Kristin Whitman

Implications of AI-powered academic search - Recorded Talk Quick catch-up to what I have been writing and thinking about

[Blogged] Implications of AI powered academic search open.substack.com/pub/aarontay...

Number 2 seems to be the most important one, and it seems like everyone forgets to look at the sources! They forget especially that the generated text is NOT an "authored" text.

Just saw this announcement that NNLM's Region 5 grant funding has been reinstated?!? #Medlibs news.nnlm.gov/region_5/r5r...

Humans win! 🥇 #MLANET25 #medlibs

Dang I missed this! Whose presentation was this if you don’t mind me asking?

RFK Jr.'s HHS Orders Lab Studying Deadly Infectious Diseases to Stop Research NIAID's Integrated Research Facility is one of the few federal facilities charged with studying Ebola. Tuesday afternoon, all of its work was put on indefinite pause by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s departm...

RFK Jr. ordered the NIH’s Integrated Research Facility in Frederick to stop all research on serious infectious diseases yesterday at 5:00 PM.

They study pathogens like Ebola there. You may be familiar with it from The Hot Zone.

www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...

Many many thanks!!!!!

Another year of not being important enough to get invited to any of the vendor parties at #mlanet25 haha

EBM is a great idea in theory, but as has been noted: "theory and practice are the same in theory, but in practice they're different".

Screenshot of email from IES director saying that ERIC, the largest library of education research in the world, will be continuing its work

ERIC lives!

I think it is called Pheedloop Go?

For anyone attending #MLAnet25 who's also antsy about scheduling, I just downloaded the conference app PheedLoop Go! and it seems complete. I was able to log in with the email I registered with and it shows me the full schedule.

Also, tell me about your presentations/posters!

#medlibs

Gaaaahhh. Of interest to #medlibs ...so happy we pay so much to publishers for high quality work like this!

#medlibs

Sharing this to remind myself to put this into Google Translate later!

#medlibs #datalibs

I’m hearing that some #medlibs will be unable to attend #MLAnet25 due to travel & funding freezes. And now we learn that the McGovern Lecture is cancelled, plus the PubMed/NLM updates. WOW.
But MLA has announced more travel grants of $1000. Deadline is 4/10 so if you need that assistance, go for it.

Nightmare

we just lost all 7 of our Network of National Library of Medicine, Region 5 (NNLM) library workers.

the grant that covered their salaries was terminated.

this is heartbreaking and demoralizing.

My OG #medlibs home.

I was their 1st intern in 2007.

Their Fed grant saved my new hire hide from State-funded budget line FTE layoffs in UW Libraries in 2009.

I've never forgotten that I should have gone as so many brilliant Asst Libs did then.

I am gutted and very, VERY angry.

the horrors persist, but so DOI (a doi is a persistent identifier for academic papers, e.g. 10.1000/182)

#academicsky #librarysky #libsky #skybrarians #medlibs do u guys like persistent identifier memes?

Hot off the presses. It was an absolute pleasure to put this together with @liblaura.bsky.social!

Takeaways:

1. Don't assign systematic/scoping reviews to your students!
2. Don't ask your university librarian to support this terrible idea!

journals.indianapolis.iu.edu/index.php/hy...

Next time I'm struggling to schedule a meeting or writing an agenda I'll think, "the living, the miraculous task of it."

A fellow librarian shared this: a poem called "For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper" ❤️https://poets.org/poem/student-who-used-ai-write-paper

#medlibs

Are you a scientist — or do you know someone — with federal funding who is making serious plans to leave the US so you can continue your research?

I'd love to talk with you for a story I'm working on.

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