Tomas Rees
@tomrees-medcomm.bsky.social
Director of Innovation at Oxford PharmaGenesis. Professional account for all things science communication, AI and open access. Opinions expressed are my own.
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We are excited to announce a new collab with OxfordPharmaGenesis - combining their medical content & strategy expertise with our platform, microsites & metrics to help pharma, biotech, and healthcare organizations take a more strategic approach to omnichannel
blog.growkudos.com/news/kudos-a...
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Kudos and Oxford PharmaGenesis to provide best-in-class omnichannel medcomms
Combining Kudos platform with Oxford PharmaGenesis' services helps pharma, biotech, and healthcare organizations take a strategic approach to omnichannel.
blog.growkudos.com
May 12, 2025 at 11:05 AM
We are excited to announce a new collab with OxfordPharmaGenesis - combining their medical content & strategy expertise with our platform, microsites & metrics to help pharma, biotech, and healthcare organizations take a more strategic approach to omnichannel
blog.growkudos.com/news/kudos-a...
blog.growkudos.com/news/kudos-a...
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And yet, where is the fight? #CollectiveAction and Calls to #Resist?
Bill, consider using your platform to sign/share DefendResearch.org's Declaration to #DefendResearch against US Govt censorship -- another swipe at academic freedom: tinyurl.com/3bwuc38f #StandUpForScience
Bill, consider using your platform to sign/share DefendResearch.org's Declaration to #DefendResearch against US Govt censorship -- another swipe at academic freedom: tinyurl.com/3bwuc38f #StandUpForScience
Declaration To Defend Research Against U.S. Government Censorship
This Declaration is a call to action for the scholarly communication community and additional stakeholders to condemn and resist recent acts by the U.S. government to censor scholarly research.
We ca...
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April 8, 2025 at 3:57 PM
And yet, where is the fight? #CollectiveAction and Calls to #Resist?
Bill, consider using your platform to sign/share DefendResearch.org's Declaration to #DefendResearch against US Govt censorship -- another swipe at academic freedom: tinyurl.com/3bwuc38f #StandUpForScience
Bill, consider using your platform to sign/share DefendResearch.org's Declaration to #DefendResearch against US Govt censorship -- another swipe at academic freedom: tinyurl.com/3bwuc38f #StandUpForScience
If you're attending #ISMPP Annual, consider coming to our workshop on misinformation, disinformation and equity in healthcare communications. We have a great faculty and the topic is both timely and important! @lac241.bsky.social @ismpp.bsky.social
March 28, 2025 at 5:17 PM
If you're attending #ISMPP Annual, consider coming to our workshop on misinformation, disinformation and equity in healthcare communications. We have a great faculty and the topic is both timely and important! @lac241.bsky.social @ismpp.bsky.social
Session at #MAPS2025 - How can #MedicalAffairs become the driving force of your company’s Enterprise Leadership?
Explore benchmarking Medical Affairs competencies and capabilities, prioritizing efforts to elevate and innovate within Medical Affairs, practical tools, insights and inspiration!
Explore benchmarking Medical Affairs competencies and capabilities, prioritizing efforts to elevate and innovate within Medical Affairs, practical tools, insights and inspiration!
March 18, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Session at #MAPS2025 - How can #MedicalAffairs become the driving force of your company’s Enterprise Leadership?
Explore benchmarking Medical Affairs competencies and capabilities, prioritizing efforts to elevate and innovate within Medical Affairs, practical tools, insights and inspiration!
Explore benchmarking Medical Affairs competencies and capabilities, prioritizing efforts to elevate and innovate within Medical Affairs, practical tools, insights and inspiration!
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"exciting to see this key piece of infrastructure really get the attention that it deserves" @katiecorker.bsky.social on the new non-profit that will run bioRxiv and medRxiv www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Preprint sites bioRxiv and medRxiv launch new era of independence
The popular repositories, where life scientists post research before peer review, will be managed by a new organization called openRxiv.
www.nature.com
March 11, 2025 at 2:39 PM
"exciting to see this key piece of infrastructure really get the attention that it deserves" @katiecorker.bsky.social on the new non-profit that will run bioRxiv and medRxiv www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Excited to see this special issue on ways to address misinformation, disinformation, and science denial in the Journal of Research in Science Teaching! Look forward to reading more about these 10 pedagogical strategies for tackling these issues!
buff.ly/esjXVB0
#PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky
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#PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky
March 10, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Excited to see this special issue on ways to address misinformation, disinformation, and science denial in the Journal of Research in Science Teaching! Look forward to reading more about these 10 pedagogical strategies for tackling these issues!
buff.ly/esjXVB0
#PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky
buff.ly/esjXVB0
#PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky
Lunchtime viewing, starting now: Finding clinical trials with the ACT EU Trial Map | European Medicines Agency (EMA) www.ema.europa.eu/en/events/fi...
Finding clinical trials with the ACT EU Trial Map | European Medicines Agency (EMA)
www.ema.europa.eu
March 7, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Lunchtime viewing, starting now: Finding clinical trials with the ACT EU Trial Map | European Medicines Agency (EMA) www.ema.europa.eu/en/events/fi...
"CCC’s AI Systems Training License is aimed at simplifying how organisations can legally obtain a consistent set of rights across works in publishing sectors such as science, technology, medicine, humanities, business, news and media." www.researchinformation.info/news/ccc-lau...
CCC launches AI systems training license - Research Information
Collective license designed to help organisations comply with copyright laws for the use of third-party content
www.researchinformation.info
March 7, 2025 at 8:44 AM
"CCC’s AI Systems Training License is aimed at simplifying how organisations can legally obtain a consistent set of rights across works in publishing sectors such as science, technology, medicine, humanities, business, news and media." www.researchinformation.info/news/ccc-lau...
The Policy Commons 2025 Open Collection is an initiative to rescue and preserve materials from government organizations facing the removal of public information and data—reports, blog posts, videos, and podcasts. coherentdigital.net/open-2025
Coherent Digital
Coherent Digital
coherentdigital.net
March 6, 2025 at 3:16 PM
The Policy Commons 2025 Open Collection is an initiative to rescue and preserve materials from government organizations facing the removal of public information and data—reports, blog posts, videos, and podcasts. coherentdigital.net/open-2025
Kudos now has article share buttons for Mastodon and Bluesky! But if you're going to add a WhatsApp button, @growkudos.bsky.social then you should add one for Viber too blog.growkudos.com/news/expandi...
Expanding article sharing on Kudos: now with Bluesky, Mastodon, and WhatsApp
Kudos tracks sharing of research via Bluesky, WhatsApp and Mastodon
blog.growkudos.com
March 3, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Kudos now has article share buttons for Mastodon and Bluesky! But if you're going to add a WhatsApp button, @growkudos.bsky.social then you should add one for Viber too blog.growkudos.com/news/expandi...
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PubMed has been down since yesterday.
It's the largest database of biomedical literature in the world with 37M citations.
If this is a result of Trump's NIH funding freeze, it's extremely bad news for scientific community not just in the US but across the world.
It's the largest database of biomedical literature in the world with 37M citations.
If this is a result of Trump's NIH funding freeze, it's extremely bad news for scientific community not just in the US but across the world.
March 2, 2025 at 11:23 AM
PubMed has been down since yesterday.
It's the largest database of biomedical literature in the world with 37M citations.
If this is a result of Trump's NIH funding freeze, it's extremely bad news for scientific community not just in the US but across the world.
It's the largest database of biomedical literature in the world with 37M citations.
If this is a result of Trump's NIH funding freeze, it's extremely bad news for scientific community not just in the US but across the world.
Shameful backsliding coupled with a pay rise to £22 million annually.
British pharma company GSK pauses diversity work citing Trump orders
London-based FTSE 100 firm reviewing its policies, saying it is obliged to comply because US is its No 1 market
www.theguardian.com
March 1, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Shameful backsliding coupled with a pay rise to £22 million annually.
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We created & validated text prompts for LLM screening in systematic reviews. High performing. Could filter out 65-95% prior to human review or replace 1 human. Reduces cost. Christian Cao=superstar @uoft.bsky.social @ucalgary.bsky.social #Cochrane #LLM #AI www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...
Development of Prompt Templates for Large Language Model–Driven Screening in Systematic Reviews | Annals of Internal Medicine
Background: Systematic reviews (SRs) are hindered by the initial rigorous article screen, which delays access to reliable information synthesis. Objective: To develop generic prompt templates for larg...
www.acpjournals.org
February 27, 2025 at 6:25 PM
We created & validated text prompts for LLM screening in systematic reviews. High performing. Could filter out 65-95% prior to human review or replace 1 human. Reduces cost. Christian Cao=superstar @uoft.bsky.social @ucalgary.bsky.social #Cochrane #LLM #AI www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...
Last call, #ISMPP BOARD OF TRUSTEES CALL FOR NOMINATIONS!
👉Chair-Elect
👉Treasurer
👉At-Large Trustee,
👉Nominating Committee for the 2025-2026 Election (non-voting)
For more info, contact @ismpp.bsky.social
👉Chair-Elect
👉Treasurer
👉At-Large Trustee,
👉Nominating Committee for the 2025-2026 Election (non-voting)
For more info, contact @ismpp.bsky.social
February 25, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Last call, #ISMPP BOARD OF TRUSTEES CALL FOR NOMINATIONS!
👉Chair-Elect
👉Treasurer
👉At-Large Trustee,
👉Nominating Committee for the 2025-2026 Election (non-voting)
For more info, contact @ismpp.bsky.social
👉Chair-Elect
👉Treasurer
👉At-Large Trustee,
👉Nominating Committee for the 2025-2026 Election (non-voting)
For more info, contact @ismpp.bsky.social
This is caused by the relentless pressure on academics to increase the volume of publications, which results in a firehose of mediocrity that's impossible to digest and critique. www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
The Scientific Literature Can’t Save You Now
You can cite peer-reviewed research in support of almost any claim, no matter how absurd.
www.theatlantic.com
February 20, 2025 at 10:40 AM
This is caused by the relentless pressure on academics to increase the volume of publications, which results in a firehose of mediocrity that's impossible to digest and critique. www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
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We posed the question "How do #diversity, equality and inclusion impact the quality of #research?" to our search tool ORKG Ask. This is the summary derived from relevant publications on this topic ⬇️
"A diverse and inclusive research community has been found to result in higher-quality publications"
"A diverse and inclusive research community has been found to result in higher-quality publications"
February 5, 2025 at 8:27 AM
We posed the question "How do #diversity, equality and inclusion impact the quality of #research?" to our search tool ORKG Ask. This is the summary derived from relevant publications on this topic ⬇️
"A diverse and inclusive research community has been found to result in higher-quality publications"
"A diverse and inclusive research community has been found to result in higher-quality publications"
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Expand your expertise in #MedPubs and #MedComms at this year's Annual Meeting! Check out the full agenda and sign up today! https://buff.ly/3CTbK3W
#ISMPPAnnual #AI #BioTech
#ISMPPAnnual #AI #BioTech
February 18, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Expand your expertise in #MedPubs and #MedComms at this year's Annual Meeting! Check out the full agenda and sign up today! https://buff.ly/3CTbK3W
#ISMPPAnnual #AI #BioTech
#ISMPPAnnual #AI #BioTech
Chilling notices being added to CDC website pages. www.cdc.gov/mpox/hcp/vac...
Interim Clinical Considerations for Use of Vaccine for Mpox Prevention in the United States
Interim Clinical Considerations for Use of Vaccine for Mpox Prevention in the United States
www.cdc.gov
February 15, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Chilling notices being added to CDC website pages. www.cdc.gov/mpox/hcp/vac...
Great thread, which mirrors my own experience with these tools.
Playing with Gemini deep research, Perplexity Deep research (but not yet OpenAI's), which use "agentic search/generation" to create long form reports or literature reviews (as opposed to short answers). These tools are unlike search the web not closed indexes like elicit, scispace, scite.ai etc (1)
February 15, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Great thread, which mirrors my own experience with these tools.
An important statement from the Society of Scholarly Publishers: scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/02/14/u...
Upholding Our Legacy of DEIA - The Scholarly Kitchen
Reflections on the current moment from SSP’s Board of Directors.
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org
February 14, 2025 at 4:17 PM
An important statement from the Society of Scholarly Publishers: scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/02/14/u...
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Hate that it has come to this, but it's time to consider PubMed vulnerable to enshittification. My latest post @plos.org discusses the lines we need to fight to hold – and alternatives we can rely on internationally:
absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/02/14/w...
#medlibs
absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/02/14/w...
#medlibs
What if We Can't Rely on PubMed? - Absolutely Maybe
PubMed is incredibly reliable. And a lot depends on it. It’s an ecosystem built around MEDLINE, the steady feed of new publications…
absolutelymaybe.plos.org
February 14, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Hate that it has come to this, but it's time to consider PubMed vulnerable to enshittification. My latest post @plos.org discusses the lines we need to fight to hold – and alternatives we can rely on internationally:
absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/02/14/w...
#medlibs
absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/02/14/w...
#medlibs
I very much enjoyed this 'no nonsense guide to AI tools for research". Most of them are familiar to me, but there were a couple of new ones. #AI #medcomm www.animateyour.science/post/20-ai-t...
20 AI Tools for Research: A No-Nonsense Guide (Gordon Ramsay Parody)
Right, listen up! If you’re still drowning in PDFs and wrestling citations like a headless chicken, you need these AI tools NOW.
www.animateyour.science
February 14, 2025 at 8:30 AM
I very much enjoyed this 'no nonsense guide to AI tools for research". Most of them are familiar to me, but there were a couple of new ones. #AI #medcomm www.animateyour.science/post/20-ai-t...
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#ISMPPAnnual - Register for 9 Educational Workshops, including 4 NEW Topics! Ideal for both new and experienced professionals. Limited spaces—sign up now! https://buff.ly/3ED0VU3
#MedPubs #MedComms
#MedPubs #MedComms
February 13, 2025 at 5:15 PM
#ISMPPAnnual - Register for 9 Educational Workshops, including 4 NEW Topics! Ideal for both new and experienced professionals. Limited spaces—sign up now! https://buff.ly/3ED0VU3
#MedPubs #MedComms
#MedPubs #MedComms
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Masters scholarships for Palestinian students at Sussex. Please disseminate?
www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/re...
www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/re...
University announces new scholarships for Palestinian students
These scholarships will provide fully-funded support for two Palestinian students, with a particular focus on those impacted by the conflict in Gaza
www.sussex.ac.uk
February 13, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Masters scholarships for Palestinian students at Sussex. Please disseminate?
www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/re...
www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/re...