I donated a handmade, one of a kind pottery bowl to the @romancingthevote.com auction to raise money for voting access. Bid now to July 5th: www.32auctions.com/organization...

A team of pharmacy librarians just published a search hedge validation study for pharmacy education in @theajpe.bsky.social. Read our article #medlibs #pharmed: authors.elsevier.com/a/1nIEz_4IN5...

Rather than call it 'hallucination', as these outputs enter wider discourse I think we must call this "data poisoning"

Use your local data center … by getting a library card and 👏 use 👏 your 👏 public 👏 #library!

“You expect me to make sure my citations are real?!” - some guy who just admitted we can’t trust his entire body of work

Two new facts stand out: 1. 85% of hallucinated citations in preprints are also in the subsequent journal version (thanks, peer review!) 2. Fake cites more likely to use the names of (male) scholars who are already highly cited, creating a fake-citation Matthew effect. arxiv.org/abs/2605.07723

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100% accurate guide to the types of Open Access #academicsky 📚

It is *fascinating* to me how quickly some people have gone completely from “we all must work in the office! human collaboration is vital and only happens in person!” to “I can replace all these pesky people with chatbots!” Definitely some commentary there about our society and who gets to choose.

"This is not efficiency... This is the systematic elimination of scientific stewardship at the world’s largest biomedical research funder. And most people have no idea it is happening." Destroying the research that will power future discoveries and violating the Constitution

the thing is that there are lots of modest, tedious, repetitive tasks in many of our jobs and lives where we might be happy to pay a fee for an ethically developed standalone tool to do only that task. but we can’t have that because it won’t make people rich enough

OpenAI ”acknowledged in its own research that LLMs will always produce hallucinations due to fundamental mathematical constraints that cannot be solved through better engineering, marking a significant admission from one of the AI industry’s leading companies.” You can’t trust chatbots.

im building machines that i keep saying will both throw you out of work and allow masked special police forces in service to a lunatic i bought and paid for to recognize your face and check if i agree with your beliefs. im part of a pedophile ring that put this into motion. why are you rude to me

here in central #NorthCarolina, #weather apps are calling for between 0.02 inches of rain and 25.2 inches of snow with temps between 48 and -9 this weekend

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...

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"Viruses don’t take vacations. The longest government shutdown ever puts everyone’s health at greater risk because the data and reports that are essential for monitoring the spread of diseases haven’t been updated for weeks." — me in @huffpost.com

🍎USDA has the money - but USDA is choosing not to use the money. 🍎Past presidents figured it out. 🍎Working families are already struggling with rising costs. We should all agree: Our children should have the nutrition they need to succeed. @rweingarten.bsky.social

Update and Expansion of an Interprofessional Education Search Strategy Validation Study for NLM PubMed, Ovid MEDLINE, and Elsevier Embase doi.org/10.18060/28745

Reeling from the scale of the SNAP cliff. In Orange County NC alone: 8700 individual SNAP recipients in 4683 families.

It's very concerning that the Literature Selection Technical Review Committee was terminated and there's little awareness of it. This has me concerned that more predatory/crap science will become part of PubMed. #medlibs

Important work from @mhagenauer.bsky.social et al. "When goodbye comes too soon: How to wrap up science projects quickly" doi.org/10.1371/jour...

If you aren't familiar with how drugs get their labels you may not realize how bonkers this is but this is absolutely shocking, horrifying, and dangerous stuff happening.

Last two weeks to register for the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of @medlibassn.bsky.social Annual Meeting! The 2025 MAC/MLA conference ("Spice Up the Library: Thinking Outside the Box") is October 19-21 in Baltimore, MD. Register here #medlibs: macmla.wildapricot.org/macregistration

Exclusive: Journal bans drug safety database papers as they flood the literature FAERS is one of several publicly available datasets being exploited by paper mills, pumping hundreds of often meaningless and sometimes misleading papers into the scientific literature, @katetravis.bsky.social reports.

EXCLUSIVE: Two years and two months after a fire destroyed the interior of Med Deli, the business is preparing to welcome back customers to in-person dining next week. The restaurant will reopen for dinner hours starting on Tuesday, Sep. 9.

Wanted to share a critical AI spreadsheet I've been working on for a little bit now. It has a list of resources and links to materials I thought were interesting or that I used in my schools Critical AI LibGuide. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

This from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social hit me over the head like a mallet of truth. This is the thing. This is what I’ve been trying to warn people about perfectly crystallized. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/o...

Here are links to resources and support requests mentioned by TBB: linktr.ee/ChantalMutua...

A program within my university tracks the latest news on global health security and adds summaries. You can subscribe for weekly emails www.unmc.edu/healthsecuri...

The towns of Chapel Hill and Carrboro are coordinating with Orange County to support disaster relief: crisiscleanup.org/survivor +19102181569

People have no idea, not really, how this budget is about to wreck their very foundations.

STAGGERING: This new study of 133 countries is the first to estimate the impact of all USAID’s work. In 2 decades, it has saved *92M* lives. Current cuts, if not reversed, are forecast to cost up to *14M* lives thru 2030. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

I am thrilled to announce ThriveLib: Reclaiming Joy, Balance, and Boundaries in Libraries, a new virtual conference focused entirely on the emotional and psychological well-being of library workers. Save the Dates August 12, 13, 14 2025 www.thrivelib.com/news/introdu...

I'm excited to be in Vancouver this week for CHLA and to learn from Canadian medical library colleagues.

Breaking: HHS is canceling a $600 million contract with Moderna to develop, test, and license vaccines for flu strains that could trigger future pandemics, including the dangerous H5N1 bird flu virus.

🚨 ACTION ITEMS to stop the FDA from limiting Covid vaccine access: 1. Submit a public comment to the FDA www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD... 2. Contact your elected officials www.usa.gov/elected-offi...

The FDA will permit Covid vaccines only for adults over 65 and those with certain medical conditions in the fall, according to new regulatory standards.

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....

Interested individuals (library workers or librarians), please sign by midnight on May 17, 2025. docs.google.com/document/d/e...

Some DOGE political appointee choosing which grants to fund is oppression of academic freedom and scientific freedom. If the right wants to kill science in the US, the surest way to do that is to take away scientists’ freedom to judge which ideas are meritorious.

🚨 Today, a federal court granted a temporary restraining order to halt the administration’s dismantling of IMLS—a direct result of the lawsuit filed by ALA and @afscme.bsky.social. www.ala.org/news/2025/05... #ForOurLibraries #FundLibraries

Moved over from the bird app. Here to chat about medical libraries, scholarly communications, evidence-based practice, SR methods, and IPE. Plus sports, #goheels!