Celia Rabinowitz

Senator Helps Officers Forcibly Remove Protesting Veteran From Hearing

Take a very good look at that headline. Now read the article and watch the video.

To incoming University President Mnookin: Please don’t let artificial intelligence devalue the liberal arts Last month, University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin <a href="https://www.dailycardinal.com/article/2025/12/uw-receives-approval-to-move-l-ss-largest-majors-to-new-ai-focused-school...

When in doubt, ask students.
AI, when applied to the classroom, undermines the mission of a liberal arts education—a mission to facilitate “robust and respectful conversation, critical inquiry and unprejudiced examination of the world”

Who invented ski mountaineering and what were they on when they did?

I watched "The Librarians" on Independent Lens. It was painful & agonizing. I'm an academic librarian. School and public librarians are heroes. They are accused repeatedly of being pedophiles. How many religious pastors and politicians have been arrested for child sexual abuse? And librarians?

They were from Sátoraljaújhely itself. My grandparents and my grandmother's siblings got out in 1929 (turned away from the US, but the ship they were on docked in Canada). But most of their families stayed behind and almost no one survived. I have their original marriage certificate.

Your aunt was in the getto in Sátoraljaújhely, Hungary. That is the town where my maternal grandparents were from. Your aunt has given the world a gift many times over. May she continue to have good health.

"The Northern Lights should be visible in most of New England tonight if the skies clear. The Justice Department says it's investigating."

"The Justice Department says it's investigating" seems like the tag line at the end of every news story.

Luckily my gifts to MaxFun go through the ether and get there faster. Enjoy your new digs!

OMG, @dannybaruela.bsky.social. It's like you're in my office looking over my shoulder while I put stamps on envelopes!

The current president AND morality is a Venn diagram where the circles do not overlap.

We Have Something Important to Offer Students: Agency If higher ed becomes the transactional model, only now with AI, we’re in big, big trouble.

"Where is the slack to stumble, rise and reorient?"
This is the take-away. That's what we can do - participate and join in on the exhilarating road with all of its bumps by providing support and encouragement to keep them on the path they choose.

Librarian here - I am all in for the library resources, but also remind students that they won't have access to most of them once they graduate. Navigating the garbage that most search engines serve up is an important skill, too. And including a good list of excellent open access tools.

On behalf of this NH voter (and many, many others), thank you!

I grew up with a copy of the People's Song Book on our piano. My mother told me the story of going to the Socialist Party Headquarters in Indianapolis to get it one summer when she was home from college. Parents took me to anti-war protests and to walk a picket line in the 60s, so yes. It tracks.

WTAF

NYT: Trump Says U.S. Is ‘Locked and Loaded’ if Iran Kills Protesters

WaPo: Trump and senior administration officials repeatedly threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act to addresses large protests.

NASA’s Largest Library Is Closing Amid Staff and Lab Cuts

"Holdings from the library at the Goddard Space Flight Center, which includes unique documents from the early 20th century to the Soviet space race, will be warehoused or thrown out"

So painful for this librarian to read. @kevinmkruse.bsky.social think of the secrets about to be lost, some forever

Don't pregame the driveway. City might come through with salt on the roads before anything comes down. Be careful with pets outside after you shovel if you put anything down that isn't pet-safe.

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."

- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.

Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!

3 Questions for Learning Innovator and Scholar Robin DeRosa A conversation about transitions, scarcity and alternative academic careers.

THIS is what you need to read to start your day. @robinderosa.net is my hero. Two of the three Learning & Teaching Collaborative staff I work with at Keene State College (also NH) were retrenched this semester. Support for developing good teaching is disappearing. I am heart broken.

This book is a complete game changer. I recommend it, have gifted it, and somehow lost my personal copy full of underlining and exclamation points (whoever I lent it to - I want it back!).

I think the medals are awarded in a White House ceremony. The celebration at the Kennedy Center happens tonight. It will be the first year since I can remember that I will not watch the recorded show later in December (if that happens this year).

From The Equinox, our student newspaper in reference to the situation at OSU:
"We can only hope that KSC would uphold baseline academic expectations if it were to be in a similar scenario. Caving to minimal pressure from an activist organization is nothing short of embarrassing."

You'd think that a headline reading "Doctor Critical of Vaccines is Appointed as CDC's Second in Command" might be something the Onion would do. But you would be wrong, because it is the headline for a NY Times article and it is deadly serious, emphasis on the deadly.

What? The white guy says to get rid of care and support of those who are different or in need? I am SHOCKED, I tell you, shocked.

Further Questions: Best Advice for Getting Hired and for People Who Hire “Remember that we want candidates to feel as comfortable as possible so they perform to the best of their ability. Whatever we can do to put them at ease gives us a more realistic baseline fr…

Advice for library job seekers and hirers. What would you add? @hiringlibrarians.com

If you don't listen to any MaxFun podcasts you should check them out. And you could get a silly but very fun compliment with a $10 donation.

Thank you, Gabe!! You have no idea how much better this made my day. Maxfun is the best.

The Limits of AI Research for Real Writers To produce interesting writing, more is not necessarily better.

One of my laments was the way students would engage in “research,” essentially a pro-forma, box-checking process meant to satisfy an instructor’s grading criteria (number and quality of sources, etc…)
Librarians have been trying to help faculty move away from this flawed approach forever!

Opinion | A Nazi Tattoo Exposes Democrats’ Greatest Weakness

NYTimes fatigue? Definitely. Getting to read @tressiemcphd.bsky.social in the NYTimes? Priceless. Read this one and then read it again.