Happy half-price chocolate day to all who celebrate. This is not my second-fav day after Feb 15!

#Retracted ONLY *8 years after* a court case revealed that #Monsanto employees ghostwrote the article! Damn! The US exists solely for #corporations and #wealthy people to make boatloads of money at the expense of everyone else's #health. 💰💰💰💰

Writers can be tough to shop for, so we did the hard part for you. From style to story structure, these book picks are guaranteed to spark inspiration for writers of all styles. Check out Sean Brenner’s latest blog for all the recommendations. #AmWriting #WritingTips #WriterGifts zurl.co/OA6Sb

The world needed the sweetness and fun of Rob #Reiner, and his #activism. 💔 time.com/7340905/rob-...

#Editors, longtime editor @laurapoole.bsky.social will present the webinar “Art of the #Query” on January 29. Go here to get details and register: www.ciep.uk/events/event...

Nearly done updating the SFU structural editing course to align with the extensive changes to EdsCan professional editorial standards last year. I'm really pleased by how it's shaping up! 34,000 words, not counting assignments or readings!

If you cmd + i on a song in Apple Music, you can click the Options tab and set the start time to skip the intro that doesn't quite slap as hard as the rest. (Can also skip weird outtros there & set the fade to turn your playlist into a personal DJ!)

Seeing this flowchart I made of the publishing process, it’s easier to understand why I haven’t found a satisfactory one already. Publishing is complex! Layered! Variable! This shows workflow parts usually covered by "and then magic happens" [for months!]. scieditor.ca/2025/11/publ...

I stand with Franklin!

I still feel obliged to at least look at Word's suggestions, but what a waste of time all the false positives are! Go home, Word. You're drunk!

Felt cute; might delete later. (Prevented distraction during a call by cleaning off my desk) #amediting

This does inflated harm to the whole area of knowledge!

Alert the irony awards! Faked refs in an... ethics journal about… whistleblowing — NOTE: It was a READER who complained. Not the editors. Not the peer reviewers... 😒🤨

"This AccessAbility online guide is meant for anyone involved in the process of designing communication materials." accessability.rgd.ca

@theatlantic.com discusses why it’s problematic that #universities, after years of doing essentially nothing to address the rise of #generative #artificial #intelligence (#AI), are now scrambling to do too much with it. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1... (gift link)

Newer LLM models ("AI") made up even more BS than previous models! "Premium chatbots provided more confidently incorrect answers than their free counterparts." Much need for editors to vet quality! www.cjr.org/tow_center/w...

Canadians! You can now vote for the Canadian Word of the Year! (If we had the option to choose a Canadian WOTY in French as well, I'd suggest the gender-neutral pronoun "iel" which has been in the news a lot in Quebec this year, but probably not applicable since this is an English dictionary)

This title is burned in my brain because I have to correct it every time. LOL It's not "Origin of THE Species." Thank you for your attention to this matter.

🔆 #OTD Nov. 24th, in 1859 Darwin's evolutionary (and revolutionary) book is published, "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection" It changed our view of life... "Nothing in biology makes sense, except in the light of evolution." - T. Dobzhansky Darwin Online 🧪 darwin-online.org.uk

"60% of OpenAI model's responses contain plagiarism" — report is bit old, but about ChatGPT 3.5, nonetheless. "45.7% of all outputs contained identical text, 27.4% contained minor changes, and 46.5% had paraphrased text." 1/2 www.axios.com/2024/02/22/c...

Loving @jen-hamilton.bsky.social's book/AU journey posts, like this one on FB www.facebook.com/share/v/1Bfk...

I don't record my yoga but I had to share this experience of downward [CAT! Thankyouverymuch] which is, honestly, one of the benefits of home practice

As an avid #audiobook reader with 4 on the go and many colleagues doing the same, I'm surprised that BookNet stats say the share of buyers remains steady at 8%. Wonder if library audiobooks skew this. From: booknet-canada-aqx4.squarespace.com/blog/researc...

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Well, this looks like a worthwhile read for PD, editors! The Impact of Generative AI on the Novel. Minderoo Centre for Technology & Democracy. University of Cambridge. 83 pp! www.mctd.ac.uk/wp-content/u...

Went to "like" a YouTube video and was mildly amused by this current count.

While boards push mgmt to replace workers with AI prompts, "contemporary AI systems FAIL to complete the vast majority of projects _at a quality level that would be accepted as commissioned work_." www.remotelabor.ai

First tool use in THIS species, the headline should say. Wolves figured out how to swim out to buoys and pull them to shore to get a meal out of the crab traps. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/environment/...

#Narration is an art. In a thread about annoying voice sounds in #audiobooks, a spontaneous love for Julia Whelan broke out. Just comment after comment spontaneously mentioning how great she is. How do I find a list of her work for my next reads? (She did Really Good, Actually — my current read.)

Hearing someone ask tell her another human that they "do not understand their _prompt_" instead of saying "question" is replacing my annoyance at having "an ask".

If you’re a #conscientious #objector to the use of #generative #artificial #intelligence at your #job or, if you’re #self-employed, in your #profession, you’ll likely get better results if you join with other people to build an #AI #resistance #movement. www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/ar...

Keep laughing out loud at this one and I'm inspired to recommend it though I am still only halfway through. I love the "search history" scenes that are so real and so lol-cringe. Another "because it was available immediately" find. Really Good, Actually — by Monica Heisey

Water is getting resistant to kayaking. Reminds me that ice breakers call each sound a "data point", not a smash. #ImSureItsFine

Editing "fun facts" about shark reproduction today. Theme song!

Strange week: 1) Hired to vet content and 10% of refs turn out to be hallucinated. 2) Perusing copyeditor jobs for potential clients, and 100% are seeking a copyeditor to train their AI. Same job at base; different endpoint.

TFW it takes you a couple of hours to access MS Office because your org changed the account logins and it took that long to figure out and follow the process to re-set-up 2fa. 🤨 At least they're paying the subscription!

Diacritics in references but not in citations—does anyone know the history of why this is common style? I suspect it's about not having enough ö, æ, or ñ in the printer's cases to put them in every citation, back in the day. But today the inconsistency makes the find function not work.

Everyone's talking again about MS craping your files and email to train its AI. Installed versions too, not just Office cloud. The rights they take are nested under "connected experiences" and you can turn that off in the privacy settings (if you trust that). eiw365.com/stop-word-fr...

Conscious Style Guide is on Bluesky! What to expect: posts that help you think critically about language and design as tools for equity and self-expression. Check out the whole family of resources: Book | Website | Community | Newsletter By @karenyin.bsky.social 🌷

In case you're wondering how reliable the MS Word "similarity check" is in its "Editor" function: it just found 10 similarities to online content in a file that is just website text collated into 46 pages. ALT: It should have flagged almost every line as existing online verbatim, but did not.

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Should this be termed GABA gender assigned by airline) or GABGA (gender assigned by gate attendant)? File under "more impotent noise as their republic crumbles"

#EditorsPreventThis Workers spend ~2 hr/incident trying to make useful sense of AI crap ("slop") they're given. It leaves them annoyed & confused; resentful of the wasted time & thinking colleagues who generated it incompetent (Harvard Business Review). gizmodo.com/workslop-ai-... HT @Geoff Hart

I'm coming over to borrow your scissors – to open these scissors

Even the nest LLMs ("AI") are making up as much as 20% of their answers, so beware of 1–9. But #10 they're pretty good at! Just use a "compare docs" for a quick check for shenanigans.

I've been reading through this excellent resource, adding readings to all my editing courses. Don't let the "accessibility" tag make you think this isn't for all readers. It is! A great guide to clear and effective communication (aka "plain language"). accessible.canada.ca/creating-acc...

Fast, cheap work often sacrifices quality, especially in writing and editing. If quality matters, this edition of The Writing Resource explains why trying to have it all is a trap for clients and professionals. www.righttouchediting.com/20...

Book publishing—where almost 85% of the workers do not identify as "male" and pay has about equalized overall. Results of the 2024 Canadian Book Publishing Industry Salary Survey publishers.ca/2024-salary-...

Deloitte is refunding the final payment due to "substandard work," but still says the AI errors and fabrications "in no way impact or affect the substantive content, findings and recommendations in the report". An editor could have caught this for them! www.financialexpress.com/world-news/d...

#Researchers everywhere, including my #authors around the world, here is an article about how to determine whether a #journal is #predatory and is one that you do not want to submit your articles to. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Hat tip to Ivan Oransky: tinyurl.com/4z9btkrd