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Evidence Synthesis Hackathon
The amazing @marentierra.bsky.social @irisvanrooij.bsky.social Barbara M. & I build towards (sadly not obv to all):
"Universities are not spokespersons for the AI industry. On the contrary, we need to resist being coopted and corrupted by the industries’ agendas."
rcsc.substack.com/p/critical-a...
Just read this - it was shared on LinkedIn. ‘To my users, “we couldn’t generate an answer for your question” translates to “your topic is not worthy of pursuing—change it.”’ While it’s nice to think that students will come & ask when they don’t find results, many won’t.
And the blocking of content…
Good overview from @jeroenson.bsky.social and @jeroenbosman.bsky.social
So glad someone did this study #medlibs pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40387123/
Let it Chafe (a Little)
A lesson full of head-scratching, mistakes, and questions might ultimately deliver much more than one where everyone “gets it.”
#EduSky
www.kirschnered.nl/2025/06/15/l...
I tested it in Primo Research Assistant, not surprising, I got similar results since Summon Research Assistant is sister product and both work the same by using LLM to generate Boolean search strategy. Gaza war shows no results. Tusla Race riots get a scary error message but does generate answer(1)
Want to know more about Intervention Component Analysis in #systematicreviews #evidencesynthesis and how it can help us understand how interventions work? New paper by @katysutcliffe.bsky.social and me 🔥hot🔥 off the press today in IJNS: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @eppicentre.bsky.social
This is really sad! Again a downfall to hyper commercialisation.
But not unexpected I'm afraid, since the privitisation some years ago:
www.guygeltner.net/blog/2582019...
Janneke
Alice Cann
Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ
Paul Kirschner
Aaron Tay
Dylan Kneale
Angela Spencer
Jeroen Sondervan
rcsc.substack.com
From today, every paper submitted to Nature -if published - will be accompanied by peer reviewers comments & authors rebuttal.
We started the trial in 2020; we now want to open up the review process & showcase its role in shaping & improving papers
🧪 #AcademicSky
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
How can universities resist being coopted and corrupted by the AI industries’ agendas?
Access to precise and reliable scientific evidence is one of the fundamental principles of Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) in clinical decision-making processes. Medical librarians, by employing advance...
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Editor’s note: We welcome a guest blog post from Jay Singley, Document Delivery and Circulation Desk Manager at North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics. In March 2025, Ex Libris unveiled thei...
It is now widely recognised that in addition to providing robust evidence about intervention effectiveness, systematic reviews need to provide decisio…
About ESMARConf The Evidence Synthesis Hackathon’s (https://www.esmarconf.org) Evidence Synthesis & Meta-Analysis in R Conference (#ESMARConf2025) will take place on 11th-13th of June 2025. ESMARConf…
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A lesson full of head-scratching, mistakes, and questions might ultimately deliver much more than one where everyone “gets it.”
What we know and what we don't know about the privatization of a university press.
www.guygeltner.net
Just read this - it was shared on LinkedIn. ‘To my users, “we couldn’t generate an answer for your question” translates to “your topic is not worthy of pursuing—change it.”’ While it’s nice to think that students will come & ask when they don’t find results, many won’t.
And the blocking of content…
Editor’s note: We welcome a guest blog post from Jay Singley, Document Delivery and Circulation Desk Manager at North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics. In March 2025, Ex Libris unveiled thei...
Amsterdam University Press is sending out letters today notifying series editors and authors that they have been taken over – or shall we say: annexed? – by Taylor & Francis. Not a good day. The evil empire of academic publishing is growing.
Vinzenz Hediger
From today, all new submissions to Nature that are published will be accompanied by referees’ reports and author responses — to illuminate the process of producing rigorous science.
