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submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

In the excitement over our new review of PAs, I forgot to tell you about the OTHER paper published in BMJ today, my commentary on the challenges of doing systematic reviews of evidence when there's no RCTs and most of the primary studies were unique and non-standardised.🧪 www.bmj.com/content/388/...

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

I have now played Balatro and I now understand the hype

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

True story - I wanted to become a librarian ever since I left my teddy outside the library walking home from school. I presumed him lost forever but he was cared for by the library staff for over a year before we were reunited! Paying back my debt to librarianship ever since…

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Like everyone else - I have some thoughts on the Clarivate announcement: tinyurl.com/35jxfnwc Not just a change in the model, but a representation of a larger shift in the landscape, and the dangers of monopolies and market consolidation - threatening the core mission of libraries globally.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Of course Coach Read preps for #SuperBowlLIX at the Library! 📚 You too can check out the competition and collect titles with us. 🏆 Good luck to Kansas City this weekend!

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

Come work with us: we're recruiting a Customer Services Manager with outstanding people skills and a background in excellent customer service & managing library/customer service teams. Whatever your background, you'll be efficient, accurate & show a real customer focus in all you do

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Dorothy B. Porter changed libraries 💜 The Dewey Decimal System used to only have two classifications for Black people: 325 (colonization) & 326 (slavery). Each book by a Black person was put into one of these classifications. A book of poetry? Classified as colonization. Enter Dorothy B. Porter 🧵

submitted 34 days ago • 147 comments

Delighted that registrations are now open for this welcoming, grassroots event for people who are curious about a career in #libraries or #archives. Weds 19th March 2025, in person, University of Salford. Visit 👉 bit.ly/curious-about

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

The power of Inter Library Loan - thanks @glasgowcaledonian.bsky.social Libraries

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

Happy New Year! 🐍

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

If they pull PubMed, do we have a plan B? #academicsky?

submitted 39 days ago • 28 comments

Sure, why not have that 5th cup of coffee, the world is ending anyway.

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

Some comments from @chrisabanks.bsky.social and me on some institutions walking away from the Elsevier Big Deal. (Paywalled)

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

Tomorrow’s 9am start in London could be an issue 😅💀

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

On #InternationalMigrantsDay, we thank our amazing migrant care workers for all you do. 🌍💙 If you're new to the UK, it can be confusing to hear phrases like ‘all ears’ or ‘cold turkey’. Check out our guide to common English expressions ➡️ https://buff.ly/4fju9Ea

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

I want to see pics of the “leaf fall” that took a third of the Piccadilly line and half its trains out for a month!

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

So, hypothetically, if I have a LLM to train I can pirate those movies?

submitted 81 days ago • 1 comment

As an American who’s lived in London this is too accurate

submitted 85 days ago • 129 comments

Not sure who made this & when but fittingly came across it in my downloads folder today:

submitted 89 days ago • 51 comments

Juan Soto!!!!!!

submitted 90 days ago • 1 comment

My role as subject librarian for health at the University of Hertfordshire is now being advertised. Don't let the weird job title put you off (Information Manager). I have been so well supported in this role. #LISjobs #AcademicLibraries www.jobs.herts.ac.uk/go/062776

submitted 90 days ago • 3 comments

Being taunted by tube ads

submitted 93 days ago • 1 comment

Do you use PubMed? Do you have an alternative in place?

submitted 94 days ago • 3 comments

💀

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

Problem with referring to AI errors as "hallucinations" is that it makes them seem like something abnormal when in fact it's the exact same process it uses to produce every response

submitted 95 days ago • 41 comments

🔇 We are delighted to let you know that a new chapter, ✨Search methodology for evidence syntheses✨ has been added to the JBI Manual for Evidence Synthesis: jbi-global-wiki.refined.site/space/MANUAL... #EvidenceSynthesis

submitted 104 days ago • 1 comment

If you think the new EBSCOHost interface was bad wait til you see RFK’s new PubMed 💀😰

submitted 114 days ago • 2 comments