Kate Saylor
@ksaylor.bsky.social
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. | health sciences | informationist | Michigan | she/her | #medlibs
https://uxcaucustips.blogspot.com/
https://uxcaucustips.blogspot.com/
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![[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]
JANET:
Ugh...
LIZ:
What's up?
JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas
JANET:
What
LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?
[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine
[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
What
LIZ:
Shut up
LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
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Apply for the Anti-Racist Digital Research Institute (a week-long institute + mini-grant). We'll provide knowledge & resources to help you build skills in anti-racist research methods & digital methods to advance your project. Apply 11/13 to 12/19 2025. https://myumi.ch/kP1r1
November 13, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Apply for the Anti-Racist Digital Research Institute (a week-long institute + mini-grant). We'll provide knowledge & resources to help you build skills in anti-racist research methods & digital methods to advance your project. Apply 11/13 to 12/19 2025. https://myumi.ch/kP1r1
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As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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The battle between supplementary search methods VS databases begins now. www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.... #Cochrane #Protocol #MethodologyReview @cochraneirmg.bsky.social @cochrane.org
Supplementary search methods versus bibliographic database searching to identify studies and study reports - Cooper, C - 2025 | Cochrane Library
Select your preferred language for Cochrane reviews and other content. Sections without translation will be in English.
www.cochranelibrary.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Good morning! AI is being force-fed to you by a handful of billionaires who will lose a bunch of money if they fail to convince you that you need it. You do not need it 🫶
November 6, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Good morning! AI is being force-fed to you by a handful of billionaires who will lose a bunch of money if they fail to convince you that you need it. You do not need it 🫶
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HOT LIBRARY INTEL: you can ask your library to purchase specific titles for their collection, usually right through the library's website.
Librarians can't know every single new title, nor can they mind-read what their patrons might want to check out. Give it a shot!
Librarians can't know every single new title, nor can they mind-read what their patrons might want to check out. Give it a shot!
November 5, 2025 at 2:57 PM
HOT LIBRARY INTEL: you can ask your library to purchase specific titles for their collection, usually right through the library's website.
Librarians can't know every single new title, nor can they mind-read what their patrons might want to check out. Give it a shot!
Librarians can't know every single new title, nor can they mind-read what their patrons might want to check out. Give it a shot!
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Poverty and disability often go together
Most people have no idea how fast their life can change
One accident or illness is all it takes
Losing your health can quickly wipe out your finances, your contingencies and your support network
It’s why we need robust social supports.
Most people have no idea how fast their life can change
One accident or illness is all it takes
Losing your health can quickly wipe out your finances, your contingencies and your support network
It’s why we need robust social supports.
November 7, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Poverty and disability often go together
Most people have no idea how fast their life can change
One accident or illness is all it takes
Losing your health can quickly wipe out your finances, your contingencies and your support network
It’s why we need robust social supports.
Most people have no idea how fast their life can change
One accident or illness is all it takes
Losing your health can quickly wipe out your finances, your contingencies and your support network
It’s why we need robust social supports.
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Many research teams still collect paper forms and when it comes to entering data from those forms, there are a series of decisions to be made (and documented) to ensure that data is entered accurately and in a secure and standardized way.
More information: datamgmtinedresearch.com/capture#capt...
More information: datamgmtinedresearch.com/capture#capt...
November 6, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Many research teams still collect paper forms and when it comes to entering data from those forms, there are a series of decisions to be made (and documented) to ensure that data is entered accurately and in a secure and standardized way.
More information: datamgmtinedresearch.com/capture#capt...
More information: datamgmtinedresearch.com/capture#capt...
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Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
November 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
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The human body runs on rhythms. Making sense—and making use—of these signals is precisely what Daniel Forger explains in his new book Biological Rhythms.
Join the author in celebration of his release on Tuesday, November 18 at 6:30 PM at the Downtown Library.
📖 https://aadl.org/node/646208
Join the author in celebration of his release on Tuesday, November 18 at 6:30 PM at the Downtown Library.
📖 https://aadl.org/node/646208
November 6, 2025 at 9:46 PM
The human body runs on rhythms. Making sense—and making use—of these signals is precisely what Daniel Forger explains in his new book Biological Rhythms.
Join the author in celebration of his release on Tuesday, November 18 at 6:30 PM at the Downtown Library.
📖 https://aadl.org/node/646208
Join the author in celebration of his release on Tuesday, November 18 at 6:30 PM at the Downtown Library.
📖 https://aadl.org/node/646208
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Roast 3-4 tomatillos till brown and juicy. Blend them with cilantro, jalapeno(s), lime juice, salt. Mix with mashed avocado. Add chopped red onion or Roma tomato if you like that. Best. Guacamole. Ever. (A Rick Bayless hack)
IT IS TIME FOR BLUESKY RECIPE POSTING
do you have a cheap, healthy, low-cost recipe? post it here! or quote tweet this post. or dunk on me for something I don't care just post easy meals that people can make right now.
do you have a cheap, healthy, low-cost recipe? post it here! or quote tweet this post. or dunk on me for something I don't care just post easy meals that people can make right now.
November 4, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Roast 3-4 tomatillos till brown and juicy. Blend them with cilantro, jalapeno(s), lime juice, salt. Mix with mashed avocado. Add chopped red onion or Roma tomato if you like that. Best. Guacamole. Ever. (A Rick Bayless hack)
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YES YOU SHOULD VOTE IN LOCAL ELECTIONS TOMORROW EVEN IF MAMDANI IS NOT ON THE BALLOT WHERE YOU LIVE
November 3, 2025 at 9:02 PM
YES YOU SHOULD VOTE IN LOCAL ELECTIONS TOMORROW EVEN IF MAMDANI IS NOT ON THE BALLOT WHERE YOU LIVE
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Of potential interest to #medlibs and #EvidenceSynthesis / #SystematicReview folks, Wiley has published a guide on using AI for researchers, authors, editors, and reviewers:
www.wiley.com/en-us/publis...
www.wiley.com/en-us/publis...
AI guidelines for researchers
A guide to support journal authors, editors, and peer reviewers across disciplines in making informed decisions about AI’s role in research and writing.
www.wiley.com
November 3, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Of potential interest to #medlibs and #EvidenceSynthesis / #SystematicReview folks, Wiley has published a guide on using AI for researchers, authors, editors, and reviewers:
www.wiley.com/en-us/publis...
www.wiley.com/en-us/publis...
"GenAI will reshape discovery whether libraries act or not. [Will] library leaders...develop strategies that preserve trust, equity, & sustainability or risk ceding that responsibility to ext actors whose priorities may not align w/the academy’s." scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/10/30/g...
Guest Post — Do Academic Libraries Have a Strategy for AI? - The Scholarly Kitchen
If libraries are civic institutions that structure society’s relationship to knowledge, and generative AI is poised to reshape discovery whether libraries act or not, will library leaders will develop...
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org
November 3, 2025 at 8:20 PM
"GenAI will reshape discovery whether libraries act or not. [Will] library leaders...develop strategies that preserve trust, equity, & sustainability or risk ceding that responsibility to ext actors whose priorities may not align w/the academy’s." scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/10/30/g...
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arXiv, a preprint publication for academic research that has become particularly important for AI research, has announced it will no longer accept computer science articles and papers that haven’t been vetted by an academic journal or a conference. Why?
A tide of AI slop.
A tide of AI slop.
arXiv Changes Rules After Getting Spammed With AI-Generated 'Research' Papers
Cornell University’s academic paper repository will no longer accept Computer Science papers still under review.
www.404media.co
November 3, 2025 at 4:49 PM
arXiv, a preprint publication for academic research that has become particularly important for AI research, has announced it will no longer accept computer science articles and papers that haven’t been vetted by an academic journal or a conference. Why?
A tide of AI slop.
A tide of AI slop.
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Current treatments require repeated injections directly into the eye, but this vaccine can be delivered intramuscularly, making it less invasive and easier to administer.
The study has been published in Vaccine. YES, it is PEER-REVIEWED.
• www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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The study has been published in Vaccine. YES, it is PEER-REVIEWED.
• www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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November 2, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Current treatments require repeated injections directly into the eye, but this vaccine can be delivered intramuscularly, making it less invasive and easier to administer.
The study has been published in Vaccine. YES, it is PEER-REVIEWED.
• www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
🧪🧵⬇️
The study has been published in Vaccine. YES, it is PEER-REVIEWED.
• www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
🧪🧵⬇️
Nov 3 at 7:00pm (easterm) Cory Doctorow on Enshittification, with danah boyd and Lee Vinsel www.youtube.com/live/WjFvGPL...
Cory Doctorow on Enshittification, with danah boyd and Lee Vinsel
YouTube video by Peoples & Things
www.youtube.com
November 3, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Nov 3 at 7:00pm (easterm) Cory Doctorow on Enshittification, with danah boyd and Lee Vinsel www.youtube.com/live/WjFvGPL...
Great case study by @potterynerd-8.bsky.social ! "Sometimes the apple does fall far from the tree: a case study on automatic indexing precision errors in PubMed" #medlibs #MLAUXCaucus #ExpertSearching #EvidenceSynthesis jmla.mlanet.org/ojs/jmla/art...
Sometimes the apple does fall far from the tree: a case study on automatic indexing precision errors in PubMed
| Journal of the Medical Library Association
jmla.mlanet.org
November 3, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Great case study by @potterynerd-8.bsky.social ! "Sometimes the apple does fall far from the tree: a case study on automatic indexing precision errors in PubMed" #medlibs #MLAUXCaucus #ExpertSearching #EvidenceSynthesis jmla.mlanet.org/ojs/jmla/art...
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OpenEvidence now seems to have a weekly query limit for non-clinicians instead of a daily one, making it even MORE difficult to test out it’s accuracy/limitations. Really??? Grrr. #medlibs
a man in a suit and tie is making a really ? face .
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is making a really ? face .
media.tenor.com
August 14, 2025 at 9:54 PM
OpenEvidence now seems to have a weekly query limit for non-clinicians instead of a daily one, making it even MORE difficult to test out it’s accuracy/limitations. Really??? Grrr. #medlibs
Again, this timeline is the worst: "How Do You Prepare Kids for a Possible School Shooting Without Traumatizing Them?" www.thetrace.org/2025/10/scho...
How Do You Prepare Kids for a Possible School Shooting Without Traumatizing Them?
As school shootings have grown more frequent, so too have active shooter drills, becoming routine in 95 percent of American schools
www.thetrace.org
November 3, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Again, this timeline is the worst: "How Do You Prepare Kids for a Possible School Shooting Without Traumatizing Them?" www.thetrace.org/2025/10/scho...
Worst timeline. 🤮 "Privacy policy changes: We’ll start using your interactions with AIs to personalize your experiences and ads."
November 3, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Worst timeline. 🤮 "Privacy policy changes: We’ll start using your interactions with AIs to personalize your experiences and ads."
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Bluesky has overtaken Twitter/X as the highest social engagement metric for the entire publication corpus of some universities.
Here's all the attention for all research from Rhodes University, ZA. In October 2025 Bluesky mentioned their research more than X/Twitter.
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Here's all the attention for all research from Rhodes University, ZA. In October 2025 Bluesky mentioned their research more than X/Twitter.
1/2
October 28, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Bluesky has overtaken Twitter/X as the highest social engagement metric for the entire publication corpus of some universities.
Here's all the attention for all research from Rhodes University, ZA. In October 2025 Bluesky mentioned their research more than X/Twitter.
1/2
Here's all the attention for all research from Rhodes University, ZA. In October 2025 Bluesky mentioned their research more than X/Twitter.
1/2
"What American science leaders and the community of science advocates failed to perceive, this writer included, was the fragility of the alliance between government and science, and more particularly between politicians and scientists." thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-rise-and...
The Rise and Unraveling of America’s Science Pact
The system of federally funded research gave the U.S. wealth, power, and prestige. Its future is now uncertain.
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu
October 31, 2025 at 1:26 PM
"What American science leaders and the community of science advocates failed to perceive, this writer included, was the fragility of the alliance between government and science, and more particularly between politicians and scientists." thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-rise-and...
"I still believe that higher education and libraries should not serve as AI accelerants. Rather, we should serve our communities by operating as repositories of knowledge and forums for debate—and that’s what I hope to do in my classroom next spring." acrlog.org/2025/10/20/t...
Teaching AI as an Anti-AI Librarian - ACRLog
Editor’s Note: Please join us in welcoming Eleanor Ball, Information Literacy & Liaison Librarian and Assistant Professor of Instruction at the University of Northern Iowa, as a new First Year Academi...
acrlog.org
October 31, 2025 at 12:52 PM
"I still believe that higher education and libraries should not serve as AI accelerants. Rather, we should serve our communities by operating as repositories of knowledge and forums for debate—and that’s what I hope to do in my classroom next spring." acrlog.org/2025/10/20/t...
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It is done! I knit a budget sweater for the first 7 years of the Textile Makerspace. One row in bright red, full circumference is $2k. Black lines are year dividers. The sleeves are paid student labor, with hours worked in brown. Sleeve on left is color coded by pronouns, right by gender. #DHmakes
October 30, 2025 at 3:02 PM
It is done! I knit a budget sweater for the first 7 years of the Textile Makerspace. One row in bright red, full circumference is $2k. Black lines are year dividers. The sleeves are paid student labor, with hours worked in brown. Sleeve on left is color coded by pronouns, right by gender. #DHmakes