Andy Hickner

The evidence synthesis part of this is what Campbell Collaboration does: www.campbellcollaboration.org. Checking to see if they already have a review on the topic is a good starting point: www.campbellcollaboration.org/evidence. For health interventions, Cochrane does the same thing.

@npr.org newscasters, this is your friendly reminder that Grand Blanc in Michigan is pronounced “Grand BLANK.” This is true of pretty much every French place name in MI btw - think of how a 7-year-old native English speaker would pronounce it the first time she encountered it on the page

Hear hear! Thank you for standing firm on the rezoning. It has so much potential to improve our neighborhood and to help restrain the upward rent spiral our community is facing.

The Bluesky-ization of the American left Progressives discovered a seemingly invincible weapon. One day it stopped working.

"Instead of ostracizing the people they hate, Bluesky’s progressives are only isolating themselves... Within this little hothouse world that American progressives have created for themselves, there’s not much to do except try to cancel each other."

question, why do we need to send a copy to Alder Martin? It was my understanding that he supports the rezoning. Has that changed?

... And in many cases because they may have been taught incorrectly - sometimes by librarians! - that it's wrong to Google things. (2/2)

I should rephrase - "crazy" isn't the best word to describe nurse questions. They are looking for evidence to inform their decisionmaking. Unfortunately that evidence often doesn't exist because research funding priorities are generally set by physicians, not bedside nurses... (1/2)

I always feel weird starting with Google because that's what the requester would already have done, right? I'm finding these types of requests are the perfect use case for AI tools like Perplexity.

As a librarian, I think nursing reference/lit searches are MUCH harder than medical ones. Nurses come to us with the craziest questions, most of which aren't answerable with conventional bibliographic database searches.

Welp that’s the last time I use the Lyft bikeshare option

Thank Betty Who!

Conscientious SUV Shopper Just Wants Something That Will Kill Family In Other Car In Case Of Accident

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Also it's going to get much, much worse now that NIH/other federal research funding is drying up and our libraries stop hiring. There's going to be a pool of experienced medical librarians who will have no choice but to take the first job they/we are lucky enough to get.

Yup, and it pervades the entire profession, not just health sciences. Too many ALA-accredited diploma mills churning out too many LIS grads chasing too few jobs. Unless we do what physicians did and restrict entry to the profession, it will never change.

According to Google, Chicago (specifically Chicago Turabian). I checked the Chicago Manual of Style to confirm.

“Homophobic” is the appropriate adjective in this case!

Yeah, I think older workers who have spent their entire careers with a single employer/hiring ecosystem have a hard time imagining a happy career outside of it. The attitude is pervasive in academia too.

Certainly every reference cited by RFK Jr & Co.

They are right by where we live! There is a big sign on the cemetary gate telling people not to walk their dogs in the cemetary because the parents are very protective of the pups right now.

I'm relieved to see Gottheimer all the way down at 4th.

After tonight they are updating the criteria for clinical diagnosis of homosexuality to test whether the patient can recognize Cole’s wig as an homage to Bernadette Peters

At the risk of sounding like an asshole, I have to say I really don't think the library literature needs another study about imposter syndrome among librarians. We get it. It's a thing that some of us have.

... the proportion of "here's another shitty thing Trump has done" content was too high compared to everything else they posted. I don't need my nose rubbed in it constantly!

I'm finding i need to be very reflective about who i'm following and how i find i'm responding to their posts. I've unfollowed a couple of accounts recently b/c...

If someone's feeling depressed/anxious, the first thing they should do is delete these apps! And tiktok. And frankly, Bluesky too. I am already seeing a LOT of the toxic behavior here we saw on Twitter, it's just from left-leaning people instead of right-wingers. (2/2)

I kept my FB account but deleted it from my phone, and only log in occasionally to check for event invites, and same as you, it's been so good for my brain. I have all this free time now that I used to waste on mindless scrolling. (1/2)

I feel like MAGA are probably the only people who are crazy enough to apply for a federal job under this administration

Stolen from substack:

As a 40-year-old heading to Detroit for Movement this weekend I ask myself this question a lot

Enjoy, it’s kind of a downer!