marijane white, mslis
@marijanewhite.bsky.social
data & research engagement librarian @ oregon health & science university I fight entropy and I find things she/they #medlibs #code4lib #scholcomm rdfs:seeAlso: @marijane.bsky.social
uhhhh does anyone know what's going on with icite.od.nih.gov
First #FiveMinuteFriday in years! The Pairwise PubMed Generator from Marijane White. Take a look and see if it will help you with your PubMed #proximity searches. youtu.be/32i0SO0LwPI?...
Five Minute Friday | Pairwise PubMed Generator
YouTube video by Carrie Price
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I wonder what Calvin Mooers would think of generative AI chatbots. asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Mooers' Law or Why Some Retrieval Systems Are Used and Others Are Not
Click on the article title to read more.
asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
The current US administration’s #prejudice against #scientists from other nations must stop, for the sake of the #health of humans around the world. www.science.org/content/arti...
Lawmakers propose banning all U.S.-Chinese research collaborations
Critics say bill would weaken U.S. science by cutting flows of ideas and talent
science.org
📚 Librarians (especially those involved in professional orgs): this also covers IMLS, and includes an explicit ban on using federal grants to attend conferences except where specifically approved.
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌@chanda.blacksky.app · 2mo agoNEW: A lot of bad has happened to American science over the last year but nothing comes even close to what’s about to happen if we don’t speak out in opposition to the OMB rule changes and I hope @aaas-socsci.bsky.social @apsphysics.bsky.social and others will launch public campaigns about this. 🧪🔭⚛️
“Normally, a junior faculty would just need to focus on writing grants and publishing papers, and instead, I’m fighting for the right to still be a scientist.”
The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 3mo agoResearchers at a national primate center in Oregon have formed a grassroots nonprofit to argue against the center becoming an animal sanctuary, a transition the facility’s host university has been exploring since February. By @callimcflurry.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/nonhuman-pri...
I'm catching up on NNLM Region 5's regular newsletter and am really annoyed to see Autism Speaks listed in the Resource Spotlight section. This is a general reminder to not support that group because Autistic people say not to, for myriad reasons. If you want a better resource, try ASAN.
This is an incredible documentation of the systematic, intentional collapse of American health science, by Elizabeth Ginexi. open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...
I Wrote Research Funding Announcements for NIH for 22 Years. This Year They’ve Published 14
How NIH went from 756 funding announcements to 14 in two years — and what it means for every disease that depends on federal research
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Tip#65: Search String Theory - Applying pairwise combinatorics to PubMed searches #MLAUXCaucus #medlibs #ExpertSearching #SystematicReviews "Bite-size tips for expert searchers." h/t @marijanewhite.bsky.social uxcaucustips.blogspot.com/2026/03/tip6...
Tip#65: Search String Theory - Applying pairwise combinatorics to PubMed searches
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An objection to AI I find persuasive is "no one can keep up with this pace of change." If there was a 0.5-speed lever on this thing I might pull it.
A more complete set of voices in a companion piece. www.cnn.com/2026/03/05/h...
The people — and research — lost in the NIH exodus | CNN
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Jeremy Berg@jeremymberg.bsky.social · 5mo agoCompelling story from KFF News/CNN Listen to the sound clips to get a clear sense of what has been happening at NIH. www.cnn.com/2026/03/05/h...
Good scientists are leaving NIH. Counter to the quote from HHS, NIH is struggling to recruit qualified scientists to replace them. My own role sits empty. NIH cannot replace me since I am still employed but prevented from working. This admin is gutting science. www.cnn.com/2026/03/05/h...
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need a quick Python REPL, but you're away from your main computer? but you also need libraries like numpy and scikit-learn? the python.org homepage has got you covered
Current NIH leadership want you to think they are using rigorous, consistent & scientific processes to screen studies to align them with agency priorities. But the process that they have put down on paper is a sham. It’s important to know NIH is not following its own guidance. Here’s why: 🧵1/
Is your patent data missing from your ORCID record? 💡 Most tools miss innovation outside journals. Join us 19 March to see how The Lens brings patent data from 100+ jurisdictions to your profile. Register now. #ResearchSky
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Automate Your Impact with The Lens + ORCID How can researchers spend less time on data entry and more time on discovery? In this Enabling Value webinar, we feature The Lens to showcase how their open discovery tools allow researchers to automatically enhance and maintain their ORCID records. We’ll take a deep dive into the Lens Profiles, a powerful bridge that connects global scholarly literature and global patent data directly to your ORCID iD. While many tools handle journal articles, The Lens is a leader in tracking innovation. Whether you are a researcher looking to sync your latest publications and patents, or an ORCID member institution looking to streamline workflows for your faculty, this session will show you how to unlock the full potential of interoperable scholarly data. What You’ll Learn: Syncing Scholarly Works: How to use The Lens to identify missing publications and sync them to your ORCID record in bulk. Capturing Patent Impact: How to integrate patent data from over 95 jurisdictions to ensure your inventions are credited alongside your research. Streamlining Workflows: How ORCID member organizations can leverage The Lens as a "force multiplier" to reduce the manual reporting burden on faculty. Automating Record Maintenance: How to enable "set-and-forget" syncing to keep professional profiles current with minimal ongoing effort.
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AHRQ has been hit even harder than NIH. They have no grant making staff at all.
Jeff Linder@jefflinder.bsky.social · 5mo agoThis isn't good. AHRQ Funding Opportunities for Primary Care, Demonstration and Dissemination, and Health Services Research cancelled. A reminder that #AHRQ, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, is the only part of HHS strictly dedicated to studying and improving health care delivery.
Apart from ::gestures broadly::, I've decided to take the plunge and set up a (small) endowment fund at the NCSU Libraries Stayed there overnight quite a bit back when I was homeless (nearly 30 years ago now 👴🏼🫠) and want to give something back to them
in a real role reversal today i got to give a bandaid to a medical student at the reference desk.
Headline from Science: “U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 #STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office.” www.science.org/content/arti...
Here’s the deal with the FY26 NIH funding bill: One line in the 1000+ pg bill = significantly less science. The increase to ~40% of grants moving to MYF is estimated to result in a 35% decrease in the NUMBER of NIH grants funded annually—moving the paylines from 10% to around 4%. THIS IS BAD.
I met an absolutely lovely academic who asked whether my department back home is affected by ICE -- a question dramatizing how little info is getting out. For the record, the small example I chose: My dept has a carpool to pick up grad students of color who can't safely commute to campus alone.
📢All updates to the guide to applying are being released quarterly ✅Version 2.7 In this update we address shared copyright, a new requirement for Subscribe to Open (S2O) journals, and clarify some wording #OpenAccess #BestPractice #QualityCriteria #Copyright #S2O 🔗 blog.doaj.org/2026/01/12/u...
In the real world, Texas desperately needs more foreign trained doctors. But in GOP world, you drive them away with bans, surveillance, and fees.  www.texastribune.org/2026/01/09/t...
Texas changes law to attract foreign-trained doctors
Texas joins 17 other states that are making it easier for foreign medical graduates to work as doctors here. About a quarter of the state’s licensed doctors were trained outside the U.S.
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[blogged] Why Ghost References Still Haunt Us in 2025—And Why It's Not Just About LLMs aarontay.substack.com/p/why-ghost-...
Why Ghost References Still Haunt Us in 2025—And Why It's Not Just About LLMs
Ghost references existed long before LLMs. This post examines how Google Scholar's [CITATION] mechanism and web pollution may undermine RAG verification.
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The Senate version of the NIH appropriations bill has language that limits the use of multiyear/upfront funding. Please call your Senators and Representatives to make sure it is in the final bill. We must stop the brain drain in our research workforce before it's too late.
Glad to see Congress doing some oversight of new NIH policies. www.congress.gov/crs-product/... Number of new awards is way down since Trump took office, despite NIH spending the same amount of money.
INBOX: Former NIAID director Jeanne Marrazzo is suing the Trump administration. She alleges the NIH violated her constitutional rights and illegally fired her after she blew the whistle on actions that jeopardized public health and violated federal law.
