The most prestigious international event in the calendar of library and information professionals is coming home to London in 2027. As President of @cilip.bsky.social I am delighted to share the news of @ifla.org World Library and Information Congress. www.stationers.org/news/industr...

If the IHR's publicity isn't enough, you can meet my work colleagues from @lshtm.bsky.social Archives service if you go.

Library services across all sectors can now sign up to test a pilot Green Libraries Self-Assessment Framework and audit their climate actions! https://forms.office.com/e/y4Ga4xEUkp #GreenLibraries

A scoping review I provided the searches for has been published. Building resilience against the growing threat of arboviruses: a scoping review of Aedes vector surveillance, control strategies and insecticide resistance in Africa. doi.org/10.1186/s130... #ScopingReview #MedLibs

Coming from mid-November 2025 for Cochrane reviews: 💥 A new AI disclosure section across all reviews 💥 Changes to all reviews types to reflect evolving methodological best practice & to align with recent changes to intervention reviews 💥 Changes to how rapid reviews are managed

👋It's #WelcomeWeek at LSHTM & the start of a new academic year! We're excited to welcome our new & returning students who are pursuing their #PublicHealth dreams. Here's to a successful & inspiring year ahead!🎉 👉 www.lshtm.ac.uk/study/new-st...

DuckDuckGo has added a feature to filter out AI images from search results.

I will never not understand how a minority of people have decided that wind farms - significantly prettier than pylons, coal power plants, nuclear power plants, and almost certainly fusion power plants - are ugly. In terms of energy generation, what else are you hoping for that is better?

Tom Lehrer made all of his music 100% public domain so if seeing people sad about his death makes you want to check them out… it’s free. he wanted you to share them. tomlehrersongs.com

absolutely nails it. the work of language in the age of mechanical reproduction I guess

I've updated my blog post on what's happening in the world of Trump, science and academic information to include a link to the Trump Action Tracker. This is maintained by @chrischirp.bsky.social.

Brilliant to see the important work of health information specialists highlighted. What use is a systematic review based on a poor search?

If you've worked on a library project to showcase ethnically minoritised authors, and you've received recommendations for books from students and staff (and you see this today or over the weekend...) I'd love to hear from you. We're buying some books on a tight deadline! Some more context below. 📚

You can go to the same location now and see a replica of the pump, then go for a drink in the John Snow pub. If you're really interested, you can join the John Snow society and come along to their annual lecture held @lshtm.bsky.social

🤣 Those are terrible!

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

My latest cartoon for @theguardian.com books

I've updated my blog post for LSHTM Library on issues arising in the academic information space from changes in the US federal landscape. This update has the future of FlyBase in doubt and a possible new education database from Clarivate Analytics to replace ERIC. blogs.lshtm.ac.uk/library/2025...

None of those newspapers (or the BBC) that gleefully ran stories when the EHRC gave trans people a shoeing will now report on the EHRC admitting they (and hence those stories) were wrong. Are those outlets craven - or dishonest? Thank goodness for the legal press. www.law360.com/articles/235...

Yesterday, I had the privilege of visiting the @lshtm.bsky.social & their beautiful Library. So pleased to be part of an @ahuauk.bsky.social programme with amazing colleagues including the wonderful Lesley Castens. Lovely to bump into David Archer, another brilliant colleague from the library world.

As a follow-up to _Calling Bullshit_, Jevin West and I developed the course about LLMs that we think every college freshman should take. Yesterday I talked about the course in a seminar at UNSW. And thanks to my colleagues there, 24 hours later the video is already online.

We need to talk about health #misinformation🤔 Join our flagship event on 15 Sept 2025 for ideas on how to defend yourself & your organisation from dangerous misinformation Info/book tickets: www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e... In-person in London + online #PublicHealth

We served our claim form on the EHRC yesterday and it has just changed its interim statement. Snip one is what its statement was. Snip two is what its statement now is. *They now accept there is no need for employers to provide single sex toilets.*

My cartoon for the @theguardian.com books Summer Reading special.

Sometimes i'm proud to work for the organisation I do. I'm glad our Director put his head above the parapet and said what lots of us are thinking. #Gaza

🌟MISINFORMATION EVENT🌟 Join our @lshtm.bsky.social Health Misinformation: UNPACKED event to hear from leading voices on how to understand and combat the rising tide of health #misinformation in the UK 🗓️ 15 September 2025 ⏰ 13:00-17:00 GMT 📍 LSHTM Get tickets 👉 bit.ly/LSHTMHealthM...

I agree completely. If you're working on an SR, you're part of the project team. My 'stupid' questions have highlighted places where individuals had different understanding, particularly in multidisciplinary groups. Or we've ended up with a more precise question.

What is an expert searcher? #iclc25

something I've learned by covering online archives and libraries is that many valuable, free, online resources are maintained by extremely small teams, maybe one volunteer. Asking them to deal with scrapers that behave like DDoS attacks is unrealistic www.404media.co/ai-scraping-...

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? White cotton gloves are not for use with paper-based books. We use them for some photographs and artifacts, but for handling “regular” rare books the professional standard has been clean, dry hands for decades.

Sharing this update provided to me directly about the state of NLM and the future of NNLM, traveling exhibits, and, somehow, MedlinePlus. I am so worried for friends and colleagues, and I'm stuck on that, but it is hard to not want to scream WTF about a MedlinePlus with no new material. #medlibs

I’m convinced this is how a bay leaf would talk

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? Librarians have procedures to choose books to get rid of. This is so they can make space for new ones. Sometimes that involves putting the old ones in skips. Nobody wants old, out of date, soiled library books.

📈 New to conducting quantitative systematic reviews in health research? Our course will give you a grounding in designing, analysing, and interpreting quantitative systematic reviews in #datascience #health and #medicine How to join 🔽 www.lshtm.ac.uk/study/course...

A new SR that I created the searches for. Great to see it published. #medlibs #litsearch #systematicreview

Research data management at its finest outside a building in Cambridge! #RDM #research #librarians

This is something. 👀

Just realised my devices are still on UK time. I’m running an hour late in Poland. Whoops. #EAHIL25

Interesting number of respondents per platform. BSky is laughably far behind.

Off to #EAHIL2025 today. Any others on BSky going to be there? #medlibs

Off to #EAHIL2025 today. Any others on BSky going to be there? #medlibs

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We're #hiring a Learning and Teaching Librarian to provide the OU community with advice and guidance on using #Library content and resources. For more information and to apply 👉 jobs.open.ac.uk/job/Learning... Closing Date: 22 June 2025

I tried something similar using ChatGPT 4.o. "I'm trying to put together a portfolio of three to five papers to highlight my breadth and depth as a research scientist. (I'm Carl Bergstrom.) Could you help me choose papers?" Here's the result.

Possibly the best thing I've read about ChatGPT yet. h/t @melaniemitchell.bsky.social amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...

If you missed Julie Glanville's excellent ESI webinar on 'The role of AI tools in developing search strategies and identifying evidence for systematic reviews', it is now available to view at evidencesynthesisireland.ie/webinars/

Just published - updated guidance and recommendations for the responsible use of AI in evidence synthesis (RAISE): osf.io/fwaud/ We're doing a webinar on this in about an hour! training.cochrane.org/recommendati...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVxH... NEW VIDEO! The Floppy Archival Project Working on backing up hundreds of floppy disks to @archive.org, but not only that, showing how to do the hardware/software setup so anyone can do the same going forward into the future.

Between 2023 and 2025 a West Sussex Records Office project, funded by Annabels Foundation, surveyed HIV and AIDS archives in England and Wales; both those held by archival repositories and those still in private hands. The project report has been completed and is now available to view or download 👇

I'm reading the report behind these headlines about glyphosate and it may be the most scientifically illiterate thing I've come across (although it's a close thing with the recent MAHA report). 1/n