Megan (she/her) 🏳️🌈
@meganmk.bsky.social
Queer, science & evidence synthesis librarian, parent, kohlrabi ambassador, emergency notary, Mpls
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🎵 Pink possum snoot
I'm gonna keep on looking
At the pink possum snoot 🎵
I'm gonna keep on looking
At the pink possum snoot 🎵
Look at this snoot! (Photo by our neighbor — I promise i didn’t let our kid get that close)
November 25, 2025 at 1:11 AM
🎵 Pink possum snoot
I'm gonna keep on looking
At the pink possum snoot 🎵
I'm gonna keep on looking
At the pink possum snoot 🎵
Long live Fried!!
Update: my child has named it “Fried” and neighborhood friends have started visiting to see it.
So it’s Fried the Kingfield Opossum
So it’s Fried the Kingfield Opossum
November 24, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Long live Fried!!
Update: POSSUM FRIEND EMERGED
November 24, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Update: POSSUM FRIEND EMERGED
I’m solidly with our child on this. Look at this cute friend!
November 24, 2025 at 11:05 PM
I’m solidly with our child on this. Look at this cute friend!
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Thank you @msjennmo.bsky.social & @cathygoweeee.bsky.social for their incredible prowess in the publication of this rebuttal!
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November 20, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Thank you @msjennmo.bsky.social & @cathygoweeee.bsky.social for their incredible prowess in the publication of this rebuttal!
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Because it was all a lie to establish for divorce proceedings that he was incapable of working and earning income so that he didn’t have to pay alimony
November 17, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Because it was all a lie to establish for divorce proceedings that he was incapable of working and earning income so that he didn’t have to pay alimony
So happy to see this second guest editorial in C&RL this month calling for training & better peer review guidelines. crl.acrl.org/index.php/cr...
Improving Peer Reviewer Guidelines at C&RL | Schultz | College & Research Libraries
Improving Peer Reviewer Guidelines at C&RL
crl.acrl.org
November 3, 2025 at 6:12 PM
So happy to see this second guest editorial in C&RL this month calling for training & better peer review guidelines. crl.acrl.org/index.php/cr...
In which @amylibrarian.bsky.social and I argue that if LIS journals had more rigorous guidelines for authors, things like that ridiculous "privacy of thought" article in C&RL wouldn't get published. crl.acrl.org/index.php/cr...
Seeking More Rigorous Author Guidelines at C&RL | Riegelman | College & Research Libraries
Seeking More Rigorous Author Guidelines at C&RL
crl.acrl.org
November 3, 2025 at 2:59 PM
In which @amylibrarian.bsky.social and I argue that if LIS journals had more rigorous guidelines for authors, things like that ridiculous "privacy of thought" article in C&RL wouldn't get published. crl.acrl.org/index.php/cr...
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“authors should state when they did not synthesize the totality of the evidence (e.g., engaged in cherry-picking) or if they did not evaluate or contextualize the included literature, etc.” Love peer review of the peer review! 🔥
New (dare I say spicy?) Guest Editorial just dropped. Co-written with @meganmk.bsky.social
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Seeking More Rigorous Author Guidelines at C&RL | Riegelman | College & Research Libraries
Seeking More Rigorous Author Guidelines at C&RL
crl.acrl.org
November 3, 2025 at 2:08 AM
“authors should state when they did not synthesize the totality of the evidence (e.g., engaged in cherry-picking) or if they did not evaluate or contextualize the included literature, etc.” Love peer review of the peer review! 🔥
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New (dare I say spicy?) Guest Editorial just dropped. Co-written with @meganmk.bsky.social
crl.acrl.org/index.php/cr...
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Seeking More Rigorous Author Guidelines at C&RL | Riegelman | College & Research Libraries
Seeking More Rigorous Author Guidelines at C&RL
crl.acrl.org
November 2, 2025 at 2:42 PM
New (dare I say spicy?) Guest Editorial just dropped. Co-written with @meganmk.bsky.social
crl.acrl.org/index.php/cr...
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I spent this week feeling very frustrated about this looming situation, so today I decided to write about cholera infantum. It killed infants and young toddlers every summer, and making it a weird disease of the past took food safety regulation and support for poor families' food access.
October 31, 2025 at 1:47 AM
I spent this week feeling very frustrated about this looming situation, so today I decided to write about cholera infantum. It killed infants and young toddlers every summer, and making it a weird disease of the past took food safety regulation and support for poor families' food access.
Is it weird that I hope our license plate is having fun on whatever crime adventures it’s having now?
Someone stole our front license plate. I suppose to put on a stolen car. How delightful!
October 29, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Is it weird that I hope our license plate is having fun on whatever crime adventures it’s having now?
AND MONK FRUIT! They taste so bad!
STOP PUTTING STEVIA IN EVERYTHING!
October 27, 2025 at 3:58 PM
AND MONK FRUIT! They taste so bad!
Normal Gossip: pear crisp edition.
pleased to announce that there seems to be a passive-aggressive conflict roiling the august pages of Cooks Illustrated, Fall Harvest recipes edition. allow me to explain:
October 20, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Normal Gossip: pear crisp edition.
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The wonderful Data Curation Network datacuration.network (a collective of institutions focused on curating research data) is hiring a Director! The position is hosted by the University of Minnesota Libraries and has remote working (within US) possibilities! hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/370...
Front Page - Data Curation Network
The Data Curation Network (DCN) is a membership organization of institutional and non-profit data repositories whose vision is to advance open research by making data more ethical, reusable, and under...
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October 7, 2025 at 5:27 PM
The wonderful Data Curation Network datacuration.network (a collective of institutions focused on curating research data) is hiring a Director! The position is hosted by the University of Minnesota Libraries and has remote working (within US) possibilities! hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/370...
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I found this to be exptremely helpfuyl. Thanks, Jack, for taking us through the Quality of Evidence Pyramid as applied to gender affirming care.
jdrescher.substack.com/p/the-distor...
jdrescher.substack.com/p/the-distor...
The Distortions Hindering Gender-Affirming Care
A Low Quality of Evidence Does Not Mean “Do Not Treat”
jdrescher.substack.com
September 29, 2025 at 7:32 PM
I found this to be exptremely helpfuyl. Thanks, Jack, for taking us through the Quality of Evidence Pyramid as applied to gender affirming care.
jdrescher.substack.com/p/the-distor...
jdrescher.substack.com/p/the-distor...
Oof, that Lilith Fair documentary destroyed me.
September 28, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Oof, that Lilith Fair documentary destroyed me.
The Data Curation Network datacuration.network is hiring a director. It's a multi-institution organization based at the U of MN Libraries. hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/370...
September 25, 2025 at 2:20 PM
The Data Curation Network datacuration.network is hiring a director. It's a multi-institution organization based at the U of MN Libraries. hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/370...
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i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.
September 23, 2025 at 12:32 PM
i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.
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I took Tylenol as needed throughout my pregnancy. I am a doctor. I order Tylenol for pregnant women regularly. Tylenol is safe in pregnancy. RFK Jr is ignoring a huge recent well-done study because he doesn't like the answer it gives. There is no causality between Tylenol and autism.
You have no idea how much I despite these anti-science dipshits for making pregnant women terrified of taking (safe, mild, proven) pain relief.
September 22, 2025 at 9:26 PM
I took Tylenol as needed throughout my pregnancy. I am a doctor. I order Tylenol for pregnant women regularly. Tylenol is safe in pregnancy. RFK Jr is ignoring a huge recent well-done study because he doesn't like the answer it gives. There is no causality between Tylenol and autism.
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Could I just brag about my colleagues for a little bit? In July, librarians at at the University of Minnesota launched Save Our Signs, an effort to preserve interpretive signs at our national parks. So far, they have collected 8,070 images of signs (4 of them my own) from 319 sites!!!
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September 19, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Could I just brag about my colleagues for a little bit? In July, librarians at at the University of Minnesota launched Save Our Signs, an effort to preserve interpretive signs at our national parks. So far, they have collected 8,070 images of signs (4 of them my own) from 319 sites!!!
This article gets at many of the problems we're facing -- not just hallucinated books/citations, but erosion of trust & information literacy, mistreatment of chat librarians being mistaken for robots, and the onslaught of crap products being pushed out as "features" in our databases.
Librarians Are Being Asked to Find AI-Hallucinated Books
It’s a trippy time to have a library card.
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September 18, 2025 at 2:13 PM
This article gets at many of the problems we're facing -- not just hallucinated books/citations, but erosion of trust & information literacy, mistreatment of chat librarians being mistaken for robots, and the onslaught of crap products being pushed out as "features" in our databases.
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Because I actually care quite a bit about the institution, I’ll tell you about what these four (very badly done) brand things were about. Because the work is good. This brand work is truly awful.
Gene therapy to fight advanced-stage GI cancers
Gene therapy to fight advanced-stage GI cancers
September 17, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Because I actually care quite a bit about the institution, I’ll tell you about what these four (very badly done) brand things were about. Because the work is good. This brand work is truly awful.
Gene therapy to fight advanced-stage GI cancers
Gene therapy to fight advanced-stage GI cancers
She won't say this in her bio, but @saralovesyou.bsky.social has an MFA in poetry, a PhD in education, & 20 years experience working in public health, plus a demonic obsession with genealogy. Her research & writing is legit. www.syndicateandhague.com
Syndicate & Hague
Digging into Minnesota genealogy and history, and how our past still affects us today.
www.syndicateandhague.com
September 4, 2025 at 3:25 PM
She won't say this in her bio, but @saralovesyou.bsky.social has an MFA in poetry, a PhD in education, & 20 years experience working in public health, plus a demonic obsession with genealogy. Her research & writing is legit. www.syndicateandhague.com
Yesterday my brilliant wife @saralovesyou.bsky.social launched How We Used to Die: the St. Paul Death Register Project to look at the realities of how people lived & died before we had the vaccines & treatments for diseases we have today. It's horrifying & intriguing & she's a great storyteller.
How We Used to Die: the St. Paul Death Register Project
It is something of a joke in my house that I look at death records so much. Genealogical work requires you to bear witness to unnecessary deaths as you piece together the details of the lives of our a...
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September 4, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Yesterday my brilliant wife @saralovesyou.bsky.social launched How We Used to Die: the St. Paul Death Register Project to look at the realities of how people lived & died before we had the vaccines & treatments for diseases we have today. It's horrifying & intriguing & she's a great storyteller.