Keir Starmer to remove Labour whip from at least four ‘persistent rebel’ MPs Rachael Maskell, Neil Duncan-Jordan, Brian Leishman and Chris Hinchliff to be pushed out as PM takes action

I am rather proud of my MP, @chrishinchliff.bsky.social, today, as he actually has some principles.

Well, that’s a bummer. Guess I’ll be using something else, then.

Academics! You need to know this when you put URLs in your references. Good editors will take all that extraneous stuff out again, but you’d be amazed how many don’t know they should, and it will often make its way right through to publication.

Boo. A cost-cutting measure, no doubt.

Noooooo! 😩 Why?! How?! Whither?!

One for @marcusbrig.bsky.social (Translation: Earworm to take with you)

Seeing as my brain just wondered for several seconds what language has the word pronounced ‘stom-ak-akay’, hard no.

Next time! 😉

If you happen to have submitted to JRMA, then I will be copyediting, and I certainly won’t be decisioning your word choices.

When do we get pet passports back for the rest of the EU?

Unfortunately, many academic presses (even big-name ones) are just as bad. If they’re not using AI, they are often using badly paid and / or non-native speakers who don’t know how to properly edit.

A warning for academics! But we beleaguered human copyeditors need you to push back against your publishers using AI (which really *can’t* do the job) for your work and insist that they employ humans, preferably with adequate remuneration.

😱

Aargh! 😖

Cute white dog, sleeping

Woohoo!!!!! Sanity has prevailed. Thanks so much for letting me know 😊 Max will get to go on holiday this year (can’t you tell he’s excited?)

Can anyone tell me whether the new EU veterinary agreement thingy extends to not having to do ridiculous paperwork when you want to take your dog on holiday?? @europeanmovement.co.uk @andrewhesselden.bsky.social @iandunt.bsky.social @robfordmancs.bsky.social @ottoenglish.bsky.social

Thank you for this, Tanya. I am married to an immigrant and completely agree with you. Would you mind if I copied your letter to my Labour MP (alongside my own thoughts)?

As someone who just had to deal with a thesis with 75 of the buggers (all inserted wrongly), I definitely can relate. (I got there in the end!)

Sharing because I used to teach Lydia!

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An excellent article - and copyedited by yours truly

Well, I guess I should be honoured that the tech bros pirated my academic work to feed the machine that could put me out of a job 🤷‍♀️

Cutting it up (after printing) and sticking it together again is still the BEST way to see structure. Trying to figure it out on a screen is just not the same.

Cutting and sticking together again is still the BEST way to see structure. Trying to figure it out on a screen is just not the same.

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Worth saying about just about every use of generative AI

Hey, @chrishinchliff.bsky.social, as one of your constituents who voted for you, this describes me and many people I know. Please get your leadership to understand this. Otherwise I’ll be voting LibDem next time.

How do I kill my Microsoft Copilot?

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