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Bridgette Werner | Developmental Editor

@drbwerner.bsky.social

Developmental & line editor for academic authors. Historian of Latin America. Former postdoc @Princeton. PhD @UWMadison. She/Her. views mine. https://www.throughlineediting.com/

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Bridgette Werner | Developmental Editor@drbwerner.bsky.social · 5mo ago

My work email is now trying to "polish my writing" (ew, no) but also *not* checking it for spelling. I need the spelling check for the typos, friends - undo, cntrl z, I don't want the computer's opinion on polishing, I want the computer to tell me when I typed "polishgin" instead of "polishing".

Amy Sherman@andcleverness.bsky.social · 5mo ago

there are so many great existing tools that work well, keep you in control of your work, and don't violate the trust between you and the author. all I've seen in ai uses for editing (all types) so far are worse solutions to already-solved problems

Tanya Gold | Editor & Translator 💕📚 (they/iel)@tanyagold.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I'm all for using ethical efficiency tools like macros, wildcards, and text expanders in developmental editing. But the thinking, the craft, the expertise, the customized support—that's why writers hire human editors, not a plagiarism machine that spits out generic and frequently incorrect advice.

Bridgette Werner | Developmental Editor@drbwerner.bsky.social · 5mo ago

"By and large, they expressed the view that reliance on artificial intelligence is fundamentally antithetical to the development of human intelligence they are tasked with guiding." LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK.

‘I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff’: professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AI

As AI has upended the way students learn, academics worry about the future of the humanities - and society at large

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Nathan K. Hensley@nathankhensley.bsky.social · 9mo ago

By definition, AI algorithmic engines repackage an aggregated, mathematically averaged version of what has already been thought & said. This means they are best seen as ideology machines: mechanisms built to recirculate the common sense of a social formation back to itself as though it is knowledge

Luc Rocher@rocher.lc · 9mo ago

📸 New research just out revealing disturbing problems with AI image captioning. AI models can now analyse both texts and images, and are trained on vast collections of human-created content spanning centuries. Some claims these models could soon help human historians interpret and explain the past.

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11mo ago

No film gets historians right, but that's only because no audience wants to watch someone quietly work their way through a cardboard box of old papers, in total silence, for eight straight hours.

BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 11mo ago

an interesting subtopic! which shows/movies are beloved by the profession for Getting It Right! Lawyers famously love MY COUSIN VINNIE, doctors I believe love SCRUBS, apparently Aussie barristers are surprisingly fond of RAKE's depiction of some aspects of the law.

Bridgette Werner | Developmental Editor@drbwerner.bsky.social · last yr.

I had the immense honour to work on this book at several different points in its development over the years. An *essential* ethnography of migrant childhood. Buy it. Read it. Gabrielle knows the job. This work has never been more urgent. www.sup.org/books/anthro...

Now We Are Here | Stanford University Press

Who gets to live a life with dignity? Each day, families around the world make the difficult decision to leave their homes in search of safety, stability, and opportunity. For many migrant families, t...

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University of California Press@ucpress.bsky.social · last yr.

For #LASA2025, we are fortunate to share original content from our authors. "The depth of impunity in Mexico allowed for unimaginable forms of terror that implicated vast swaths of the population." THE LAST DOOR author Gladys McCormick on the use of torture in 1970s Mexico:

A History of Torture in Mexico's War against Subversives

In the same way that impunity reigns today, it reigned supreme in 1970s Mexico. Gladys McCormick writes about how state-sponsored torture became routine practice in the Mexican government's war…

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Bridgette Werner | Developmental Editor@drbwerner.bsky.social · last yr.

I made the rookie mistake of anticipating that other parents at school drop-off care generally about students' safety (spoiler: not if doing so would inconvenience them) this week, and all I got was berated in my driveway by two different men and an object lesson in misogyny for my 6-year-old.

Bridgette Werner | Developmental Editor@drbwerner.bsky.social · last yr.

Hi - an excellent thread that gets at why information isn't knowledge, and the search for information is part of what generates knowledge, and not only makes us more critical thinkers (and more resourceful!) but also means we have more interesting things to say at parties and ask better questions.

Courtney Milan@courtneymilan.com · last yr.

So one of the things that I think is lost on AI proponents is what I call the card catalog effect, a thing I shouldn’t call it because a lot of people probably have no experience with a card catalog.