Audra Wolfe
@audrajwolfe.bsky.social
I wrote two books on science & the Cold War, formerly @ColdWarScience. Developmental editor to the should-be stars. Mostly Philly, sometimes Indiana, always weaving.
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Audra Wolfe
@audrajwolfe.bsky.social
· Oct 14
My best advice to aspiring authors of scholarly books is to read other scholarly books recently published by your target press. This may seem obvious and yet is not!
I guess it would be in poor taste to speculate on the reasons for the delay
February 20, 2026 at 6:07 PM
I guess it would be in poor taste to speculate on the reasons for the delay
Have two active clients with the same first name that is also a third client's last name, WCPGW
February 20, 2026 at 4:57 PM
Have two active clients with the same first name that is also a third client's last name, WCPGW
Just gonna watch that Liu video over and over and over
February 19, 2026 at 11:54 PM
Just gonna watch that Liu video over and over and over
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Join me in watching exciting sports I don't understand
PSA: Women's gold medal ice hockey game (USA vs Canada) is about to go into sudden death overtime
February 19, 2026 at 8:43 PM
Join me in watching exciting sports I don't understand
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DOCTOR Rümeysa Öztürk has earned her PhD!!
Hi everyone,
I earned my PhD from the Department of Child Study and Human Development.
My studies, research, and professional work focus on how positive media use among children and young people… |...
Hi everyone,
I earned my PhD from the Department of Child Study and Human Development.
My studies, research, and professional work focus on how positive media use among children and young people ca...
www.linkedin.com
February 19, 2026 at 6:19 PM
DOCTOR Rümeysa Öztürk has earned her PhD!!
How do people watch this recreationally, it's terrifying
February 19, 2026 at 7:33 PM
How do people watch this recreationally, it's terrifying
How is hockey real
February 19, 2026 at 7:13 PM
How is hockey real
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My policy on heavy edits is to send the writer a pdf with all changes accepted alongside the TC document, and suggest the open the pdf first. If they like it, they don’t even have to look at the other one
This is why you should ALWAYS hide tracked changes the first time you read through edits
the best editors can cut like 400 words from your draft and you're like wait what did you even change? it reads the same just kinda better? and @davidswanson.bsky.social has this power
February 19, 2026 at 4:40 PM
My policy on heavy edits is to send the writer a pdf with all changes accepted alongside the TC document, and suggest the open the pdf first. If they like it, they don’t even have to look at the other one
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I do not know where humanities academics get off acting like their work is a life or death emergency all the time lol
February 19, 2026 at 2:50 PM
I do not know where humanities academics get off acting like their work is a life or death emergency all the time lol
This is why you should ALWAYS hide tracked changes the first time you read through edits
the best editors can cut like 400 words from your draft and you're like wait what did you even change? it reads the same just kinda better? and @davidswanson.bsky.social has this power
February 19, 2026 at 4:18 PM
This is why you should ALWAYS hide tracked changes the first time you read through edits
Hoping one day the US will get to join Brazil, South Korea, and the UK in experiencing the "find out" phase of history
February 19, 2026 at 4:15 PM
Hoping one day the US will get to join Brazil, South Korea, and the UK in experiencing the "find out" phase of history
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BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.
This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.
This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.
February 18, 2026 at 5:39 PM
BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.
This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.
This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.
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Hot Tip for Writers who are querying:
Have someone who is unfamiliar with your story read over your query and synopsis. If they don’t understand what the book is about or how the story unfolds neither will an agent.
Have someone who is unfamiliar with your story read over your query and synopsis. If they don’t understand what the book is about or how the story unfolds neither will an agent.
February 17, 2026 at 3:56 PM
Hot Tip for Writers who are querying:
Have someone who is unfamiliar with your story read over your query and synopsis. If they don’t understand what the book is about or how the story unfolds neither will an agent.
Have someone who is unfamiliar with your story read over your query and synopsis. If they don’t understand what the book is about or how the story unfolds neither will an agent.
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I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is
February 17, 2026 at 11:41 AM
I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is
I thing I regret about my childhood is that I first encountered figures like Jackson through a Reagan bubble. I wish 9-year-old me had had the context to appreciate his Rainbow Coalition.
February 17, 2026 at 4:14 PM
I thing I regret about my childhood is that I first encountered figures like Jackson through a Reagan bubble. I wish 9-year-old me had had the context to appreciate his Rainbow Coalition.
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Judge Rufe's opinion ordering the Trump administration to restore truthful panels about Washington's ownership of enslaved persons from the President's House site in Phila is here. (I jailbroke it from PACER.)
TL;DR: Gov't acted arbitrarily, capriciously.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
TL;DR: Gov't acted arbitrarily, capriciously.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
![Some escaped to freedom, including Oney Judge. The President’s House displays recognized
Oney Judge and focused on how her struggle for freedom represented this country’s progress
away from the horrors of slavery and into an era where the founding ideals of “Life, Liberty and
the pursuit of Happiness”
165 could be embodied for every American.
And yet, in its argument, the government claims it alone has the power to erase, alter,
remove and hide historical accounts on taxpayer and local government-funded monuments
within its control. Its claims in this regard echo Big Brother’s domain in Orwell’s 1984, where:
The largest section of the [government’s] Records Department . . . consisted simply
of persons whose duty it was to track down and collect all copies of books,
newspapers, and other documents which had been superseded and were due for
destruction. A number of the Times [a newspaper] which might, because of changes
in political alignment, or mistaken prophesies uttered by Big Brother, have been
rewritten a dozen times still stood on the files bearing its original date, and no other
copy existed to contradict it. Books, also, were recalled and rewritten again and
again, and were invariably reissued without any admission that any alteration had
been made. Even the written instructions [for workers in the Records Department]
. . . never stated or implied that an act of forgery was to be committed; always the
reference was to slips, errors, misprints, or misquotations which it was necessary to
put right in the interests of accuracy.166
The government here likewise asserts truth is no longer self-evident, but rather the property of
the elected chief magistrate and his appointees and delegees, at his whim to be scraped clean,
hidden, or overwritten. And why? Solely because, as Defendants state, it has the power. At oral
argument, Defendants insisted:
Although many people feel strongly about this one way, other people may disagree
or feel strongly another way. Ultimatel…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wovz3whdkughp6decczypkqq/bafkreieozargzz4mwsqojgo7uapxz6ucuof2uw7k66q45tlgjvu3bgnupi@jpeg)
![. . . [T]he message that the Government chooses to convey is for the Government
to choose. I don't get to choose what that message is. And it's our position that the
City doesn't either.167
An agency, whether the Department of the Interior, NPS, or any other agency, cannot
arbitrarily decide what is true, based on its own whims or the whims of the new leadership,
regardless of the evidence before it. Accordingly, the City is likely to prevail on its claims that
the removal was arbitrary and capricious](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wovz3whdkughp6decczypkqq/bafkreidpzcv3mt65ac543gn5t4vkirwm6d64zr6taujzfiybsps65np6ea@jpeg)
February 16, 2026 at 5:43 PM
Judge Rufe's opinion ordering the Trump administration to restore truthful panels about Washington's ownership of enslaved persons from the President's House site in Phila is here. (I jailbroke it from PACER.)
TL;DR: Gov't acted arbitrarily, capriciously.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
TL;DR: Gov't acted arbitrarily, capriciously.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Some rough news - my college buddy @chrisrabb.com, who's running for Congress in PA-03 and has the DSA endorsement, says his treasurer has apparently been embezzling from his campaign. www.inquirer.com/politics/phi...
Chris Rabb says he’s reported his treasurer for ‘unauthorized withdrawals’ from his campaign for Congress
The treasurer, Yolanda Brown, is a Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based campaign consultant who was last month accused of embezzling six figures worth of campaign dollars from another Democrat.
www.inquirer.com
February 16, 2026 at 5:07 PM
Some rough news - my college buddy @chrisrabb.com, who's running for Congress in PA-03 and has the DSA endorsement, says his treasurer has apparently been embezzling from his campaign. www.inquirer.com/politics/phi...
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I would go as far as to say an idea that is done before I start writing it is not generally worth writing at all.
February 16, 2026 at 2:54 PM
I would go as far as to say an idea that is done before I start writing it is not generally worth writing at all.
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NEW: Read this terrific piece @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social for @thenerve.news in which she unpicks Edge.org, the hugely influential 'salon' funded by Epstein & threaded through with race science & eugenics.
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The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science
Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...
www.thenerve.news
February 15, 2026 at 11:18 AM
NEW: Read this terrific piece @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social for @thenerve.news in which she unpicks Edge.org, the hugely influential 'salon' funded by Epstein & threaded through with race science & eugenics.
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www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...
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Well holy fucking shit. Ring cancelled their partnership with Flock. Keep pressure on them to stop volunteering their feeds to state, local, and federal agencies, though, because that part's still going.
Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash
Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash
Flock off
buff.ly
February 13, 2026 at 12:42 AM
Well holy fucking shit. Ring cancelled their partnership with Flock. Keep pressure on them to stop volunteering their feeds to state, local, and federal agencies, though, because that part's still going.
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I've wondered if we're living through a different sort of epistemic closure: not one of the right cocooning itself in participatory nonsense, but rather one of billionaires grown confident that closing on—i.e., purchasing—the means of knowledge production will let them dictate what's real or true.
Trump on the endangerment finding: "This radical rule became the legal foundation for the green new scam. One of the greatest scams in history, maybe even greater than the Russia Russia Russia hoax."
February 12, 2026 at 7:23 PM
I've wondered if we're living through a different sort of epistemic closure: not one of the right cocooning itself in participatory nonsense, but rather one of billionaires grown confident that closing on—i.e., purchasing—the means of knowledge production will let them dictate what's real or true.
Was wondering why I felt so discouraged this afternoon and then remembered I wrote an entire fucking book about how the US used ideas about scientific freedom to build soft and hard power for 50+ years
February 12, 2026 at 9:11 PM
Was wondering why I felt so discouraged this afternoon and then remembered I wrote an entire fucking book about how the US used ideas about scientific freedom to build soft and hard power for 50+ years
Social facts can be "revoked" by political figures. Scientific findings cannot.
February 12, 2026 at 8:50 PM
Social facts can be "revoked" by political figures. Scientific findings cannot.