Janneke
@jstaaks.bsky.social
Social Science Librarian in Amsterdam. Libraries, systematic reviews, knitting, sewing, photography
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Just read this - it was shared on LinkedIn. ‘To my users, “we couldn’t generate an answer for your question” translates to “your topic is not worthy of pursuing—change it.”’ While it’s nice to think that students will come & ask when they don’t find results, many won’t.
And the blocking of content…
And the blocking of content…
“We Couldn’t Generate an Answer for your Question” - ACRLog
Editor’s note: We welcome a guest blog post from Jay Singley, Document Delivery and Circulation Desk Manager at North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics. In March 2025, Ex Libris unveiled thei...
acrlog.org
July 22, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Just read this - it was shared on LinkedIn. ‘To my users, “we couldn’t generate an answer for your question” translates to “your topic is not worthy of pursuing—change it.”’ While it’s nice to think that students will come & ask when they don’t find results, many won’t.
And the blocking of content…
And the blocking of content…
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I tested it in Primo Research Assistant, not surprising, I got similar results since Summon Research Assistant is sister product and both work the same by using LLM to generate Boolean search strategy. Gaza war shows no results. Tusla Race riots get a scary error message but does generate answer(1)
July 22, 2025 at 10:07 AM
I tested it in Primo Research Assistant, not surprising, I got similar results since Summon Research Assistant is sister product and both work the same by using LLM to generate Boolean search strategy. Gaza war shows no results. Tusla Race riots get a scary error message but does generate answer(1)
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Want to know more about Intervention Component Analysis in #systematicreviews #evidencesynthesis and how it can help us understand how interventions work? New paper by @katysutcliffe.bsky.social and me 🔥hot🔥 off the press today in IJNS: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @eppicentre.bsky.social
Identifying critical intervention, contextual and implementation features in systematic reviews: intervention component analysis ten years on
It is now widely recognised that in addition to providing robust evidence about intervention effectiveness, systematic reviews need to provide decisio…
www.sciencedirect.com
June 19, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Want to know more about Intervention Component Analysis in #systematicreviews #evidencesynthesis and how it can help us understand how interventions work? New paper by @katysutcliffe.bsky.social and me 🔥hot🔥 off the press today in IJNS: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @eppicentre.bsky.social
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From today, every paper submitted to Nature -if published - will be accompanied by peer reviewers comments & authors rebuttal.
We started the trial in 2020; we now want to open up the review process & showcase its role in shaping & improving papers
🧪 #AcademicSky
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
We started the trial in 2020; we now want to open up the review process & showcase its role in shaping & improving papers
🧪 #AcademicSky
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Transparent peer review to be extended to all of Nature’s research papers
From today, all new submissions to Nature that are published will be accompanied by referees’ reports and author responses — to illuminate the process of producing rigorous science.
www.nature.com
June 16, 2025 at 8:29 PM
From today, every paper submitted to Nature -if published - will be accompanied by peer reviewers comments & authors rebuttal.
We started the trial in 2020; we now want to open up the review process & showcase its role in shaping & improving papers
🧪 #AcademicSky
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
We started the trial in 2020; we now want to open up the review process & showcase its role in shaping & improving papers
🧪 #AcademicSky
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Let it Chafe (a Little)
A lesson full of head-scratching, mistakes, and questions might ultimately deliver much more than one where everyone “gets it.”
#EduSky
www.kirschnered.nl/2025/06/15/l...
A lesson full of head-scratching, mistakes, and questions might ultimately deliver much more than one where everyone “gets it.”
#EduSky
www.kirschnered.nl/2025/06/15/l...
Let it Chafe (a Little) - kirschner-ED
A lesson full of head-scratching, mistakes, and questions might ultimately deliver much more than one where everyone “gets it.”
www.kirschnered.nl
June 15, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Let it Chafe (a Little)
A lesson full of head-scratching, mistakes, and questions might ultimately deliver much more than one where everyone “gets it.”
#EduSky
www.kirschnered.nl/2025/06/15/l...
A lesson full of head-scratching, mistakes, and questions might ultimately deliver much more than one where everyone “gets it.”
#EduSky
www.kirschnered.nl/2025/06/15/l...
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The amazing @marentierra.bsky.social @irisvanrooij.bsky.social Barbara M. & I build towards (sadly not obv to all):
"Universities are not spokespersons for the AI industry. On the contrary, we need to resist being coopted and corrupted by the industries’ agendas."
rcsc.substack.com/p/critical-a...
"Universities are not spokespersons for the AI industry. On the contrary, we need to resist being coopted and corrupted by the industries’ agendas."
rcsc.substack.com/p/critical-a...
Critical AI Literacy: Beyond hegemonic perspectives on sustainability
How can universities resist being coopted and corrupted by the AI industries’ agendas?
rcsc.substack.com
June 12, 2025 at 12:29 PM
The amazing @marentierra.bsky.social @irisvanrooij.bsky.social Barbara M. & I build towards (sadly not obv to all):
"Universities are not spokespersons for the AI industry. On the contrary, we need to resist being coopted and corrupted by the industries’ agendas."
rcsc.substack.com/p/critical-a...
"Universities are not spokespersons for the AI industry. On the contrary, we need to resist being coopted and corrupted by the industries’ agendas."
rcsc.substack.com/p/critical-a...
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ESMARConf2025 Starts today at 08:00am UTC! All presentations will be available on our YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/@esmarconf, you can follow the schedule on our website: www.esmarconf.org/2025/#progra..., and don't forget to get involved with by joining our Slack: join.slack.com/t/esmarconfw...
ESMARConf
About ESMARConf The Evidence Synthesis Hackathon’s (https://www.esmarconf.org) Evidence Synthesis & Meta-Analysis in R Conference (#ESMARConf2025) will take place on 11th-13th of June 2025. ESMARConf…
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June 11, 2025 at 5:57 AM
ESMARConf2025 Starts today at 08:00am UTC! All presentations will be available on our YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/@esmarconf, you can follow the schedule on our website: www.esmarconf.org/2025/#progra..., and don't forget to get involved with by joining our Slack: join.slack.com/t/esmarconfw...
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This is really sad! Again a downfall to hyper commercialisation.
But not unexpected I'm afraid, since the privitisation some years ago:
www.guygeltner.net/blog/2582019...
But not unexpected I'm afraid, since the privitisation some years ago:
www.guygeltner.net/blog/2582019...
June 6, 2025 at 8:54 PM
This is really sad! Again a downfall to hyper commercialisation.
But not unexpected I'm afraid, since the privitisation some years ago:
www.guygeltner.net/blog/2582019...
But not unexpected I'm afraid, since the privitisation some years ago:
www.guygeltner.net/blog/2582019...
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So glad someone did this study #medlibs pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40387123/
Comparing the performance of librarians and medical specialists in retrieving clinical evidence: an observational study - PubMed
Access to precise and reliable scientific evidence is one of the fundamental principles of Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) in clinical decision-making processes. Medical librarians, by employing advance...
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
May 27, 2025 at 1:40 PM
So glad someone did this study #medlibs pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40387123/
Good overview from @jeroenson.bsky.social and @jeroenbosman.bsky.social
Science is under attack. In this post "The resilience of open science in times of crisis" @jeroenbosman.bsky.social and I detail events around 5 types of threats, and we propose a resilience model to safeguard scientific communities and open infrastructures.
upstream.force11.org/the-resilien...
upstream.force11.org/the-resilien...
The resilience of open science in times of crisis
The increasingly hostile attitude of the new U.S. government towards science and academia leaves many of us deeply concerned— if not outright alarmed. In an effort to better understand the unfolding s...
upstream.force11.org
May 22, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Good overview from @jeroenson.bsky.social and @jeroenbosman.bsky.social
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ICYMI, a worthwhile consideration of hesitancies over retrieval augmented generation (RAG) in the library scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/05/08/g...
Guest Post: Eight Hypotheses Why Librarians Don’t Like Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) - The Scholarly Kitchen
AI-assisted search is here, and librarians need to have an honest discussion about how to integrate this new technology into library services. This post explores the parallels to the introduction of d...
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org
May 21, 2025 at 6:27 PM
ICYMI, a worthwhile consideration of hesitancies over retrieval augmented generation (RAG) in the library scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/05/08/g...
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👏 Bravo to the folks at LGBT Tech
They just launched the LGBTQ+ Archive, a living, community-informed project created to preserve and make accessible federal LGBTQ+ resources that have quietly disappeared from public websites in recent months.
They just launched the LGBTQ+ Archive, a living, community-informed project created to preserve and make accessible federal LGBTQ+ resources that have quietly disappeared from public websites in recent months.
Home | The LGBTQ+ Archive
Preserving federal and crucial information about the LGBTQ+ community in an accessible way.
This site independently preserves critical LGBTQ+ health, legal rights, and safety resources originally hos...
www.thelgbtqarchive.org
May 8, 2025 at 6:58 PM
👏 Bravo to the folks at LGBT Tech
They just launched the LGBTQ+ Archive, a living, community-informed project created to preserve and make accessible federal LGBTQ+ resources that have quietly disappeared from public websites in recent months.
They just launched the LGBTQ+ Archive, a living, community-informed project created to preserve and make accessible federal LGBTQ+ resources that have quietly disappeared from public websites in recent months.
Finally registered for the EAHIL 2025 conference in Łodz. I didnt realize that the capacity for workshops was limited, so unfortunately no workshops for me (it’s my own fault though)
April 29, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Finally registered for the EAHIL 2025 conference in Łodz. I didnt realize that the capacity for workshops was limited, so unfortunately no workshops for me (it’s my own fault though)
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So far, the best review on using GenAI in #EvidenceSynthesis & #SystematicReviews
Current evidence doesn't support GenAI use without human involvement/oversight. For most tasks other than searching, GenAI may have a role in assisting humans
doi.org/10.1017/rsm....
#AI #HTA #LLM #medlibs
Current evidence doesn't support GenAI use without human involvement/oversight. For most tasks other than searching, GenAI may have a role in assisting humans
doi.org/10.1017/rsm....
#AI #HTA #LLM #medlibs
Generative artificial intelligence use in evidence synthesis: A systematic review | Research Synthesis Methods | Cambridge Core
Generative artificial intelligence use in evidence synthesis: A systematic review
doi.org
April 29, 2025 at 11:16 AM
So far, the best review on using GenAI in #EvidenceSynthesis & #SystematicReviews
Current evidence doesn't support GenAI use without human involvement/oversight. For most tasks other than searching, GenAI may have a role in assisting humans
doi.org/10.1017/rsm....
#AI #HTA #LLM #medlibs
Current evidence doesn't support GenAI use without human involvement/oversight. For most tasks other than searching, GenAI may have a role in assisting humans
doi.org/10.1017/rsm....
#AI #HTA #LLM #medlibs
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ERICA to the Rescue! Read about our volunteer efforts to rescue & revive ERIC, Dept of Ed's research repository. www.datarescueproject.org/erica-to-the... Thanks to crizzo, @archive.org & @safeguardingdata.bsky.social for all of the hard work. Check out more rescued data on our Data Rescue Tracker!
ERICA to the Rescue!
ERIC, the research repository of the Department of Education, was defunded this week. The ERIC catalog lists over 2 million education-related publications. More than 500,000 of these publications are ...
www.datarescueproject.org
April 25, 2025 at 6:31 PM
ERICA to the Rescue! Read about our volunteer efforts to rescue & revive ERIC, Dept of Ed's research repository. www.datarescueproject.org/erica-to-the... Thanks to crizzo, @archive.org & @safeguardingdata.bsky.social for all of the hard work. Check out more rescued data on our Data Rescue Tracker!
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Psych-DS is (1) spellcheck for your datasets and (2) a pathway to standardizing data in our academic fields that *everyone* can learn.
And it's live RIGHT NOW!
psych-ds.github.io
(This is the announcement post I've been leading up to)
And it's live RIGHT NOW!
psych-ds.github.io
(This is the announcement post I've been leading up to)
Psych-DS
A specification for psychological datasets. JSON metadata, predictable directory structure, and machine-readable specifications for tabular datasets.
psych-ds.github.io
April 9, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Psych-DS is (1) spellcheck for your datasets and (2) a pathway to standardizing data in our academic fields that *everyone* can learn.
And it's live RIGHT NOW!
psych-ds.github.io
(This is the announcement post I've been leading up to)
And it's live RIGHT NOW!
psych-ds.github.io
(This is the announcement post I've been leading up to)
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Excited to see our paper "Framing #systematicreviews commissioned by policymakers as a hermeneutic process" published in Methodological Innovations -- a methodological commentary which uses hermeneutics to understand how reviewers and policy teams work together journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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March 31, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Excited to see our paper "Framing #systematicreviews commissioned by policymakers as a hermeneutic process" published in Methodological Innovations -- a methodological commentary which uses hermeneutics to understand how reviewers and policy teams work together journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Update on my current knitting project (nordlig cardigan). It has unusual sleeve construction, which I enjoy. You can just see the future armpit. I’m halfway up the shoulder now and will continue knitting towards the neck. The color choices are whatever I feel like ☺️
March 29, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Update on my current knitting project (nordlig cardigan). It has unusual sleeve construction, which I enjoy. You can just see the future armpit. I’m halfway up the shoulder now and will continue knitting towards the neck. The color choices are whatever I feel like ☺️
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Sad to learn that #ERIC, a top database for #Education #research, is getting #DOGE 'd. From ERIC's help desk:
"... the number of records added ... will be significantly reduced going forward. The number of actively cataloged sources will be reduced by approximately 45% starting April 24, 2025."
"... the number of records added ... will be significantly reduced going forward. The number of actively cataloged sources will be reduced by approximately 45% starting April 24, 2025."
March 25, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Sad to learn that #ERIC, a top database for #Education #research, is getting #DOGE 'd. From ERIC's help desk:
"... the number of records added ... will be significantly reduced going forward. The number of actively cataloged sources will be reduced by approximately 45% starting April 24, 2025."
"... the number of records added ... will be significantly reduced going forward. The number of actively cataloged sources will be reduced by approximately 45% starting April 24, 2025."
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Librarians are trying to plan for the 45% reduction of ERIC. While the Department of Education has not (yet) released a title list of journals that are being de-selected, we're trying to create a list via a grassroots effort. View and contribute journal titles here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Journals No Longer Being Indexed by ERIC
Journals No Longer Being Indexed By ERIC -To suggest a journal title for inclusion on this list, please use this google form -Please feel free to share this widely. Journal Titles -At this point tit...
docs.google.com
March 25, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Librarians are trying to plan for the 45% reduction of ERIC. While the Department of Education has not (yet) released a title list of journals that are being de-selected, we're trying to create a list via a grassroots effort. View and contribute journal titles here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Guest Post — Classification as Colonization: The Hidden Politics of Library Catalogs scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/03/25/g...
Guest Post - Classification as Colonization: The Hidden Politics of Library Catalogs - The Scholarly Kitchen
The renaming of "Mount Denali" and "Gulf of Mexico" to the politically loaded “Mount McKinley" and "Gulf of America" reveal the naked truth of what cataloging has always been: a battlefield where mean...
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org
March 25, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Guest Post — Classification as Colonization: The Hidden Politics of Library Catalogs scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/03/25/g...
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Risk of bias assessment of randomised controlled trials has become an essential step in the systematic review process.
A new tool allows users to assess risk of bias of RCTs included in systematic reviews in a user friendly way
www.bmj.com/content/388/...
A new tool allows users to assess risk of bias of RCTs included in systematic reviews in a user friendly way
www.bmj.com/content/388/...
March 25, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Risk of bias assessment of randomised controlled trials has become an essential step in the systematic review process.
A new tool allows users to assess risk of bias of RCTs included in systematic reviews in a user friendly way
www.bmj.com/content/388/...
A new tool allows users to assess risk of bias of RCTs included in systematic reviews in a user friendly way
www.bmj.com/content/388/...
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Critical thinking—and even science—requires more than mere methods or abstract conceptual tools. When divorced from necessary factual background knowledge, “critical thinking” can go feral, and start to *generate* and defend misinformation. Every conspiracy theorist thinks they’re a critical thinker
Critical thinking involves specific skills for assessing evidence, but background knowledge about the subject is also essential, writes Lightning Jay, Binghamton University, State University of New York.
Why history instruction is critical for combating online misinformation
Critical thinking involves specific skills for assessing evidence, but background knowledge about the subject is also essential.
theconversation.com
March 24, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Critical thinking—and even science—requires more than mere methods or abstract conceptual tools. When divorced from necessary factual background knowledge, “critical thinking” can go feral, and start to *generate* and defend misinformation. Every conspiracy theorist thinks they’re a critical thinker
Librarians, if you’re testing AI search tools, also test with search terms like genocide in gaza and transgender. We’ve tested a tool that consistently gave errors when we used these and I think that is problematic.
March 22, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Librarians, if you’re testing AI search tools, also test with search terms like genocide in gaza and transgender. We’ve tested a tool that consistently gave errors when we used these and I think that is problematic.
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Nieuw boek van mijn @allardpierson.bsky.social collega Charlotte Kleyn (met Maarten Hell geschreven), Uit eten in Amsterdam. Vier eeuwen culinaire cultuurgeschiedenis. Vanaf komende week ook bij de UB van de UvA te leen. uitgeverijprometheus.nl/boeken/uit-e...
cc: @phvandam.bsky.social
cc: @phvandam.bsky.social
Uit eten in Amsterdam - Uitgeverij Prometheus
Uit eten gaan in Amsterdam is van alle tijden. Van eenvoudige én luxe herbergen en morsige gaarkeukens tot chique restaurants, extravagante oesterpaleizen en een keur aan eethuizen: door de eeuwen hee...
uitgeverijprometheus.nl
March 20, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Nieuw boek van mijn @allardpierson.bsky.social collega Charlotte Kleyn (met Maarten Hell geschreven), Uit eten in Amsterdam. Vier eeuwen culinaire cultuurgeschiedenis. Vanaf komende week ook bij de UB van de UvA te leen. uitgeverijprometheus.nl/boeken/uit-e...
cc: @phvandam.bsky.social
cc: @phvandam.bsky.social