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https://bsky.app/profile/astrokatie.com/post/3msaxola3n225

Published: August 4, 2026 12:01

Writing a book is so weird because before itā€™s released there are half a dozen REALLY IMPORTANT DEADLINES for drafts & edits and each completely consumes you & is impossible to explain. ā€œI just spent 72 hours locked in a room doing my copy edit review; Iā€¦

https://bsky.app/profile/astrokatie.com/post/3ms4g2643d22k

Published: August 2, 2026 16:34

I'm on Day 3 of my doing-nothing-but-copy-edit-review writing-cave work period to finalize my second book and I'm fixing up little bits of tone and wording and the absolute best I can do to describe how I know if a sentence needs to get fixed is when itā€¦

https://bsky.app/profile/astrokatie.com/post/3ms27yp5ym22f

Published: August 1, 2026 19:41

Iā€™ve seen a lot of my colleaguesā€™ interactions with Claude working on research problems & it would be easier for me to accept it as a serious scientific tool if it didnā€™t end every single response with the LLM equivalent of ā€œyou want fries with that?ā€ ā€”ā€¦

https://bsky.app/profile/astrokatie.com/post/3mrzkrsjr622f

Published: August 1, 2026 13:21

I continue to be disappointed when folks whose opinions I otherwise value do this on the regular. Itā€™s just the absolute worst way to have a discussion and itā€™s exhausting to watch. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

https://bsky.app/profile/astrokatie.com/post/3mrxtwbik2k2u

Published: July 31, 2026 20:59

If this is what happens to a scientific field as a whole when LLMs dominate the workflows of researchers, I can only imagine that the outlook is even worse for any individual researcher who is soldiering on without using them. šŸ˜ž [contains quote post orā€¦

https://bsky.app/profile/astrokatie.com/post/3mrxhixxpo22u

Published: July 31, 2026 17:17

Any of my friends who have witnessed my mental state as I have gone through edit after edit of this book can attest that every individual letter and punctuation mark has been ripped painfully out of my very own soul šŸ˜£ [contains quote post or otherā€¦

https://bsky.app/profile/astrokatie.com/post/3mrwvigc3vc2t

Published: July 31, 2026 11:55

In light of the ā€œgood faith questionsā€ discourse I just wanted to re-up @reveleth.comā€™s fascinating podcast about the complex (and frequently appalling) history and present of policing sexual biology in womenā€™s sports. [contains quote post or otherā€¦

https://bsky.app/profile/astrokatie.com/post/3mrut5dedzk23

Published: July 30, 2026 16:07

Today's copy edit dilemma: a plum pudding is, to a modern American reader, not a pudding. Also it does not contain plums. But if I tried to call it a fruitcake I would most assuredly be haunted by the ghost of J. J. Thomson.

https://bsky.app/profile/astrokatie.com/post/3mrnavcpltc2s

Published: July 27, 2026 15:52

I told some of my work colleagues what I was going to be up to for my vacation before I left last week and now today instead of the usual ā€œwelcome backā€ theyā€™re all ā€œoh yay you survived!ā€ [contains quote post or other embedded content]

https://bsky.app/profile/astrokatie.com/post/3mrmyrzoom22j

Published: July 27, 2026 13:27

When you set an Out of Office e-mail message there should be an option to set an additional message that goes out for two or three days afterward reminding people to be gentle with you while you try to claw your way out of the mountain of suddenly urgentā€¦

https://bsky.app/profile/astrokatie.com/post/3mrkmyq34g22e

Published: July 26, 2026 14:51

ABC Australia has a YouTube series called ā€œYou Canā€™t Ask Thatā€ in which they bring in people from various marginalized/stereotyped groups who have volunteered to answer ā€œinappropriateā€ questions. Iā€™m sure they arenā€™t fully representative but they do fosterā€¦