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Genevieve Gore
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Health sciences librarian at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. We may seem to be screwed, but let's keep trying.

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Retraction Watch @retractionwatch.com · 6d
One journal editor in chief called the results “concerning,” while another thought the analysis was looking for problems on purpose.
‘Elite cohort’ of biz school scholars and editors scratch each others’ backs, study finds
Image: Mohamed Hassan/Pixabay Academics who publish frequently in two top business journals often have prior working relationships with the editors who handle their papers, according to a new analy…
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Peter Johnson @libraryvines.bsky.social · 8d
#medlibs - an interesting proposal, and seeming more necessary as the complexity of AI tool details and uses in #evidencesynthesis work increases:

Transparent Reporting of AI in Systematic Literature Reviews: Development of the PRISMA-trAIce Checklist. doi.org/10.2196/80247
Transparent Reporting of AI in Systematic Literature Reviews: Development of the PRISMA-trAIce Checklist
Background: Systematic Literature Reviews (SLR) build the foundation for evidence synthesis, but they are exceptionally demanding in terms of time and resources. While recent advances in Artificial In...
doi.org

Reposted by Talbot Imlay, David Murakami Wood, Geneviève Gore

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 9d
Another poison pill buried in Mark Carney’s budget: a repeal of a reduced postage rates for books and shipments between libraries.

Libraries across the country are sounding the alarm for what it would mean for the viability of another essential public institution.
Libraries say budget proposal to end shipping program would be 'catastrophic | CBC News
Libraries across Canada say a proposed change in the federal budget bill would end their ability to ship books at reduced rates, threatening interlibrary loan programs and possibly forcing the closure...
www.cbc.ca

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Eric Muller @elmunc.bsky.social · 11d
Admiral Holsey notified me/
He wouldn't blow up boats so they put him out to sea

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Adam R Houston @healthlawadamh.bsky.social · 12d
🤔"Nunavik ends year with record number of TB cases, as officials promise funding announcement to come"
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #tuberculosis
Screenshot of the first three sentences of the linked article

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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 13d
“Quebec is doing nothing, absolutely nothing," said Innu Nation caribou lead Guy Bellefleur. "The communities with knowledge of the caribou are realizing that they have to take responsibility for the species that has always been their symbol."

www.aptnnews.ca/featured/inn...
Innu Nation forum slams Quebec government for caribou inaction
Innu Nation forum slams Quebec government for inaction to protect endangered woodland caribou and collapsing George River herd
www.aptnnews.ca

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Oni Blackstock, MD MHS @oniblackstock.bsky.social · 13d
Dr. Mary T. Bassett is one of the bravest people I have met in my lifetime - her moral compass and commitment to justice are unmatched. Shame, shame, shame on Harvard. Her ouster is shocking yet unsurprising and on brand for the University.

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Harvard Dismisses Director of FXB Center for Health and Human Rights | News | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard forced out the director of the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights — another shakeup at a center whose programming on the Israel-Palestine conflict has been a flashpoint...
www.thecrimson.com

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Aaron Tay @aarontay.bsky.social · 14d
If I had ONE tip for librarians testing "Ai search" products is focus on relevancy. If you had time for just one query , test with a "tricky query". There is no one defintion of tricky, but a query that can easily return dozens/hundreds of relevant articles is definitely pointless to test! (1)

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Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · 16d
How do large language models interpret words relating to probability like “unlikely,” “probably,” or “almost certain"?

The below shows what happens when we compare judgements from different models to a benchmark dataset of human judgments (data from: github.com/zonination/p...).

Reposted by Greg Linden, Geneviève Gore

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Conspirador Norteño @conspirator0.bsky.social · 16d
As Bluesky grows in popularity, so does the industry of spam-for-hire services attempting to exploit it. Google searches for the query "buy bluesky followers" abound with numerous examples of strangely similar websites peddling bogus Bluesky followers, reposts, and likes.
screenshots of 12 different websites allegedly selling Bluesky followers

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Genevieve Gore @genski.bsky.social · 18d
Problems with CAQ’s Constitution www.lapresse.ca/actualites/e... and petition against it: m.assnat.qc.ca/fr/exprimez-...
Projet de constitution | Attention ! Danger pour la démocratie du Québec
L’adoption d’une constitution pour le Québec pourrait être un processus rassembleur, un geste fort qui cimente notre identité et rehausse notre fierté nationale.
www.lapresse.ca

Reposted by American Library Association, Geneviève Gore

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Richard Higgins @zen0effect.com · 19d
Carnegie Mellon deciding at the last minute that they can't host the annual Code4Lib conference is some lame fuckery.
Text: Recently, the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights (OCR) ordered Carnegie Mellon University to review all third-party partnerships for compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act. As part of this review, the university determined that aspects of Code4Lib's diversity scholarship program raised compliance concerns under Title VI and Title IX.

Reposted by Lesley A. Hall, Geneviève Gore

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Retraction Watch @retractionwatch.com · 19d
A review article concluding the weed killer Roundup--aka glyphosate--“does not pose a health risk to humans” has been retracted 8 years after documents released in a court case revealed employees of Monsanto, the company that developed it, wrote the article but were not named as coauthors.
Glyphosate safety article retracted eight years after Monsanto ghostwriting revealed in court
Credit: Mike Mozart/Flickr (CC BY 2.0) A review article concluding the weed killer Roundup “does not pose a health risk to humans” has been retracted eight years after documents released in a court…
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Kat Steiner🔸 @kastrel.bsky.social · 20d
Think you're good at spotting suspicious papers? Retraction Watch have a challenging advent calendar inviting you to spot what's wrong each day: papermills.tilda.ws/advent2025 #medlibs
Advent2025 4
papermills.tilda.ws

Reposted by R. M. Wilson, Geneviève Gore

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Brittlestar @brittlestar.com · 20d
Almost everyone who touts the benefit of private healthcare is hoping to profit from private healthcare.

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Aaron Tay @aarontay.bsky.social · 23d
And its not like I know everything in retrieval either. I barely know anything about linked data/knowledge graphs and I don't fully understand videos on youtube.com/@ashleighfai... eg triple store vs Property graphs , though graphRAG looks fascinating... as I said retrieval is crazy broad
Ashleigh Faith
Welcome to the IsA DataThing channel, created by Ashleigh Faith! This is a non-profit educational channel focused on demystifying Symbolic AI, knowledge graphs, taxonomy, machine learning, semantic se...
youtube.com

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Raywat Deonandan @deonandan.bsky.social · 24d
Pretty much ANY statistic you see cited to frighten you about vaccines comes from the VAERS database. (Including the recent evidence-free missive from Vinay Prasad). Here's why VAERS can NEVER be a proper source for population-level vaccine risk estimates.

Thread [1/9]

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 28d
This is disappointing

Canada’s cuts to the Global Fund will fuel reversal of progress on HIV, TB, and Malaria

www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/canadas-cuts...
Canada's cuts to the Global Fund will fuel reversal of progress on HIV, TB, and Malaria | Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...
Canada's reduced pledge to The Global Fund reflects recent aid cuts, a shift from its previous leading role in fighting AIDS, TB, and malaria.
www.doctorswithoutborders.ca

Reposted by Stephan Lewandowsky, Luke Moffett, Geneviève Gore

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · Nov 23
If you're looking for a Sunday morning read, our website team spent a lot of time writing code to make the animations on this article work, so give it a look, will ya?
www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-...
Building on Ruins: The Russification of Mariupol, One Apartment Block at a Time - bellingcat
Bellingcat has identified 23 multi-storey housing complexes being built in occupied Mariupol and advertised for sale to Russian citizens.
www.bellingcat.com

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Bohyun Kim @bohyunkim.bsky.social · Nov 21
New blog post! “What I Think About AI When I Hear About AI: A Slightly Unconventional View” - www.bohyunkim.net/blog/archive... (or read on Substack bohyunkima2.substack.com/p/what-i-thi...) #libraries #AI #ML
What I Think About AI When I Hear About AI: A Slightly Unconventional View
The first occasion that led me to think about artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in the context of libraries came in early 2017, shortly after AlphaGo had beat the world champion o...
www.bohyunkim.net

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The Onion @theonion.com · Nov 20
Rogue Scientist Has Own Scientific Method https://theonion.com/rogue-scientist-has-own-scientific-method-1819568501/
Rogue Scientist Has Own Scientific Method

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WHO @who.int · Nov 20
🚨 Misusing antibiotics can affect everyone.

#AntimicrobialResistance (#AMR) occurs when bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites no longer respond to medicines. Drug-resistant bacteria can spread and make infections harder to treat.

Let’s handle antibiotics with care. Learn more 👉bit.ly/AMRweek2025

Reposted by Melanie C. Green, Dean Eckles, Geneviève Gore , and 1 more

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Stephan Lewandowsky @lewan.bsky.social · Nov 16
Very cool post, thanks for finding our initial paper on this issue interesting. Turns out we had another one just out, where we extend the idea of critical ignoring and relate it to the detrimental consequences of information overload: doi.org/10.1016/j.co... 1/n

Reposted by Dan Brockington, Paolo Crosetto, Geneviève Gore

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Stefanie Haustein @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca · Nov 13
Over the past months (and at least 11 versions!), I was lucky to work with 11 amazing colleagues on a call to action to reform academic publishing.

Not another declaration, but an appeal to our powerful friends, research funders & institutions, to Stop the Drain of Scientific Publishing. 1/n

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Aaron Tay @aarontay.bsky.social · Nov 12
Interesting new Google Scholar PDF button feature scholar.googleblog.com/2025/11/mark...

Reposted by Andreas Wagner, Geneviève Gore

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404 Media @404media.co · Nov 6
Librarians told 404 Media they're being inundated with new pitches for AI library tech and catalogs are being flooded with AI slop books.

But more broadly, AI maximalism across society is supercharging the ideological war on libraries, schools, government workers, and academics.
AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
www.404media.co

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who.int
WHO @who.int · Oct 19
International #LeadPoisoning Prevention Week starts today.

Leaded fuel was banned around the world in 2021.

But lead can still be found in paint used in:
🏡 homes
🚸 schools
🛝 playgrounds
🪀 toys

Let’s ban lead in paint. 🔗 bit.ly/4qblGcM
An infographic with the title “FACT: Lead is toxic.” It explains that lead is harmful to everyone and damages the reproductive system, kidneys, liver, blood, and brain. It shows three groups affected: Young children: most vulnerable because their nervous systems are still developing; they absorb 4–5 times more lead than adults, which can cause intellectual disability, poor school performance, and behavioural issues. Adults: lead exposure increases the risk of ischemic heart disease and stroke. Pregnant women: lead exposure damages many organs and affects the developing fetus.

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · Oct 18
The teeny tiny No Kings things in very red areas are so huge

Say like five or six people show up. None of them knew each other before. Suddenly they’re all friends. And maybe from that you get a group that does longer-term organizing that can punch *way* above its weight considering where it is

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Oct 18
This morning my ChatGPT quota was inexplicably exhausted.

It took a while but I pieced it together. Voice mode somehow got activated when I went to bed.

The bot then engaged in a 10 hour conversation with my snoring dog, answering questions the pup wasn’t asking and praising him for his insight.

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · Oct 9
Though Israel and its allies have derided Palestinian resistance groups for holding hostages in Gaza, Israel itself is holding thousands of Palestinian hostages, both dead and alive, in its own prisons.

At least 250 Palestinian bodies have not been returned to their families.