Laura Lipke 🦀

And such an important topic!! Congratulations!

Library & information professionals have powerful stories. Martin O’Connor’s ‪@ucclibrary.bsky.social‬ piece shows writing doesn’t need to be daunting—small steps build confidence and spark impact. Start small. Share boldly.

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Research Guides: Taubman Library Talks: Developing Systematic Search Skills: Peer-to-Peer Learning with Practice Sets (December 2025) The home for videos and webinars created by Informationists at the Taubman Health Sciences Library

New FREE webinar from the U-M Taubman Library! December 15 - "Developing Systematic Search Skills: Peer-to-Peer Learning with Practice Sets"

More info: guides.lib.umich.edu/TaubmanTalks...

#medlibs #SystematicReviews #ExpertSearching #SystematicSearching #SystematicReview #EvidenceSynthesis

The NIH Policy Holding Researchers “Hostage” An effort to make NIH-funded research immediately accessible to the public has led to disruption and financial strain for scientists already navigating a precarious funding environment. It also spotli...

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The NIH Policy Holding Researchers “Hostage” share.google/uk3pyu57LIwL...

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JBI logo and 'JBI MANUAL FOR EVIDENCE SYNTHESIS' are displayed against blue background with an abstract suggestion of ripples. The ripples evoke the JBI logo. (The JBI logo depicts a pebble ("evidence") dropping into water, symbolising the ripple effect of positive change driven by evidence.)

🔥 Hot tip! Before starting a systematic review, make sure an information scientist/research assistant is part of the review team. They have specialised skills to develop and implement a comprehensive search strategy 🔎

https://synthesismanual.jbi.global

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Today we woke up to our public health allies telling the public that they can't trust CDC anymore More than a little demoralizing Because it's complicated The actual scientists at CDC - the ones you should trust - are not in control of public-facing webpages The conspiracy theorists are running the messaging And yet, most of us scientists... are still doing good science It's just not making it out We're still supporting local health departments We're still running our disease surveillance systems We're still on call for emergencies 24/7 Despite intense staffing shortages from multiple waves of RIFs And chronically being under-resourced Those of us left are still working hard to keep everything going We are proud of our mission And we persist, goddammit Yet We can also say... read the CDC webpages with skepticism Don't treat them as the gold standard. Corroborate the information with other trusted, independent sources. Many are still fine, but even we don't know when the political appointees are going to change their content And this is a painful thing for us to say So we just ask that, if you read or say "Don't trust the CDC!" You remember that we're here still trying to serve the nation, throw sand in the gears, and weather the storm

Hard day today
Here's what we think about trusting CDC

#medlibs We added a Moberg K & Gornitzki C paper, which analyses the performance of the #Cochrane RCT machine classifier in #Covidence, in comparison to the Cochrane RCT #searchfilters for #MEDLINE and #Embase. It also compares the performance of using both. sites.google.com/a/york.ac.uk...

That's barely a liveable wage. Universities are offering free tuition to households making less that $200K, and they think making $60K is acceptable 🤬

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Speechless....

Tip #60: Controlled vocabulary field codes and their discontents in EBSCOhost APA PsycInfo
#MLAUXCaucus #medlibs #ExpertSearching #SystematicReviews "Bite-size tips for expert searchers." uxcaucustips.blogspot.com/2025/11/tip-...

Did you know you can find over 1 million preprints on Europe PMC?

With a single search, you can explore preprints from 34 servers, including #PsyArXiv, alongside peer reviewed journal articles.

One platform making over 47 million research outputs searchable in one place!

#Preprints #OpenScience

Article citation: Lipke, L., Monnin, J., & Fonseca, C. (2025). Rebuttal to Winn et al. (2024) ’s “Redefining searching in non-medical sciences systematic reviews”. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 0(0). doi.org/10.1177/0961...

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Thank you @msjennmo.bsky.social & @cathygoweeee.bsky.social for their incredible prowess in the publication of this rebuttal!
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

That is NOT common practice among librarians!

Why Is Federal Health Data Disappearing? Executive orders have endangered public health data, with nearly 13% of the CDC’s online datasets disappearing after January 21, 2025.

Federal Health Data disappearing
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The Editor Got a Letter From ‘Dr. B.S.’ So Did a Lot of Other Editors.

Ai writing Letters to the Editor via Chatbots
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/s...

Remembering Alice Wong: Writer, Advocate, Friend Though we were in frequent conversation for a decade, I only got to meet my friend Alice Wong in person just once. And when I did, I  was a bundle of nerves—and that was before she cussed me out wi…

"Remembering Alice Wong: Writer, Advocate, Friend"

Steven W. Thrasher on Meeting and Collaborating with the Outspoken Founder of the Disability Visibility Project

published by @literaryhub.bsky.social | art by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social lithub.com/remembering-...

One for the research culture and metadata folks, and #MedLibs thinking about ways of getting their contributions recognised.

Great blog post! "OpenEvidence: Smart Medicine or Smart Marketing?" kraftylibrarian.com/openevidence... If there is any tool that locks out librarians, I'm immediately skeptical! What are you hiding, OpenEvidence?! #medlibs #canmedlibs

Great!

Thank you! 🦀Do you plan to provide a webinar or video tutorial?

Come work with me at SUNY Binghamton:
binghamton.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdeta...
and
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thanks, Laura! Here is a functional link: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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...

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Legal and Ethical Issues in AI / Thursday, October 30 1 pm ET/10 am PT Library Futures logo

One day only THIS THURSDAY 10/30! @nickgarcia.bsky.social, @merbroussard.bsky.social, and @bb.usefairuse.com will be talking legal and ethical issues in AI for libraries and librarians! Register to attend (or get the recording and all the links)!

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