aearhart.bsky.social · Jun 25

I’m so excited that my book is now out in the world. It pulls together my scholarly training in African American literature with my turn to digital humanities. I’ve also published the complete data dataset of 100 years of AFAM and am lit anthologies that is the backbone of the book.

Stanford University Press @stanfordpress.bsky.social · Jun 25

In Digital Literary Redlining, @aearhart.bsky.social‬
examines how technological and institutional infrastructures construct and deconstruct race, ethnicity and gender identities.

#ReadUP

www.sup.org/books/li...

Book cover of Digital Literary Redlining: African American Anthologies, Digital Humanities, and the Canon by Amy E. Earhart

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Doug Eyman @kairosdoug.bsky.social · Jun 21

Apropos of nothing in particular, I am currently at a wine and potato chip pairing/tasting.

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Doug Eyman @kairosdoug.bsky.social · Jun 14

Appreciate the live-skeeting! Hope others will join so we can follow along!

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constellations journal @constellationsjrnl.bsky.social · Jun 12

📣We have a new #bookreview for you! Check out this review by Tommie Leigh Mcphetridge to see how #videogames, #walking, and #storytelling come together in Wandering Games!

🔗https://constell8cr.com/issue-8/walking-toward-meaning-a-review-of-melissa-kagens-wandering-games/

#TeamRhetoric #RhetComp

A colorful postcard advertising a new book review. The title and author of the review are listed, along with a quote: Walking Toward Meaning: A Review of Melissa Kagen’s Wandering Games By Tommie Leigh McPhetridge. “Wandering Games would be particularly useful for those trying to understand how video games can act as vessels of critical discourses and often engage in theoretical understandings of the world, both fictional and real.” The book cover is featured, with the title in black letters over a photo of mountains.

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Marie Pruitt @mariepruitt.bsky.social · Jun 9

DRC Blog Carnival 23: Digital Circulation in Rhetoric and Writing Studies has begun!

The inaugural post, "The Circulation of Rhetoric from Stall Walls to Social Feeds: Notes from the Analog Underground" is from Jonathan Marine.

www.digitalrhetoriccollaborative.org/2025/06/09/t...

The Circulation of Rhetoric from Stall Walls to Social Feeds: Notes from the Analog Underground

There is something profoundly democratic about a bathroom stall. No velvet rope, no blue check, no institutional imprimatur—not even a username. Just a flat surface, a stylus, and the uncorked bile of...

www.digitalrhetoriccollaborative.org

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Dan Libertz @dlib24.bsky.social · May 27

#TeamRhetoric ! New publication: In "A Data Feminist Pedagogy for Composing the Rhetorical Life of Statistics," I theorize and report on teaching quantitative writing for public audiences in contexts of activism/advocacy: compositionforum.com/issue/55/dat...

A Data Feminist Pedagogy for Composing the Rhetorical Life of Statistics – Composition Forum

compositionforum.com

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · May 27

Back in 2021, at the Computer Mouse conference, I shared a talk about the 🐭MOUSE PAD🏡 — from animated mouse houses in Beatrix Potter, to the lab mouse's grim quarters, to those neoprene placemats on which our digital appendages sit. I never shared this rsch beyond that event, so I posted it here:

Murine Neoprene: On the Computer Mouse Pad

Words in Space is the work of Shannon Mattern.

wordsinspace.net

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Doug Eyman @kairosdoug.bsky.social · May 27

This post inspired in part by this story about AI-genenerated inefficiencies (maybe the one activity genAI is *good* at): bsky.app/profile/apud...

Annalisa Nicholson @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social · May 27

Academia in 2025: For weeks I’ve been working through botched copy-edits of my monograph, outsourced by the publisher to a company I’d never heard of, until it finally dawned on me the terrible job might be AI. A quick search confirmed the company recently launched new AI software, which now means..

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Doug Eyman @kairosdoug.bsky.social · May 27

At Kairos, we have a 7-stage copyediting process, and not one of those stages would benefit from using AI instead of trained copyeditors. As I've been teaching editing courses & brining in AI-as-editor examples and exercises, it's clear that even the best gen AI apps are detrimental to the process.

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · May 26

Enjoyable, light-hearted video with Bhangra music

Dance Your PhD 2025: "Plant Vaccination“ by Priya Reddy. Winner of the ‘Biology’ category.

Dance Your PhD 2025 [winner of the ‘Biology’ category]: „Plant Vaccination“ by Priya Reddy

YouTube video by Universität Jena

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Doug Eyman @kairosdoug.bsky.social · May 17

#cwcon25 Session F-
Ashley Beardsley shows us how Junior League cookbooks operate as memory texts
Jason Palmer is working to craft a definition of ‘AI Rhetoric’ (different from rhetoric of AI or rhetoric with AI)
Antonio Hamilton considers the role of invention for genAI composing.

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Doug Eyman @kairosdoug.bsky.social · May 17

#cwcon25 morning keynote from MSU alum Jen Sano-Franchini, talking about AI, data centers, and critical interface analysis. Will be talking about refusal.blog which is a great resource for folks who take a critical stance toward genAI.

Refusing Generative AI in Writing Studies

Visit the post for more.

refusal.blog

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Doug Eyman @kairosdoug.bsky.social · May 17

Thanks! I’ll likely start with the first season and watch through

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