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Good morning! AI is being force-fed to you by a handful of billionaires who will lose a bunch of money if they fail to convince you that you need it. You do not need it 🫶

HOT LIBRARY INTEL: you can ask your library to purchase specific titles for their collection, usually right through the library's website. Librarians can't know every single new title, nor can they mind-read what their patrons might want to check out. Give it a shot!

Poverty and disability often go together Most people have no idea how fast their life can change One accident or illness is all it takes Losing your health can quickly wipe out your finances, your contingencies and your support network It’s why we need robust social supports.

Many research teams still collect paper forms and when it comes to entering data from those forms, there are a series of decisions to be made (and documented) to ensure that data is entered accurately and in a secure and standardized way. More information: datamgmtinedresearch.com/capture#capt...

Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default. Here's how to turn it off. First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner

The human body runs on rhythms. Making sense—and making use—of these signals is precisely what Daniel Forger explains in his new book Biological Rhythms. Join the author in celebration of his release on Tuesday, November 18 at 6:30 PM at the Downtown Library. 📖 https://aadl.org/node/646208

Roast 3-4 tomatillos till brown and juicy. Blend them with cilantro, jalapeno(s), lime juice, salt. Mix with mashed avocado. Add chopped red onion or Roma tomato if you like that. Best. Guacamole. Ever. (A Rick Bayless hack)

YES YOU SHOULD VOTE IN LOCAL ELECTIONS TOMORROW EVEN IF MAMDANI IS NOT ON THE BALLOT WHERE YOU LIVE

Of potential interest to #medlibs and #EvidenceSynthesis / #SystematicReview folks, Wiley has published a guide on using AI for researchers, authors, editors, and reviewers: www.wiley.com/en-us/publis...

"GenAI will reshape discovery whether libraries act or not. [Will] library leaders...develop strategies that preserve trust, equity, & sustainability or risk ceding that responsibility to ext actors whose priorities may not align w/the academy’s." scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/10/30/g...

arXiv, a preprint publication for academic research that has become particularly important for AI research, has announced it will no longer accept computer science articles and papers that haven’t been vetted by an academic journal or a conference. Why? A tide of AI slop.

Current treatments require repeated injections directly into the eye, but this vaccine can be delivered intramuscularly, making it less invasive and easier to administer. The study has been published in Vaccine. YES, it is PEER-REVIEWED. • www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧪🧵⬇️

Nov 3 at 7:00pm (easterm) Cory Doctorow on Enshittification, with danah boyd and Lee Vinsel www.youtube.com/live/WjFvGPL...

Great case study by @potterynerd-8.bsky.social ! "Sometimes the apple does fall far from the tree: a case study on automatic indexing precision errors in PubMed" #medlibs #MLAUXCaucus #ExpertSearching #EvidenceSynthesis jmla.mlanet.org/ojs/jmla/art...

OpenEvidence now seems to have a weekly query limit for non-clinicians instead of a daily one, making it even MORE difficult to test out it’s accuracy/limitations. Really??? Grrr. #medlibs

Again, this timeline is the worst: "How Do You Prepare Kids for a Possible School Shooting Without Traumatizing Them?" www.thetrace.org/2025/10/scho...

Worst timeline. 🤮 "Privacy policy changes: We’ll start using your interactions with AIs to personalize your experiences and ads."

Bluesky has overtaken Twitter/X as the highest social engagement metric for the entire publication corpus of some universities. Here's all the attention for all research from Rhodes University, ZA. In October 2025 Bluesky mentioned their research more than X/Twitter. 1/2

"What American science leaders and the community of science advocates failed to perceive, this writer included, was the fragility of the alliance between government and science, and more particularly between politicians and scientists." thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-rise-and...

"I still believe that higher education and libraries should not serve as AI accelerants. Rather, we should serve our communities by operating as repositories of knowledge and forums for debate—and that’s what I hope to do in my classroom next spring." acrlog.org/2025/10/20/t...

It is done! I knit a budget sweater for the first 7 years of the Textile Makerspace. One row in bright red, full circumference is $2k. Black lines are year dividers. The sleeves are paid student labor, with hours worked in brown. Sleeve on left is color coded by pronouns, right by gender. #DHmakes

"This problem was not generated in the classroom, and it can’t be fixed there. But clawing shared governance back can help ensure that universities aren’t converted into profit centers for private equity firms." defector.com/higher-eds-r...

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@umich.edu Child and Family Care provides resources to support your personal life while maintaining your professional responsibilities. hr.umich.edu/about-uhr/se...

A caregiver's survival guide: Advice from people who've been there "If you're a caregiver for an ill or elderly adult, you're not alone. Millions of others are right there with you." www.npr.org/2025/10/18/n...

@umich.edu Elder Care Resources hr.umich.edu/benefits-wel...

Michigan Medicine offers a Peer Support Network for faculty, staff, and house officers who have experienced difficult events. compass.med.umich.edu

"AI allows any of us to feel like an expert, but it is risk, doubt, & failure that make us human" “the human version of reading involves finitude,” & it’s this quality — the impossibility of true optimization — that makes a literary life, or any life, interesting. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

"Materials here are intended as solidarity solace for educators who might find themselves inventing wheels alone while their administrators, trustees, and bosses unrelentingly hype AI and nakedly enthuse the negative consequences for educator labor." against-a-i.com

AAUP Artificial Intelligence and Academic Professions - "Faculty members should actively participate in deciding which ed-tech systems are adopted, how they are implemented in their workplaces, and how the resulting benefits are shared among all academic workers." www.aaup.org/reports-publ...

"The ongoing friction of conversations w/ others is what keeps us oriented to consensus reality. ChatGPT is not a human. It is not a friend. A convo w/ it is not a conversation at all, but a feedback loop in which much of what we say is cheerfully reinforced." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

HALLOWEEN SPECIAL The Altmetric Ghost Donut Yes this is a real thing, not something we cattle-prodded our marketing into making for us. They are a rare sight, but you might have come across them. Here's a thread dedicated just to them. 1/7

They keep saying "AI" will reduce workload and make my life easier.... and yet...

You know who the real freeloaders in this country are? Not people who rely on SNAP, but corporations whose business model depends on wages so low that taxpayers have to feed their workers.

The University of Kentucky Libraries has shared my research life cycle diagram and all of my planning checklists in their resources. 🥲🧡 libguides.uky.edu/research_dat...

#JobPosting #medlibs #EvidenceSynthesis Research & Evidence Synthesis Librarian (Penn Dental School Library) $66,000.00 - $80,000.00 upenn.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/career...

#medlibs #ExpertSearching #SystematicReviews

Ann Arbor’s transportation survey closes October 31. The City wants to hear how you get around town and what you’d like to see in the future. Don’t miss your chance to provide input! engage.a2gov.org/2025-transpo... #a2council

"Across all 6,510 evaluations, ChatGPT never once mentioned that an article had been retracted, corrected, or had any ethical issues. It did not seem to connect the retraction notice, often present in the article’s title or on the publisher’s page, with the content it was asked to assess."

#medlibs When you search GS via Publish or Perish and select a limited number of results (10, 100, 200, etc.), how does PoP decide which 20 to pull in? By date? By GS "rank"/relevance? I've run the same search in GS and in PoP limited to 10, and the results are similar but not an exact match.

#JobPosting #medlibs MSU Head of Health Sciences Librarian Minimum $90,000 careers.msu.edu/jobs/librari...

#medlibs #datalibs

Important work from @mhagenauer.bsky.social et al. "When goodbye comes too soon: How to wrap up science projects quickly" doi.org/10.1371/jour...

all the anxiety human evolution developed to help me spot bears now kicks in when i have to answer emails

Who wants to host #MDLS27 ?? #MDLS25

How could you take this home? #MDLS25