J.A. Jablonski

• Professors should never put a student's words or work into an AI software without their consent. • Professors should also be transparent about their Al usage with grading, curriculum building, and any other way they might use it in their teaching. • If a professor does use Al chatbots in the classroom, they should explain their reasoning behind this decision and how its usage will help students meet learning outcomes. • Professors should additionally respect a student's choice to refuse Al. To do this, it would be ideal that they have assignments that students can choose from that do

Eminently reasonable proposed principles for professors’ use of AI, from a student refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/08/29/a...

Maybe some of these? 📚🌶️ 📚💙

"Romance Novels with Main Characters who have Diabetes" www.goodreads.com/list/show/75...

"Romances featuring diabetic characters – a post for World Diabetes Awareness Day, 14th November 2021"
allaboutromance.com/diabetes-awa...

Handcrafted wooden street library filled with children's & YA books (and a few SFF titles).

With the trick-or-treaters coming by tonight, we've temporarily redone our street library with kid, YA, and a few SFF books.
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🔥 Fireplace Evenings of Calm: Burning Logs, Crackling Sounds, and the Serenity of Pure Relaxation YouTube video by Fireplace 4K

Up early to read on a chill morning...tucked this little fireplace nearby and imagined it warmed the room.

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Black Speculative Fiction Part 1 Black speculative fiction (Black science fiction) is a rich and diverse umbrella term that encompasses a wide range of activities within the science fiction, fantasy, and horror genres. It is a space ...

Thanks to Samuel Delany for highlighting this article (via his Tumblr page: samueldelany.tumblr.com).
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Working on the back-of-book synopsis for my forthcoming academic mystery. It reminds me of my days as an information organization editor (& later, professor) when I taught text abstracting. It wasn't easy then and it's still a challenge now!
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#WritingCommunity #AcademicMystery ⚡📚

I'm conflicted about whether or not to leave the items in the library. It's not too sizable. I'll monitor things going forward to make sure people aren't leaving generic or low-level items. Don't want the space to be seen as performative. 2/2

##LittleFreeLibrary #SNAP #EndHunger

Handcrafted wooden street library with books on both shelves & 4 canned food items & 2 ramen soup packets.

Someone added foodstuffs to our street library. Kind, but sad too. In 2 days the U.S. govt shutdown will eliminate the food assistance benefits program for nearly 40 million citizens; 700,000 Wisconsinites will be affected. 1/2

#LittleFreeLibrary #SNAP #EndHunger

Pretty gross. 🙁

I hate that for you! 😄

Reading Rainbow revival four episodes on KidZuko on YouTube. Mychal smiles and holds the four books in the stills for each clip. They each have an assortment of views.

Filmed four episodes of Reading Rainbow, all are out on KidZuko on YouTube 😁

Thankful to still be in the world for this journey. Highest of honors for one of Reading Rainbow & LeVar Burton’s biggest fans ✨

Proud & grateful for all involved! 🦋🌌

“Take a look, it’s in a book!”
YOU can be anything 📚🌈

So apparently re-reading isn't seen as a thing anymore? Who makes up this shite?

#venting

Not sure, but I think I just saw someone liken academic regalia to "academic bathrobes." Snorted my tea up my nose. 🤣👩‍🎓🧑‍🎓

Stack of books on a small table: Rakesfall by Vajra Chandrasekera Crime Ink: Iconic ed by John Copenhaver and Salem West Dionysus in Wisconsin by E.H. Lupton The Examined Life by Stephen Grosz A Presumption of Death by Jill Paton Walsh The Indie Author Guide by April Hamilton Inventing the Renaissance by Ada Palmer KA: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr by John Crowley

Had to spend a day on the couch after a medical procedure on my knee (ouch!) so I set up a little comfort TBR stack nearby. Between naps, I managed to finish one: Stephen Grosz, The Examined Life. A splendid work of insights, private pain, & partial memoir.
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The Dracula clues & answers in today's NYT crossword puzzle are definitely rocking the Dad joke vibe. 🦇📰

⚡️📚 📚💙 #QueerCrime #BookRecs

The grace of these sentences is just something! Definitely going to track down a copy.

More info here: us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

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This whole thread! Am in SF-reading mode so am adding it to my WIP reference files.

But the rich sociology of its history, politics, memoirs...etc. Fascinating.

Just recalled when a male person I know stated that all the tea-drinking characters in Ann Leckie's Imperial Radch books were female because "only women drink tea." Years later I'm still agog.
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Enormous news in literary arts philanthropy:

Literary Arts Fund, initiated by the Mellon Foundation in collaboration with Poetry, Ford, Lannan, Hawthornden, & other foundations, will distribute $50 million to literary nonprofits & fiscally sponsored lit orgs & publishers over the next 5 years.

The Gate to Women's Country was my favorite of hers. I liked After Long Silence & her early "True Game" books too. I found her a bit fierce & redundant but admired her work overall. I had the chance to meet her once, a very sparky personality & generous of soul.

Confession: I'm a very tetchy reader who finds the 1st person approach stylistically & narratively annoying. And no, won't name it. Others love this book. Fair enough.

Oh no...am I going to DNF this book already? A sentence that opens with "We haven't even been supposed...." Ouch! Jumped ahead just to see. Nope, lots of choppy, you-are-there-isn't-this-awful 1st person stuff that wants me to care & follow along. Hmm, don't & won't. There's no grace to it. 📚💙 🪐📚

The lady at the charity shop today told me that she wishes people would clear out their children's old toys in the lead up to Christmas rather than after because she always sees a number of parents in the days before Christmas looking for toys for their little ones who might be strapped for cash. She said there's very rarely anything in just before, but that they get inundated with toys in the days after. And it really made me think about it in a way I never would have before. If you know your child is going to get lots of presents from father Christmas this year, by clearing out your cupboards a few days early you could make another child's Christmas a lot more special too. Saw this & thought I'd repost

Reposting with Alt-text:

Hunger Task Force, Milwaukee's Free & Local food bank Ending Hunger is our Mission

I mentioned Second Harvest of Southern Wisconsin yesterday. Today we also donated to Hunger Taskforce, a Milwaukee-specific food resource for people in need. Help out if you can!
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www.hungertaskforce.org

Marc Lobliner post on X: "Why the hell are we giving food stamps to 40 million people? Does anyone work anymore?"

SNAP isn't about "people who don't work." It's about people who don't get paid enough to live.

Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps:

* Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled

* Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages

📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms).

It’s also concerning. 1/

Cultivating Trauma-Informed Practice in Student Affairs. By Tricia R. Shalka (Routledge, 2024). ISBN: 978-1-64267-461-3.

Techniques of Grief Therapy: Assessment and Intervention. Edited by Robert A. Neimeyer. (Routledge, 2016). ISBN: 978-1-138-90593-1.

The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves. By Stephen Grosz. (W.W. Norton, 2013). ISBN: 978-0-393-07954-8.

Entering Private Practice: A Handbook for Psychiatrists. Edited by Jeremy A. Lazarus. (American Psychiatric Publishing, 2005). ISBN: 1-58562-141-2.

Finding some solid stuff for the backstory of my fictional college's psychologist/counselor. (Doing research is as fun as writing! 😄)

Full citations in the ALT Text.

#AcademicMystery #CollegeMystery #CharacterDevelopment #WriterResearch #backstory #WritingCommunity 📚💙 ⚡📚

Hey fellow Wisconsinites, with the imminent hit on the SNAP FoodShare program, if you can swing it, perhaps you can set up a one-time or monthly donation to the Second Harvest Foodbank of Southern Wisconsin. Even a small amount helps those folks in need.

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www.secondharvestsw.org

Screenshot of a post on X by author Doug Murano reads "I get tired of 'under 40' lists. Show me someone who got their PhD at 60 after losing everything. Give me the 70-yr-old debut novelist who writes from a lifetime of love and grief. Give me calloused hands and tender hearts."

Have seen this before, but like to repost.

#WritingCommunity #Publishing #Ageism
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