Kate Saylor

Does Clarivate understand what citations are for? Clarivate's new 'Nexus' product is integrity-washing.

"With Nexus, Clarivate are essentially integrity-washing synthetic text, giving it an academic sheen without any academic rigour." www.hughrundle.net/does-clariva...

Open Access (storefront sign) by Gideon Burton is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.

We've tackled an ongoing challenge for U-M researchers & authors: locating publications covered under transformative agreements that offer a discount or full waiver for article processing charges (APCs) to publish as open access. Read about it: https://myumi.ch/G2nj4

I don't want a city on Mars.
I don't want AI in every app.
I don't want data centres in space.

I want clean water.
I want a stable climate.
I want bees to survive.

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.

Donate to Honoring the life of Fobazi Ettarh: Funeral & other costs, organized by Ysabel Gerrard NEW UPDATE Dear readers, This isn’t the update I was … Ysabel Gerrard needs your support for Honoring the life of Fobazi Ettarh: Funeral & other costs

This week we lost one of the brightest lights in the library world. Fobazi Ettarh was an incredibly generous human with the most amazing mind. Her work on Vocational Awe was transformative. We can return her gift by supporting her wife and family: gofund.me/cf5d5f82e.

The MLA User Experience and Systematic Review Caucuses regret that we will have to cancel the planned Favorite Features & Sneaky Solutions: Database Tips Lightning Round that was scheduled for Thursday, March 5, 2026. Thank you to those who submitted proposals. While we unfortunately will not be able to feature any new tips, we encourage searching enthusiasts to check out the lightning rounds from October 2024 and February 2025 and to keep an eye out for possible future events of this kind. Thank you for your understanding!

#MLAUXCaucus #SystematicReviews #medlibs ‼️3/5 EVENT CANCELLATION: Favorite Features & Sneaky Solutions: Database Tips Lightning Round ‼️

at its peak the show did more in 15 seconds than some do in their entire run

Why every scientist needs a librarian Librarians can be key research partners who help to scour the literature, manage data and make science open.

#medlibs Why every scientist needs a librarian www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.

Born #onthisday in 1868, the US sociologist + civil rights activist W. E. B. Du Bois. Celebrate with a look at the stunning hand-drawn "infographics" he made with his students, depicting conditions of African-American life in 1900: publicdomainreview.org/collection/w... #otd #BlackHistoryMonth

Suprematism, by Nikolai Suetin, 1920-21, 📸 by @tiltoncreative

yikes and yikes - I thought that was a Kardashian

A man holding a camera is reflected repeatedly in a mirrored elevator, creating an optical illusion of infinite reflections. Text reads: Tired of internet echo chambers?

When our information sources narrow, our understanding does too.

An echo chamber is an environment where people encounter information or opinions that reflect and reinforce their existing beliefs. 🧵⬇️ (1/2)

Can ChatGPT generate me a file with all the references from a bibliography I have in word? I tried this out because I'd heard from multiple sources that it could, and I teach and use software for managing references, and this would be a really useful thing to be able to do. #medlibs (thread)

The AI bros (who clearly don't understand AI) in the comments are hilarious. "ask stupid questions, get stupid answers". LLMs have no concept of how intelligent a question is, and they certainly were not designed to deliberately give stupid responses if they deem your question too stupid. 1/?

Franzi Schimmer captured this Grizzly bear in Brooks Falls, Alaska just floating along, tippy-tapping down the river, browsing the salmon.

Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.

Are AI Tools Killing Review Articles? Two Failure Modes Suggest Otherwise arXiv recently restricted review article submissions in computer science, requiring journal or conference acceptance before deposit. They noted specifically that the change was driven by an “unmanagea...

"Even if you patiently iterate—rephrase, expand, steer—today’s tools still tend to reproduce the existing shape of the literature rather than challenge it. And for reflexive, field-shaping work, that’s the whole game." #SystematicReviews #medlibs #EvidenceSynthesis

Tip #64: Resource links for EBSCOhost's new UI: roadmaps and release notes and help files, oh my! #MLAUXCaucus #medlibs #ExpertSearching #SystematicReviews "Bite-size tips for expert searchers." uxcaucustips.blogspot.com/2026/02/tip-...

Tip #63: Customization of the new EBSCOhost UI: turning on EBSCOhost's Advanced Search Results Page #MLAUXCaucus #medlibs #ExpertSearching #SystematicReviews "Bite-size tips for expert searchers." uxcaucustips.blogspot.com/2026/02/tip-...

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Why do the gov food guidelines look like Cards Against Humanity??

oooohh! tell me more about this activity! This is only our second year doing anything for LDW. We have a couple silly data charting activities that have been suprisingly popular. This meme contest sounds fun!!

That was definitely the most popular giveaway 😆

Happy Love Data Week to all of my data nerds out there. The theme this year is "Where is my data?" and you can be sure that @datarescueproject.org has some ideas. 😉

#LoveData26 ❤️🛟

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#LoveData26 at Taubman Health Sciences Library with @gracefulhope.bsky.social

CFP: Favorite Features & Sneaky Solutions: Database Tips Lightning Round! Favorite Features & Sneaky SolutionsDatabase Tips Lightning Round! A UX & SR Caucus joint event onThursday, March 5, 1pm-2:30pm Central(2pm Eastern, 12pm Mountain, 11am Pacific) The User Experience...

Calling MLA #medlibs! Unleash your search superpowers & inspire your colleagues! MLA's UX and Systematic Review Caucuses welcome proposals from expert searchers to present at the March 2026 Favorite Features & Sneaky Solutions event! More info and link to submit: docs.google.com/document/d/1...