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Rudy Leon, editor

@rudydoesbooks.bsky.social

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I edit and index scholarly materials, and work with early career faculty on navigating scholarly publishing. http://rudyleon.com I mostly post about repro-justice, this incomprehensible moment, my cat, and whatever I’m cooking.

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Rudy Leon, editor @rudydoesbooks.bsky.social · 10d

I always say copyeditor.

I was taught that folks who edit copy are copy editors. Those of us who edit manuscripts are copyeditors.

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Rudy Leon, editor @rudydoesbooks.bsky.social · 21d

Best possible answer! (worst possible explanation? Although not unlikely, given DOGE probably qualifies...)

Rudy Leon, editor @rudydoesbooks.bsky.social · 21d

Context is the proposed oversight government for the management of Gaza after Hamas's surrender. Data-informed decision making makes much more sense than whatever I was imagining it meant! Unless if means something like DOGE...

Rudy Leon, editor @rudydoesbooks.bsky.social · 23d

What do y'all think a "technocratic governing body" might be?

Rudy Leon, editor @rudydoesbooks.bsky.social · 23d

The bad tool is using email to try to get multiple people into a room.

Rudy Leon, editor @rudydoesbooks.bsky.social · 23d

Yes. That's what it means. I did it for 2 decades, 4 campuses. You set up your hours (8-6 or whatever), and block off time you aren't available. You don't even need to say why.

It doesn't take a lot of extra time nothing compared to 17 back and forths about trying to meet.

Rudy Leon, editor @rudydoesbooks.bsky.social · 23d

You don't have to put your personal life in there, but you do need to block off unavailable time. But if no one else is using it, it doesn't matter :)

Rudy Leon, editor @rudydoesbooks.bsky.social · 26d

(by simple, I mean that the meeting may not take place for 6 weeks, but finding the shared available time only takes a couple clicks and then scrolling for that shared open time)

Rudy Leon, editor @rudydoesbooks.bsky.social · 26d

I was a librarian for a very long time and my schedule had zero consistency from week to week (I taught your classes on demand). Which is why aclibs universally use the calendar app. Setting up meetings is simple. I've never understood why departmental faculty almost universally refuse to use them.

Rudy Leon, editor @rudydoesbooks.bsky.social · Sep 22

L'Shana Tovah all. May your 5786 be happy and healthy.

Rudy Leon, editor @rudydoesbooks.bsky.social · Sep 18

This is pretty much why I don't read male writers (Scalzi and Kay get a pass. Pretty much just them).

And I read *constantly.*

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Rudy Leon, editor @rudydoesbooks.bsky.social · Sep 18

eh, I bulk rejected most old SF at the time. But I'm very sensitive to gender treatment in fiction (I still, generally, reject male-written SF, let's call that trauma from what I was exposed to then). A couple men get through, but I'm very happy -- and overflowing with books--ignoring pre-1995 SF.

Rudy Leon, editor @rudydoesbooks.bsky.social · Sep 18

I'm in a bunch of (science) fiction-related sub-reddits, and I feel every day like my job is to recommend titles published in the last 25 years, and also recommend women authors.

Honestly, I think the folks who can't unclench WoT and LoTR are just loud and busy on socials. And are missing out.

Rudy Leon, editor @rudydoesbooks.bsky.social · Sep 10

I have cancelled all my streaming channels as a way to boycott the actors signed on to the antisemitic pledge (I'll watch media again when the same actors all sign on to end complicity with the Uyghur genocide).

Tell me all your favorite books and music and podcasts please.

Rudy Leon, editor @rudydoesbooks.bsky.social · Sep 4

It is suddenly unarguably fall, and to kick it off, I have an outdoors concert tonight. Can someone remind me what a high of 70 is going to feel like outside for 5 hours, until 11pm? At this point in the year, a tee shirt feels like heavy clothing...

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Rudy Leon, editor @rudydoesbooks.bsky.social · Sep 4

📚 So grateful to the Skybrarians!

Lexis was apparently what I was remembering, and I tried Access World News as well.

I'm not sure either are complete, even for major media, but they're a good start.

Rudy Leon, editor @rudydoesbooks.bsky.social · Sep 3

📚Skybrarians! There used to be a database that included transcripts of radio programs and news shows. Along with newspaper articles, I think. Is this still around? What's it called? (I just scanned through a list of databases at UIUC and none of them are ringing my bell for this.)

#librarians

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Rudy Leon, editor @rudydoesbooks.bsky.social · Aug 28

Do you know anything about Tamim Amsary's Destiny Disrupted"? That's what rose to top from casually searching.

Rudy Leon, editor @rudydoesbooks.bsky.social · Aug 28

Thank you for these!

Rudy Leon, editor @rudydoesbooks.bsky.social · Aug 27

I'm looking for a history of early Islam. Like 620-1200 (or whatever a logical breaking point is before the Inquisition/expulsion), earliest expansion and growth.

Your recommendations? #academicSky #history #islamichistory

Rudy Leon, editor @rudydoesbooks.bsky.social · Aug 27

Congratulations! Sounds like a really interesting project!

(which is editor and indexer speak for "please think of me to work on your very interesting book!")

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Rudy Leon, editor @rudydoesbooks.bsky.social · Aug 26

I have just spent an hour #editing one short paragraph.

It's not just students who lose the thread in the final section of their writing. Deadlines can be motivating, but they do lead to some bad words on page. (This isn't a comment on this project. It's about the universality of the thing)

Rudy Leon, editor @rudydoesbooks.bsky.social · Aug 23

The cicadas are so much louder this year than I've ever heard! And *definitely* louder than two years ago when the broods failed to hatch in town.

Rudy Leon, editor @rudydoesbooks.bsky.social · Aug 23

Exactly!

Rudy Leon, editor @rudydoesbooks.bsky.social · Aug 22

I will pay real $$ for the longtime free computing tools I use all the time if they would come with ZERO AI.

Email. Project Management. Browser. Word Processing. Search tools. Any of it.

I am infuriated every time some "upgrade" forces AI down my throat. I want its existence to be opt-in.

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