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Katherine Ahnberg

@teach-research.bsky.social
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Assessment & UX at Princeton University Library| Bay Area expat, found in museums, between trees, and thinking about how to make libraries a place for everyone. Op-eds my own.

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Katherine Ahnberg @teach-research.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
User experience research surrounding a complex flow with multiple roles- this session was a lot of fun and uncovered MVP tacit user expectations. Throwback to any Choose Your Own Adventure nerds #TBT #UX
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Colleen T @librarycolleen.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
I am enchanted by IRENE. blogs.loc.gov/loc/2026/04/...
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A (tiny) recording of Amelia Earhart’s 1932 London speech, played for the first time | Timeless
A reference librarian stumbled across a tiny recording of a speech by Amelia Earhart tucked inside a copy of her 1932 memoir, published soon after she became the first woman (and the second person) to...
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Katherine Ahnberg @teach-research.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
#c4l26
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Katherine Ahnberg @teach-research.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
New books in March offer a mental vacation www.npr.org/2026/03/03/n...
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10 new books in March offer mental vacations
March is always a big one for books – this year is no different. We call out a handful of upcoming titles for readers to put on their radars — offering a good alternative to doomscrolling.
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Katherine Ahnberg @teach-research.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
That’s tremendously disappointing.
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John Mark Ockerbloom @jmarkockerbloom.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/03/2026
Until I visited the site yesterday, I'd missed that an appeals court had stayed the ordered restoration of the slavery exhibit at the President's House in Independence NHP in Philly. It's now only partially restored, with some community-added supplements […]
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Trip Kirkpatrick @triplingual.myatproto.social · 03/03/2026
#c4l26
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Trip Kirkpatrick @triplingual.myatproto.social · 03/03/2026
#c4l26
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James Truitt @linguistory.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Amazing talk at #c4l26 by Yale’s Summer Shetenhelm on the ethics of AI within libraries
Slide-show slide with the following text:
- What knowledge or skills are lost when we use Al to perform our own work and support the work of others?
- In what ways are we undermining the capacity to engage in scholarship and conversations about cultural heritage?
- How does Al usage contradict our institutional missions and values?
- What legacy are we leaving for future library and archives workers, stewards, and patrons?
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Katherine Ahnberg @teach-research.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
I live in west and can highly recommend: the gold standard, satellite cafe, Clark park, Fiume. Enjoy!
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Katherine Ahnberg @teach-research.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
20 years of creating digital surrogates at the independently run, community focused queer archives in Canada- bit rot, human error/malice, natural disaster, viruses, and all the managed activities that work to preserve them against the tide of time and change #c4l26 #code4lib arquives.ca
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Home - The ArQuives
The world's largest independent resource for those who strive for a future world where lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people are accepted, valued, and celebrated.
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Katherine Ahnberg @teach-research.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Watch along from home- 3 free days of excellent community driven skill sharing #code4lib #c4l26 Volunteering Monday/Wednesday if you’re on site in Philly (say hi!). 2026.code4lib.org
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Code4Lib 2026
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Maureen @meau.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Nightingale explicates the Black press as infrastructure (a robust system with redundancies, distribution) and explains how digitization has the potential to support or obscure that infrastructure. 📚 #code4lib #c4l26
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Katherine Ahnberg @teach-research.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
❄️🐕❄️
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Colleen T @librarycolleen.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Judge Orders Trump Administration to Restore Displays About Slavery at Washington’s House 📚 (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/u...
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Judge Orders Trump Administration to Restore Displays About Slavery at Washington’s House
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Katherine Ahnberg @teach-research.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
timvaadams.weebly.com/gallery.html
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Katherine Ahnberg @teach-research.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
“The Fireside Angel is a picture I painted after the [fascist] defeat of the Republicans in Spain…an ironical title for a kind of clumsy oaf which destroys everything that gets in the way. That was my impression in those days of the things that might happen in the world. And I was right."
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Katherine Ahnberg @teach-research.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
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Katherine Ahnberg @teach-research.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
This week in existential art: Max Earnst’s stunning Triumph of Surrealism (1937) as seen at the PMA compliments the vibes of this student work on campus.
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Colleen T @librarycolleen.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Newly acquired Louisa May Alcott collections at the Concord Free Public Library (MA) 📜https://concordlibrary.org/events/library-news/from-a-new-eden-in-concord-to-little-women-unveiling-the-new-alcott-collections
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From a New Eden in Concord to Little Women: Unveiling the New Alcott Collections | News & Announcements | Events | Concord Free Public Library
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
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Katherine Ahnberg @teach-research.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Having foundational fiction ruined is not more important than the lives impacted by ethically ruinous rich and powerful people. Read -other books- Love -other universes- Reject -predatory people-
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Katherine Ahnberg @teach-research.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Key to my new home office seems a touch big but hey! Can’t beat the natural light and cute coworker:
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Katherine Ahnberg @teach-research.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Yes the dog is pleased 🐕❄️❄️❄️
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Katherine Ahnberg @teach-research.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/a...
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Humanities Endowment Awarding Millions to Western Civilization Programs
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Katherine Ahnberg @teach-research.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
As seen in recent library tourism:
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Katherine Ahnberg @teach-research.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Eve going to apple town while hanging with serpent Lilith was the best part of the gender & sexuality show at my favorite place on the east coast 🍎🐍
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Dictionary of Irish Biography @dib.ie · 09/01/2026
#NollaignamBan During WWII Kay McNulty was one of the women who devised processing routines for the ENIAC machine, establishing how artificial intelligence developed. At the public launch in 1946 the women programmers were relegated to the role of hostesses. www.dib.ie/biography/mc...
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Nicole Hennig @nic221.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
17 predictions for AI in 2026 - Timothy B Lee & others www.understandingai.org/p/17-predictio… (interesting predictions)
What will 2026 bring? We asked eight friends of Understanding AI to contribute predictions, and threw another nine in ourselves. We give a confidence score for each prediction; a prediction with 90% confidence should be right nine times out of ten.
We don't believe Al is a bubble on the verge of popping, but neither do we think we're close to a "fast takeoff" driven by the invention of artificial general intelligence.
Rather, we expect models to continue improving their capabilities - but we think it will take a while for the full impact to be felt across the economy.
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Nicole Hennig @nic221.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Critical Ignoring as a Core Competence for Digital Citizens pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC76… #InformationLiteracy
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Critical Ignoring as a Core Competence for Digital Citizens
Low-quality and misleading information online can hijack people’s attention, often by evoking curiosity, outrage, or anger. Resisting certain types of information and actors online requires people to adopt new mental habits that help them avoid ...
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Well at least no one’s dying anymore… oh
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Colleen T @librarycolleen.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Texas A&M Warns Professor Not to Teach Plato Because of Gender Rules www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/u...
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Texas A&M, Under New Curriculum Limits, Warns Professor Not to Teach Plato
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Katherine Ahnberg @teach-research.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Back at work this week I’ve found myself saying the same thing in every meeting: How can we make things easier on ourselves this semester? What would a really manageable version of this work/meeting/process look like for us? It’s so nice to get a solid week away from our desks to get some air.
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 01/01/2026
🥳 Welcome to the Public Domain: creative works from 1930 & sound recordings published in 1925! Duke Law's Center for the Study of the Public Domain has highlighted some of the most anticipated works entering the #publicdomain in 2026! More ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai... @dukelaw.bsky.social
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
what a shocking turn of events who could’ve seen this coming
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OpenAI Reportedly Planning to Make ChatGPT "Prioritize" Advertisers in Conversation
OpenAI employees working on ChatGPT report plans to unleash sponsored advertisements above organic results.
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Katherine Ahnberg @teach-research.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
What I loved about early twitter was what I loved about early message boards- the feeling that you’d stepped into a coffee shop filled with the interesting people you were too busy/awkward/ far apart from (socially or geographically) to know. Thanks for a nice first year of convos, folks!
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Quinn Daedal @quinnanya.me · 30/12/2025
Made it through 3 months of data (out of 18) in my text message weaving yesterday, including the somewhat time-consuming process of pulling up little loops on the rows representing days where we exchanged a lot of pictures. #DHmakes
A rigid heddle loom weaving with small loops and vertical stripes Close up of small loops in red and yellow
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Katherine Ahnberg @teach-research.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
FWIW from the social science perspective of someone who listens to students talk and opine for a living- some feel post AI dev is a “crutch” and wish they’d learned the hard skills. Might be interesting to ask about/point to how it’d been taught in the great before. Interesting class discussion.
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Kate Crowe @kcrowe.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
This Hark!, a Vagrant comic does a good overview of why this sucks. www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id...
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Hark, a vagrant: 56
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Camilla Holm Soelseth @supercamilla.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Good textual piece on how LLMs are amplifying technologies of what is wrong in the organizational structure of academia: "LLMs didn’t create the dysfunction in scientific publishing; they inherited it, intensified it, made it run faster."
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Context Widows
or, of GPUs, LPUs, and Goal Displacement
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Katherine Ahnberg @teach-research.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Childhood Bay Area me just shuttered at the power bill. I wish there were better “thing explainers” for the physical and digital infrastructure most critical work is overlaid on.
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Quinn Daedal @quinnanya.me · 29/12/2025
It's a reliable *shocked Pikachu face* line for audiences, but I have to explain that when we started archiving Ukrainian cultural heritage websites, the instability of the power grid in the Bay Area was a bigger impediment and risk than Russian attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure.
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Katherine Ahnberg @teach-research.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
It’s been a y e a r nationally speaking, but ever the optimist it just goes to show that: - arts & performance venues - parks - museums - libraries - higher ed -public health as ideas and institutions are important and powerful enough to be targets. Good to remember next hand-wavy think piece.
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Katherine Ahnberg @teach-research.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
*update A gouged taxi ride later, I’m fulfilling my destiny and now I live in the Dallas FW motel six. On the bright side, the other people whose flights were canceled, and now live here include a group of field hockey players from one alma mater, and two brothers off to take a cruise from UC 🥳
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WIRED @wired.com · 27/12/2025
Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its senses.
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Rejoice! Carmakers Are Embracing Physical Buttons Again
Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its…
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Katherine Ahnberg @teach-research.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
*update We have a pilot A plane A functioning autopilot board A functioning fire detector But the 1st officer? Their shift just timed out so we’ll have to wait on another one.
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Katherine Ahnberg @teach-research.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
*update We “timed out” our pilot and are waiting for another one. The group of 21 vacationers off to Portugal deplaned. At least this plane doesn’t have mechanical failures?
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