Melissa Rethlefsen
@mlrethlefsen.bsky.social
medical librarian, etc. Opinions my own, etc, etc.
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We've never been more quack. I mean back...
Welcome back Duck Pond! 🦆
Read about the improvements made to the heart of campus.
bit.ly/4mdVomR
Welcome back Duck Pond! 🦆
Read about the improvements made to the heart of campus.
bit.ly/4mdVomR
September 11, 2025 at 5:35 PM
We've never been more quack. I mean back...
Welcome back Duck Pond! 🦆
Read about the improvements made to the heart of campus.
bit.ly/4mdVomR
Welcome back Duck Pond! 🦆
Read about the improvements made to the heart of campus.
bit.ly/4mdVomR
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A @bmj.com RCT is comparing effects of use of an #OpenScience checklist on provision of study protocols, code, data, more. Too early to assess reproducibility FX!
@mariskaleeflang.bsky.social @ingestegeman.bsky.social
@floriannaudet.bsky.social @mlrethlefsen.bsky.social @amsterdamumc.bsky.social
@mariskaleeflang.bsky.social @ingestegeman.bsky.social
@floriannaudet.bsky.social @mlrethlefsen.bsky.social @amsterdamumc.bsky.social
September 5, 2025 at 3:54 PM
A @bmj.com RCT is comparing effects of use of an #OpenScience checklist on provision of study protocols, code, data, more. Too early to assess reproducibility FX!
@mariskaleeflang.bsky.social @ingestegeman.bsky.social
@floriannaudet.bsky.social @mlrethlefsen.bsky.social @amsterdamumc.bsky.social
@mariskaleeflang.bsky.social @ingestegeman.bsky.social
@floriannaudet.bsky.social @mlrethlefsen.bsky.social @amsterdamumc.bsky.social
Had a great time working with Ayu and team on this project! (Maybe it works, maybe it doesn’t; still pending full results) #prc10
Don’t miss
Use of an #OpenScience Checklist & Findings Reproducibility
from @mariskaleeflang.bsky.social @ingestegeman.bsky.social
@floriannaudet.bsky.social @mlrethlefsen.bsky.social
@amsterdamumc.bsky.social
on day 3!
Register at peerreviewcongress.org!
@bmj.com @jama.com
Use of an #OpenScience Checklist & Findings Reproducibility
from @mariskaleeflang.bsky.social @ingestegeman.bsky.social
@floriannaudet.bsky.social @mlrethlefsen.bsky.social
@amsterdamumc.bsky.social
on day 3!
Register at peerreviewcongress.org!
@bmj.com @jama.com
International Congress on Peer Review and Scientific Publication
Enhancing the quality and credibility of science.
peerreviewcongress.org
September 5, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Had a great time working with Ayu and team on this project! (Maybe it works, maybe it doesn’t; still pending full results) #prc10
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I’m pleased to experience the 10th Peer Review Congress and present with @mlrethlefsen.bsky.social!
Our poster examines the perceptions and experiences of librarian peer reviewers for evidence synthesis methodologies. #prc2025
Our poster examines the perceptions and experiences of librarian peer reviewers for evidence synthesis methodologies. #prc2025
September 4, 2025 at 10:55 PM
I’m pleased to experience the 10th Peer Review Congress and present with @mlrethlefsen.bsky.social!
Our poster examines the perceptions and experiences of librarian peer reviewers for evidence synthesis methodologies. #prc2025
Our poster examines the perceptions and experiences of librarian peer reviewers for evidence synthesis methodologies. #prc2025
It is incredibly annoying that this new NIH so-called gold standard science plan uses the exact opposite definition of reproducibility and replicability from the NASEM report. Why, just, why?
August 28, 2025 at 3:09 PM
It is incredibly annoying that this new NIH so-called gold standard science plan uses the exact opposite definition of reproducibility and replicability from the NASEM report. Why, just, why?
So proud; my husband is teaching all of his colleagues how to do comprehensive author searches in multiple databases
May 23, 2025 at 8:33 PM
So proud; my husband is teaching all of his colleagues how to do comprehensive author searches in multiple databases
And in better news, my library has network cable from 1993 that is still in use
March 26, 2025 at 12:10 AM
And in better news, my library has network cable from 1993 that is still in use
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we just lost all 7 of our Network of National Library of Medicine, Region 5 (NNLM) library workers.
the grant that covered their salaries was terminated.
this is heartbreaking and demoralizing.
the grant that covered their salaries was terminated.
this is heartbreaking and demoralizing.
March 25, 2025 at 12:02 AM
we just lost all 7 of our Network of National Library of Medicine, Region 5 (NNLM) library workers.
the grant that covered their salaries was terminated.
this is heartbreaking and demoralizing.
the grant that covered their salaries was terminated.
this is heartbreaking and demoralizing.
Finally published! Thanks to my many colleagues who contributed. doi.org/10.1136/bmje...
Improving peer review of systematic reviews and related review types by involving librarians and information specialists as methodological peer reviewers: a randomised controlled trial
Objective To evaluate the impact of adding librarians and information specialists (LIS) as methodological peer reviewers to the formal journal peer review process on the quality of search reporting an...
doi.org
March 13, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Finally published! Thanks to my many colleagues who contributed. doi.org/10.1136/bmje...
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In a new Editorial, JAMA editors, JAMA Network Editors in Chief, and JAMA editorial leadership address the recent executive orders that have impacted the scientific process and reaffirm their commitment to scientific and editorial integrity.
ja.ma/4b5LsIt
ja.ma/4b5LsIt
February 20, 2025 at 4:30 PM
In a new Editorial, JAMA editors, JAMA Network Editors in Chief, and JAMA editorial leadership address the recent executive orders that have impacted the scientific process and reaffirm their commitment to scientific and editorial integrity.
ja.ma/4b5LsIt
ja.ma/4b5LsIt
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Almost all grant-review meetings under Trump 2.0 remain suspended at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), preventing the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research from spending much of its US$47 billion annual budget.
https://go.nature.com/4gM6oW4
https://go.nature.com/4gM6oW4
Revealed: NIH research grants still frozen despite lawsuits challenging Trump order
The Trump administration is exploiting a loophole to keep a funding freeze in place, leaving researchers in limbo.
go.nature.com
February 20, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Almost all grant-review meetings under Trump 2.0 remain suspended at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), preventing the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research from spending much of its US$47 billion annual budget.
https://go.nature.com/4gM6oW4
https://go.nature.com/4gM6oW4
Just finished reading Doctored, by Charles Piller. Distressing read, but highly recommend. It was good timing for teaching my rigor and reproducibility journal club this semester
February 22, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Just finished reading Doctored, by Charles Piller. Distressing read, but highly recommend. It was good timing for teaching my rigor and reproducibility journal club this semester
I joined Twitter in April 2007, so I kept hoping it would go back to normal. Not so much.
February 20, 2025 at 11:20 PM
I joined Twitter in April 2007, so I kept hoping it would go back to normal. Not so much.