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Walaeus medical library @UBLeiden.bsky.social supports students, doctors, researchers and nurses in searching and retrieving medical literature, education on information literacy, OpenAccess and provides study spaces @LUMC.
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Het introductiecollege systematisch literatuuronderzoek voor de tweedejaars studenten geneeskunde is deze week door #Walaeus docenten gegeven.

#UniversiteitLeiden #UniLeiden
#UBLeiden
#LUMC
November 27, 2025 at 9:34 AM
walaeus.bsky.social
Het CAT project voor de derdejaars studenten geneeskunde is deze week van start gegaan.
Het college systematisch literatuuronderzoek van de Walaeus vond dinsdag 11 november plaats.

#UniversiteitLeiden #UniLeiden
#UBLeiden #LUMC #Walaeus
November 14, 2025 at 12:53 PM
walaeus.bsky.social
Deze weken geven de medisch informatiespecialisten onderwijs in diverse halve minoren geneeskunde, de master farmacie en de eerstejaars biomedische wetenschappen.

#UBLeiden #LUMC #Walaeus
September 5, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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deevybee.bsky.social
Huge variability documented in how publishers respond when informed about a problematic body of work by a research group. www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...
#publishers #retractions
Bar chart showing % of articles retracted, with expression of concern, or no action from different publishers. 100% no action from Elsevier and Wolters Kluwer; 100% retraction from Taylor and Francis.
August 24, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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This week we launched the LUMC PhD Thesis Framework, which explains the general expectations for a thesis in Graduate School LUMC. | Bob Siegerink
This week we launched the LUMC PhD Thesis Framework, which explains the general expectations for a thesis in Graduate School LUMC. The framework makes the thesis a better reflection of the academic d...
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July 7, 2025 at 8:33 PM
walaeus.bsky.social
Clarivate Unveils the 2025 Journal Citation Reports

clarivate.com/news/clariva...

University Leiden access is via catalogue.leidenuniv.nl/permalink/31...
catalogue.leidenuniv.nl
June 19, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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zbmed.bsky.social
ZB MED invites you! 🧬
We’re planning an open, reliable alternative to PubMed – and want to share our vision.
📅 12 June | 5pm CEST | Online
Let’s talk about resilient life sciences infrastructure in Europe.
Info + sign up: eveeno.com/informati...
#OpenScience #LifeSciences
Online information event ‘Resilient and independent life science research infrastructure’
Strengthening the resilience and independence of the life sciences research infrastructure in Europe is necessary regarding the risks posed by dependencies on US-based information services. ZB MED will therefore develop an alternative to PubMed.
eveeno.com
May 28, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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carrieprice.bsky.social
Found a cool new tool today, readme.so/editor.

Great for your search documentation READMEs, if that is something you're doing.

#medlibs
readme.so
Use readme.so's markdown editor and templates to easily create a ReadMe for your projects
readme.so
June 4, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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calocitta.bsky.social
Here is the comparable list for NIH grants. It includes both HHS reported and PI-reported contracts.
airtable.com/appjhyo9NTvJ...
April 23, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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hildabast.bsky.social
In my post about PubMed, I raised concern about what might happen with the committee that decides what journals are PubMed-indexed. They could open the anti-science/pseudoscience floodgates.

This is the message now where the committee should be. Gulp

internet.csr.nih.gov/Committees/M...

#MedLibs
April 3, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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giustini.bsky.social
"AI 'Hallucinations' Are Changing Medicine—Should We Worry?"
📝"Recent studies show chatbots hallucinate 3-27% of the time #OpenAI & #Google aim to reduce errors, but AI continues to generate unexpected or nonsensical results."

Yes we SHOULD worry😀 Talk to a #medlib www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
AI ‘Hallucinations’ Are Changing Medicine — Should We Worry?
While AI hallucinations can be risky, they may also help drive scientific creativity.
www.medscape.com
March 20, 2025 at 1:55 AM
walaeus.bsky.social
Unexplained no-access from the #LUMC network to databases EMbase & EMcare
Technical staff University Libraries Leiden is working on this issue
December 18, 2024 at 12:37 PM
walaeus.bsky.social
Wij zijn gesloten vanaf 24 december (17:00 uur) tot en met 1 januari.
We are closed from December 24th (1700h) until January 1st.

Walaeus Library #LUMC Location of the University Libraries #Leiden

Happy holidays !

www.bibliotheek.universiteitleiden.nl/over-ons/loc...
Walaeus Bibliotheek - Universiteit Leiden
De Walaeus Bibliotheek is de medische bibliotheek van de Universitaire Bibliotheken Leiden. De bibliotheek is gevestigd op de eerste verdieping van het Leids Universitair Medisch Centrum (LUMC).
www.bibliotheek.universiteitleiden.nl
December 18, 2024 at 12:31 PM
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jmwleeds.bsky.social
One of my favourite things - The Systematic Review Toolbox is back! systematicreviewtools.com Check it out to find software and guidance tools for different stages of #SystematicReview and #EvidenceSynthesis. There are currently 84 entries for software tools for searching! #medlibs
Streamlit
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December 11, 2024 at 11:32 AM
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bsky.app
Scientists, academics, researchers: We’re excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! 🧪
altmetric.com Altmetric @altmetric.com · Dec 3
There are already many articles for which there is more attention on Bluesky than on other comparable micro-blogging sites, meaning the academic community and the general public have clearly adopted Bluesky as one of its core places to disseminate and discuss new research.

A Place of Joy.
‘A place of joy’: why scientists are joining the rush to Bluesky Researchers say the social-media platform — an alternative to X — offers more control over the content they see and the people they engage with.: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03784-6
December 3, 2024 at 2:10 PM
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carrieprice.bsky.social
It's #Day5 of the #AdventOfSearchingSkills in #PubMed!

The #MeSHterm #Anxiety has some interesting narrower MeSH terms. Would you want these? Are they being searched when you search with [mesh]?

You'll need to use the MeSH database:
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/

GIFs welcome!
Locate the MeSH term for anxiety in the MeSH database. Note the MeSH terms in the hierarchy and the ones that are narrower. Are all those being searched when you search with "Anxiety"[mesh]?
December 5, 2024 at 11:54 AM
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carrieprice.bsky.social
Day 4 of #AdventOfSearchingSkills in #PubMed!

Use the systematic subset (I tell you how, it's field tag [sb], not to be found in the FAQs and User Guide!) to find the most recent #SystematicReview on caffeine and sleep. Post it here!

#Day4

Use PubMed:

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
In PubMed, use the systematic review subset (which is systematic [sb]) to find the most recent systematic review on caffeine and sleep. Link to the most recent systematic review (sort by!) and leave a GIF of your favorite caffeine delivery system, if you indulge!
December 4, 2024 at 12:29 PM
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srlibproblems.bsky.social
Here is your semi-regular reminder about how to #search for phrases that include stop-words in Ovid databases. I use this tip a lot!

Simply add a truncation symbol to the stop-word (tip courtesy of the amazing UX Caucus tips blog: uxcaucustips.blogspot.com/2022/06/tip-...).
November 19, 2024 at 7:15 AM
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carrieprice.bsky.social
Day 2 of #AdventOfSearchingSkills.

What are the three main components of PubMed? There is a real, actual, non-ambiguous answer to this!

You'll be using PubMed to answer this and all #Advent questions.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

There's no prize, only social kudos and your honor!

#Day2 #PubMed
What are the three main components of PubMed? In other words, when you search PubMed, what are you searching? There is a real answer to this.
December 2, 2024 at 2:25 PM
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carrieprice.bsky.social
Day 1 #AdventOfSearchingSkills using #PubMed to learn! Try something new every day!

In today's exercise, you'll do a PMID lookup to find an article, determine if the Cite generator does APA style correctly, and post a GIF that represents the topic of the article.

Alt in image! #Day1

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Bokeh image, advent of searching skills, with a magnifying glass icon Use advanced search, MeSH database, journals, and the FAQs user guide of PubMed to learn these skills! At any point, answer with a GIF. Slide on a plain image. Plain slide, skills gained: mesh, keywords, field tags, journals, subsets, filters, searching, publication types, and reference questions Bokeh slide that says day 1 advent of searching skills: look up PMID 35654541 and check PubMed's Cite button for APA style. Is it correct? What needs to be fixed? Answer with your answer and a GIF that represents the article's topic.
December 1, 2024 at 2:12 PM
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carrieprice.bsky.social
This starts on Sunday and continues every day through the 24th of December.

My hope is that you'll learn a new tip you didn't know before that will be applicable for your own research.

I focus on MeSH, field tags, PubMed content, journals, and more!
carrieprice.bsky.social Carrie Price @carrieprice.bsky.social · Nov 26
I'll be doing an advent calendar of #SearchingSkills where you can try/learn something new every day.

It will be primarily in PubMed and sometimes using MeSH terms to answer the question.

It will be aimed at inexperienced searchers, but I hope experienced searchers will join in too!
a cartoon drawing of a calendar with smtwtfs written at the top
ALT: a cartoon drawing of a calendar with smtwtfs written at the top
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November 29, 2024 at 1:54 PM
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richvn.bsky.social
A growing problem --- fake papers polluting systematic reviews. And interesting point that the gold-standard protocols that Cochrane is developing to weed out untrustworthy studies, are too much of an effort for systematic-review authors looking at 100s of papers. www.science.org/content/arti...
‘Systematic reviews’ that aim to extract broad conclusions from many studies are in peril
Fake papers are “poisoning the well” for these gold-standard syntheses, researchers say
www.science.org
November 29, 2024 at 11:15 AM
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giustini.bsky.social
The. #Names. Of. Things. Objects. Weird #Stuff.

One of the cooler things about #librarianing is knowing all kinds of random things from helping people we serve find stuff. I used to spend hours looking at interesting reference books when I was in grad school. Still true today! #medlibs
November 26, 2024 at 3:26 AM
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jbiebhc.bsky.social
🔇 We are delighted to let you know that a new chapter, ✨Search methodology for evidence syntheses✨ has been added to the JBI Manual for Evidence Synthesis: jbi-global-wiki.refined.site/space/MANUAL...
#EvidenceSynthesis
November 25, 2024 at 3:56 AM
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claesdevreese.bsky.social
On Monday a large demonstration to stop higher education and research cuts will take place 🇳🇱

On Monday the Dutch government will revisit its shortsighted plans.

A failure to do this creates a real setback that neither this nor next generations deserve.
@woinactie.bsky.social #highered #academicsky
November 24, 2024 at 9:47 AM