Dan Liddle

better to do beer-infused soup than the other way around

Woot! 🙌 I'm FINALLY getting a chance to do it again after cycling off our service tech comm course for a few years.

Why do they need to update it with every president? It seems so wasteful.

New!! Asst/Assoc professor of Creative Writing/Poetry job at the U of Illinois ✨

A university not currently in total free fall 😄

illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

it will change the WORLD...except for any important tasks.

We've definitely talked about it with the team for More Than Memos. It's so critical and is yet another area where we've had to resist our academic impulses to keep adding more text. 😅

Mastered how to eased my back pain with the 1-minute stretch after reading this!

There's nothing like finding a good work spot in a new city.

Applying for grants? Can be hard.

Spending the grant money? idk i'll let you know if I ever figure it out.

Omg, they used AI to write this.

You'd think after touching chilies and then my eye every week that I would start to develop a tolerance.

my students are CONSTANTLY complaining they can't keep the syllabus after the semester ends.

#4C25 promoting APA Style from the start! Honestly I'm here for it #authordate

Chiqui Esteban: inside the Washington Post graphics team and how to visualize opinion The Data Journalism Podcast · Episode

Reaching my career peak by being interviewed by @albertocairo.com, @simonrogers.bsky.social and @kleinmatic.bsky.social for the Data Journalism Podcast

open.spotify.com/episode/1mKs...

You need this, trust me.

Forbes is the Buzzfeed of business news except there are no fun personality quizzes to see which character from Office Space I would be. (it's the stapler guy)

Truly "where does the money come from and where does it go" is such a missing piece. I'm always quick to tell students that the fee per article download doesn't go back to the authors or the editors of journal articles.

Crowdsourcing: do any tech comm or professional writing colleagues have a basic intro to UX principles powerpoint that they would be willing to share? I'm introducing some best practices tomorrow to scaffold a recipe design assignment and I would like to what I might be missing.
#TeamRhetoric

Making a rate appearance on social media to remind y'all to get those SIGDOC proposals in. Deadline is Tomorrow Feb. 1. Looking forward to your amazing work.

First drink of the day? Coffee. But for the SECOND I just poured hot water alone to trick myself into thinking I was getting more caffeine.

Certainly I don't have a problem.

I will leave work...today. ☠️

I've got a new article out in CDQ! "Commemoration and Context: The Death Counter Graphics of COVID19." I'm pretty proud of it!

I argue that "death counters" act as a separate class of graphic than other kinds of risk management visualizations.

You can find it here: cdq.sigdoc.org/wp-content/u...

doinking an incredibly short field goal probably feels like walking confidently into a turnstile you didn't know was locked

A gentle reminder that your attention is a form of currency. Spend it wisely.

Deer Santa: A freaky Friday themed comedy where Santa body-swaps with Donner and learns the harsh working conditions of the workshop.

Every time someone comments on my tt post "why isn't this viral?" I have to resist the urge to write a chonky paragraph: "WELL you see..."

Show me a picture on your phone that vibes your vibe but isn't a selfe

I'm never meaner than in my comments on my own drafts. #telling

I just went from "My VCR is broken" to "My VCR needs a good slap every once in a while" so I can say that the Thanksgiving miracles have officially begun.