Is there a designated field for screaming in? We need an actual location where we can scream.

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".

I've been reminded that 8 years ago I was both *very pregnant* and *defending my dissertation.* I believe we have a clip:

Grammerly's legal department rn:

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

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

"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.

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...

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.

This book is the 2026 winner of LASA's Howard F. Cline Book Prize in Mexican History! Eeeeeeeeek

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...

For no reason whatsoever *coughs* seems like a good time to re-up a few recent client publications: www.ucpress.edu/books/the-la...

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

trying to write emails today like I hope this finds you well amidst the horrors I guess

I had the immense honour of editing this book last year and here she is in her terrifying, captivating glory -- run, don't walk!

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*

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

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.

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...

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-...

Who do I know with availability to line edit a dissertation (on committee's recommendation) this summer?

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:

On Wisconsin! *cracks a Spotted Cow*

I had the immense good fortune to work with Santiago on this book - run don't walk!

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.

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.

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...

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 ...

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!

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.

This summer camp registration has a waiting room. My estimated wait time is 50mins. Which circle of hell is this?

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

out today!

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?

Really loving how summer camp enrolment season follows just immediately on the heels of holiday season. Love that for us.

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.

*fires up indexing software*

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.

I had the opportunity to index this amazing book - which means I read it really closely - this is essential reading, people.

half agony, half hope, etc etc

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...

Saints preserve us, we've received a head lice notice from Grade 1.

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?

Reposting this older thread in case any of you academics out there are looking for developmental editors!

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!

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.

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.

A new edited book is coming out! I edited a second book with the great @jacobblanc.bsky.social: The Interior: Recentering Brazilian History. The book is available for pre-order (40% off!) at University of Texas Press: utpress.utexas.edu/978147733037...

Any recs for a first read-aloud chapter book series for a 6-year-old? Loves the Magic School Bus, space, and princesses :)

did not think I would need my land title-reading archival skills to get a fence built but turns out ...