Kristy Ironside
@kristyironside.bsky.social
I had this happen to me too. The copyeditor kept returning the piece with egregious errors inserted. Either it was AI or whoever was copyediting was being paid piece rates. The copyediting process dragged out over weeks, so I fail to see how this is more "efficient."
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 12:58 PM
I had this happen to me too. The copyeditor kept returning the piece with egregious errors inserted. Either it was AI or whoever was copyediting was being paid piece rates. The copyediting process dragged out over weeks, so I fail to see how this is more "efficient."
My department is crowdfunding today to support its Graduate Excellence Fund. We need another $15,000 CAD before the fund can start paying out scholarships. If you are McGill alumni, or just want to support history graduate students, please consider donating! crowdfunding.mcgill.ca/ui/main/p/GE...
crowdfunding.mcgill.ca
March 12, 2025 at 11:48 AM
My department is crowdfunding today to support its Graduate Excellence Fund. We need another $15,000 CAD before the fund can start paying out scholarships. If you are McGill alumni, or just want to support history graduate students, please consider donating! crowdfunding.mcgill.ca/ui/main/p/GE...
A huge loss for our field.
Since the 1950s, Summer Language Workshops at Indiana University have provided training in Russian, East European, and Central Asian languages. Generations have come to Bloomington to study Romanian, Polish, Kazakh, etc.
Rubio just cancelled all of them
languageworkshop.indiana.edu/summer-langu...
Rubio just cancelled all of them
languageworkshop.indiana.edu/summer-langu...
Title VIII: Funding: Summer Language Workshop: Language Workshop: Indiana University Bloomington
Title VIII Fellowships
languageworkshop.indiana.edu
February 27, 2025 at 9:42 PM
A huge loss for our field.
I would like to know what's up with the increasing number of emails I receive from publicity firms offering to help me (for a fee) publicize my book reviews or republish them in other journals. That isn't, umm, how book reviews work. Is this malfunctioning AI?
January 13, 2025 at 4:14 PM
I would like to know what's up with the increasing number of emails I receive from publicity firms offering to help me (for a fee) publicize my book reviews or republish them in other journals. That isn't, umm, how book reviews work. Is this malfunctioning AI?
It's a new year, and I'm doing some housekeeping for @russianreview.bsky.social as its Hist/SocSci book review editor. If you would like to review for us, please let us know by filling out this google form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F.... This will help me update our reviewer list! Thanks!
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January 6, 2025 at 5:11 PM
It's a new year, and I'm doing some housekeeping for @russianreview.bsky.social as its Hist/SocSci book review editor. If you would like to review for us, please let us know by filling out this google form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F.... This will help me update our reviewer list! Thanks!
Help a book review editor out! Who is working on post-Soviet and contemporary Russian media (news, internet, digital media, etc.) who might be interested in reviewing books for @russianreview.bsky.social? Hoping to update my list because right now it is pretty small.
December 3, 2024 at 8:21 PM
Help a book review editor out! Who is working on post-Soviet and contemporary Russian media (news, internet, digital media, etc.) who might be interested in reviewing books for @russianreview.bsky.social? Hoping to update my list because right now it is pretty small.
The ruble is collapsing again and I don't have the energy to write another op-ed about the long history of ruble collapses, so here is the last one. And this probably won't be the last time, either. www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022...
Perspective | The ruble has plummeted. It’s not the first time.
Ordinary people in Russia are shouldering the economic consequences of Putin’s war.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 27, 2024 at 8:24 PM
The ruble is collapsing again and I don't have the energy to write another op-ed about the long history of ruble collapses, so here is the last one. And this probably won't be the last time, either. www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022...
Reposted by Kristy Ironside
a very interesting chapter by @kristyironside.bsky.social and more to discover!
doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...
doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...
Consumer Prices, Surplus Cash, and the Struggle to Raise Living Standards in the Postwar Soviet Union
AbstractThis chapter surveys the Soviet government’s attempts to use consumer price policy to balance the population’s income and expenses, and thus raise
doi.org
November 27, 2024 at 1:23 PM
a very interesting chapter by @kristyironside.bsky.social and more to discover!
doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...
doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...
Soviet Econ historians, is there a source I can cite on how the Komsomol ended up, by the late Soviet period, being extremely entrepreneurial and market-savvy? I feel like this is commonly known, but I can't think of a source that outright says this.
November 19, 2024 at 3:35 PM
Soviet Econ historians, is there a source I can cite on how the Komsomol ended up, by the late Soviet period, being extremely entrepreneurial and market-savvy? I feel like this is commonly known, but I can't think of a source that outright says this.
I'm giving a talk on my McDonald's in Russia book project today at the Harriman Institute. Hope to see some of you there! harriman.columbia.edu/event/mcdona...
October 3, 2023 at 1:14 PM
I'm giving a talk on my McDonald's in Russia book project today at the Harriman Institute. Hope to see some of you there! harriman.columbia.edu/event/mcdona...
My review essay on Ekaterina Pravilova's excellent The Ruble: A Political History, as well as on contemporary ruble politics, is out in the newest issue of Current History. online.ucpress.edu/currenthisto...
September 28, 2023 at 11:49 PM
My review essay on Ekaterina Pravilova's excellent The Ruble: A Political History, as well as on contemporary ruble politics, is out in the newest issue of Current History. online.ucpress.edu/currenthisto...