#medlibs and others in #libraries or library-adjacent spaces: If you haven't encountered cardcatalogforlife.substack.com, there's some really thoughtful discussions around AI, information literacy, and how to think about our interactions with information. Good stuff.

For any #medlibs who might need some encouragement

Friends, if you were waiting to check in on a bud, but keep delaying: do not delay, check in. Tell your friends you love and care about them, and if you’re thinking: I should reach out. REACH OUT.

I swear, the hardest part of any job that I've had is the annual performance review and setting goals.

Feb 2010 in Nashville, I drove through snow to take a friend that had abdominal pain to the ER. Next day, the melt refroze into black ice. I slipped on it while taking out the trash, ended up at the same ER with 3 fractures - dominant side shoulder, both wrists. Huge mess. Winter weather is no joke.

"If a single click can irrevocably delete years of work, ChatGPT cannot, in my opinion and on the basis of my experience, be considered completely safe for professional use." well, duh 🙄 #medlibs www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Just when you thought it was safe to dive into MeSH terms... I'm popping up a bit late to give a peek at what I've found for new #2026MeSH descriptors. Behold, a #medlibs and adjacent #expertsearching thread!

JFC I just cannot anymore www.npr.org/2026/01/07/n...

I don't know who needs to hear this, but: If a topic doesn't have a lot of evidence or there's a lot of gaps in the evidence, no amount of applying #EvidenceSynthesis or #SystematicReview methodology is going to change that. ES work only makes sense of what is already there.

I haven't knitted since early/mid 2019 for various reasons. I cast on a new project last night. I'm slow, but the muscle memory is still there - if I think about it, I mess up. Now I just need to practice getting smoother and faster, along with doing by touch and not having to watch every stitch.

As we wrap up 2025, I wanted to share some of the videos I've made that strike on my pet peeves in #LiteratureReviews, #SystematicReviews, #searching and #EvidenceSynthesis. A thread. 🧵 #medlibs First up, report your databases with their platforms correctly. youtu.be/lSn3IVxGG7M?...

WT actual F. They really picked a shade of white in this timeline.

#medlibs leadership should be ashamed of thinking that offering such abysmal salaries is ok. DO BETTER. This comment brought to you by peeping a recent job posting and doing math. $60-88K for 5-7 experience with specialized skill set (also 2nd MS preferred) in a major US city in this economy? GTFOH

Scientific misinformation is a carcinogen.

Screening a study on food intake that drops this bit: "All of the women were asked to scrape and rinse all dishes, glassware, and utensils with water and to consume the rinsing to ensure complete intake of provided foods." 🤢🤮 I wish I could exclude the study based on this alone.

If you hadn't noticed, @404media.co is doing some fantastic reporting around #libraries lately. www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...

For #medlibs nerds like me interested in MeSH, an interesting article in JMIR Formative Research: "Representation of Medical Concepts in Emojis Using Medical Subject Headings to Identify Gaps and Opportunities: Cross-Sectional Analysis" formative.jmir.org/2025/1/e70130

Sage too www.sagepub.com/about/sage-p...

Of potential interest to #medlibs and #EvidenceSynthesis / #SystematicReview folks, Wiley has published a guide on using AI for researchers, authors, editors, and reviewers: www.wiley.com/en-us/publis...

Your annual #medlibs Halloween reminder that "Chocolate"[Mesh] has only been in use since 2017. (OK, to be fair previous indexing is "Cacao"[Mesh] 1963-2016, but STILL.) Also, "Spirit Possession"[Mesh] is a thing, with only 28 results in PubMed, "Spirit Possession"[tiab] gets 144 results. 🎃🍫🍬👻

Today's #medlibs snort-at-the-article-title moment: "Ketones: metabolism's ugly duckling" (PMID 14604265) followed closely by "Exercise: the ugly duckling of diabetes treatment?" (PMID 41151796)

These are my emotional support tabs. Please be kind.

Was not expecting a #medlibs to pop up here. 😀 annehelen.substack.com/p/how-a-hosp...

It may no longer be Indigenous Peoples' Day but this is when and where your support truly matters. We have several Native communities devastated by flooding, families have literally lost everything. Link to community fundraiser for people impacted by this storm: alaskacf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/c...

This looks fantastic! Already registered and looking forward to learning #medlibs

maman has switched out the kale for arugula in the papa's breakfast bowl and it is nowhere near what it was. I am so disappointed.

I haven't been able to stop thinking about this, so here's a quick thread, with some curated #medlibs sources

This press release is wild. Food (in)security is an ongoing issue in the US, whether the govt thinks it is or not. Go grab the past ones while you can: www.ers.usda.gov/publications... www.usda.gov/about-usda/n...

Well. That's not a good sign.

🧵I couldn't quite make myself look at the new MAHA report, so I settled for today's opinion piece in the Washington Post: wapo.st/4mf4Ma7 As a #medlibs and #SystematicReview / #EvidenceSynthesis person, I of course had a look at the links/citations they include. Let's go over them, shall we?

In case any #medlibs want to watch live RFK Jr testify to the US Senate Committee on Finance: www.finance.senate.gov/hearings/the...

thread 🧵

making stigmatizing comments about health hurts people who aren't trump. there's your reason to stop

Good grief #PubMed is being temperamental this morning. It's slower than molasses, giving server errors, and generally being a pain. Do not like (for many, many reasons) #medlibs

There's is something so unnerving and unreal when you realize (and accept) that you are "the adult in the room" with a large group of experts, all of them looking to you as the authority and the one who can answer all the questions. Like how did that even happen?!

Oh no! #PubMed is giving an error for anything tagged [tiab] #medlibs Just perfect for a Monday. And yes I tried many, many things before panicking (and writing the help desk). [tw] works, [all] works, [mh] and other tags seem okay - [tiab] is borked, even if you try it through search builder.

#medLibs, if you're familiar with Fobazi Ettarh's work on vocational awe, microaggressions, and intersectionality in libraries, you might be interested in contributing to this fundraiser to support her care during a medical crisis.

I can hear the sound.

This, but tea 🫖

This isn't in reference to any particular job posting, but holy crap, #medlibs salaries are abysmal. I don't want to hear about lack of funding or whatever - given degree, expertise needed, and other requirements, salaries in this field are straight up insulting. There are no more excuses for it.

#medlibs we added an Ovid #medline #searchfilter for #humanitariancrisis and #emergency sites.google.com/a/york.ac.uk...

Seeing folks on social media talk about a research study "done by the NIH" or "published by the National Library of Medicine" just because they found it on PubMed or PMC and have the screenshot to "prove" it makes me want to rage. THAT 👏 DOES 👏 NOT 👏 MEAN 👏 WHAT 👏 YOU 👏 THINK 👏 IT 👏 MEANS 👏

So many people will die because of this deeply evil and deeply stupid man. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

Guess #medlibs and others need to check every reference these days. "Exclusive: US CDC vaccine presentation cites study that does not exist, author says" www.reuters.com/business/fin...

#medlibs Yet another factor to consider when looking at health disparities.

Any #medlibs or other #PubMed users having issues with their myNCBI filters disappearing?