Claire@ClarionEditing
@clarionediting.bsky.social
Your friendly neighbourhood editor for academic writing in arts and humanities, esp. music/ology. Also proofreads and branches out into other subjects occasionally. Ich spreche auch Deutsch! 🇩🇪
I am rather proud of my MP, @chrishinchliff.bsky.social, today, as he actually has some principles.
Keir Starmer to remove Labour whip from at least four ‘persistent rebel’ MPs
Rachael Maskell, Neil Duncan-Jordan, Brian Leishman and Chris Hinchliff to be pushed out as PM takes action
www.theguardian.com
July 16, 2025 at 3:11 PM
I am rather proud of my MP, @chrishinchliff.bsky.social, today, as he actually has some principles.
Well, that’s a bummer. Guess I’ll be using something else, then.
WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for.
Stop using WeTransfer.
Stop using WeTransfer.
July 15, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Well, that’s a bummer. Guess I’ll be using something else, then.
Academics! You need to know this when you put URLs in your references. Good editors will take all that extraneous stuff out again, but you’d be amazed how many don’t know they should, and it will often make its way right through to publication.
I saw an infographic a couple years ago about how to remove source identifiers from links and why it's important, but I can't find it again and too many people I know are sending me links with them so here's an infographic straight from the oven
July 12, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Academics! You need to know this when you put URLs in your references. Good editors will take all that extraneous stuff out again, but you’d be amazed how many don’t know they should, and it will often make its way right through to publication.
One for @marcusbrig.bsky.social (Translation: Earworm to take with you)
July 4, 2025 at 9:55 AM
One for @marcusbrig.bsky.social (Translation: Earworm to take with you)
A warning for academics! But we beleaguered human copyeditors need you to push back against your publishers using AI (which really *can’t* do the job) for your work and insist that they employ humans, preferably with adequate remuneration.
Academia in 2025: For weeks I’ve been working through botched copy-edits of my monograph, outsourced by the publisher to a company I’d never heard of, until it finally dawned on me the terrible job might be AI. A quick search confirmed the company recently launched new AI software, which now means..
May 27, 2025 at 3:01 PM
A warning for academics! But we beleaguered human copyeditors need you to push back against your publishers using AI (which really *can’t* do the job) for your work and insist that they employ humans, preferably with adequate remuneration.
Can anyone tell me whether the new EU veterinary agreement thingy extends to not having to do ridiculous paperwork when you want to take your dog on holiday?? @europeanmovement.co.uk @andrewhesselden.bsky.social @iandunt.bsky.social @robfordmancs.bsky.social @ottoenglish.bsky.social
May 19, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Can anyone tell me whether the new EU veterinary agreement thingy extends to not having to do ridiculous paperwork when you want to take your dog on holiday?? @europeanmovement.co.uk @andrewhesselden.bsky.social @iandunt.bsky.social @robfordmancs.bsky.social @ottoenglish.bsky.social
As someone who just had to deal with a thesis with 75 of the buggers (all inserted wrongly), I definitely can relate. (I got there in the end!)
April 9, 2025 at 10:03 AM
As someone who just had to deal with a thesis with 75 of the buggers (all inserted wrongly), I definitely can relate. (I got there in the end!)
Sharing because I used to teach Lydia!
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My friend, Lydia Ballam, is doing amazing work on conservatoire students’ experience with dyslexia. Consider sharing this or participating!
My friend, Lydia Ballam, is doing amazing work on conservatoire students’ experience with dyslexia. Consider sharing this or participating!
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April 2, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Sharing because I used to teach Lydia!
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If you are a UK writer whose work appears on the LibGen database - published by the Atlantic- you can sign petition to Lisa Nandy to oppose AI theft of your work.
www.change.org/p/protect-au...
www.change.org/p/protect-au...
Sign the Petition
Protect authors’ livelihoods from the unlicensed use of their work in AI training
www.change.org
April 2, 2025 at 7:40 PM
If you are a UK writer whose work appears on the LibGen database - published by the Atlantic- you can sign petition to Lisa Nandy to oppose AI theft of your work.
www.change.org/p/protect-au...
www.change.org/p/protect-au...
An excellent article - and copyedited by yours truly
Dr @rosemarygolding.bsky.social's new article 'Musical Samplers in the Museum of Musical Works: The Nature, Status, and Value of Nineteenth-Century Oxford Degree Exercises' in the Journal of the @royalmusical.bsky.social is open access at www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #AcademicSky #Research
Musical Samplers in the Museum of Musical Works: The Nature, Status, and Value of Nineteenth-Century Oxford Degree Exercises | Journal of the Royal Musical Association | Cambridge Core
Musical Samplers in the Museum of Musical Works: The Nature, Status, and Value of Nineteenth-Century Oxford Degree Exercises
www.cambridge.org
April 1, 2025 at 12:09 PM
An excellent article - and copyedited by yours truly
Well, I guess I should be honoured that the tech bros pirated my academic work to feed the machine that could put me out of a job 🤷♀️
If you are a writer/academic, Meta very likely pirated your work to build its AI model. Use the search in the article to find out if Zuck has been stealing from you too...
NEW: LibGen contains millions of pirated books and research papers, built over nearly two decades. From court documents, we know that Meta torrented a version of it to build its AI. Today, @theatlantic.com presents an analysis of the data set by @alexreisner.bsky.social. Search through it yourself:
March 20, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Well, I guess I should be honoured that the tech bros pirated my academic work to feed the machine that could put me out of a job 🤷♀️
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The Government is considering allowing AI companies to freely use your works, unless you opt-out. This is unfair and unworkable.
Now is your chance to tell them what you think! Submit a response to their AI consultation using the guidance below.
www.alcs.co.uk/news/your-ri...
Now is your chance to tell them what you think! Submit a response to their AI consultation using the guidance below.
www.alcs.co.uk/news/your-ri...
February 4, 2025 at 10:31 AM
The Government is considering allowing AI companies to freely use your works, unless you opt-out. This is unfair and unworkable.
Now is your chance to tell them what you think! Submit a response to their AI consultation using the guidance below.
www.alcs.co.uk/news/your-ri...
Now is your chance to tell them what you think! Submit a response to their AI consultation using the guidance below.
www.alcs.co.uk/news/your-ri...
Worth saying about just about every use of generative AI
Oh please please i am begging, don't use generative AI for any reason if you can avoid it.
It's being marketed as a quick time-saver, but it's messy, inaccurate, it is putting entire industries of people out of work, and the environmental impacts (energy and water usage) are huge and debilitating.
It's being marketed as a quick time-saver, but it's messy, inaccurate, it is putting entire industries of people out of work, and the environmental impacts (energy and water usage) are huge and debilitating.
February 9, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Worth saying about just about every use of generative AI
Hey, @chrishinchliff.bsky.social, as one of your constituents who voted for you, this describes me and many people I know. Please get your leadership to understand this. Otherwise I’ll be voting LibDem next time.
In The Observer, @robfordmancs.bsky.social makes an important point that is not heard often enough in the current political debate.
February 9, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Hey, @chrishinchliff.bsky.social, as one of your constituents who voted for you, this describes me and many people I know. Please get your leadership to understand this. Otherwise I’ll be voting LibDem next time.
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Microsoft is going to price gouge you by adding their genAI to your subscription without your consent, and they are not transparent about how to avoid this bullshit.
Here's how to change your subscription back to "Classic" for a lower charge without Copilot: answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffi...
Here's how to change your subscription back to "Classic" for a lower charge without Copilot: answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffi...
Redirecting
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January 18, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Microsoft is going to price gouge you by adding their genAI to your subscription without your consent, and they are not transparent about how to avoid this bullshit.
Here's how to change your subscription back to "Classic" for a lower charge without Copilot: answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffi...
Here's how to change your subscription back to "Classic" for a lower charge without Copilot: answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffi...
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The two thoughts/concerns/points of #AIResistance I keep returning to after the AI “workshop” I suffered through yesterday:
1. AI breeds dangerously uncritical idolatry
2. AI-oriented mindsets consistently misprize creative acts
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1. AI breeds dangerously uncritical idolatry
2. AI-oriented mindsets consistently misprize creative acts
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Sitting in an AI workshop rn and REALLY wish the (paid) keynote presenter understood this…
Not to be super pedantic, but I think it’s better to say that, sometimes, LLMs procedurally generate text that, if read and interpreted by a human, creates conditions through which that human might arrive at an insight. It’s an important distinction from the LLM arriving at and sharing an insight.
January 15, 2025 at 2:22 PM
The two thoughts/concerns/points of #AIResistance I keep returning to after the AI “workshop” I suffered through yesterday:
1. AI breeds dangerously uncritical idolatry
2. AI-oriented mindsets consistently misprize creative acts
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1. AI breeds dangerously uncritical idolatry
2. AI-oriented mindsets consistently misprize creative acts
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And here we go again…
My very last issue (on ♿️) has now come out with BMJ Medical Humanities: I have stepped down from my role as Editor in Chief. There are a lot of factors—after 17 years editing two consecutive journals, it was time. But there’s more, and I feel we should talk about the climate of #academic publishing
January 9, 2025 at 4:21 PM
And here we go again…
And editors worldwide rejoice at the correct use of the en dash, too.
December 30, 2024 at 7:02 AM
And editors worldwide rejoice at the correct use of the en dash, too.
Authors, please be nice to your editors. If they make changes you don’t agree with, maybe ask them why rather than telling them they don’t know what they’re doing. Consider that your writing style may be out of date. Don’t accuse them of changing sentences that they haven’t.
December 27, 2024 at 1:27 PM
Authors, please be nice to your editors. If they make changes you don’t agree with, maybe ask them why rather than telling them they don’t know what they’re doing. Consider that your writing style may be out of date. Don’t accuse them of changing sentences that they haven’t.
An example of what many of the big-name publishers are up to behind the scenes. Elsevier is not the only one that is scrimping on copyediting - others technically employ editors, but at well less than minimum wage. The result is that the journals go massively down in quality and comprehensibility.
Resignation of the Journal of Human Evolution Editorial Board: We are saddened to announce the resignations of The Joint Editors-in-Chief, all Emeritus Editors retired or active in the field, and all but one Associate Editor. Press release below.
December 27, 2024 at 7:10 AM
An example of what many of the big-name publishers are up to behind the scenes. Elsevier is not the only one that is scrimping on copyediting - others technically employ editors, but at well less than minimum wage. The result is that the journals go massively down in quality and comprehensibility.
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UK WRITERS: You need to fill in this consulation. Govt is very clearly looking to an opt-out model of rights licensing that puts all the burden on creators instead of profiteers. It's long and boring but this is important.
www.gov.uk/government/c...
www.gov.uk/government/c...
Copyright and Artificial Intelligence
This consultation seeks views on how the government can ensure the UK’s legal framework for AI and copyright supports the UK creative industries and AI sector together.
www.gov.uk
December 18, 2024 at 9:46 AM
UK WRITERS: You need to fill in this consulation. Govt is very clearly looking to an opt-out model of rights licensing that puts all the burden on creators instead of profiteers. It's long and boring but this is important.
www.gov.uk/government/c...
www.gov.uk/government/c...
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This is maddening if you use MS word to write books. Opt out to stop them using your writing to train A.I. Please share.
How to turn off MS Word scraping your writing to train its AI medium.com/illumination...
MS Word is Using You to Train AI
How to turn off AI-scraping from your Word documents
medium.com
November 21, 2024 at 2:02 PM
This is maddening if you use MS word to write books. Opt out to stop them using your writing to train A.I. Please share.
Interesting article about refusing AI - applicable to many academic fields, I think refusinggenai.wordpress.com
Refusing Generative AI in Writing Studies
Visit the post for more.
refusinggenai.wordpress.com
December 13, 2024 at 8:19 AM
Interesting article about refusing AI - applicable to many academic fields, I think refusinggenai.wordpress.com