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Stop Having Your Own Journal Specific Citation Style Challenge.

Somewhere in my office there is a purple cereal bowl. It's been in my office space as long as I have worked at this institution. WHERE is that bowl?

I wear their masks on public transportation and in my medical library!! Let us share fewer germs! (Hint: a bra strap works nicely to keep it attached while off your ears)

No that's Boadicea. Bodega is the former US Secretary of Transportation/Mayor of South Bend

The free electronic version of my book Selling Sexual Knowledge: Medical Publishing and Obscenity in Victorian Britain is OUT TODAY! You can download it from the link. Paperback ($35 USD) and hardback versions will be released on July 10. www.cambridge.org/core/service...

There's a half written poem somewhere in my archives about how the UN isn't on 1st Ave, it's on the F train heading home.

A few months ago, Nature published how-to guide for using ChatGPT to write your peer reviews in 30 minutes. This is, of course, a horrible idea. Here’s my response with @jbakcoleman.bsky.social .

I am of the Old Faith "It is exhausting being of the Old Faith -- where you wanted to know the source of the material you were reading and perhaps how to critically evaluate it." -- Letter from Me to DD* hedgehoglibrarian.com/?p=3526 #AIAsReligion #ChurchOfLLM

Can someone point me back to the article from within the past 3-4 weeks -- a CEO saying he used 3-4 personalized chatbots to make all his decisions and answer all his emails ? (Notably the article didn't ask why we still need him if his job is automated)

I hate all of these words as well as the order in which they are arranged.

Evanston is a civilized temperature today which means walking over to the bagel shop for lunch.

Huh... I just found a half-written paper that I had entirely forgotten about. Like TOTALLY forgotten. Wonder when I can find a few hours to update the data and get this out the door.

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I put together a 4-page doc for those wary of the rush to integrate in K-12 schools (though much applies beyond). Four of the main arguments for teachers using AI tools & introducing kids to AI as early as kindergarten are addressed with rebuttals linked to sources.

I have an entire half decade of colleagues and students who only know me through Zoom and with over-ear headphones on. I have normal ears, I promise. I just look weird to myself with ear buds in on camera at this point so you get the over-ear look.

I heard from someone who works there that management needs better messaging skills - I mean, that: the research rooms are still open to researchers, no change in that policy buses and cars will no longer be able to drive up right to the building, that is the change in policy

@icorules.bsky.social FYI

I love finding a post it note to myself that just says "Ethics Course for Rick" that I have to translate backwards into What Was I thinking When I Scrawled This.

I had 170 students apply for my two Grad Hourly Data Squid positions. Very grateful to the HR colleague and my Project Manager who are taking first pass through the resumes.

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