@mlrethlefsen.bsky.social
medical librarian, etc. Opinions my own, etc, etc.
Wow, that’s quite the indexing
06.10.2025 12:54 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Couldn’t have done it without Sara Schroter and ability to conduct peer review research from @bmj.com
27.09.2025 14:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
View of a the Duck Pond, surrounded by lush trees and a pathway with people sitting on benches. Foreground features rocky terrain.
View from a green park chair overlooking the Duck Pond surrounded by lush trees in a well-maintained park.
A serene scene featuring a wooden bridge over a tranquil pond, with tall grasses in the foreground and lush greenery in the background.
A scenic view of a fountain in the center of the Duck Pond, surrounded by lush trees and a clear sky.
We've never been more quack. I mean back...
Welcome back Duck Pond! 🦆
Read about the improvements made to the heart of campus.
bit.ly/4mdVomR
Between the lines only
11.09.2025 13:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0They dissolved the committee that made decisions, is basically what it is
10.09.2025 23:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0A @bmj.com RCT is comparing effects of use of an #OpenScience checklist on provision of study protocols, code, data, more. Too early to assess reproducibility FX!
@mariskaleeflang.bsky.social @ingestegeman.bsky.social
@floriannaudet.bsky.social @mlrethlefsen.bsky.social @amsterdamumc.bsky.social
Had a great time working with Ayu and team on this project! (Maybe it works, maybe it doesn’t; still pending full results) #prc10
05.09.2025 15:51 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A research poster
A research poster and two people
I’m pleased to experience the 10th Peer Review Congress and present with @mlrethlefsen.bsky.social!
Our poster examines the perceptions and experiences of librarian peer reviewers for evidence synthesis methodologies. #prc2025
It is incredibly annoying that this new NIH so-called gold standard science plan uses the exact opposite definition of reproducibility and replicability from the NASEM report. Why, just, why?
28.08.2025 15:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0So proud; my husband is teaching all of his colleagues how to do comprehensive author searches in multiple databases
23.05.2025 20:33 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0And in better news, my library has network cable from 1993 that is still in use
26.03.2025 00:10 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0we 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.
Finally published! Thanks to my many colleagues who contributed. doi.org/10.1136/bmje...
13.03.2025 14:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Image shows the JAMA brand logo with the quote, "The silencing of this scientific discourse directly threatens the professional oaths that many have taken." Below the quote, the text shows: "JAMA editors, JAMA Network Editors in Chief, and JAMA editorial leadership."
In a new Editorial, JAMA editors, JAMA Network Editors in Chief, and JAMA editorial leadership address the recent executive orders that have impacted the scientific process and reaffirm their commitment to scientific and editorial integrity.
ja.ma/4b5LsIt
Almost all grant-review meetings under Trump 2.0 remain suspended at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), preventing the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research from spending much of its US$47 billion annual budget.
https://go.nature.com/4gM6oW4
Just finished reading Doctored, by Charles Piller. Distressing read, but highly recommend. It was good timing for teaching my rigor and reproducibility journal club this semester
22.02.2025 21:50 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0I joined Twitter in April 2007, so I kept hoping it would go back to normal. Not so much.
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