Erin J. Beall
@erinjbeall.bsky.social
PhD, freelance editor/indexer (erintheeditorinfo at gmail dot com), here to make jokes
A perfect storm of digital library holds has resulted in my having thirteen (13) books checked out. I feel so rich and so underwater!!
November 24, 2025 at 5:40 PM
A perfect storm of digital library holds has resulted in my having thirteen (13) books checked out. I feel so rich and so underwater!!
I’ve attended a lot of sessions at #sblaar this year but the most surprising thing I’ve learned is that they play Kendrick Lamar at the after-hours parties.
(And there’s a dance floor.)
(And there’s a dance floor.)
November 23, 2025 at 10:29 PM
I’ve attended a lot of sessions at #sblaar this year but the most surprising thing I’ve learned is that they play Kendrick Lamar at the after-hours parties.
(And there’s a dance floor.)
(And there’s a dance floor.)
NK Jemisin’s short story about the city of Um-Helat is the most impactful things I’ve read this year. It gave me hope, it took that hope away, and then it gave me courage.
You can read “The Ones Who Stay and Fight” for free here: www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-...
You can read “The Ones Who Stay and Fight” for free here: www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-...
The Ones Who Stay and Fight - Lightspeed Magazine
It’s the Day of Good Birds in the city of Um-Helat! The Day is a local custom, silly and random as so many local customs can be, and yet beautiful by the same token. It has little to do with birds---a...
www.lightspeedmagazine.com
October 14, 2025 at 4:46 PM
NK Jemisin’s short story about the city of Um-Helat is the most impactful things I’ve read this year. It gave me hope, it took that hope away, and then it gave me courage.
You can read “The Ones Who Stay and Fight” for free here: www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-...
You can read “The Ones Who Stay and Fight” for free here: www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-...
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Wow! Brilliant for writers!
Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
September 29, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Wow! Brilliant for writers!
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This whole section really.
September 28, 2025 at 10:59 PM
This whole section really.
I'm currently toying with adding a "no thanks" section to my dissertation acknowledgments, in which I refuse to thank the partner who dumped me, the dog that died, and the crappy jobs that I held throughout the dissertation process.
a man with a mustache is saying is that
Alt: Neil Degrasse Tyson asking, "Is that allowed?"
media.tenor.com
September 26, 2025 at 8:07 PM
I'm currently toying with adding a "no thanks" section to my dissertation acknowledgments, in which I refuse to thank the partner who dumped me, the dog that died, and the crappy jobs that I held throughout the dissertation process.
It’s just not good for my body image to hear, “Erin is just so wide”— or for my sense of self to hear, “Erin could cause real damage”
August 17, 2025 at 6:29 PM
It’s just not good for my body image to hear, “Erin is just so wide”— or for my sense of self to hear, “Erin could cause real damage”
I wish there were a way to enter "my own dissertation" to my book logging app. I keep rereading that thing to edit it, and it doesn't even earn me any points
August 4, 2025 at 3:09 PM
I wish there were a way to enter "my own dissertation" to my book logging app. I keep rereading that thing to edit it, and it doesn't even earn me any points
Distinctly bizarre for this coffee shop in Colonial Williamsburg to be playing Ethel Cain
July 21, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Distinctly bizarre for this coffee shop in Colonial Williamsburg to be playing Ethel Cain
Hate to be that guy but as a student of languages, I not only know but have decently frequently used the word “loanword” #connections
July 21, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Hate to be that guy but as a student of languages, I not only know but have decently frequently used the word “loanword” #connections
A major part of editing other people's work is phrasing comments so that you're being encouraging, like a coach, instead of coming off pedantic, controlling, or dismissive.
So I always go back and edit everything I wrote after I edit everything you wrote-- adds to the work but I love my clients!
So I always go back and edit everything I wrote after I edit everything you wrote-- adds to the work but I love my clients!
July 15, 2025 at 12:30 AM
A major part of editing other people's work is phrasing comments so that you're being encouraging, like a coach, instead of coming off pedantic, controlling, or dismissive.
So I always go back and edit everything I wrote after I edit everything you wrote-- adds to the work but I love my clients!
So I always go back and edit everything I wrote after I edit everything you wrote-- adds to the work but I love my clients!
Dissertation work feat. my favorite study buddy (and my advisor @wilgafney.bsky.social's fabulous Womanist Midrash Vol. II)
March 4, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Dissertation work feat. my favorite study buddy (and my advisor @wilgafney.bsky.social's fabulous Womanist Midrash Vol. II)
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Some people can’t make it to a protest today, so here’s a script to call your representative.
I am a constituent calling to let _____ know that Donald Trump threatened to jail protestors today in a violation of the first amendment. I would like my elected representatives to take action to stop…
I am a constituent calling to let _____ know that Donald Trump threatened to jail protestors today in a violation of the first amendment. I would like my elected representatives to take action to stop…
March 4, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Some people can’t make it to a protest today, so here’s a script to call your representative.
I am a constituent calling to let _____ know that Donald Trump threatened to jail protestors today in a violation of the first amendment. I would like my elected representatives to take action to stop…
I am a constituent calling to let _____ know that Donald Trump threatened to jail protestors today in a violation of the first amendment. I would like my elected representatives to take action to stop…
Other activities you can do in all your free time not shopping today!
-delete your am*zon prime account (or look up when it expires and set a calendar event to cancel it the day before)
-export your goodreads account to the am*zon-free site @thestorygraph.com
-call your congresspeople. make demands.
-delete your am*zon prime account (or look up when it expires and set a calendar event to cancel it the day before)
-export your goodreads account to the am*zon-free site @thestorygraph.com
-call your congresspeople. make demands.
February 28, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Other activities you can do in all your free time not shopping today!
-delete your am*zon prime account (or look up when it expires and set a calendar event to cancel it the day before)
-export your goodreads account to the am*zon-free site @thestorygraph.com
-call your congresspeople. make demands.
-delete your am*zon prime account (or look up when it expires and set a calendar event to cancel it the day before)
-export your goodreads account to the am*zon-free site @thestorygraph.com
-call your congresspeople. make demands.
Me eating chocolate:
But what we really need is a... an M&Momenon!
A what?
An M&Momenon!
You're welcome, Mars, Inc.
But what we really need is a... an M&Momenon!
A what?
An M&Momenon!
You're welcome, Mars, Inc.
February 11, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Me eating chocolate:
But what we really need is a... an M&Momenon!
A what?
An M&Momenon!
You're welcome, Mars, Inc.
But what we really need is a... an M&Momenon!
A what?
An M&Momenon!
You're welcome, Mars, Inc.
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We would not know Bishop Marianne Budde if the church did not ordain women or gay folk. Consider the prophets your church has discarded. #Narthex
January 24, 2025 at 1:13 PM
We would not know Bishop Marianne Budde if the church did not ordain women or gay folk. Consider the prophets your church has discarded. #Narthex
Actively trying to deconstruct how much of my overwhelming fear and worry right now is due to a lingering sense of American exceptionalism.
This has happened in so many places. Of course it could happen here. America is not exceptional. But the propaganda runs deep.
This has happened in so many places. Of course it could happen here. America is not exceptional. But the propaganda runs deep.
January 21, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Actively trying to deconstruct how much of my overwhelming fear and worry right now is due to a lingering sense of American exceptionalism.
This has happened in so many places. Of course it could happen here. America is not exceptional. But the propaganda runs deep.
This has happened in so many places. Of course it could happen here. America is not exceptional. But the propaganda runs deep.
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Today: On how all the normalizing is about (in part) fear of facing the grief & loss that this moment demands.
But people have been up against harder, and faced it down.
This is new terrain, but we can do this.
It's time for you to become the leader you seek.
We must figure this out together.
But people have been up against harder, and faced it down.
This is new terrain, but we can do this.
It's time for you to become the leader you seek.
We must figure this out together.
Feel. Then Do.
our work in this new era
www.lifeisasacredtext.com
January 20, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Today: On how all the normalizing is about (in part) fear of facing the grief & loss that this moment demands.
But people have been up against harder, and faced it down.
This is new terrain, but we can do this.
It's time for you to become the leader you seek.
We must figure this out together.
But people have been up against harder, and faced it down.
This is new terrain, but we can do this.
It's time for you to become the leader you seek.
We must figure this out together.
I have fallen, quite by accident, into a lovely Buddhist practice. But sometimes I find it difficult to understand the teachings; for example, this quote from Thich Nhat Hanh:
"Mindfulness of mind in mind is the mind experiencing mindfulness of the mind in the mind."
"Mindfulness of mind in mind is the mind experiencing mindfulness of the mind in the mind."
January 20, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I have fallen, quite by accident, into a lovely Buddhist practice. But sometimes I find it difficult to understand the teachings; for example, this quote from Thich Nhat Hanh:
"Mindfulness of mind in mind is the mind experiencing mindfulness of the mind in the mind."
"Mindfulness of mind in mind is the mind experiencing mindfulness of the mind in the mind."
Thrilling to be brokenhearted in 2025. In the old days the only breakup songs they had were Silver Spring and Un-Break My Heart, but now we have RAGE bangers:
-Poison Poison by Renee Rapp
-What is this Feeling from Wicked
-Conceited by Lola Young
-Karma by Chappell
-DENIAL IS A RIVER by Doechii...
-Poison Poison by Renee Rapp
-What is this Feeling from Wicked
-Conceited by Lola Young
-Karma by Chappell
-DENIAL IS A RIVER by Doechii...
a woman in a blue jacket says " there 's a knife in my back " while talking to a man
ALT: a woman in a blue jacket says " there 's a knife in my back " while talking to a man
media.tenor.com
January 8, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Thrilling to be brokenhearted in 2025. In the old days the only breakup songs they had were Silver Spring and Un-Break My Heart, but now we have RAGE bangers:
-Poison Poison by Renee Rapp
-What is this Feeling from Wicked
-Conceited by Lola Young
-Karma by Chappell
-DENIAL IS A RIVER by Doechii...
-Poison Poison by Renee Rapp
-What is this Feeling from Wicked
-Conceited by Lola Young
-Karma by Chappell
-DENIAL IS A RIVER by Doechii...
Like for real spot the difference from this cider shirt or the oldest woven garment in the world, from fourth millennium BCE Egypt
December 31, 2024 at 3:24 AM
Like for real spot the difference from this cider shirt or the oldest woven garment in the world, from fourth millennium BCE Egypt
Tell me why I spent all day yesterday and all day today researching ancient Egyptian linen clothing, which was apparently often white and sometimes pleated, and then this pops up as my first ad on insta?
December 31, 2024 at 3:19 AM
Tell me why I spent all day yesterday and all day today researching ancient Egyptian linen clothing, which was apparently often white and sometimes pleated, and then this pops up as my first ad on insta?
I always swore I wouldn't be one of those people whose footnotes have paragraphs but here we are.
December 26, 2024 at 8:25 PM
I always swore I wouldn't be one of those people whose footnotes have paragraphs but here we are.
If technology is so advanced, why hasn't Google figured out that I have never, not once, wanted the NIV or Good News translation? It's. Every. Time.
December 23, 2024 at 7:28 PM
If technology is so advanced, why hasn't Google figured out that I have never, not once, wanted the NIV or Good News translation? It's. Every. Time.
Found a place in my dissertation draft where I argued for a "threefold" meaning to something, followed by only two arguments. No idea what the third was meant to be. So.... I guess it's "twofold" now #amwriting
December 9, 2024 at 9:14 PM
Found a place in my dissertation draft where I argued for a "threefold" meaning to something, followed by only two arguments. No idea what the third was meant to be. So.... I guess it's "twofold" now #amwriting