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Dr. Aure Schrock

@aschrock.bsky.social

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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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Dr. Aure Schrock @aschrock.bsky.social · Jul 31

I'm back at work as an editor and writing coach! Looks like a "normal" fall semester.

Please reach out now if you have a writing project you'd like to work on together. I am booking projects now to start on September 1.

Here are a few things I can help professors and PhD students with... 🧵

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Dr. Aure Schrock @aschrock.bsky.social · 1d

Pitch: a show called “Only Mulders in the Building,” a murder mystery show starring only David Duchovny and face-swapped Duchovnys. @phoebefossil.bsky.social

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Dr. Aure Schrock @aschrock.bsky.social · 1d

As usual, people are worried about the wrong things.

You're far more likely to die of a viral or bacterial infection (350k fatalities in 2024) that goes septic than you are in a car crash (around 40k fatalities).

Dr. Aure Schrock @aschrock.bsky.social · 1d

We've been to the ER twice in the last month for sepsis. Because my partner is immunocompromised, any minor bacterial infection will lay her out. Each stay was 3-4 days, which sucked, but it's certainly better than the alternatives.

Dr. Aure Schrock @aschrock.bsky.social · 1d

Please learn how to recognize the signs of sepsis.

Know the lingo of ER nurses, like "sepsis pathway." It should be triggered when a patient exhibits low blood pressure, low heart rate, and/or a high temperature.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/w...

It’s Just a Virus, the E.R. Told Him. Days Later, He Was Dead.

www.nytimes.com

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 1d

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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Dr. Aure Schrock @aschrock.bsky.social · 1d

"USC faculty members denounce Trump compact that would shift university to the right"

www.latimes.com/california/s...

USC faculty members denounce Trump compact that would shift university to the right

The USC Academic Senate held a special meeting to discuss the Trump administration's education compact, which was presented to the school last week.

www.latimes.com

Dr. Aure Schrock @aschrock.bsky.social · 1d

Me in January: "No need to buy tomatoes, six months ago I had more than I could eat!"

Dr. Aure Schrock @aschrock.bsky.social · 1d

I should do the same...

Dr. Aure Schrock @aschrock.bsky.social · 2d

What Tomato GIF

ALT: What Tomato GIF

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Dr. Aure Schrock @aschrock.bsky.social · 2d

At the end of the summer growing season, I'm basically now living in denial, thinking that I'll never have to buy tomatoes again and the tomato party will keep going forever

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Dr. Aure Schrock @aschrock.bsky.social · 2d

Sounds necessary... hope you have a big bucket!

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 2d

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Adam Douglas Thompson. #NewYorkerCartoons

Sign up for our humor newsletter to get Daily Cartoons delivered to your inbox: nyer.cm/0EivDaD

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Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 4d

This is a drum I have been banging for a few years with those who do administration: the "blowback" you are getting about a particular online thing is often more perception than reality, and the more national that blowback is the more likely it is that it's an astroturfing campaign. ...

Data on Sydney Sweeney Ad Controversy Shows How MAGA Weaponizes Social Trends

Manufacturing outrage.

gizmodo.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4d

*A Republican lawmaker objected to reference to Charlie Kirk holding “often racist and controversial views” in local Alaska news
*The corporate owner took down the story and edited it
*The journalists resigned

This feels like more and more of our media now.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...

Journalists at 3 Newspapers Quit Over Edits to a Charlie Kirk Story

www.nytimes.com

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Dr. Émile P. Torres @xriskology.bsky.social · 5d

In case you missed it, here's my latest newsletter article in which I argue that AGI is not, in fact, imminent. Would love to know your thoughts on this! :-)

www.realtimetechpocalypse.com/p/stop-belie...

Stop Believing the Lie that AGI Is Imminent — "Experts" Have Been Saying This Since 1956!

What did Ilya see? Nothing — he saw nothing, because we're nowhere close to achieving "AGI" (whatever that means exactly).

www.realtimetechpocalypse.com

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Jeff Lockhart @jwlockhart.bsky.social · 5d

I'm excited to share my new paper with a former student, Tommy Smith. "'This Work Would Not Have Been Possible without...': The Length of Acknowledgments in Sociology Books"

Open Access in @sociusjournal.bsky.social : doi.org/10.1177/2378...

Main figure from the paper. Violin plots showing the length of acknowledgments sections in books by sociologists, broken out by gender, race, sexuality, parents’ education, millennium of author’s PhD, and publisher type.

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🇨🇦Cath Ennis🇨🇦 @enniscath.bsky.social · 6d

Good analysis www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

How the White House spun ‘weak’ and ‘inconclusive’ studies to tie Tylenol to autism

Experts say White House presented ‘association as causation’ and based conclusions on ‘poor quality studies’

www.theguardian.com

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Jillian Whitton 🏳️‍⚧️, rising @jillianw.bsky.social · 6d

Queer history is not short of strange plot twists and stranger characters.

Great thread!

Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 6d

In 1992, a millionaire playboy died in Mexico in the ruins of his Love Joy Palace Ashram. Almost thirty years prior, he handed Dr. Harry Benjamin a blank check and set the stage for trans healthcare as we know it today.

(Alt text: A balding man stares shocked at a leopard looking at him curiously through a glass enclosure window.)

On a hot summer afternoon in 1964, Dorr Legg, a representative from ONE Incorporated, a gay rights activism group from California, landed in a wooded clearing deep within the Louisiana swampland to meet someone he hoped would assist his organization with funding.

About a day into his talks with the mysterious potential benefactor, the young man, who Dorr thought must have been a teenager, asked if Dorr would like to meet his lover. Door acquiesced, and the man brought him to his personal estate and to a glassed-in porch enclosure.

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Dr. Aure Schrock @aschrock.bsky.social · 6d

I am pleased to report fruit gathering while running season is open, as I prepare for the running-fruit-gathering Olympics. My event is the 5k distance and 5kg of fruit run.

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FANGORIA @fangoria.bsky.social · 6d

Guillermo del Toro is previewing FRANKENSTEIN as part of a special one-night event supporting the Los Angeles Public Library.

Get A Sneak Peek At Guillermo del Toro’s FRANKENSTEIN And Help Support The Los Angeles Public Library

Guillermo del Toro is previewing FRANKENSTEIN as part of a special one-night event supporting the Los Angeles Public Library.

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University of California Press @ucpress.bsky.social · 7d

UC Press is looking for a Publicist! Help amplify authors, pitch stories that spark conversation, & champion bold, field-defining books. Apply here. Or spread the word!
careerspub.universityofcalifornia.edu/psc/ucop/EMP...

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Dr. Aure Schrock @aschrock.bsky.social · 7d

MIRL when I forget my adhd meds

Dr. Aure Schrock @aschrock.bsky.social · 8d

Also, yes, he's really like this. Discovered science in grade school and never went back. If you were to talk to him, he'd say something similar in the first fifteen minutes. It's like a vortex dad topic.

Dr. Aure Schrock @aschrock.bsky.social · 8d

Sweet article reflecting on my dad's Nobel Prize in chemistry twenty years ago.

“Science is born of curiosity,” Schrock says, “Of course, you have to have knowledge, you have to take courses... but it’s really curiosity that makes scientists do what we do.”

winchesternews.org/20250926_win...

Winchester’s Richard Schrock revisits career, 20th anniversary of Nobel Prize win

On Oct. 5, 2005, Richard Schrock received a call at 5 o’clock in the morning. Still in his bathrobe, he found out he had won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his contribution to organic chemistry. Ph...

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Dr. Aure Schrock @aschrock.bsky.social · 8d

Also, he's really like this. Discovered science in grade school and never went back. If you were to talk to him, he'd say something similar in the first fifteen minutes.