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#medlibs 📚

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This workshop aims to enhance understanding of research design among novice health professions education researchers, addressing the limitations of the one-group pretest-posttest design & offering alternative approaches. #EditorsChoice #Medsky #MedEd www.mededportal.org/doi/10.15766...

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How do you NOT out MEDLINE results in SCOPUS? (And not is not working for me) #medlibs

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How are folks handling #copyright when it comes to using things like chatGPT/Claude/CoPilot for #evidencesynthesis tasks. E.g. using CoPilot to do QA/bias assessments, or Claude for data extraction. Do you use only open article pdfs? Has anyone seen any work on this? #systematicreviews #medlibs

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#medlibs

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Truly want to know how these clauses show up in library contracts - I know they're throwing this garbage into all our tools. Any licensing librarians on here who can share? 📚

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"I have nothing to hide! I don't need digital privacy!" Well... - AI companies are scraping your data - Scammers are using AI to get better at their schemes - And yeah, a new era of government surveillance... A starter guide to protecting you online life:

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www.politico.com/news/2025/05.... #medlibs #meded #publichealth

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So glad someone did this study #medlibs pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40387123/

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The Environmental Protection Agency has drafted a plan to eliminate all limits on greenhouse gases from coal and gas-fired power plants in the U.S., according to internal agency documents reviewed by The New York Times.

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Since a Minneapolis police officer murdered George Floyd in 2020, the number of people killed by the police each year has continued to rise — and Black Americans are still killed in disproportionate numbers. Our data reporter explains his findings. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/u...

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#medlibs

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If you have a job description/interview questions for a Grad student (in the library), dm me. Looking for examples

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“Intrigued by a citation-boosting service that we unravelled during our investigation, we contacted the service while undercover as a fictional author, and managed to purchase 50 citations .” #Medlibs arxiv.org/abs/2402.04607

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We are looking for a new Editor-in-Chief and Assistant Editor for @hiljnl.bsky.social - do have a look and consider if it might be you or pass it to others who might have an interest #medlibs 📚 @louiscoiffait-gunn.bsky.social @suelacey-bryant.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1471...

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Are other #medlibs or other #skybrarians finding that quotes are not working as well for phrase searching

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What’s up with PubMed’s indexing algorithm? Between 1st March and today, the number of results associated with the MeSH term “Ethnic and Racial minorities” has gone down by 40 (1251 to 1211). [1/6] #pubmed #medlibs

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Libraries need help Teachers need help National Parks need help Scientists need help Doctors need help Democracy needs help

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Must read #medlibs

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#medlibs #skybrarians www.copyright.gov/ai/Copyright...

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Library of Congress staff just showed what resistance looks like. After Trump abruptly fired Dr. Carla Hayden, the respected Librarian of Congress, he tried to install Todd Blanche, his former personal lawyer and current Deputy Attorney General, as acting librarian. Staff weren’t having it.

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🤮🤢🤮🤢🤮🤢🤮🤢🤮🤢🤮🤢🤮🤢🤮🤢🤮🤢🤮🤢🤮 apnews.com/article/trum...

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Some sad confirmation from @bcgl.bsky.social while I was at UW last week—the National Digital Newspaper Program—which builds Chronicling America—has been shut down Historical newspapers are probably the archival material most used by the general public—for genealogy, local history—it’s such a loss

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'Artificial intelligence tools designed to speed up the research process by helping to extract data have led to a flood of “low-quality” research papers that threaten to damage the “foundations of scientific rigour”, according to a new study.' 1/2

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Trump Fires Shira Perlmutter, Register of Copyrights and #Director, U.S. #Copyright Office www.infodocket.com/2025/05/11/t... #lc #loc

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I'm gathering stellar author instructions/guidelines from journals where they are clear about what they require of systematic reviews and related methods. Interested in both mention of rigorous methods and requirements for transparent reporting. Got any stellar examples to share?

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Petitions to advocate for the Librarian of Congress: #medlibs Read @everylibrary.bsky.social's statement here. www.everylibrary.org/trump_fires_...

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A study finds requesting brief answers from AI chatbots can increase hallucinations. Models may sacrifice factual accuracy for conciseness, especially when dealing with ambiguous topics. #MLSky

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This is an incredible story. Extremely well written deep dive into an entire generation captured by generative AI. Even professors are using AI to grade AI written papers. Wild.

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NIH has temporarily disabled the No-Cost Extension functionality in eRA Commons. The Director of NIH has directed NIH staff to review all existing grants and cooperative agreements to ensure that NIH awards do not fund off-mission activities or projects. #medlibs grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

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#MedLibs

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Germany's central medical library, ZBMed, is building an alternative to PubMed. It will be open source, based on MeSH & associated data standards, built to be sustainable in case PubMed becomes unreliable - with APIs & MeSH maintenance. Open meeting called! 1/2 www.heise.de/news/Wegen-T... #MedLibs

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Crockett: Instead of the President cosplaying as the next pope, he may want to cosplay as an actual President of these United States. That means he may have to do a little bit of research and understand that he swore a an oath to defend and protect the constitution.

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well, i finally had to have the talk with my son. 📚

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Duke University Press to publish open access monographs through MIT Press’s Direct to Open (#D2O) mitpress.mit.edu/duke-univers... @mitpress.bsky.social @dukepress.bsky.social

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No matter how bad you imagine smallpox was, it was worse than that.

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