Dr. Aure Schrock
@aschrock.bsky.social
Academic Editor & Writing Coach at https://www.indeliblevoice.com ・🤖 Communication and/or technology researcher・📚 Author of "Politics Recoded" and other things・🍲 Foodie・🌲 Nature boi・🎗️ Cancer caregiver・They/he・All links https://bio.site/aure
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Happy Holidays and New Year! 🎁🎄🕯️🌟 Indelible Voice has closed its books for the season.
I'll continue to work with current clients on ongoing projects over the next two months. However, all new writing projects will start booking February 1.
Happy writing, and I'll see you in 2026!
I'll continue to work with current clients on ongoing projects over the next two months. However, all new writing projects will start booking February 1.
Happy writing, and I'll see you in 2026!
Trans care is health care.
1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
Study In The Journal Of Pediatrics Finds Trans Youth Care Lowers Suicidality, Few Detransition
The groundbreaking study found that suicidality dropped for transgender youth receiving hormone therapy by nearly 70%, with only 7 patients of 432 discontinuing treatment.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Trans care is health care.
Fun fact: The organization officially welcomes youth of all genders and has been "Scouting America" since 2025 for this reason.
Is it a 'masculine value' to melt down about some new fake shit every week?
November 25, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Fun fact: The organization officially welcomes youth of all genders and has been "Scouting America" since 2025 for this reason.
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I know this not quite what Benjamin meant about fascism as the aestheticization of politics, but it is the literal aestheticization of politics.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is seeking to humiliate an American hero.
Senator Kelly flew 39 combat missions during the Gulf War in 1991 and flew four space shuttle missions (commanding two of them).
Senator Kelly flew 39 combat missions during the Gulf War in 1991 and flew four space shuttle missions (commanding two of them).
November 25, 2025 at 1:19 PM
I know this not quite what Benjamin meant about fascism as the aestheticization of politics, but it is the literal aestheticization of politics.
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Are you a PhD student & interested in using museum collections in your teaching or research?
We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.
Find out more:
collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/
We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.
Find out more:
collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/
November 25, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Are you a PhD student & interested in using museum collections in your teaching or research?
We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.
Find out more:
collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/
We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.
Find out more:
collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/
The lost power adapter was in the first place I looked and wish to receive a prize
November 25, 2025 at 12:47 PM
The lost power adapter was in the first place I looked and wish to receive a prize
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love love love the civic tech representation here! <3 (Hidalgo, Norrick, Van Dyck, & Voegeli)
November 25, 2025 at 4:54 AM
love love love the civic tech representation here! <3 (Hidalgo, Norrick, Van Dyck, & Voegeli)
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Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.
November 24, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.
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One of my students told me today that she was just getting over the flu. Did you get your flu shot, I asked. No, she says, I've never had the flu, so I don't need the vaccine.
I gave the Influenza of 1918 lecture a few weeks ago, & I shared info re: campus flu clinic.
This is a premed. Sigh.
I gave the Influenza of 1918 lecture a few weeks ago, & I shared info re: campus flu clinic.
This is a premed. Sigh.
November 25, 2025 at 4:28 AM
One of my students told me today that she was just getting over the flu. Did you get your flu shot, I asked. No, she says, I've never had the flu, so I don't need the vaccine.
I gave the Influenza of 1918 lecture a few weeks ago, & I shared info re: campus flu clinic.
This is a premed. Sigh.
I gave the Influenza of 1918 lecture a few weeks ago, & I shared info re: campus flu clinic.
This is a premed. Sigh.
"When your heart is broken you plant seeds in the cracks and pray for rain." – Andrea Gibson
November 24, 2025 at 5:00 PM
"When your heart is broken you plant seeds in the cracks and pray for rain." – Andrea Gibson
Very here for reading Derek Guy quoting Stuart Hall.
In my article, I quoted something from Stuart Hall's "Culture, Community, Nation," an essay first published in a 1993 issue of Cultural Studies. He writes:
"It should not be necessary to look, walk, feel, think, speak exactly like a paid-up member of the buttoned-up, stiff-upper-lipped, ...
"It should not be necessary to look, walk, feel, think, speak exactly like a paid-up member of the buttoned-up, stiff-upper-lipped, ...
November 24, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Very here for reading Derek Guy quoting Stuart Hall.
I’m just glad to live long enough to see the emergence of the “classic alternative” genre of music.
November 24, 2025 at 2:08 AM
I’m just glad to live long enough to see the emergence of the “classic alternative” genre of music.
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Yesterday my partner and I counted all the ads along Chicago's Brown Line for "Friend," a company selling an AI chatbot pendant, and tallied how many of those ads were defaced.
Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.
Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.
November 23, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Yesterday my partner and I counted all the ads along Chicago's Brown Line for "Friend," a company selling an AI chatbot pendant, and tallied how many of those ads were defaced.
Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.
Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.
How lovely to see a book come out that's co-authored by my good friend from grad school, Sam Close! My heart is always with the fan studies folks... never met one I didn't admire.
New book ⬇️⬇️⬇️
The Routledge Handbook of Fan Video and Digital Authorship
Edited By Louisa Ellen Stein, Samantha Close
#FanStudies
www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...
The Routledge Handbook of Fan Video and Digital Authorship
Edited By Louisa Ellen Stein, Samantha Close
#FanStudies
www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...
The Routledge Handbook of Fan Video and Digital Authorship
This cutting-edge collection explores the histories, aesthetics, and cultural work of fan video across a wide variety of manifestations and genres.
Editors Louisa Ellen Stein and Samantha Close have a...
www.routledge.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:51 AM
How lovely to see a book come out that's co-authored by my good friend from grad school, Sam Close! My heart is always with the fan studies folks... never met one I didn't admire.
Good morning, my life is falling apart. I'm going to buy donuts.
November 22, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Good morning, my life is falling apart. I'm going to buy donuts.
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We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com.
We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.
washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.
washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
November 21, 2025 at 2:56 PM
We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com.
We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.
washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.
washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
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BREAKING: Marjorie Taylor Greene says she's resigning from Congress — effective January 5, 2026.
November 22, 2025 at 1:11 AM
BREAKING: Marjorie Taylor Greene says she's resigning from Congress — effective January 5, 2026.
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Trans Day of Remembrance was yesterday, when my review of this fascinating book on early #trans history was published by the Friends of #QueerHistory. Coming soon, there’ll be a Finnish translation (of the review, could you translate the whole book?) sateenkaarihistoria.fi/trans-histor...
Trans Historical: Gender Plurality before the Modern - Sateenkaarihistorian ystävät
Trans Historical is a fascinating exploration of gender-nonconforming lives lived before Enlightenment gender binaries.
sateenkaarihistoria.fi
November 21, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Trans Day of Remembrance was yesterday, when my review of this fascinating book on early #trans history was published by the Friends of #QueerHistory. Coming soon, there’ll be a Finnish translation (of the review, could you translate the whole book?) sateenkaarihistoria.fi/trans-histor...
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I am by no means a prominent public intellectual, but my inbox is increasingly filled with messages from people who have been convinced by sycophantic chatbots that they have discovered revolutionary theories that entirely upend our scientific understanding of the universe.
November 21, 2025 at 2:49 AM
I am by no means a prominent public intellectual, but my inbox is increasingly filled with messages from people who have been convinced by sycophantic chatbots that they have discovered revolutionary theories that entirely upend our scientific understanding of the universe.
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Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door.
This is who it was:
This is who it was:
November 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door.
This is who it was:
This is who it was:
Well shoot the day after a presentation on bad feedback styles, I remembered that two types of "bad" (red-lining to death and no feedback whatsoever) can be found in Beard and Ted's (respectively) feedback to Trent Crimm on his book manuscript.
November 21, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Well shoot the day after a presentation on bad feedback styles, I remembered that two types of "bad" (red-lining to death and no feedback whatsoever) can be found in Beard and Ted's (respectively) feedback to Trent Crimm on his book manuscript.
I have found my life's calling and it is winding up my 10-year-old partner's cousin's daughter with NATURE FACTS.
In response to me sending her a picture of my banana plant, she asked me "How do you have such an AMAZING LIFE?"
In response to me sending her a picture of my banana plant, she asked me "How do you have such an AMAZING LIFE?"
November 20, 2025 at 9:47 PM
I have found my life's calling and it is winding up my 10-year-old partner's cousin's daughter with NATURE FACTS.
In response to me sending her a picture of my banana plant, she asked me "How do you have such an AMAZING LIFE?"
In response to me sending her a picture of my banana plant, she asked me "How do you have such an AMAZING LIFE?"
This holiday season, give the academic in your life the gift of this phrase.
November 20, 2025 at 6:43 PM
This holiday season, give the academic in your life the gift of this phrase.
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I’ve spent a lot of the last three years investigating the rise of anti-trans politics. Often, it came back to the controversy over trans women athletes.
So I teamed up with @pablo.show to look into the leading figure on the issue: Riley Gaines.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202... 1/
So I teamed up with @pablo.show to look into the leading figure on the issue: Riley Gaines.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202... 1/
How right-wing superstar Riley Gaines built an anti-trans empire
The swimmer tied a trans woman for fifth. The MAGA industrial complex took care of the rest.
www.motherjones.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:25 PM
I’ve spent a lot of the last three years investigating the rise of anti-trans politics. Often, it came back to the controversy over trans women athletes.
So I teamed up with @pablo.show to look into the leading figure on the issue: Riley Gaines.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202... 1/
So I teamed up with @pablo.show to look into the leading figure on the issue: Riley Gaines.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202... 1/
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One thing I noticed in the subsequent conversation: they're quite worried about the potential of LLMs to degrade their own literacy (information and otherwise). I've noticed similar in discussions of diminishing attention spans. It's a mistake to assume they're not thinking about it, too.
November 20, 2025 at 12:49 AM
One thing I noticed in the subsequent conversation: they're quite worried about the potential of LLMs to degrade their own literacy (information and otherwise). I've noticed similar in discussions of diminishing attention spans. It's a mistake to assume they're not thinking about it, too.
It's tough to decide when to write an academic book!
In this more personal episode of Academic Writing Talk, I talk about how I decided to write one book and not write another.
Remember: "Don't panic, plan!"
#AcademicSky #EduSky #Academia #AcademicWriting
www.indeliblevoice.com/podcast/when...
In this more personal episode of Academic Writing Talk, I talk about how I decided to write one book and not write another.
Remember: "Don't panic, plan!"
#AcademicSky #EduSky #Academia #AcademicWriting
www.indeliblevoice.com/podcast/when...
When is the Right Time to Write a Book? How I’ve Made This Difficult Decision — Indelible Voice
It's tough to decide when to embark on a long writing project! In this very personal episode, I talk about how I decided to write one book and not write another—at least, for now.
www.indeliblevoice.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:40 PM
It's tough to decide when to write an academic book!
In this more personal episode of Academic Writing Talk, I talk about how I decided to write one book and not write another.
Remember: "Don't panic, plan!"
#AcademicSky #EduSky #Academia #AcademicWriting
www.indeliblevoice.com/podcast/when...
In this more personal episode of Academic Writing Talk, I talk about how I decided to write one book and not write another.
Remember: "Don't panic, plan!"
#AcademicSky #EduSky #Academia #AcademicWriting
www.indeliblevoice.com/podcast/when...