Peter Johnson

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NEW: Another NIH institute director hasn't been renewed — the director of NIAMS (arthritis, musculoskeletal and skin diseases institute).

That leaves a whopping 15 of 27 institutes and centers without a permanent director.

Relatedly, I've begun incorporating generative Al in my database searching instruction as one option for a method of keyword identification. This is primarily so students can make informed choices on what tools / methods work for their needs.

“Treating [AI] with a hands-clean purist mindset will be extremely difficult and as activism, more alienating than effective. These are genuinely useful tools, and pretending they aren’t will not in fact win many hearts and minds.”

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Do you know how badly you have to fuck up to create a remote execution vulnerability in notepad.exe

I also stress in my AI information literacy instruction sessions: what these models generate is not “information” - to have that would require a deliberate human led transformation of the content.

Put another way, is the issue with reliability consistent with inherently any LLM (could be), or just these LLMs (also could be)?

I also wonder how these models compare with both their more recent and more high powered versions. For the moment the timeliness context continues to be a challenge in assessing LLM capabilities.

I need faculty to get on board with helping residents, post docs, phd students, masters students etc understand that you can only do a systematic review in less than 6 months if (a) there's only a tiny amount of evidence and (b) you're not doing anything else for those 6 months.

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With sorrow, we announce the passing of FOBAZI M. ETTARH 1989 - 2026. Fobazi changed so many lives with her friendship, love, and brilliance. She was so loved, and leaves behind a powerful legacy. We thank Fobazi's community for their support over the last several months of her illness. A private burial will be held for family. We will be in touch with further information about a future Celebration of Life event, as well as ways to support Fobazi's family and legacy.

a woman is standing in front of a display of ships and says " you broke your little ships " Alt: a woman is standing in front of a display of ships and says " you broke your little ships "

We don’t talk enough about Alfre Woodard’s performance in Star Trek: First Contact. Stunning. And among other things, brought out some of Patrick Stewart’s moments. He rarely had a partner who could meet his energy, but she did. 🖖🏽

Reproducibility and open science are great, but they don't necessarily equate to rigor. You can perfectly share a study and still draw weak conclusions. True rigor lives in the questions we ask, the designs we choose, and the inferences we make.

googling “how to intimidate groundhog”

LESSS 2026 - Register Register Now for LESSS 2026 June 15-18, 2026 11:30am - 3:30pm

#medlibs and #evidencesynthesis nerds - the next Library Evidence Synthesis Services Symposium (LESSS) is upon us and open for free registration 😊 sites.google.com/view/lesss/r...

now we need a Precision and Prejudice

YouTube video by Joseph Mellors MOIRA ROSE SAYING BÉBÉ FOR 60 SECONDS

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I used Claude to figure out where the option to turn off the AI Meeting Notes prompt is in Notion’s settings (it’s in Notifications).

Pitting one AI against another is how we win this thing, folks 😉

my paternal grandmother wanted nothing to do with computers or digital interfaces (“Too many buttons.” 🙂) and with her passing in 2013 she avoided a lot of more recent problems we’ve seen with technology…

A sign that says “this is a self-cleaning kitchen. Clean up after yourself”

Policy via signage is never my favorite option, but this reminder in our staff area always makes me smile. 🧼

in a real role reversal today i got to give a bandaid to a medical student at the reference desk.

#medlibs - a must read thread, especially for the indexing nerds 🤓

Meet Yuriko, who brings knowledge from the past into the present so more people can learn from it #Wikipedia25

Google AI Overviews put people at risk of harm with misleading health advice Exclusive: Inaccurate information presented in summaries, Guardian investigation finds

#medlibs Google AI Overviews put people at risk of harm with misleading health advice
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#medlibs #MedlibProblems Muscle memory forcing you to capitalize ANDs AND ORs in your day-to-day (non-search) communication.

“Let’s do a systematic review even if it’s empty!” 🤦‍♂️