Screenshot of new EBSCO interface change
“We’re moving the primary navigation from a left-hand panel to the top of the page, which creates a more consistent experience across screens and frees up space for content and tools.” assets.ebsco.com/m/635a707af2...
#medlibs - another change tocthe EBSCO interface is coming 😕 about.ebsco.com/blogs/ebscop...
SCOTUS has denied cert. in Thaler v. Perlmutter. That means that outputs generated by AI will continue to be ineligible for copyright protection under US law.
This is welcome news for musicians!
also PsycInfo on their main marketing page. Great! 🙃 www.wolterskluwer.com/en/solutions...
that makes sense. I wonder if the APA retitled it and that motivated the change.
#medlibs was the title of APA PsycInfo at one point in time stylized differently to be partially all caps? So many automatic or errant mentions of PsycINFO (and let’s not talk about PsychINFO). Perhaps it’s just a MEDLINE effect we can blame on NLM 🙂
what could possibly go wrong in a clinical context? www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microso...
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NEW: Another NIH institute director hasn't been renewed — the director of NIAMS (arthritis, musculoskeletal and skin diseases institute).
That leaves a whopping 15 of 27 institutes and centers without a permanent director.
Relatedly, I've begun incorporating generative Al in my database searching instruction as one option for a method of keyword identification. This is primarily so students can make informed choices on what tools / methods work for their needs.
“Treating [AI] with a hands-clean purist mindset will be extremely difficult and as activism, more alienating than effective. These are genuinely useful tools, and pretending they aren’t will not in fact win many hearts and minds.”
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Do you know how badly you have to fuck up to create a remote execution vulnerability in notepad.exe
I also stress in my AI information literacy instruction sessions: what these models generate is not “information” - to have that would require a deliberate human led transformation of the content.
Put another way, is the issue with reliability consistent with inherently any LLM (could be), or just these LLMs (also could be)?
I also wonder how these models compare with both their more recent and more high powered versions. For the moment the timeliness context continues to be a challenge in assessing LLM capabilities.
I need faculty to get on board with helping residents, post docs, phd students, masters students etc understand that you can only do a systematic review in less than 6 months if (a) there's only a tiny amount of evidence and (b) you're not doing anything else for those 6 months.
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We don’t talk enough about Alfre Woodard’s performance in Star Trek: First Contact. Stunning. And among other things, brought out some of Patrick Stewart’s moments. He rarely had a partner who could meet his energy, but she did. 🖖🏽
Reproducibility and open science are great, but they don't necessarily equate to rigor. You can perfectly share a study and still draw weak conclusions. True rigor lives in the questions we ask, the designs we choose, and the inferences we make.
googling “how to intimidate groundhog”
#medlibs and #evidencesynthesis nerds - the next Library Evidence Synthesis Services Symposium (LESSS) is upon us and open for free registration 😊 sites.google.com/view/lesss/r...
now we need a Precision and Prejudice
I used Claude to figure out where the option to turn off the AI Meeting Notes prompt is in Notion’s settings (it’s in Notifications).
Pitting one AI against another is how we win this thing, folks 😉
my paternal grandmother wanted nothing to do with computers or digital interfaces (“Too many buttons.” 🙂) and with her passing in 2013 she avoided a lot of more recent problems we’ve seen with technology…
