Rebecca Carlson
@carlsonrb.bsky.social
Librarian for the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy | UNC IPEP Director for HSL | MLA RTI Fellow
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"Viruses don’t take vacations. The longest government shutdown ever puts everyone’s health at greater risk because the data and reports that are essential for monitoring the spread of diseases haven’t been updated for weeks." — me in @huffpost.com
Experts Warn The Government Shutdown Is Affecting You In A Major, Unexpected Way
This lapse is leaving doctors and the public dangerously in the dark.
www.huffpost.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:44 PM
"Viruses don’t take vacations. The longest government shutdown ever puts everyone’s health at greater risk because the data and reports that are essential for monitoring the spread of diseases haven’t been updated for weeks." — me in @huffpost.com
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🍎USDA has the money - but USDA is choosing not to use the money.
🍎Past presidents figured it out.
🍎Working families are already struggling with rising costs.
We should all agree: Our children should have the nutrition they need to succeed. @rweingarten.bsky.social
🍎Past presidents figured it out.
🍎Working families are already struggling with rising costs.
We should all agree: Our children should have the nutrition they need to succeed. @rweingarten.bsky.social
USDA Is Choosing to Take Food Away from Children
By Randi Weingarten and Crystal FitzSimons
aftvoices.org
October 30, 2025 at 3:20 PM
🍎USDA has the money - but USDA is choosing not to use the money.
🍎Past presidents figured it out.
🍎Working families are already struggling with rising costs.
We should all agree: Our children should have the nutrition they need to succeed. @rweingarten.bsky.social
🍎Past presidents figured it out.
🍎Working families are already struggling with rising costs.
We should all agree: Our children should have the nutrition they need to succeed. @rweingarten.bsky.social
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Update and Expansion of an Interprofessional Education Search Strategy Validation Study for NLM PubMed, Ovid MEDLINE, and Elsevier Embase
doi.org/10.18060/28745
doi.org/10.18060/28745
Update and Expansion of an Interprofessional Education Search Strategy Validation Study for NLM PubMed, Ovid MEDLINE, and Elsevier Embase | Hypothesis: Research Journal for Health Information Professionals
Update and Expansion of an Interprofessional Education Search Strategy Validation Study for NLM PubMed, Ovid MEDLINE, and Elsevier Embase
doi.org
September 26, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Update and Expansion of an Interprofessional Education Search Strategy Validation Study for NLM PubMed, Ovid MEDLINE, and Elsevier Embase
doi.org/10.18060/28745
doi.org/10.18060/28745
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Reeling from the scale of the SNAP cliff. In Orange County NC alone: 8700 individual SNAP recipients in 4683 families.
October 27, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Reeling from the scale of the SNAP cliff. In Orange County NC alone: 8700 individual SNAP recipients in 4683 families.
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It's very concerning that the Literature Selection Technical Review Committee was terminated and there's little awareness of it. This has me concerned that more predatory/crap science will become part of PubMed. #medlibs
PubMed is running on autopilot during shutdown, but key independent committee has been abolished #medlibs www.bmj.com/content/391/...
PubMed is running on autopilot during shutdown, but key independent committee has been abolished
PubMed, the life sciences search engine maintained by the US government and relied upon by researchers worldwide, is still performing its basic automated functions during the federal shutdown, but new...
www.bmj.com
October 27, 2025 at 2:45 PM
It's very concerning that the Literature Selection Technical Review Committee was terminated and there's little awareness of it. This has me concerned that more predatory/crap science will become part of PubMed. #medlibs
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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...
When goodbye comes too soon: How to wrap up science projects quickly
Science projects are designed and funded on the scale of years, so what happens when researchers need to finish prematurely? This Community Page discusses solutions for quickly documenting partially f...
doi.org
October 23, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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...
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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.
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...
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
September 23, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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.
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
September 22, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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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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.
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…
retractionwatch.com
September 16, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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.
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.
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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.
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
September 4, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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.
The restaurant will reopen for dinner hours starting on Tuesday, Sep. 9.
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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
August 18, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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...
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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...
August 12, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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...
Here are links to resources and support requests mentioned by TBB: linktr.ee/ChantalMutua...
July 15, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Here are links to resources and support requests mentioned by TBB: linktr.ee/ChantalMutua...
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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...
July 14, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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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The towns of Chapel Hill and Carrboro are coordinating with Orange County to support disaster relief:
crisiscleanup.org/survivor
+19102181569
crisiscleanup.org/survivor
+19102181569
July 10, 2025 at 3:47 PM
The towns of Chapel Hill and Carrboro are coordinating with Orange County to support disaster relief:
crisiscleanup.org/survivor
+19102181569
crisiscleanup.org/survivor
+19102181569
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People have no idea, not really, how this budget is about to wreck their very foundations.
July 1, 2025 at 4:41 PM
People have no idea, not really, how this budget is about to wreck their very foundations.
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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...
July 1, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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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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...
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
June 11, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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...
Save the Dates August 12, 13, 14 2025
www.thrivelib.com/news/introdu...
I'm excited to be in Vancouver this week for CHLA and to learn from Canadian medical library colleagues.
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.
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.
June 3, 2025 at 10:16 PM
I'm excited to be in Vancouver this week for CHLA and to learn from Canadian medical library colleagues.
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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.
May 28, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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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🚨 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...
1. Submit a public comment to the FDA www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...
2. Contact your elected officials
www.usa.gov/elected-offi...
May 20, 2025 at 6:57 PM
🚨 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...
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 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
May 20, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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.
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....
May 20, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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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Interested individuals (library workers or librarians), please sign by midnight on May 17, 2025.
docs.google.com/document/d/e...
docs.google.com/document/d/e...
Statement against Carla Hayden's Firing May 14 2025.docx
docs.google.com
May 15, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Interested individuals (library workers or librarians), please sign by midnight on May 17, 2025.
docs.google.com/document/d/e...
docs.google.com/document/d/e...