Karen Gutzman
@kglibrarian.bsky.social
Librarian. Interested in research impact, python, data viz, theology and everything else. @kglibrarian@glammr.us. Views are my own.
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Remember, if someone has the unmitigated gall to claim that spending the entire weekend reading Agatha Christie, drinking multiple cups of tea, and consuming a copious amount of pastries “doesn’t sound exciting", then your well-being is simply not important to them.
October 24, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Remember, if someone has the unmitigated gall to claim that spending the entire weekend reading Agatha Christie, drinking multiple cups of tea, and consuming a copious amount of pastries “doesn’t sound exciting", then your well-being is simply not important to them.
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September 22, 2025 at 5:08 PM
“It’s great when HBCUs and [tribal colleges] receive more funding,” ... “But it is simultaneously really terrible to take funding from minority-serving institutions over all, which do so much work, not only for people of color, but so many other groups as well.”
www.chronicle.com/article/ed-d...
www.chronicle.com/article/ed-d...
Ed. Dept. Moves Millions From MSIs to HBCUs
Days after declaring funds for minority-serving institutions illegal, the Trump administration strips it from the colleges that enroll more than half of the country’s students of color.
www.chronicle.com
September 17, 2025 at 5:34 PM
“It’s great when HBCUs and [tribal colleges] receive more funding,” ... “But it is simultaneously really terrible to take funding from minority-serving institutions over all, which do so much work, not only for people of color, but so many other groups as well.”
www.chronicle.com/article/ed-d...
www.chronicle.com/article/ed-d...
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Great stuff from @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca #ScholCommLab on the #NIH caps proposal and its impact: www.scholcommlab.ca/2025/09/03/n...
#AcademicSky #SciSky #PoliSky #ScienceSky #science #research #Scholcom
#AcademicSky #SciSky #PoliSky #ScienceSky #science #research #Scholcom
NIH explores capping APCs: Let’s look at the evidence
by Stefanie Haustein, Eric Schares, Juan Pablo Alperin, Flavia Camargo, Lisa Matthias, Lucía Céspedes, Constance Poitras & Dorothea Strecker On April 30 2025, the US National Institutes of Heal…
www.scholcommlab.ca
September 10, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Great stuff from @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca #ScholCommLab on the #NIH caps proposal and its impact: www.scholcommlab.ca/2025/09/03/n...
#AcademicSky #SciSky #PoliSky #ScienceSky #science #research #Scholcom
#AcademicSky #SciSky #PoliSky #ScienceSky #science #research #Scholcom
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💥RECAP: RFK Jr.’s MAHA report on children’s health. A thread of highlights (nightmares):
Full report here, for the brave:
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
Full report here, for the brave:
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
www.whitehouse.gov
September 10, 2025 at 3:41 PM
💥RECAP: RFK Jr.’s MAHA report on children’s health. A thread of highlights (nightmares):
Full report here, for the brave:
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
Full report here, for the brave:
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
US funding freeze threatens biomedical research | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
US funding freeze threatens biomedical research
Federal funding is crucial for producing cutting-edge scientific, technological, and clinical breakthroughs, allowing universities to cover salaries, purchase reagents and equipment, and enroll patien...
www.science.org
August 11, 2025 at 8:23 PM
US funding freeze threatens biomedical research | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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I doubt that there is a single family in America that hasn’t benefitted directly from the NIH.
July 28, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I doubt that there is a single family in America that hasn’t benefitted directly from the NIH.
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ACRLog has published 1,800 posts over twenty years but I guess I'm the first person to write a post about student debt?? 🤷♀️
"On Owing $93,605 in Student Loans; or, A Profession Built on Debt" acrlog.org/2025/07/24/o...
"On Owing $93,605 in Student Loans; or, A Profession Built on Debt" acrlog.org/2025/07/24/o...
On Owing $93,605 in Student Loans; or, A Profession Built on Debt - ACRLog
I don't know the right metaphor to make you understand how this much debt physically feels. What it actually feels like is a pressure on my chest and shoulders, but maybe that's not evocative enough. ...
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July 24, 2025 at 6:15 PM
ACRLog has published 1,800 posts over twenty years but I guess I'm the first person to write a post about student debt?? 🤷♀️
"On Owing $93,605 in Student Loans; or, A Profession Built on Debt" acrlog.org/2025/07/24/o...
"On Owing $93,605 in Student Loans; or, A Profession Built on Debt" acrlog.org/2025/07/24/o...
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Breaking News: The Trump administration announced that the U.S. will take a relaxed approach to regulating the A.I. industry, and said that a federal framework should remove mentions of DEI and climate change.
Trump Administration Plans to Give A.I. Developers a Free Hand
In an “A.I. Action Plan,” the White House outlined steps it said would promote American dominance in the fast-growing technology.
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July 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Breaking News: The Trump administration announced that the U.S. will take a relaxed approach to regulating the A.I. industry, and said that a federal framework should remove mentions of DEI and climate change.
"Uncritically adopting AI tools in discovery systems will perpetuate, if not exacerbate, existing biases and suppression of minoritized people."
#FSCI2025 #FORCE2025 #FORCE25 #medlibs #scholcom
acrlog.org/2025/07/21/w...
#FSCI2025 #FORCE2025 #FORCE25 #medlibs #scholcom
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“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...
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July 23, 2025 at 2:49 AM
"Uncritically adopting AI tools in discovery systems will perpetuate, if not exacerbate, existing biases and suppression of minoritized people."
#FSCI2025 #FORCE2025 #FORCE25 #medlibs #scholcom
acrlog.org/2025/07/21/w...
#FSCI2025 #FORCE2025 #FORCE25 #medlibs #scholcom
acrlog.org/2025/07/21/w...
Great explanation by Bella Ratmelia (@bellaratmelia.bsky.social) and Aaron Tay (@aarontay.bsky.social) of transformers and LLMS - they shared this resource: poloclub.github.io/transformer-... #FSCI2025 #scholcom #FORCE2025
Transformer Explainer: LLM Transformer Model Visually Explained
An interactive visualization tool showing you how transformer models work in large language models (LLM) like GPT.
poloclub.github.io
July 23, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Great explanation by Bella Ratmelia (@bellaratmelia.bsky.social) and Aaron Tay (@aarontay.bsky.social) of transformers and LLMS - they shared this resource: poloclub.github.io/transformer-... #FSCI2025 #scholcom #FORCE2025
Joining for Day 1 of the Force2025 Scholarly Communication Institute #FSCI2025 learning about #semanticClimate and the rapid scoping literature review. force11.org/fsci/post/fs... #scholcom #force2025 #medlibs
FSCI 2025 Courses & Abstracts – FORCE11
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July 22, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Joining for Day 1 of the Force2025 Scholarly Communication Institute #FSCI2025 learning about #semanticClimate and the rapid scoping literature review. force11.org/fsci/post/fs... #scholcom #force2025 #medlibs
When you are getting your work done, but then you glimpse a news headline (really any headline, it seems) and then you feel depressed about the state of the world....so you sit there trying to collect your thoughts and get back into the work, but it's hard, you know?
July 10, 2025 at 8:15 PM
When you are getting your work done, but then you glimpse a news headline (really any headline, it seems) and then you feel depressed about the state of the world....so you sit there trying to collect your thoughts and get back into the work, but it's hard, you know?
Tuning into the Joseph Leiter NLM/MLA Lecture today with @kristiholmes.bsky.social—loved the shoutout to Sara Becker and the incredible work happening at Northwestern’s Center for Dissemination and Implementation Science (@nucatsinstitute.bsky.social)! #medlibs #implementationscience
July 10, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Tuning into the Joseph Leiter NLM/MLA Lecture today with @kristiholmes.bsky.social—loved the shoutout to Sara Becker and the incredible work happening at Northwestern’s Center for Dissemination and Implementation Science (@nucatsinstitute.bsky.social)! #medlibs #implementationscience
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In a special presentation on Thursday, July 10, at 1 p.m., Northwestern's Kristi Holmes, PhD, will examine communication as a powerful translational engine, connecting people, machines and systems across disciplines and communities. Registration is free — bit.ly/3ZUNCX4
July 9, 2025 at 1:08 PM
In a special presentation on Thursday, July 10, at 1 p.m., Northwestern's Kristi Holmes, PhD, will examine communication as a powerful translational engine, connecting people, machines and systems across disciplines and communities. Registration is free — bit.ly/3ZUNCX4
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Duke appears to have lost NIH grants because they used the prefix "trans" in reference to disease transmission, transgenic genetic material, translational studies, or signal transduction www.dukechronicle.com/article/2025...
June 27, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Duke appears to have lost NIH grants because they used the prefix "trans" in reference to disease transmission, transgenic genetic material, translational studies, or signal transduction www.dukechronicle.com/article/2025...
"Vaccines for influenza, RSV, and COVID-19 remain among the best tools to protect the public against these illnesses and their potentially serious complications—and physicians are among the most trusted voices to recommend them."
www.ama-assn.org/delivering-c...
www.ama-assn.org/delivering-c...
An open letter to the American public on respiratory virus vaccines
Read an open letter to the general public from the AMA and medical societies reaffirming support for vaccination to protect against flu, COVID-19, and RSV.
www.ama-assn.org
June 27, 2025 at 4:18 PM
"Vaccines for influenza, RSV, and COVID-19 remain among the best tools to protect the public against these illnesses and their potentially serious complications—and physicians are among the most trusted voices to recommend them."
www.ama-assn.org/delivering-c...
www.ama-assn.org/delivering-c...
On a lighter note - every year I find that my capacity to ingest Thin Mints Girl Scout Cookies is pretty much endless.
June 26, 2025 at 4:48 PM
On a lighter note - every year I find that my capacity to ingest Thin Mints Girl Scout Cookies is pretty much endless.
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RFK Jr wants to Make America Healthy Again. But is America really that unhealthy?
I spoke with public health experts & data analysts to find out. My story for @nature.com and brief🧵
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
I spoke with public health experts & data analysts to find out. My story for @nature.com and brief🧵
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
How to make America healthy: the real problems — and best fixes
The United States has lower life expectancy than most similarly wealthy nations. Chronic disease is part of the cause, but so are guns, drugs and cars.
www.nature.com
June 24, 2025 at 12:28 PM
RFK Jr wants to Make America Healthy Again. But is America really that unhealthy?
I spoke with public health experts & data analysts to find out. My story for @nature.com and brief🧵
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
I spoke with public health experts & data analysts to find out. My story for @nature.com and brief🧵
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Mr. Antiwar President has us inches away from a Civil War at home and a nuclear war abroad in defense of an ally that is starting random hot regional wars to detract from its ongoing genocide. I’m sure all of this will just naturally cool off.
June 17, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Mr. Antiwar President has us inches away from a Civil War at home and a nuclear war abroad in defense of an ally that is starting random hot regional wars to detract from its ongoing genocide. I’m sure all of this will just naturally cool off.
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Today they have crossed a deep red line.
We, the people, must hold the president and his appointees accountable for this outrageous abuse against American liberty.
We, the people, must hold the president and his appointees accountable for this outrageous abuse against American liberty.
June 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Today they have crossed a deep red line.
We, the people, must hold the president and his appointees accountable for this outrageous abuse against American liberty.
We, the people, must hold the president and his appointees accountable for this outrageous abuse against American liberty.
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Stopping a clinical trial or research project then trying to start it up years later is like stopping the construction of an aircraft carrier and trying to start it up years later.
That fails. There are only so many experts, and so many places to do the work, and they schedule years out.
That fails. There are only so many experts, and so many places to do the work, and they schedule years out.
JB cannot say how many clinical trials have been ruined.
FYI: You cannot just stop and start experiments.
FYI: You cannot just stop and start experiments.
June 11, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Stopping a clinical trial or research project then trying to start it up years later is like stopping the construction of an aircraft carrier and trying to start it up years later.
That fails. There are only so many experts, and so many places to do the work, and they schedule years out.
That fails. There are only so many experts, and so many places to do the work, and they schedule years out.