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Erin Newton

@erinnewton.bsky.social
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Editor, PhD student - Old Testament 🐉, contributing writer for Park Forum, nerd. Erincnewton.com. Typos are here because you get what you pay for on social media.

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Diachronica journal @diachronica.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Diachronica gets a paper bump every (northern) summer, and we're seeing submissions pick up. This year, there are many more submissions with AI involvement (declared or undeclared). Here's a brief thread about why the vast majority of such #linguistics papers won't make it past my desk:
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Erin Newton @erinnewton.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Finishing a manuscript today for an author. I did the editing a few months ago and now it's 99.9% typeset. I love the thought that she's going to open her email and see a PDF of her book looking like a real book.
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Erin Newton @erinnewton.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Got a call yesterday about a dissertation that needs revisions. "Can you help?" Sir, I live for this. Both the work of editing is enjoyable but also taking someone's work and helping it get across the finish line. #hewillbedoctorbyAugust
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Erin Newton @erinnewton.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Two half days and the kids will be home with me all summer. About time I clean off my bedroom desk space because I move to the other side of the house in summer. Further and further away from their noise.
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Erin Newton @erinnewton.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
"Erin, have you read this book?" Me: I don't think so. Narrator: She edited the book and her memory is a dumpster of files.
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Erin Newton @erinnewton.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Returning an edited manuscript with this note: See attached. It's like a Jackson Pollock now.
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Erin Newton @erinnewton.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
It has been the wildest of wildest weeks in editing land. At every publisher I'm working with right now, authors are doing weird stuff. Academic editors are usually PhD students trained to research to the ends of this green Earth. I can find anything.
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Sherlock Holmes: Benedict Cumberbatch's Iconic Hat
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Erin Newton @erinnewton.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
I don’t know how this happens but I like it.
Yellow and pink pond lily with petals that show a definite line where one color starts and the other stops. Chimeric variegation.
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Erin Newton @erinnewton.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Surgery in the books. This kid is a trooper. Gbutton is gone and closed!
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Erin Newton @erinnewton.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
I opened Logos and did a search, and it used AI and gave me the worst possible results.
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Erin Newton @erinnewton.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Found me a new baby to rock.
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Erin Newton @erinnewton.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
New dog, who dis? Meet Boojum. Doggo 4 to the Newton fam.
Woman smiling with basset hound
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Erin Newton @erinnewton.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
I’m officially ABD!
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Erin Newton @erinnewton.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Neature.
Lily pad leaf that is half green and half dark green
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Erin Newton @erinnewton.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
"When I'm done, I'm going to put my name in white text under the author's name because of the number of hours I've spent fixing this thing."
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Erin Newton @erinnewton.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Just finished and wow. That was wild. The academia drama we love and hate. Having just worked with two Coptic papyry scholars, I was so invested in this.
Book cover of Veritas by Ariel Sabar. Cover shows the Harvard campus at night.
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Erin Newton @erinnewton.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Why me and Lent don't mix. open.substack.com/pub/erinnewt...
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Memento Mori Ad Infinitum: Or, I Always Think I'm Dying
Lent is not my season.
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Erin Newton @erinnewton.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Can anyone explain how the primary and secondary unit choices work for the #SBLAAR2026 conference? A friend was asking and I honestly don't fully understand how that works. Does the second unit see it before it gets to them? Why wouldn't they just fill all the spots in the first round?
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De Gruyter Brill @degruyterbrill.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
🔥 Announcing a bolder, shorter new name in academic publishing: De Grill. After struggling for two years with the mouthful that is De Gruyter Brill, we've decided to adopt the more bite-sized "De Grill." Stay tuned as we bring you more updates on our new brand identity!
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Erin Newton @erinnewton.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Editing for the journal this morning: Email: You're first reader. It’s from that Testament you like. 🥳
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Erin Newton @erinnewton.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
SEE YOU IN DENVER!! #SBLAAR2026 Congratulations! "We Do Not Know Why We Are Here: Watching Silo and Reading Job" has been accepted - Bible and Film Section program unit. "Wombs Bursting, Leviathan Waking: The Raging Sea and a Metamodern Sublime Reading" -Biblical Hebrew Poetry Section
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Dr Zara Bain @zaranosaur.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Sometimes I think we are all just racing to hug the robot, in what I really should have coined ages ago as my "people just want to hug the robot" theory
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Erin Newton @erinnewton.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Will today be the day we hear about our paper proposals?! #SBLAAR2026
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Erin Newton @erinnewton.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
My least favorite season of academia is "waiting to find out if my conference paper was chosen" season. #SBLAAR2026
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Erin Newton @erinnewton.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
There are editing days that are easy and then there are the days I’m pulling out Ugaritic textbooks to double check the citations.
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Erin Newton @erinnewton.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Back from a week in the mountains. It's going to be a multi-cup of coffee day. After closing freelance projects for a month, I'm about to re-open spots for the year. Let's see those #books, #dissertations, #articles! (Copyediting, language correction, proofreading, typesetting, indexing available)
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Erin Newton @erinnewton.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
I went to the sandwich shop just before they closed at 9pm. "What are you up to this evening?" "Dissertation." Then I was there with my sandwich explaining to the employee the myth of the empty land and other postmodern critical methods. Then I picked up my teen from the church youth gathering.1/2
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Erin Newton @erinnewton.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
I feel like half of that was unnecessary clapping and standing. 😴
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Erin Newton @erinnewton.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
I interrupted my curling watching for the halftime show. ¡Me gusta! 💖💚
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Erin Newton @erinnewton.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
I have sent my dissertation proposal rough draft to my supervisor. I no longer know what I am doing. What are words? I feel on the edge of sanity.
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Erin Newton @erinnewton.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
That Monday after a week-long snowstorm and school closure is worse than the Monday after a planned holiday.
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Erin Newton @erinnewton.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
I will not be taking any editing projects for the month of February. If your deadline can wait until March, feel free to continue contacting me for a quote. Sadly, they say I actually have to WRITE my dissertation at some point.
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Erin Newton @erinnewton.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Me ordering food for delivery: “To my driver, I am going to tip proportionate to my laziness.”
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Erin Newton @erinnewton.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Apart from the 150pt font that also overlaps in places, the editor side of me is screaming at the different font styles that have no consistency.
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Erin Newton @erinnewton.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
CFP for SBL2026 is also now a test of one's resolve navigating the new site. 😐
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Erin Newton @erinnewton.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
I walked to the barbecue place so I could have a burger. No regrets. They canceled my kids’ school tomorrow. We are definitely not turning into the Shining or anything. 😵‍💫
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Erin Newton @erinnewton.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Working from home does have its benefits.
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Erin Newton @erinnewton.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Snowed in day 2: we have eaten all the fun snacks.
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Erin Newton @erinnewton.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Outside-loving dogs are inside. #snowstorm
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Erin Newton @erinnewton.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
This is 41! Growing older is a gift and I’m celebrating. Everyone go have coffee and candy in celebration.
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Erin Newton @erinnewton.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Finished reading Wool and immediately watched season 1 of Silo. Everyone needs some dystopian fiction for the dystopian reality.
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Erin Newton @erinnewton.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Mr. Newton with a broken foot is having shoulder surgery tomorrow and it's dawned on me that I'm not sure how I'll get him inside the house sans wheelchair.
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Erin Newton @erinnewton.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
My goal in 2026 is to feed my brain a lot of fiction novels on nights and weekends, while my regular 8-5 job is reading (and editing) nonfiction. Current read: Wool by Hugh Howey Just finished: In the the Bleak Midwinter (Julia Spencer-Fleming) and Spark (Amy Kathleen Ryan)
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Erin Newton @erinnewton.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
“I’m going to be so productive today!” Mr Newton: “So I’m at the ER with a broken bone…” Tomorrow I’m going to be so productive!
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Erin Newton @erinnewton.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
In 2026, I’m actively trying to not work on weekends if I can help it. So, what are we doing on weekend then?
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Erin Newton @erinnewton.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
I just googled "Can you hear if you push a hernia back in?" because this is where I am at the end of 2025.
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Erin Newton @erinnewton.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Word giving you the "pick up where you left off" note is nice but seeing how long it's been is a shocker.
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Erin Newton @erinnewton.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Academia: Aug-Nov: Crickets, authors MIA Nov 21-28 - conference season, networking Nov 29-Christmas -- 2,602 editing requests. Y'all have a lot of books and dissertations. I love it. I finished the final 2025 manuscript last night and it was UNBELIEVABLY GOOD. I've booked 4 for January already. 🥳
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Erin Newton @erinnewton.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
My teen: A few months ago I signed up for the spelling bee." Me, knowing she wrote "cranburry": 👀 Her: "It was today. So, obviously, I didn't prepare." Her: "I watched as each kid spell their word. I would spell it in my head. They'd spell it differently. 'Correct!' That's when I knew I was cooked."
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Erin Newton @erinnewton.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Getting ready for the annual “I will wrap all your gifts” event where I invite our single friends who don’t find as much joy as I do in wrapping.
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