Ben Wetherbee ⚓❄🐝

My article "Epideictic Priming amid COVID-19: Metonymy under the Microscope" -- which looks at the abstraction of disease through microbiological imagery -- is in this special issue. Jazzed to read the whole thing.

A rude thing to say perhaps sitting here on sabbatical, but if teaching is one of the things in life that really satisfies a cognitive-social-emotional-collaborative need in life and you’ve done it for 39 straight semesters, there’s a real absence when not doing it.

Suprematism, by Nikolai Suetin, 1920-21, 📸 by @tiltoncreative

Pro ice. Anti ICE.

THE STREAK ENDS TODAY! #NMUWildcats | #CCHAHockey | #NCAAHockey

Pistons this season.

@dowellml Same.

@wetherbeephd Yes, I get the technocratic and socio-cultural benefits. Sometimes their coldness is useful. They just hurt my soul.

Rubrics make me want to die. I fucking hate them.

@mwovers I was just thinking the same thing, more or less. I've been considering just deleting my account and fully resettling on Bluesky, which lacks the magic of old academic Twitter but is a lot better than whatever this is.

I’ve been on Twitter/X for 10 years as of this month. It feels most normal people have left & it’s become a right-leaning blogging platform. I still get some value from it, but I really have to curate my feed.

Bare minimum for holding a conversation: Gorgias, Hollow Knight, Octavia Butler, A Tribe Called Quest, the Oxford comma, and RoboCop.

@NmHikerPerson @ISHRhetoric logologologology

@wetherbeephd @ISHRhetoric I had to see how Google would pronounce "logology."

Saying rhetoricky things tomorrow about two of my favorite writers at @ISHRhetoric 2025

Pov: You're an old windmill in Sweden

Pov: You don't know what "pov" means

please clap

just wrote the phrase "crackling polysyndeton"

@longsolace I would drive to Detroit right now for that

@wetherbeephd A tigers lighthouse bobblehead night would go crazy

My most masculine quality is how much I love little collectible lighthouse figurines

Typing out "University Press" every time in Chicago style almost physically hurts when I'm used to MLA's merciful shorthand of "UP"

Ron was best man at a gay wedding you dumb fuck. #HappyPride