AJ Griffith
@readsometimes.bsky.social
Mom, medical librarian, science nerd
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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.
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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Needed a bell pepper for red beans and rice and figured why not so I plopped some seeds in a cardboard egg carton and anyway, currently at 5 sprouts from a bell pepper I needed anyway.
Also found a sprouted peanut in a planter so guess I’m growing those too.
Also found a sprouted peanut in a planter so guess I’m growing those too.
April 27, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Needed a bell pepper for red beans and rice and figured why not so I plopped some seeds in a cardboard egg carton and anyway, currently at 5 sprouts from a bell pepper I needed anyway.
Also found a sprouted peanut in a planter so guess I’m growing those too.
Also found a sprouted peanut in a planter so guess I’m growing those too.
Weekly phone call with my R voting father.
Yet again another episode of us agreeing on most things, but me pointing out that I actually voted that way and all these things he’s bitching about are the result of his guy’s EOs.
And then he ends the call.
Rinse and repeat for next week.
Yet again another episode of us agreeing on most things, but me pointing out that I actually voted that way and all these things he’s bitching about are the result of his guy’s EOs.
And then he ends the call.
Rinse and repeat for next week.
April 26, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Weekly phone call with my R voting father.
Yet again another episode of us agreeing on most things, but me pointing out that I actually voted that way and all these things he’s bitching about are the result of his guy’s EOs.
And then he ends the call.
Rinse and repeat for next week.
Yet again another episode of us agreeing on most things, but me pointing out that I actually voted that way and all these things he’s bitching about are the result of his guy’s EOs.
And then he ends the call.
Rinse and repeat for next week.
It’s not ominous that the US Gov is requesting lists of databases and journals that military medical students have access to, right?
I need a drink now.
I need a drink now.
April 24, 2025 at 8:03 PM
It’s not ominous that the US Gov is requesting lists of databases and journals that military medical students have access to, right?
I need a drink now.
I need a drink now.
There is no greater hell than algebra 1 homework with a 15 yo.
April 23, 2025 at 2:23 AM
There is no greater hell than algebra 1 homework with a 15 yo.
I have been hiring students to work in the library for 4 years now. 2-3 per year say they just want some extra money while in med school.
This year, over half gave feeling anxious about money as their reason for applying. Not spending money, they just want to afford food.
This year, over half gave feeling anxious about money as their reason for applying. Not spending money, they just want to afford food.
April 10, 2025 at 9:53 PM
I have been hiring students to work in the library for 4 years now. 2-3 per year say they just want some extra money while in med school.
This year, over half gave feeling anxious about money as their reason for applying. Not spending money, they just want to afford food.
This year, over half gave feeling anxious about money as their reason for applying. Not spending money, they just want to afford food.
Taking a week off makes the Sunday before going back to work the worst Sunday ever.
March 30, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Taking a week off makes the Sunday before going back to work the worst Sunday ever.
My dad just told me “We won’t need doctors in 10 years because of AI”
Meanwhile, I’m drafting a statement to send to my medical students bc they keep using ChatGPT and sending my library staff AI hallucination citations.
Sure dude.
Meanwhile, I’m drafting a statement to send to my medical students bc they keep using ChatGPT and sending my library staff AI hallucination citations.
Sure dude.
March 26, 2025 at 9:45 PM
My dad just told me “We won’t need doctors in 10 years because of AI”
Meanwhile, I’m drafting a statement to send to my medical students bc they keep using ChatGPT and sending my library staff AI hallucination citations.
Sure dude.
Meanwhile, I’m drafting a statement to send to my medical students bc they keep using ChatGPT and sending my library staff AI hallucination citations.
Sure dude.
73 yesterday.
Snowing today.
Fucking, Missouri, man.
Snowing today.
Fucking, Missouri, man.
March 16, 2025 at 3:22 AM
73 yesterday.
Snowing today.
Fucking, Missouri, man.
Snowing today.
Fucking, Missouri, man.
@schumer.senate.gov being chicken shit is not a surprise. Infuriating, but not surprising.
March 13, 2025 at 11:43 PM
@schumer.senate.gov being chicken shit is not a surprise. Infuriating, but not surprising.
What are the odds that I get accepted for my EdD and my research statement is about info lit skills lacking prior to professional schools and then getting invited to teach info lit to non-professional students 2 days later?
100% was not my guess but here we are. At least I don’t have to beg now 😂
100% was not my guess but here we are. At least I don’t have to beg now 😂
March 13, 2025 at 1:02 AM
What are the odds that I get accepted for my EdD and my research statement is about info lit skills lacking prior to professional schools and then getting invited to teach info lit to non-professional students 2 days later?
100% was not my guess but here we are. At least I don’t have to beg now 😂
100% was not my guess but here we are. At least I don’t have to beg now 😂