Sometimes when I’m asked if I’m a robot, I really wish I could say yes. 🤖
Melinda Davies
@melindadavies.bsky.social
she/her. Medical librarian currently based in Portland OR. Previously of Southern California and Southeast England. Big fan of junk food and Sade.
I would happily watch a 15 minute video on the fonts used on the jerseys of the teams in the World Cup.
Another recent takeaway regarding men at events I vend at. When women find something they are interested in, their dudes don’t engage with it they just act impatient until the woman they are with leaves with them. If you’re w/a lady & she is enjoying something maybe pick it up & engage in it w/her.
My body is not a temple! It is at best a decaying Victorian mansion with hints of former glory and at least one very scary ghost
Amanda Ross-White, Health Sciences Librarian at Queen's University, speaks on most common mistakes people make when developing a search strategy. Learn more about JBI's search strategy methodology in the JBI Manual for Evidence Synthesis at https://ow.ly/rZrv50YyZof #JBIEBHC #JBIMethodology
"Research funding from the National Institutes of Health generated $94.15 billion in new economic activity across the nation in 2025, with a return on investment of $2.57 for every $1 invested." www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
NIH Research Grants Drove A $94 Billion National Economic Impact In 2025
NIH research funding generated $94.15 billion in new economic activity across the nation in FY 2025, with a return on investment of $2.57 for every $1 invested.
forbes.com
Once again, children can receive the HPV vaccine as young as age 9. If you're in the US, don't wait for your provider to bring it up - reach out to them and ask! Get your kids vaccinated while the vaccinating is good!
NB COVID info@nbcovidinfo.bsky.social · 11mo agoReposting with alt-text because it feels good to share wonderful news!
Mr Mel mathed it out and said we’ve spent ~7 years of our marriage just asleep next to each other
Non-USA #medlibs might find this useful www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
What does a government shutdown mean and why is this year’s more serious?
The US government has shut down because Congress couldn’t reach a funding agreement. Here’s what to know about what happens next
theguardian.com
Janice Kung@janicekung.bsky.social · last yr.What. Is. Happening.
🧵I couldn't quite make myself look at the new MAHA report, so I settled for today's opinion piece in the Washington Post: wapo.st/4mf4Ma7 As a #medlibs and #SystematicReview / #EvidenceSynthesis person, I of course had a look at the links/citations they include. Let's go over them, shall we?
Opinion | Linda McMahon and RFK Jr.: Children need natural sources of mental health
Overzealous use of therapy can cause the crises it claims to cure.
wapo.st
“"Those signs aren't made in basements. They're made in professional printing offices and they cost a lot of money," he said.”
Melinda Davies@melindadavies.bsky.social · 2y ago#standupforscience #medlibs
![Sign texts is a pubmed search that reads
NOT ("Censorship, Research"[Mesh] OR "Propaganda"[Mesh] OR "Fascism"[Mesh] OR (censor*[tiab] OR propaganda[tiab] OR fascis*[tiab] OR (oppressive[tiab] AND (state[tiab] OR states[tiab] OR government*[tiab] OR power[tiab] OR powers[tiab])))](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:m74f4wirudhnwpjrttc2j7h5/bafkreibmaumqzydeq5xettcykyeg2nligvxmmhdhkvd6m2rilg5jprrtou)
It can be so hard advocating for yourself. If you are succeeding at it, well done, you got this. If you are struggling with it, take a breath, drink some water, keep trying. You’re not done yet.
1/ This is a long 🧵, so buckle up & I hope you read till the end. The HHS Secretary, is planning to remove all 16 members of the USPSTF the expert panel that decides which preventive services (cancer screenings, HIV prevention meds) must be covered by insurers under the Affordable Care Act.
100 health groups sound alarm after ‘abrupt’ cancellation of USPSTF meeting. The influential task force dictates whether health insurers must cover preventive services such as mammograms and low-dose CT lung exams, which now may be in jeopardy. radiologybusiness.com/topics/healt...
Senator, 100 health groups sound alarm after ‘abrupt’ cancellation of USPSTF meeting
The influential task force dictates whether health insurers must cover preventive services such as mammograms and low-dose CT lung exams, which some say could be in jeopardy.
radiologybusiness.com
"Secretary Kennedy declared that HHS has failed to address root causes of disease, mandating radical restructuring of HHS. Yet the USPSTF is a clear success. It interprets evidence and makes guideline recommendations that are widely trusted and followed..." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Health and Human Services Restructuring—Threats to the US Preventive Services Task Force and Health
This Viewpoint discusses restructuring of the USPSTF while ensuring that its functions are safeguarded to avoid destabilizing vital public health infrastructure.
jamanetwork.com
I'm wfh and someone is watching the first Jurassic Park in the other room. How am I supposed to work in these conditions?
How are folks handling #copyright when it comes to using things like chatGPT/Claude/CoPilot for #evidencesynthesis tasks. E.g. using CoPilot to do QA/bias assessments, or Claude for data extraction. Do you use only open article pdfs? Has anyone seen any work on this? #systematicreviews #medlibs
“No CDC childhood vaccine was ever placebo-tested.” False. Our crowd-sourced sheet lists 24 saline-placebo RCTs for 7 schedule vaccines: 1 Rotavirus (8 RCTs) 2 Hib (5) 3 Hep B (4) 4 Varicella (3) 5 Hep A (2) 6 Measles/MMR (1) 7 Influenza LAIV (1) Data 👉 bit.ly/3EuYzqI @bradspellberg.bsky.social
Placebo-Controlled Vaccine RCTs (Living List)
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I’ve just finished book 5 of The Saxon Series, audiobook, and I see that book 6 has a different reader again. That will be the 4th so far. I hate this.
Best strawberries 🍓 in the world. Thanks to the farm workers. The striped mountains in the background are Topatopa.
United Farm Workers@ufw.bsky.social · 2y agoRoman shared this photo with us from Oxnard CA sharing: it was drizzling why we were working earlier, but luckily, it cleared up. The view and the air are perfect and we're hoping to get in a few more hours as we only make minimum wage at this time of year. #WeFeedYou
In 15 yrs of reporting, I've never had so many health & biomed researchers & outreach orgs tell me they're afraid to talk w/press or barred from speaking bc of new comms policies. I understand the fear of losing funds. I don't know if silence does more harm than good. If you can speak up, pls do.
Call your trial/device/score/tool something that doesn’t already come up in the corpus challenge. Winner gets to have their research found without making life hard for their peers. Even an odd spelling will get you points eg the TRYAL trial is a bzillion times better than the TRIAL trial.
In light of this deeply illegal activity at NSF and the ongoing attack on American science, I'm posting the slides from my 2017 talk at the American Physical Society about the Nazi take over of German physics/why German is no longer science's lingua franca 🧪 🧵 1/26 drive.google.com/file/d/1_MCm...
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌@chanda.blacksky.app · 2y agoLAWLESS NSF: Every NSF employee who is following the director on this funding freeze and fishing expedition is in violation of US code. per the post below, this language has been reauthorized twice, most recently by Biden in 2022 as the CHIPS Act. www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/... 🧪
Had a chat with a good friend recently and she mentioned how much her boycott efforts have actually positively impacted her savings
Thinking about how researchers or academics can mitigate the professional impact of removing their name or withdrawing papers that have been rewritten to comply with #censorship
Wondering if any of the academic publishers or database providers have made any comment or are doing anything wrt the indirect rate cut down to 15% eg Elsevier, Ebsco, Wolters Kluwer/Ovid #medlibs surely many library resource budgets will be impacted.
