Clara Fowler

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Just a reminder that PubMed is affected by the government shutdown. For more information pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

This shutdown was completely avoidable if President Trump and the Republicans who control the government had decided to address the healthcare emergency they created in their July omnibus bill rather than defund the government. www.aft.org/press-releas...

Integrating the university library into teaching and learning: why and how Where is the library positioned within your institutional structure? Steve Briggs makes the case for integrating it into the teaching and learning unit

How should the library fit within your university’s structure? Steve Briggs argues it belongs at the heart of teaching and learning: www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/integ... #HigherEd #AcademicSky #EduSky

WHO statement on autism-related issues Follow @WHO for the latest updates

WHO statement on autism-related issues

The World Health Organization (WHO) emphasizes that there is currently no conclusive scientific evidence confirming a possible link between #autism and use of acetaminophen (also known as paracetamol) during pregnancy

Full statement bit.ly/47YsgwI

The integration of clinicaltrials.gov into Embase is becoming a problem with ILL. Folks think they are requesting an article, but no. Had to create a cancellation reason for it, directing them to our reference service point if they want us to see if anything has been published yet. #medlibs

And the World Health Organization www.who.int/health-topics/

There are still good and valid sources of information available including the European Centre for Disease Control and Prevention www.ecdc.europa.eu/en

Residing in conservative states is impacting the mental health of US LGBTQIA+ students—national study suggests | EurekAlert! www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

Over the weekend, the “sandwich thrower” posters went up all over DC. Instant icon of resistance.

A remix of Banksy’s mural: not a Molotov, not a rock, but something just as disruptive, a hoagie hurled with defiance.

Gender Data Would Be Off-Limits Under Proposed NIH Policy A draft rule would bar scientists funded by the agency from collecting data about gender identity, following other steps the administration has taken to restrict research on LGBT topics.

SCOOP: The NIH is moving to prohibit funded scientists, inside and outside the agency, from collecting data about gender, according to a draft policy I obtained. It’s part of the NIH’s aggressive crackdown on gender-identity research. www.chronicle.com/article/gend...

Texas birders heartbroken as popular wildlife haven shuts down Birders are calling for restoration and access.

Birders are calling for restoration and access.

We are currently in Year 5 of the existing funding cycle. Under typical circumstances, the new RFA would have been released in June; however, it is now anticipated to be issued after the current cycle concludes on April 30, 2026. A "gap year" or a “Year 6” is expected with no additional funding, with the next funding cycle set to begin on May 1, 2027. During that interim year (May 1, 2026 – April 30, 2027), many, if not all, Regional Medical Libraries and Offices will be closed. As a result, NNLM is not expected to offer funding opportunities, professional development, or related services during this time.

Potentially catastrophic behind-the-scenes news about the Network of the National Library of Medicine (www.nnlm.gov) shared with me today.

While some NNLM host institutions were able to float the offices while funding was paused or delayed in 2025... it is unlikely that happens again.

#medlibs 📚

#medlibs

End the School Board Takeover Slate: Meet the Candidates · Texas Democratic Party If you are not from Houston, you may not know that the state has taken over our School Board. It's a long story but we are fighting it! Despite the state takeover of HISD we will still be having HIS...

I'm attending Swing Left's event, “End the School Board Takeover Slate: Meet the Candidates” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/texasdemocra...

Elsevier journal under fire over ‘AI-generated’ review comments Researcher who waited nearly two years for rejection claims ‘nonsensical’ criticisms of his paper must have been chatbot-generated

Academic criticises suspected use of chatbots in peer review after he was given lengthy instructions on improving his statistical analysis – despite not including any statistics in his rejected paper www.timeshighereducation.com/news/elsevie... via @jgro-the.bsky.social

Ismael Rafols Garcia Ismael Rafols is a senior researcher at INGENIO (CSIC-UPV, Univ. Politec. València) and UNESCO Chair on Diversity and Inclusion in Global Science at CWTS. He studies S&T evaluation, foresight and rese...

Discussion re: #PathOS findings #OSMonitoring2025:

Q: What kinds of "impacts" are relevant? Something that helps develop a better tool to sell vs. something that saves lives in clinical work...which is more important? Ismael Rafols asking: www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmemb...

Tony R-H, " #OpenScience is a hybrid coalition. Many are coming to this movement with different requirements/priorities. Diff constituencies want different things. Repro/RI issues = transparency focus. FAIR =enabling participation. "Open" is a "boundary object" in this context.

#OSMonitoring2025

In 2023, the Texas Water Development Board commissioned a study on Flood Early Warning Systems (FEWS). It identified 16 existing detection systems in Texas including the excellent system in Harris County (see page 56). www.twdb.texas.gov/publications... #texasfloods

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics…

The additional $80,000 that Noem received from the dark money group in 2023 represented a significant boost to her roughly $130,000 salary as South Dakota governor.

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How a Supreme Court justice's paragraph put the Voting Rights Act in more danger Justice Neil Gorsuch tacked on a handful of sentences to a 2021 Supreme Court ruling, planting the seeds of a legal fight that could further weaken Voting Rights Act protections for people of color.

3. For decades, private individuals and groups have brought most of the lawsuits for enforcing the Voting Rights Act's Section 2.

But GOP state officials began pushing a novel argument against a "private right of action" after SCOTUS Justice Neil Gorsuch put out a single-paragraph opinion in 2021:

An infographic about the UV index. The top section reads: "The UV index is an indicator of when the sun is most dangerous." Below, it states: "When the UV index is 3 and above, protect yourself from the sun." In the center, there's an illustration of a smartphone screen showing a UV index scale: Low (UV index 1–2): Green, sun protection not required Moderate (UV index 3–5): Yellow, sun protection required High (UV index 6–7): Orange, sun protection required Very High (UV index 8–10): Red, sun protection required Extreme (UV index 11+): Purple, sun protection required A call-to-action in a yellow box reads: "Be aware of the UV index, wherever you are. Download the SunSmart Global UV App," with logos for the App Store and Google Play.

The UV index tells you when the ☀️ is most dangerous. When it indicates 3 & above, you need sun protection.

Download the SunSmart Global UV app to protect yourself from overexposure to #UVradiation & lower your risk of skin cancer!

Great writeup from @skepchick.org, as always. Thanks for citing me! (and ngl, I'm fanboying a little bit here)

Appeals court blocks Louisiana law requiring Ten Commandments in classrooms Critics vowed to sue after Gov. Jeff Landry (R) signed the bill into law in June 2024.

A federal appeals court on Friday blocked a Louisiana law requiring public school districts to display the Ten Commandments in all classrooms, calling it unconstitutional.

Social Security stops reporting call wait times and other metrics The changes are the latest sign of the agency’s struggle with website crashes, overloaded servers and long lines at field offices amid Trump cutbacks.

Alex Lawson, executive director of the Social Security Works advocacy group, said the data removals “hide how much they’ve destroyed the system’s customer service.”
“If they think this lack of transparency will fool the American people, they’re in for a surprise,” Lawson said.

I still can't get past the idea that people in America are now supposed to accept that this is a valid form of law enforcement and just assume it's fine when random dudes in groups with face-coverings, no ID, no warrant, & no uniform grab people off the street and force them into unmarked vehicles

Alt NNLM An archive of videos that have been or we suspect will be removed from the official NNLM YouTube. Not affiliated with NNLM or NLM.

"An archive of videos that have been or we suspect will be removed from the officiaI NNLM YouTube."

#medlibs 📚

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Voice of America’s Farsi-language broadcast, dismantled under Trump and DOGE, was abruptly reactivated today, recalling dozens of staff from paid leave as tensions between Israel and Iran escalated.

But keep telling us how they care about the debt and efficiency. This colossal waste will stand as a historic monument to his malignant narcissism.

‘Half the tree of life’: ecologists’ horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects A new point in history has been reached, entomologists say, as climate-led species’ collapse moves up the food chain even in supposedly protected regions free of pesticides

Entomologists say the catastrophic collapse of insect populations in regions supposedly protected from pesticides, like in Costa Rica, represent a turning point in history. www.theguardian.com/environment/...