Alexandra #Eala records her SIXTH top 10 win of the season, beating Elina Svitolina, and sets the tennis court alight with her incredible talent .....and her heart of gold 💛 #WTA #AlexEala #MubadalaDCOpen

Automated indexing in MEDLINE (scoping review). Happy to chat about any of the topics. Skip to the good part(s)! #medlibs jmla.mlanet.org/ojs/jmla/art...

BC Nurses - Job Action, July 8th Re: the UBC Biomedical Branch Library at VGH and the Diamond Centre is closed until further notice. Feel free to slip into dms or via email dean.giustini@ubc.ca Hours updates for the library can be viewed here: hours.library.ubc.ca#view-biomedi...

Remembering Keith Bunnell (KB) (1951-2026): UBC reference and collections librarian. He was a dear friend, colleague, one of the first librarians I came to know from the time I arrived in Vancouver as an 18 year old. His memory is a blessing. padlet.com/dean_giustin...

Remembering Keith Bunnell (KB) (1951-2026):

dear friend, colleague, UBC reference and collections librarian (please leave a photo, a memory or story below)

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♥️

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This stray cat asks this boy with his paw if he's trustworthy. When he feels safe, he lies down on his lap. Original post

Incredible goal by Canada's Stephen Eustáquio🇨🇦, from Leamington, Ontario. If you want to do something legendary, score for your country in the last minutes of the elimination round of #FIFAWorldCup 2026. Thrilling!

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Interesting paper. Information retrieval will always collapse with the gradual distortion towards AI slop, even with iterative "deep" data fixes. Many of the insights in this 2026 arXiv paper are worth considering in the context of RAG-powered AI arxiv.org/abs/2602.16136 github.com/dongchankim-...

Retrieval Collapses When AI Pollutes the Web

The rapid proliferation of AI-generated content on the Web presents a structural risk to information retrieval, as search engines and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems increasingly consume ...

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Automated indexing - 61,717 Artificial intelligence glossary 57,383 Elicit.com 44,737 Search Tools Used in Literature Reviews and Comprehensive Searching 44,717 AI Copyright Lawsuits 39,498 Perplexity 37,787 Open Evidence 37,026 Artificial intelligence (AI) 35,971 1/2 wiki.ubc.ca/User:DeanGiu...

Consider contributing a small amount in memory of our wonderful friend, mentor, teacher, Ronald Hagler. A Ronald Hagler Prize will be given to a librarian or archivist pursuing a career in cataloguing, metadata creation or book history. Read more here / quote from me: ischool.ubc.ca/news/in-hono...

In Honour of Dr. Ronald Albert Hagler: Supporting the Next Generation of Scholars - School of Information

Professor Emeritus Dr. Ronald Albert Hagler taught at UBC School of Information from 1961 to 1999. Dr. Hagler was a deeply respected scholar, educator and mentor who inspired many cohorts of students ...

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1,000,000 views. Yup, one (1) million. wiki.ubc.ca/Knowledge_Sy... Don't let anyone tell you "No, it can't be done that way"

This platform .... hasn't really panned out that well, or the way I had hoped. I remember the halcyon days of promoting microblogging, lol Ah well. There's always linkedin.com

How are researchers using AI to perform / supplement traditional GL searching? "...Such approaches are generally intended to complement traditional grey literature search methods rather than replace them. AI tools may be particularly useful where..." wiki.ubc.ca/Artificial_i...

Moltbook is a new Artificial intelligence (AI)-only social network... URL: www.moltbook.com Purpose: A platform where software agents post, comment, and vote creating discussions that resemble human activity. I consider the implications of this new social network here: wiki.ubc.ca/Moltbook

moltbook - the front page of the agent internet

A social network built exclusively for AI agents. Where AI agents share, discuss, and upvote. Humans welcome to observe.

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In our automated indexing review we recommend librarians up their game (including me) re: "Vector-based searching and vector embeddings" wiki.ubc.ca/Vector-based... NLM's MTIX algorithm uses vector embeddings to convert words, phrases & documents into numeric representations before indexing...🤔

Our scoping review on MEDLINE indexing manuscript was submitted yesterday but I was able to generate a handy infographic via #Copilot @Copilot based on abstract. 🗂️ Note sections on searching: implications for librarians and #algorithmic effects in #MEDLINE #medlibs

I'll ADD "Less AI, More Human-In-The-Loop Models". 👨‍👨‍👧 OK, more health sciences librarians (and other librarians) in the loop, also. I may try to put into practice more "LOUD SINGING" 🤣

Reporting guidelines in medicine in the AI era! Here's CHART 2025 and summarized on my wiki: wiki.ubc.ca/Chatbot_Asse... CHART is "...designed for studies that evaluate generative-AI chatbots when used to summarize clinical evidence or to provide health advice"🍁 #librarians #medlibs

Thanks to the convenors of the @medlibassn.bsky.social "Systematic Review Caucus" for hosting me. I think we had about 70 participants but here is the data from the two polls I adminstered during my presentation📚

"Which of the following (including experts) sources do you use primarily to stay current with AI developments in evidence synthesis?” ✒️MLA “Systematic Review” caucus 🗽Library Association webinars e.g., CHLA/ABSC, MLA 📕Aaron Tay aarontay.substack.com 🛟Key journals 🤣Other? Please comment, thanks!

Three (3) years with emerg docs. But "mission accomplished"; hope it makes an impact 🥳 Cunningham, Bobrovitz, Shanmugaraj, Giustini D, Collins. Defining emergency physicians' consultative roles in emergency care: a scoping review. CJEM. 2025 Nov 3. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41182684/

Defining emergency physicians' consultative roles in emergency care: a scoping review - PubMed

Emergency physicians assume multiple consultative roles within health systems. We define "consultative emergency medicine" as a core competency of emergency physicians focused on the provision of advice to other care providers on individual patient care or health services for conditions that require …

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Top twelve (12) Entries by "Most to Least Views: wiki.ubc.ca/User:DeanGiu... Knowledge Synthesis (KS) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) Related Topics... #artificial_intelligence #knowledge_synthesis

50+ entries on #knowledge_synthesis topics, #artificial_intelligence issues in libraries, and AI powered search tools such as #Elicit, #Undermind & @openevidence.bsky.social Amazing - 250,000 views in a short period. Browse for info: wiki.ubc.ca/User:DeanGiu...

"Why physicians need the counsel of a skilled medical librarian in the era of artificial intelligence (AI)". Oct2025. British Columbia Medical Journal By implementing interim measures, the CPSBC can mitigate Library’s closure & make a commitment to evidence-based care. bcmj.org/letters/why-...

Consensus.app is an AI-powered search tool using #Copilot based on LLM; ask a question, click on search, get an answer with bullet points / references to published papers. No fake citations—but summaries have errors. wiki.ubc.ca/Consensus Talk to your librarian folks about using other sources, too.

This open textbook (or wiki channel) is intended to help librarians and other information professionals learn about #AI. It is not, in itself, meant to be seen as promotion of #AI. 50 entries in 6 weeks; 125,000 views. Seems a hit.🎯 wiki.ubc.ca/Knowledge_Sy...

Here comes ASTA — scholarly research assistant w/ coverage via corpus of 108M+ scholarly abstracts & 12M+ full text in Semantic Scholar. Initiative of Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) "to accelerate scientific discovery through trustworthy open-source agentic AI." Untested. wiki.ubc.ca/Asta_(agenti...

Automated indexing wiki.ubc.ca/Automated_in... 🖊️NLM uses neural network technology to index MEDLINE 💹Since 2024, NLM has indexed millions of papers using AI ⤴️Tools such as Undermind.ai and Elicit.com will destabilize subject indexing, so I'm doing research proving that the latter is still needed.

"OCUL Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning Survey August 2025" Kari Weaver, AI & Machine Learning, Program Manager - how to advance objectives & values of academic librarianship in AI era "to understand training needs of library workers in Ontario universities ..." ocul.on.ca/sites/defaul...

Will Google Scholar survive the AI-powered bots? and AI-powered search tools? Time will tell. wiki.ubc.ca/Google_Scholar