Alison Bethel

@abeth.bsky.social

Information specialist enjoying Devon life

🚨 PREPRINT 🚨 In our systematic review and meta-analysis, we tackle a challenging evidence base to show that administering antibiotics to beef cattle increases the abundance of antibiotic resistance determinants (bacteria and resistance genes) during and after antibiotic administration 💊🐂 (1/n).

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Effects of antibiotics on the abundance of antibiotic resistance determinants during and after antibiotic administration to beef cattle: A systematic review and meta-analysis of longitudinal studies https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.31.729110v1

"We have to build trust differently. We have to understand fear not as a barrier to participation, but as data in its own right." New reflections blog from Knowledge Mobilisation Fellow John Stammers challenges how we think about engagement with hard to reach groups👇 tinyurl.com/mpmfaprt

Rethinking “Hard to Reach” - PenARC

What does it really mean when we describe people as “hard to reach”? And who, in reality, is doing the reaching? In this blog, Knowledge Mobilisation Fellow John Stammers reflects on his work alongsid...

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Want to develop your #EvidenceSynthesis skills or literature searching? Places still available on our online courses - come and join us!

Judy Wright @jmwleeds.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Book Now! #MixedMethods #SystematicReview online courses, Mar 2026 bit.ly/2QbD1DV Live interactive sessions, pre-recorded lectures & workbooks by experts. When & how to integrate data for complex ques #LitSearch & EndNote @katysutcliffe.bsky.social @eppicentre.bsky.social @auhe-leeds.bsky.social

We often talk about corporations influencing research, but what about governments? 🧐 New paper by PhD student Helen Senior shows govt-funded public health research isn’t immune to influence - both positive and negative. Check it out 👉https://tinyurl.com/yjpkhtfk

How governments influence public health research: a scoping review

Abstract. Governments can become involved in academic research to assist in public health decision-making. However, when governments become involved, the r

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Raphaël Grolimund shows us a very cool video on how you can use Zotero for much more than just reference managing - in fact, you can use it during the entire process of a systematic review. Good news for the #medlibs not at #EAHIL2025, he shared a video of this at the end peertube.ch/w/qvgAhaVuGZ...

Zotero for Systematic Reviews (EAHIL 2025)

3 minutes talk presentation support at the European Association for Health Information and Libraries (EAHIL) conference in Lodz (Poland) in June 2025 The video has no audio as it was used as it rep...

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