Cara
@stonca01.bsky.social
Educator, facilitator, collaborator, outreach ambassador, caring helper, dog lover, musician, grateful (is an action): Librarian (she/her/hers) https://about.me/carabstone Views here do not represent my employer or any organizations I'm part of.
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Academic friends, we're looking for a new Graphic Design colleague to join us in the Art and Design Program here at Grand View. It's a tenure-track position in a small, highly collaborative department with areas in Graphic Design, Studio Arts, and Game Design.
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Assistant Professor of Graphic Design
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November 20, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Academic friends, we're looking for a new Graphic Design colleague to join us in the Art and Design Program here at Grand View. It's a tenure-track position in a small, highly collaborative department with areas in Graphic Design, Studio Arts, and Game Design.
www.paycomonline.net/v4/ats/web.p...
www.paycomonline.net/v4/ats/web.p...
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just learned we won an award for our blog post about Tom Holland and stormwater management.
remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
What Tom Holland’s historic lip-sync showcase taught us about stormwater management
Grab your umbrella and your tights.
neorsd.medium.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:22 AM
just learned we won an award for our blog post about Tom Holland and stormwater management.
remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
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When I asked a group of middle-schoolers in Virginia last week what's one word they'd use to describe school—fun, exciting, mid, diverse, social—the most positive associations with school came from kids in band. That's not an accident.
As the parent of a 5th grader who last year described school as a "jail", I've never seen her more engaged and excited about school than after she brought home her baritone for the first time. She looks forward to band (2x/week) more than anything else, and constantly practices at home unprompted.
After flipping through it several times, I'm committed to reading The Disengaged Teen in full. Off to a good start:
"We’ve become desensitized to it. We are failing to see it for the crisis it is: Young people, hungry to learn and grow, overwhelmingly associate school with apathy and stress..."
"We’ve become desensitized to it. We are failing to see it for the crisis it is: Young people, hungry to learn and grow, overwhelmingly associate school with apathy and stress..."
October 21, 2025 at 1:34 PM
When I asked a group of middle-schoolers in Virginia last week what's one word they'd use to describe school—fun, exciting, mid, diverse, social—the most positive associations with school came from kids in band. That's not an accident.
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We had our first invoice sent from Canada last week- $54.92 to ransome a book we loaned to ON. #librarylife
October 6, 2025 at 4:24 PM
We had our first invoice sent from Canada last week- $54.92 to ransome a book we loaned to ON. #librarylife
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Thought about @stonca01.bsky.social all weekend in conjunction with September 21st.
a man singing into a microphone with the words do you remember the 21st night of september
Alt: a man singing into a microphone with the words do you remember the 21st night of september
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September 22, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Thought about @stonca01.bsky.social all weekend in conjunction with September 21st.
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I created a page with some LLM "follow-up" prompts I've been testing over the past few months. They are designed to be almost mechanistically applied, to help you "zoom out" and see the the lay of the land of an issue before you lost in the weeds. checkplease.neocities.org/followup-pro...
Effective Follow-up Prompts for Fact-Checking and Contextualization
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September 19, 2025 at 2:03 PM
I created a page with some LLM "follow-up" prompts I've been testing over the past few months. They are designed to be almost mechanistically applied, to help you "zoom out" and see the the lay of the land of an issue before you lost in the weeds. checkplease.neocities.org/followup-pro...
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My first ever completed Zine idea! "Why GenAI Sucks and You Should Not Use It" with 20 sources cited on the inside page. Thanks to all the researchers and journalists for the hard work I built from!
The scanned zine to print your own and all the references can be found at padlet.com/laurenUU/antiAI
The scanned zine to print your own and all the references can be found at padlet.com/laurenUU/antiAI
June 3, 2025 at 2:50 AM
My first ever completed Zine idea! "Why GenAI Sucks and You Should Not Use It" with 20 sources cited on the inside page. Thanks to all the researchers and journalists for the hard work I built from!
The scanned zine to print your own and all the references can be found at padlet.com/laurenUU/antiAI
The scanned zine to print your own and all the references can be found at padlet.com/laurenUU/antiAI
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COMIC: Don't panic! 6 strategies to keep you calm in a crisis
#GraphicMedicine
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#GraphicMedicine
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COMIC: Don't panic! 6 strategies to keep you calm in a crisis
In dire situations, stress can make us panic and impair our ability to make lifesaving decisions. Emergency response professionals share the tactics they use to stay cool and collected on the job.
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September 10, 2025 at 8:35 PM
COMIC: Don't panic! 6 strategies to keep you calm in a crisis
#GraphicMedicine
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#GraphicMedicine
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Finally, we recently published a new Introductory Biology Lab Manual from two of our faculty here at Iowa State! The Biology Laboratory Manual is optimized for printing in PDF but also available in an online format via Pressbooks: doi.org/10.31274/isu...
August 28, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Finally, we recently published a new Introductory Biology Lab Manual from two of our faculty here at Iowa State! The Biology Laboratory Manual is optimized for printing in PDF but also available in an online format via Pressbooks: doi.org/10.31274/isu...
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Second on our list of newly published #OpenTextbooks is Fashion and Apparel Consumer Behavior. Adapted from an introductory consumer behavior textbook, this book provides students with an in-depth look at how consumer behavior relates to fashion & dress: doi.org/10.31274/isu...
August 28, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Second on our list of newly published #OpenTextbooks is Fashion and Apparel Consumer Behavior. Adapted from an introductory consumer behavior textbook, this book provides students with an in-depth look at how consumer behavior relates to fashion & dress: doi.org/10.31274/isu...
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I'm happy to share some newly published #OER from the ISU Digital Press! First up is the 2nd edition of one of our most popular books, Introduction to Soil Science! The new edition welcomes a new author, @rivkafidel.bsky.social along with several improvements & updates:
doi.org/10.31274/isu...
doi.org/10.31274/isu...
August 28, 2025 at 8:09 PM
I'm happy to share some newly published #OER from the ISU Digital Press! First up is the 2nd edition of one of our most popular books, Introduction to Soil Science! The new edition welcomes a new author, @rivkafidel.bsky.social along with several improvements & updates:
doi.org/10.31274/isu...
doi.org/10.31274/isu...
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Wanted to share a critical AI spreadsheet I've been working on for a little bit now. It has a list of resources and links to materials I thought were interesting or that I used in my schools Critical AI LibGuide. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Critical AI Resources - bookjockeyalex.com
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August 18, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Wanted to share a critical AI spreadsheet I've been working on for a little bit now. It has a list of resources and links to materials I thought were interesting or that I used in my schools Critical AI LibGuide. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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The suit claims the popular service may be recording and processing millions of users' private conversations without consent.
Class-action suit claims Otter AI secretly records private work conversations
The suit claims the popular service may be recording and processing millions of users' private conversations without consent.
n.pr
August 16, 2025 at 11:19 PM
The suit claims the popular service may be recording and processing millions of users' private conversations without consent.
The timing on this is perfect as we start rehearsals Monday for the Central Iowa Symphony and we're playing Coleridge-Taylor's The Bamboula in our first concert of the season!
The British composer was a generational success story before his death at 37 — yet keeping that legacy in view has always been a challenge, even during his lifetime.
150 years of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, overlooked icon of Black classical music
The British composer was a generational success story before his death at 37 — yet keeping that legacy in view has always been a challenge, even during his lifetime.
n.pr
August 15, 2025 at 1:27 PM
The timing on this is perfect as we start rehearsals Monday for the Central Iowa Symphony and we're playing Coleridge-Taylor's The Bamboula in our first concert of the season!
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After World War II, the Japanese acknowledged they never broke the code of the Navajo Code Talkers. Tomorrow is Navajo Code Talkers Day, a great time to explore their oral history interviews maintained by the Veterans History Project at the Library. blogs.loc.gov/loc/2023/11/...
August 13, 2025 at 3:35 PM
After World War II, the Japanese acknowledged they never broke the code of the Navajo Code Talkers. Tomorrow is Navajo Code Talkers Day, a great time to explore their oral history interviews maintained by the Veterans History Project at the Library. blogs.loc.gov/loc/2023/11/...
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“The AI in the study probably prompted doctors to become over-reliant on its recommendations, ‘leading to clinicians becoming less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance,’ the scientists said in the paper.”
AI Eroded Doctors’ Ability to Spot Cancer Within Months in Study
Artificial intelligence, touted for its potential to transform medicine, led to some doctors losing skills after just a few months in a new study.
www.bloomberg.com
August 12, 2025 at 11:41 PM
“The AI in the study probably prompted doctors to become over-reliant on its recommendations, ‘leading to clinicians becoming less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance,’ the scientists said in the paper.”
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if you watch the tech industry long enough you learn the promised benefits never materialize but the unforeseen harms continue to be perpetuated long after the companies move on to the next big thing yet governments are too worried about scaring away investment to do anything
“The AI in the study probably prompted doctors to become over-reliant on its recommendations, ‘leading to clinicians becoming less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance,’ the scientists said in the paper.”
AI Eroded Doctors’ Ability to Spot Cancer Within Months in Study
Artificial intelligence, touted for its potential to transform medicine, led to some doctors losing skills after just a few months in a new study.
www.bloomberg.com
August 13, 2025 at 3:39 AM
if you watch the tech industry long enough you learn the promised benefits never materialize but the unforeseen harms continue to be perpetuated long after the companies move on to the next big thing yet governments are too worried about scaring away investment to do anything
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ICYMI at #ALAAC25, the All Nations LibGuide is now live! Explore Indigenous-centric resources, plus the Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women & Relatives Toolkit & Resource Guide, part of Immediate Past President Cindy Hohl’s initiatives. libguides.ala.org/allnations
📚 #skybrarians
📚 #skybrarians
August 11, 2025 at 5:28 PM
ICYMI at #ALAAC25, the All Nations LibGuide is now live! Explore Indigenous-centric resources, plus the Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women & Relatives Toolkit & Resource Guide, part of Immediate Past President Cindy Hohl’s initiatives. libguides.ala.org/allnations
📚 #skybrarians
📚 #skybrarians
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In a rural Vermont county, spotty cellphone coverage is the norm. But a local tinkerer is using old technology to help his community stay connected free of charge.
An engineer restores pay phones for free public use
In a rural Vermont county, spotty cellphone coverage is the norm. But a local tinkerer is using old technology to help his community stay connected free of charge.
n.pr
August 11, 2025 at 4:02 PM
In a rural Vermont county, spotty cellphone coverage is the norm. But a local tinkerer is using old technology to help his community stay connected free of charge.
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I might have lost funding but at least I can do what I want. :) And I want to teach people about AI ethics in 90 second increments! bit.ly/ai-ethics-sy...
August 5, 2025 at 3:04 PM
I might have lost funding but at least I can do what I want. :) And I want to teach people about AI ethics in 90 second increments! bit.ly/ai-ethics-sy...
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This is a good starter list for those of you looking for books on critical AI
Most of the ones I've seen are definitions with a little light "here's all the various types of harm" along side the "16 ways to get started"
I'm going to put together a digital book display somewhere/how with this pile of Critical of AI books docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
I'm going to put together a digital book display somewhere/how with this pile of Critical of AI books docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
July 19, 2025 at 6:43 PM
This is a good starter list for those of you looking for books on critical AI
Vol. 9, No. 1/2 (2025) of The International Journal of Information, Diversity, & Inclusion (IJIDI) is published!
jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/ij...
It's worth a read!
jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/ij...
It's worth a read!
Vol. 9 No. 1/2 (2025): (Spring/Summer 2025)
| The International Journal of Information, Diversity, & Inclusion (IJIDI)
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June 26, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Vol. 9, No. 1/2 (2025) of The International Journal of Information, Diversity, & Inclusion (IJIDI) is published!
jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/ij...
It's worth a read!
jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/ij...
It's worth a read!
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We may have found the best placement of our sticker yet. Shoutout to this mysterious window dog for making our day, and please tell your dogs he said hi. Get the 'tell your dog i said hi' sticker below!
www.weratedogs.com/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=tydish-sticker
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June 25, 2025 at 6:28 PM
We may have found the best placement of our sticker yet. Shoutout to this mysterious window dog for making our day, and please tell your dogs he said hi. Get the 'tell your dog i said hi' sticker below!
www.weratedogs.com/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=tydish-sticker
www.weratedogs.com/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=tydish-sticker
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All locations of the Des Moines Public Library are serving as cooling centers on June 20-22. DART will provide free rides for the public to access cooling centers in Polk County. Riders should tell bus drivers when they board that they want to go to the cooling center.
June 20, 2025 at 1:04 PM
All locations of the Des Moines Public Library are serving as cooling centers on June 20-22. DART will provide free rides for the public to access cooling centers in Polk County. Riders should tell bus drivers when they board that they want to go to the cooling center.