Freelance academic editor • PhD from @durham_uni: the modernist kiss • @wtppod_ host. I love great books and bad TV.
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9 Sep 2024
My editing business now has a website! Check it out, get in touch, and pass it on to anyone in need of editing, research services, or writer coaching (academics, graduate students, writers, you name it).
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Almost liked a hate tweet bc this woman is so good at her job
May 19
I wish i could run up to the front and yank this self-serving conductor out of there. She’s ruining it! It’s not all about the conductor; it’s about the music. Let the music take center stage
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Very proud that my article on cinematic kisses has been published in the latest issue of @MModernity!
The article is based on Chapter 2 of my thesis; I wrote it a few years ago, so reading it now feels slightly like an out-of-body experience, but I'm thrilled it's in the world!
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The article is titled, "The Interracial Screen Kiss: Haptic Cinema and Racial Politics in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World," and you can find it here:
muse.jhu.edu/issue/56814
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I've never been one for the Romantics, but this week I've been thinking about AI threatening human creativity and the environment via Wordsworth's worries about the Industrial Revolution:
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Just received the proofs (yay!) of an article I submitted in 2022 and it truly feels like an out of body experience. I do not remember researching or writing any of this.
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I cannot foresee any risks with sending hackable devices sold by for-profit companies into classrooms full of impressionable minds 🫠
"Figure 03" AI-powered robot accompanies first lady Melania Trump to a White House summit on empowering children with educational technology.
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This is not going to stop everyone from studying creative arts.
It’ll ensure that the only people with access are the rich.
Feb 22
“We’re going to stop the government funding dead end university courses”
Shadow education secretary Laura Trott says her party would stop funding courses that “don’t deliver for young people” citing some creative arts courses as an example
#BBCLauraK bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001bv0…
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🤔 in this thesis I will…
Feb 8
Margot Robbie says her ‘Wuthering Heights’ adaptation is much more courageous and passionate than the book :
“There is actually not much kissing in the book, but we kiss a lot in the movie. We kiss everywhere.”
Community note
Margot never said that the adaptation is more courageous and passionate than the book. The quote was also edited, mixing Jimmy Kimmel's words with Margot's during the interview.
Minute 10:34 in the video.
youtu.be/kpLarmsYVx4?si…
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My student loan has only grown since I started paying it off. I was 17 when I signed up for it. How the hell was I supposed to understand?
Feb 5
Lady in blue, "Will student loans be the next misselling scandal?" #BBCQT
Oli Dugmore, "My three year course, £9,000 a year for the tuition, on top of that a maintenance loan, I left uni with £37,500 of debt"
"From the day I was charged RPI interest"
"Since I went to uni in 2012, the amount of interest I have accrued is £32,000"
"Was it missold to me when I was told it would cost me £9,000 a year? Yes"
"On top of that its a regressive system"
"If you're wealthy enough to pay the fees up front, you don't get charged interest - if you're rich enough you don't pay the same as me"
"The government changed the terms of the agreement, I call that loan sharking"
Fiona Bruce, "How else would you pay for university?"
Oli Dugmore, "How did you guys pay for it?"
"The state paid for it, didn't they?"
Fiona Bruce, "They did"
Oli Dugmore, "Good enough for you, good enough for me?"
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Has Erica Kirk read the part of the Bible where Jesus is murdered for protesting against a corrupt regime
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Possibly the best author bio I've ever read: Raj Patel has worked for the World Bank and WTO and been tear-gassed on four continents protesting against them.
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I am so serious when I say that my training at Nando’s was longer
Jan 8
ICE agents only receive 47 days of academy training — The Atlantic
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I’m an American citizen with an English accent. I wonder why ICE haven’t tried to arrest me?
Jan 8
I know the constitution doesn’t really exist anymore, but it’s still pretty shocking to me to hear a federal cop say, out loud, “I can hear you have a different accent than me …. you look different than me, that’s why I’m asking you if you’re a citizen.”
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A great example of why you should not rely on LLMs to write for you when you have a word limit (and, let’s face it, you always have a word limit):
LLMs cannot stick to a specific word count! They can only count tokens, and some words use more tokens than others.
28 Jul 2025
AI constantly makes mistakes. I have personally seen companies attempting to replace writers by feeding an LLM a complex prompt, and the LLM literally ignores parts of the prompts.
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20 Dec 2025
I need to know if this is the bookshop of my dreams because the opening hours say midday to midnight
17 Dec 2025
Last surviving example of a Georgian bowed shop window in Liverpool. Wavertree High Street.
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30 Nov 2025
The fact that an LLM literally cannot think aside, the part of the prompt that says “think hard about this” is removing the point of the PhD from the process, which is learning how to think of original ideas in your subject area and demonstrating that thinking to others.
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28 Nov 2025
As an editor, I do fear that the written word will go the same way as the fashion industry. I don't want written production to become like fast fashion: people paying less for more, worse quality products, contributing to environmental degradation and human exploitation.
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1 Oct 2025
Ultimate cosy autumn reads 🎃:
1. Virginia Woolf’s “A Room of One’s Own”
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25 Aug 2025
Anyone know where I can watch an awesome adaptation of Hamlet for free? Or is there one in any country on Netflix?
Asking not for intellectual reasons but to prepare for Taylor Swift's album release 🔶
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17 Aug 2025
If there’s anyone left in the UK who hasn’t read Sally Rooney, it’s a good day to buy her books
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