Rhetoric and Afraid

Iconique—and exasperated—PhD student in rhetoric. Moshing is participatory culture. #PhDPotatoPlz. Any pronouns.

[Rhetoric and Afraid @RhetoricNAfraid]

Conferences not specifying their modality in the CFP is why academics can't have nice things

[The Modest Teacher @ModestTeacher]

Teachers, if you jump on your cellphone as soon as kids begin independent work time, you’re part of the problem.

[Rhetoric and Afraid @RhetoricNAfraid]

BRB, asking ChatGPT what citation style my student was trying to use

[Rhetoric and Afraid @RhetoricNAfraid]

My desire to use a grading contract bc numerical grades are fake is entirely at odds with how satisfying I find creating a backup (read: better) gradebook w/ formulas in excel

[Rhetoric and Afraid @RhetoricNAfraid]

Having a diss title but not a diss committee is probably the most on-brand thing I will do during my entire PhD

[sarah madoka currie / クリ窓花 @kawaiilovesarah]

Jessica Berchtold rounds out the panel with an ASD-specific reading of university spaces, which those of you in cds gang know is very popular right now! she is well-timed here with her subject & approach. #DisabilityTwitter #ATTW2023

[Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock]

The real 'divide' isn't between AI 'Safety' & AI 'Ethics'. It's between 'risk' & 'harm.'

Risk mitigation is a firm-focused corporate/technical/anti-litigation strategy.

Harm reduction is people-focused, based on acknowledging, investigating, mitigating, ending, repairing harm.

[Rhetoric and Afraid @RhetoricNAfraid]

Can't imagine having the kind of brain that would allow me to administer a course where deadlines are not consistent across assignments

[Rhetoric and Afraid @RhetoricNAfraid]

Did people who don't know that screen sharing shows *everything* on your screen just not do anything at all from 2020 to now or what?

[Rhetoric and Afraid @RhetoricNAfraid]

Currently working on my conference presentation by having PowerPoint minimized while I scroll on Twitter

[Rhetoric and Afraid @RhetoricNAfraid]

Most people: nice, time for some R&R after I got a big project done!
Academics: *sweating profusely*

[Rhetoric and Afraid @RhetoricNAfraid]

You could argue I grade too easy, and you'd be correct, but who cares

[Rhetoric and Afraid @RhetoricNAfraid]

Wanted to be one of the cool instructors who has an interactive syllabus...ok, nope, the LMS doesn't like that. Fine, cool, I'll make a syllabus quiz for students to retake until they get a 100%. Wrote questions and built into gradebook. Nope, the LMS doesn't like that either.

[Rhetoric and Afraid @RhetoricNAfraid]

When grading feels overwhelming and burn out from the end of a semester is threatening, seeing the quirky things students title their assignments is truly what motivates me to continue /hj

[Rhetoric and Afraid @RhetoricNAfraid]

Changing my name and birth month so I can write "Gender and Gender as Coded Queerness"

[Nancy Carranza, PhD @NancyHCarranza]

“‘You’re Welcome to Come Over’: The Legibility of Identity as Performance”

Yeah, sounds about right 😂

#humanitiesPhD
@PhDVoice @PhDForum @AcademicChatter

[Rhetoric and Afraid @RhetoricNAfraid]

You can really ask students to write text that would go on a website (not the actual website, just the text!) and they suddenly have never visited any website ever

[Rhetoric and Afraid @RhetoricNAfraid]

After 8 years in college, I've mostly figured out when to call profs their first name, last name, and when to use Dr, but I still haven't for the life of me figured out what to call them to *other professors.*
It feels like that changes the rules, somehow.

[Rhetoric and Afraid @RhetoricNAfraid]

Can't imagine organizing a conference, talking about inclusivity, and not having hybrid/online options