Guidance to including grey literature in systematic reviews-recommendations from an epidemiological study www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🙅 Tell your decision makers to keep their #HandsOffNature! 🌳 100 trees are lost every minute due to EU consumption. We can still turn it around, but destructive industries are pushing hard to dismantle the law. We can’t let them win. ✍️ Sign the EU-wide petition: iwt.ie/what-we-do/hands-off-nature

Most of us have no idea how throttled and controlled by Google our search results are. Great piece here on why, and how to make searches more about what you want, not what Google wants you to see. cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has...

As Seachtain na Gaeilge comes to a close,we are proud to launch our first bereavement resources in Irish. Read more in our blog: 👉 https://goto.hospicefoundation.ie/75b532f5 #SeachtainNaGaeilge #LáFhéilePádraig #StPatricksDay

#HealthLiteracy lurks Under the Radar, yet it is a predictor of ill-health. The good news is that there is much we Can do, in whichever sector we work. Looking forward to giving the Keynote at @cilip.bsky.social #LILAC2026 Conference. www.lilacconference.com/lilac-2026/k...

GLS members were out in force at the HSLG conference! Bord Bia librarian Mairéad McKeown was joined by colleague David Lombard to showcase their work building the AI capability of graduates within the organisation. Thanks to the @healthlibraries.bsky.social for organising such an inspiring day

Fake references make Waite’s job as a librarian “so much harder,” she added. “I expect this on the wider internet, but not in reputable scientific journals,” she told us. “…It’s really worrying.” retractionwatch.com/2026/03/06/l... #medlibs

Here’s a look at some of the other talks we’ve been treated to at HSLG Conference 2026 before lunch! #HSLG #MedLibs

What is scaffolding in systematic review training? Join Bryn Murphy & Emily Adydan as they share lessons from their 2-year training journey. Lessons, growth & practical insights for early-career librarians. 🎟️ www.eventbrite.ie/e/celebratin... Bursary info👉 hslg.ie/about/hslg-b... #hslg #medlibs

Keynote speaker professor Brendan Kelly delivered a fascinating keynote on techno-panic and much more to kick off HSLG conference 2026 #HSLG #MedLibs

A really interesting and somewhat reassuring talk from Prof Brendan Kelly on navigating AI. Key message is Don't panic! #HSLG

A great line up for the HSLG Conference 2026 in the Ashling Hotel today #HSLG #medlibs

HSLG Conference 2026 is underway! #HSLG #MedLibs

Inniu an lá! Tosaíonn comhdháil Ghrúpa Leabharlanna na nEolaíochtaí Sláinte inniu i mBaile Átha Cliath, sceideal iontach suimiúil romhainn inniu! #HSLG2026 #HSLG #MedLibs

Today's the day! The Health Sciences Libraries Group conference kicks off today in Dublin, great schedule for the day ahead! #HSLG2026 #HSLG #MedLibs

✍️Want to publish your work in the Health Sciences Libraries Journal? ⏰The deadline for our Summer issue is April 1st, only a few weeks away! 🌈This issue will contain special features. Submissions on LGBTQI+ and neurodiversity are especially welcome! journals.ucc.ie/index.php/hs...

📢 HSLG Conference 2026 ⌛️ Just over one week to go! 📚 This year’s theme: “Celebrating Our Collective Power: Finding Strength in Difference” 🎟️ Tickets, programme, and bursary information: www.eventbrite.ie/e/celebratin...

🔥 Hot tip! Before starting a systematic review, make sure an information scientist/research librarian is part of the review team. They have specialised skills to develop & implement a comprehensive search strategy 🔎 Learn more: bit.ly/4spgp1z #JBIMethodology #medlibs

Biodiversity is not evenly distributed around the planet. In Ireland, 75 Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas (IBAs) for seabirds have been identified. Where are these hidden hotspots? Tune into our webinar on March 10th to learn where our seabirds go and why these places matter: bit.ly/4l0ZoZ2

📣Librarians can help ensure that AI supports more equitable, trustworthy, and responsive health information for all users. On March 12th, Professor Brendan Kelly will examine the role of health librarians in a rapidly changing information landscape. 🎟https://tinyurl.com/3fwyvw5m

Reminder to register for this event by tomorrow!

Fantastic to hear Head of Library and Information Services at Tallaght Hospital on Oliver Callan's show on @rteradio1.bsky.social this morning, talking about the Hospital Library's collaboration with South Dublin Co Co Libraries! www.rte.ie/radio/radio1... www.dublinlive.ie/news/dublin-... #medlibs

EU-level environmental policies impact both our human and wildlife communities, so it's crucial to know what's happening. To help, Oonagh recently shared updates on several EU policies and directives, and how to join Hands Off Nature: birdwatchireland.ie/hands-off-na...

"Nature is not just a nice-to-have. Yes, it does help me every day to keep up my energy for this fight. But more than that, nature is essential for our economy and security. We need nature for life," said Oonagh Duggan, our Head of Policy and Advocacy.

🎤 Keynote Announcement #LIBER2026 | Jemimah Steinfeld In her speech, "Missing Pages: The Global Assault on Research Libraries," Jemimah will touch upon access to information and the role of #researchlibraries as protectors of intellectual freedom: https://ow.ly/n0cx50YkY6e

Lesser Celandine (Ficaria verna ssp verna or Grán arcáin/aonscoth/lus na gcnapán) in bloom by the Rye River in north County Kildare, still only a few in bloom #WildflowerHour

For #WildflowerHour, some Butterbur ( Petasites hybridus or in Irish, an Gallán mór), just starting to bloom on the banks of the Rye River in County Kildare today

McGarr, O. (2026). The corporate branding of schools in Ireland: why the absence of a critical debate? Irish Educational Studies, 1–15. doi.org/10.1080/0332...

People are on the move from all around the country to join our National March for Palestine. See you at the Garden of Remembrance at 1pm. Let's show our unbreakable solidarity with the Palestinian people and keep demanding our government sanctions apartheid Israel. #FreePalestine

Link to full statement bsky.app/profile/sren... @astridpuentes.bsky.social

Ireland should mainstream human rights to protect environmental advances: UN expert. 20 February 2026 www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel... The Special Rapporteur will present a full report to the UN Human Rights Council in March 2027.

Foghlaim conas Vicipéid @vicipeid.bsky.social a chur in eagar ag ár gceardlann dhátheangach i gCorcaigh mar chuid de #SnaG2026! | Learn to edit Vicipéid at our bilingual workshop in Cork! 👉 eventbrite.ie/e/bi-an-t-eolas-ceardlann-vicipeide-wikipedia-workshop-tickets-1982968870271 #SpéirGhorm

Our inner idiot feeds AI training models for free and we don’t even realise it. Emmet Ryan, Irish Times, 19.02.2026 www.irishtimes.com/business/inn...

UCC Library looking for a Scholarly Communications Librarian 📣 #LISjobsIE

The LIR Group invites you to submit a lightning talk for this year's Annual Seminar relating to the theme, Supporting Emerging Literacies: How do libraries design and deliver new literacy programmes? For more information, please see: bsky.app/profile/lirh...

🚨Call for Tender🚨 We're looking for a researcher to conduct a desk-based research project on the impacts of forestry on Ireland’s water resources & implications for meeting the Water Framework Directive. swanireland.ie/about-us/wor... Apply by 16th March!🗓️

Imní mhór faoin earnáil feamainne. Tá iarratais déanta ar fheamainn a bhaint ar scála tionsclaíoch i gConamara. Bill Breathnach Irish Times 17.02.2026. N'fheadar conas go n-éireoidh le dúlra na Mara ann www.irishtimes.com/gaeilge/scea... (industrial-scale seaweed harvesting proposed for Connemara)

🥞 Lá Máirt na hInide atá ann inniu! Cibé an bhfuil tú ag iompú pancóga, ag rith i rás pancóga, nó díreach ag ithe - bain sult as! #LáNabPancóg #SpéirGhorm 🔗 ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Máirt_na_hInide

Marking any Pancake Day traditions today? Snap a photo and share it with us! 📸 You can upload it to Wikimedia Commons as part of the Wiki Loves Folklore competition. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Lo...

2/13/1903 — b. Elizabeth Homer Morton, Canadian librarian, author. Secretary/treasurer, Ontario Library Assn(1936-43); exec sec, #Canadian #Library Council (1944). Co-founder, Canadian Lib Assn (1946), exec director/editor ('46-68). Order of Canada('68) #womenshistory #LibrarySky #BookSky #WriterSky

We are seeking to appoint an Assistant Librarian in Marsh's Library. This will be a great position for an early-career librarian. Further details at: marshlibrary.ie/assistant-li...

Throughout February and especially on Ireland Reads Day, February 28th, Libraries Ireland is calling on people across Ireland to get lost in a good book. It doesn’t matter what you read, where you read or how well you read, as long as you read. www.irelandreads.ie

Gnáthóg bhogaigh ag obair go dian mar spúinse don bháisteach, seoid luachmhar in aice le Léim an Bhradáin. Wetland habitat operating as a sponge for the rain, near Leixlip #FloodSolutions #wetland en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leixlip...

This massive Canadian agtech company has put in an application to harvest seaweed from basically the entire west coast. The maps are actually shocking www.gov.ie/en/departmen...

A landmark study charting wetland birds coming here for wintertime over the past 30 years has revealed mixed fortunes for 63 species of migratory waterbirds in Ireland

🌿 Is Breá le Vicí Béaloideas 2026 oscailte! Wiki Loves Folklore 2026 is open! Caomhnaigh ár dtraidisiúin, íomhá ar íomhá. Preserve our traditions, image by image. 🔗 commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Folklore_2026_in_Ireland

🚀The HRB has published this year's Health Research in Action. It highlights the far-reaching, real-world impact of HRB & HRB-funded health & social care research, including: 📌22 success stories 📌A snapshot of HRB achievements in 2024 Read more here ➡️ bit.ly/4jXgiav

🚨Reminder! Applications for HRB's Research in-Practice Fellowships for Health & Social Care Practitioners 2026 are closing soon. 📌Funding: Research-related costs up €80k & pro rata salary-related fellow costs up to 0.5 FTE 🗓️Closes: 13 Feb ℹ️More info: bit.ly/3NrxfOd

✍️HSLJ Summer 2026 issue submissions ⏲Want to publish in the Health Sciences Libraries Journal? Submit by April 10th! 🏳️‍🌈This issue will contain special features celebrating Pride month, we would love to hear from LGBTQi+ colleagues! 📚Guidelines here: journals.ucc.ie/index.php/hs...

✨ Move with Nature: Imbolc at Girley Bog ✨ 🕰️ Sunday 01 Feb, 11.00am-12.30pm 🎟️Book on Eventbrite. Free of charge, but places limited: imbolcatgirleybog.eventbrite.ie @patagonia.com #WorldWetlandsDay #GirleyBog #Brigid #Imbolc