Bev Sykes
@beverleysykes.bsky.social
Academic copyeditor/line editor & proofreader | Professional Member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP) | https://superscriptproofreading.co.uk/portfolio/ | walker and optimistic gardener | she/her
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Bev Sykes
@beverleysykes.bsky.social
· Nov 25
I have lots of fun copyediting and proofreading academic texts in the humanities and social sciences. I also work on other stuff (general non-fiction and novels). Academic subject area examples: superscriptproofreading.co.uk/academic-cop...
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"You are helping to open those doors for families."
We visited The Bread and Butter Thing in Durham to find out how your donations are supporting children.
Can you share the #MagicOfBooks this festive season?
Read more of The Bread and Butter Thing's story here 👇
https://bit.ly/47SR4V7
We visited The Bread and Butter Thing in Durham to find out how your donations are supporting children.
Can you share the #MagicOfBooks this festive season?
Read more of The Bread and Butter Thing's story here 👇
https://bit.ly/47SR4V7
November 11, 2025 at 6:09 PM
"You are helping to open those doors for families."
We visited The Bread and Butter Thing in Durham to find out how your donations are supporting children.
Can you share the #MagicOfBooks this festive season?
Read more of The Bread and Butter Thing's story here 👇
https://bit.ly/47SR4V7
We visited The Bread and Butter Thing in Durham to find out how your donations are supporting children.
Can you share the #MagicOfBooks this festive season?
Read more of The Bread and Butter Thing's story here 👇
https://bit.ly/47SR4V7
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The 23 new books out today include titles by Olivia Laing, Sarah Weinman, Alison Roman, and more!
Olivia Laing, Sarah Weinman, Alison Roman, and more: 23 new books out today!
Finally, a sense of hope in the air. A tide change, or a wind shifting: New Yorkers can, and do, expect better for themselves. There’s a beauty to that realization, that no matter the hardshi…
buff.ly
November 11, 2025 at 6:30 PM
The 23 new books out today include titles by Olivia Laing, Sarah Weinman, Alison Roman, and more!
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Thanks to @thetimes.com for joining us, @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social & @profsamwass.bsky.social to explore the neuroscience of early shared reading.
This is why it’s key we #GetBritainReading & why our #ReadingRights report explores how to make that happen 👇
www.thetimes.com/uk/get-brita...
This is why it’s key we #GetBritainReading & why our #ReadingRights report explores how to make that happen 👇
www.thetimes.com/uk/get-brita...
How bedtime stories synchronise your child’s brain with yours
When parents read to young children their neural patterns begins to align, an experience no screen can match
www.thetimes.com
November 2, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Thanks to @thetimes.com for joining us, @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social & @profsamwass.bsky.social to explore the neuroscience of early shared reading.
This is why it’s key we #GetBritainReading & why our #ReadingRights report explores how to make that happen 👇
www.thetimes.com/uk/get-brita...
This is why it’s key we #GetBritainReading & why our #ReadingRights report explores how to make that happen 👇
www.thetimes.com/uk/get-brita...
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The new book 'Reframing Women Printmakers' explores the importance of creative printmaking to women's activism, including suffrage campaigns, early Japanese feminists, women's printmaking collectives and zine making in the Riot Grrrl era....
June 1, 2025 at 5:45 AM
The new book 'Reframing Women Printmakers' explores the importance of creative printmaking to women's activism, including suffrage campaigns, early Japanese feminists, women's printmaking collectives and zine making in the Riot Grrrl era....
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How can we create more inclusive learning environments for neurodivergent students in higher education? 🧠
The NESTL Toolkit offers practical guidance, case studies, and resources to foster inclusive teaching, co-created with neurodivergent voices.
Explore the toolkit: bit.ly/4lmJ4Rd
#Edusky
The NESTL Toolkit offers practical guidance, case studies, and resources to foster inclusive teaching, co-created with neurodivergent voices.
Explore the toolkit: bit.ly/4lmJ4Rd
#Edusky
June 25, 2025 at 9:22 AM
How can we create more inclusive learning environments for neurodivergent students in higher education? 🧠
The NESTL Toolkit offers practical guidance, case studies, and resources to foster inclusive teaching, co-created with neurodivergent voices.
Explore the toolkit: bit.ly/4lmJ4Rd
#Edusky
The NESTL Toolkit offers practical guidance, case studies, and resources to foster inclusive teaching, co-created with neurodivergent voices.
Explore the toolkit: bit.ly/4lmJ4Rd
#Edusky
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A full listing of this year's shortlists, for articles and first books published in 2024, is available here bit.ly/4jMFK0C.
June 25, 2025 at 9:33 AM
A full listing of this year's shortlists, for articles and first books published in 2024, is available here bit.ly/4jMFK0C.
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Strawberry plant from "A Curious Herbal Antique Botanical Illustrations", 1737 by Scottish botanical illustrator/author and engraver Elizabeth Blackwell #ReframingWomenPrintmakers
June 11, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Strawberry plant from "A Curious Herbal Antique Botanical Illustrations", 1737 by Scottish botanical illustrator/author and engraver Elizabeth Blackwell #ReframingWomenPrintmakers
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We're launching The Bee magazine today because the UK publishing and writing industries have a bit of a class problem.
May 5, 2025 at 9:06 AM
We're launching The Bee magazine today because the UK publishing and writing industries have a bit of a class problem.
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This is an excellent book. Treat yourself. Get a copy.
International Workers' Day is a celebration of labourers and the working classes on 1 May. I chose that day to publish Common People, memoirs of working class lives from both well known and new writers. A privilege to work with them all. So proud of this.
Link below.
Please share :)
Link below.
Please share :)
Common People: An Anthology of Working Class Writers
Working-class stories are not always tales of the underprivileged and dispossessed. Common People is a collection of essays, poems and memoir written in celebration, not apology: these are narratives ...
unbound.com
May 1, 2025 at 12:43 PM
This is an excellent book. Treat yourself. Get a copy.
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May 1, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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A University of Helsinki researcher has triumphed in Science’s annual Dance Your PhD competition for a Eurodance pop video explaining how individuals perceive the hotness of chilli sauce differently. @jgro-the.bsky.social gets in the groove
#AcademicSky #DanceYourPhD
#AcademicSky #DanceYourPhD
Helsinki chilli scientist too hot for Dance Your PhD competition
Finnish researcher Sulo Roukka’s Europop dance anthem won the long-running contest showcasing scientists’ musical and dance talents
www.timeshighereducation.com
May 1, 2025 at 1:00 PM
A University of Helsinki researcher has triumphed in Science’s annual Dance Your PhD competition for a Eurodance pop video explaining how individuals perceive the hotness of chilli sauce differently. @jgro-the.bsky.social gets in the groove
#AcademicSky #DanceYourPhD
#AcademicSky #DanceYourPhD
One of the things I enjoy about my job is coming across words that are new to me and words that academic clients have created. This post from Pat Thomson on the patter blog has some interesting things to say about inventing new words. #academicsky #amediting
patthomson.net/2025/04/17/i...
patthomson.net/2025/04/17/i...
inventing new words
Even though it seems highly rule-bound, the English language changes all the time. Every year new words are added to the dictionary. These days a lot of new words come from popular culture and…
patthomson.net
April 24, 2025 at 7:20 AM
One of the things I enjoy about my job is coming across words that are new to me and words that academic clients have created. This post from Pat Thomson on the patter blog has some interesting things to say about inventing new words. #academicsky #amediting
patthomson.net/2025/04/17/i...
patthomson.net/2025/04/17/i...
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April 22, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Hey! #ResearchSky / #AcademicSky!
Book my disabled-majority team of transcribers and editors to support your research interviews, focus groups, workshops, events or author dictated manuscripts!
We are very good, you know? Come find out
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We are very good, you know? Come find out
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Catching up on a backlog of grading before finals come in and discovering that my students are having some WILD autocorrects. Two favorites so far:
“mental health cervices”
“Parole and its guinness” (I really wanna know how much this dude says Guinness for this to be the autocorrect)
#AcademicSky
“mental health cervices”
“Parole and its guinness” (I really wanna know how much this dude says Guinness for this to be the autocorrect)
#AcademicSky
April 22, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Catching up on a backlog of grading before finals come in and discovering that my students are having some WILD autocorrects. Two favorites so far:
“mental health cervices”
“Parole and its guinness” (I really wanna know how much this dude says Guinness for this to be the autocorrect)
#AcademicSky
“mental health cervices”
“Parole and its guinness” (I really wanna know how much this dude says Guinness for this to be the autocorrect)
#AcademicSky
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First photo this year of the beautiful and very tiny Red-banded Hairstreak butterfly. 🧡
I have also seen (but not photographed) a Monarch and an Eastern Tiger Swallowtail flying across our upper meadow. Maybe I will get lucky later.
#Photography99 📷 #Butterflies 🦋
I have also seen (but not photographed) a Monarch and an Eastern Tiger Swallowtail flying across our upper meadow. Maybe I will get lucky later.
#Photography99 📷 #Butterflies 🦋
April 13, 2025 at 6:49 PM
First photo this year of the beautiful and very tiny Red-banded Hairstreak butterfly. 🧡
I have also seen (but not photographed) a Monarch and an Eastern Tiger Swallowtail flying across our upper meadow. Maybe I will get lucky later.
#Photography99 📷 #Butterflies 🦋
I have also seen (but not photographed) a Monarch and an Eastern Tiger Swallowtail flying across our upper meadow. Maybe I will get lucky later.
#Photography99 📷 #Butterflies 🦋
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From the 'Shared Sky' exhibition, 'Jupiter and Ten Moons' by Indigenous Australian artist Barbara Merritt #WomensArt
April 13, 2025 at 7:50 PM
From the 'Shared Sky' exhibition, 'Jupiter and Ten Moons' by Indigenous Australian artist Barbara Merritt #WomensArt
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Let's sail away over the seas with Noah on his beautiful longship ark.
Bodleian Library MS. Junius 11; 'Cædmon Manuscript'; 1000 CE; England; p.66 @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social
Bodleian Library MS. Junius 11; 'Cædmon Manuscript'; 1000 CE; England; p.66 @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social
April 13, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Let's sail away over the seas with Noah on his beautiful longship ark.
Bodleian Library MS. Junius 11; 'Cædmon Manuscript'; 1000 CE; England; p.66 @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social
Bodleian Library MS. Junius 11; 'Cædmon Manuscript'; 1000 CE; England; p.66 @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social
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I cannot overstate the importance of reading books, particularly novels by respected authors, for critical thinking skills and reading comprehension. If the big gun novelists don't interest you, start small and work your way up. Or read whatever interests you. Just read. Or listen. It's all books.
April 9, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I cannot overstate the importance of reading books, particularly novels by respected authors, for critical thinking skills and reading comprehension. If the big gun novelists don't interest you, start small and work your way up. Or read whatever interests you. Just read. Or listen. It's all books.
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Su Blackwell, UK artist who creates paper artworks out of discarded books #WomensArt
April 10, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Su Blackwell, UK artist who creates paper artworks out of discarded books #WomensArt
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March 21, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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Fellow authors! The @societyofauthors.bsky.social has issued a statement about Meta’s theft of copyrighted books to train its AI. societyofauthors.org/2025/03/21/t...
The LibGen data set – what authors can do – The Society of AuthorsXFacebookInstagramVimeoApple PodcastsSearchShopping CartSearchToggle MenuToggle Menu CloseScroll to topScroll to topToggle Menu CloseS...
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March 21, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Fellow authors! The @societyofauthors.bsky.social has issued a statement about Meta’s theft of copyrighted books to train its AI. societyofauthors.org/2025/03/21/t...
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The weather may be patchy but plenty of flowers are in bloom to bring us joy. Which of these have you spotted recently? 🌼
From Q.13.32, Lessons from the Vegetable World (1857) by Charlotte M. Yonge.
From Q.13.32, Lessons from the Vegetable World (1857) by Charlotte M. Yonge.
March 14, 2025 at 10:30 AM
The weather may be patchy but plenty of flowers are in bloom to bring us joy. Which of these have you spotted recently? 🌼
From Q.13.32, Lessons from the Vegetable World (1857) by Charlotte M. Yonge.
From Q.13.32, Lessons from the Vegetable World (1857) by Charlotte M. Yonge.
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Ten international words (in order of beauty) for a butterfly...
10. Pilipala (Welsh)
9. Borboleta (Portuguese)
8. Flutur (Albanian)
7. Lompalampi (Ngarrindjeri)
6. Sommerfugl (Danish)
5. Farfalla (Italian)
4. Mariposa (Spanish)
3. Kupu-kupu (Malay)
2. Papillon (French)
1. SCHMETTERLING (German)
10. Pilipala (Welsh)
9. Borboleta (Portuguese)
8. Flutur (Albanian)
7. Lompalampi (Ngarrindjeri)
6. Sommerfugl (Danish)
5. Farfalla (Italian)
4. Mariposa (Spanish)
3. Kupu-kupu (Malay)
2. Papillon (French)
1. SCHMETTERLING (German)
March 14, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Ten international words (in order of beauty) for a butterfly...
10. Pilipala (Welsh)
9. Borboleta (Portuguese)
8. Flutur (Albanian)
7. Lompalampi (Ngarrindjeri)
6. Sommerfugl (Danish)
5. Farfalla (Italian)
4. Mariposa (Spanish)
3. Kupu-kupu (Malay)
2. Papillon (French)
1. SCHMETTERLING (German)
10. Pilipala (Welsh)
9. Borboleta (Portuguese)
8. Flutur (Albanian)
7. Lompalampi (Ngarrindjeri)
6. Sommerfugl (Danish)
5. Farfalla (Italian)
4. Mariposa (Spanish)
3. Kupu-kupu (Malay)
2. Papillon (French)
1. SCHMETTERLING (German)