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Dr Cory Stade | Archaeology Proofreader @palaeocory.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

#proofreading #archaeology PSA 📢: I often see people capitalise words when writing out an acronym. But often these terms are just common nouns and don't need capitalisation. For example, AMS: ❌Accelerator Mass Spectrometry ✔️accelerator mass spectrometry or statistical terms like ANOVA:

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Dr Cory Stade | Archaeology Proofreader @palaeocory.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

#proofreading #archaeology PSA 📢: 📅A date (noun) is the age of something. 👩‍🔬To date (verb) is the action of finding the date of something, commonly used in its gerund form (making a verb a noun, ex. to swim -> swimming, "I like swimming"). Therefore we see: ✔️"The site used 14C dating." However...

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Dr Cory Stade | Archaeology Proofreader @palaeocory.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

#proofreading #archaeology PSA 📢: 🧠Findings are what you've concluded from the evidence. ⛏️Finds are the stuff you found. Next time: the difference between dates and dating! Hint: it's never datings.

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Dr Cory Stade | Archaeology Proofreader @palaeocory.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

I now have one two-week period of availability left for proofreading between the end of May and end of June, dates flexible! Get in touch to get that paper or thesis tip-top before submission! ✨📝

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Dr Cory Stade | Archaeology Proofreader @palaeocory.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

I have proofreading availability from the second half of May to the first half of June, as well as September! 🎓 Get in touch if you want your manuscript, journal article or thesis checked for: ❤️Grammar 🧡Word choice 💛Consistency 💚Spelling 🩵Punctuation 💙Reference formatting All disciplines welcome!

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Dr Cory Stade | Archaeology Proofreader @palaeocory.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

📢Routine proofreading PSA: If you describe something as 'so-called', it suggests you're sceptical or disparaging of the term, not just highlighting what it's called. So unless you're writing a hit piece on that hill fort or that ceramic type... 😡⚱️

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Dr Cory Stade | Archaeology Proofreader @palaeocory.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

What is the most self-evident thing you second-guessed yourself about and had to look up? This is in no way the top one, but I just looked up if BCE and CE do definitely for sure always come after the year.

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Dr Cory Stade | Archaeology Proofreader @palaeocory.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus pawb! Gwnewch y pethau bychain mewn bywyd.

A figurine of a red dragon sits on three books.

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Dr Cory Stade | Archaeology Proofreader @palaeocory.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

I'm sponsoring Unravelling the Palaeolithic's student poster prize again this year! Here's the advert I made for their abstract pamphlet. Be in touch if you need academic proofreading! ✨

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Dr Cory Stade | Archaeology Proofreader @palaeocory.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took at university. 1. Prehistory of Religion 2. Lithic Analysis 3. Native American Languages 4. Phonetics 5. Japanese

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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 26/01/2026

Also, there's a Pride version now! 🏳️‍🌈 Like all my designs, profits from these pins will help to fund my transition costs and sharing the queerness of nature through art like this feels so important right now. I hope you like them! canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4386...

A rectangular enamel pin with two hinges on the left hand side. It looks like a book and has a picture of a rainbow coloured tree on the front. The book is titled: Trees, a miniature guidebook. An open version of the pin shows assorted leaf shapes on the pages of the book in the colours of the progress pride flag. The leaves are labelled by species as oak, horse chestnut, sycamore, hawthorn, ash, alder, hazel, holly, lime, beech, and birch

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Dr Cory Stade | Archaeology Proofreader @palaeocory.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

I have proofreading availability from March onwards! Get in touch if you need your journal article, thesis, grant application or book manuscript (my favourite) corrected for spelling, grammar, punctuation, word choice, consistency and all that fun stuff!! ✨ Archaeological or otherwise! ⚱️💀🔥⛏️

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Dr Cory Stade | Archaeology Proofreader @palaeocory.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

It will be a sleepy day of proofreading today! The floodwater got pretty close to coming in last night, and we were checking all through the night as it rose to see if we needed to ready the sandbags. Luckily it started to go down at 6 am. It came pretty close!! 😬

A dark photo of a doorway and brownish water coming up to the final step

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Annemieke Milks @annemiekemilks.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

It was such a privilege to get to work on this amazing material from an incredible site and team - now the earliest handheld wooden tools in the archaeological record, taking evidence back to 430,000 years! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Evidence for the earliest hominin use of wooden handheld tools found at Marathousa 1 (Greece) | PNAS

The Middle Pleistocene (MP; ca. 774 to 129 ka) marks a critical period of human evolution, characterized by increasing behavioral complexity and th...

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Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

More Breaking Palaeo-news! 🐘 Boxgrove preserved oldest Elephant Bone beyond Africa. 🐘 Early Neanderthals using bone to shape beautiful tools. 🐘 New research from Simon Parfitt @uclarchaeology.bsky.social Silvia Bello of the @nhm-london.bsky.social. 🦣🏺🐘https://share.google/20WUjY5TybDAr4QoT

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Prehistoric tool made from elephant bone is the oldest discovered in Europe

A remarkable prehistoric hammer made from elephant bone, dating back nearly half a million years ago, has been uncovered in southern England and analyzed by archaeologists from UCL and the Natural His...

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Dr Cory Stade | Archaeology Proofreader @palaeocory.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

It's been a long time since I last posted, but I'm still here and I'm still proofreading! Today I'm in the Roman Mediterranean. (If only!) ⛵🌞

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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 07/07/2025

Last week I gave a talk for the @linneansociety.bsky.social lunchtime lecture series, all about woodland creation! I tried to keep it interesting for non-specialist audiences so, if you fancy an hour of woodland wondering, you can check out the recording here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwoH...

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How To Make A Woodland

YouTube video by Linnean Society

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Dr Cory Stade | Archaeology Proofreader @palaeocory.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

When #editing #archaeology I usually suggest using 'hearths' instead of 'fireplaces' because hearth seems a more general term, while fireplace seems more specific (implying structure). Do people agree?

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Dr Cory Stade | Archaeology Proofreader @palaeocory.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Academics, please don't do this. AI lies. Besides not filling in the blanks correctly, this was not my research area at all. This is a terrible way to approach a proofreader. Please check what you are sending. #AI #editing

The image reads "Having followed your groundbreaking work on linguistic semiotics applied to archaeological contexts (particularly your contributions to [specific field, e.g., "Proto-Sino-Tibetan symbolic systems in ritual bronzes"], I would be privileged to engage you as a specialist academic proofreader to enhance the methodological precision and terminological consistency of this cross-cultural study."

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Oliver Darkshire @deathbybadger.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

"let copilot help you draft" "can gemini write that for you" I have now taken the only reasonable course of action in the circumstances

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Joanne if youre reading this go get a fucking life

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Dr Cory Stade | Archaeology Proofreader @palaeocory.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Archaeology hive mind! 🐝 I'm a bit confused about the meaning of 'infill'. If you are describing the sediment layers of a trench, would you consider that sediment to be 'infill'? 🕳️ 🪏

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Flint Dibble @flintdibble.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Fantastic chat with @manvir.bsky.social about the archaeology, anthropology, trances, and drugs of worldwide shamanism is now available! We covered everything, even the gendered dynamic in shaman burials FULL VIDEO YouTube: youtube.com/live/CSSuIWc... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/7px4...

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Joana Valdez-Tullett @joanavaldez.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Yesterday my aunt passed away. The third of my mum’s sisters to die of cancer. And I skip Today I skipped for my aunt. Today I didn’t skip 100x Today I skipped until my legs didn’t want to skip anymore. Today I skipped 556x I am fundraising for @cancerresearchuk.org Please donate if you can 🙏🏻

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Joana's Giving Page

Like many of you, I have been affected by cancer. I has a cancer diagnosis at the age of 27 - as one of my consultants once said, I was just a "baby". Thankfully, it was treated successfully and relat...

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Anni Jyn @annijyn.com · 19/05/2025

my friend yaya covered the disgraceful telegraph billboard 🥰

a person on a ladder pasting up art of a spotty sausage dog over the telegraph billboard

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Dr Cory Stade | Archaeology Proofreader @palaeocory.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Editors, how much of our role is it when editing non-first language users' work to be like OH NO, CAREFUL NOW, ACTUALLY THAT MEANS SOMETHING REALLY SEXUAL so they avoid potential embarrassment in future, or do we just quietly change it and move on?

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Dr Cory Stade | Archaeology Proofreader @palaeocory.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

It's been a long time since I asked an archaeological language-use hive-mind question! 🪏 In your region (in English), what do you call the heavy machinery that removes the top layer of soil in an excavation? I've always said excavator or digger, but is 'mechanical shovel' common?

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Tomos Proffitt @tomosproffitt.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Join us on the 3rd of June for another @icarehb.bsky.social Experimental Archaeology seminar by Dr Eduardo Paixão to learn about the use of controlled robots to understand Acheulean percussive technology. Online and Free to everyone at 2pm, register here: www.icarehb.com/lexa/

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Dr Cory Stade | Archaeology Proofreader @palaeocory.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

I keep seeing people say they saw a hornet recently! I saw one yesterday! Is this ok? Are they the non-murderous ones? Are they taking over? Is it the heat? Do we need to burn things?

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Finally got around to writing to my mp

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Dr Cory Stade | Archaeology Proofreader @palaeocory.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

I'd be so happy if you could show my newest book dragon earrings some love, and click on the link to see them in my shop and give them a like if you have Etsy! The algorithm gods like it. And if not I'd love a reskeet! 🧡💛🧡💛 coryographies.etsy.com/uk/listing/4...

Two earrings dangle from a stem of bluebells. They have three books (rust, tan and sage) with gold detail, and a yellow dragon on top with his tail wrapped around the front spines.

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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 28/04/2025

They're finally here! The full range of "It's Dr, Actually" pins is now available, thanks to your support! Please share them as much as possible so that they reach the people who'll love them: canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/1841...

A collection of circular hard enamel pins which say "It's Dr, Actually". The backgrounds of the pins are in the style of the nonbinary, trans, agender, genderqueer, genderfluid, bigender, intersex, lesbian, and progress pride flags. There are also flagless backgrounds in black, white, hot pink, pearlescent purple, pearlescent dark green, pearlescent pink, pearlescent light blue, and pearlescent light green. A handwritted URL directs you to look up CanopyRobin.Etsy.Com

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Pls buy my pots to make me feel better on this day that i lost equal rights protections

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Crystal | Fiction Editor @redpenrabbit.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Today someone asked me, "Oxford comma or no Oxford comma?" My response has changed over the years, but now it boils down to: 1. I use it in my writing. 2. It should be used if it makes things clearer. 3. Don't be a jerk about it.

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Dr Cory Stade | Archaeology Proofreader @palaeocory.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

I joined in on the 'she doesn't know it yet' trend on Instagram. I thought a few people here might relate to an archaeology career not quite working out as hoped! 🪏 www.instagram.com/reel/DIQtsl8...

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John MacNeill Miller @snarlsdickens.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

If this regime is dragging us back to the 1800s they should have to bring back the good stuff too. I want investment in high-speed railways. I want federal buildings redone in Art Nouveau. I want streets clogged with flâneurs walking tortoises on leashes. I want the de-extinction of Oscar Wilde

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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 07/04/2025

The flowers are coming out! I'm very excited to announce my latest nature-inspired LGBTQ+ pride pin: a white flower that changes colour to show the 🏳️‍🌈 flag in sunlight! Please share! canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/1885...

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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 07/04/2025

✏️🏺 From the illustrating archaeologist's portfolio: Putting together the #NeolithicPackage. Commission for a colleague.

Drawing of an open village next to a forest. Hills in the background. A lot of people are inhabiting the scene, following various activities typically linked to the Neolithic way of living, like wood working, grain harvesting, making pottery, cooking, making stone tools, someone dragging a goat, another one herding sheep.

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Ian Tattum @iantattum.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

The Dorset megaliths are not impressive

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Spencer Carter @microburin.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Re-post this until you drop. Talk to your MP too. We're being swept under the carpet, zero help. Into my #LongCovid YEAR FIVE, after 2020 infection wave 1, 2022 hospital review & scans (damaged lungs+), I'm only now offered Talking Therapy (& Occupational despite being self-employed & bed-bound).

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Sam Holley-Kline @sholleykline.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Thinking about something for TAG (tag2025wm.com/tag-wm/) before the Monday deadline? Check out the 'zine on labor and bodies that Allison Mickel, @leftistdadjokes.bsky.social, and I are putting together: bit.ly/TAGZINE2025 🏺

Poster reading "Calling all archaeologists with a body: We want your scraps, your bits, your memories, your testimonies to the experience of archaeological labor on your skin and bones.

At TAG 2025 in Williamsburg, we'll be assembling a zine that gathers and engages with evidence of how archaeology works on the body as we work in archaeology.

We are seeking contributions of: photographs, artwork, short recollections (under 500 words), news clippings, poetry, receipts and bills, social media posts, paper ephemera

...that speak to the impact that participating in archaeological work has had on the body, or ways that negotiating bodily functions affects archaeological labor. We hope that the assemblage of these bits and pieces will convey widely shared experiences of the relationships between archaeological labor and the body as well as particular experiences shaped by race, gender, class, disability, and other identities.

For more information, contact Allison Mickel (ajm717@lehigh.edu), Travis Corwin (tlcorwin@ncsu.edu) or Sam Holley-Kline (shk@umd.edu).

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Dr Cory Stade | Archaeology Proofreader @palaeocory.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Tfw you're proofreading and notice a business is spelled 2 different ways, so you check its website where it's spelled 3 different ways!

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Dr Cory Stade | Archaeology Proofreader @palaeocory.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

I'm over on Instagram posting about my jewellery small business. If you like books and cute polymer clay, please join me there! www.instagram.com/corysbookjew...

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Dr Cory Stade | Archaeology Proofreader @palaeocory.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Me: "Hey Luna, can I finish my puzzle?” Luna: "No."

An almost completed puzzle is on a table, with the puzzle's open box with the remaining pieces in it, but a black and white cat sits in the box defiantly.

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 09/02/2025

Copy editors don't need to know everything. Copy editors simply need to possess constant curiosity, the instinct to look up things that smell even slightly off, the ability to listen to what a writer is doing before laying down the law, and a dictionary or two.

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Dr Cory Stade | Archaeology Proofreader @palaeocory.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Do you open birthday cards before your birthday? I've always opened them right away so you can display them like Christmas cards, but it seems that's not the norm or even rude...? 🎈

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