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Bridgette Werner | Developmental Editor

@drbwerner.bsky.social
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Developmental & line editor for academic authors. Historian of Latin America. Former postdoc @Princeton. PhD @UWMadison. She/Her. views mine. www.throughlineediting.com

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Bridgette Werner | Developmental Editor @drbwerner.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Felicidades, @smunozar.bsky.social !!
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Bridgette Werner | Developmental Editor @drbwerner.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Refreshing the air quality map is so fun, as if I actually expect a change LOL.
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Bridgette Werner | Developmental Editor @drbwerner.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
I had so much fun line editing this book: I learned a lot, I left with questions, I saw new connections, and you can too! uapress.arizona.edu/book/feeding...
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Feeding the World as if People Mattered | UAPress
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Bridgette Werner | Developmental Editor @drbwerner.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Is there a designated field for screaming in? We need an actual location where we can scream.
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Bridgette Werner | Developmental Editor @drbwerner.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
My work email is now trying to "polish my writing" (ew, no) but also *not* checking it for spelling. I need the spelling check for the typos, friends - undo, cntrl z, I don't want the computer's opinion on polishing, I want the computer to tell me when I typed "polishgin" instead of "polishing".
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Bridgette Werner | Developmental Editor @drbwerner.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
I've been reminded that 8 years ago I was both *very pregnant* and *defending my dissertation.* I believe we have a clip:
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Magic Trick! - Friends GIF
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Bridgette Werner | Developmental Editor @drbwerner.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Grammerly's legal department rn:
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a man wearing a striped shirt and tie is laying down with his eyes closed
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Amy Sherman @andcleverness.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
there are so many great existing tools that work well, keep you in control of your work, and don't violate the trust between you and the author. all I've seen in ai uses for editing (all types) so far are worse solutions to already-solved problems
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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Congratulations to Santiago Muñoz-Arbeláez, whose book "The New Kingdom of Granada" has been named a co-winner of the Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Book Prize, given by the Renaissance Society of America @rsaorg.bsky.social. buff.ly/YKVMmGP buff.ly/HaLls9u
Cover of The New Kingdom of Granada: The Making and Unmaking of Spain's Atlantic Empire by Santiago Muñoz-Arbeláez. The cover features patterns from ancient Muisican (pre-Colombian) art, now displayed in the British Museum. The background is a dark red and black pattern featuring geometric shapes, circular motifs, and stylized figures. The title is displayed in large, bold, yellow capital letters, and the author's name appears in smaller white text at the bottom.
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Bridgette Werner | Developmental Editor @drbwerner.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
"By and large, they expressed the view that reliance on artificial intelligence is fundamentally antithetical to the development of human intelligence they are tasked with guiding." LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK.
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‘I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff’: professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AI
As AI has upended the way students learn, academics worry about the future of the humanities - and society at large
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Bridgette Werner | Developmental Editor @drbwerner.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
I had the *immense* honour of working on two of the RSA's 2025 Award-winners! My congrats to @rmidura.bsky.social and @smunozar.bsky.social !! www.rsa.org/news/721395/... www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501... www.dukeupress.edu/the-new-king...
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Awards & Prizes Winners - Renaissance Society of America
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Bridgette Werner | Developmental Editor @drbwerner.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
If I owe you work you're gonna have to pull me out of this Bad Bunny black hole I've fallen into first OR JUST JOIN ME.
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Bridgette Werner | Developmental Editor @drbwerner.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
This book is the 2026 winner of LASA's Howard F. Cline Book Prize in Mexican History! Eeeeeeeeek
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LASA2026 / Howard F. Cline Book Prize in Mexican History
LASA2026 / Howard F. Cline Book Prize in Mexican History
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Bridgette Werner | Developmental Editor @drbwerner.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
I had the (incredible) opportunity to work on a very early draft of this book back in 2022, and am so thrilled to see it out in the world, provoking discussions like this one: open.spotify.com/episode/19yS...
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Writing the History of Mexico's "Dirty War" with Gladys McCormick
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Bridgette Werner | Developmental Editor @drbwerner.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
For no reason whatsoever *coughs* seems like a good time to re-up a few recent client publications: www.ucpress.edu/books/the-la...
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The Last Door by Gladys McCormick - Hardcover
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
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Bridgette Werner | Developmental Editor @drbwerner.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
aaaaaanywho amidst *everything* I sewed myself a pair of comfy shorts made of fabric printed with bunnies and squirrels and lined in a rusty pink because why not
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Bridgette Werner | Developmental Editor @drbwerner.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
trying to write emails today like I hope this finds you well amidst the horrors I guess
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Bridgette Werner | Developmental Editor @drbwerner.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
I had the immense honour of editing this book last year and here she is in her terrifying, captivating glory -- run, don't walk!
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Colonial Surveillance | Stanford University Press
In order to compete with Western powers, Japan began to rapidly modernize its governing institutions, in the process creating a national population registration and identification bureaucracy, the Kos...
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Bridgette Werner | Developmental Editor @drbwerner.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
My husband bought me the tiny jam advent calendar this year, so its just a Brambly Hedge December over here: spreading my tiny plum and star anise jam on my tiny melba toast with my tiny espresso spoon *swoons*
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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
By definition, AI algorithmic engines repackage an aggregated, mathematically averaged version of what has already been thought & said. This means they are best seen as ideology machines: mechanisms built to recirculate the common sense of a social formation back to itself as though it is knowledge
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
No film gets historians right, but that's only because no audience wants to watch someone quietly work their way through a cardboard box of old papers, in total silence, for eight straight hours.
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Bridgette Werner | Developmental Editor @drbwerner.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
I had the immense honour to work on this book at several different points in its development over the years. An *essential* ethnography of migrant childhood. Buy it. Read it. Gabrielle knows the job. This work has never been more urgent. www.sup.org/books/anthro...
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Now We Are Here | Stanford University Press
Who gets to live a life with dignity? Each day, families around the world make the difficult decision to leave their homes in search of safety, stability, and opportunity. For many migrant families, t...
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Bridgette Werner | Developmental Editor @drbwerner.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
I line edited this fantastic book and you should pre-order it! Sociology! History! Surveillance studies! A sobering must-read! www.sup.org/books/asian-...
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Colonial Surveillance | Stanford University Press
In order to compete with Western powers, Japan began to rapidly modernize its governing institutions, in the process creating a national population registration and identification bureaucracy, the Kos...
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Bridgette Werner | Developmental Editor @drbwerner.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Who do I know with availability to line edit a dissertation (on committee's recommendation) this summer?
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University of California Press @ucpress.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
For #LASA2025, we are fortunate to share original content from our authors. "The depth of impunity in Mexico allowed for unimaginable forms of terror that implicated vast swaths of the population." THE LAST DOOR author Gladys McCormick on the use of torture in 1970s Mexico:
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A History of Torture in Mexico's War against Subversives
In the same way that impunity reigns today, it reigned supreme in 1970s Mexico. Gladys McCormick writes about how state-sponsored torture became routine practice in the Mexican government's war…
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Bridgette Werner | Developmental Editor @drbwerner.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
On Wisconsin! *cracks a Spotted Cow*
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Bridgette Werner | Developmental Editor @drbwerner.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
I had the immense good fortune to work with Santiago on this book - run don't walk!
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Bridgette Werner | Developmental Editor @drbwerner.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
I made the rookie mistake of anticipating that other parents at school drop-off care generally about students' safety (spoiler: not if doing so would inconvenience them) this week, and all I got was berated in my driveway by two different men and an object lesson in misogyny for my 6-year-old.
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Bridgette Werner | Developmental Editor @drbwerner.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Hi - an excellent thread that gets at why information isn't knowledge, and the search for information is part of what generates knowledge, and not only makes us more critical thinkers (and more resourceful!) but also means we have more interesting things to say at parties and ask better questions.
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Bethany Wasik @bethanywasik.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Great news, #BlueSkyStorians... The pre-order button is gone for @rmidura.bsky.social's "Postal Intelligence: The Tassis Family and Communications Revolution in Early Modern Europe"! Check it out and ship away at the @cornellupress.bsky.social book page: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
A pale blue book cover with the title, Postal Intelligence, at the top and a drawn image of a man walking with a walking stick at center.
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Bridgette Werner | Developmental Editor @drbwerner.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Apropos of nothing, really enjoying making structural and line-level suggestions for how this chapter on Mexico's cold war could more effectively expose the cruelty of the national security state ...
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Bridgette Werner | Developmental Editor @drbwerner.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
In *joyful things this week* (never more urgent): Helped a client submit their urgent, beautiful, heart-wrenching MS for publication! [me, every edit: 😭] Made plans w/ other clients! Helped a client clinch their comps! Chapter edits! Snuggles w/ my kids! Acquired a winter coat of duvet proportions!
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Bridgette Werner | Developmental Editor @drbwerner.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
So I *don't* want to ask gemini to summarize this e-mail but I also *do* want to know how it would summarize this circular, 30-message back and forth with a university's accounts payable department regarding the secure handling of personal information and appropriate postage for int'l cheques.
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Bridgette Werner | Developmental Editor @drbwerner.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
This summer camp registration has a waiting room. My estimated wait time is 50mins. Which circle of hell is this?
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Barry Goldenberg @barrygoldenberg.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
My book, STRENGTH THROUGH DIVERSITY with @rutgersupress.bsky.social, is officially out! I hope you'll take a look and consider reading! This book tells the inspiring story of a multicultural school in the late 1960s and early 1970s in NYC. Learn more here: www.strengththroughdiversity.com
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Strength through Diversity: Harlem Prep and the Rise of Multiculturalism — Barry M. Goldenberg
In Strength through Diversity, Barry M. Goldenberg traces the inspiring history of Harlem Prep, a unique multicultural institution that became a phenomenon in the iconic Harlem neighborhood and nation...
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Bridgette Werner | Developmental Editor @drbwerner.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
out today!
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Bridgette Werner | Developmental Editor @drbwerner.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Edibuddies with more Word proficiency than me: I need to format page numbers in individual Word docs to include a prefix. For example: Introduction-1, Introduction-2, 1-2, 1-3, 1-4, etc. For the life of me I can't figure out how to automate this - any tips?
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Bridgette Werner | Developmental Editor @drbwerner.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Really loving how summer camp enrolment season follows just immediately on the heels of holiday season. Love that for us.
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Bridgette Werner | Developmental Editor @drbwerner.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Have recently learned that 5 books that I was *ridiculously* privileged to edit are dropping in early 2025! Brace yourselves for pre-order links and shameless promotion.
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a woman is sitting at a table with a laptop and making a funny face ..
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Bridgette Werner | Developmental Editor @drbwerner.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
*fires up indexing software*
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Jake Blanc @jacobblanc.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
I'm an historian of Latin America, mostly social movements, memory, and development studies. My newest book (forthcoming this spring) is a biography of Aluízio Palmar, a former political prison in Brazil who became a human rights activist. It's about his life, but also how he has narrated his life.
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Bridgette Werner | Developmental Editor @drbwerner.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
I had the opportunity to index this amazing book - which means I read it really closely - this is essential reading, people.
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Bridgette Werner | Developmental Editor @drbwerner.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
half agony, half hope, etc etc
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Patrick Iber @patrickiber.bsky.social · 29/10/2024
It took me eight years to write something about the Fascism Debate, so let me say this: what is most exasperating is that no one (save Paxton) seems to be willing to change their mind. Well...
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Trump in the Garden - Dissent Magazine
Eight years into the fascism debate, few skeptics seem to be willing to admit that they were wrong.
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Bridgette Werner | Developmental Editor @drbwerner.bsky.social · 22/10/2024
Saints preserve us, we've received a head lice notice from Grade 1.
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Bridgette Werner | Developmental Editor @drbwerner.bsky.social · 10/10/2024
Sent a child with an extremely wiggly front tooth to picture day, which feels like the weirdest roulette: Will we immortalize Grade 1 with or without the quintessential elementary school gap-toothed smile? Will our two front teeth in fact be all we want for Christmas?
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Allison Van Deventer @allisonvandev.bsky.social · 06/09/2024
Reposting this older thread in case any of you academics out there are looking for developmental editors!
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Howard Beale Street Blues @winteron.bsky.social · 14/08/2024
Academic authors: there are some upcoming scholarly writing groups facilitated by my colleague Katherine Wiley (not on Bluesky), a consummate academic editor and published scholar. The next groups begin in mid-September. Note that some DISCOUNTED SPOTS are still available! Please share and repost!
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Scholarly Writing Groups — Goldenrod Editorial | Academic Editing
Creating in Community provides scholarly writing groups to help academics achieve their writing goals. They help provide accountability, carve out time for writing, and expand your writing community...
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Bridgette Werner | Developmental Editor @drbwerner.bsky.social · 12/08/2024
My neighbourhood facebook group (don't get me started) is up in arms again about the newspaper delivery people, convinced they are car thieves in hi-vis with head lamps "wanding doors to get fob signals"—for the love of god those are newspapers please get a hobby.
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Bridgette Werner | Developmental Editor @drbwerner.bsky.social · 10/07/2024
Evidently a spider's eggs hatched in my office over the weekend and I am *remarkably* calm about it. Just casually vacuuming up baby spiders and going about my business. Big personal growth—huge.
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