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The Association for the Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Medicine, is an independent, scholarly organization that promotes rhetorical scholarship and facilitates networking across disciplines and institutions.

It’s that time of year, Everyone! Time to submit your nominations for the ARSTM Book Award AND Article of the Year Award! 🎉 First up, the Book Award 📚 1/7

Does any of your work address “impact”? 🤔 If so, get ready to submit it to an upcoming special issue of POROI! The special issue provides a place to extend conversations from ARSTM’s 2026 RSA preconference. 1/4

⁉️ Guess what, ARSTM friends? ⁉️ The University of Waterloo is hosting a fantastic event that we are psyched for! Beginning on Thursday, May 28, Rhetoricon Symposium: Figures & Constructions, Constructions & Figures is being held at @uwaterloo.ca. 1/3

Attention, book authors and book lovers everywhere! 📚📖📔 Want your book, or a book you’re a fan of, to be a part of the fourth Annual Book Café at the upcoming NCA convention? If so, now’s your chance! 😊 1/4

Attention, all students (both undergraduate and graduate)! 📣👋⭐ In collaboration with ARSTM, the University of Wisconsin-Madison is hosting an online symposium titled (Dis)Ruption: Rhetoric of Response and Ability - and we want YOU to submit your materials! 1/2

More exciting NCA updates, Everyone! **drumroll please** 🥁 🥁🥁 The preconference call for ARSTM@NCA is now live! This year’s theme is “Circulation and Trust,” and asks how rhetoricians of science, tech, and medicine address questions of trust within and beyond our discipline. 1/3

Many thanks to all those who joined us for the third annual ARSTM Book Cafe! 📚 What a success! 🎉 Here are some of our photos from the event. Please feel free to tag yourselves, add your photos in the replies, and be sure to join us next year! #ARSTM #ARSTMNCA

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📣 Come one, come all, to ARSTM's Annual Book Cafe, to check out many recent (and wonderful!) ARSTM-related books. Swing by Willow Lake 03 Saturday from 4 to 5:15. Chat with authors, get books signed, and win prizes! Many thanks to Lisa Keränen & Jennifer Malkowski for organizing. #ARSTM #NCA2025

There is a border of books featured at the 2025 ARSTM Book Cafe at NCA. The center contains words that say, "Third Annual Book Cafe. Saturday, November 22 from 4:00pm to 5:15pm in Willow Lake 0. Check out the wealth of recently published ARSTM-related books. Talk informally with authors, get books signed, win raffle prizes."

Ever considered joining #ARSTM leadership? 🤔 Good news - now is your chance! 🎉 We are seeking nominations (you can self-nominate! or nominate someone else!) for the following positions: 2nd Vice-President 2nd Treasurer 2nd Web Administrator 1/5

📚 🏆 📖 The Association for the Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Medicine now invites nominations for this year’s Book Award! 📖 🏆 📚 The ARSTM Book Award celebrates outstanding books that advance the understanding of rhetoric within science, technology, and medicine. 1/8

🏆 Nominations for ARSTM’s Article of the Year Award (for works published during the 2024 calendar year) are now open! 🏆 Each year, we recognize the most outstanding rhetoric of science, technology, or medicine-related article or book chapter published during the preceding calendar year. 1/6

ARSTM@NCA Join us at ARSTM Book Café: Recent Monographs and Trends in the Field! Today, Thursday, at 9:30 Grand ballroom B on the 5th floor of the Sheraton. We hope to see you there!

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