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Snitty 🎃👻 @clofsnitville.bsky.social · 17d

If you aren't familiar with how drugs get their labels you may not realize how bonkers this is but this is absolutely shocking, horrifying, and dangerous stuff happening.

Holly Fernandez Lynch @hollylynchez.bsky.social · 18d

This is bonkers. FDA is going to change leucovorin's label based on a lit review with data on 40 patients w/ cerebral folate deficiency and comparisons to "known natural history."

www.statnews.com/2025/09/22/f...

FDA brings back GSK's leucovorin drug that RFK Jr. touted as autism treatment

The Trump administration is touting leucovorin as a treatment for autism.

www.statnews.com

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Rebecca Carlson @carlsonrb.bsky.social · 18d

Last two weeks to register for the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of @medlibassn.bsky.social Annual Meeting! The 2025 MAC/MLA conference ("Spice Up the Library: Thinking Outside the Box") is October 19-21 in Baltimore, MD. Register here #medlibs: macmla.wildapricot.org/macregistration

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Retraction Watch @retractionwatch.com · 24d

Exclusive: Journal bans drug safety database papers as they flood the literature

FAERS is one of several publicly available datasets being exploited by paper mills, pumping hundreds of often meaningless and sometimes misleading papers into the scientific literature, @katetravis.bsky.social reports.

Exclusive: Journal bans drug safety database papers as they flood the literature

celafon/iStockPhoto Starting around 2023, a curious trend took hold in papers on drug safety monitoring. The number of articles published on an individual drug and its link to specific adverse even…

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97.9 The Hill WCHL & Chapelboro.com @wchlchapelboro.bsky.social · Sep 4

EXCLUSIVE: Two years and two months after a fire destroyed the interior of Med Deli, the business is preparing to welcome back customers to in-person dining next week.

The restaurant will reopen for dinner hours starting on Tuesday, Sep. 9.

After 2 Years, Mediterranean Deli Set to Reopen Chapel Hill Location With Dinner Hours - Chapelboro.com

Two years and two months after a fire destroyed its interior, Mediterranean Deli will welcome back customers to in-person dining next week.

chapelboro.com

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · Aug 18

Wanted to share a critical AI spreadsheet I've been working on for a little bit now. It has a list of resources and links to materials I thought were interesting or that I used in my schools Critical AI LibGuide. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Critical AI Resources - bookjockeyalex.com

docs.google.com

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · Aug 12

This from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social hit me over the head like a mallet of truth. This is the thing. This is what I’ve been trying to warn people about perfectly crystallized. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/o...

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Rebecca Carlson @carlsonrb.bsky.social · Jul 15

Here are links to resources and support requests mentioned by TBB: linktr.ee/ChantalMutua...

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Heather B @hbrarian.bsky.social · Jul 14

A program within my university tracks the latest news on global health security and adds summaries. You can subscribe for weekly emails www.unmc.edu/healthsecuri...

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theonollert.bsky.social @theonollert.bsky.social · Jul 10

The towns of Chapel Hill and Carrboro are coordinating with Orange County to support disaster relief:
crisiscleanup.org/survivor
+19102181569

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · Jul 1

People have no idea, not really, how this budget is about to wreck their very foundations.

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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · Jul 1

STAGGERING: This new study of 133 countries is the first to estimate the impact of all USAID’s work. In 2 decades, it has saved *92M* lives. Current cuts, if not reversed, are forecast to cost up to *14M* lives thru 2030. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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Rebecca Carlson @carlsonrb.bsky.social · Jun 23

I have alerts for evidence-based practice & interprofessional education

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ThriveLib Reclaiming Joy, Balance, and Boundaries in Libraries @thrivelib.bsky.social · Jun 11

I am thrilled to announce ThriveLib: Reclaiming Joy, Balance, and Boundaries in Libraries, a new virtual conference focused entirely on the emotional and psychological well-being of library workers.

Save the Dates August 12, 13, 14 2025
www.thrivelib.com/news/introdu...

Introducing ThriveLib: A New Virtual Conference Centering Library Worker Well-Being — ThriveLib

I am thrilled to announce ThriveLib: Reclaiming Joy, Balance, and Boundaries in Libraries , a new virtual conference focused entirely on the emotional and psychological well-being of library workers....

www.thrivelib.com

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Rebecca Carlson @carlsonrb.bsky.social · Jun 3

I'm excited to be in Vancouver this week for CHLA and to learn from Canadian medical library colleagues.

Canadian Health Libraries Association @chla-absc.bsky.social · Jun 3

Welcome to #chlaabsc2025! Bienvenue à #chlaabsc2025!

Please stop by the registration desk to check in and get answers to your conference questions.

N'hésitez pas à passer au bureau d'inscription pour vous enregistrer et obtenir des réponses aux questions que vous vous posez sur la conférence.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · May 28

Breaking: HHS is canceling a $600 million contract with Moderna to develop, test, and license vaccines for flu strains that could trigger future pandemics, including the dangerous H5N1 bird flu virus.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · May 20

🚨 ACTION ITEMS to stop the FDA from limiting Covid vaccine access:

1. Submit a public comment to the FDA www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...

2. Contact your elected officials
www.usa.gov/elected-offi...

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · May 20

The FDA will permit Covid vaccines only for adults over 65 and those with certain medical conditions in the fall, according to new regulatory standards.

F.D.A. Poised to Restrict Access to Covid Vaccines

www.nytimes.com

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Rebecca Carlson @carlsonrb.bsky.social · May 20

We examined citation counts for pharmacy articles with librarian co-authors to see how they compared to pharmacy research overall and found 69% of papers with librarians had higher than average citation counts. This speaks to the impact of librarians as research partners!

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Rebecca Carlson @carlsonrb.bsky.social · May 20

I'm excited to share my newly published study on the significant correlations between librarian coauthors and higher paper citation counts for pharmacy scholarship! UNC story here: library.unc.edu/news/librari... and full article here: doi.org/10.1016/j.ac....

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Tricia Gory 🎃📚💻🇵🇭🇺🇲 @trishgreen.bsky.social · May 15

Interested individuals (library workers or librarians), please sign by midnight on May 17, 2025.

docs.google.com/document/d/e...

Statement against Carla Hayden's Firing May 14 2025.docx

docs.google.com

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · May 13

Some DOGE political appointee choosing which grants to fund is oppression of academic freedom and scientific freedom.

If the right wants to kill science in the US, the surest way to do that is to take away scientists’ freedom to judge which ideas are meritorious.

Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · May 13

Read the whole thing. You won’t be surprised, but you should be outraged.

Last week, as the Board held its 494th meeting, I listened to NSF staff say that DOGE had by fiat the authority to give thumbs up or down to grant applications which had been systematically vetted by layers of subject matter experts.

Our closed-to-the-public deliberations were observed by Zachary Terrell from the DOGE team. Through his Zoom screen, Terrell showed more interest in his water bottle and his cuticles than in the discussion. According to Nature Terrell, listed as a "consultant" in the NSF directory, had accessed the NSF awards system to block the dispersal of approved grants. The message I received was that the National Science Board had a role to play in name only

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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · May 2

🚨 Today, a federal court granted a temporary restraining order to halt the administration’s dismantling of IMLS—a direct result of the lawsuit filed by ALA and @afscme.bsky.social.
www.ala.org/news/2025/05...

#ForOurLibraries #FundLibraries

Federal Court halts dismantling of IMLS in ALA lawsuit. U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia grants temporary restraining order.

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Rebecca Carlson @carlsonrb.bsky.social · May 1

Katherine Howell (UNC Chapel Hill) presented, but I'm on the research team also. Feel free to DM me if you'd like the slides or more info

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