All we know is it’s bad news, and we wish faculty were open to trying different kinds of assignments solidly grounded in established conducting and reporting guidance.
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All we know is it’s bad news, and we wish faculty were open to trying different kinds of assignments solidly grounded in established conducting and reporting guidance.
is it kind of annoying how "review literature as topic" and its narrower subheadings in MeSH don't actually get review literature as a topic but rather, just reviews? it's not a great discovery tool.
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!
Photograph of Frederick Douglass, circa 1879. Douglass is dressed formally in a dark suit with white shirt and bow tie, with his distinctive wild gray hair and beard. The dignified portrait captures him at approximately age 61, during the period when he served as U.S. Marshal for the District of Columbia and continued his work for civil rights and social justice. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Douglass#/media/File:Frederick_Douglass_(circa_1879)_(cropped).jpg
Black History Month: What is it and why is it important?
By Alem Tedeneke (from the archives)
www.weforum.org/stories/2024...
Index of Project Gutenberg Works on Black History edited by David Widger is available online:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/58975
#books #literature #blackhistorymonth
Bad Bunny was amazing!
I am not closing this gd manuscript until it is finished
I hear ya, I have rarely had access to MEDLIB-ED.
Who attended? #medlibs 🤩🤩🤩
I think we can thank @jmr3.bsky.social but I actually can’t remember!
Nice! Makes sense if you have the team.
Well that’s good!
That’s a lot!
Very good. So it IS possible! (But, maybe rarely?)
Wow!
Are doctoral students working in teams now? Are they ti/ab and full text reviewing for each other? Data extracting for each other? That's the only way I can think of to have actual an systematic review as your doctoral thesis.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
I have found a copy, thank you!
Ah I see it is about peer reviewers using PRISMA....
SOMEONE TELL ME WHAT IT SAYS
Clearly I have big feelings and many pet peeves about the thousands of ways that authors misreference PRISMA, which is a reporting, not a methodological conduct guideline!
I'm starting to thing more and more that authors think just saying "we conducted with PRISMA" and having something loosely resembling a flow diagram is enough to "conduct with PRISMA."
If reviewers say we "conducted with PRISMA" (grumpy face) who is looking to see if they reported with PRISMA?
WithOUT reading it, I'd say yeah lots of people seem to "use" PRISMA but only by saying they used it and not by actually using it.
Like, who is checking?
New interesting article -- I can't read it b/c I don't have access.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41274387/
If anyone reads it, I'd appreciate your comments! An unintentional thread below.
Happy new year!
Did you read the PRISMA Statement that I guarantee is going to be cited incorrectly at least 5,309,788 times in scholarly literature this year?
Now's your chance to learn what it is so you can use it correctly!
www.prisma-statement.org
The automated feed on new books at @gutenberg.org is now live!
I did it according to Primsa
Issa Rae has canceled her sold out performance at the Kennedy Center. Pulitzer Prize winner Rhiannon Giddens, Peter Wolf, Low Cut Connie, and the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, D.C., have also canceled. Lin-Manuel Miranda has canceled the entire Kennedy Center run of Hamilton.
I had writer's block on a manuscript I have been working on for a while now, and I think I don't have writer's block any more. I made so much progress today! Oh joyous day!
It's more important to transparently report how you selected studies and performed risk of bias, ironically items in the PRISMA Checklist.
www.prisma-statement.org/prisma-2020-...
Someone mentioned my "WTF did you do with PRISMA" video over on LinkedIn, much to my pleasure. Made me think to give you your holiday reading assignment.
ACTUALLY READ THE PRISMA THANKS
www.bmj.com/content/372/...
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