Jennifer Holmes
@jenmededit.bsky.social
Freelance Medical Writer and Editor | Bookworm | Communicating science well--for healthy people and a healthy planet 🌳
Small steps you can start today to future-proof your #freelance career.
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5 Ways to Build a Resilient Freelance Career in the Dawn of AI
How to create dynamic and sustainable work world during times of change.
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November 5, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Small steps you can start today to future-proof your #freelance career.
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An interesting study! The findings suggest that my use of an exclamation point lends a friendly tone, but also makes it more likely that you (the reader) will conclude I am female.
#amediting #grammar #communication
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#amediting #grammar #communication
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Nice to meet you.(!) Gendered norms in punctuation usage
People face a myriad of daily decisions about how to communicate, especially in today's digital world. We consider the decision to use exclamation poi…
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November 4, 2025 at 2:49 PM
An interesting study! The findings suggest that my use of an exclamation point lends a friendly tone, but also makes it more likely that you (the reader) will conclude I am female.
#amediting #grammar #communication
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#amediting #grammar #communication
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Some @theguardian.com coverage! Women use exclamation marks 3x more than men—not from extra joy, but to avoid sounding unfriendly 😬 Online, neutrality reads as hostility, so warmth is outsourced to punctuation!! BUT it boosts likability and can hurt credibility
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Exclamation marks! Why do women use them three times as much as men?
It’s the punctuation that can make you seem warmer and more agreeable – but also much more compliant and lacking in analytical thinking
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October 29, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Some @theguardian.com coverage! Women use exclamation marks 3x more than men—not from extra joy, but to avoid sounding unfriendly 😬 Online, neutrality reads as hostility, so warmth is outsourced to punctuation!! BUT it boosts likability and can hurt credibility
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
How hard is it to correct the record on junk science? Here’s @drkatiesuleta.bsky.social with her experience—starting in summer of 2024—corresponding with a journal to get a flawed autism study corrected www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...
#scipub #publications #journals
#scipub #publications #journals
Opinion | A Journal Promised to Retract a Flawed Autism Study. It's Still Online.
Junk science leaves an indelible mark
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November 3, 2025 at 4:57 PM
How hard is it to correct the record on junk science? Here’s @drkatiesuleta.bsky.social with her experience—starting in summer of 2024—corresponding with a journal to get a flawed autism study corrected www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...
#scipub #publications #journals
#scipub #publications #journals
“In one sentence you can appreciate the words an author selected, the order in which they appear, the connections they make, and the sound and visual effects they generate.”
A meta sentence for #SundaySentence from 25 GREAT SENTENCES AND HOW THEY GOT THAT WAY, by Geraldine Woods
A meta sentence for #SundaySentence from 25 GREAT SENTENCES AND HOW THEY GOT THAT WAY, by Geraldine Woods
November 2, 2025 at 1:08 PM
“In one sentence you can appreciate the words an author selected, the order in which they appear, the connections they make, and the sound and visual effects they generate.”
A meta sentence for #SundaySentence from 25 GREAT SENTENCES AND HOW THEY GOT THAT WAY, by Geraldine Woods
A meta sentence for #SundaySentence from 25 GREAT SENTENCES AND HOW THEY GOT THAT WAY, by Geraldine Woods
Kudos to Mpix for this holiday card #grammar advice on how to pluralize your last name 🙌
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The golden rule of holiday cards...
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October 30, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Kudos to Mpix for this holiday card #grammar advice on how to pluralize your last name 🙌
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Join us Thursdays at #humansOfBlueSky and Broadcast this so more people join Show photos about friends , strangers, candid or portraits as board as you imagine
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#storytelling #luiscordobapharchive #eastcoastkin #art #scape #photography #portrait #relax #beach
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#storytelling #luiscordobapharchive #eastcoastkin #art #scape #photography #portrait #relax #beach
October 23, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Join us Thursdays at #humansOfBlueSky and Broadcast this so more people join Show photos about friends , strangers, candid or portraits as board as you imagine
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#storytelling #luiscordobapharchive #eastcoastkin #art #scape #photography #portrait #relax #beach
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#storytelling #luiscordobapharchive #eastcoastkin #art #scape #photography #portrait #relax #beach
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One of my favorite indie bookstores, Fabled Bookshop in Waco, TX, has awesome book displays and makes it easy to “shop the display” from afar. Click here for a newsletter filled with spooky and magical fall reads.
#booksky
One of my favorite indie bookstores, Fabled Bookshop in Waco, TX, has awesome book displays and makes it easy to “shop the display” from afar. Click here for a newsletter filled with spooky and magical fall reads.
#booksky
A Dash of Pumpkin 🍁
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October 16, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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One of my favorite indie bookstores, Fabled Bookshop in Waco, TX, has awesome book displays and makes it easy to “shop the display” from afar. Click here for a newsletter filled with spooky and magical fall reads.
#booksky
One of my favorite indie bookstores, Fabled Bookshop in Waco, TX, has awesome book displays and makes it easy to “shop the display” from afar. Click here for a newsletter filled with spooky and magical fall reads.
#booksky
Far more authors use AI to write science papers than admit it, publisher reports | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Far more authors use AI to write science papers than admit it, publisher reports
Finding highlights promise, questions about detectors of AI-generated text
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October 16, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Far more authors use AI to write science papers than admit it, publisher reports | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Good reminders here to celebrate your wins. But yes, I did mostly click on the article thanks to the cute cover image of a bunny and chicks. 🐥
#freelancelife #worklife
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#freelancelife #worklife
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Feeling out of place? How to beat impostor syndrome
Do you struggle to take a compliment? Cringe at your own achievements? From celebrating your wins to embracing your failures, these top tips will help you banish self-doubt
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October 10, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Good reminders here to celebrate your wins. But yes, I did mostly click on the article thanks to the cute cover image of a bunny and chicks. 🐥
#freelancelife #worklife
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#freelancelife #worklife
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This week, we lost one of the world’s greatest advocates for people and nature. Even in her final days, Dr. Jane Goodall was urging us not to give up, and now her legacy lives on through the countless voices she inspired.
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Jane Goodall's final lesson
Honoring Jane Goodall's life, Pope Leo's first climate address, and finding hope in action
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October 8, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Here’s a list from Hachette for Banned Books Week. #ReadBannedBooks
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Banned Books Week: 10 Banned & Challenged Crime Fiction Books
Whether it’s buying a new book, reading an old classic, or just appreciating all these amazing books. Discover crime fiction titles that have been banned or challenged over the years—and show…
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October 7, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Here’s a list from Hachette for Banned Books Week. #ReadBannedBooks
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Posting my latest pile of #books on this quiet Sunday morning. I’d like to challenge you to post yours too:
#BlueBrewBooks #BookSky #EastCoastKin
#BlueBrewBooks #BookSky #EastCoastKin
September 21, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Posting my latest pile of #books on this quiet Sunday morning. I’d like to challenge you to post yours too:
#BlueBrewBooks #BookSky #EastCoastKin
#BlueBrewBooks #BookSky #EastCoastKin
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I made another attempt at providing some insight into the journals process
(To prevent procrastination, I didn’t proofread it. So don’t judge it too harshly)
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(To prevent procrastination, I didn’t proofread it. So don’t judge it too harshly)
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Rejection doesn't mean your paper was bad
It's disappointing, but try to not take it personally.
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October 3, 2025 at 4:05 PM
I made another attempt at providing some insight into the journals process
(To prevent procrastination, I didn’t proofread it. So don’t judge it too harshly)
open.substack.com/pub/onisillo...
(To prevent procrastination, I didn’t proofread it. So don’t judge it too harshly)
open.substack.com/pub/onisillo...
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What’s your sign?
September 30, 2025 at 4:57 PM
What’s your sign?
My favorite reads always have a strong sense of place. #amwriting #booksky
Unsolicited writing advice, no. 4783: Place affects every aspect of a story. It shapes your characters, their relationships, their habits, their clothing, their culture, their food. Try thinking of place as a character, and count all the ways you can make your human characters interact with it.
September 29, 2025 at 11:29 AM
My favorite reads always have a strong sense of place. #amwriting #booksky
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Speaking of #SundaySentence, nearly every one of the sentences in this brilliant piece by @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social is worthy of the hashtag. Read it and weep through the laughter.
My dearest wife,
It is week two of the Siege of Portland, and still these barbarians will not yield to our troops. We have severed the cords of their latte machines but they are making cowboy coffee in their camps, where loud ukulele songs of resistance even now drift in on the breeze.
It is week two of the Siege of Portland, and still these barbarians will not yield to our troops. We have severed the cords of their latte machines but they are making cowboy coffee in their camps, where loud ukulele songs of resistance even now drift in on the breeze.
Letter from the Portland War Front (humor about something deadly serious)
My dearest wife,
It is week two of the Siege of Portland, and still these barbarians will not yield to our troops. We have severed the cords of their latte machines but they are making cowboy coffee ...
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September 28, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Speaking of #SundaySentence, nearly every one of the sentences in this brilliant piece by @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social is worthy of the hashtag. Read it and weep through the laughter.
“The buds on the peony were filling now, like tight green scoops of ice cream with a hint of raspberry peeking through.”—THE PLACE OF TIDES, by James Rebanks
#SundaySentence
#SundaySentence
September 28, 2025 at 1:01 PM
“The buds on the peony were filling now, like tight green scoops of ice cream with a hint of raspberry peeking through.”—THE PLACE OF TIDES, by James Rebanks
#SundaySentence
#SundaySentence
September 27, 2025 at 4:43 PM
An excellent source on using language consciously: The Conscious Language Newsletter
#language #amediting
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#language #amediting
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The Conscious Language Newsletter: September 2025
Advanced methods for detecting AI-generated fakes.
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September 26, 2025 at 11:14 AM
An excellent source on using language consciously: The Conscious Language Newsletter
#language #amediting
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#language #amediting
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Reading for empathy: John Alba Cutler, a faculty member at UC Berkeley, recommends 3 books to better understand the experience of undocumented people
#booksky
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#booksky
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Perspective: Can you still recognize dehumanizing language when you hear it?
Even more than discarding certain ways of speaking, learning people’s full stories is what opens up the floodgates of empathy so missing in America today.
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September 26, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Reading for empathy: John Alba Cutler, a faculty member at UC Berkeley, recommends 3 books to better understand the experience of undocumented people
#booksky
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#booksky
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List 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours with no prep:
1. Books I’m currently reading
2. Books I just finished reading
3. Books I’m going to read next
#booksky
1. Books I’m currently reading
2. Books I just finished reading
3. Books I’m going to read next
#booksky
List 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours without prep:
1. What the hell happened to RWA.
2. Editing fiction, & how it differs from editing nonfiction.
3. What the romance genre is doing now + bangers of yore.
(I know this is all ridiculously on-brand for me but there you go.)
#Romancelandia
1. What the hell happened to RWA.
2. Editing fiction, & how it differs from editing nonfiction.
3. What the romance genre is doing now + bangers of yore.
(I know this is all ridiculously on-brand for me but there you go.)
#Romancelandia
List 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours without prep:
1. British shows on streaming and where to find them.
2. The rise in popularity of political pantos in the 21st century
3. Star Trek & Doctor Who as cultural bellwethers of their respective countries.
1. British shows on streaming and where to find them.
2. The rise in popularity of political pantos in the 21st century
3. Star Trek & Doctor Who as cultural bellwethers of their respective countries.
September 25, 2025 at 10:43 PM
List 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours with no prep:
1. Books I’m currently reading
2. Books I just finished reading
3. Books I’m going to read next
#booksky
1. Books I’m currently reading
2. Books I just finished reading
3. Books I’m going to read next
#booksky
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Introducing Every Stage Health, your go-to online resource for evidence-based patient health information you can trust. From puberty to menopause and beyond, get the expert answers you need at EveryStageHealth.org.
September 25, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Introducing Every Stage Health, your go-to online resource for evidence-based patient health information you can trust. From puberty to menopause and beyond, get the expert answers you need at EveryStageHealth.org.
I found it interesting that large author groups (10 or more) had a higher acceptance rate.
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Whose papers have an edge at Science? In unusual study, journal looks in the mirror | Science #scipub #research www.science.org/content/arti...
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Whose papers have an edge at Science? In unusual study, journal looks in the mirror | Science #scipub #research www.science.org/content/arti...
Whose papers have an edge at Science? In unusual study, journal looks in the mirror
Confidential data show being in the U.S., at a prestigious institution, and in a large team all may help
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September 25, 2025 at 11:12 AM
I found it interesting that large author groups (10 or more) had a higher acceptance rate.
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Whose papers have an edge at Science? In unusual study, journal looks in the mirror | Science #scipub #research www.science.org/content/arti...
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Whose papers have an edge at Science? In unusual study, journal looks in the mirror | Science #scipub #research www.science.org/content/arti...