Ciara Keenan 📈

How ‘correct’ should #evidencesynthesis be? How does this change if we add #AI?

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⭐Updated Responsible AI use in Evidence Synthesis (RAISE) 3-paper collection on OSF: osf.io/fwaud/files/... ⭐

Now includes:
1️⃣Recommendations for practice for the main roles in the ecosystem
2️⃣ Guidance on building & evaluating AI tools
3️⃣Guidance on selecting & using AI tools

Interested in research synthesis, meta-analysis, systematic reviews, methodology, software, guidelines, best practices? 😀 📊

This #YouTube channel is really the best spot to learn and meet our community! 👇

Off-Grid Living: Is This The Way We Save The Planet? Living “off the grid” is nothing new, so why increasing numbers of people — including me — moving away from modern city life?

Is off-grid living just a niche lifestyle—or a real climate solution?

In Portugal, communities are proving that self-sufficiency can restore biodiversity, cut wildfire risks & rethink sustainability. But can it scale?

Read more: medium.com/the-new-clim...

#ClimateAction #OffGrid #Sustainability

Our latest report outlines five key challenges for the government to address racial disproportionality in the youth justice system and reduce violence. We present evidence-based solutions for both inside and outside the criminal justice system.

Learn more: https://buff.ly/4hDmkv1

Photoessay: The Salmon and the Tomato In an exclusive for The New Climate, investigative photojournalist Neal Haddaway explores the link between our food system & modern slavery

Please do not eat farmed salmon this Christmas (or any day).

Apart from destroying local ecosystems, it also destroys the livelihoods of people in West Africa, forcing many into dangerous migrations and modern slavery in Europe.

#foodImperialism #food #slavery

medium.com/the-new-clim...

Infamous paper that popularized unproven COVID-19 treatment finally retracted Study on hydroxychloroquine by Didier Raoult and colleagues gets pulled on ethical and scientific grounds

Breaking news: A 2020 paper that sparked widespread enthusiasm for hydroxychloroquine as a #COVID19 treatment has been retracted, following campaigning by scientists who alleged the research contained major scientific flaws and may have breached ethics regulations. scim.ag/4iR9bQ6

4. Your blog today has stirred some healing I didn’t know was left to do. Perhaps it’s understanding now that, to this person, I wasn’t even worth a second thought — just an anonymous obstacle to their righteousness that day.

3. Like many others, I’ve since deleted Twitter; but I vividly remember you quote-tweeting my (redacted) screenshot of the interaction with him, writing: “Anyone who thinks like this can get in the sea.” I felt seen and supported in a way I didn’t realise I needed until that moment.

2. It stung then, more than I care to admit, not just because of the cruelty, but because it felt utterly random, unprovoked.

I never named them publicly until now, holding out in some misplaced hope that they’d apologise. They never did.

#EPPI-Reviewer new release: Version 6.15.5.1 is a "Single Feature" release, which extends the (on invitation, experimental) GPT-coding features, which can now operate against the full-text, instead of being limited to title and abstract.
All details are here: eppi.ioe.ac.uk/cms/Default....

WRITER OF 'WE WISH YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS':
And then we end on wishing them a happy new year, and that's the song 😊

FIGGY PUDDING MARKETING DEPARTMENT:
Great! Just one minor suggestion

OurResearch receives $688k grant from Navigation Fund to enhance the OpenAlex User Interface OurResearch is proud to announce a grant of $688,800 from The Navigation Fund to develop and launch an open, sustainable, web-based research intelligence (RI) module for the OpenAlex website. Our goal...

Parent company of #OpenAlex gets new grant to further develop and enhance the user interface.

Society for Research Synthesis Methodology The Society for Research Synthesis Methodology (SRSM) is an organization of scholars and practitioners interested in the development and application of research synthesis methodology. This website ser...

Question for my #EvidenceSynthesis #MetaAnalysis #SystematicReview folks:

I'm organizing the 2025 meeting of the Society for Research Synthesis Methods (www.srsm.org). Currently working on the call for submissions, which it has me dreaming about sessions I would love to see at the conference....

Hello, World!

Action Intent Links | Bluesky Authors, websites, and apps can use action intent links to implement "Share on Bluesky" buttons, or similar in-app actions. Logged-in users will be directed to the corresponding action view in the Blu...

We strongly suggest that academic publishers and other platforms that host research rapidly implement a Share to Bluesky button for their articles. Here's how:

docs.bsky.app/docs/advance...

#AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics

Made my last ever post 24 hours ago for people to find me here. account deactivated now. Feeling lighter already

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This morning, I woke up, and scrolled my feed again — i hadn’t done that in a LONG while. It felt nice, people seem nice 💕

Bluesky: where doomscrolling is finally just ... scrolling

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Still investigating this lovely new place -
I’m now looking for the people who challenge misleading studies and promote accountability in data and methods.
I’ve found @elisabethbik and @jamesheathers so far, who else?
Ps. Sorry if I’m already breaking etiquette- I do that in real life too!

Loving it here already !

Amazing! Thank you :)

Thank you so much!! Great to see many familiar faces on this list :)

I’m new and delighted to be here!

Where are my evidence synthesis people?

Do we # here?

#evidencesythesis