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Kate Saylor
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Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. | health sciences | informationist | Michigan | she/her | #medlibs
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abeba.bsky.social
just great
Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC
November 21, 2025 at 3:13 PM
ksaylor.bsky.social
Tip #60: Controlled vocabulary field codes and their discontents in EBSCOhost APA PsycInfo
#MLAUXCaucus #medlibs #ExpertSearching #SystematicReviews "Bite-size tips for expert searchers." uxcaucustips.blogspot.com/2025/11/tip-...
Tip #60: Controlled vocabulary field codes and their discontents in EBSCOhost APA PsycInfo
uxcaucustips.blogspot.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Tip #61: Mismatched MeSH in EBSCOhost APA PsycInfo
#MLAUXCaucus #medlibs #ExpertSearching #SystematicReviews "Bite-size tips for expert searchers." uxcaucustips.blogspot.com/2025/11/tip-...
Tip #61: Mismatched MeSH in EBSCOhost APA PsycInfo
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November 20, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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ameracadpeds.bsky.social
“Since 1998, independent researchers have conducted more than 40 high-quality studies involving over 5.6 million people. The conclusion is clear and unambiguous: There’s no link between vaccines and autism." -Dr. Susan Kressly, AAP President on recent changes to the CDC's website
November 20, 2025 at 3:24 PM
ksaylor.bsky.social
wtf
mirandayaver.bsky.social Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 5d
The CDC website now disseminates disinformation about vaccines, claiming erroneously that infant vaccines might cause autism, when we know conclusively that they do not. It is difficult to overstate just how dangerous this is. www.cdc.gov/vaccine-safe...
November 20, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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amandarosswhite.bsky.social
#medlibs #canmedlibs Time to take your links to CDC as an appropriate source down.
mirandayaver.bsky.social Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 5d
The CDC website now disseminates disinformation about vaccines, claiming erroneously that infant vaccines might cause autism, when we know conclusively that they do not. It is difficult to overstate just how dangerous this is. www.cdc.gov/vaccine-safe...
November 20, 2025 at 3:17 PM
ksaylor.bsky.social
New ADA Title II Regulations: Top things to know "Recent updates to Title II of the ADA clarify requirements for all large public universities to proactively deliver content in formats that meet recognized accessibility standards by April 24, 2026.' record.umich.edu/articles/new...
New ADA Title II Regulations: Top things to know | The University Record
record.umich.edu
November 20, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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There could be an interesting debate here (we are both participants in the same @chronicle.com forum). We agree I think on the severity of the threat to education. We disagree perhaps on how materially manifest that threat already is and its ultimate socio-political framing (and consequent remedy).
We Haven't Been Here Before BY MATTHEW KIRSCHENBAUM $ 2025 draws to a close, we know that generative artificial-intelligence models can furnish good-enough which is expected or compelled of us either by way of a salary or a grade. To acknowledge this is not boosterism or credulous absorption of industry "hype": It is the baseline for how much the conditions of writing have changed in the three years since the public launch of ChatGPT. For higher education this means that, where the classroom deliverable is a piece of student prose, the expectation has to be that Al is adequate to the task of creating a passable imitation; and that it can do so in ways that are all but impossible to prove to the standards of an academic-integrity violation. Now, with the emergence of so-called agentic-Al browsers, capable of autonomously fulfilling tasks on the user's behalf, we are on the verge of a fully automated loop in which assignments are Al-generated with the help of a learning-management system; Al-generated content is submitted by an agentic browser on behalf of the student; and Al-driven metrics then evaluate the work on behalf of the instructor. Moments of real rupture can be hard to reckon with, especially for those of us in the humanities where our training is more given to prodiemanzine, contextualzne, and historicing, all utmately demadonary — and in that sense conservative — critical postures. We have been here before, we like to say, nodding knowingly all the while. Similarly, there is much hope in some circles that Al will prove a mere "bubble," destined to burst like other ed-tech fads. At the very least | this betrays a curiously robust faith in markets to self-correct in the interest of collective salvation. It is also, I would venture, a dangerous misreading of the current political landscape, where the very corporations at the forefront of Al have aligned themselves with the present administration's authoritarian excesses … [text truncated do to length).
November 20, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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CDC data confirms US is 2 months away from losing measles elimination status arstechnica.com/health/2025/...
CDC data confirms US is 2 months away from losing measles elimination status
Elimination status is lost if the virus spreads continuously for 12 months.
arstechnica.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:02 PM
ksaylor.bsky.social
Just humor me...how does one actually ETHICALLY use AI? I've read so many articles about how it's important to use it ethically. I'm asked to teach users how to use it ethically. What does actual ethical use look like? Please no "by not using it" responses - I get it. I want to genuine examples.
November 19, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Every ad now
[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.] JANET: Ugh... LIZ: What's up? JANET: I am so bored of cooking peas! LIZ: Have you tried... AI peas? JANET: AI peas? LIZ: They're peas with AI! [Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI]. LIZ: Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas JANET: What LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines] Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas? [Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it] LIZ: Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine [Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas] LIZ: With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas! JANET: What LIZ: Shut up LIZ: Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow From opening the bag of peas to boiling the peas to eating the peas To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means. JANET: Is it really necessary to- LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]: THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET [Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan: AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas. [Ends]
November 13, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Apply for the Anti-Racist Digital Research Institute (a week-long institute + mini-grant). We'll provide knowledge & resources to help you build skills in anti-racist research methods & digital methods to advance your project. Apply 11/13 to 12/19 2025. https://myumi.ch/kP1r1
Anti-Racist Digital Research Institute.
November 13, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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sbworkersunited.org Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 12d
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.

Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Don't Buy Starbucks! At any location, today and beyond, while workers are on ULP strike!
November 13, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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#EvidenceSynthesis #medlibs
November 12, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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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 🫶
November 6, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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maggiestiefvater.bsky.social
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!
November 5, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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broadwaybabyto.bsky.social
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.
November 7, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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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...
November 6, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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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
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November 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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aadl.org
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
Author event for "Biological Clocks" with Daniel Forger at Downtown Library on Tuesday, November 18 at 6:30 PM. Includes image of author beside the cover of his new book.
November 6, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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petersagal.bsky.social
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)
duendeonfuego.bsky.social DuendeonFuego @duendeonfuego.bsky.social · 22d
IT IS TIME FOR BLUESKY RECIPE POSTING

do you have a cheap, healthy, low-cost recipe? post it here! or quote tweet this post. or dunk on me for something I don't care just post easy meals that people can make right now.
November 4, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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YES YOU SHOULD VOTE IN LOCAL ELECTIONS TOMORROW EVEN IF MAMDANI IS NOT ON THE BALLOT WHERE YOU LIVE
November 3, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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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...
AI guidelines for researchers
A guide to support journal authors, editors, and peer reviewers across disciplines in making informed decisions about AI’s role in research and writing.
www.wiley.com
November 3, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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"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...
Guest Post — Do Academic Libraries Have a Strategy for AI? - The Scholarly Kitchen
If libraries are civic institutions that structure society’s relationship to knowledge, and generative AI is poised to reshape discovery whether libraries act or not, will library leaders will develop...
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org
November 3, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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404media.co
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.
arXiv Changes Rules After Getting Spammed With AI-Generated 'Research' Papers
Cornell University’s academic paper repository will no longer accept Computer Science papers still under review.
www.404media.co
November 3, 2025 at 4:49 PM