Anybody know of large-scale studies on the literacy of older adults (age 65+) in the United States, post-1990s? I'm finding a bunch of "health literacy" stuff, but the National Literacy Institute, National Center for Education Statistics, etc. seem to think that the need to read stops at age 64?

The love interest in the trashy Victorian romance I’m reading right now is named “Baron Kelso,” so unfortunately all I can picture is this:

A song about today’s weather, to the tune of “Frère Jacques:” 🎶 Cold and rainy (cold and rainy) This is crap (this is crap) Time to go back to bed (time to go back to bed) Nap, nap, nap (nap, nap, nap) 🎶

"Design that listens, cares. Design that cares, lasts." (Damilola F. Adebayo at #SIGDOC25)

We are delighted to announce the finalists in the 2025 Student Research Competition. Please join us at 8:00am on Sat Oct 25 in Room 124 in the Student Union Building to hear their presentations. Thanks to all of participants, our excellent judges, and everyone who attended the poster session.

You know, there are some days when having the initials “AWS” makes my life mighty confusing…

Are you a civic or community design practitioner? Digital Media graduate student Mohsin Yousufi is conducting 1-hour interviews for about the challenges and breakdowns that occur in civic design and civic technology projects. See available times here: calendly.com/mohsiny/expe...

If anyone at CSCW is doing or knows about work studying how athletes are dealing with online security/harassment issues or how sports (like the WNBA) become focal points for clickbait, AI slop, or political propaganda… come find me, I want to chat!

When using Microsoft Word or Google Docs, don't just make text bigger and bolder to make it a heading. That will work for sighted users, but screen reader users will miss that and just hear it as normal paragraph text. Use actual heading styles, like level 1 through 6.

The Carter School of Public Policy at Georgia Tech invites applications for multiple open-rank tenured and/or tenure-track faculty positions with a focus on science, technology and innovation policy. careers.hprod.onehcm.usg.edu/psc/careers/... #AcademicSky #PolicySky @appam.bsky.social

It is 8pm on a Monday, why does finding a parking spot at the Beltline Kroger feel like competing in the hunger games

Organizing group projects checks all of my Virgo boxes: ☑️ Using my craft supply arsenal to write student names on color-coded little slips of construction paper, sliced with my Big Teacher Paper Cutter ☑️ Sorting things into neat little categories to optimize the best possible outcome ☑️ Playing God

The School of Literature, Media, and Communication at the Georgia Institute of Technology is hiring an Assistant Professor of Technical Communication with an emphasis in science communication. Priority consideration for applications is October 27. careers.hprod.onehcm.usg.edu/psp/careers/...

#a11y hivemind: what, if anything, can be done for accessibility for looping videos on websites? I'm thinking about a video description or equivalent to alt text for a still image. For example, the video overlay banner on the homepage of this coffee site: kaldiscoffee.com

Kaldi's Coffee | Specialty Coffee Roasters in St. Louis, MO

Kaldi’s Coffee is dedicated to creating a memorable coffee experience for customers and guests via sustainable practices and education. We have cafes in St. Louis, MO, and Atlanta, GA.

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Be sure to tag your posts with #ATTW2025 or #ATTW25 so we can find you! We want to hear about and amplify your experiences and research at the conference. Help us build our community on Bluesky through tags.

Extended abstracts for “Track B” of the Student Research Competition are due by June 16. Questions may be directed to @cbdilger.bsky.social (dilger@purdue.edu) and @argella.bsky.social (allegra@gatech.edu)

Chinese takeout night: 😁 They forget to put the crispy noodles in the bag with my soup: 🥺

Proud of my mentee, Jocelyn Le, for being selected as one of the top 5 undergrad researchers to represent GaTech at the 2025 ACC Meeting of the Minds Symposium. Her work on digital games for advocacy shows us that humanities research matters and makes an impact. urop.gatech.edu/node/841

Here's the working paper on AI literacy I helped with from the MLA Task Force on Writing and AI. aiandwriting.hcommons.org/working-pape...

As a technical communication professor, let me say that there is nothing more enjoyable than when I receive an “important safety notice” email about a product I’ve bought that gives me no guidance on 1) what the safety issue is with the product, or 2) what follow-up action I should take. A+ job.

Final call for all PhD students in technical & professional communication! Apply for the 2025 ATTW Graduate Research Awards!Get $500 for research and conference costs and a waived registration fee. Deadline: March 24, 2025. Details: tinyurl.com/369m2bw2 #ATTW2025 #GradResearch

Excellent journalism coming out of an Atlanta HBCU | Morehouse Confronts Potential Threat of ICE Arrival on Campus atlanta.capitalbnews.org/morehouse-im...

Morehouse Confronts Potential Threat of ICE Arrival on Campus - Capital B News - Atlanta

“You’re not going to drag people out of here in handcuffs,” campus Police Chief Charles Prescott said.

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St. Paddy’s Day is the first day of Spring Break! It’s also the day when my undergraduate researcher and I are getting together to begin analyzing a mountain of data (around a dozen interviews).

a computer with the word data on it

Alt: a computer with the word data on it

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The early decision deadline for the Student Research Competition may have passed, but there is still a chance to submit your projects. Need convincing? Check out this testimonial from the 2024 Graduate SRC Winner, Rachael Jordan! Link here: sigdoc.acm.org/blog/2025/01...

Conference acceptances abound! I will be at Computers & Writing (Athens, GA), Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (Rolla, MO), IEEE-ProComm (Sønderborg, Denmark), and ACM-SIGDOC/Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication (Lubbock, TX). Who will I see where?

Man, grief sucks so much.

RIP to the hole on the street outside my apartment that’s been there since I moved in last year. I don’t know how the report I filed with the city of Atlanta last week convinced them to finally fill it (and on a SATURDAY!), but I feel almost godlike in my power having done so.

One of my favorite pastimes is making up lyrics to “Pink Pony Club” that are about Rings of Power and annoying my boyfriend with them

Continually hounding my college’s communications team to put captions on their damn Instagram video stories and documenting this on my faculty annual review as “academic service”

Call for submissions: sigdoc.acm.org/conference/2... First deadline is Sat Feb 01. Not ready yet? Enter the second round, Wed Apr 30. Questions? Let me or @argella.bsky.social know!