marijane white, mslis
@marijanewhite.bsky.social
data & research engagement librarian @ oregon health & science university
I fight entropy and I find things
she/they
#medlibs #code4lib #scholcomm
rdfs:seeAlso: @marijane.bsky.social
I fight entropy and I find things
she/they
#medlibs #code4lib #scholcomm
rdfs:seeAlso: @marijane.bsky.social
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My PNC-MLA presentation about the Pairwise PubMed Search Generator has been posted!
In it, I put the tool in context and give a demo at the end.
#medlibs
In it, I put the tool in context and give a demo at the end.
#medlibs
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Apart from ::gestures broadly::, I've decided to take the plunge and set up a (small) endowment fund at the NCSU Libraries
Stayed there overnight quite a bit back when I was homeless (nearly 30 years ago now 👴🏼🫠) and want to give something back to them
Stayed there overnight quite a bit back when I was homeless (nearly 30 years ago now 👴🏼🫠) and want to give something back to them
January 28, 2026 at 4:37 PM
Apart from ::gestures broadly::, I've decided to take the plunge and set up a (small) endowment fund at the NCSU Libraries
Stayed there overnight quite a bit back when I was homeless (nearly 30 years ago now 👴🏼🫠) and want to give something back to them
Stayed there overnight quite a bit back when I was homeless (nearly 30 years ago now 👴🏼🫠) and want to give something back to them
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in a real role reversal today i got to give a bandaid to a medical student at the reference desk.
January 27, 2026 at 7:25 PM
in a real role reversal today i got to give a bandaid to a medical student at the reference desk.
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Headline from Science: “U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 #STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office.” www.science.org/content/arti...
January 27, 2026 at 7:28 PM
Headline from Science: “U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 #STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office.” www.science.org/content/arti...
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Here’s the deal with the FY26 NIH funding bill:
One line in the 1000+ pg bill = significantly less science.
The increase to ~40% of grants moving to MYF is estimated to result in a 35% decrease in the NUMBER of NIH grants funded annually—moving the paylines from 10% to around 4%.
THIS IS BAD.
One line in the 1000+ pg bill = significantly less science.
The increase to ~40% of grants moving to MYF is estimated to result in a 35% decrease in the NUMBER of NIH grants funded annually—moving the paylines from 10% to around 4%.
THIS IS BAD.
January 21, 2026 at 1:11 PM
Here’s the deal with the FY26 NIH funding bill:
One line in the 1000+ pg bill = significantly less science.
The increase to ~40% of grants moving to MYF is estimated to result in a 35% decrease in the NUMBER of NIH grants funded annually—moving the paylines from 10% to around 4%.
THIS IS BAD.
One line in the 1000+ pg bill = significantly less science.
The increase to ~40% of grants moving to MYF is estimated to result in a 35% decrease in the NUMBER of NIH grants funded annually—moving the paylines from 10% to around 4%.
THIS IS BAD.
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I met an absolutely lovely academic who asked whether my department back home is affected by ICE -- a question dramatizing how little info is getting out.
For the record, the small example I chose:
My dept has a carpool to pick up grad students of color who can't safely commute to campus alone.
For the record, the small example I chose:
My dept has a carpool to pick up grad students of color who can't safely commute to campus alone.
January 22, 2026 at 7:52 PM
I met an absolutely lovely academic who asked whether my department back home is affected by ICE -- a question dramatizing how little info is getting out.
For the record, the small example I chose:
My dept has a carpool to pick up grad students of color who can't safely commute to campus alone.
For the record, the small example I chose:
My dept has a carpool to pick up grad students of color who can't safely commute to campus alone.
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📢All updates to the guide to applying are being released quarterly
✅Version 2.7
In this update we address shared copyright, a new requirement for Subscribe to Open (S2O) journals, and clarify some wording
#OpenAccess #BestPractice #QualityCriteria #Copyright #S2O
🔗 blog.doaj.org/2026/01/12/u...
✅Version 2.7
In this update we address shared copyright, a new requirement for Subscribe to Open (S2O) journals, and clarify some wording
#OpenAccess #BestPractice #QualityCriteria #Copyright #S2O
🔗 blog.doaj.org/2026/01/12/u...
January 12, 2026 at 4:50 AM
📢All updates to the guide to applying are being released quarterly
✅Version 2.7
In this update we address shared copyright, a new requirement for Subscribe to Open (S2O) journals, and clarify some wording
#OpenAccess #BestPractice #QualityCriteria #Copyright #S2O
🔗 blog.doaj.org/2026/01/12/u...
✅Version 2.7
In this update we address shared copyright, a new requirement for Subscribe to Open (S2O) journals, and clarify some wording
#OpenAccess #BestPractice #QualityCriteria #Copyright #S2O
🔗 blog.doaj.org/2026/01/12/u...
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In the real world, Texas desperately needs more foreign trained doctors. But in GOP world, you drive them away with bans, surveillance, and fees. 
www.texastribune.org/2026/01/09/t...
www.texastribune.org/2026/01/09/t...
Texas changes law to attract foreign-trained doctors
Texas joins 17 other states that are making it easier for foreign medical graduates to work as doctors here. About a quarter of the state’s licensed doctors were trained outside the U.S.
www.texastribune.org
January 12, 2026 at 6:45 PM
In the real world, Texas desperately needs more foreign trained doctors. But in GOP world, you drive them away with bans, surveillance, and fees. 
www.texastribune.org/2026/01/09/t...
www.texastribune.org/2026/01/09/t...
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[blogged] Why Ghost References Still Haunt Us in 2025—And Why It's Not Just About LLMs aarontay.substack.com/p/why-ghost-...
Why Ghost References Still Haunt Us in 2025—And Why It's Not Just About LLMs
Ghost references existed long before LLMs. This post examines how Google Scholar's [CITATION] mechanism and web pollution may undermine RAG verification.
aarontay.substack.com
December 23, 2025 at 3:48 PM
[blogged] Why Ghost References Still Haunt Us in 2025—And Why It's Not Just About LLMs aarontay.substack.com/p/why-ghost-...
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The Senate version of the NIH appropriations bill has language that limits the use of multiyear/upfront funding. Please call your Senators and Representatives to make sure it is in the final bill.
We must stop the brain drain in our research workforce before it's too late.
We must stop the brain drain in our research workforce before it's too late.
December 23, 2025 at 4:08 PM
The Senate version of the NIH appropriations bill has language that limits the use of multiyear/upfront funding. Please call your Senators and Representatives to make sure it is in the final bill.
We must stop the brain drain in our research workforce before it's too late.
We must stop the brain drain in our research workforce before it's too late.
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Glad to see Congress doing some oversight of new NIH policies. www.congress.gov/crs-product/...
Number of new awards is way down since Trump took office, despite NIH spending the same amount of money.
Number of new awards is way down since Trump took office, despite NIH spending the same amount of money.
December 23, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Glad to see Congress doing some oversight of new NIH policies. www.congress.gov/crs-product/...
Number of new awards is way down since Trump took office, despite NIH spending the same amount of money.
Number of new awards is way down since Trump took office, despite NIH spending the same amount of money.
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INBOX: Former NIAID director Jeanne Marrazzo is suing the Trump administration.
She alleges the NIH violated her constitutional rights and illegally fired her after she blew the whistle on actions that jeopardized public health and violated federal law.
She alleges the NIH violated her constitutional rights and illegally fired her after she blew the whistle on actions that jeopardized public health and violated federal law.
December 16, 2025 at 9:27 PM
INBOX: Former NIAID director Jeanne Marrazzo is suing the Trump administration.
She alleges the NIH violated her constitutional rights and illegally fired her after she blew the whistle on actions that jeopardized public health and violated federal law.
She alleges the NIH violated her constitutional rights and illegally fired her after she blew the whistle on actions that jeopardized public health and violated federal law.
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Such h index, very wow 📚
Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things
December 15, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Such h index, very wow 📚
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Headline: “Exclusive: #Springer #Nature #retracts, removes nearly 40 publications that trained neural networks on ‘bonkers’ dataset.” www.thetransmitter.org/retraction/e...
Springer Nature retracts, removes nearly 40 publications
The dataset contains images of children’s faces downloaded from websites about autism, which sparked concerns at Springer Nature about consent and reliability.
www.thetransmitter.org
December 9, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Headline: “Exclusive: #Springer #Nature #retracts, removes nearly 40 publications that trained neural networks on ‘bonkers’ dataset.” www.thetransmitter.org/retraction/e...
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I aspire to a state of enlightenment where I can laugh at the LLM fail of the day, tsk-tsk the Altman video being tsked, and then go right back to coding w/ Claude. It's not like we're debating a policy to reduce AI use. It's more like deploring the weather, which I can do even as a user of weather.
It is simultaneously true that ML tools are incredibly useful and that many of their most intense adherents are selling snake oil
December 9, 2025 at 9:47 PM
I aspire to a state of enlightenment where I can laugh at the LLM fail of the day, tsk-tsk the Altman video being tsked, and then go right back to coding w/ Claude. It's not like we're debating a policy to reduce AI use. It's more like deploring the weather, which I can do even as a user of weather.
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Love it: this article argues tongue-in-cheek for a new metric that combines the weight of a researcher's published books divided by the number of years since their doctorate.
It is normalised: "A kilogram of philosophy weighs the same as a kilogram of physics."
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
It is normalised: "A kilogram of philosophy weighs the same as a kilogram of physics."
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Introducing the j-metric: a true measure of what matters in academia
Science has become obsessed with publishing numbers. With this new satirical proposal, have we reached peak metric?
www.nature.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Love it: this article argues tongue-in-cheek for a new metric that combines the weight of a researcher's published books divided by the number of years since their doctorate.
It is normalised: "A kilogram of philosophy weighs the same as a kilogram of physics."
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
It is normalised: "A kilogram of philosophy weighs the same as a kilogram of physics."
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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My PNC-MLA presentation about the Pairwise PubMed Search Generator has been posted!
In it, I put the tool in context and give a demo at the end.
#medlibs
In it, I put the tool in context and give a demo at the end.
#medlibs
November 15, 2025 at 3:52 AM
My PNC-MLA presentation about the Pairwise PubMed Search Generator has been posted!
In it, I put the tool in context and give a demo at the end.
#medlibs
In it, I put the tool in context and give a demo at the end.
#medlibs
My PNC-MLA presentation about the Pairwise PubMed Search Generator has been posted!
In it, I put the tool in context and give a demo at the end.
#medlibs
In it, I put the tool in context and give a demo at the end.
#medlibs
November 15, 2025 at 3:52 AM
My PNC-MLA presentation about the Pairwise PubMed Search Generator has been posted!
In it, I put the tool in context and give a demo at the end.
#medlibs
In it, I put the tool in context and give a demo at the end.
#medlibs
I have literally thousands of spreadsheets I've built with Python and I'm showing people examples of them all the time because they're f'n beautiful
November 11, 2025 at 1:03 AM
I have literally thousands of spreadsheets I've built with Python and I'm showing people examples of them all the time because they're f'n beautiful
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Hey #medlibs, I built a tool for making it easier to create proximity search strings in PubMed. Check it out!
I presented at PNC-MLA this afternoon and will follow up with a link to the recording when it's posted.
I presented at PNC-MLA this afternoon and will follow up with a link to the recording when it's posted.
Pairwise PubMed Search Generator
The Pairwise PubMed Search Generator is a web application for working around the truncation limit...
pairwise-pubmed.streamlit.app
November 6, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Hey #medlibs, I built a tool for making it easier to create proximity search strings in PubMed. Check it out!
I presented at PNC-MLA this afternoon and will follow up with a link to the recording when it's posted.
I presented at PNC-MLA this afternoon and will follow up with a link to the recording when it's posted.
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Logged in to ScholarOne for the journal I co-edit and jfc we had as many submissions in 2 weeks as we used to receive in 6 months 😱 Just so you understand why journal desk rejects these days give no feedback - we just can't at this wild volume. Is it the same for other journals and editors?
October 30, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Logged in to ScholarOne for the journal I co-edit and jfc we had as many submissions in 2 weeks as we used to receive in 6 months 😱 Just so you understand why journal desk rejects these days give no feedback - we just can't at this wild volume. Is it the same for other journals and editors?
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This National Medical Librarians Month, celebrate their impact by exploring JMLA articles that highlight how librarians enhance evidence-based practice, advance patient care, and amplify scholarly communication.
Read here: https://ow.ly/et6S50Xku0n
#JMLA #medlibs #healthsciences #NMLM
Read here: https://ow.ly/et6S50Xku0n
#JMLA #medlibs #healthsciences #NMLM
October 30, 2025 at 10:00 PM
This National Medical Librarians Month, celebrate their impact by exploring JMLA articles that highlight how librarians enhance evidence-based practice, advance patient care, and amplify scholarly communication.
Read here: https://ow.ly/et6S50Xku0n
#JMLA #medlibs #healthsciences #NMLM
Read here: https://ow.ly/et6S50Xku0n
#JMLA #medlibs #healthsciences #NMLM
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Happy International RSE Day to all the Research Software Engineers in our community! 💫 #InternationalRSEDay #RSEDay2025
We feel proud that so many members of The Carpentries community are in this vital role for research. We appreciate and celebrate you today. 💙
We feel proud that so many members of The Carpentries community are in this vital role for research. We appreciate and celebrate you today. 💙
October 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Happy International RSE Day to all the Research Software Engineers in our community! 💫 #InternationalRSEDay #RSEDay2025
We feel proud that so many members of The Carpentries community are in this vital role for research. We appreciate and celebrate you today. 💙
We feel proud that so many members of The Carpentries community are in this vital role for research. We appreciate and celebrate you today. 💙
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🧪 AI models and research tools are citing retracted scientific papers, essentially using information struck from the scientific record. The fix is complex, slowed by fragmented databases, inconsistent publisher labels, and training data cutoffs.
#AcademicSky #MLSky
#AcademicSky #MLSky
AI models are using material from retracted scientific papers
Some companies are working to remedy the issue.
www.technologyreview.com
September 23, 2025 at 3:09 PM
🧪 AI models and research tools are citing retracted scientific papers, essentially using information struck from the scientific record. The fix is complex, slowed by fragmented databases, inconsistent publisher labels, and training data cutoffs.
#AcademicSky #MLSky
#AcademicSky #MLSky