Ben Wetherbee ⚓❄🐝

❄ English prof & WPA, @NorthernMichU
❄ rhetorical theory & history, writing, film
❄ review ed., @enculturation
❄ aspiring Yooper
❄ union thug
❄ he/him

[Ben Wetherbee ⚓❄🐝 @wetherbeephd]

My article "Epideictic Priming amid COVID-19: Metonymy under the Microscope" -- which looks at the abstraction of disease through microbiological imagery -- is in this special issue.

Jazzed to read the whole thing.

[American Society for the History of Rhetoric @ASHRhetoric]

🎉🎉🎉The special issue "Rhetoric in Motu" for the Journal of the History of Rhetoric is out online today! Check out the fantastic work from our contributors via the link below. What are you looking forward to reading?

https://t.co/bkokxfCfFy

#TeamRhetoric

[Jake @313Hockey]

I reached out to Michigan Senate candidates Abdul El-Sayed and Mike Rogers for their thoughts on the Detroit Red Wings.

Here's what they had to say:

https://t.co/6GITK2Fudo

[Ben Wetherbee ⚓❄🐝 @wetherbeephd]

@paulacweston I'm afraid that every time the Red Wings play at the same time as any other team, they lose.

[Ben Wetherbee ⚓❄🐝 @wetherbeephd]

@paulacweston Patriarchy yields uneven standards that mostly (but not always) benefit men. E.g., women in power = "too emotional," despite certain men starting wars when they're feelings get hurt.

IDK. Specific examples might help.

[Ben Wetherbee ⚓❄🐝 @wetherbeephd]

@dowellml This is my new favorite Confucian aphorism.

[Ben Wetherbee ⚓❄🐝 @wetherbeephd]

@dowellml Sorry, I didn't hear you ... was just admiring the view

[O’Shea Jackson Jr @OsheaJacksonJr]

I saw it. Now you have to see it. His name is Samuel. And he…is a king.

[Ben Wetherbee ⚓❄🐝 @wetherbeephd]

@dowellml If you're going to be mad about something anyway, might as well get a CV line out of it.

- Friedrich Engles, probably

[Ben Wetherbee ⚓❄🐝 @wetherbeephd]

@paulacweston I have the Badgers in the final on my bracket. They're feisty!

[Matt Dowell @dowellml]

A rude thing to say perhaps sitting here on sabbatical, but if teaching is one of the things in life that really satisfies a cognitive-social-emotional-collaborative need in life and you’ve done it for 39 straight semesters, there’s a real absence when not doing it.

[ArtButMakeItSports @ArtButSports]

Suprematism, by Nikolai Suetin, 1920-21, 📸 by @tiltoncreative

[Lake Superior @LakeSuperior]

Pro ice. Anti ICE.

[Northern Michigan Hockey @NMUHockey]

THE STREAK ENDS TODAY!

#NMUWildcats | #CCHAHockey | #NCAAHockey

[nba paint @nba_paint]

Pistons this season.

[Ben Wetherbee ⚓❄🐝 @wetherbeephd]

@dowellml Same.

[Ben Wetherbee ⚓❄🐝 @wetherbeephd]

@mwovers I was just thinking the same thing, more or less. I've been considering just deleting my account and fully resettling on Bluesky, which lacks the magic of old academic Twitter but is a lot better than whatever this is.

[Ben Wetherbee ⚓❄🐝 @wetherbeephd]

Bare minimum for holding a conversation: Gorgias, Hollow Knight, Octavia Butler, A Tribe Called Quest, the Oxford comma, and RoboCop.

[Ben Wetherbee ⚓❄🐝 @wetherbeephd]

@NmHikerPerson @ISHRhetoric logologologology

[Ben Wetherbee ⚓❄🐝 @wetherbeephd]

Saying rhetoricky things tomorrow about two of my favorite writers at @ISHRhetoric 2025