Do other librarians or #medlibs use Obsidian for their note taking?

DYK: You can search for PMIDs on this website pubmed2xl.com/xlsx/ and it will export all the important metadata of each record including abstracts! #medlibs #canmedlibs

Faculty: libraries and librarians need your advocacy BEFORE our collections are shuttered and our workers are fired. Whether you think your library is in trouble, and it almost definitely is, write to your provost and tell them how essential the library and library staff are to your work. Right now.

"But conducting systematic reviews is not a purely computational task. Human specialists are needed to define meaningful review questions, evaluate relevance, interpret results and understand clinical or policy implications." h/t @kvanderboll.bsky.social #medlibs www.nature.com/articles/d41...

@amandarosswhite.bsky.social Vivaldi made adoption a little easier 🙂 vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi...

Not many livestreamed events for virtual attendees and we will also have to wait for recordings until next week when we have blocked time this week to review sessions. #mlanet26 #medlibs 🫤

“Instead of returning a simple list of links, Google Search will drop users into AI-powered interactive experiences.” I wonder how it takes for something similar to come to Google Scholar 😕

#medlibs #systematicreviews

Congratulations @amylibrarian.bsky.social - well deserved for both you and your co-facilitators #evidencesynthesis

“Among 97·1 million verified references, we identified 4046 fabricated references across 2810 papers” - this trend appears real, but I think we need more replication of its methods. Also, the article’s recommendations are good ones. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

I also want to address the use of the word "clean," which implies that grants that use "misaligned" words like "minority," "gender," "latinx," "equity," "lived experience," or "social determinants of health" are dirty. This kind of language matters. Grants that address these issues are not dirty.

Hey #Library folk check out this #LGBTQIA resources account for library, knowledge & information workers 📚📜

Bringing libguides up to WCAG 2.1 AA standards has made me unfortunately aware of how often I include “click” in my written instructions 😬

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.

Not being required to learn about very real health disparities will lead to less informed doctors (as a whole) and make it more difficult to address these inequities at a larger scale. #medlibs #medsky

“If they win their union election, the Mid-Continent workers will be the second, and largest, library union in the state. The Daniel Boone Public Library, which primarily serves Boone and Callaway counties, was the first in Missouri to unionize in 2022.” www.kcur.org/news/2026-03...

You are invited to participate in a survey on health sciences librarians’ use of generative AI (genAI) tools in their knowledge synthesis (KS) practice, including systematic and scoping reviews. Info & survey link: stfx.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... #medlibs #canmedlibs #ukmedlibs #HealthLibAust

#medlibs - have any been testing or developing further guidance on the usage of UpToDate’s Expert AI feature? www.wolterskluwer.com/en/solutions...

Controversial but - students *perceive* they have been failed when what has happened is they have failed to understand information retrieval is a skill requiring effort. I don't believe a zero friction experience is realistic or desirable in learning, actually.

#medlibs - Version 3 of the Responsible use of AI in Evidence Synthesis (RAISE) is out! osf.io/fwaud/files/...

"Research funding from the National Institutes of Health generated $94.15 billion in new economic activity across the nation in 2025, with a return on investment of $2.57 for every $1 invested." www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

In many ways, it’s not even the original use of AI that shocks me - it’s that these ‘authors’ (in the loosest possible sense) don’t even bother to check what the AI has produced, despite how much we know about hallucinations. That’s a whole new level of pathological laziness. 📚

I recall an email hellthread from some years ago where someone mistakenly sent a Reply All to a mailing list message asking to be unsubscribed from replies, and subsequently many on the thread responded in kind not realizing they were perpetuating the thread. 🫠

#medlibs - another change tocthe EBSCO interface is coming 😕 about.ebsco.com/blogs/ebscop...

SCOTUS has denied cert. in Thaler v. Perlmutter. That means that outputs generated by AI will continue to be ineligible for copyright protection under US law. This is welcome news for musicians!

#medlibs blog.openalex.org/openalex-api...

#medlibs was the title of APA PsycInfo at one point in time stylized differently to be partially all caps? So many automatic or errant mentions of PsycINFO (and let’s not talk about PsychINFO). Perhaps it’s just a MEDLINE effect we can blame on NLM 🙂

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