SciEditor—Adrienne Montgomerie
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Awesomer of hard words, teacher of tech and editors, sea-kayaker, SciEditor.ca, eiw365.com
Editing "fun facts" about shark reproduction today. Theme song!
baby shark do do doo do do doo do do doo do do doo do do doo do do doo
Alt: Spoof video of tickling a kitten that reacts surprised, but it's a "baby shark, do do doo do-do doo!"
media.tenor.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Editing "fun facts" about shark reproduction today. Theme song!
Strange week:
1) Hired to vet content and 10% of refs turn out to be hallucinated.
2) Perusing copyeditor jobs for potential clients, and 100% are seeking a copyeditor to train their AI.
Same job at base; different endpoint.
1) Hired to vet content and 10% of refs turn out to be hallucinated.
2) Perusing copyeditor jobs for potential clients, and 100% are seeking a copyeditor to train their AI.
Same job at base; different endpoint.
November 7, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Strange week:
1) Hired to vet content and 10% of refs turn out to be hallucinated.
2) Perusing copyeditor jobs for potential clients, and 100% are seeking a copyeditor to train their AI.
Same job at base; different endpoint.
1) Hired to vet content and 10% of refs turn out to be hallucinated.
2) Perusing copyeditor jobs for potential clients, and 100% are seeking a copyeditor to train their AI.
Same job at base; different endpoint.
TFW it takes you a couple of hours to access MS Office because your org changed the account logins and it took that long to figure out and follow the process to re-set-up 2fa. 🤨 At least they're paying the subscription!
November 7, 2025 at 4:16 PM
TFW it takes you a couple of hours to access MS Office because your org changed the account logins and it took that long to figure out and follow the process to re-set-up 2fa. 🤨 At least they're paying the subscription!
Diacritics in references but not in citations—does anyone know the history of why this is common style? I suspect it's about not having enough ö, æ, or ñ in the printer's cases to put them in every citation, back in the day. But today the inconsistency makes the find function not work.
November 5, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Diacritics in references but not in citations—does anyone know the history of why this is common style? I suspect it's about not having enough ö, æ, or ñ in the printer's cases to put them in every citation, back in the day. But today the inconsistency makes the find function not work.
Everyone's talking again about MS craping your files and email to train its AI. Installed versions too, not just Office cloud. The rights they take are nested under "connected experiences" and you can turn that off in the privacy settings (if you trust that). eiw365.com/stop-word-fr...
Stop Word from Scraping Your Content to Train its AI | Editing in Word
eiw365.com
November 3, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Everyone's talking again about MS craping your files and email to train its AI. Installed versions too, not just Office cloud. The rights they take are nested under "connected experiences" and you can turn that off in the privacy settings (if you trust that). eiw365.com/stop-word-fr...
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Conscious Style Guide is on Bluesky! What to expect: posts that help you think critically about language and design as tools for equity and self-expression.
Check out the whole family of resources:
Book | Website | Community | Newsletter
By @karenyin.bsky.social 🌷
Check out the whole family of resources:
Book | Website | Community | Newsletter
By @karenyin.bsky.social 🌷
The Conscious Style Guide: A Flexible Approach to Language That Includes, Respects, and Empowers - Karen Yin
The Conscious Style Guide provides a roadmap for communicating with sensitivity and awareness—no matter how the world around us progresses.
karenyin.com
October 31, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Conscious Style Guide is on Bluesky! What to expect: posts that help you think critically about language and design as tools for equity and self-expression.
Check out the whole family of resources:
Book | Website | Community | Newsletter
By @karenyin.bsky.social 🌷
Check out the whole family of resources:
Book | Website | Community | Newsletter
By @karenyin.bsky.social 🌷
In case you're wondering how reliable the MS Word "similarity check" is in its "Editor" function: it just found 10 similarities to online content in a file that is just website text collated into 46 pages. ALT: It should have flagged almost every line as existing online verbatim, but did not.
October 28, 2025 at 6:39 PM
In case you're wondering how reliable the MS Word "similarity check" is in its "Editor" function: it just found 10 similarities to online content in a file that is just website text collated into 46 pages. ALT: It should have flagged almost every line as existing online verbatim, but did not.
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🎙️ Running an Editorial Agency—a live panel with four agency owners sharing their different models.
Thinking about starting an agency? Or just curious how they work? This one's for you.
Tues., Oct. 28 | 1:45 pm ET
Register: zurl.co/MJlCO
#AmEditing #FreelanceEditing #SmallBusiness
Thinking about starting an agency? Or just curious how they work? This one's for you.
Tues., Oct. 28 | 1:45 pm ET
Register: zurl.co/MJlCO
#AmEditing #FreelanceEditing #SmallBusiness
October 24, 2025 at 4:00 PM
🎙️ Running an Editorial Agency—a live panel with four agency owners sharing their different models.
Thinking about starting an agency? Or just curious how they work? This one's for you.
Tues., Oct. 28 | 1:45 pm ET
Register: zurl.co/MJlCO
#AmEditing #FreelanceEditing #SmallBusiness
Thinking about starting an agency? Or just curious how they work? This one's for you.
Tues., Oct. 28 | 1:45 pm ET
Register: zurl.co/MJlCO
#AmEditing #FreelanceEditing #SmallBusiness
Should this be termed GABA gender assigned by airline) or GABGA (gender assigned by gate attendant)? File under "more impotent noise as their republic crumbles"
17 Oct 2025 -- Trump admin is going to make airlines guess the gender of international traveler who present passports with an "X" designation because US Customs and Border Protection will still require a binary input into its systems. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social
President will now force airlines to guess passengers' genders if they have X gender markers - LGBTQ Nation
US customs will no longer accept X gender markers in their system despite people still having those passports.
www.lgbtqnation.com
October 18, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Should this be termed GABA gender assigned by airline) or GABGA (gender assigned by gate attendant)? File under "more impotent noise as their republic crumbles"
#EditorsPreventThis Workers spend ~2 hr/incident trying to make useful sense of AI crap ("slop") they're given. It leaves them annoyed & confused; resentful of the wasted time & thinking colleagues who generated it incompetent (Harvard Business Review).
gizmodo.com/workslop-ai-... HT @Geoff Hart
gizmodo.com/workslop-ai-... HT @Geoff Hart
'Workslop': AI-Generated Work Content Is Slowing Everything Down
AI slop has infiltrated the workplace, costing companies time and money.
gizmodo.com
October 18, 2025 at 2:05 PM
#EditorsPreventThis Workers spend ~2 hr/incident trying to make useful sense of AI crap ("slop") they're given. It leaves them annoyed & confused; resentful of the wasted time & thinking colleagues who generated it incompetent (Harvard Business Review).
gizmodo.com/workslop-ai-... HT @Geoff Hart
gizmodo.com/workslop-ai-... HT @Geoff Hart
I'm coming over to borrow your scissors – to open these scissors
October 17, 2025 at 2:33 PM
I'm coming over to borrow your scissors – to open these scissors
Even the nest LLMs ("AI") are making up as much as 20% of their answers, so beware of 1–9. But #10 they're pretty good at! Just use a "compare docs" for a quick check for shenanigans.
Been wanting to try genAI but loathe to put your client work into an AI tool? Editor Marcella Fecteau Weiner has some ideas for you: www.marcellaweiner.com/editing-with...
#AmEditing #FreelanceEditing
#AmEditing #FreelanceEditing
Using AI Without Uploading a Thing — Marcella Fecteau Weiner | Editor
Learn 10 safe ways editors can use AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude to improve editing workflows without uploading client files.
www.marcellaweiner.com
October 17, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Even the nest LLMs ("AI") are making up as much as 20% of their answers, so beware of 1–9. But #10 they're pretty good at! Just use a "compare docs" for a quick check for shenanigans.
I've been reading through this excellent resource, adding readings to all my editing courses. Don't let the "accessibility" tag make you think this isn't for all readers. It is! A great guide to clear and effective communication (aka "plain language"). accessible.canada.ca/creating-acc...
CAN-ASC-3.1:2025 – Plain Language - Accessibility Standards Canada
accessible.canada.ca
October 15, 2025 at 9:17 PM
I've been reading through this excellent resource, adding readings to all my editing courses. Don't let the "accessibility" tag make you think this isn't for all readers. It is! A great guide to clear and effective communication (aka "plain language"). accessible.canada.ca/creating-acc...
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Fast, cheap work often sacrifices quality, especially in writing and editing. If quality matters, this edition of The Writing Resource explains why trying to have it all is a trap for clients and professionals. www.righttouchediting.com/20...
Why You Can’t Have Fast, Good, and Cheap - Right Touch Editing
When you have to choose two options from "fast, good, and cheap," what do you get?
www.righttouchediting.com
October 9, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Fast, cheap work often sacrifices quality, especially in writing and editing. If quality matters, this edition of The Writing Resource explains why trying to have it all is a trap for clients and professionals. www.righttouchediting.com/20...
Book publishing—where almost 85% of the workers do not identify as "male" and pay has about equalized overall. Results of the 2024 Canadian Book Publishing Industry Salary Survey publishers.ca/2024-salary-...
October 10, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Book publishing—where almost 85% of the workers do not identify as "male" and pay has about equalized overall. Results of the 2024 Canadian Book Publishing Industry Salary Survey publishers.ca/2024-salary-...
Deloitte is refunding the final payment due to "substandard work," but still says the AI errors and fabrications "in no way impact or affect the substantive content, findings and recommendations in the report". An editor could have caught this for them! www.financialexpress.com/world-news/d...
Deloitte admits to using AI in $440k report, to repay Australian govt after multiple errors spotted
Deloitte will partially refund the Australian government after its AI-assisted welfare review report contained multiple errors.
www.financialexpress.com
October 9, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Deloitte is refunding the final payment due to "substandard work," but still says the AI errors and fabrications "in no way impact or affect the substantive content, findings and recommendations in the report". An editor could have caught this for them! www.financialexpress.com/world-news/d...
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#Researchers everywhere, including my #authors around the world, here is an article about how to determine whether a #journal is #predatory and is one that you do not want to submit your articles to. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Hat tip to Ivan Oransky: tinyurl.com/4z9btkrd
www.tandfonline.com
October 3, 2025 at 1:32 PM
#Researchers everywhere, including my #authors around the world, here is an article about how to determine whether a #journal is #predatory and is one that you do not want to submit your articles to. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Hat tip to Ivan Oransky: tinyurl.com/4z9btkrd
On-demand training (prerecorded)
Join my 90-minute webinar to learn how to improve readability in nonfiction texts, user directions, and websites. Discover what readability is, how to measure it, and editing strategies. Don't miss this opportunity to advocate for your readers! zurl.co/wbr22
#EditorTraining #EditingForReadability
#EditorTraining #EditingForReadability
October 8, 2025 at 6:34 PM
On-demand training (prerecorded)
Connecting the quotes in your writing to WHICH of the given references each is from is what makes a citation. Just listing them isn't enough. scieditor.ca/2024/09/chec...
Checklist for Citations and References – Right Angels and Polo Bears
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October 2, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Connecting the quotes in your writing to WHICH of the given references each is from is what makes a citation. Just listing them isn't enough. scieditor.ca/2024/09/chec...
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brb asking my publisher for an edition of Because Internet that makes the dialup screech as you open it, like a novelty birthday card, and gradually heats up the longer you read it
no no the publishing industry is doing fine, why do you ask
October 2, 2025 at 4:00 PM
brb asking my publisher for an edition of Because Internet that makes the dialup screech as you open it, like a novelty birthday card, and gradually heats up the longer you read it
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Got AI? Better get a human editor too. @madamgrammar.bsky.social explains why: www.poynter.org/commentary/2...
#BizTips #WritingTips
#BizTips #WritingTips
AI is everywhere. Editors should be, too. - Poynter
Human oversight is the only safeguard against AI’s errors, blind spots and fabrications reaching the public
www.poynter.org
September 30, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Got AI? Better get a human editor too. @madamgrammar.bsky.social explains why: www.poynter.org/commentary/2...
#BizTips #WritingTips
#BizTips #WritingTips
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If you know how to read and it's not too inconvenient, look at this:
thewalrus.ca/trc-introduc...
thewalrus.ca/trc-introduc...
The Stark Reality Ten Years after the Truth and Reconciliation Report | The Walrus
“We have to wonder: should we just abandon ‘reconciliation’ altogether?”
thewalrus.ca
September 30, 2025 at 2:13 PM
If you know how to read and it's not too inconvenient, look at this:
thewalrus.ca/trc-introduc...
thewalrus.ca/trc-introduc...
In this day and age, explaining to my "law in publishing" students the difference between non-copyrightable "facts" and "the 'fact that' someone said xyz means that xyz words are not copyrightable" is proving challenging. #facts
September 29, 2025 at 12:27 PM
In this day and age, explaining to my "law in publishing" students the difference between non-copyrightable "facts" and "the 'fact that' someone said xyz means that xyz words are not copyrightable" is proving challenging. #facts
I would like this, please. My dentist is awesome, surely she should add this service!
This is Annie. She is a dental therapy dog. Her job is to help patients experiencing anxiety by providing emotional support. While dentists go through years of schooling to treat patients Annie is able to lower their blood pressure and reduce anxiety just by being there. 14/10 (TT: funny.bunny9215)
September 26, 2025 at 10:48 PM
I would like this, please. My dentist is awesome, surely she should add this service!
I stopped habitually checking my mailbox beside my entry door ~2 years ago. Without home delivery, I might think to check it quarterly; or, more likely, only when someone calls to tell me they sent snail mail — much like my personal email box is out of mind. How about you? www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Liberal government instructs Canada Post to end home delivery, close some post offices | CBC News
With Canada Post on track to lose $1.5 billion in 2025 and contract discussions between the union and the corporation stalled, the federal government is embarking on a modernization plan it says will ...
www.cbc.ca
September 26, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I stopped habitually checking my mailbox beside my entry door ~2 years ago. Without home delivery, I might think to check it quarterly; or, more likely, only when someone calls to tell me they sent snail mail — much like my personal email box is out of mind. How about you? www.cbc.ca/news/politic...