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Report: Unscrupulous scientists are using AI to flood journal editors with junk letters, inflating publishing tallies as a result
The Editor Got a Letter From ‘Dr. B.S.’ So Did a Lot of Other Editors.
www.nytimes.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Report: Unscrupulous scientists are using AI to flood journal editors with junk letters, inflating publishing tallies as a result
"If academic publishing is integral to institutional autonomy, what happens when this ecosystem is repeatedly undermined, financially and politically?"
Academic Funding, Academic Publishing, and Academic Freedom: An African Conundrum | African Arguments
Conditionalities and the possibility of academic freedom in the African University
africanarguments.org
October 21, 2025 at 9:57 AM
"If academic publishing is integral to institutional autonomy, what happens when this ecosystem is repeatedly undermined, financially and politically?"
Publishers use new book label to tout human creativity as a selling point.
Certified organic and AI-free: New stamp for human-written books launches
As machine-made books flood online marketplaces, a new UK initiative is introducing an Organic Literature stamp to help readers identify books created by real authors
www.theguardian.com
October 16, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Publishers use new book label to tout human creativity as a selling point.
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We hope to see you at #MLA26! The online program is live, registration is open, and more information is available at www.mla.org/Events/2026-....
October 14, 2025 at 6:38 PM
We hope to see you at #MLA26! The online program is live, registration is open, and more information is available at www.mla.org/Events/2026-....
"US libraries, universities, and bookstores rely for the delivery of books on a small number of very big profit-driven companies, many of them privately held, whose commitment to freedom of expression is at best uncertain."
There's a bigger threat to books than bans.
Access to e-books relies entirely on private distributors that have the power to shut them off at any moment.
www.cjr.org
September 17, 2025 at 6:57 PM
"US libraries, universities, and bookstores rely for the delivery of books on a small number of very big profit-driven companies, many of them privately held, whose commitment to freedom of expression is at best uncertain."
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Typos, tricks and misprints
Why is English spelling so weird and unpredictable? Don’t blame the mix of languages; look to quirks of timing and technology
by Arika Okrent
aeon.co/essays/why-i...
English language -- Dictionaries at PG:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subje...
#dictionaries
Why is English spelling so weird and unpredictable? Don’t blame the mix of languages; look to quirks of timing and technology
by Arika Okrent
aeon.co/essays/why-i...
English language -- Dictionaries at PG:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subje...
#dictionaries
September 10, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Typos, tricks and misprints
Why is English spelling so weird and unpredictable? Don’t blame the mix of languages; look to quirks of timing and technology
by Arika Okrent
aeon.co/essays/why-i...
English language -- Dictionaries at PG:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subje...
#dictionaries
Why is English spelling so weird and unpredictable? Don’t blame the mix of languages; look to quirks of timing and technology
by Arika Okrent
aeon.co/essays/why-i...
English language -- Dictionaries at PG:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subje...
#dictionaries
For funsies: A history of the Latin alphabet courtesy of UCLAB's ARETE project: uclab.fh-potsdam.de/arete/en
ARETE — Visual History of the Latin Alphabet
Interactive visualization of the history of the latin alphabet, showing the temporal and formal relationships of the different scripts and typefaces to each other
uclab.fh-potsdam.de
September 4, 2025 at 8:16 AM
For funsies: A history of the Latin alphabet courtesy of UCLAB's ARETE project: uclab.fh-potsdam.de/arete/en
"When dominant language excludes or flattens, new forms emerge."
Queer Language: Borrowed Grammar, Made-Up Words, and Chosen Family | Highbrow Magazine
Sometimes it sounds like inside jokes and borrowed vowels, like made-up grammar and pet names that mean everything and one thing at the same time. Sometimes it sounds like chosen family. Sometimes it ...
www.highbrowmagazine.com
August 29, 2025 at 8:54 AM
"When dominant language excludes or flattens, new forms emerge."
Womp, womp: The trombone emoji can’t arrive soon enough for my husband’s terrible dad jokes. Here’s a peek at some of the other emojis expected to debut next month.
🥳 Say Hello to the New Emoji Coming in Unicode 17.0 This Fall! ✨
From 🥹 to 🦖 to 🎸, emoji have become the world's favorite way to say anything—without saying a word. Whether you're texting your best frie...
blog.unicode.org
August 25, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Womp, womp: The trombone emoji can’t arrive soon enough for my husband’s terrible dad jokes. Here’s a peek at some of the other emojis expected to debut next month.
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Check out @lportwoodstacer.bsky.social's advice essay on what scholarly writers should focus on when preparing to send their work to publishers in @insidehighered.com, and learn more in her new book Make Your Manuscript Work (out now!)
Career Advice | The Good Enough Manuscript
Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good enough when it comes to sending your manuscript to a publisher, Laura Portwood-Stacer writes. bit.ly/3J8oJ4p
#EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky
Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good enough when it comes to sending your manuscript to a publisher, Laura Portwood-Stacer writes. bit.ly/3J8oJ4p
#EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky
The Good Enough Manuscript (opinion)
Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good enough when it comes to sending your manuscript to a publisher, Laura Portwood-Stacer writes.
bit.ly
August 8, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Check out @lportwoodstacer.bsky.social's advice essay on what scholarly writers should focus on when preparing to send their work to publishers in @insidehighered.com, and learn more in her new book Make Your Manuscript Work (out now!)
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Suspicious edits, and even entirely new articles, with errors, made-up citations and other hallmarks of AI-generated writing keep popping up on Wikipedia.
The site’s stewards are now toiling for long hours to find them and stamp them out.
The site’s stewards are now toiling for long hours to find them and stamp them out.
Volunteers fight to keep ‘AI slop’ off Wikipedia
Hundreds of Wikipedia articles may contain AI-generated errors. Editors are working around the clock to stamp them out.
www.washingtonpost.com
August 8, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Suspicious edits, and even entirely new articles, with errors, made-up citations and other hallmarks of AI-generated writing keep popping up on Wikipedia.
The site’s stewards are now toiling for long hours to find them and stamp them out.
The site’s stewards are now toiling for long hours to find them and stamp them out.
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Those who read our style tips often are good communicators.
Does that mean if you frequently read our tips, you are a good communicator?
Or that those who read our tips are often good communicators?
Can both be true? Of course. But be careful where you place a modifier if it can lead to confusion.
Does that mean if you frequently read our tips, you are a good communicator?
Or that those who read our tips are often good communicators?
Can both be true? Of course. But be careful where you place a modifier if it can lead to confusion.
August 7, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Those who read our style tips often are good communicators.
Does that mean if you frequently read our tips, you are a good communicator?
Or that those who read our tips are often good communicators?
Can both be true? Of course. But be careful where you place a modifier if it can lead to confusion.
Does that mean if you frequently read our tips, you are a good communicator?
Or that those who read our tips are often good communicators?
Can both be true? Of course. But be careful where you place a modifier if it can lead to confusion.
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Should ideas be owned like physical objects, or are these property rights different? How can societies encourage innovation while making ideas accessible for the greater good? Watch this animated TED-Ed short examining philosophers’ perspectives on intellectual property rights through history
What’s an idea worth? How prominent thinkers have understood intellectual property | Aeon Videos
Should it be possible to own an idea? The debate around intellectual property has deep roots in the history of philosophy
buff.ly
August 6, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Should ideas be owned like physical objects, or are these property rights different? How can societies encourage innovation while making ideas accessible for the greater good? Watch this animated TED-Ed short examining philosophers’ perspectives on intellectual property rights through history
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AP's course Write Your Way to Success kicks off at 11 a.m. Eastern this morning with the first of four live sessions There's still time to join some of AP's top writers and editors to build your writing skills.
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Write Your Way to Success
In this four-part course, top writers and editors from The Associated Press show you how effective writing – and the things that go into it – can point the way toward better outcomes in your own…
store.stylebooks.com
August 5, 2025 at 1:52 PM
AP's course Write Your Way to Success kicks off at 11 a.m. Eastern this morning with the first of four live sessions There's still time to join some of AP's top writers and editors to build your writing skills.
store.stylebooks.com/write-your-w...
store.stylebooks.com/write-your-w...
✍️ Punctuation marks and editorial emotional intelligence. That’s where we come in.
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Are You a Hostile Punctuator???
We asked experts how to tell—and how to fix it.
time.com
August 1, 2025 at 5:41 PM
✍️ Punctuation marks and editorial emotional intelligence. That’s where we come in.
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For those wondering why # is called "pound." 🤔
Centuries ago, the two letters 'lb' were commonly written in English usage as ‘℔.’
When it was written quickly, it resembled ‘#.’
Which may be why ‘#’ is sometimes called a ‘pound sign.’
When it was written quickly, it resembled ‘#.’
Which may be why ‘#’ is sometimes called a ‘pound sign.’
July 24, 2025 at 5:11 PM
For those wondering why # is called "pound." 🤔
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July 23, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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