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Reliability of LLMs as medical assistants for the general public: a randomized preregistered study - Nature Medicine In a randomized controlled study involving 1,298 participants from a general sample, performance of humans when assisted by a large language model (LLM) was sensibly inferior to that of the LLM alone ...

"In our work, we found that none of the tested language models were ready for deployment in direct patient care."

#medlibs

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Tell lawmakers to protect voting rights & reject SAVE 2.0! Every person in America deserves a voice and representation in our democracy - but President Trump & his allies in Congress are working to silence our voices with the SAVE America Act & the Make Elect...

All of us deserve a voice in our democracy - but President Trump & his allies in Congress are working to silence our voices with the SAVE America Act & the Make Elections Great Again Act. Tell your lawmaker to protect our right to vote! actionnetwork.org/letters/save... @aft.org

#LoveData26

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

While independent bookstores are giving out free whistles, hosting protest sign making events, and donating proceeds to mutual aid, Amazon is *checks notes* providing technology that assists ICE in their terrorizing of communities.

Independent bookstores deserve your support. Amazon does not.

Illustrated graphic titled “Symptoms of polio.” A child stands at the centre, surrounded by small icons showing symptoms: fever, muscle pain, loss of appetite, general discomfort, muscle aches, tingling in arms and legs, and weakness or paralysis in arms and/or legs.

Let's talk about #polio!

The virus can invade our nervous system and cause paralysis in just hours. Remember: 1 in 200 cases leads to irreversible paralysis (usually in the legs). However, thanks to vaccines polio can be prevented! #VaccinesWork

Stay informed and protect yourself and loved ones!

AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots

AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage by Cory Doctorow www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Is AI a Cognitive Trojan Horse? Could on-demand, seductively responsive and highly fluent AI models bypass our "epistemic vigilance" mechanisms, and present a novel cognitive risk?

"...the idea that emerging AI models are so appealing to us that it’s hard to resist inviting them into our cognitive lives, even though we still don’t know how they might potentially influence our thinking..." open.substack.com/pub/andrewma... h/t @pfanderson.bsky.social

What I’ve learned by mapping the impacts of NIH cuts The co-founder of SCIMaP looks at the year of NIH cuts — and what they say about the future of American research.

New 'First Opinion' piece in @statnews.com...

www.statnews.com/2025/12/18/n...

Disney Developing Live-Action ‘Gaston’ Movie From Writer Dave Callaham And Producer Michelle Rejwan Disney is in early development on a new live-action pic centered on the Beauty and the Beast character Gaston.

I do not want Gaston backstory, I do not need Gaston backstory, I reject Gaston backstory

he is a fully formed oaf, consuming eggs by the dozen in one of the greatest villain songs ever written, and that is all we need of him

In today’s ‘Vaccines Work, You Idiots’ news.

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."

There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

A note from the @acluofmichigan.bsky.social to start the day.

A Researcher Made an AI That Completely Breaks the Online Surveys Scientists Rely On We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people.”

straight to jail www.404media.co/a-researcher...

(I'm joking, but god what another horrible stake to the heart for the future of science.)

Research integrity conference hit with AI-generated abstracts The first of three themes for next year’s World Conference on Research Integrity will be the risks and benefits of artificial intelligence for research integrity. In an ironic and possibly predicta…

In an ironic and possibly predictable turn of events, the conference has received “an unusually large proportion” of off-topic abstracts that show signs of being written by generative AI.

NIH is hiring a new Director for NLM.

I would love to see an actual librarian in this role

hr.nih.gov/careers/open...

It's very concerning that the Literature Selection Technical Review Committee was terminated and there's little awareness of it. This has me concerned that more predatory/crap science will become part of PubMed. #medlibs

In rural America, scarce doctors battle misinformation as they practice medicine Conspiracy theories about health fill a vacuum created by the lack of doctors in many rural communities. Meanwhile, doctors in these areas say patients have become increasingly distrustful and sometim...

I try to be empathetic and see other people’s biases and mistakes and compare them to my own. We’re all human.

But I find it really hard to understand taking Mel Gibson’s medical advice over my own oncologist.

www.npr.org/sections/sho...

📣The RDAP Summit call for proposals is now open! This year’s theme: Practical, Personalized, Impactful: Research Data in the Real World 🌎

Summit Dates: April 13 to 16, 2026 (virtual) 📆

Proposal Deadline: November 14, 2025 ⌛

More Information: rdapassociation.org/summit

"Community is how we get through" 💯💯💯 #MDLS25

IASSIST - International Association for Social Science Information Service and Technology IASSIST is an international organization of professionals working in and with information technology and data services to support research and teaching in the social sciences and beyond.

Thanks for breakfast, @iassistdata.bsky.social at Midwest Data Librarian Symposium! #MDLS25 iassistdata.org

A crowd-sourced repository for valuable government data
DataLumos is an ICPSR archive for valuable government data resources. www.icpsr.umich.edu/sites/datalu... #MDLS25

Photo of Jane Goodall in the center, signing a book, with three women standing slightly hunched behind her. A very young Michelle is to the right, smiling.

As a primatologist, Jane Goodall was a huge inspiration to me. I admired the way she describes chimpanzee behavior with such detail and empathy, and she’s inspired so many people and advocated for chimpanzee conservation and welfare.

However, I'm dismayed at what her narrative leaves out (1/10)

Alberta baby born prematurely dies due to measles, in province's first death | CBC News Alberta is reporting its first measles death since outbreaks of the highly contagious illness began in March. The province says a baby, who was born prematurely after the mother became sick, died shor...

This is a tragedy, and so utterly unnecessary and sad 👇 Is this really what people want to go back to?

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Your fall 2025 vaccine guide Here’s what academic experts recommend to combat seasonal respiratory illnesses amid conflicting advice from the CDC, medical societies, and state coalitions.

Great resource from AAMC about fall vaccines and recommendations for who should get them: Fall 2025 vaccination guide www.aamc.org/news/your-fa...

BREAKING: UN Declaration On Noncommunicable Diseases Fails To Win Approval After US Foils Consensus - Health Policy Watch NEW YORK CITY - A painstakingly negotiated Political Declaration on Noncommunicable Diseases with overwhelming support from UN member states failed to win

It’s one thing to withdraw from global health

It’s another thing to block other nations from global initiatives and goals

NO ONE COUNTRY SHOULD HAVE SO MUCH POWER!!!

healthpolicy-watch.news/un-declarati...

I realized I didn't share a gift link. Please read and share! I know you already know about the refrigerator mother myth,* but most people don't, and I really think it's important context for what's happening here.

*actually you might not! Now you do!

www.startribune.com/trump-rfk-jr...

Job posting! Data Curation Specialist for Health Sciences - University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2... #datalibs #medlibs