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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

No one can fill this void left by the theft of basic research funding.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I don’t think everyone realizes how bad things are for US science: For the fiscal year that just ended, the Trump regime withheld $1.4 billion from the National Science Foundation’s research budget, which is about 1/5 of its primary research budget.

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National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress (Gift Article)

The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.

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Audra Wolfe @audrajwolfe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Oh I know. I have not mastered the appropriate facial expression for learning that someone queried, THEN reached out.

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Audra Wolfe @audrajwolfe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Well...sometimes people hire a freelance editor right after they've sent queries (I truly have no idea why someone would do this, but they do) and then receive professional advice to slow their roll. They shouldn't have sent the query but sending the proposal as is would be worse 😬

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Audra Wolfe @audrajwolfe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Will you like it? Forgive me for my truthful response: It depends

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Audra Wolfe @audrajwolfe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

In my defense I did drive 850 miles the past two days (but didn't read it in my hotel room as planned and now too tired). But I have it!

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Audra Wolfe @audrajwolfe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

(You're ahead of me, i brought it to bed but haven't yet opened it)

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Audra Wolfe @audrajwolfe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I am enjoying watching everyone crash prep for book club TONIGHT, not that I know anything about that

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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 · 26/09/2026

I'm headed west Monday and am looking forward to eating the greasy original

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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 · 24/09/2026

Or "the two had first crossed paths five years earlier..."

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Audra Wolfe @audrajwolfe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I have an entire section of boilerplate called "chronology for social scientists"

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Audra Wolfe @audrajwolfe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Omg the worst is when non-historians discovery chronology and think it means telling things PRECISELY IN ORDER. This is not, in actuality, how successful chronological storytelling works! We gotta hear about *meaningful links* between things!

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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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Audra Wolfe @audrajwolfe.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I garden with several of these ladies; you can always hear Judy coming

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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

It's much harder to do this on an intake call, when someone has passed through the first email filter and you just get a bad vibe. Deep breath then something like, "You know, the more we talk, I'm not actually the right fit for this because [something]. Call so-and-so." #stetchat

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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

I explain that I simply reply to such emails with "Sounds great, Jan!" and then forget it every happened until they actually send me something, the act of which secures their place in line. Reader, they never meet their deadlines, which validates the practice. #stetchat

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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

But sometimes they follow up! Again! I do not respond at that point, as everything about the exchange is a sign that the person ignores boundaries and will generally be a PITA. #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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