Been watching the election here in Vermont and relieved to see the results. Don’t know enough about the details to make any substantial comments but hopeful for future interactions between our two leaders.

Help us provide accurate medical information to patients! It’s what we do! #medlibs #canmedlibs

With everything happening in the US right now, how safe are scientific conferences for foreign participants in the US? I think this is something we have to discuss as a scientific community. I am hesitating to register for US meetings due to the unpredictable situation. Others who feel the same?

#medlibs

I used it for a small project analyzing journals and authors in neurology. I guess I can see how you might be able to get some terms with it, but feel like there would be better options.

Holy cow.

We need a bingo card for these types of webinars.

James Webb Satellite took a fantastic shot of the Planet Saturn with it's Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) and the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI). This is just an Amazing shot that shows the planet and the rings in brilliant detail.

Groundbreaking BBC research shows issues with over half the answers from Artificial Intelligence (AI) assistants Conducted over a month, the study saw the BBC test four prominent, publicly available AI assistants

Interesting news from the BBC about how poorly AI does using its content. www.bbc.com/mediacentre/...

I’m not aware of anything either but it seems like it would be a good idea, moving forward, to set up some kind of system that backs up PubMed/Medline info outside of govt. servers. Maybe someone does that already?

list of banned keywords

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

White House budget office rescinds order on federal grant freeze that sparked widespread confusion - The Boston Globe The move comes amid opposition from Democrats and advocates and lawsuits that have already been filed to oppose the original order.

A two-sentence memo from the Office of Management Budget canceled a previous memo issued two days before that had directed federal agencies to “temporarily pause all activities related to obligations or disbursement of all federal financial assistance.”

Trump rescinds freeze on federal funding The development follows a federal judge's order Tuesday that temporarily blocked the effort to pause federal payments for grants and other programs.

The Office of Management and Budget has rescinded its call for a pause on federal assistance, according to the agency's memo shared by Democracy Forward, which led a legal challenge over the effort.

GPT-fabricated scientific papers on Google Scholar: Key features, spread, and implications for preempting evidence manipulation | HKS Misinformation Review Academic journals, archives, and repositories are seeing an increasing number of questionable research papers clearly produced using generative AI. They are often created with widely available, genera...

Excellent study on the impact of AI-generated scientific papers.

misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/gpt-...

So glad that you are now on BlueSky!

OMG that’s such a huge help. Thanks a million.

How ChatGPT Search (Mis)represents Publisher Content ChatGPT search—which is positioned as a competitor to search engines like Google and Bing—launched with a press release from OpenAI touting claims that the company had “collaborated extensively with t...

ChatGPT’s “spectrum of accuracy”

www.cjr.org/tow_center/h...

As an acting interim director right now, I wish you a speedy search process!

I honestly don’t even understand why they were trying to do.

Second Life. OMG that’s right.

PRISMA IS A REPORTING GUIDE FOR SYSTEMATIC AND OTHER REVIEWS AND NOT JUST A CUTE DIAGRAM YOU CAN ADD TO YOUR PAPER SO AN OTHERWISE WORDY DOCUMENT HAS AN IMAGE

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That sounds about right.