Morning #medlibs
https://www.statnews.com/pharmalot/2025/01/26/trump-freeze-hhs-research-integrity-paper-pulled-from-journal/

"We’re about to be deluged with the most brazen and dangerous lies of our lifetimes."

Laura Helmuth has been flying free from SciAm for < 1 week and publishes a BANGER showing how RFK Jr. got where he is and why he's VERY dangerous. https://slate.com/_pages/cm3qctm2m0000lpkye5w6cw4v.html

Trans people do not pose a problem in restrooms.

Let. People. Pee. Seriously this isn't hard.

https://juliaserano.medium.com/transgender-people-bathrooms-and-sexual-predators-what-the-data-say-2f31ae2a7c06

Today's rendition of the game "is this AI hype from 2024 or 1974"?

"In three to eight years we will have a machine with the general intelligence of an average human being. I mean a machine that will be able to read Shakespeare, grease a car, play office politics tell a joke, have a fight. At that point the machine will begin to educate itself with fantastic speed. In a few months it will be at genius level and a few months after its powers will be incalculable."

Minsky ~1970.

I was just watching Drag Race and started imagining what Reviewer 2 roasts would be like:

Your citations are so outdated they've got Blockbuster cards.

Your arguments are so circular they're replacing the teacups at Disney World.

Your p-values are so high they were just cast in a Cheech & Chong movie.

Hi #LIS #InfoSci folks: If you're an ASIS&T member and interested in disability access to professional/scholarly events, we're looking for volunteers for a subcommittee to generate recommendations. HMU if you have questions or are interested.

I think this is such an interesting and important study. The findings aren’t surprising (that LLMs are reproducing debunked race-based medicine) but it has really obvious implications given eagerness for medical uses of chatbots. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41746-023-00939-z

Paying more attention to the health and social benefits of libraries is overdue. Libraries aren't just repositories for books, they're essential social infrastructure.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-paying-more-attention-to-the-health-and-social-benefits-of-libraries/?utm_medium=Referrer:+Social+Network+/+Media&utm_campaign=Shared+Web+Article+Links

https://bsky.app/profile/greyson.bsky.social/post/3kcvaazrcca22

@tim @wastewater Yeah, I mean it *has* been lower before, but that just seems unlikely right now, all of the sudden & given all other regions rising.

@wastewater Wonder what's going on on the North Shore? Is it possible they're falling while all other water districts rising, or some sort of measurement error?

Metro Vancouver wastewater COVID surveillance data was published September 29. The most recent test was September 25. #covid #covid19 #wastewater #vancouver #yvr

Skeet thread about it: https://bsky.app/profile/greyson.bsky.social/post/3kaianjxa5v22

I am finding myself spending more time & getting more interaction on Bluesky than here these days, but a bunch of my more techie colleagues are here, so I want to share this new publication out about digital "vaccine passports" - specifically results of an expert consultation about what we should learn from our Covid use of these in 2021-22: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.1177/20552076231203924 Would LOVE to hear your thoughts.

PhD applications are due in January, meaning I'm getting a lot of enquiries from prospective applicants now. This is pretty late to be doing that in my field, for a few reasons. Here's a thread I hope will be helpful to PhD applicants: https://bsky.app/profile/greyson.bsky.social/post/3kaah2cyy6q2i

Related, I'm honoured to be a Michael Smith Health Research BC Scholar. I'm in great company there & looking forward to improving health information interventions to foster vaccine confidence & cultural safety of vaccination services. https://twitter.com/HlthResearchBC/status/1701993213907873971

It's very challenging that institutional social media is still using Twitter for official communications, even though most of the communities to which I belong aren't very there anymore.

https://fortune.com/2023/09/09/ai-chatgpt-usage-fuels-spike-in-microsoft-water-consumption/ 🙄

Where are PhD students finding research internships or co-ops in information science, bioinformatics, information technology, etc. these days? I'm out of the loop; where are organizations recruiting keen PhDs who want some industry experience?