AJ Griffith
@readsometimes.bsky.social
Mom, medical librarian, science nerd
My dad told me this when I got vaccinated in 2020 and I said “Cool. I can’t afford to be alive anyway so win-win”
Anyway, still here. Still reminding him that he was wrong again and must continue to suffer through our weekly phone calls 🍻
Anyway, still here. Still reminding him that he was wrong again and must continue to suffer through our weekly phone calls 🍻
January 1, 2026 at 5:29 AM
My dad told me this when I got vaccinated in 2020 and I said “Cool. I can’t afford to be alive anyway so win-win”
Anyway, still here. Still reminding him that he was wrong again and must continue to suffer through our weekly phone calls 🍻
Anyway, still here. Still reminding him that he was wrong again and must continue to suffer through our weekly phone calls 🍻
I hate the state of healthcare in this country, especially the absolute need to GoFundMe support in order to pay for care.
Anyway: This is my niece, Landry and earlier this month Landry got a diagnosis that shook us all to our core.
www.gofundme.com/f/support-ba...
Anyway: This is my niece, Landry and earlier this month Landry got a diagnosis that shook us all to our core.
www.gofundme.com/f/support-ba...
Donate to Support Baby Landry’s Fight for a Healthier Future, organized by Elizabeth Dewhirst
Hi, my name is Elizabeth Knight, and I am a coworker of Kaylee P… Elizabeth Dewhirst needs your support for Support Baby Landry’s Fight for a Healthier Future
www.gofundme.com
December 21, 2025 at 10:32 PM
I hate the state of healthcare in this country, especially the absolute need to GoFundMe support in order to pay for care.
Anyway: This is my niece, Landry and earlier this month Landry got a diagnosis that shook us all to our core.
www.gofundme.com/f/support-ba...
Anyway: This is my niece, Landry and earlier this month Landry got a diagnosis that shook us all to our core.
www.gofundme.com/f/support-ba...
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Worth reading for lots of reasons, but particularly because it closes with something I see in my work and travels speaking on writing and AI. Many, maybe most students do not want AI-mediated schooling or lives. We can offer them something better. www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
www.currentaffairs.org
December 7, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Worth reading for lots of reasons, but particularly because it closes with something I see in my work and travels speaking on writing and AI. Many, maybe most students do not want AI-mediated schooling or lives. We can offer them something better. www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
Just a mom, looking at a school district, asking them to cancel school in the morning when it was snowing instead of deciding 2 hours in that it is, in fact, snowing and unsafe to drive in.
Especially since the early release is now the during worst part of the storm 🫠
Especially since the early release is now the during worst part of the storm 🫠
December 1, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Just a mom, looking at a school district, asking them to cancel school in the morning when it was snowing instead of deciding 2 hours in that it is, in fact, snowing and unsafe to drive in.
Especially since the early release is now the during worst part of the storm 🫠
Especially since the early release is now the during worst part of the storm 🫠
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
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From the German National Library of Medicine, beta version of site for tracking additions and deletions to PubMed now available #medlibs
Datenqualität sichtbar gemacht: Mit Pubservatory zeigt @zbmed.bsky.social, wie sich Inhalte in #PubMed verändern. Neue Einträge und gelöschte Dubletten, transparent und interaktiv.
Beta-Version testen: https://pubservatory.zbmed.de/
#Fachl...
weiterlesen
Beta-Version testen: https://pubservatory.zbmed.de/
#Fachl...
weiterlesen
November 12, 2025 at 3:50 PM
From the German National Library of Medicine, beta version of site for tracking additions and deletions to PubMed now available #medlibs
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a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,
November 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,
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I'm so tired of talking about AI but also my entire job hinges on conversations about AI and I'm so demoralized and feel so gaslit and I am just deeply not okay.
August 1, 2025 at 4:51 PM
I'm so tired of talking about AI but also my entire job hinges on conversations about AI and I'm so demoralized and feel so gaslit and I am just deeply not okay.
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I've been teaching at Princeton over the same period and the drop-off in reading stamina has been staggering.
I'm not sure of the cause -- some blame K-12 shifts to "chunk reading" while others pin it on COVID -- but it's undeniable.
I'm not sure of the cause -- some blame K-12 shifts to "chunk reading" while others pin it on COVID -- but it's undeniable.
I'm entering my 25th year in the job, having taught for 4 years at Yale and 20 at Berkeley.
The clearest trendline in my experience (fwiw) is the *dramatically* diminished willingness or capacity of undergrads to read. I used to assign 150 pp./week. Closer to 40 now—and even that is aspirational.
The clearest trendline in my experience (fwiw) is the *dramatically* diminished willingness or capacity of undergrads to read. I used to assign 150 pp./week. Closer to 40 now—and even that is aspirational.
July 15, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I've been teaching at Princeton over the same period and the drop-off in reading stamina has been staggering.
I'm not sure of the cause -- some blame K-12 shifts to "chunk reading" while others pin it on COVID -- but it's undeniable.
I'm not sure of the cause -- some blame K-12 shifts to "chunk reading" while others pin it on COVID -- but it's undeniable.
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Idk why everything is funny to me today. Like im in tears.
June 24, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Idk why everything is funny to me today. Like im in tears.
Explaining right now to my teenage sons is insane.
Like dude, idk what to tell you. I can’t make egg prices and the other dumb shit make sense for how or why you’re living my 2003 life right now.
Like dude, idk what to tell you. I can’t make egg prices and the other dumb shit make sense for how or why you’re living my 2003 life right now.
June 25, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Explaining right now to my teenage sons is insane.
Like dude, idk what to tell you. I can’t make egg prices and the other dumb shit make sense for how or why you’re living my 2003 life right now.
Like dude, idk what to tell you. I can’t make egg prices and the other dumb shit make sense for how or why you’re living my 2003 life right now.
16yo got his license today and now my insurance is double what it was yesterday.
I’ll be drinking the rest of the day now and ignoring the fact that in 2 years I have to do this all over again and will have 2 teen boys on my insurance plan. 🍻
I’ll be drinking the rest of the day now and ignoring the fact that in 2 years I have to do this all over again and will have 2 teen boys on my insurance plan. 🍻
June 20, 2025 at 6:46 PM
16yo got his license today and now my insurance is double what it was yesterday.
I’ll be drinking the rest of the day now and ignoring the fact that in 2 years I have to do this all over again and will have 2 teen boys on my insurance plan. 🍻
I’ll be drinking the rest of the day now and ignoring the fact that in 2 years I have to do this all over again and will have 2 teen boys on my insurance plan. 🍻
I really need to plan my social media mental health breaks better because now I’m going to be stuck catching up for the next month
June 8, 2025 at 3:54 PM
I really need to plan my social media mental health breaks better because now I’m going to be stuck catching up for the next month
Sometimes, yielding to the universe is required.
An unexpected mental health day is easier than fighting Murphy’s Law sometimes 😂
An unexpected mental health day is easier than fighting Murphy’s Law sometimes 😂
May 22, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Sometimes, yielding to the universe is required.
An unexpected mental health day is easier than fighting Murphy’s Law sometimes 😂
An unexpected mental health day is easier than fighting Murphy’s Law sometimes 😂
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RFK Jr: "Don't take medical advice from me."
Also RFK Jr: Orders the FDA to reconsider access to abortion pills based on junk science from Project 2025.
Which is it, Bobby?
RFK Jr: "Don't take medical advice from me."
Also RFK Jr: Orders the FDA to reconsider access to abortion pills based on junk science from Project 2025.
Which is it, Bobby?
RFK Jr orders mifepristone review as anti-abortion groups push for ban
Health secretary cites ‘new data’ that emerged from flawed study conservatives are using to pressure US government
www.theguardian.com
May 16, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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RFK Jr: "Don't take medical advice from me."
Also RFK Jr: Orders the FDA to reconsider access to abortion pills based on junk science from Project 2025.
Which is it, Bobby?
RFK Jr: "Don't take medical advice from me."
Also RFK Jr: Orders the FDA to reconsider access to abortion pills based on junk science from Project 2025.
Which is it, Bobby?
God I love Missouri. We vote for progressive things that will actually help so many people and then vote back in the same people who have consistently, sued, blocked, and repealed said progressive things.
Folks, you’re gonna hafta suck it up and vote for someone else if you want shit to stick.
Folks, you’re gonna hafta suck it up and vote for someone else if you want shit to stick.
May 15, 2025 at 9:01 PM
God I love Missouri. We vote for progressive things that will actually help so many people and then vote back in the same people who have consistently, sued, blocked, and repealed said progressive things.
Folks, you’re gonna hafta suck it up and vote for someone else if you want shit to stick.
Folks, you’re gonna hafta suck it up and vote for someone else if you want shit to stick.
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Image of library book display labeled:
“It's A Warning Not An Instruction Manual.”
Books on display:
• On Tyranny
• Twenty Lessons From
The 21st Century
• 1984
• A Handmaids Tale
• Diary of Anne Frank
• Parable of The Sower
• Fahrenheit 451
• Animal Farm
• Brave New World
~TAiLS of a Bookworm
“It's A Warning Not An Instruction Manual.”
Books on display:
• On Tyranny
• Twenty Lessons From
The 21st Century
• 1984
• A Handmaids Tale
• Diary of Anne Frank
• Parable of The Sower
• Fahrenheit 451
• Animal Farm
• Brave New World
~TAiLS of a Bookworm
May 13, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Image of library book display labeled:
“It's A Warning Not An Instruction Manual.”
Books on display:
• On Tyranny
• Twenty Lessons From
The 21st Century
• 1984
• A Handmaids Tale
• Diary of Anne Frank
• Parable of The Sower
• Fahrenheit 451
• Animal Farm
• Brave New World
~TAiLS of a Bookworm
“It's A Warning Not An Instruction Manual.”
Books on display:
• On Tyranny
• Twenty Lessons From
The 21st Century
• 1984
• A Handmaids Tale
• Diary of Anne Frank
• Parable of The Sower
• Fahrenheit 451
• Animal Farm
• Brave New World
~TAiLS of a Bookworm
Digging up my grandmas peonies that came from my great grandmothers peonies and moving them to every house I’ve lived in is without a doubt one of the best things I’ve done.
Happy Mother’s Day, folks!
Happy Mother’s Day, folks!
May 11, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Digging up my grandmas peonies that came from my great grandmothers peonies and moving them to every house I’ve lived in is without a doubt one of the best things I’ve done.
Happy Mother’s Day, folks!
Happy Mother’s Day, folks!
Today I got the joy of watching the first class of students I ever taught graduate as doctors of osteopathic medicine. 7 of them were the first students I ever hired to work in my library. They’re all great, but the first ones are just special.
May 9, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Today I got the joy of watching the first class of students I ever taught graduate as doctors of osteopathic medicine. 7 of them were the first students I ever hired to work in my library. They’re all great, but the first ones are just special.
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