Lettie Y. Conrad, PhD

LibLynx by the Numbers: Looking Back at 2025 - LibLynx Last year was a big one for LibLynx! As we reflect on 2025 and prepare for a new year ahead, we are proud of our many achievements.

2025 was a year of 🩺 #listening, 🧪 #research, and 🧗 #scaling for LibLynx, and we've got big plans in progress for 2026! Here are 3 key metrics that reflect our achievements in the last year:
www.liblynx.com/news/liblynx... #yearinreview #2025review

Chefs’ Selections: Best Media Enjoyed in 2025 (Part 2) - The Scholarly Kitchen In the second of our Chef's Selections series for 2025, we pause to look back on the best books, music, shows, and other cultural expressions we encountered in 2025.

Today you can read part 2 of @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social chefs media recommendations of 2025 -more great suggestions from @acochran12733.bsky.social @lyconrad.bsky.social @jillmwo.bsky.social & @charlierapple.bsky.social
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/12/05/c...

This #givingTuesday donate to the @aaup.org legal fund here, www.aaupfoundation.org (“donate now” in upper right), or to their PAC by check to “AAUP Higher Education Horizons” (555 New Jersey Ave NW, Suite 600
Washington, DC 20001)

How to spot fake scientists and stop them from publishing papers Journals are considering doing identity checks to expose fake authors — but there are downsides.

"How to spot fake scientists" from @nature.com, www.nature.com/articles/d41... -- which offers a great example of why #scholarly #publishing needs solutions like the #STM researcher identity framework, stm-assoc.org/new-digital-...

LibLynx achieves ISO 27001 Certification - LibLynx LibLynx achieves ISO 27001 certification, the international standard for information security management systems

We achieved ISO 27001 certification! The international gold standard for info security! Not a milestone reached by very many in the #scholarly community. Read more about what it means for clients & what we learned along the way. #infosecurity #iso27001 #scholcomms
www.liblynx.com/news/liblynx...

How does acetaminophen work? Over-the-counter Painkillers 101 The president and his deputies tied autism to acetaminophen use during pregnancy. Refresh your knowledge on safe and effective use of common painkillers with these tips from health professionals.

Thank you, @npr.org, for being a steady channel of #fact-based #journalism. This sort of calm, clear, and unbiased reporting on #painkillers and #acetaminophen is a light in today's darkness! www.npr.org/2025/04/18/n...

Don't miss this year's New Directions Seminar -- an oasis of thoughtfulness in the chaos of fall conference season.
See you all there s👀n! #SSPND2025

"I didn’t plan to work in #scholarly #publishing. But now that I’m here, I’m all in." —Deja Forte 👇 must read!!

LibLynx presenting on Analytics, Identity & Access at NISO Plus 2025 Global - LibLynx Tim Lloyd and Michelle Urberg on presenting on Identity, Access, and Analytics at next week's 2025 NISO Plus Global conference

Join us at next week's @nisoinfo.bsky.social Plus Global event! @michelleurberg.bsky.social will speak to standardizing #usage reporting from aggregators, and Tim Lloyd will address the challenge of leveraging emerging digital #identity infrastructures. Don't miss it! www.liblynx.com/news/liblynx...

Tell Congress: Don’t Allow Nuclear Weapons Regulatory Process Loopholes Tell your member of Congress that the National Nuclear Security Administration must go through the proper regulatory channels for the production of nuclear weapons to ensure the safety and integrity o...

📢Call to action! Tell Congress: Don’t Allow Nuclear Weapons Regulatory Process Loopholes! @ucs.org #resist #scicomm #science secure.ucs.org/a/2025-congr...

#bugsky #bloomscrolling
#monarchbutterfly
This fella brings us to 170 healthy monarchs released this year in SoCal 🦋😎

Guys, I have a special & unusual request today. My cousin Sean is a union bus driver here in Los Angeles who was just FIRED in retaliation for saying he would not let masked ICE agents onto his bus to abduct riders. The fight is on to get his job back, you can help: actionnetwork.org/letters/send...

So appreciate @dacrotty.bsky.social "showing his math" on the tricky analytical gymnastics required to analyze the #scholcomms market!

Some eloquent and insightful discussion today about achieving full #accessibility in #scholcomms 👇 @loupeck.bsky.social

Thank you @rickanderson.bsky.social for putting these thoughts together so clearly and fairly. I appreciate your balanced and expert view on the tricky journey to increase #openaccess publications!

I’m begging, PLEADING, with people - please, please, please do not just assume that because an LLM “cites its sources” that what it says is right.

In addition to the well-known (I thought) problem where they make up sources entirely, they often “cite” sources that don’t contain the supposed info.

SSP Generations Fund: Partly Powered by LibLynx - LibLynx We’re proud to support the SSP Generations Fund, which is now partly powered by LibLynx thanks to our $5,000 contribution.

“...a community is only as strong as its next generation of leaders,” and we're proud to have played our part in meeting SSP's Generations Fund goals! #GenerationsFund www.liblynx.com/news/ssp-gen... @mdolechek.bsky.social @michelleurberg.bsky.social
@lyconrad.bsky.social

The NIH Public Access Policy: Q&A for Authors We’ve received many questions from authors, librarians, and research administrators about the NIH decision to accelerate implementation of its public access plan, going into effect on July 1, 2025.…

This is a really good and clear explanation for authors and institutions of their obligations under the new NIH Public Access Policy: www.authorsalliance.org/2025/06/06/t...

🎤 Meet the speakers:

Judith Russell - UF
Caroline Coward - NASA
@lyconrad.bsky.social - Independent Researcher and Consultant
Simon Holt - @elsevierconnect.bsky.social

🗓️ June 18 | 11 AM EDT

🔗 Register now: www.chorusaccess.org/events/choru...

#Accessibility #OpenResearch #ScholComm

I’d love to help 😊 you know where to find me when you’re ready to publish! ✏️

Love this (and that it’s “old” from 2020!) 😊 We gotta get you writing for @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social William!

The “invisible work” of editing is key to good writing (and thinking)!

On the left picture the red dot, on the right one a fingerprint. Multi-spectrum analysis led to the identification of a fingerprint from the red dot

Amazing new discovery: Oldest full human fingerprint discovered. A Neanderthal is believed to have dipped a finger in red pigment to paint a nose on a pebble around 43,000 years ago. The rock was discovered in the San Lázaro rock shelter in Segovia, Spain

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Packing some pink so @jenniferaregala.bsky.social will be able to spot me at #ssp2025!!!! 😍💗🧳✈️

So excited to see everyone in Baltimore! #ssp2025

"These wins are temporary and only as good as the extent to which they are upheld throughout the appeals process... Library advocates will not rest until libraries in every state receive the funding promised and IMLS is back in full" - ALA President Cindy Hohl.

This development is welcome news - but it is limited and temporary. We will not rest until IMLS and its funding are fully restored. #ForOurLibraries (2/2)

"Academic freedom-the ability to pursue the truth wherever it might lead, and to make publicly available what one believes is true ...[is] not the arcane privilege of an... intellectual guild, but a prerogative essential to the functioning of our Republic and the education of its citizenry."

💯

Guest Post - Public Access to the Endless Frontier - The Scholarly Kitchen Vannevar Bush's Endless Frontier has served as a blueprint for public investments in science for 80 years--a concept now facing great risk.

Fantastic post today in @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social by Alexa Pearce, looking at the pact set up by Vannevar Bush and FDR to drive scientific innovation in America, and where things stand today with both the dismantling of that enterprise and the new mandates for public access to research results

Another yummy Friday treat from our head chef, @dacrotty.bsky.social -- ya gotta cop this!!! @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social