marijane white, mslis

I have literally thousands of spreadsheets I've built with Python and I'm showing people examples of them all the time because they're f'n beautiful

Red Wing shoes sign that reads "No one ever pointed to a spreadsheet and said 'I built that.'c

excuse me??

My presentation at PNC-MLA yesterday was recorded, once the conference organizers have it posted I will share the link! It gives context and ends with a demo.

That's why I built it! ♥️♥️♥️

Pairwise PubMed Search Generator The Pairwise PubMed Search Generator is a web application for working around the truncation limit...

Hey #medlibs, I built a tool for making it easier to create proximity search strings in PubMed. Check it out!

I presented at PNC-MLA this afternoon and will follow up with a link to the recording when it's posted.

Logged in to ScholarOne for the journal I co-edit and jfc we had as many submissions in 2 weeks as we used to receive in 6 months 😱 Just so you understand why journal desk rejects these days give no feedback - we just can't at this wild volume. Is it the same for other journals and editors?

This National Medical Librarians Month, celebrate their impact by exploring JMLA articles that highlight how librarians enhance evidence-based practice, advance patient care, and amplify scholarly communication.

Read here: https://ow.ly/et6S50Xku0n

#JMLA #medlibs #healthsciences #NMLM

Be an umbrella, not a funnel

Happy International RSE Day to all the Research Software Engineers in our community! 💫 #InternationalRSEDay #RSEDay2025

We feel proud that so many members of The Carpentries community are in this vital role for research. We appreciate and celebrate you today. 💙

AI models are using material from retracted scientific papers Some companies are working to remedy the issue.

🧪 AI models and research tools are citing retracted scientific papers, essentially using information struck from the scientific record. The fix is complex, slowed by fragmented databases, inconsistent publisher labels, and training data cutoffs.
#AcademicSky #MLSky

University email addresses no longer effective bulwark against fake peer review To guard against identity theft, academic publishers have been using institutional email addresses to verify authors and reviewers are who they say they are. Now, however, findings appearing in a p…

🚨 Although we encourage researchers to add institutional emails to their #ORCID records, this article by @retractionwatch.com illustrates the vulnerability of relying on an email domain as the only verification source for a researcher over data from trustworthy member orgs.

#Researchsky

Why use the CC BY license for preprints? A guide for researchers Preprints are complete drafts of scientific research articles posted to an online repository before formal peer review. When you publish on a preprint server, you remain the copyright holder and can…

Encouraging researchers to select CC BY as the license of choice for preprints maximizes reuse and minimizes the complexity of navigating legal terms when sharing research.

Learn more about licensing preprints with CC BY: zenodo.org/records/1428...

In January 2025, life science preprint servers @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social and @medrxivpreprint.bsky.social updated their license selector, placing CC BY at the top of the list. Just six months later, the number of CC BY-licensed preprints has increased for the first time in five years.

What counts as plagiarism? AI-generated papers pose new risks Researchers argue over whether ‘novel’ AI-generated works use others’ ideas without credit.

"plagiarism" feels like such an understatement for what is going on here. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Come be my boss! We’re looking for a passionate and supportive leader for our Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology. Research in MMI spans diverse models and systems of host-pathogen interactions. Come join us in the beautiful Pacific NW!

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this just out

APA Journals Policy on Generative AI: Additional Guidance
www.apa.org/pubs/journal... via @apajournals.bsky.social

New feature: Custom labels for nodes | Steve Bogart Get more from Steve Bogart on Patreon

That feeling when you ship a feature that you've had in mind since 2015...

Your Nodes can now be labeled anything,
or nothing,
or every node in your diagram can have the same label if that's what you want.

Here's a Patreon post about it. More documentation to come!
www.patreon.com/posts/new-fe...

Keep up to speed on new federal publication sharing requirements. We've organized details of polices by agency - NIH, CDC, NASA, Dept of Ed., NSF & more. Download & compare here: researchsharing.sparcopen.org/publications/ sparcopen.org

X’s Altmetric Hegemony Ceding to Bluesky The alternative social media platform is matching engagement of Elon Musk’s X in ways that “would have seemed unthinkable until recently,” says study.

3 💡 conclusions from this @timeshighered.bsky.social piece based on @altmetric.com data:

1️⃣ Academic twitter is dead
2️⃣ Bluesky is the most promising alternative
3️⃣ There is a lot of underused 🦋 potential with many dormant (institutional) accounts

#academicsky

www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

I wish SearchRxiv felt less like a preprint server and more like PyPi.

say it again:

4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities

demolishing higher education is economic sabotage

Russell Vought Is Trying to Take It All From NIH Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.

An outright fanatic who wants to stop all scientific research

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IMPORTANT UPDATE IMPORTANT UPDATE

Regarding APHU/ACLU et al. vs. NIH Lawsuit

Ooof, that sucks. My main problem is headaches more than allergies. Natural fragrances are less of a trigger for me.
The brand I have in mind is Cult+King, and they do list all their ingredients at their product pages, for what it's worth, but they're also expensive:
cultandking.com/product/vega...

My hair is curlier than in my PFP these days and I've been learning about product. Fragrance free is hard to find, are natural fragrances OK? The stuff I'm currently using smells like clove, and it's pretty mild.

Federal Science Workers Say Agencies Are ‘Going in the Wrong Direction’ Hundreds of staffers at the National Institutes of Health, Environmental Protection Agency, NASA and the National Science Foundation have signed public letters to leadership opposing the direction in ...

Good Scientific American story about the letters of dissent from 4 federal science agencies (to date)...

www.scientificamerican.com/article/trum...

we're getting close to a point where consumer-priced computers can run models nearly as large as deepseek. cheap. not "guzzling water" or "powering a whole home every time u run a query".

It can be tricky! I always have to resize the SankeyMatic defaults to get things to look right.

One of my Sankey diagrams has been published! This was not a systematic review, but my co-authors did screen and categorize all the search results I found for them in a similar fashion.

See Figure 1 at www.jpedsurg.org/article/S002...

Update: one of my Sankey diagrams has been published! It's not a systematic review, but it did involve screening.
www.jpedsurg.org/article/S002...