Kristine Hunt
@henitsirk.bsky.social
I teach history (US & world) to undergrads. A scholarly copy editor for 20+ years. Northwest Editors Guild board secretary, Friends of the Lebanon (OR) Public Library vice-president. Gardener, cat wrangler. Opinions mine. She/her
On Santiam Kalapuya land
On Santiam Kalapuya land
Currently decompressing after the awesome @edsguild.bsky.social Red Pencil conference. I realized that there was a through line for me from the keynote and all the sessions I attended: editors need to lean in to their humanity and come from a place of compassion and empathy.
#EdsGuild2025
#EdsGuild2025
November 9, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Currently decompressing after the awesome @edsguild.bsky.social Red Pencil conference. I realized that there was a through line for me from the keynote and all the sessions I attended: editors need to lean in to their humanity and come from a place of compassion and empathy.
#EdsGuild2025
#EdsGuild2025
Such a great keynote address on AI and editing by @janefriedman.com at today's @edsguild.bsky.social Red Pencils conference.
One key takeaway: How we approach the issue is as important as the issue itself.
#editors #EdsGuild2025
One key takeaway: How we approach the issue is as important as the issue itself.
#editors #EdsGuild2025
Keynote on 'Editing in the Age of AI' at the Red Pencil Conference by @janefriedman.com who reminds us of 'Amara's Law (or the Law of Humility): we tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run'. #EdsGuild2025
November 8, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Such a great keynote address on AI and editing by @janefriedman.com at today's @edsguild.bsky.social Red Pencils conference.
One key takeaway: How we approach the issue is as important as the issue itself.
#editors #EdsGuild2025
One key takeaway: How we approach the issue is as important as the issue itself.
#editors #EdsGuild2025
Your conference might be cool, but I bet you don't have a giant pencil mascot photo opp. @edsguild.bsky.social's Red Pencil conference is the best!
#editors #EdsGuild2025
#editors #EdsGuild2025
November 8, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Your conference might be cool, but I bet you don't have a giant pencil mascot photo opp. @edsguild.bsky.social's Red Pencil conference is the best!
#editors #EdsGuild2025
#editors #EdsGuild2025
Since 2002 I've copyedited 282 scholarly books. Since 2018 I've taught history to many hundreds of college students. I'm proud of these contributions to society, and grateful to the public schools who taught me, and public colleges and unis who employ me.
#AmEditing #AmTeaching #historians
#AmEditing #AmTeaching #historians
October 30, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Since 2002 I've copyedited 282 scholarly books. Since 2018 I've taught history to many hundreds of college students. I'm proud of these contributions to society, and grateful to the public schools who taught me, and public colleges and unis who employ me.
#AmEditing #AmTeaching #historians
#AmEditing #AmTeaching #historians
Reposted by Kristine Hunt
In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.
October 19, 2025 at 1:44 AM
In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
Hey #editor folks: sign up for a fun event that helps fund scholarships to attend the Red Pencil conference! No need to be a Guild member or conference attendee.
Seriously, folks, you don't want to miss Giant Pencil's Pre–Red Pencil Virtual Trivia Night on 10/24!
✏️ Recorded so you can play along even if you can't join live
✏️ Open to all editors—don't have to be registered for Red Pencil to attend
✏️ Benefits Red Pencil scholarships
Info at bit.ly/GPSPRPVTN
✏️ Recorded so you can play along even if you can't join live
✏️ Open to all editors—don't have to be registered for Red Pencil to attend
✏️ Benefits Red Pencil scholarships
Info at bit.ly/GPSPRPVTN
October 14, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Hey #editor folks: sign up for a fun event that helps fund scholarships to attend the Red Pencil conference! No need to be a Guild member or conference attendee.
Quick reminder:
September 19, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Quick reminder:
Reposted by Kristine Hunt
This is the lead story in the New York Times. If you're in the business of communicating, whether through journalism, commentary, or art, this is the five-alarm fire. People are going to remember who spoke up and who stayed conveniently silent or postured about "neutrality."
September 18, 2025 at 8:53 PM
This is the lead story in the New York Times. If you're in the business of communicating, whether through journalism, commentary, or art, this is the five-alarm fire. People are going to remember who spoke up and who stayed conveniently silent or postured about "neutrality."
Y'all. This is the best editing conference. One day (and online), super friendly, tons of great sessions and networking.
You should go.
#editors #AmEditing
You should go.
#editors #AmEditing
Early Bird Registration is open for the #EdsGuild2025 Red Pencil Conference!
Join us in-person in Lynnwood (just north of Seattle) -OR- online 11/8 for a full day of sessions exploring editing and publishing trends, practical skills, the dizzying rise of AI, and more!
edsguild.org/red-pencil-2025
Join us in-person in Lynnwood (just north of Seattle) -OR- online 11/8 for a full day of sessions exploring editing and publishing trends, practical skills, the dizzying rise of AI, and more!
edsguild.org/red-pencil-2025
August 12, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Y'all. This is the best editing conference. One day (and online), super friendly, tons of great sessions and networking.
You should go.
#editors #AmEditing
You should go.
#editors #AmEditing
They're saying it out loud.
Whose heritage? Whose homeland?
Whose heritage? Whose homeland?
July 25, 2025 at 6:47 AM
They're saying it out loud.
Whose heritage? Whose homeland?
Whose heritage? Whose homeland?
Why I love being a scholarly book copyeditor: constant learning.
Current schedule = postcolonial Lebanon state formation, pro-Palestinian films, montage in postwar French films, politics of mobility, Muslim humanitarians, history of US antisemitism, early modern Jewish midwives.
#AmEditing
Current schedule = postcolonial Lebanon state formation, pro-Palestinian films, montage in postwar French films, politics of mobility, Muslim humanitarians, history of US antisemitism, early modern Jewish midwives.
#AmEditing
July 24, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Why I love being a scholarly book copyeditor: constant learning.
Current schedule = postcolonial Lebanon state formation, pro-Palestinian films, montage in postwar French films, politics of mobility, Muslim humanitarians, history of US antisemitism, early modern Jewish midwives.
#AmEditing
Current schedule = postcolonial Lebanon state formation, pro-Palestinian films, montage in postwar French films, politics of mobility, Muslim humanitarians, history of US antisemitism, early modern Jewish midwives.
#AmEditing
Today in Stuff I Do Not Want and Absolutely Never Asked For and Will Never Use.
#AmTeaching #historians
#AmTeaching #historians
“…faculty members will be able to click an icon that connects them with various AI features…, like a grading tool, a discussion-post summarizer… Canvas’s parent company, Instructure, is also in partnership w/ OpenAI… so instructors can use generative-AI technology as part of their assignments.”
Instructors Will Now See AI Throughout a Widely Used Course Software
New features integrated into Canvas include a grading assistant, a discussion-post summarizer, and even a way to pair assignments with generative AI tools.
www.chronicle.com
July 24, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Today in Stuff I Do Not Want and Absolutely Never Asked For and Will Never Use.
#AmTeaching #historians
#AmTeaching #historians
Reposted by Kristine Hunt
It's worth noticing the quiet works of grace that those around us do every day.
July 20, 2025 at 11:50 PM
It's worth noticing the quiet works of grace that those around us do every day.
I asked students in my US History I class to consider whether reform from within a system or creating something new is more effective. There are many examples of both, including the Revolutionary War, early labor movements like the Mill Girls, abolitionists, utopian communities, etc. #historians 1/
July 20, 2025 at 5:12 AM
I asked students in my US History I class to consider whether reform from within a system or creating something new is more effective. There are many examples of both, including the Revolutionary War, early labor movements like the Mill Girls, abolitionists, utopian communities, etc. #historians 1/
Reposted by Kristine Hunt
When you are feeling weary or despairing, remember that there are people in every corner of the world taking life affirming action in the direction of more justice. The fact that you can't see it all is a comfort because it means there is an excess of positive actions happening all at once. #onwards
July 14, 2025 at 1:03 AM
When you are feeling weary or despairing, remember that there are people in every corner of the world taking life affirming action in the direction of more justice. The fact that you can't see it all is a comfort because it means there is an excess of positive actions happening all at once. #onwards
I teach at a state university and two community colleges, one a designated Hispanic-serving institution. Glad to see this one protecting its students and employees.
🚨BREAKING: Cal State LA just moved classes online and let faculty work remotely, not for a storm, not for COVID, but because ICE is in the area.
Let that sink in, an entire university is treating immigration enforcement like a public health crisis.
Let that sink in, an entire university is treating immigration enforcement like a public health crisis.
July 13, 2025 at 1:16 AM
I teach at a state university and two community colleges, one a designated Hispanic-serving institution. Glad to see this one protecting its students and employees.
Amazing how that works :/
Very cool that cis people can just access hormones willy nilly but trans people have to jump through a million hoops to get the same exact treatment
Health clinics across America are serving up injections of testosterone. Men younger than 35 are the most eager customers
July 13, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Amazing how that works :/
Reposted by Kristine Hunt
Our commitment to one another and compassion may be the biggest weapon we've got against the fear L.A. is being targeted with. We've gotten dozens of questions about how you can help, including where to volunteer. We heard you, and we answered. lataco.com/los-angeles-...
July 10, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Our commitment to one another and compassion may be the biggest weapon we've got against the fear L.A. is being targeted with. We've gotten dozens of questions about how you can help, including where to volunteer. We heard you, and we answered. lataco.com/los-angeles-...
Assigned an essay on Revolutionary Era media bias & a prompt to write on how to evaluate news sources today. 2 said they don't look at any news (UGH), 1 said they don't question news because that's how they were brought up (UGH), & 2 wrote about "Florida man" articles (LOL). #historians #AmTeaching
July 10, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Assigned an essay on Revolutionary Era media bias & a prompt to write on how to evaluate news sources today. 2 said they don't look at any news (UGH), 1 said they don't question news because that's how they were brought up (UGH), & 2 wrote about "Florida man" articles (LOL). #historians #AmTeaching
Reposted by Kristine Hunt
I'm really asking everyone to please stop using Alligator Alcatraz. This is not a descriptor that makes sense. These are concentration camps.
July 8, 2025 at 10:35 PM
I'm really asking everyone to please stop using Alligator Alcatraz. This is not a descriptor that makes sense. These are concentration camps.
Grateful for my senator who is tirelessly doing this work and much more.
MERKLEY: How do you feel about being responsible for hundreds of thousands of kids dying because of your sudden interruption in these key programs?
VOUGHT: I reject the assertion
MERKLEY: I find your response both ignorant & callous. Few Americans have had a more devastating & disastrous impact
VOUGHT: I reject the assertion
MERKLEY: I find your response both ignorant & callous. Few Americans have had a more devastating & disastrous impact
June 27, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Grateful for my senator who is tirelessly doing this work and much more.
Reposted by Kristine Hunt
Hey people, it’s not funny to say that Christian fundamentalist radicals taking over the government are Sharia law.
We don’t need to engage in bigoted speech against our Muslim neighbors because the radical Christians are taking away our rights.
We don’t need to engage in bigoted speech against our Muslim neighbors because the radical Christians are taking away our rights.
June 27, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Hey people, it’s not funny to say that Christian fundamentalist radicals taking over the government are Sharia law.
We don’t need to engage in bigoted speech against our Muslim neighbors because the radical Christians are taking away our rights.
We don’t need to engage in bigoted speech against our Muslim neighbors because the radical Christians are taking away our rights.
Instagram too, please
A feature I’d like to see added to this app is the ability to search for people you follow based on a vague description of their profile picture when you forget what their name is
June 27, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Instagram too, please
June 27, 2025 at 5:54 AM