Tomas Rees

Kudos and Oxford PharmaGenesis to provide best-in-class omnichannel medcomms Combining Kudos platform with Oxford PharmaGenesis' services helps pharma, biotech, and healthcare organizations take a strategic approach to omnichannel.

We are excited to announce a new collab with OxfordPharmaGenesis - combining their medical content & strategy expertise with our platform, microsites & metrics to help pharma, biotech, and healthcare organizations take a more strategic approach to omnichannel

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Finding your voice in research?
#academic #science #edchat #HigherEd #University #phdchat #acwri #writing

Declaration To Defend Research Against U.S. Government Censorship This Declaration is a call to action for the scholarly communication community and additional stakeholders to condemn and resist recent acts by the U.S. government to censor scholarly research. We ca...

And yet, where is the fight? #CollectiveAction and Calls to #Resist?

Bill, consider using your platform to sign/share DefendResearch.org's Declaration to #DefendResearch against US Govt censorship -- another swipe at academic freedom: tinyurl.com/3bwuc38f #StandUpForScience

But that's not because of lack of money in the system. American productive output is very high, it's just that consumption is even higher and very unevenly distributed.

WORKSHOP: Navigating Digital Challenges in Medical Publications and Communications: Privacy, Accuracy, and Social Responsibility Date: Wednesday May 14, 2025 Time: 1:00 PM – 4:30 PM EST Faculty: Speaker: Jim Potter, Executive Director, Coalition for Healthcare Communication Speaker: Leslie McIntosh, VP, Research Integrity, Digital Science Speaker: Tomas Rees, Director of Innovation, Oxford Pharmagenesis Speaker: Leslie Rotz, Vice President, Digital Strategy, Fingerprint Medical

If you're attending #ISMPP Annual, consider coming to our workshop on misinformation, disinformation and equity in healthcare communications. We have a great faculty and the topic is both timely and important! @lac241.bsky.social @ismpp.bsky.social

Speakers include hashtag #OxfordPharmaGenesis Chief Operating Officer Richard White. Monday, Mar 24, 2025, 1:15 PM - 2:45 PM CDT 📍 2nd Floor, Strand 10A, Hyatt Regency New Orleans

Session at #MAPS2025 - How can #MedicalAffairs become the driving force of your company’s Enterprise Leadership?

Explore benchmarking Medical Affairs competencies and capabilities, prioritizing efforts to elevate and innovate within Medical Affairs, practical tools, insights and inspiration!

Preprint sites bioRxiv and medRxiv launch new era of independence The popular repositories, where life scientists post research before peer review, will be managed by a new organization called openRxiv.

"exciting to see this key piece of infrastructure really get the attention that it deserves" @katiecorker.bsky.social on the new non-profit that will run bioRxiv and medRxiv www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Screenshot of 10 strategies for tacking mis- and disinformation. • Acknowledge the social nature of knowledge and build epistemic networks • Address mis- and disinformation directly • Build Nature of Science (NOS) knowledge • Ensure topics are socially relevant and meaningful • Model critical evaluation of how power and privilege influence information • Offer multiple sources of information • Offer opportunities for students to reflect • Provide explicit instructions on how to evaluate information • Support the development of scientific reasoning skills • Support perspective-taking.

Excited to see this special issue on ways to address misinformation, disinformation, and science denial in the Journal of Research in Science Teaching! Look forward to reading more about these 10 pedagogical strategies for tackling these issues!
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@douglombardi.bsky.social

Lunchtime viewing, starting now: Finding clinical trials with the ACT EU Trial Map | European Medicines Agency (EMA) www.ema.europa.eu/en/events/fi...

CCC launches AI systems training license - Research Information Collective license designed to help organisations comply with copyright laws for the use of third-party content

"CCC’s AI Systems Training License is aimed at simplifying how organisations can legally obtain a consistent set of rights across works in publishing sectors such as science, technology, medicine, humanities, business, news and media." www.researchinformation.info/news/ccc-lau...

The Policy Commons 2025 Open Collection is an initiative to rescue and preserve materials from government organizations facing the removal of public information and data—reports, blog posts, videos, and podcasts. coherentdigital.net/open-2025

Expanding article sharing on Kudos: now with Bluesky, Mastodon, and WhatsApp Kudos tracks sharing of research via Bluesky, WhatsApp and Mastodon

Kudos now has article share buttons for Mastodon and Bluesky! But if you're going to add a WhatsApp button, @growkudos.bsky.social then you should add one for Viber too blog.growkudos.com/news/expandi...

It was working for me earlier but it was down when I checked just now. Something is up.

A screenshot showing PubMed website cannot be reached.

PubMed has been down since yesterday.

It's the largest database of biomedical literature in the world with 37M citations.

If this is a result of Trump's NIH funding freeze, it's extremely bad news for scientific community not just in the US but across the world.

British pharma company GSK pauses diversity work citing Trump orders London-based FTSE 100 firm reviewing its policies, saying it is obliged to comply because US is its No 1 market

Shameful backsliding coupled with a pay rise to £22 million annually.

Development of Prompt Templates for Large Language Model–Driven Screening in Systematic Reviews | Annals of Internal Medicine Background: Systematic reviews (SRs) are hindered by the initial rigorous article screen, which delays access to reliable information synthesis. Objective: To develop generic prompt templates for larg...

We created & validated text prompts for LLM screening in systematic reviews. High performing. Could filter out 65-95% prior to human review or replace 1 human. Reduces cost. Christian Cao=superstar @uoft.bsky.social @ucalgary.bsky.social #Cochrane #LLM #AI www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...

Last call, #ISMPP BOARD OF TRUSTEES CALL FOR NOMINATIONS!
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Academia had it coming because intellectuals are key opposing force to money and academia is an important centre of power. Intellectuals have been under attack for decades for this reason (evolution, climate science, vaccines etc). The war on woke is just another form of attack on intellectuals.

Good Publication Practice (GPP) Guidelines for Company-Sponsored Biomedical Research: 2022 Update | Annals of Internal Medicine Translations These updated Good Publication Practice (GPP) guidelines include recommendations for publishing company-sponsored biomedical research. The GPP guidelines apply to peer-reviewed or peer-or...

Writing services can be legitimate, but companies or individuals providing services should follow guidelines such as good publication practice: www.acpjournals.org/doi/full/10....

The Scientific Literature Can’t Save You Now You can cite peer-reviewed research in support of almost any claim, no matter how absurd.

This is caused by the relentless pressure on academics to increase the volume of publications, which results in a firehose of mediocrity that's impossible to digest and critique. www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

A screenshot of the reply by our system ORKG Ask. The text says: The research on the impact of diversity, equality, and inclusion (DEI) on research quality suggests that addressing DEI challenges can lead to the identification and explanation of mechanisms crucial for social sustainability and the decreasing of the gap between research and practice . A diverse and inclusive research community has been found to result in higher-quality publications . Recommendations for enhancing equality, diversity, inclusion, and transparency in the pre-award research environment, based on discussions from stakeholders. Reflections on how to approach research on inequalities and alternative ideas to contribute applicable knowledge for social sustainability. A study concluding that a more diverse group has an advantage in terms of higher-quality publications. Another study supporting the finding that a diverse group produces higher-quality publications.

We posed the question "How do #diversity, equality and inclusion impact the quality of #research?" to our search tool ORKG Ask. This is the summary derived from relevant publications on this topic ⬇️
"A diverse and inclusive research community has been found to result in higher-quality publications"

Expand your expertise in #MedPubs and #MedComms at this year's Annual Meeting! Check out the full agenda and sign up today! https://buff.ly/3CTbK3W

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Chilling notices being added to CDC website pages. www.cdc.gov/mpox/hcp/vac...

Great thread, which mirrors my own experience with these tools.

Upholding Our Legacy of DEIA - The Scholarly Kitchen Reflections on the current moment from SSP’s Board of Directors.

An important statement from the Society of Scholarly Publishers: scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/02/14/u...

What if We Can't Rely on PubMed? - Absolutely Maybe PubMed is incredibly reliable. And a lot depends on it. It’s an ecosystem built around MEDLINE, the steady feed of new publications…

Hate that it has come to this, but it's time to consider PubMed vulnerable to enshittification. My latest post @plos.org discusses the lines we need to fight to hold – and alternatives we can rely on internationally:

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#medlibs

20 AI Tools for Research: A No-Nonsense Guide (Gordon Ramsay Parody) Right, listen up! If you’re still drowning in PDFs and wrestling citations like a headless chicken, you need these AI tools NOW.

I very much enjoyed this 'no nonsense guide to AI tools for research". Most of them are familiar to me, but there were a couple of new ones. #AI #medcomm www.animateyour.science/post/20-ai-t...

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