Are doctoral students working in teams now? Are they ti/ab and full text reviewing for each other? Data extracting for each other? That's the only way I can think of to have actual an systematic review as your doctoral thesis. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

New interesting article -- I can't read it b/c I don't have access. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41274387/ If anyone reads it, I'd appreciate your comments! An unintentional thread below.

Happy new year! Did you read the PRISMA Statement that I guarantee is going to be cited incorrectly at least 5,309,788 times in scholarly literature this year? Now's your chance to learn what it is so you can use it correctly! www.prisma-statement.org

The automated feed on new books at @gutenberg.org is now live!

I did it according to Primsa

Issa Rae has canceled her sold out performance at the Kennedy Center. Pulitzer Prize winner Rhiannon Giddens, Peter Wolf, Low Cut Connie, and the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, D.C., have also canceled. Lin-Manuel Miranda has canceled the entire Kennedy Center run of Hamilton.

I had writer's block on a manuscript I have been working on for a while now, and I think I don't have writer's block any more. I made so much progress today! Oh joyous day!

Someone mentioned my "WTF did you do with PRISMA" video over on LinkedIn, much to my pleasure. Made me think to give you your holiday reading assignment. ACTUALLY READ THE PRISMA THANKS www.bmj.com/content/372/...

As we wrap up 2025, I wanted to share some of the videos I've made that strike on my pet peeves in #LiteratureReviews, #SystematicReviews, #searching and #EvidenceSynthesis. A thread. 🧵 #medlibs First up, report your databases with their platforms correctly. youtu.be/lSn3IVxGG7M?...

Me explaining why you have to use archaic search terms sometimes

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...

I did an Advent of Searching Skills last December and barely anyone participated so I guess no one wants to advance their searching skills

Hi #medlibs et al who is providing guidance for systematic reviews of incidence and prevalence these days? I thought it was JBI but I am missing something. TYIA

Excellent, excellent webinar with the fabulous @daniellepollock.bsky.social -- scoping review purpose and process. I'm really enjoying watching, and I appreciate the shout-out to #medlibs & focus on the importance of the search (and phases of searching). www.youtube.com/live/l5bRbo7...

who would voluntarily choose chaos and cruelty i have no idea NLM hiring a director? i can hardly believe it myself hr.nih.gov/careers/open...

anyone having trouble running searches in pubmed today or is it just me

Are there any #toxicology #librarians out there I can be friends with? #toxlibs #medlibs

Good morning! #librarians and #medlibs who use Overton, how do you like it? Feel free to DM!

This is interesting to read! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41092928/

Accessing Deleted Government Pages and Data researchguides.uic.edu/pharmacy/dat... #medlibs #MDLS25

Do any #medlibs know if the shutdown is affecting search alert emails? I know several users who are not getting their search alerts, which I would have thought was automated. TIA!

Tip #10: Testing for Key Article Inclusion in PubMed #MLAUXCaucus #ExpertSearching #SystematicReview #medlibs Tip shared by @carrieprice.bsky.social uxcaucustips.blogspot.com/2022/03/tip-...

Interesting podcast from the Guardian's Science Weekly. I'm listening now! www.theguardian.com/science/audi...

Welp. www.science.org/content/arti...

couldn't put my zoom virtual background on fast enough this morning and realized i should probably clean up my zoom real background

Please remove me from this list

The government shutdown is going to affect the MEDLINE component of all the platforms that hold MEDLINE, right? #medlibs

My personal trainer said I gave him hope for old age and I vommed

Me trying to help my friends find jobs

I'm so pleased to see this and I can't wait to dig in! "Overview of evidence synthesis types and modes" @daniellepollock.bsky.social et al pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40914296/

Question for #medlibs et al -- how do you like EndNote 2025? Worth the upgrade?

Just wanted to share a really nice poster by @carrieprice.bsky.social and colleagues. As someone who deliberately invited librarians a lot when I was editing systematic reviews, I can vouch for what they add. Specific info about attitudes and priorities is really interesting. osf.io/8khyp

The damage, the cruelty, the ignorance... is never ending. www.bbc.com/news/article...

I've officially been at my new job longer than I was at my old job.

I have this alert set up in PubMed: "conducted accordance PRISMA"[tiab:~5] OR "following PRISMA"[tiab:~5]

I just used heterogenous in a sentence I'm a library scientist

AI search tools for evidence synthesis. So proud of our team! #medlibs #canmedlibs #ukmedlibs #ausmedlibs #expertsearching #evidencesynthesis onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Here's a new one: "The Johanna Briggs Institute" First of all it was Joanna and second of all they go by JBI now.

If somewhere in your #SystematicReview methods, you are reporting that "a medical librarian developed, ran, recorded, reported [whatever] the search," then ... I WANT TO SEE THAT MEDICAL LIBRARIAN AS A CO-AUTHOR or at the very least an acknowledgement.

Data available upon request is not acceptable. Search/es available upon request is also not acceptable. If you are going to do science, do science, please.

Is something weird happening with Embase #medlibs, I thought we used to be able to use :it or /it for publication type, in fact it even gives you this translation in the query translator, but I've found today that :it or /it for pub type isn't working (bringing back zero).

I had a great time at the Peer Review Congress @peerreviewcongress.bsky.social last week. Well planned and executed, top-notch presentations, and lots of thoughtful discussion. So happy to meet everyone from around the world and make new connections!

I’m pleased to experience the 10th Peer Review Congress and present with @mlrethlefsen.bsky.social! Our poster examines the perceptions and experiences of librarian peer reviewers for evidence synthesis methodologies. #prc2025

#RetractoBot auto-emails authors when papers they've cited are retracted. An RCT comparing it vs no notice showed no diffs in 1y citations @bengoldacre.bsky.social @ndevito1.bsky.social @bennettoxford.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @oxprimarycare.bsky.social www.retracted.net/#RetractoBotcc: @retractionwatch.com

Oh hey if you're in #Baltimore and you like the #water and #sailing and #gettingoutside and #makingfriends, I'm trying to help my partner and his pals boost their newest sailing center, the #PeninsulaSailors! Join them for their first Open House! www.facebook.com/share/15hdjZ...

this just out APA Journals Policy on Generative AI: Additional Guidance www.apa.org/pubs/journal... via @apajournals.bsky.social

Bless librarians and their LibGuides! I am finding the guides so useful now!

I started off my morning with a visit to the dentist where it was bring your kid to work day and the hygienist had a lot of questions about why I'd changed jobs three times in the last year. Oh we're doing this? Ok!