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Research Intelligence Librarian, formerly NHS librarian. Co-founder of Fair Library Jobs. Peer reviewer for Campbell Collaboration. She/her.
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Day 5 of flu and I’m fantasising about laudanum syrup and getting sent to a sanatorium

I’m ill (maybe flu?) and have a fever which I haven’t experienced in years and it’s horrible. I am somehow too hot and too cold? And shivering? V unpleasant.

If you are also annoyed by this you can upvote my request to change it feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/ide...

As promised, here are the slides I shared with students to convince them to NOT use chatGPT and other artificial stupidity. TL;DR? AI is evil, unsustainable and stupid, and I'd much rather they use their own brains, make their own mistakes, and actually learn something. 🪄

From the sounds of it, quite a lot of managers in #UKHE universities are opting for 'informal' chats about voluntary severance options, rather than, transparently, open an actual VSS. If this happens in your place, know your rights But also: our DMs are open, we'd love to know where this happens

What are your rights and options when you're called in an 1-on-1 with HR or line-manager and upon arrival you're told it's a "Protected Conversation"? We wrote to members, but this affects all, so here's the blog: qmucu.org/2024/08/30/m... #WorkersRights #KnowYourRights #JoinAUnion

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Gathering a few resources for LIS job seekers around disability and accommodations in the job search process - would love to hear any of your suggestions (looking for resources specifically aimed at job seekers, rather than employers). 📚 #libraries #librarians #LIS

I entirely agree, and I think we are going to see a lot of academic libraries cancelling packages and subs, and directing users to ILL, Open Access and OER resources in their place. But that gives rise to another challenge that this article doesn't address.... 1/ 📚

New paper on: 'Stealth corrections' These are post-publications changes, without providing any indication that the publication was temporarily or permanently altered. They found 131 articles altered by stealth corrections, across different scientific fields. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

NIH Cuts ICR – Implications for Research Institutions and Scholarly Publishing, by Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe @lisalibrarian.bsky.social / @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/02/10/n...

I'm doing the accessibility check on a presentation, why does PowerPoint not just make the slide title the first item in reading order by default? It flags it up for manual checking so can clearly detect it's an issue.

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A little bit more about this. Clarivate has said that part of the reasoning behind this decision is "students increasingly rely on AI-native and AI-powered solutions for a wide range of activities...The ability of academic AI tools to deliver reliable outputs depends on access...academic content."

Or, and hear me out, don't use genAI in your lit reviews. My god.

Really important point! With fake citations sometimes that time burden falls on library staff fielding inter-library loan requests for articles that don't exist.

Whhhy will SciVal let me print a list of publications but not export them in an actually useful format? And why will Endnote not let me add references by feeding it a list of DOIs?

Please let us know if you're seeing any impact in the UK from removing/limiting access to USA science & health data and research, or altering it #FactsMatter Worrying reports already from some of our members https://www.cilip.org.uk/news/news.asp?id=693964

Mystery solved - confirmed it’s Gravatar by checking my email on their website. Also discovered a long-lost blog I should probably delete gravatar.com/site/check/

About 10, maybe 15, years ago I associated a photo with my gmail account which now no longer appears anywhere on my Google profile. However, it still automatically gets used as a profile pic if I use my gmail to create an account on certain websites - most recently Policy Commons. Anyone know why?

#UkMedLibs #MedLibs

Turns out I'm not very good at this so here is some useful info: 💻It's an online event 📅 Over two half days on the 27/28th March 💰 Entirely free As well as some fantastic presentations, we have lightning talks on Health Information Week collabs, working with international partners & more #uhmlg25

Solidarity to @carrieprice.bsky.social and colleagues. This is a loss not just to the NIH but the global #MedLibs and medical research community.

Proper citation of research by journalists is necessary for more trustworthy news. This message is needed even more in the current climate. My piece for the @lseimpactblog.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci... #AcademicSky

🧵On #RandomActsOfKindnessDay, here are some ways you can be kind to blind and partially sighted people today, and every single day, straight from Holly Tuke, Acting Social Media Manager at RNIB who is blind 💚

I've just got Scopus to search for 200 author ids and that shouldn't feel like an achievement but it was being ridiculously picky about syntax and I had to reverse engineer what it wanted so I'm counting it as a win for a Monday morning.