Excited to share new work first authored by Georgetown medical student Sweta Ghatti, comparing how medical humanities vs. empirical research approaches health disparities in DC. Congrats to our entire author team: Christopher King @charlescott.bsky.social, Xue Geng www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Lovely thoughts to help celebrate May's National Bike Month and Mental Health Awareness Month. Celebrate next month with The Ride for Mental Health: www.rideformentalhealth.org #RideAwaytheStigma

Honored to be on this team @gumedcenter.bsky.social & humbled that Medical Teacher deemed it worthy of a BEME Guide: Specialty disrespect in the medical learning environment: What is known and how can we intervene? A scoping review: BEME review no. 93 #MedEd pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40380975/

DYK: three years before Alex Steinweiss changed the course of album art forever with the 1940 Rodgers & Hart comp for Columbia Records, he took 2nd Prize for this "See Your Doctor" poster?

A history of music album art. “Before most people owned a TV set, Steinweiss’s album covers were affordable multi-sensory entertainment. Looking at the album cover & listening to the music created an experience that was more than the sum of its parts.” [matthewstrom.com]

What’s your fave workflow/deep focus music? I dig this research by Dr. Orpella and team @gumedcenter.bsky.social This Type of Music Can Increase Your Concentration and Productivity. www.georgetown.edu/news/discove...

If you’re like me and don’t want to see AI overviews in your Google search results, after your search terms, just add -ai Hot tip from one of my favorite health profession educators.

Here’s a question to celebrate Jazz Appreciation Month and National Poetry Month: what do you call #poetry derived from the song titles on one side of a #jazz LP?

RefWorks now has a plagiarism checker pilot program available within their tools. If you have access to RefWorks, have you tried it yet? #AcademicSky #Librarians

Taking a break from working on a peer review to celebrate #Caturday. Spinning this Kenny Barron & Tommy Flanagan #jazz LP that I recently bought in Beacon, NY. It’s a Japanese release with fascinating yet inexplicable art by Satoshi Saito and photo by Masahisa Fukase.

That data and social bias article had me thinking about this enlightening 2023 presentation by Drs. Deyrup and Graves for the HAPI program at G'town: youtu.be/1Oq0S2jl77o?...

Nice brief article discussing the data and social biases that readers of scientific studies should have on their radar: #KYEO

Anyone can check out a book. Anyone can enjoy air-conditioning in the summer and heat in the winter. Anyone can use the bathroom, sit on a soft chair, log onto the internet. Everyone’s library card looks the same. Children can encounter new worlds, and elders can find community. There’s no red tape.

Released #OnThisDay in 1964, this sublime album: Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus. One of my favorite LPs of all time.

Easin’ in to 2025 with the latest absolute groover from @rosecityband.bsky.social courtesy of @thrilljockey.bsky.social

If you have access to @bmj.com, check out this timeless list of Climate Fiction provided by @thelakshmik.bsky.social. There are a few that I still need to read! doi.org/10.1136/bmj....

Nice short piece in the Lancet: On Paying Attention #MedicalHumanities www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

*Laszlo Cravensworth voice* “Cat?!” 🦇

Me trying to explain how I can telework as a #librarian:

A Journey by Nikki Giovanni from Those Who Ride the Night Winds (1983) poets.org/poem/journey

Fun old school holiday drink recipes from the @librarycongress.bsky.social What's your go-to holiday 🥃🍷🫖🍺🍸🍹☕🍶? blogs.loc.gov/loc/2024/12/...

Born #OnThisDay in the town that gave me my license to drive, is this Hammond master: Jimmy Smith. I hope you’re still rockin’ the boat with Sweet Poppa Lou. #JazzSky

Found this item while working on manuscript revisions and citations. We're not citing this perspective but I strongly encourage the practice: "Using Punk Rock to Invite Dialogues on Diversity and Inclusion" www.facultyfocus.com/articles/equ...

Exploring the Research Outputs where I work using @altmetric.com and these are the thirty articles that already have @bsky.app mentions. There's a long tail so apologies for the eye strain. Keep skeeting the good word!

Finding peace and comfort with this listen: Therapy by the Brendan Eder Ensemble. brendaneder.bandcamp.com/album/therapy

Roses are red, Violets are blue. Thoughts and prayers 'cause, AI is coming for your profession, too. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Huzzah! Scoping Review will finally be a Publication Type in PubMed MEDLINE starting in 2025. Reviews will get the rare retroactive indexing but unclear how far back.

A Comedy of (Database) Errors: I’ve collected a few of my favorite #library database errors and bugs below. Please share your favorite errors?!

This stellar album was recorded #OnThisDay: Booker Ervin’s The Freedom Book. Featuring Richard Davis, Jaki Byard, and Alan Dawson. If we are to believe the sleeve notes, this is the first time the quartet played together and the session was recorded in five hours!? #jazzsky

To help celebrate #Caturday, here's a relatively recent document from the National Library of Medicine's historical collections, demonstrating a unique perspective of cat therapy: resource.nlm.nih.gov/101611663

Books Not Bars

Is this a controversial take?: Instead of gravy with your Thanksgiving dinner, try お好みソース (okonomi sauce); spicy preferred but regular will also work. おいしいですよ いただきます

#NowReading this disparate yet complementary pairing of nonfiction and fiction: The Occasional Human Sacrifice by @carlelliott.bsky.social and We’ll Prescribe You a Cat by Ishida Syou. #Booksky

Long shot here, but are there any other #librarians attending #PRIMR24?

Finding peace and comfort with this #SaturdaySpin : All is Sound by the Cosmic Tones Research Trio.

So much to love about this one:

Mood: Sometimes I Wish by Black Merda. tuffcityrecords.bandcamp.com/track/someti...

While working on a complex search about neglected topical diseases, I was reminded of this fantastic release by Yellow Fever (cats and rats!):

'White Cat Hissing at Its Reflection in a Black Lacquer Mirror Stand' - Yashima Gakutei, 1820. #WyrdWednesday #ukiyoe #JapaneseArt

Calling out to... youtu.be/nt3WWKV2EPk?...

Me trying to put on a brave face each morning:

*Jon Spencer voice*

"The Dance of Death," German oil painting, 18th century. It depicts living people from all walks of life encountering skeletal figures who force them to engage in a deathly dance - a metaphor for the inevitability of our ultimate demise. #Halloween2024 #History #Death

If you’re up for it, grab your wheels…

This #librarian, who works in a health sciences library, absolutely adores this one-two punch from Bob’s Burgers.

We are now less than eight months away from the Ride for Mental Health. Perhaps you might want to see what it’s all about and join the riders and volunteers to help #RideAwaytheStigma www.rideformentalhealth.org

The Treachery of Images: ce n'est pas une publicité (1883)

Now and forever, vote for books! 💙📚

I don’t care that it’s gonna be in the upper 70s today, it’s time for Frost on the Pumpkin y’all! #bluegrass

Upon seeing a Birge Harrison painting, I hoped to find music that evokes feelings of American #Tonalism: “… characterized by soft, diffused light, muted tones, & hazily outlined objects, all of which imbue the works with a strong sense of mood.” (Grove Art) What would y’all listen to? #MusicSky