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Jason Tham
@jasontham.bsky.social
👋 Associate professor at Texas Tech University
⭐️ UX + design thinking + shared leadership
📔 New book: https://linktr.ee/jason.tham
Wednesday is for Faculty Mentor Orientation.
October 1, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Today's bad UX writing example is brought to you by a job recommendation submission portal. Who doesn't love a double negative question?
September 21, 2025 at 4:57 AM
"Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works." - Apple opened the 2025 event with a note from Steve Jobs, setting a tone for product experience from a functional perspective.
September 9, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Wednesday is for serving as dean’s rep to a media and comm PhD candidate defense. Learning all the things!
June 11, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Book manuscript submitted. Cheers to official summertime!
June 3, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Sano-Franchini asks us what if we tell it like it is—AI systems (LLMs) don’t “think” or “read” but instead “process” data; they don’t “hallucinate” but produce “inaccuracy” in output.
May 17, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Jennifer Sano-Franchini asks us to consider what we mean by “critical” in critical thinking, critical literacy, etc. #cwcon
May 17, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Some advice. #HotelLincoln #Chicago
May 10, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Friday morning is for learning with IBM.
April 18, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Naomi Silver shared about the origin story of the Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative, the digital publishing space and scholarly network that is still going strong today. #4C25
April 11, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Love is something that takes time to learn what it isn’t, and even longer to learn to practice it. — Tracy K. Smith at the #4C25 keynote
April 11, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Implications of AI for writing programs
• People stretched thin #deadlines
• The benefits are accruing, and outweighing the cost
• It's hard to stop using it #dependency
• Workplace writers are concerned about those in the next generation: how are people going to learn this job in the future? #4C25
April 10, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Not gonna lie, seeing a fellow digital rhetorician, computers-and-writing scholar, and technical communication teacher at the helm of CCCC is inspiring as hell. Way to go, Jennifer! #4C25
April 10, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Meeting authors & contributors of groundbreaking work in our field was a highlight of those early conference experiences, in the 1970s! — Anne Ruggles Gere, recipient of the 2025 CCCC Exemplar Award #4C25
April 10, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Congratulations to all Scholars for the Dream award this year! #4C25
April 10, 2025 at 12:58 PM
At the #4C25 opening session, Kofi Adisa calls writing teachers to lead amid chaos and tiredness.
April 10, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Here is a curated playlist from the Feminist Caucus workshop today. Enjoy! open.spotify.com/playlist/5xs...
April 9, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Registration is open at 4C25 but the queue is getting long. Plan to arrive early if you have a session at 9am.
April 9, 2025 at 12:36 PM
#Moji of the day: Inspo by Artemis, sleepy prince of day and night, guardian of surprise tackles, manager of mischiefs.
January 17, 2025 at 12:42 PM
First professional development event of Fall 2024.
August 9, 2024 at 1:58 PM
Academic editors say “Cs!”

Thanks for organizing us, @TimothyOleksiak. I hope to see more convos like this other than the typical editors roundtable that covers only journal-specific info. Publishing (& peer reviewing) is a multi-layered activity w/ evolving challenges. #4C24
April 5, 2024 at 9:51 PM
Tuesday is for leadership institute.
March 26, 2024 at 1:49 PM
Wednesday is for lunch and learn, in the barn!
February 21, 2024 at 6:06 PM
Brushing up on some neuropsychiatry at the leadership institute this morning. Mental health for the win!
February 20, 2024 at 5:01 PM
Over here contemplating whether to change my signature to include a new title/style bestowed to me by an earnest student.
November 17, 2023 at 11:42 PM