Hilda Bastian

Yes - it's in the linked article & I've written a few posts about it.

Yes and no: It's more extensive because it has additional data sources. But it doesn't have an alternative way to source the data from PubMed if PubMed doesn't have it - unless something has changed in the last few weeks. (Whereas OpenAlex also sources DOI data.)

Why?

...My monthly Covid vax search turned up fewer results than expected, so I started on my Plan B – and I'm finding records that aren't in PubMed. 😔 (Time-consuming, so my post might be late.)

My Plan B = Open Alex + extra Google searches.

Background: hildabastian.wordpress.com/2025/10/10/t...

Line chart showing similar numbers of new records added daily during shutdown as the same time last year. (Data in linked file: https://bit.ly/42MfAFM)

PubMed had some disruption in adding records this week, apparently recovering on Wednesday with over 9,800 records in one day. But if you have a Plan B for critical searches, maybe start using it... 1/2

Chart data: New daily records 2024/25. Some dip on weekends is normal. bit.ly/42MfAFM

#MedLibs

A Mastodon Migration From Bluesky Would Be Different - Absolutely Maybe The Mastodon migration from Twitter in 2022 was massive for the non-commercial community network: The number of accounts swelled with more than…

Always worth reading @hildabast.bsky.social

This time on a possible @bsky.app to Mastodon migration

Network effects
Fediverse
The Academic addiction to @altmetric.bsky.social

Much more thoughtful discussion

absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/10/30/a...

#AcademicSky

Thanks! 😊

A Mastodon Migration From Bluesky Would Be Different - Absolutely Maybe The Mastodon migration from Twitter in 2022 was massive for the non-commercial community network: The number of accounts swelled with more than…

Following the recent ominous Bluesky controversies got me thinking about how a Bluesky exodus would play out. So I dug into the studies of the 2022 Mastodon migration from Twitter: I found 14 studies.

Here's my new post @plos.org

absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/10/30/a...

#Mastodon #Fediverse

This used to be me. I got into research via what's called citizen science these days – through a community group that needed epidemiological research. I went on to work for community groups, then an international society, and then govt or quasi-govt agencies. (Now I have a PhD & freelance.)

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LinkedIn's default permission for using your data for AI kicks in on November 3. Here's where to switch it off on your account:

> Settings & Privacy → Data privacy → Data for Generative AI Improvement

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Photo of a single, full apricot pink rose in full bloom, with some yellow tones at the bottom of the petals. The bloom is surrounded by rose leaves in the sunshine.

First rose of the season! 😍

It's a deeply perfumed hybrid tea rose. Bliss!

(It's the Elle rose from Meilland.)

#BloomScrolling

Sounds like the kind of idea he'd have himself.

Wikipedia Is Vital: Channeling Energy Into Micro-Edits Is a Win-Win-Win - Absolutely Maybe Wikipedia is, “without exaggeration, the digital world’s factual foundation,” wrote Josh Dzieza recently. It’s a target because of that, squarely in the…

Cool! Don't know if you edit, too, but if not – even micro-edits matter & my recent post could get you started within a few minutes: absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/09/21/w...

Dedicated, skilled team FTW.

Line chart showing similar numbers of new records added daily during shutdown as the same time last year. (Data in linked file: https://bit.ly/42MfAFM)

Well, that's one good thing! PubMed still tracking as usual.

New records each day this year during shutdown compared to last year. (Dips for weekends.)

Data for chart: bit.ly/42MfAFM

Background including data source: hildabastian.wordpress.com/2025/10/10/t...

Poster by Riot Grrl, Stella Marrs. Young girl is looking up from reading a history book. She says, "I'm NOT cynical. I've just been taking notes."

"I'm NOT cynical."

Stella Marrs, Riot Grrl.

Photo of children's shopping trolleys at Bunnings hardware store: One of them flies the Hammerbarn logo with Bluey and Bingo.

Just back from ...um... Hammerbarn, I guess. 🤣

Australia is Bluey's world now, we're just living in it. 💙

Yeah nah - it's definitely gotta be the tawny frogmouth's year!

Tracking Shutdown Impact and Changes at PubMed There's been some panic about PubMed again, since a notice on the website warned it could be out of date because of the US government shutdown. Shutdown is dreadful, in so many ways. But that notice doesn't mean PubMed has been de-funded, or that it's not being maintained. The notice is the same as the one displayed during a shutdown in 2018.

Tracking Shutdown Impact and Changes at PubMed

There's been some panic about PubMed again, since a notice on the website warned it could be out of date because of the US government shutdown. Shutdown is dreadful, in so many ways. But that notice doesn't mean PubMed has been de-funded, or that it's…

The appetite for ALL CAPS HUGE NEWS is HUGE so there will always be science hype merchants to feed it. But it's depressing how many of these HUGE BREAKTHROUGH posts are boosted into my feed by people who are still exposing themselves to that - as if they think they're immune from misinformation. smh

Not past tense, unfortunately.

It doesn't, because it's not the middle of the night in Europe and say, Australia.

Close-up photo of a profusion of jasmine in the sunshine, with some flowers blooming, and many ready to burst into bloom.

Jasmine bursting out all over, and it is glorious! 😍

#BloomScrolling

Book cover, in the Special Centenary Edition with a forward by Alison Li.

Thread of things I'm learning as I read The Discovery of Insulin by Michael Bliss

That's statistics too.

😂 Thanks for not jumping to the conclusion that our daffodils aren't proper ones!!!

Ha - never had a problem with it. (I took this photo a few days ago - the tulips are still going strong!)

Photo of a glass vase with a colorful bunch of spring flowers, sitting on a wooden bench in front of white-painted wooden wall. There is a purple tulip and a red one, a daffodil, white double jonquils, blue borage, white daisy, and freesias – white, dark pink, and purple.

Early spring in my garden! This, plus an excess of snow peas in my veggie patches. 😍

#BloomScrolling

PubMed is there.

The government shutdown of science - a screenshot gallery A blog about microbiology, genomics and metagenomics, sequencing, evolution, ecology, and open science.

Searched for a date I was there for a shutdown - @phylogenomics.bsky.social put the notice on his blog: phylogenomics.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-...