Thanks to the convenors of the @medlibassn.bsky.social "Systematic Review Caucus" for hosting me. I think we had about 70 participants but here is the data from the two polls I adminstered during my presentation📚

"Which of the following (including experts) sources do you use primarily to stay current with AI developments in evidence synthesis?” ✒️MLA “Systematic Review” caucus 🗽Library Association webinars e.g., CHLA/ABSC, MLA 📕Aaron Tay aarontay.substack.com 🛟Key journals 🤣Other? Please comment, thanks!

Three (3) years with emerg docs. But "mission accomplished"; hope it makes an impact 🥳 Cunningham, Bobrovitz, Shanmugaraj, Giustini D, Collins. Defining emergency physicians' consultative roles in emergency care: a scoping review. CJEM. 2025 Nov 3. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41182684/

Top twelve (12) Entries by "Most to Least Views: wiki.ubc.ca/User:DeanGiu... Knowledge Synthesis (KS) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) Related Topics... #artificial_intelligence #knowledge_synthesis

50+ entries on #knowledge_synthesis topics, #artificial_intelligence issues in libraries, and AI powered search tools such as #Elicit, #Undermind & @openevidence.bsky.social Amazing - 250,000 views in a short period. Browse for info: wiki.ubc.ca/User:DeanGiu...

"Why physicians need the counsel of a skilled medical librarian in the era of artificial intelligence (AI)". Oct2025. British Columbia Medical Journal By implementing interim measures, the CPSBC can mitigate Library’s closure & make a commitment to evidence-based care. bcmj.org/letters/why-...

Consensus.app is an AI-powered search tool using #Copilot based on LLM; ask a question, click on search, get an answer with bullet points / references to published papers. No fake citations—but summaries have errors. wiki.ubc.ca/Consensus Talk to your librarian folks about using other sources, too.

This open textbook (or wiki channel) is intended to help librarians and other information professionals learn about #AI. It is not, in itself, meant to be seen as promotion of #AI. 50 entries in 6 weeks; 125,000 views. Seems a hit.🎯 wiki.ubc.ca/Knowledge_Sy...

Here comes ASTA — scholarly research assistant w/ coverage via corpus of 108M+ scholarly abstracts & 12M+ full text in Semantic Scholar. Initiative of Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) "to accelerate scientific discovery through trustworthy open-source agentic AI." Untested. wiki.ubc.ca/Asta_(agenti...

Automated indexing wiki.ubc.ca/Automated_in... 🖊️NLM uses neural network technology to index MEDLINE 💹Since 2024, NLM has indexed millions of papers using AI ⤴️Tools such as Undermind.ai and Elicit.com will destabilize subject indexing, so I'm doing research proving that the latter is still needed.

"OCUL Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning Survey August 2025" Kari Weaver, AI & Machine Learning, Program Manager - how to advance objectives & values of academic librarianship in AI era "to understand training needs of library workers in Ontario universities ..." ocul.on.ca/sites/defaul...

Will Google Scholar survive the AI-powered bots? and AI-powered search tools? Time will tell. wiki.ubc.ca/Google_Scholar

#Automated_indexing may be performed using a range of computer-based methods, #algorithms (hence, the phrase algorithmic indexing), #natural_language_processing and even #artificial_intelligence (AI). Most library databases and indexes use some form of AI. wiki.ubc.ca/Automated_in...

OpenAI openai.com leads the AI space, but big Silicon Valley companies are developing new tools & experimenting with AI-powered academic search. Perhaps faculty or students are asking you to present these tools to classes? How can you keep your job while pushing back? wiki.ubc.ca/Artificial_i...

Is prompt engineering key in performing AI-based knowledge synthesis tasks? The value of a prompt may be worth exploring in AI-powered searching, where search tools employ retrieval augmented generation. AI search tools such as Undermind and Elicit assist searchers wiki.ubc.ca/Prompt_engin...

The #MTIX (Medical Text Indexer neXt gen) is NLM's automated indexing / AI powered indexing system that uses #NeuralNetworks 🐧To know #MEDLINE in 2025, we must know more about AI & neural networks. 😇Here's the Knowledge Synthesis and AI wiki entry: wiki.ubc.ca/Neural_netwo...

Giustini DM. (2025). Undermind.ai (product review). JCHLA/JABSC 46(2), 42–46. journals.library.ualberta.ca/jchla/index.... Undermind.ai is a useful tool for researchers delivering weighted relevant content when scoping topics for literature (& other) reviews. Performance is improving all the time.

Ethical concerns of AI for librarians: 📝Librarian values in major conflict w/ AI 📁Systemic bias, lack of fairness; 🔓 Privacy & data security issues; 🚫Intellectual property; copyright infringement 🚋Lack of transparency; transparency; accountability Ah well, it's a start. wiki.ubc.ca/Ethical_conc...

Open Evidence - UBC Wiki wiki.ubc.ca/Otto-SR Otto-SR ottosr.com is an AI-powered platform designed to automate process of conducting systematic reviews (SRs). Recently, I spoke to developers & read their paper: medrxiv.org/content/10.1... #medlibs I'll evaluate these tools on my new wiki 🕸️

Artificial intelligence (AI) Search Tools Used in Literature Reviews and Comprehensive Searching / Giustini, 2025 🖊️n=29 papers on AI searching in lit / systematic reviews It's a start. More wiki entries later. #medlibs wiki.ubc.ca/Artificial_i...

Re: @openevidence.bsky.social #PubMedAI 📭OpenEvidence outperforms pubmed.ai by delivering concise, clinically focused summaries ✏️Clinicians should use these tools as adjuncts to, not replacements for, clinical expertise and comprehensive resources like UpToDate. /1of2 #medlibs

#GoogleScholar as a Resource for Systematic Reviews in Clinical Medicine" by Matthew Falagas et al. ✍️Interesting! GS research has changed tons since 2004 🤳GS will probably go AI in the next year or two 💅#PubMed & other searches will be subsumed by AI pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40652554/ #medlibs

One in 7 biomedical papers were likely written with AI help in 2022-24. Researchers searched for 'style words' after November 2022 as ChatGPT hit. 1.5 million papers indexed in PubMed had 200,000+ using these words unrelated to the content of the research🤨 I mean... www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Dictionary of '#Canadianisms' gets major #CanadaDay🇨🇦3rd edition (2025) update. Librarians will continue to purchase & use reference sources in their work. "Authority" is important in an era of AI hallucination. #misinformation Long live authoritative reference works! news.ubc.ca/2025/06/cana...

BREAKING @Anthropic’s use of copyrighted books to train #Claude is “fair use” but faces trial for using 7 million pirated books in a “central library” to train its #AI model. #Anthropic infringed copyrights by using these pirated texts. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... #librarians #medlibs

Academic #librarians need Ethical AI e.g., frameworks, checklists, FAQs to guide us. Want to see "retrieval augmented generation" models where LLMs use reliable authoritative sources for training data. But we have to deal with a lot of noise and wasted energy in the meantime. #AI

With America's turn to #broligarchy & X's demise, #medlibs moved here in droves after November US election. Seems #bluesky has lost some momentum lately as a social medium & sharing platform. What is the cause of this, do you think? I've been comparing usage from #X vs #Bluesky in the last month...

#Useful At-A-Glance Database, Search Engine and AI-powered search tools "size" and #openaccess content. #GoogleScholar Still King in Size👑 Don't mess with #GoogleScholar by adding #artificialintelligence or #Gemini. It's useful as a searchable 399 million papers. Thank you🙏

Pope Leo's mother Mildred Martínez was a #librarian. He will carry his beloved mother's love of books in his heart (and mind). 📚 Mildred Martinez Prevost was of Spanish decent, and graduated from DePaul University with a bachelor’s degree in library science in 1947. Mildred passed away in 1990.

We presented "Automated indexing of the biomedical literature: a scoping review" at @medlibassn.bsky.social MLA Conference 2025. See our handouts, slidedeck, poster, and our protocol : osf.io/zkj8p #MLANET25 #medlibs

A thing of beauty... in #tennis terms. Federer's one-handed backhand. Baryshnikov-level "#sprezzatura". 🎾🕺

Canadian women - you know what to do. 📕🇨🇦

Thank you @monaal.bsky.social for sharing your AI Research Assistant for Scientists www.aristto.com. There is a proliferation of these tools. I've signed up to do testing. Regarding content, does #Aristto search #Semantic_Scholar or another search engine via an API or how? thanks👍

Giustini, Dean. “http://Undermind.Ai (Product Review).” See UBC's Institutional Repository cIRcle: hdl.handle.net/2429/90524 Bottom line: #Undermind.ai is a useful tool for early searching; librarians must consider #ethics in #AI #medlibs

"AI 'Hallucinations' Are Changing Medicine—Should We Worry?" 📝"Recent studies show chatbots hallucinate 3-27% of the time #OpenAI & #Google aim to reduce errors, but AI continues to generate unexpected or nonsensical results." Yes we SHOULD worry😀 Talk to a #medlib www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

New paper using #hermeneutic literature review method - "aims to interpret and synthesize literature to uncover deeper themes, insights, meaning; not to "map evidence" but examine context". Iterative #searching & #grey literature provide critical perspectives. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Self-care is going to be paramount, folks, in the coming days and weeks. #medlibs Friends will be important to survival. 🧑‍🤝‍🧑

2025 scoping review of LLMs to support SRs = not ready yet. 📠SR lit searching n=15; 41% of 37 papers 📠Searching most frequent SR step aided by LLMs; also, most reported as non-promising (n=8) 🏔️Rated as non-promising ie. "limitations" #medlibs still needed jclinepi.com/article/S089...

Is there anything artificial intelligence #AI can't do for #monographs & #scientific #papers? YES! US Authors Guild recently launched a certification for writers to confirm that their books “emanated from the human intellect” and not from artificial intelligence (AI). bsky.app/profile/davi...

Not sure what to make of the debate around the power demands of AI. I sense that this discourse (and the evidence of the impact of AI on power grids) is changing. What is the future of the discussion of the energy costs in this domain? bit.ly/4gHV25t #AISustainability

"...We, the undersigned, citizens of Canada, call upon the Prime Minister to revoke Elon Musk's dual citizenship status, and revoke his Canadian passport effective immediately." www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

#EDUCAUSE #AI 2025 Chart 📚"Primary Motivators for AI-Related Strategic Planning" 🍫"Students use it" -strategic? 🐈"Inappropriate" use ranking high - good signs 🗑️Faculty "peer pressure" to adopt; impact on libraries #hype #urgency #FOMO #pushback #medlibs library.educause.edu/resources/20...

In his 2023 book, #Floridi argues humans must not be treated as data points in AI-driven systems but must remain active responsible, ethical agents in infospheres. Why cede intellectual autonomy incl. our human dignity to blackbox AI? An argument I've been developing as pushback in my own field...

Happy Valentines Day, all! 💝 The Greeks had many types of love, eg: . Philia, friendship . Agape, love for all . Philautia, self-love . Storge, family love . Ludus, playful love . Eros, sexual passion Even if you are feeling alone today, you are definitely still loved. #Valentinesday2025

In a related matter: With US gov scrubbing #transgender-related information from websites, wondering what impact might be on medical subject headings #MeSH in #MEDLINE? Our research group is examining how research re: #trans & #nonbinary gender populations are indexed. bsky.app/profile/viol...

Today's thinking re: artificial intelligence in libraries: 🎁#Copyright infringement re: how #AI tools are trained means #librarians find themselves in conflict ethically; 📚New search tools using #AI often incorporate #ChatGPT or similar, meaning #librarians find themselves in conflict ethically /1

Testing #deepseek today given the hubbub, crash of the #NASDAQ & techbros saying it's a "game changer". In my early testing about my research into "automated indexing of #Medline" it hallucinated about 1/3 (33%) of the references. More testing to follow. #medlibs

What she said! #Lucy #CharlieBrown #Peanuts

Daybreak on the prairies | 1970 Robert Newton Hurley

Thank you for this @drjengunter.bsky.social Do you have a citation you could share? It becomes clearer and clearer that #ChatGPT search accelerates power / energy / water use. #LIS_AI_Research