Tracy
@tcshields.bsky.social
personal account | opinions are my own and all that | too curious for my own good | avid reader (no, I probably won't share because y'all might get judgey) | she/her | #medlibs 🦀 #EvidenceSynthesis #SystematicReviews | 🌈 🌻
Hola! Be a part of the first-of-its-kind survey on Hispanic/Latin* #medlibs librarians led by Dr. Sandra Desjardins and the @medlibassn.bsky.social Latinx Caucus. Plz consider filling out the survey and sharing with your library networks. #librarysky #skybrarians 📚 redcap.musc.edu/surveys/?s=E...
Whoohoo! It's Fat Bear Week! 131 Marshmallow is looking fluffy. katmaiconservancy.org/fatbearweek
Katmai Conservancy | About Fat Bear Week | Join the Conservation Celebration
Discover the story of Fat Bear Week, a celebration of resilience and survival among Katmai's bears. Vote for your favorite and support conservation efforts.
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Another day, another #medlibs job posting where the hourly rate/salary is abysmally low, like insultingly so. Especially for position that requires a Masters degree and is full time. DO BETTER, libraries and library leadership.
Today in #EvidenceSynthesis and reading #SystematicReview methods: "A systematic search of the NCBI Database" - I guess that means PubMed? Also, the way I absolutely loathe extra/unnecessary parentheses in searches, I want to rage so hard. 🙃 #medlibs Source: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
#medlibs and @medlibassn.bsky.social : Has something borked up the listservs again? I haven't gotten any emails from caucuses or other emails. Is it just me? Ever since they switched to the new website nothing has worked well. I miss old school listservs
#medlibs - PCOS is getting a new name: polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome (PMOS). Will have to see if MeSH follows. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
That this is a thing at all is galling, but coming out at the start of Mental Health Awareness month is especially egregious. I am here today and a functioning member of society because of antidepressants. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/s...
Kennedy Starts a Push to Help Americans Quit Antidepressants
nytimes.com
#medlibs heads up, this book is coming out July 7 and definitely getting put at the top of my TBR: www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
Harsh Medicine
Why Women Can't Get Ahead in Science and Health Care
press.jhu.edu
People who insist on double spaces after periods in text are the bane of my existence. STOP DOING THAT.
a little girl in a red and purple dress is giving a thumbs up and the words `` stop it '' are behind her .
ALT: a little girl in a red and purple dress is giving a thumbs up and the words `` stop it '' are behind her .
media.tenor.com
The plot thickens! As folks review the final version, "reads like AI" and "needs polishing" have been invoked by someone who is now offering substantial edits and comments that would have been helpful oh, 2 months ago.
a man is covering his face with his hand and saying `` seriously '' .
ALT: a man is covering his face with his hand and saying `` seriously '' .
media.tenor.com
Tracy@tcshields.bsky.social · 7mo agoReading inserted comments in a work document with a lot of collaborators is more entertaining than it should be. You can see the pettiness just seeping out. No amount of emojis can save some async interactions.
This is heartbreaking and infuriating. AHRQ does such important, vital work. My #medlibs introduction to #EvidenceSynthesis is directly tied to AHRQ - specifically the Evidence-based Practice Centers they funded. rollcall.com/2026/04/07/n...
‘Nobody answers’: The unraveling of a patient care research agency
A small federal agency responsible for studying how health care works for patients is largely dormant despite receiving millions of dollars from Congress for research into antibiotic resistance, healt...
rollcall.com
#medlibs www.pewresearch.org/science/2026...
Where Do Americans Get Health Information, and What Do They Trust? | Pew Research Center
(PIKSEL via Getty Images) About this research This Pew Research Center report looks at Americans’ views on health information and how they view their own health. Why did we do…
pewresearch.org
i don't want to live through one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World
I've been thinking about this lately, esp. as it applies to burnout. When you add in all the unpaid labor libraryland requires to function, the salaries become even more egregious. And don't get me started on the specialized skill set needed for library work - looking at you, #medlibs.
Matthew Noe@noethematt.bsky.social · 7mo agoI love comics and I love libraries, but both demand so much unpaid labor that it is a miracle any of us last longer than a decade in these spaces.
Reading inserted comments in a work document with a lot of collaborators is more entertaining than it should be. You can see the pettiness just seeping out. No amount of emojis can save some async interactions.
a panda bear is standing in a kitchen next to a man and a chef .
ALT: a panda bear is standing in a kitchen next to a man and a chef .
media.tenor.com
Reading this article and watching these videos are so rage inducing. That these boys dictated what projects were rejected is sickening.
404 Media@404media.co · 8mo agoSo @josephcox.bsky.social watched over six hours of this deposition featuring DOGE staffer Justin Fox who, when asked how he defined “DEI” kept saying he needed to refer to the EO. Highlights here:
I just had to monitor my facial expression for 90 minutes so now i need my blank wall time ok
#medlibs and others in #libraries or library-adjacent spaces: If you haven't encountered cardcatalogforlife.substack.com, there's some really thoughtful discussions around AI, information literacy, and how to think about our interactions with information. Good stuff.
Card Catalog | Hana Lee Goldin, MLIS | Substack
Teaching you how to think like a librarian in the age of AI. Click to read Card Catalog, by Hana Lee Goldin, MLIS, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
cardcatalogforlife.substack.com
For any #medlibs who might need some encouragement
Rana Awdish MD@ranaawdish.bsky.social · 9mo agoA difficult day entirely redeemed by an email from a librarian ❤️
Friends, if you were waiting to check in on a bud, but keep delaying: do not delay, check in. Tell your friends you love and care about them, and if you’re thinking: I should reach out. REACH OUT.
I swear, the hardest part of any job that I've had is the annual performance review and setting goals.
Feb 2010 in Nashville, I drove through snow to take a friend that had abdominal pain to the ER. Next day, the melt refroze into black ice. I slipped on it while taking out the trash, ended up at the same ER with 3 fractures - dominant side shoulder, both wrists. Huge mess. Winter weather is no joke.
Batsy Cline (she/her) 🎄👹📚@batsinthebrittfry.bsky.social · 10mo agoJust saw a TikTok comment that said “Nobody should be panicking it’s never that serious” and to that I say, get back to us after you slip on half an inch of ice, crack your skull, and nobody around you can drive on the roads
"If a single click can irrevocably delete years of work, ChatGPT cannot, in my opinion and on the basis of my experience, be considered completely safe for professional use." well, duh 🙄 #medlibs www.nature.com/articles/d41...
When two years of academic work vanished with a single click
After turning off ChatGPT’s ‘data consent’ option, Marcel Bucher lost the work behind grant applications, teaching materials and publication drafts. Here’s what happened next.
nature.com
Just when you thought it was safe to dive into MeSH terms... I'm popping up a bit late to give a peek at what I've found for new #2026MeSH descriptors. Behold, a #medlibs and adjacent #expertsearching thread!
JFC I just cannot anymore www.npr.org/2026/01/07/n...
RFK Jr.'s new food pyramid puts meat, cheese and vegetables at the top
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has announced new dietary guidelines for Americans focused on promoting whole foods, healthy proteins and fats. And he has "declared war" on sugar.
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I don't know who needs to hear this, but: If a topic doesn't have a lot of evidence or there's a lot of gaps in the evidence, no amount of applying #EvidenceSynthesis or #SystematicReview methodology is going to change that. ES work only makes sense of what is already there.