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Willemina Don, editor

@donediting.bsky.social
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Academic developmental editor and translator (FR->EN and NL->EN). Humanities and qualitative social sciences. PhD in French. www.donlanguageservices.com

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Willemina Don, editor @donediting.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
To me, this looks like hands covering a face in despair. Or maybe 🫣 You need more than 2 hands because of the current state of affairs of the world. Peace? Yeah right.
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Willemina Don, editor @donediting.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Wait, MLA 2026 is in Toronto? Nothing against Canada, but why? I hope the organizers realized they are excluding swaths of US scholars who are on a visa or work permit that is expiring, folx that are in the middle of adjusting status, people who are afraid to cross the border right now...
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Willemina Don, editor @donediting.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Language & Literary studies folx, #MLA is coming up too!
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Willemina Don, editor @donediting.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
How many potential peer reviewer names to give to your University Press editor, and which names to choose?
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Willemina Don, editor @donediting.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
You have an academic manuscript (almost) ready to send out, but now it needs a title... Such great research-based advice from @katelynknox.bsky.social here: dissertationtobook.com/titles/
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How to Title Your Academic Book: Lessons from 188 Monographs
Many authors are told their academic book title needs work, but not how to fix it. Write a strong monograph title, based on lessons from 188 books.
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Elisabeth R. Anker @libankerdc.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
The #1 lesson from yesterday’s blowout: Humanities majors killed on the job market 1) Mamdani- Africana Studies 2) Spanberger -French 3) Sherill - Global History
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Willemina Don, editor @donediting.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
it's job application season in academia. If you need last-minute developmental editing to get your humanities sample chapter or research proposal in order, I have some room in my schedule. I offer discounts for self-pay and grad students. #academicsky
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Willemina Don, editor @donediting.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Oh the cursed day hath come where I'm forced to upgrade to Windows 11 (with co-pilot! as if that's an advantage). Except my existing PC (that works just fine!) has been determined incapable of handling it so I guess I need a new one of those too, pronto.
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Association of University Presses @aupresses.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
All are invited to the first in Publishing with University Presses Webinar Series, "Turning Your Dissertation into a Book," Oct 9 at 1pm ET. Organized by our Faculty Outreach Committee with the Rutgers Ctr for Minority Serving Institutions. Register here: buff.ly/UiOAr5M
Turning You Dissertation into a Book webinar promotional tile
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Willemina Don, editor @donediting.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
This looks like a wonderful resource as you are navigating the process of publishing your first book. And it's free!
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Willemina Don, editor @donediting.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
A great opportunity for those working on an academic book, especially if it's the first (based on your dissertation)! Get the zoom link on Allison's profile.
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Laura Portwood-Stacer @lportwoodstacer.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
My free one-hour workshop, How to Publish a Book from Your Dissertation, is coming up on September 3. Learn what academic presses are looking for when they acquire a new book project and how to avoid the dreaded “we don’t publish dissertations” rejection courses.manuscriptworks.com/courses/diss...
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How to Publish a Book from Your Dissertation
Learn how to reframe your dissertation project so publishers will see it as an appealing future book. This webinar will explain what scholarly publishers are looking for in new books and how to increa...
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Willemina Don, editor @donediting.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Ugh I hate it when I leave things at places. Like this morning, I left the head of broccoli and cucumber I bought at the farmers' market. www.npr.org/2025/08/16/n...
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Government papers found in an Alaskan hotel reveal new details of Trump-Putin summit
Documents with sensitive details about the meeting between President Trump and Russian President Putin were left behind on a public hotel printer.
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Jola (Close Reading) @closereadingie.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Indexes for non-indexers! Aimed at proofreaders, but anyone who looks at indexes and has reason to edit them (say, reviewing an index you hired out for) can get a lot out of this. I cover the best ways to edit an index. community.the-efa.org/events/Event... #edibuddies #IndexSky #academicsky #EFA
Promo image. Indexes explained for non-indexers. Proofreading gets faster and easier once you understand how indexes really work. Jolanta Komornicka. Instructor.
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Allison Van Deventer @allisonvandev.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Katelyn and I run plenty of paid workshops, but we know well that not everyone can afford things like that. So we're committed to giving free workshops and making them available to watch. Here's one about book arguments!
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Allison Van Deventer @allisonvandev.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
In her latest newsletter, Emily Doucet is saying something I tell authors ALL THE TIME: "your argument needs to be a specific claim about the materials — your evidence — described in your manuscript." And guess what: Emily has a step-by-step method for examining that evidence, with a worksheet!
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Exercises for analyzing your evidence when drafting a scholarly manuscript — FRAMING DEVICES
If you’ve developed a set of research questions, chances are you’ve already begun collecting evidence, or at least have a sense of what you’ll need. But what I’ve seen again and again is that many wri...
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Jim Van Deventer @vandeventerjim.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
I'm letting Rumeysa's words speak for themselves: www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2025...
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Op-ed: ‘Even God cannot hear us here’: What I witnessed inside an ICE women’s prison - The Tufts Daily
On a Tuesday in March, I had spent most of my day working on my dissertation proposal and started to feel exhausted and hungry. It was the holy month of Ramadan, and I was fasting. Once finished, I qu...
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Willemina Don, editor @donediting.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
This looks wonderful. I'm no longer in the classroom but this sounds great for an introductory literature seminar or first-year seminar
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Willemina Don, editor @donediting.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
@closereadingie.bsky.social Something to cheer you up. My 7 y/o is very into flags, and got a new book about flags of the world. He went right for the index. "The Index is 5 pages long!!!" "New Jersey page xxx! It's in here!" "There's an entry about yurts!" A 7 y/o discovering the joy of indexing.
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Willemina Don, editor @donediting.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Ooooh! I lived in an apartment* that Mr. Big (SATC) was interested in buying. The realtor gave me permission to stay home one day when he wanted to come see it again. We exchanged a few words. He didn't buy the apartment. * a whole other story
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Willemina Don, editor @donediting.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
today at 12pm Pacific, so 3pm Eastern. I'd be happy to answer questions afterwards
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Susanalyce @susanalyce.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
TRUMPS BIRTHDAY PARADE All you have to do is go to america250.org to get FREE tickets for the Trump birthday military parade. After getting tickets if something else unfortunately comes up for example the NO KINGS PROTEST that very day which is all across America, YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO.
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America250
America250 is a nonpartisan initiative working to engage every American in the 250th anniversary of the United States.
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Willemina Don, editor @donediting.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
This thread is so depressing. If you're negotiating with a publisher about your book, stipulate you want a human copyeditor, preferably one of your own choice or in-house.
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Kelly Clancy @kellyclancy.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
This is HUGELY good news, and reading notes from the trial is infuriating. Could be any of dozens of friends/colleagues from my graduate program. 8.5 weeks in jail with minimal medical treatment for writing an op-ed.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 29/04/2025
The man at left separated the mother and baby at right. The mother is now in Venezuela. Baby daughter, in foster care in the US, exact location unknown. Dad? He's in CECOT prison without trial — because he had tattoos.
Stephen MillerMother and young baby wearing a pink hat
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American Historical Association @historians.org · 29/04/2025
Many of our members have had grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities abruptly terminated. In response, the AHA, @modernlanguage.bsky.social, & @ach.bsky.social are convening an Information Exchange about the NEH Appeal Process on Wednesday, April 30th at 11am ET on Zoom. Register now 🗃️
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Information Exchange about the NEH Appeal Process - AHA
Many of our members have had grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities abruptly terminated. In response, the AHA and partner organizations are convening an Information Exchange about the N...
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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 24/04/2025
They’re taking *our* investment—the money that we spent months writing grants for, the hours and hours we all spent reviewing each others’ work, the money that was supposed to go to libraries and community groups—and blowing it on this nonsense.
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Allison Van Deventer @allisonvandev.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Academic authors! Are you thinking about working with a developmental editor—someone you hire to work with you on your book's big picture and give you suggestions for improving your drafts? If so, I can help connect you! I know a number of editors, and I'm offering to be your matchmaker!
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Willemina Don, editor @donediting.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Sage advice for those trying to get multiple projects out the door.
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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
"Mahdawi asked university administrators to help him find a safe place to live so he would not be taken by ICE agents.... The school did nothing in response."
Even before his friend and fellow Columbia activist Mahmoud Khalil was arrested by immigration authorities, Mahdawi asked university administrators to help him find a safe place to live so he would not be taken by ICE agents, according to emails reviewed by The Intercept. The school did nothing in response, Mahdawi said.
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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Dear NAVSA friends: Please know that that the organizers of the 2025 conference are monitoring this dynamic as closely as is humanly possible & are deeply aware of the uncertainty & fear in our membership now. + @navsa2025.bsky.social / @navsa.bsky.social
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Willemina Don, editor @donediting.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
What happens to people who are "out of status" but who have a petition in progress? People whose visa gets terminated but need to file taxes for the current (and/or previous) year?
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Joe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
They're trying to kill Rumeysa Ozturk for writing a fucking op ed
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Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
So many American stories have student visas in them, people who came temporarily, but stayed and formed families and communities, who broke barriers and created new knowledge, asked new questions. Revoking student visas is an extension of birtherism, a war against pluralistic America.
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Willemina Don, editor @donediting.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
From the department of Are You Freaking Kidding Me?
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 03/04/2025
NEW: Tufts files a declaration in support of Rümeysa Öztürk: "The University has no information to support the allegations that she was engaged in activities at Tufts that warrant her arrest and detention." www.tufts.edu/president/sp...
4. With her consent, the University can confirm that Ms. Oztürk is a third-year doctoral student in good academic and administrative standing. Her research focuses on how young adults can use social media in positive, prosocial ways and she is described by her faculty as a hard-working student dedicated to her studies and the Tufts community. The University has no information to support the allegations that she was engaged in activities at Tufts that warrant her arrest and detention. The University has seen an outpouring of support for Ms. Öztürk over the last week from Tufts students, faculty and staff. These individuals have described Ms. Öztürk as a valued member of the community, dedicated to her academic pursuits and committed to her colleagues.
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FGoldsmith @fgoldsmith.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
#IndexDay “qualities in the indexer who creates…Empathy: the ability to put oneself in the place of the reader…Judgement: the ability to make rational decisions about what to include in the index…Understanding: the content of a book and implications of a text” www.thebookseller.com/comment/the-...
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The human art of indexing
Book indexes might seem the perfect candidate for AI automation. They're not.
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Allison Van Deventer @allisonvandev.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
This is an incredible opportunity for academic book authors who are in the stage of trying to get from "idea" to "proposal"! And the application looks very straightforward--I encourage everyone who thinks they might be eligible to check it out!
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Willemina Don, editor @donediting.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
If you've ever wondered what the process of obtaining a green card or U.S. citizenship is like, I have an article for you. I do want to stress that this is an UNcomplicated case! www.njpen.com/obtaining-pe...
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Obtaining Permanent U.S. Residency and Citizenship: a Complicated Journey, Explained - NJ PEN
Applying for American citizenship is a lengthy, expensive process fraught with twists and turns that leave your fate out of your control, even if you follow instructions to the letter. Willemijn Don-G...
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Willemina Don, editor @donediting.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
You finished your manuscript, but now you don't have time to do all the tedious final tasks... Erin Maher is ready to help you!
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 25/03/2025
I would like to nominate Maxwell Smart for national security advisor.
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ALT: Pm Private GIF
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Willemina Don, editor @donediting.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
When I was writing my dissertation, I sometimes started to just writewritewrite. Then later I figured out why what I had written was important and where it fit. I didn't know what I know now, which is that it has a name: reverse outlining.
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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Columbia grad student with a green card and a pregnant US citizen wife, abducted by ICE because of his political organizing, and now his lawyers can't find him. Hey, @schumer.senate.gov. This is your constituent. Bring him back home.
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Willemina Don, editor @donediting.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Great advice! If you'd like help polishing your sample chapter, hit me up!
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Willemina Don, editor @donediting.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
This happened in my small town on the outskirts of Philly. There is a sign on the door that says "Free to anyone with a disability, or homeless, or simply cannot afford it." Now, there's also a sign that says "Closed until further notice." It is gutting and galling. share.inquirer.com/bHOUW4
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Neighbors angry as ICE arrests owners of popular Jersey Kebab restaurant in South Jersey
Celal Emanet, 51, was released from ICE custody Tuesday night after being fitted with an ankle monitor, while his wife, Emine, 47, continues to be held at the detention Center in Elizabeth, N.J.
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Willemina Don, editor @donediting.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Grad school friends / professors who just joined, here's a community of French/Francophone colleagues here!
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 22/02/2025
I truly think people don’t realize how many universities and colleges — especially public ones — may shut down if restrictions on and withholding of federal funding persists for even one presidency We are facing the demolition of American higher education
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
While we are all dealing with the Great Destruction — of NIH and US science and the US economy — we have been hearing from NIH people who want to write things for the outside world. If you are an NIH person that wants to share a blog post with the world anonymously, please let us know.
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Willemina Don, editor @donediting.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
All of these! Also, shameless self-promotion, I can help you fix these issues!
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