How is it #FiveMinuteFriday again? This is my last one for a little while. I share a simple Excel trick with you to get URLs from your DOIs and PMIDs. Enjoy! #medlibs youtu.be/i-0pxXYLE68?...

"This is something we humans do to the dead. We use them to explain systems they did not build and failures they did not survive. A fallen soldier is made to speak for policy. A sodden bird becomes a commentary on federal competence and the condition of a backsliding democracy."

Harriet Beecher Stowe Wrote a Work of Fiction That Seemed So Real That It Changed the History of the Country www.smithsonianmag.com/history/harr... "Uncle Tom's Cabin" at PG: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/203

It’s #FiveMinuteFriday and I totally forgot until @libraryvines.bsky.social reminded me! youtu.be/m0XRxDcag6I?...

Check out this commentary from the unstoppable @mlrethlefsen.bsky.social on challenges with database name reporting. She makes a number of recommendations for #medlibs, libraries, and vendors. osf.io/preprints/me...

#medlibs and #lesss2026 attendees - this article is worth a read. Thanks @carrieprice.bsky.social for sharing 🙂 "Information Specialist Roles in the Era of Large Language Models: Prompting Continued Professional Development” journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Super impressed by the #LESSS2026 conference. Thank you to the team putting this together (I can't find you on Bluesky) and for making this free and accessible.

Tuesday hot take apropos of listening to #LESSS general thoughts and ideas -- #medlibs should not also be project managers. There is training and certification for project managers, and also they get paid a lot more on average than a librarian. www.pmi.org/certificatio...

On Tubi now. Worth a watch, although the timeline is inaccurate in spots. Art talks about the first Maus story in Funny Animals #1, which came out in 1974, then recounts going to San Francisco, meeting Crumb & seeing new pages of Zap #1. But that was 1967. Sloppy editing there. Pardon my geek.

I'm attending #LESSS this week when I am able and I'm 100% certain it's going to be fab! sites.google.com/view/lesss/h... #LibraryEvidenceSynthesisSymposium

A question for #medlibs -- I purchased EndNote v 20 for myself years ago. Do I upgrade to latest version or not? Yes/No and why. TYIA

A couple things, a collection of unrelated but #medlibs adjacent Monday morning thoughts, a thread:

First #FiveMinuteFriday in years! The Pairwise PubMed Generator from Marijane White. Take a look and see if it will help you with your PubMed #proximity searches. youtu.be/32i0SO0LwPI?...

Good morning welcome to Tippetty tap tap Thursday May your coffee be hot, your troubles be small, and may you approach today’s challenges with the confidence of a cat heading towards an unattended chicken roast dinner

Second Frozen of the year! View from the pit.

Trying to get my Mac to work for me, and then resetting it after it decides it didn't like my settings, and then resetting it again and again and again and again.... is a burden!

Try faceID again Me eating lunch

I would very much like to read this article thank you www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A big tell for me when something has been written by AI is the word "quietly". My [blank] was quietly [blanking] and I didn't even realize it. What happens when the [blank] quietly [blanks]. It's all BULLSHIT

Really awful. Write to American Diabetes Association CEO Charles "Chuck" Henderson at [email protected] and Chief Scientific and Medical Officer Rita Rastogi Kalyani at [email protected]. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/w...

Five diabetes researchers, including the editor of a leading journal, were removed from the field’s premier conference, after handing out copies of an editorial criticizing the Trump administration’s “dismantling” of the biomedical research enterprise. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

I've got three weeks of Five Minute Fridays coming your way. Sign up to get notified, hope you enjoy! www.youtube.com/@carrieprice...

Been mulling around the idea of a couple more Five Minute Fridays. Are you interested in hearing about my favorite tools, in general? AI stuff? What else? I have a couple PubMed tools I'd like to share, too. #CarriesYouTubeChannelIsNotDead

Seeing those USAJOBS posted at *former employer* quite literally make me seethe

Both PubMed and Embase aren't cooperating with me today

I don't want to temporarily switch to the old results page. I want to stay there forever EMBASE

Too bad I have to take Tera Tools out of all my systematic review instruction since they are no longer free or easily accessible.

enshittification of the embase advanced search page complete

This is fucking insanity www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

Third musical of the season coming up! I am SO excited!

I haven't truly dug into this yet, but it stood out to me today, a short thread on searching for #greyliterature (I plan to read this when I have time; it looks interesting). pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42117220/

Can any of my peeps on the inside or outside tell me why the MEDLINE indexing selection committee was disbanded last year, and how journals get indexed in MEDLINE now? DM me if you like, TYIA! www.nlm.nih.gov/medline/medl...

Updating the PRISMA reporting guideline for scoping reviews: a scoping review @andreatricco.bsky.social, Emily Robinson, Sharon Straus, Heather Colquhoun, Christina Godfrey, David Moher, Zachary Munn, @daniellepollock.bsky.social et al www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...

Am I a robot

Saw this and thought, this is going to be a good one! www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...

So do we save those old fabric masks for new pandemics?

It's HIPAA not HIPPA PRISMA isn't a study design What else

It’s the summer of musicals! Charlie is up first.

Not me sending this GIF to two separate coworkers and them telling me "I have no idea what this is" 😭

I put up a PRESS on PRESSforum and it would help me a whole hell of a lot if someone would take it (please).

A Reader’s Guide to Poetry for National Poetry Month By The Editors Read poems, learn poetic forms, and discover writers in this National Poetry Month roundup. daily.jstor.org/editors-pick... Poetry at PG: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/books... #books #literature #poetry

I've been at my new job for a year (and a day). Who knew? What a wild year it's been. I'm grateful that things have worked out this way.

Increasingly disturbed to see large, important, many-authored international guidelines published without the involvement of any information specialists whatsoever. Guidelines involve literature searching, methodological knowledge, evidence synthesis, documentation, reproducibility & transparency.

Every day is a good day for sharing one of the most useful papers about research data ever written. PLEASE get your people to understand and follow this advice. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

In this short video, Assoc Prof Edoardo Aromataris explains why systematic reviews are important in evidence-based healthcare. Learn more about the different types of systematic reviews in the JBI Manual for Evidence Synthesis: https://ow.ly/UJc550V3gTT #EBHC #JBIMethodology

Watching things crumble but don't worry, NIST had a piece commissioned in honor of their 125th anniversary www.nist.gov/blogs/taking...

If you did your systematic review in ScienceDirect with two keywords but you did it according to PRISMA you're probably good to go

is it kind of annoying how "review literature as topic" and its narrower subheadings in MeSH don't actually get review literature as a topic but rather, just reviews? it's not a great discovery tool.

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!

Black History Month: What is it and why is it important? By Alem Tedeneke (from the archives) www.weforum.org/stories/2024... Index of Project Gutenberg Works on Black History edited by David Widger is available online: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/58975 #books #literature #blackhistorymonth