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Audra Wolfe @audrajwolfe.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

wonder why folks aren't seeing care on plans with nearly $8000 deductibles, hmmm, it's a mystery

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Audra Wolfe @audrajwolfe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Bless the boomer neighbor who just emailed a listserv with a pdf of a poster with a QR code

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

whenever an author says they used AI to check for "style" I think: that's what superegos is for! that's what dialectical thought is for! that's what generalized anxiety that makes you question everything you've ever thought is for! that's what a social-media-tuned knack for reading the room is for!

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Audra Wolfe @audrajwolfe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

How can I work without knowing if that woman ever gets on a plane

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Dean Sabatino @deansabatino.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A couple of shots of ITLM’s show opening up for The War on Drugs last Friday night at the Queen Theater in Wilmington - thanks to Adam and the band and to the crowd who gave us a warm welcome!

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Audra Wolfe @audrajwolfe.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Always surprised how much of last-pass developmental editing boils down to removing extraneous phrases and claims. Less is so so so often more.

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Audra Wolfe @audrajwolfe.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Can now check the box for "well performed, utterly baffling" Fringe show

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Prof. Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

You do understand that everything he's doing to Washington DC is about fortifying the city when he decides he's not leaving office

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Audra Wolfe @audrajwolfe.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Traditionally one does not announce the location of one's quick-response lethal weapons center in the nation's capital, but Trump is nothing is not an innovator

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

both of these are deeply political stories of problems and in neither case does it make sense to make private tech giants judge jury and executioner

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

either it is in principle possible to set up appropriate safeguards (in which case the "AI alignment" story is just as much about who gets to set them up and enforce them as it is about the content of the safeguards) or it is not (in which case we should be talking about transnational moratoria)

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Rachel Lapidow @editrix-rachel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A6b: One of the clauses I include in my contracts now is the right to not have my name listed on a project. If a client was going to have an AI cover that looks tacky as all get-out, I might want to evoke this clause and not be credited. #StetChat 2/2

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Audra Wolfe @audrajwolfe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A7 #stetchat "Thank you for your interest, but The Outside Reader does not provide editorial services for articles/indexing/proofreading/copyediting. Try so-and-so." Sometimes they reply that they didn't actually want copyediting, they want developmental editing. That's a different problem lol.

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Carolina VonKampen 📚 Freelance Editor @carolinavonkampen.com · 16/09/2026

A5: Is it leaving money on the table? Sure. Buuuuuut if the manuscript is not ready for a copyedit or proofread, it won't actually BE only a copyedit/proofread anyway—because the larger issues will make it impossible for the scope to only be copyedits/proofreads. #StetChat

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GetBookHelp.com: Helping new authors put their best book forward @getbookhelp.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

#StetChat | As a former clinician, even therapists I worked alongside would sometimes try to take responsibility for what clients did/didn't do. They are a whole other human being. We can't force them to do anything. Even trying to sounds exhausting, so I just don't. Makes like SO MUCH easier. ♥

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Audra Wolfe @audrajwolfe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

a5 #stetchat I pull language from the portion of my template titled "Slow your fucking roll." Variants on "when we talked, we had discussed the possibility of moving directly into editing after an evaluation. In my professional experience, that would be premature. You would be better served by...."

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Audra Wolfe @audrajwolfe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A4 #stetchat I avoid this conversation by explaining in intake calls that I cannot, will not, do productivity coaching or accountability scheduling and that I only schedule via a pipeline system. They're welcome to tell me when they're going to send me something, if they find that useful but...

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Rachel Lapidow @editrix-rachel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A3b: In this scenario, I’d send my client the section and say it looks like an AI prompt, and ask them if AI was used. I would also remind them that my preference is to not work on text that has been written fully or partially by AI. #StetChat 2/2

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BulletProof Writing Services @bulletproofwriting.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A3: I'd screenshot that in the text for my records and flag it in the manuscript. Depending on the AI policy in place, that could mean stopping work on the project; at the very least, a section in the editorial letter about transparency and trust with contractors and readers. #StetChat

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Audra Wolfe @audrajwolfe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A2 #stetchat I HATE THIS. Usually some iteration of "I appreciate your enthusiasm, but I am currently reserving capacity for my existing clients, and experience tells me that it is not in your interest to work with an editor who feels overwhelmed. I wish you the best of luck with your project."

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Audra Wolfe @audrajwolfe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A1 #stetchat I have experienced this. I write to the client requesting a call, explaining that I have some concerns about "uneven citation practices." Then we talk about the multiple levels in which this is unacceptable (and will ruin their career). Their response determines whether I fire them.

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Audra Wolfe @audrajwolfe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Hiya! I'm a developmental editor who works in book-length nonfiction, mainly published with UPs, mainly but not exclusively in history, sociology, polisci, public affairs. Public-facing works by scholars are my jam. #stetchat

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Audra Wolfe @audrajwolfe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Forgot to turn off my spam filter and received an actual phone call, from an actual living human being, pitching my a publicity scam for FREEDOM'S LAB, a book published in 2018. These scams must be getting some takers or no one would bother 🙃

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#StetChat @stetchat.com · 16/09/2026

Our #StetChat is TOMORROW, Sept. 16 at 4 p.m. ET / 1 p.m. PT. We’ll be hosting another round of Red Flag Roulette 🚩 In Red Flag Roulette, we’ll pose questions about hypothetical red flag clients and editing situations, and we’ll talk about how you’d deal with them. Join us! #edibuddies #amediting

Join #StetChat Wednesday, Sept. 16 4º5 p.m. ET (or 1–2 p.m. PT). Join us for our #StetChat Red Flag Roulette.

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Will Thomas @williamthomas.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The American Institute of Physics history program now has a reorganized website. Whether you know nothing, a little, or a lot about our work, take a look around and see if you find anything new to you! www.aip.org/history

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Audra Wolfe @audrajwolfe.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

My (young) cousin's very young (2 month old) baby is experiencing a medical crisis, and they are in no way financially prepared for this. Link if you can and are so inclined: gofund.me/162695968

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Donate to Support Theodin and His Family, organized by Bill McCray

For Theodin and family Two-month-old Theodin is a precious baby in our community,… Bill McCray needs your support for Support Theodin and His Family

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Audra Wolfe @audrajwolfe.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

YES. Think of your readers as intelligent, but uninformed or maybe just forgetful. You have to TELL THEM THINGS.

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Audra Wolfe @audrajwolfe.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Disappointed to learn this isn't a reality show *about* university presses

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Audra Wolfe @audrajwolfe.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

My own response to 9/11 was inextricable from my own grief at losing my grandpa 6 weeks earlier. It was my first close death, and the recency of that experience made all the families' stories unbearable. For this country to have used that pain and grief to make more death is unforgivable.

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Audra Wolfe @audrajwolfe.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

WOW. OUP releases a study revealing that, among other things, "whilst around half of book authors had not used AI in their manuscript development, those who had were unlikely to have fully disclosed all of their AI use. fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/... NB: The survey seems pro-AI but still useful

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Audra Wolfe @audrajwolfe.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It's difficult to convey how surreal and confusing that morning was.

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Audra Wolfe @audrajwolfe.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Twenty-five years ago I was settling into my desk at my very new-to-me job as an editorial assistant at Penn Press. The editors had meetings. All morning, I kept slipping inside to convey some awful new bit of news, including incorrect reports of the Sears Tower. We went home sometime around 11.

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Audra Wolfe @audrajwolfe.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

No one strangled anyone at the Clown Slam, although I think they considered it

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Researchers across the country are turning to side hustles to fund their work. Behind the cuts sits a bigger shift: whether American science can still sustain durable research capacity. @lindseydcameron.bsky.social and I examine the stakes in a new piece @science.org: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

science.org

The wrong platform for science

Daniel Blumstein recently sat in a Colorado meadow waiting for yellow-bellied marmots to appear, as the ecologist and evolutionary biologist had done many times before, the New York Times reported. Bu...

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Audra Wolfe @audrajwolfe.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This really raises the stakes for the 15+ Philly Fringe events I have committed to attend this month! Will something go down at the free Clown Revue?

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

In addition to the staggering anti-intellectualism (and brazen, incredible racism) of this administration, I'm constantly floored by how fragile they all are. Years of right-wing railing against safe spaces and snowflakes and these fools are terrified of museum exhibits and children's books.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Some in the media still claim that Trump is purely transactional, with no guiding ideology to speak of. They can only claim this because they refuse to recognize white supremacy as his guiding ideology.

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Laura Davulis @davulis.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Re: Anthropic (are you sick of thinking about this yet?) and speaking generally about the situation overall: it's a glitch, we are fixing it, longer statement to follow, you should still email me (or your editor if that person is not me) if you got one of those "JHUP is claiming 100%" emails.

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Audra Wolfe @audrajwolfe.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

My dread of 9/11 25th anniversary commemorations didn't extend to weeklong events, a failure of imagination that itself feels very reminiscent of 9/11

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Audra Wolfe @audrajwolfe.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

"If nonfiction represents the authority that books have, then this market tells us the underlying authority of a book as a cultural object is slipping. " This is very good on what's plaguing the nonfiction book industry. dearheadofmine.substack.com/p/the-nonfic...

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The Nonfiction Book Market is Collapsing

This is not one of those periodic “End of Reading” Atlantic click bait essays.

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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 06/09/2026

Guidance from the @authorsguild.org on navigating the Anthropic settlement claims portal; they also offer guidance for authors of educational works, and why authors w/ rights reversions may be seeing publisher claims authorsguild.org/news/importa...

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Important Information Regarding Anthropic Copyright Settlement Claim Notices

As part of the claims reconciliation process in the Anthropic copyright class action lawsuit, the settlement administrator sent out notices this week to all claimants summarizing each of their claims,...

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Audra Wolfe @audrajwolfe.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

How have I, a developmental editor for almost 20 years, never typed the phrase "consider incorporating dinkuses" before?

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Audra Wolfe @audrajwolfe.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

What is the plural of dinkus? Dinkuses? Dinki? Dinkii?

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Audra Wolfe @audrajwolfe.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Cannot think of an email I'm less likely to read than one from my senator, subject line: FETTERLETTER

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