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medical librarian, etc. Opinions my own, etc, etc.
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The University of New Mexico
2 months ago
We've never been more quack. I mean back... Welcome back Duck Pond! 🦆 Read about the improvements made to the heart of campus.
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Peer Review Congress #PRC10
2 months ago
A @bmj.com RCT is comparing effects of use of an
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checklist on provision of study protocols, code, data, more. Too early to assess reproducibility FX!
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Had a great time working with Ayu and team on this project! (Maybe it works, maybe it doesn’t; still pending full results)
#prc10
add a skeleton here at some point
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Carrie Price
2 months ago
I’m pleased to experience the 10th Peer Review Congress and present with
@mlrethlefsen.bsky.social
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#prc2025
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It is incredibly annoying that this new NIH so-called gold standard science plan uses the exact opposite definition of reproducibility and replicability from the NASEM report. Why, just, why?
3 months ago
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So proud; my husband is teaching all of his colleagues how to do comprehensive author searches in multiple databases
6 months ago
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And in better news, my library has network cable from 1993 that is still in use
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madison
8 months ago
we just lost all 7 of our Network of National Library of Medicine, Region 5 (NNLM) library workers. the grant that covered their salaries was terminated. this is heartbreaking and demoralizing.
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Finally published! Thanks to my many colleagues who contributed.
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Improving peer review of systematic reviews and related review types by involving librarians and information specialists as methodological peer reviewers: a randomised controlled trial
Objective To evaluate the impact of adding librarians and information specialists (LIS) as methodological peer reviewers to the formal journal peer review process on the quality of search reporting an...
https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjebm-2024-113527
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JAMA
9 months ago
In a new Editorial, JAMA editors, JAMA Network Editors in Chief, and JAMA editorial leadership address the recent executive orders that have impacted the scientific process and reaffirm their commitment to scientific and editorial integrity.
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Nature
9 months ago
Almost all grant-review meetings under Trump 2.0 remain suspended at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), preventing the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research from spending much of its US$47 billion annual budget.
https://go.nature.com/4gM6oW4
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Revealed: NIH research grants still frozen despite lawsuits challenging Trump order
The Trump administration is exploiting a loophole to keep a funding freeze in place, leaving researchers in limbo.
https://go.nature.com/4gM6oW4
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Just finished reading Doctored, by Charles Piller. Distressing read, but highly recommend. It was good timing for teaching my rigor and reproducibility journal club this semester
9 months ago
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I joined Twitter in April 2007, so I kept hoping it would go back to normal. Not so much.
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