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

❌Analysis of Variance ✔️analysis of variance Just search to check for sure (ex. Wikipedia), and keep any people's names capitalised, such as in Bayesian inference or fast Fourier transform. But be careful with AI summaries, they often get capitalisation wrong! 😩

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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

...this leads to common mistakes with the gerund: ❌The 14C dating of the bone is 12,000 BP. ✔️The 14C date of the bone is 12,000 BP. And you will never see a plural of the gerund: ❌The datings for the site were surprisingly recent. ✔️The dates for the site were surprisingly recent. Next: acronyms! 🤩

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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

There must be a pause button somewhere, right??

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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

Congratulations on going through the process! I hope you find some appointments nearby soon and the system's not too clogged. I'm so intimidated by the stress it will cause, but plan to do my own application in February...

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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 Cory Stade | Archaeology Proofreader @palaeocory.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

That sounds like the perfect read! Although I might start with your book that begins in the Palaeolithic, as I'm interested in that period!

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Dr Cory Stade | Archaeology Proofreader @palaeocory.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Oh that's so exciting to learn, I'll definitely read up on it! Thank you for telling me!

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Dr Cory Stade | Archaeology Proofreader @palaeocory.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

That sounds like a fantastic day! I would love to visit Vindolanda. I love the different shoes they have found! I wonder if they had dogs?

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Dr Cory Stade | Archaeology Proofreader @palaeocory.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Nice to meet you Giovanni! Physically I'm in the UK, but I'm proofreading about the coast of Alexandria! I hope you're well!

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

This is my biggest pet peeve! I will make eye contact and tut loudly. And then suffer a migraine and feel woozy.

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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

It probably helps some people. Not me unfortunately!

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

Oh that's so useful, thank you! I wish they were compiled into one document though. I guess it just takes a bit of flipping through!

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

That's pretty likely! I should keep a little notebook of the hive-mind discussions, because a lot of things come up repeatedly in editing...

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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 · 15/06/2025

Apparently it can be a symptom! Lower estrogen making dryness in their sensitive tissues etc etc... so bizarre!!

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Dr Cory Stade | Archaeology Proofreader @palaeocory.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

I've heard about the itchy ear thing and I'm like... could it be???

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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

Googling hasn't helped and I just want to be sure before I suggest a change is needed (my spidey senses are tingling). 🕷️

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