Two additional NIHR internships are now open for applications Mar–Sept 2026 Theme Two: Growing Into Research For registered health & care professionals (excl. doctors & dentists) £10,000 funding per intern Protected time to develop research skills Apply by 31/01/26 tinyurl.com/bddje47n

Human vs. machine in medical search strategy development: a comparative evaluation of ChatGPT-4.1 ojs.eahil.eu/JEAHIL/artic...

New FREE webinar from the U-M Taubman Library! December 15 - "Developing Systematic Search Skills: Peer-to-Peer Learning with Practice Sets" More info: guides.lib.umich.edu/TaubmanTalks... #medlibs #SystematicReviews #ExpertSearching #SystematicSearching #SystematicReview #EvidenceSynthesis

Thrilled to have collaborated with @mlrethlefsen.bsky.social & Sara Schroter (& the wonderful librarians involved in our study) on this new article in BMJ Open. TL;DR: Librarians have expertise to support evidence synthesis & many would happily be peer reviewers! bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/1...

Want to develop your #EvidenceSynthesis skills or literature searching? Places still available on our online courses - come and join us!

Book Now! #MixedMethods #SystematicReview online courses, Mar 2026 bit.ly/2QbD1DV Live interactive sessions, pre-recorded lectures & workbooks by experts. When & how to integrate data for complex ques #LitSearch & EndNote @katysutcliffe.bsky.social @eppicentre.bsky.social @auhe-leeds.bsky.social

📣 Closing soon! We're planning updates to the CEE Database of Evidence Reviews (CEEDER). If you produce or use #EnvironmentalEvidence, complete our short survey: 👉 forms.gle/yz2p2acStLyK... 🗓 Survey closes Oct 20, 2025 Share with your networks!🌏 #SciPol #EvidenceSynthesis #EvidenceUse

Tip #55: How and why to search previous indexing of MeSH terms in PubMed, plus the alphabet soup of PubMed's date fields #MLAUXCaucus #ExpertSearching #SystematicReview #medlibs uxcaucustips.blogspot.com/2025/02/tip-...

📣 We need your input! We're planning updates to the CEE Database of Evidence Reviews (CEEDER). If you produce or use #EnvironmentalEvidence, complete our short survey: 👉 forms.gle/yz2p2acStLyK... 🗓 Survey open until Oct 20, 2025 Share with your networks!🌏 #SciPol #EvidenceSynthesis #EvidenceUse

News on the blog: How can technology support weight loss programmes as the NHS shifts its focus? #systematicreview #obesity #threeshifts @esmi-exeter.bsky.social @penarc.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk bit.ly/4mqxepR

Back to school vibes are in the air & the sense of motivation is contagious... why not take the opportunity to benefit from our early bird rate & book a space on our #SystematicReviews of #MixedMethods evidence CPD course? @esmi-exeter.bsky.social @uniofexeternews.bsky.social @penarc.bsky.social

#medlibs we added a paper detailing a translation of #literaturesearches in #PsycInfo from Ovid to EBSCOhost sites.google.com/a/york.ac.uk...

We often talk about corporations influencing research, but what about governments? 🧐 New paper by PhD student Helen Senior shows govt-funded public health research isn’t immune to influence - both positive and negative. Check it out 👉https://tinyurl.com/yjpkhtfk

Raphaël Grolimund shows us a very cool video on how you can use Zotero for much more than just reference managing - in fact, you can use it during the entire process of a systematic review. Good news for the #medlibs not at #EAHIL2025, he shared a video of this at the end peertube.ch/w/qvgAhaVuGZ...

Off to #EAHIL2025 today. Any others on BSky going to be there? #medlibs

Just a reminder that #ESMARConf2025 is starting tomorrow! This is a free online conference about evidence synthesis and meta-analysis using #Rstats. Further details can be found here: esmarconf.org/2025/

Learning about topical steroid withdrawal was a real eye-opener! Our evidence gap map brings together academic research and social media posts. Check out our blog for details #tsws #TopicalSteroidWithdrawal @penarc.bsky.social evidsynthteam.wordpress.com/2025/05/28/t...

🎉 We are excited to be part of the Cochrane-Campbell-JBI-CEE AI Methods Group as they launch new guidance on the responsible use of #AI in #EvidenceSynthesis! 🤖 Join us June 3rd! training.cochrane.org/recommendati... Learn more at the AI Methods Group website ​​https://methods.cochrane.org/ai/

Job alert. Researcher specialising in information science wanted by ISCA Evidence at the University of Exeter jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

Registration is now open for ESMARConf2025, register now at: esmarconf.org/2025/

Been a while coming @nshaw18.bsky.social Delighted to see our paper published jmla.mlanet.org/ojs/jmla/art...

Online course: How to Peer Review Search Strategies (5 and 9 June 2025) This course offers a comprehensive guide to peer reviewing search strategies, essential for improving the quality and accuracy of research findings across multiple disciplines. instats.org/seminar/how-...

Watch the latest #JBILIVE webinar on using JBI Search Strategy methodology to conduct your review at youtu.be/Fa6w7TixIeg?... ‼️📣 Presented by Amanda Ross-White & Terena Solomons #medlib #JBIMethodology

🚀 Boost Your Systematic Review Skills! 🚀 Join the Systematic Review & Mapping Methods Course with Dr Jacqualyn Eales! 📅 3-4 June | 📍 Online ✅ Hands-on training ✅ Transparent research methods 🔗 Register now: opencollective.com/esmarconf/ev... #SystematicReview #EvidenceSynthesis #ESMARConf

I am running a webinar on April 30 2025, commissioned by La Fédération des milieux documentaires in Canada. The title is 'Techniques and tools for identifying noise in literature searches and reducing its impact on searches'. Further details here: www.fmdoc.org/evenement/id...

I wrote a blog post on what's happening in the US information landscape for @lshtm.bsky.social. Thanks to Open Science and Archives colleagues for input and to everyone on this site who is publicising events. #FederalInfo #USAID #CDC #PubMed blogs.lshtm.ac.uk/library/2025...

#medlibs we added a paper (Hanneke et al, 2024) which reports on the #search terms used in 64 evidence syntheses of #social determinants of #health sites.google.com/a/york.ac.uk...

Only 1 day left to sign up for the 4th Round of the Literature Search Peer Review Buddy Scheme!!! hslg.ie/cpd-support/... #hslg #medlibs #peerlearning

This is a nice thread from @sergiograziosi.bsky.social where he talks about some of the internal discussions we've had where we wrestle with how to develop, evaluate, and deploy new 'AI' tools in a responsible way

We’re launching a brand new blog! I wrote the first post on developing search strategies using ChatGPT. Problem or panacea? sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/y... #MedLibs #SystemsticReviews #EvidenceSynthesis

Sue Golder ending #coreifr25 talking about AI

Experiences of searching Instagram, Reddit and for blogs for topical steroid withdrawal evidence and gap map from @morwenna73.bsky.social #coreirf25

The first #informationspecialist conference here in the UK at Newcastle University #coreirf25 @jmwleeds.bsky.social is sharing her experiences

Exciting opportunity for an Early Career Researcher: www.eshackathon.org/2023/12/23/T...

As AMR Awareness week continues, we're looking at how a growing number of infections are becoming harder to treat as antibiotics fail to work, resulting in higher death rates, longer hospital stays & higher costs. Discover how our research is exploring alternative treatments tinyurl.com/2tn9k66t

Kapp C, Fujita-Rohwerder N, Lilienthal J, Sieben W, Waffenschmidt S, Hausner E. The searchbuildR shiny app: A new implementation of the objective approach for search strategy development in systematic reviews. Cochrane Evidence Synthesis and Methods. 2024;2(6):e12078. doi: doi.org/10.1002/cesm....

🚨 REGISTER NOW 🚨 Join us at @ualmeria 25-29th Nov for a 5-day workshop on #EvidenceSynthesis and #SocialTransformations! Learn about robust #SystematicReview and #SystematicMapping methods! #LiteratureReview #Methods #AcademicTwitter evidencesynthesisschool.github.io

You can read and comment on draft guidance on Responsible #AI in #EvidenceSynthesis (RAISE) - produced by Cochrane, International Collaboration for Automation in Systematic Reviews, Campbell, JBI, Collaboration for Environmental Evidence, and Wellcome. osf.io/fwaud/

I'm presenting a poster about preprints today during the poster session. Easy to find me. I'm #4 #GES2024. Thanks to my co-authors from University of Victoria who are not here-- @zapthelibrarian.bsky.social and Sarah McGill

Finding all the posters a bit much... check this one out... not too many words, no statistics, important messages! #GES2024

And... if you aren't at #ges2024 and/or can't make the poster session... we have a lovely animation made by @penarc.bsky.social youtu.be/dkj4EEPSf20?...

💥New: Citation indexes make research more unequal ✍️David Mills & Toluwase Asubiaro #Citations #ScholComm

Hoping to meet lots of evidence folk in Prague at the Global Evidence Summit next month. This hashtag leads to a useful feed 👉 #GES2024

Will you be at #GES2024 in Prague? Or following from home? This hashtag may lead to a useful feed (if we have set it up right!) @jdwilko.bsky.social @nessieevidence.bsky.social @jbiebhc.bsky.social @jacknunn.bsky.social @ruthgarside.bsky.social @terripigott.bsky.social

Brilliant opportunity to manage the GREENGAGE trial evaluating nature-based interventions for mental health & work with some superb people. Research Trial Manager (0.5FTE) #Exeter/#Cornwall (Hybrid) £41.7k pro rata Close: 22/9/24 jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr... @nihrarcs.bsky.social

What is the effect of intergenerational activities on the wellbeing and mental health of older people? Sadly the rigorous research evidence doesn't tell us much but what we do know is here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

My first full-length research article in JMLA was published yesterday. I interviewed 12 information specialists about the databases they search for systematic review projects, and boy, did they have a lot to say! jmla.pitt.edu/ojs/jmla/art...