melissa t. yang
@mtyrhetoric.bsky.social
here for birds & words 🪿 poultry & poetry enthusiast researching multispecies rhetorics 🐣 writing center director @ emory 🕊️
lost our first hen last week & found this lovely thing in my inbox while waiting for necropsy results orionmagazine.org/article/the-...
The Price of Eggs - Orion Magazine
Or, death of a chicken
orionmagazine.org
June 16, 2025 at 6:36 PM
lost our first hen last week & found this lovely thing in my inbox while waiting for necropsy results orionmagazine.org/article/the-...
brb still reading every pigeon book in the library
June 3, 2025 at 9:13 PM
brb still reading every pigeon book in the library
building our second chicken coop in two months because chicken math is real
June 1, 2025 at 1:26 AM
building our second chicken coop in two months because chicken math is real
always thrilled to see more writing stringing together my longest-standing academic obsessions: pigeon rhetorics & entanglements with bird feet! even if it does mean I'll need to revise the stringfoot section of my pigeon chapter yet again...
May 28, 2025 at 4:07 PM
always thrilled to see more writing stringing together my longest-standing academic obsessions: pigeon rhetorics & entanglements with bird feet! even if it does mean I'll need to revise the stringfoot section of my pigeon chapter yet again...
“if one bird can do it, that bird, you know, that bird’s going in.” coming out of hiding to share the best bird deep dive I’ve read in a minute: slate.com/culture/2025...
It’s One of the Weirdest Mistakes in Movie History. I Spent Months Investigating How It All Went Wrong.
The story behind cinema’s most mysterious bird.
slate.com
May 23, 2025 at 1:50 PM
“if one bird can do it, that bird, you know, that bird’s going in.” coming out of hiding to share the best bird deep dive I’ve read in a minute: slate.com/culture/2025...
reveling in the joys of new chicken parenthood, which largely involve googling "can chickens eat ____" & being reassured that chickens can & will eat nearly everything (including each other & probably also me, if given the chance)
May 6, 2025 at 4:47 PM
reveling in the joys of new chicken parenthood, which largely involve googling "can chickens eat ____" & being reassured that chickens can & will eat nearly everything (including each other & probably also me, if given the chance)
began reading the dissertations of grad school friends in an inspired moment of procrastination. acknowledgments sections are so pure (and/or full of cat puns) <3
February 27, 2025 at 8:41 PM
began reading the dissertations of grad school friends in an inspired moment of procrastination. acknowledgments sections are so pure (and/or full of cat puns) <3
what a kairotic moment to be teaching multimedia journalism for the first time in my life 🫠
February 5, 2025 at 8:06 PM
what a kairotic moment to be teaching multimedia journalism for the first time in my life 🫠
academic job alert: our writing program is hiring at the intersection of digital & cultural rhetorics. I’m on the search committee & happy to answer questions
JOB—Please recirculate, new Bsky friends: Emory Writing Program is hiring an Assistant Teaching Professor in Technical/Professional Communication & Cultural Rhetorics. 3/2 load w 16 cap, 3-year renewable NTT. App due Nov 27, incl. Cover Letter, CV, & req. DEI statement. apply.interfolio.com/156162
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November 20, 2024 at 2:07 PM
academic job alert: our writing program is hiring at the intersection of digital & cultural rhetorics. I’m on the search committee & happy to answer questions
if you see me on here, please yell at me to go work on my book instead, thank you in advance
November 18, 2024 at 8:10 PM
if you see me on here, please yell at me to go work on my book instead, thank you in advance
oh no: I spent 99% of my time on twitter exclusively posting to my drafts folder. what is my survival strategy here in this strange sky land with no drafts feature?!
September 21, 2023 at 3:19 AM
oh no: I spent 99% of my time on twitter exclusively posting to my drafts folder. what is my survival strategy here in this strange sky land with no drafts feature?!