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Kailyn Shartel Rogers @kshartel.bsky.social · 3d

Reposting as a reminder. Please share widely! Priority deadline is November 3rd. #teamrhetoric #techcomm

Kailyn Shartel Rogers @kshartel.bsky.social · 23d

Excited to announce that University of Tennessee at Martin is hiring a TT faculty member! Specialty is Prof/Tech Writing, and teaching first-year comp is also expected. bit.ly/UTM-PTW-AY26TT. Priority deadline is Nov 3rd. I'm Search Chair, so let me know if you have questions. #techcomm #rhetcomp

Assistant Professor of English

The Department of English and Modern Foreign Languages at University of Tennessee at Martin invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor with a specialization in composition and profess...

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Kailyn Shartel Rogers @kshartel.bsky.social · 7d

Mackinac.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 8d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

Kailyn Shartel Rogers @kshartel.bsky.social · 8d

Deborah Harkness's A Discovery of Witches series is lovely. And it got three seasons of a show starring Theresa Palmer and Matthew Goode.

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Kailyn Shartel Rogers @kshartel.bsky.social · 13d

Unfortunately looks like an AI image.

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Kailyn Shartel Rogers @kshartel.bsky.social · 13d

I typically use it to indicate I have received something (when read requests aren't on) but that an additional whole email saying I got the thing isn't necessary.

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Kailyn Shartel Rogers @kshartel.bsky.social · 23d

Excited to announce that University of Tennessee at Martin is hiring a TT faculty member! Specialty is Prof/Tech Writing, and teaching first-year comp is also expected. bit.ly/UTM-PTW-AY26TT. Priority deadline is Nov 3rd. I'm Search Chair, so let me know if you have questions. #techcomm #rhetcomp

Assistant Professor of English

The Department of English and Modern Foreign Languages at University of Tennessee at Martin invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor with a specialization in composition and profess...

bit.ly

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Kailyn Shartel Rogers @kshartel.bsky.social · 24d

To quote the glorious @lecagle.bsky.social: "The mountains are underwater and fascism is on the rise, so I recommend going ahead and getting that divorce you've been thinking about."

Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 24d

Sometimes you don't understand who didn't have your best interest at heart until years later and you strike up friendships where the people are excited to see you succeed and mention you in places cuz they aren't threatened and are not secretly competing.
It's a very clarifying moment.

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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · Sep 6

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.

OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

www.theatlantic.com

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Kailyn Shartel Rogers @kshartel.bsky.social · Sep 3

85! Saving up for big stuff.

Kailyn Shartel Rogers @kshartel.bsky.social · Aug 23

a man with a beard and glasses is standing in front of a podium and smiling .

Alt: Sam Reich (bearded man in a pinstriped suit) on a game show stage saying "I've been here the whole time."

media.tenor.com

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Kailyn Shartel Rogers @kshartel.bsky.social · Aug 8

www.youtube.com/live/hp4TEN3...

COLLEGE TOUR DEBUT: Party Animals vs Texas Tailgaters in LSU, Home of the NATIONAL CHAMPION TIGERS!

YouTube video by The Party Animals

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Kailyn Shartel Rogers @kshartel.bsky.social · Aug 2

Huge thanks to the editors for their support, and to my co-nerds @marisaey.bsky.social, Danielle, Adrianna, Jess, @argella.bsky.social, @sheltonweech.bsky.social, and @cbdilger.bsky.social!

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Kailyn Shartel Rogers @kshartel.bsky.social · Aug 2

Some nerds and I wrote about our experiences with mentorship for Rhetoric Review, and it's available now! "Recursive, horizontal, distributed, networked: Iterating transdisciplinary models of mentorship in the humanities" on pgs 18-27. doi.org/10.1080/0735...

Symposium on Intergenerational Graduate Mentorship

Published in Rhetoric Review (Ahead of Print, 2025)

doi.org

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Kailyn Shartel Rogers @kshartel.bsky.social · Jul 22

💜 Thank you for your kind reading. I revised and published the first section for Journal of Basic Writing, but then went off to get a PhD in the pandemic. 🫠 I'm now a WPA teaching BW again...so maybe it's time to try that study again with my student success colleagues and see what we get.

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Kailyn Shartel Rogers @kshartel.bsky.social · Jul 18

In light of the PBS related news and my own Muppet bias: Joan Ganz Cooney's page! en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Ga...

Joan Ganz Cooney - Wikipedia

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Patrick Garvin @patrickmgarvin.bsky.social · Jul 7

New week, same old tip on how you can remember to add alt text to the images you share!

Bluesky has a setting that will remind you to add alt text before posting any images.

Go to "Settings," then "Accessibility." Select the checkbox for "Require alt text before posting."

#A11y #Accessibility

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Kailyn Shartel Rogers @kshartel.bsky.social · Jul 3

We have rodeo AND equestrian teams here. Temperature drops below 60F and it's Carhartts as far as the eye can see. Having 4-H flashbacks daily.

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Kailyn Shartel Rogers @kshartel.bsky.social · Jul 3

Keeping with the spirit, gotta listen to the frog: www.youtube.com/live/eRqPxpt...

Kermit the Frog delivers commencement speech to University of Maryland graduates

YouTube video by ABC News

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · Jul 2

A teacher with serious classroom needs and students suffering complex trauma asked for my help funding things for her classroom. I am sending things. As much as I hate Amaz&n, I will post a teacher's need list. On a dark day, a little way to help:

www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

Check out my list on Amazon

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Kailyn Shartel Rogers @kshartel.bsky.social · Jul 3

Goodies on the way from one Muppet/Star Wars loving teacher to another.

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Kailyn Shartel Rogers @kshartel.bsky.social · Jul 3

My instinct would be to look to writing centers research and research on conferencing with students. I don't know any specific studies offhand, but those spaces are most likely to have it, I think.

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Kailyn Shartel Rogers @kshartel.bsky.social · Jul 2

There's a ton of academic work written on it as a result , including some dissertations: scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=e...

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Kailyn Shartel Rogers @kshartel.bsky.social · Jul 2

My PhD is in Rhetoric & Composition, and in my field there's an entire niche of folks who study this: handcraftedrhetorics.org

There's are usually folks talking about fiber arts at SWPACA too: southwestpca.org

Handcrafted Rhetorics

DIY and the Public Power of Made Things

handcraftedrhetorics.org

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Kailyn Shartel Rogers @kshartel.bsky.social · Jul 2

Two personal insights: 1. I crochet instead of knit because my hands/brain can't make sense of two needles. Taught myself crochet via YouTube videos. 2. Tom Daley (UK swimmer) made knitting visible during the Olympics and went viral for things he knitted while in the stands. Uptick there.

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Kailyn Shartel Rogers @kshartel.bsky.social · Jul 2

I'm in the humanities (BA Classics, MA and PhD in English) and every department I have been part of has had faculty married to another faculty member within the same dept. Getting a spousal hire is colloquially "winning the lottery." Small sample obvs, but would be curious to see how that impacts.

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