⭐️⭐️Hi, y’all. #SB17 is reportedly a done deal according to its Senate sponsor, Senator Brandon Creighton - Texas SD4. This is devastating news. We will keep you posted as we hear more specifics. The process is far from transparent, but #SB18 could still be in play. The best course of action is to call

We love hosting giveaways throughout #BlackBirdersWeek, but we think it's only fair that y'all put in a little work too. So this year, inspired by Badgerland Birding' recent Migration Madness contest, we're doing a Black Birders Week Bingo game! Rules below! ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Here is one heartbreaking example of the impact of #SB17 on college and university campuses. What took years to create dismantled in 140 days. #DEI #TxLege #TxEd

Excited to share "Memorializing with and for the Undercommons: Black Study and Unsettling Grounds" written in collaboration with Ariel Seay-Howard and Beth O'Shea on the intersection of rhetoric, geology, memory and coalition building. Free eprints: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

It’s #BlackBirdersWeek and to celebrate #NationalCreativityDay and #BlackBirdersSoFly we are collaborating with The Birdsong Project to bring you a playlist with bird-inspired songs by Black musicians. ⬇️⬇️⬇️

RSA's Charles Kneupper Award recognizes the best article published in Rhetoric Society Quarterly. The 2023 award goes to Dr. Suban for "On Being and Becoming Black in a Globally Dispersed Diaspora"! tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

A new school is coming to UTSA College of Liberal and Fine Arts! The Interdisciplinary School for Engagement in the Humanities and Social Sciences, E-School for short, will house four programs, including the new Film/Media program, with more to come. Learn more: bit.ly/3MzVu8A #UTSA

Heading to IECA #COCE2023. If you want to talk about a book project or journal ideas, find me. Also, Thursday, I’ll be part of a spotlight panel with colleagues from Africa about African #EnvComm & then a roundtable on care as praxis in #EnvComm

For decades, residents of South Texas colonias have had to pay extra for water that's dirty and contaminated...all while companies profit off their struggle. My latest for Texas Public Radio with photography by Gaige Davila. Supported by Pulitzer Center. tpr.org/border-immigra…

Shout out to students who humanize their professors AND to professors who humanize their students. Mutual respect & understanding is something that is lacking in academia.

Mexico has been suffering through one of its worst heatwaves in its history for the last 7+ days and it shows no sign of letting up over the next week as a relentless heat dome stays parked overhead. Northern Mexico could soar as high as 50°C (122°F) over the next few days.

Weather historian Extreme Temperatures Around The World has been following this heatwave extensively saying, “Mexico is living its worst heat wave in climatic history hands down.” Expect more severe heatwaves like this worldwide, with a strengthening El Niño and oceans at all-time record warm levels.

Because too many national news stories and weather reports artificially interrupt their reporting at the border (see this example), we'd wager a lot of folks sweating it out in Texas right now have little idea what folks in Mexico are living through right now.

Busy day SICSS-NDSU: traditional machine learning, building a hate speech-detection classifier, metrics (AUC-ROC, F1, confusion matrix), neural network architectures, and for anyone still awake, building our own convolutional neural network for image classification. #NDSU

Writing this put me through the wringer, but it was worth it. Thank you to @mikehoinski and Texas Highways Magazine for giving a home to my essay on rivers, rice cookers, grief, and Uvalde. I hope I did my people proud. texashighways.com/culture/people…

The countdown continues! In five days we start #LatinoConservationWeek and we're ready for a week of celebrating conservation, advocacy, and storytelling🌟

The temperature in China hit 126 degrees F today (52.2 C.) That beats the old record by an almost inconceivable 3 F. The world is on fire.

ARSTM is now accepting applications for the 2023 ARSTM Article of the Year Award! Articles upholding a range of ways of knowing in rhetoric of science, technology, or medicine are eligible officially published in the 2022 calendar year. Deadline: 8/20/2023 arstmonline.org/2023/07/19/acc…

Artists, scholars, and community organizers are reimagining America's commemorative landscape. This #MonumentsSummer, explore how monuments and public spaces all over the country are shifting to honor a more complete understanding of the past. on.mellon.org/3rmU7mW