what could possibly go wrong in a clinical context? www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microso...

NEW: Another NIH institute director hasn't been renewed — the director of NIAMS (arthritis, musculoskeletal and skin diseases institute). That leaves a whopping 15 of 27 institutes and centers without a permanent director.

“Treating [AI] with a hands-clean purist mindset will be extremely difficult and as activism, more alienating than effective. These are genuinely useful tools, and pretending they aren’t will not in fact win many hearts and minds.” aredridel.dinhe.net/2026/02/12/t...

Do you know how badly you have to fuck up to create a remote execution vulnerability in notepad.exe

I also stress in my AI information literacy instruction sessions: what these models generate is not “information” - to have that would require a deliberate human led transformation of the content.

I also wonder how these models compare with both their more recent and more high powered versions. For the moment the timeliness context continues to be a challenge in assessing LLM capabilities.

I need faculty to get on board with helping residents, post docs, phd students, masters students etc understand that you can only do a systematic review in less than 6 months if (a) there's only a tiny amount of evidence and (b) you're not doing anything else for those 6 months.

We don’t talk enough about Alfre Woodard’s performance in Star Trek: First Contact. Stunning. And among other things, brought out some of Patrick Stewart’s moments. He rarely had a partner who could meet his energy, but she did. 🖖🏽

Reproducibility and open science are great, but they don't necessarily equate to rigor. You can perfectly share a study and still draw weak conclusions. True rigor lives in the questions we ask, the designs we choose, and the inferences we make.

googling “how to intimidate groundhog”

#medlibs and #evidencesynthesis nerds - the next Library Evidence Synthesis Services Symposium (LESSS) is upon us and open for free registration 😊 sites.google.com/view/lesss/r...

I used Claude to figure out where the option to turn off the AI Meeting Notes prompt is in Notion’s settings (it’s in Notifications). Pitting one AI against another is how we win this thing, folks 😉

Policy via signage is never my favorite option, but this reminder in our staff area always makes me smile. 🧼

in a real role reversal today i got to give a bandaid to a medical student at the reference desk.

#medlibs - a must read thread, especially for the indexing nerds 🤓

Meet Yuriko, who brings knowledge from the past into the present so more people can learn from it #Wikipedia25

#medlibs Google AI Overviews put people at risk of harm with misleading health advice www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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#medlibs #MedlibProblems Muscle memory forcing you to capitalize ANDs AND ORs in your day-to-day (non-search) communication.

Proud to have been a part of this 🙂 jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Welcome to the Public Domain, THE MALTESE FALCON (1930) 🦅💎 🕵️ Sam Spade is on the Case of the Disappearing Copyright as The Maltese Falcon novel joins the public domain. Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai... #PublicDomainDay #CopyrightFree

Essentially, I think that LLM-generated dialogue only makes sense if you believe that the product of writing is words. But the product of writing isn't words, any more than the product of justice is prisoners, or the product of love is weddings. The product of writing is meaning.

A listserv changed their config and has now bypassed the filter directing it to a subfolder and away from the inbox.

The [free!] recording is available for our December 15th Taubman Talks webinar "Developing Systematic Search Skills: Peer-to-Peer Learning with Practice Sets"! You can find the recording and files at the bottom of the webinar page on the Taubman Talks site: guides.lib.umich.edu/TaubmanTalks...

New measure of academic impact just dropped: number of citations received to papers that chatgpt created and fraudulently attributed to you.

The #MLAUXCaucus hosted the EBSCOhost Idea Exchange to discuss outstanding issues, solutions, and suggested enhancements in the new UI. We’ve synthesized feedback from the nearly 400 attendees into one resource. DM me if you need a PDF #medlibs #EvidenceSynthesis go.brown.edu/ebscohost-ex...

To earn your stripes as a librarian, you must: 1. Create a LibGuide 2. Join and leave a listserv 3. Clean up something weird 4. Get rejected by ALA Annual

I moved off of Firefox to Vivaldi months ago in anticipation of Google’s search engine financing of Mozilla ending, but it turns out there were other good reasons too www.reuters.com/technology/m...

UVA Library’s new fundraiser asks folks to donate $20 to cover the library fee Edgar Allan Poe left at the university 1. For a fundraising campaign this is very clever 2. Every year the Dean of the library should symbolically forgive Poe’s fee in a ceremony like the Thanksgiving turkey pardon

It’s been that kind of morning 💻 😴

#medlibs - an interesting proposal, and seeming more necessary as the complexity of AI tool details and uses in #evidencesynthesis work increases: Transparent Reporting of AI in Systematic Literature Reviews: Development of the PRISMA-trAIce Checklist. doi.org/10.2196/80247

I’ve worked in public libraries for 20 years, today was the first time we’ve had to tell someone they couldn’t bring their chainsaw in the library.

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My first co-authored literature review is out! My support of it and other projects wouldn’t have been possible without the teaching and support that #medlibs members past and present provide, and I’m continually grateful for our community’s generosity www.frontiersin.org/journals/onc...

Human in the loop 👻

Literally packed my laptop, walked out the door and made it half way to the subway station before I realized it was Sunday and not Monday. Gonna go home now lol

Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s. This is the power of vaccines. The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer. Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!

He is risen

Safety inspector: I found two major issues with your Death Star. For one thing, there are no railings. Grand Moff Tarkin: We believe railings would detract from the austerity of our bottomless chasms. Safety inspector: That brings us to my second issue.

Missouri court strikes down 2022 law that pulled library books off shelves missouriindependent.com/2025/11/18/m...

The CDC website now disseminates disinformation about vaccines, claiming erroneously that infant vaccines might cause autism, when we know conclusively that they do not. It is difficult to overstate just how dangerous this is. www.cdc.gov/vaccine-safe...

the poetry focused English majors have a new job market, apparently

I dreamed I was made director of a small library in the middle of nowhere so I moved to this place in the mountains where I knew absolutely nobody and it turned out they just wanted to lure in a human sacrifice in case you were wondering what the level of “feeling targeted as a profession” was

Libraries purchase books. When you see a book at the library, it isn’t “free” the library bought it. which in turn means that the community bought it. In other words, library books are not lost sales for authors and publishers; they’re positive sales. Active sales. Those are bought.

We need libraries for so many reasons. www.11alive.com/article/news...

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Our dog Maggie passed away peacefully on Saturday. Maggie was never a perfect dog nor the dog I imagined she would be when we rescued her, and I miss my good little girl very much. She is at peace, and I'm grateful for all the time she gave us. 🐩 🐾 💜