#Manuscript
me reading my own manuscript
October 29, 2025 at 2:27 AM Everybody can reply
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seeing a beautiful bilingual Syriac-Latin manuscript from the 18th century 😃

they used endnotes instead of footnotes 🤦‍♀️

the struggle is eternal
October 29, 2025 at 9:22 AM Everybody can reply
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Normalize replying to manuscript reviewers' comments with emojis.
October 27, 2025 at 1:53 PM Everybody can reply
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It's just two words, but a personal favourite find in a medieval manuscript is this signature of Anne, a princess of Kievan Rus and Queen (Regent) of France.

Written on a 1063 charter, it reads "АНА РЪИНА" ('ana rъina' ~ 'Anne Queen'). The language is Old French, but the script is Cyrillic!
October 28, 2025 at 8:20 PM Everybody can reply
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That awkward moment when a woman who herself acknowledges that she has relevant expertise to review a manuscript also questions how it could possibly be true that a journal would solicit the expertise of somebody with a vagina
Nothing can prepare you for the factual basis behind this 'wokeness gone too far' anecdote.
October 29, 2025 at 9:37 AM Everybody can reply
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Book Waste Bindings
October 28, 2025 at 3:15 PM Everybody can reply
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I just uploaded the manuscript of Plus One. Publication date is 11/12.

Holy shit, y’all, I’m doing it. I’m publishing.
October 28, 2025 at 9:35 PM Everybody can reply
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I might need to add an extra chapter just on this post to my book manuscript on ecofascism and animals.
Incredible things are happening on X the everything app
October 27, 2025 at 5:08 PM Everybody can reply
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you're telling me a desk rejected this manuscript
October 27, 2025 at 7:03 AM Everybody can reply
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I do copyediit over the phone from the manuscript rather than sit there and be insulted by the AI, or spend any time at all attempting to toggle it off. Nobody wanted this and nobody wants this
This morning’s hype anthem
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
October 28, 2025 at 12:50 PM Everybody can reply
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This is a copy of the original manuscript of Poe’s “Annabel Lee.” The real item is in special collections at Columbia U.
October 28, 2025 at 10:49 PM Everybody can reply
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My middle grade novel in prose-verse, HeartLand, grew to 109,000 words. It's now 72,000. But the ghosts of those words are there, haunting what remains. I just received the ARCs, and yes, I can definitely feel those missing words hovering at the edges. Cover reveal coming soon! #kidlit #MG #poetry
October 30, 2025 at 12:24 AM Everybody can reply
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Toe-licking demon, circa 1921.

One of many demonic entities found lurking in a Persian manuscript on magic and astrology from Isfahan, Iran. See our highlights here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/persian-demons-from-a-book-of-magic-and-astrology-1921
October 28, 2025 at 3:20 PM Everybody can reply
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I just finished editing a picture book manuscript I've been putting off for months, and it took me an hour and a half to do. 🙃
October 28, 2025 at 11:37 AM Everybody can reply
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Okay so this one isnt included bc she's for me, but I did list a few other pieces over on kofi, for anyone interested!

ko-fi.com/cassieoh/shop
October 26, 2025 at 10:13 PM Everybody can reply
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… AND I HAVE SOME ARCS OF DEAD WEIGHT THAT SOMEONE NEEDS TO TAKE OF MY HANDS!
October 27, 2025 at 11:36 AM Everybody can reply
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Breaking the publication bias against null results requires authors to submit the manuscript, sure, but also requires reviewers to tell the Editor why it is important to publish.
October 27, 2025 at 2:13 PM Everybody can reply
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i kinda really wanna do more medieval/manuscript style art. i might run a discount on that for November
October 27, 2025 at 6:52 PM Everybody can reply
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jd vance "writing" hillbilly elegy (sleeping in the cryogenic Racism chamber at amy chua's house while she typed the manuscript with one hand and texted insults to her children with the other)
October 29, 2025 at 6:15 PM Everybody can reply
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Happy to share our newest manuscript about the discovery and hererologous expression of metanodin, a new lassopeptide with unprecedented structural features directly from soil metagenomes. pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
#secmet #lassopeptides #syntheticbiology
Discovery and Heterologous Expression of the Soil Metagenome-Derived Lasso Peptide Metanodin with an Unprecedented Ring Structure
Culture-independent metagenomic approaches have proven to be effective tools for identifying previously hidden biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs) encoding novel natural products with potential medical relevance. However, producing these compounds remains challenging as metagenomic BGCs often originate from organisms phylogenetically distant from available heterologous hosts. Lasso peptides, a subclass of ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified peptide (RiPP) natural products, exhibit diverse bioactivities, yet no lasso peptide has previously been discovered directly from a metagenome. Here, we report the discovery and heterologous expression of the first soil metagenome-derived lasso peptide. Expression of its biosynthetic gene cluster in Escherichia coli, followed by mass spectrometry analysis, strongly supported the predicted amino acid sequence and lasso structure of the peptide. Notably, this lasso peptide is the first to feature asparagine as the ring-forming residue at position one. Taxonomic analysis of the corresponding BGC identified an uncultivated member of the Steroidobacterales family (Gammaproteobacteria) as the closest known relative of the potential native host. These findings underscore the potential of metagenomic genome mining to reveal structurally novel RiPPs and to expand our understanding of the natural diversity of lasso peptides.
pubs.acs.org
October 28, 2025 at 2:39 PM Everybody can reply
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I won't wade into the marsh in which this conversation is currently going on, but I'm happy to note that the first thing a twenty-first-century publishing entity does on receipt of a manuscript and to prepare it for eventual publication is to yank out every single double space after a period.

🤷🏻‍♂️
October 26, 2025 at 4:09 PM Everybody can reply
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Just a lovely evening in, from a book of hours Belgium, Bruges, ca. 1520.
A roaring fire, family playing cards, cosy benches with pillows, child playing with a hobby horse, chased by a puppy, a late visitor arriving.
Lovely.
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October 27, 2025 at 1:40 AM Everybody can reply
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Just had the thought that every time you check the status of your manuscript they should administer a little shock but like... ......... ...how would that be different?
October 28, 2025 at 4:14 PM Everybody can reply
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'lowkey' and 'coded' are great for implying more or less whatever you want about something without committing too much. i'm going to start using them in my descriptions. 'this manuscript, possibly 13th-century but tbqh kinda 12th-coded, provenance germany but lowkey italian vibes, is srsly goated'
October 28, 2025 at 8:41 PM Everybody can reply
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it would be cool if you could give me a decision on the manuscript and maybe stop FUCKING ME in the

delete delete delete

Hi, so sorry to be a bother. I was wondering if I could get an update on
October 29, 2025 at 5:50 PM Everybody can reply
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