Rebecca Carlson

If you aren't familiar with how drugs get their labels you may not realize how bonkers this is but this is absolutely shocking, horrifying, and dangerous stuff happening.

Last two weeks to register for the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of @medlibassn.bsky.social Annual Meeting! The 2025 MAC/MLA conference ("Spice Up the Library: Thinking Outside the Box") is October 19-21 in Baltimore, MD. Register here #medlibs: macmla.wildapricot.org/macregistration

Exclusive: Journal bans drug safety database papers as they flood the literature celafon/iStockPhoto Starting around 2023, a curious trend took hold in papers on drug safety monitoring. The number of articles published on an individual drug and its link to specific adverse even…

Exclusive: Journal bans drug safety database papers as they flood the literature

FAERS is one of several publicly available datasets being exploited by paper mills, pumping hundreds of often meaningless and sometimes misleading papers into the scientific literature, @katetravis.bsky.social reports.

After 2 Years, Mediterranean Deli Set to Reopen Chapel Hill Location With Dinner Hours - Chapelboro.com Two years and two months after a fire destroyed its interior, Mediterranean Deli will welcome back customers to in-person dining next week.

EXCLUSIVE: Two years and two months after a fire destroyed the interior of Med Deli, the business is preparing to welcome back customers to in-person dining next week.

The restaurant will reopen for dinner hours starting on Tuesday, Sep. 9.

Critical AI Resources - bookjockeyalex.com

Wanted to share a critical AI spreadsheet I've been working on for a little bit now. It has a list of resources and links to materials I thought were interesting or that I used in my schools Critical AI LibGuide. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

This from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social hit me over the head like a mallet of truth. This is the thing. This is what I’ve been trying to warn people about perfectly crystallized. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/o...

Here are links to resources and support requests mentioned by TBB: linktr.ee/ChantalMutua...

A program within my university tracks the latest news on global health security and adds summaries. You can subscribe for weekly emails www.unmc.edu/healthsecuri...

The towns of Chapel Hill and Carrboro are coordinating with Orange County to support disaster relief:
crisiscleanup.org/survivor
+19102181569

People have no idea, not really, how this budget is about to wreck their very foundations.

STAGGERING: This new study of 133 countries is the first to estimate the impact of all USAID’s work. In 2 decades, it has saved *92M* lives. Current cuts, if not reversed, are forecast to cost up to *14M* lives thru 2030. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

I have alerts for evidence-based practice & interprofessional education

I am thrilled to announce ThriveLib: Reclaiming Joy, Balance, and Boundaries in Libraries, a new virtual conference focused entirely on the emotional and psychological well-being of library workers.

Save the Dates August 12, 13, 14 2025
www.thrivelib.com/news/introdu...

I'm excited to be in Vancouver this week for CHLA and to learn from Canadian medical library colleagues.

Breaking: HHS is canceling a $600 million contract with Moderna to develop, test, and license vaccines for flu strains that could trigger future pandemics, including the dangerous H5N1 bird flu virus.

🚨 ACTION ITEMS to stop the FDA from limiting Covid vaccine access:

1. Submit a public comment to the FDA www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...

2. Contact your elected officials
www.usa.gov/elected-offi...

F.D.A. Poised to Restrict Access to Covid Vaccines

The FDA will permit Covid vaccines only for adults over 65 and those with certain medical conditions in the fall, according to new regulatory standards.

We examined citation counts for pharmacy articles with librarian co-authors to see how they compared to pharmacy research overall and found 69% of papers with librarians had higher than average citation counts. This speaks to the impact of librarians as research partners!

I'm excited to share my newly published study on the significant correlations between librarian coauthors and higher paper citation counts for pharmacy scholarship! UNC story here: library.unc.edu/news/librari... and full article here: doi.org/10.1016/j.ac....

Interested individuals (library workers or librarians), please sign by midnight on May 17, 2025.

docs.google.com/document/d/e...

Some DOGE political appointee choosing which grants to fund is oppression of academic freedom and scientific freedom.

If the right wants to kill science in the US, the surest way to do that is to take away scientists’ freedom to judge which ideas are meritorious.

Federal Court halts dismantling of IMLS in ALA lawsuit. U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia grants temporary restraining order.

🚨 Today, a federal court granted a temporary restraining order to halt the administration’s dismantling of IMLS—a direct result of the lawsuit filed by ALA and @afscme.bsky.social.
www.ala.org/news/2025/05...

#ForOurLibraries #FundLibraries

Katherine Howell (UNC Chapel Hill) presented, but I'm on the research team also. Feel free to DM me if you'd like the slides or more info

Moved over from the bird app. Here to chat about medical libraries, scholarly communications, evidence-based practice, SR methods, and IPE. Plus sports, #goheels!