NIH grants have been under political scrutiny since early 2025. But what does the screening process actually look like? What is being flagged? I spent a month digging into leaked docs and emails. We've published the 235-word list that are being flagged by an internal AI tool. And so much more. 🧵

The #LESSS2026 symposium is SO GOOD. Probably the best run virtual conference I've ever attended. Shoutout to the @lesssymposium.bsky.social organizers, moderators, presenters, etc. All the content is great, it's impeccably run, and engagement in the chat/materials is so high.

My co-author Emily & I are happy to share/walk through our setup with anyone who's interested in implementing this! #LESSS2026

we heard you hate AI, so at LFP we've been making resources for turning off AI features across the web. but we also don't think AI problems can be solved at an individual level, so we included some of our fav tools for community resistance as well. more to download free at libraryfreedom.org

Going to spend some time thinking about this in the librarianship context, where (in my experience) acknowledgement vs coauthorship with faculty outside the discipline has been more reflective of their disciplinary norms than actual contributions made

Me the next time a faculty member talks about using chatgpt: Hey FYI you should use Micromedex instead of relying on genAI for dosage information if you're planning to poison one of your colleagues

We're hiring a social sciences librarian who will have evidence synthesis responsibilities. ✨ Sharing here because that might intrigue some of you ✨! Also, some of you might like to live in Minnesota for reasons. 💙🏳️‍🌈 🛶🌳❄️🌲⛸️🌌... hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/373...

You can nominate a humanitarian archive, record, or dataset at risk using this short anonymous form: www.qualtrics.manchester.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_... . #MedLibs folks, might be a good time to check global public health libguides for candidates

The courtyard behind the Health Sciences Library is at peak beauty today

Have you ever gotten an email so extra you want someone to FOIA it just so that everyone else can drink the haterade with you?

More genAI horror stories for the #MedLibs file

📚 we're needed fam www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

Excellent reminder to always read Sarah Lamdan: www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2019/ice-sur...

The UNC-CH Health Sciences Library is hiring a Head of Health Academic and Research Engagement (my department!). Please share with your networks and consider applying, or join the info session on 1/23 at 11am ET to learn more #MedLibs library.unc.edu/job-postings...

😍😍😍 (and/or ask your librarians to get a copy!)

Did you know that apparently the NIH had the option to "donate the journal to a non-governmental publisher through the Federal Surplus Personal Property Donation Program" (?????) or did you also ask your computer WTF?

Yet another episode in my least favorite saga, ACM UX (or as I like to call it, The computing people ironically have the worst designed/hardest to search database)

I'm (Cited ansiwers) (Lit raviews)

Tracking down altered vaccine, health equity, GSM care content and dead links hiding in my public health library guides and presentations feels like a sadder, higher stakes version of a zombie-hunter video game. Your familiar, trusted loved one [CDC] is actually a monster [agent of misinformation]!

My PNC-MLA presentation about the Pairwise PubMed Search Generator has been posted! In it, I put the tool in context and give a demo at the end. #medlibs

From the German National Library of Medicine, beta version of site for tracking additions and deletions to PubMed now available #medlibs

This will be a tremendously helpful time saver, thank you so much for sharing it!

#medlibs #ExpertSearching #SystematicReviews

Once I saw a paper on condom use among bear-bear* couples that was indexed under the Animal Studies heading in PSYCinfo. Always test your filters, #MedLibs friends *It was for a review on a gender & sexuality topic, so yeah. That kind of bear.

I was so offended by this video the NC State Health Plan sent us that I called Treasurer Briner. Duke Health: nonprofit health system whose workers provide lifesaving care. Aetna: corporate overhead that unfairly denies claims to enrich its investors. Obviously siding w/Duke youtu.be/gPXC62rN9U4?...

Just learned that OpenAlex is indexing libguides, which is a fun way to discover just how badly you've done at updating your libguide metadata 😬

Having a front row seat for @profsorelle.bsky.social's journey from student to tenured professor has been inspirational and I am so incredibly proud to be her partner. And while I wish *gestures around* were going better, I'm determined to celebrate this hard-won and well-deserved accomplishment!

“How to Report ICE” zines now available for these areas: NYC Philly Durham, NC All of Massachusetts I will add more as I get them done. Download them to print here: drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Orientation hits different this year, but I get to keep meeting new people who are dedicated to tackling public health challenges and telling them how I can help. I'm holding onto that encouraging thought with both hands.

Being optimistic in these times is a challenge, but if you are a #librarian working in #healthsciences or #medlibs and want to either volunteer to be a promotion letter writer OR find librarians to do this for you, please take a look at this project: osf.io/e7mb2/ Please share widely :)

Those who have not turned on these AI assistants made a smart choice. Great breakdown of how library vendor databases / discovery tools are blocking results for controversial topics

Color me surprised retractionwatch.com/2025/07/29/f...

Gritty's a librarian now thx. #ALAAC25

"An archive of videos that have been or we suspect will be removed from the officiaI NNLM YouTube." #medlibs 📚 youtube.com/@altnnlm?si=...

Are you attending a protest sometime soon? Here are EFF’s tips for how best to prepare one’s digital devices and oneself while exercising your First Amendment rights.

Such a great combo of orgs and people! Sure to be a fantastic event!

I'm excited to share my newly published study on the significant correlations between librarian coauthors and higher paper citation counts for pharmacy scholarship! UNC story here: library.unc.edu/news/librari... and full article here: doi.org/10.1016/j.ac....

Is dark academia still a thing? I feel like we should be encouraging that. “Do you think they were using ChatGPT in The Secret History? They sure as hell were not.”

Please boost! The NOEL PRIZE, in memory of the great and good and much-missed Will Noel. Celebrate your (or any) open access library project. No project too small, or too big. Full details here, deadline 8/1, extremely low-effort Google Form: pacscl.org/what-we-do/f...

The only time I agree to accept all cookies from Elsevier #MLANET25

ERIC lives!

For anyone attending #MLAnet25 who's also antsy about scheduling, I just downloaded the conference app PheedLoop Go! and it seems complete. I was able to log in with the email I registered with and it shows me the full schedule. Also, tell me about your presentations/posters!

We made step by step instructions (with pictures!) for how NC voters on thegriffinlist.com can update their voter file bsky.app/profile/tria...

For any of my environmental health peeps, these are not yet in (our institution's) EBSCOhost environmental databases - Greenfile, Environment Complete. But can't wait to use them in CINAHL etc!

We had questions over the past week about rescuing datasets that are restricted access. We now have some info on our FAQ about those restrictions. www.datarescueproject.org/faq/ For some of these types of datasets it is possible to get annual reports with selected indicators.

Things I did today in my librarian job: 1. used machine learning tools on 2 versions of citation datasets that I'll send to a research team for prioritized review; 2. modified a workforce survey with new logic to be sent to a new set of participants with my professional organization work group ...

Our group has been hard at work to release a new tool: The Data Rescue Tracker. The tool aims to provide a consolidated overview of who is downloading which dataset from which government websites. Please share! www.datarescueproject.org/data-rescue-...

For all my fellow librarians, data admins, and other university staff types, I spent today's laser cutter time playing with different materials and a message in the spirit of #LoveDataWeek. We're indirect costs. If the government cuts those rates, there goes our funding. #DHmakes

Guides to finding US Government data during the change in administration and efforts to preserve data: libguides.umn.edu/govpubs/admin subjectguides.library.american.edu/data_rescue researchguides.library.syr.edu/data #academiclibraries #medlibs #researchdata 📚