Just read this - it was shared on LinkedIn. ‘To my users, “we couldn’t generate an answer for your question” translates to “your topic is not worthy of pursuing—change it.”’ While it’s nice to think that students will come & ask when they don’t find results, many won’t. And the blocking of content…

I tested it in Primo Research Assistant, not surprising, I got similar results since Summon Research Assistant is sister product and both work the same by using LLM to generate Boolean search strategy. Gaza war shows no results. Tusla Race riots get a scary error message but does generate answer(1)

Want to know more about Intervention Component Analysis in #systematicreviews #evidencesynthesis and how it can help us understand how interventions work? New paper by @katysutcliffe.bsky.social and me 🔥hot🔥 off the press today in IJNS: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @eppicentre.bsky.social

From today, every paper submitted to Nature -if published - will be accompanied by peer reviewers comments & authors rebuttal. We started the trial in 2020; we now want to open up the review process & showcase its role in shaping & improving papers 🧪 #AcademicSky www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Let it Chafe (a Little) A lesson full of head-scratching, mistakes, and questions might ultimately deliver much more than one where everyone “gets it.” #EduSky www.kirschnered.nl/2025/06/15/l...

The amazing @marentierra.bsky.social @irisvanrooij.bsky.social Barbara M. & I build towards (sadly not obv to all): "Universities are not spokespersons for the AI industry. On the contrary, we need to resist being coopted and corrupted by the industries’ agendas." rcsc.substack.com/p/critical-a...

ESMARConf2025 Starts today at 08:00am UTC! All presentations will be available on our YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/@esmarconf, you can follow the schedule on our website: www.esmarconf.org/2025/#progra..., and don't forget to get involved with by joining our Slack: join.slack.com/t/esmarconfw...

This is really sad! Again a downfall to hyper commercialisation. But not unexpected I'm afraid, since the privitisation some years ago: www.guygeltner.net/blog/2582019...

So glad someone did this study #medlibs pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40387123/

Good overview from @jeroenson.bsky.social and @jeroenbosman.bsky.social

ICYMI, a worthwhile consideration of hesitancies over retrieval augmented generation (RAG) in the library scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/05/08/g...

👏 Bravo to the folks at LGBT Tech They just launched the LGBTQ+ Archive, a living, community-informed project created to preserve and make accessible federal LGBTQ+ resources that have quietly disappeared from public websites in recent months.

Finally registered for the EAHIL 2025 conference in Łodz. I didnt realize that the capacity for workshops was limited, so unfortunately no workshops for me (it’s my own fault though)

So far, the best review on using GenAI in #EvidenceSynthesis & #SystematicReviews Current evidence doesn't support GenAI use without human involvement/oversight. For most tasks other than searching, GenAI may have a role in assisting humans doi.org/10.1017/rsm.... #AI #HTA #LLM #medlibs

ERICA to the Rescue! Read about our volunteer efforts to rescue & revive ERIC, Dept of Ed's research repository. www.datarescueproject.org/erica-to-the... Thanks to crizzo, @archive.org & @safeguardingdata.bsky.social for all of the hard work. Check out more rescued data on our Data Rescue Tracker!

Psych-DS is (1) spellcheck for your datasets and (2) a pathway to standardizing data in our academic fields that *everyone* can learn. And it's live RIGHT NOW! psych-ds.github.io (This is the announcement post I've been leading up to)

Excited to see our paper "Framing #systematicreviews commissioned by policymakers as a hermeneutic process" published in Methodological Innovations -- a methodological commentary which uses hermeneutics to understand how reviewers and policy teams work together journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Update on my current knitting project (nordlig cardigan). It has unusual sleeve construction, which I enjoy. You can just see the future armpit. I’m halfway up the shoulder now and will continue knitting towards the neck. The color choices are whatever I feel like ☺️

Sad to learn that #ERIC, a top database for #Education #research, is getting #DOGE 'd. From ERIC's help desk: "... the number of records added ... will be significantly reduced going forward. The number of actively cataloged sources will be reduced by approximately 45% starting April 24, 2025."

Librarians are trying to plan for the 45% reduction of ERIC. While the Department of Education has not (yet) released a title list of journals that are being de-selected, we're trying to create a list via a grassroots effort. View and contribute journal titles here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Guest Post — Classification as Colonization: The Hidden Politics of Library Catalogs scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/03/25/g...

Risk of bias assessment of randomised controlled trials has become an essential step in the systematic review process. A new tool allows users to assess risk of bias of RCTs included in systematic reviews in a user friendly way www.bmj.com/content/388/...

Critical thinking—and even science—requires more than mere methods or abstract conceptual tools. When divorced from necessary factual background knowledge, “critical thinking” can go feral, and start to *generate* and defend misinformation. Every conspiracy theorist thinks they’re a critical thinker

Librarians, if you’re testing AI search tools, also test with search terms like genocide in gaza and transgender. We’ve tested a tool that consistently gave errors when we used these and I think that is problematic.

Nieuw boek van mijn @allardpierson.bsky.social collega Charlotte Kleyn (met Maarten Hell geschreven), Uit eten in Amsterdam. Vier eeuwen culinaire cultuurgeschiedenis. Vanaf komende week ook bij de UB van de UvA te leen. uitgeverijprometheus.nl/boeken/uit-e... cc: @phvandam.bsky.social

🚨 Preprint! We combine our recent open dataset of #APC prices with the article counts per journal-year from #OpenAlex to estimate how much the academic community has paid in APCs over the last 5 years. A. $8.349 billion ($8.968 B in 2023 USD) $2.5B in 2023 alone. arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551 #metasci

At least Springer Nature is doing well while higher education is collapsing all over the place. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-worl...

Hot off the presses. It was an absolute pleasure to put this together with @liblaura.bsky.social! Takeaways: 1. Don't assign systematic/scoping reviews to your students! 2. Don't ask your university librarian to support this terrible idea! journals.indianapolis.iu.edu/index.php/hy...

🚨Our paper `Reclaiming AI as a theoretical tool for cognitive science' is now forthcoming in the journal Computational Brain & Behaviour. (Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...) Below a thread summary 🧵1/n #metatheory #AGI #AIhype #cogsci #theoreticalpsych #criticalAIliteracy

So far, the best scoping review on using #LLMs in #SystematicReviews by our German colleagues "Large Language Models for Conducting Systematic Reviews: On the Rise, But Not Yet Ready for Use - A Scoping Review" #GenerativeAI #AI #EvidenceSynthesis pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40021099/

😱😱 ‘Nog eens 13 miljoen erbij voor Wolters Kluwer-baas Nancy McKinstry’ www.volkskrant.nl/economie/nog...

Had a fun time working with @craftyhilary.bsky.social on this! We wrote and published a tutorial / guide on translating APA #PsycInfo searches from the #Ovid to #EBSCOhost interface. doi.org/10.1017/rsm.... #ExpertSearching #SystematicReview #Medlibs #Canmedlibs

Dankjewel, ik ga het ook uitproberen

Hearing now that ERIC, the major database for Education research worldwide, is going to be reducing the number of journals it indexes by 45% (as a start) as of the end of April this year. What do you want to bet the first journals to be cut will be anything remotely related to DEI? #academicsky

Hm. Apparently scoping reviews, umbrella reviews and Reviews of reviews are (often) classified as ‘literature review’ in Psycinfo (both subject heading and methodology field). That is good to know because I assumed only regular reviews got that

thanks to @solalpirelli.bsky.social for this nice piece on pseudoscience published by IEEE - and the need for the publisher to step up to the plate and start retracting this garbage if they want to retain any credibility. deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/02/ieee...

: : glares in librarian at people who do this : : See: uba.uva.nl/en/support/d...

A new paper led by @mlagisz.bsky.social - how to know how good your search string is

We’re making waffles 😁. My grandmothers recipe ☺️

Why should you care about interoperable ebook standards (say that three times fast!)? Let us count the ways! /1 www.libraryfutures.net/post/call-fo...

"We call for an academic ebook market that provides a consistent, non-fragmented user experience, one where vendors use the kinds of open, interoperable standards that have formed best practices for information sharing online for decades." Sign on! www.libraryfutures.net/post/call-fo...

I knew that meta-analyses were highly cited in psychology, but I didn't know that they were cited that much—about 5-6 times more than empirical articles! I collected some citation data from the past 20 years and wrote a short blog post: sandovallentisco.github.io/posts/2025/0...

“Clarivate will also phase out one-time perpetual purchases of digital collections, print and digital books for libraries.” Clarivate is making all its academic assets rentals. This will be incredibly unpopular. www.finanznachrichten.de/nachrichten-...

I found the cookbook that a reader was looking for in the Hyrule castle library. Never mind Ganon, in my universe this is the end game 😇 (yes I know I’m late to botw)

Had a very pleasant afternoon at the ASReview user meeting today. The following paper about stopping rules when screening with the help of LLM looks very interesting: systematicreviewsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

I recently bought 2 books on draping, and one of them is very annoying, as it assumes that I want to make clothes for a size S/M dress form. And then they go on stating that sizing up (grading) is easy. If I’d wanted to do all that extra work, I’d just stick with regular patterns and grade them

📚 A Beginner’s Guide to Open and Reproducible Systematic Reviews in Psychology online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...

Systematic review librarians; when your researchers ask you for examples of SR’s with regards to reporting, which ones do you share? (I had a nice list, but recently learnt that # of results should be reported in the results section and not the method section) Bonus point for social science SRs 😉

One of the studies I collaborated on (aka made the search) got published today 🥳 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Current sewing project. Upcycling this sweater. I enjoy crumb quilting. So I’m making something new out of this one because I never wear it (dont like the fit)