"The journal publisher also stated that 'the authors had not responded to correspondence regarding the retraction.'" arstechnica.com/ai/2026/05/i...

🔍 New research revealing a surge in fake citations among biomedical science papers is a solid "initial contribution to the problem", says Digital Science's Kathryn Weber-Boer. Our Director Scientometrics spoke with Nature science reporter Miryam Naddaf. 🔗 See the story: https://ow.ly/Fezc50YXuUm

"The research team is particularly concerned about review articles, which they note 'had a fabrication rate that was 57% higher than other paper types.'" #medlibs

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This is true of nearly any topic I've ever taught.

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Monthly ebook releases on Amazon were basically flat before the release of ChatGPT and other LLMs. Now around 2/3 of all ebooks released on Amazon are fake.

My friend’s teenager texted her to ask her what an example of a literary device was and their teenage sibling in the group chat volunteered “like, a kindle?” My head hurts

Hard days will come the way weather comes, sometimes predicted and sometimes sudden. When they arrive, try to meet them with a steadier story. Tell yourself that difficulty is part of being alive, not a stain on your character. Tell yourself that you can carry joy like a pocket stone.

Early reviews consistently say things like ‘this book fucked me up’ perfect this is going exactly as I planned, please preorder so you can be fucked up in July! (And I can feed my living cats.)

American Library Association's draft Guidance of the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Libraries is open for public comment until May 8th h/t @kvanderboll.bsky.social acrl.ala.org/acrlinsider/...

"If people are required to question everything they encounter, the cognitive burden becomes unsustainable...what’s needed isn’t more instruction but something closer to a wellness intervention: relief from constant epistemic vigilance." h/t @kvanderboll.bsky.social janefriedman.com/ai-and-libra...

"AI adoption across local government & nonprofits is growing. For teams doing work that directly impacts communities — from grant writing to public health assessments to economic development-knowing how to use it responsibly and confidently is what matters most." visit.mysidewalk.com/webinar-ai-e...

How AI Impacts Skill Formation - "Our findings suggest that AI-enhanced productivity is not a shortcut to competence and AI assistance should be carefully adopted into workflows to preserve skill formation -- particularly in safety-critical domains." arxiv.org/abs/2601.20245

"If you cannot explain the central argument without looking at the AI output, you don’t own the work." scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/04/29/g...

Ooooohhh so many new PRISMA extensions under development!! #medlibs #EvidenceSynthesis ✨ www.prisma-statement.org/extensions

How can people critically evaluate disinformation and misinformation if they literally don't know how to read at an adult level?

Social media is no longer social. Most of it is passive viewing of videos and pictures from people we've never met. But we're still studying social media like it's 2010. We've entered the post-social media era — and research needs to catch up. osf.io/preprints/so... preprint w/ Richard Rogers

Tip#67 Subject Areas in Scopus May Amplify the Noise in Your Search #MLAUXCaucus #medlibs #ExpertSearching #SystematicReviews "Bite-size tips for expert searchers." h/t @infoscigal.bsky.social uxcaucustips.blogspot.com/2026/04/tip6...

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Thanks for sharing, I've been planning to write about this next week as a follow up to my post about student loans last year. acrlog.org/2025/07/24/o... It’s wild that we've heard so little about this!! 📚

Tip#66: Searching for author names in PubMed (an overview, headaches, and an Excel shortcut!) #MLAUXCaucus #medlibs #ExpertSearching #SystematicReviews "Bite-size tips for expert searchers." h/t @potterynerd-8.bsky.social uxcaucustips.blogspot.com/2026/04/tip6...

The 2026 AI Index Report hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/202...

Here are my top 10 dog and news reporter interactions!

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I’ve been writing again on my experience learning to create Bloomberg Query Language formulas (in which I continue to have breakthroughs!). And on supporting students with this. In my new blog post I also go on a bit on why I haven’t just used generative AI to create formulas for me :) #AliceWrites

Working (gradually) on #SystematicReview write-up, and feeling glad I have all the searches for early on (where I tested words and proximities) saved in EBSCO. And that I went through the rigamarole of putting them in the right place to transfer to the new platform.

An interesting proposal but if institutions still won't address abuse or harassment meaningfully and instead go the "you resign before we have to put you in the database" route.... www.nature.com/articles/d41...

please don't be AI please don't be AI please don't be AI please don't be AI 🧵🐸🐟

Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature. What can be done? Tens of thousands of publications from 2025 might include invalid references generated by AI, a Nature analysis suggests. #medlibs www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real Bixonimania doesn’t exist except in a clutch of obviously bogus academic papers. So why did AI chatbots warn people about this fictional illness? #medlibs h/t @pfanderson.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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"Even students who use AI in limited, deliberate ways describe a low-grade unease, not only about whether they are learning what they are supposed to learn, but about what repeated reliance on these tools might do to their thinking over time." www.chronicle.com/article/when...

Wayne State University Librarian I/II, Nursing and Health Sciences Librarian, University Library System (Minimum Salary for Librarian I: $55,276.29 / Minimum Salary for Librarian II: $60,451.98) #medlibs #nursinglibs #JobPosting waynetalent.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

I can't stop thinking about writers using AI to write and readers using AI to summarize that writing. People's willingness to cede their capacity for thought to machines is baffling and alarming.

Strategic Implications of AI Futures for Research Libraries: Workshop Report March 2026. doi.org/10.29242/rep...

Every time the government makes a change to a survey or a form — or introduces a new survey or form — you have the right to weigh in on that decision. If you want to tell the government what you think about the changes they are making, follow these steps: dataindex.us/datawatch

All my library holds came in at once so now I have to quit my job to read.

What sign is Fox 8 describing as "Duk chopping down a tree with another Duk" in the George Saunders's short story "Fox 8"

I made a whole workshop based on this paper uf-repro.github.io/data-organiz...

#datalibs love a decision tree!

#medlibs #SystematicReviews #EvidenceSynthesis Looking for recommendations for TOOLS that can "use the DerSimonian-Laird random-effects model for data analysis and also generate forest plots"

Tip#65: Search String Theory - Applying pairwise combinatorics to PubMed searches #MLAUXCaucus #medlibs #ExpertSearching #SystematicReviews "Bite-size tips for expert searchers." h/t @marijanewhite.bsky.social uxcaucustips.blogspot.com/2026/03/tip6...

‘Hey’ came before ‘hi,’ and ‘hi' came before ‘hello.’ ‘Hi’ is most likely a variant of ‘hey.’ ‘Hello’ is not related to either. Goodbye.

Three Ypsilanti women started a library in 1868 with 175 books. We've added a few since then. 🙂 Eunice Watling, Gloria Follett, and Sarah Pardee founded the Ladies Library Association of Ypsilanti, and what began as a small reading room eventually became the library you know today.

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#medlibs Can anyone tell me what these CINAHL records are? Is it just 2 wonky records? Is it actually the name of a journal? I also couldn't find any article by that name. Citations added to alt text.

At the beginning of a research project, it is important to assign and document roles, not just presume roles. Doing so helps team members know exactly what is expected of them, allows them to develop standardized workflows, as well as create contingency plans for continuity of practices.