Rudy Leon, editor
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Rudy Leon, editor
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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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I always say copyeditor.

I was taught that folks who edit copy are copy editors. Those of us who edit manuscripts are copyeditors.
Best possible answer! (worst possible explanation? Although not unlikely, given DOGE probably qualifies...)
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...
What do y'all think a "technocratic governing body" might be?
The bad tool is using email to try to get multiple people into a room.
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.
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 :)
(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)
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.
L'Shana Tovah all. May your 5786 be happy and healthy.
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.*
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.
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.
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.
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...
📚 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.
📚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
Do you know anything about Tamim Amsary's Destiny Disrupted"? That's what rose to top from casually searching.
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
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!")
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)
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.
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.