Kate NyhanReading rec
Barry-Jester, Sharon Lerner and Anna Maria. “Digital Colonialism”: U.S. Demands to Access Africans’ Data Raise Privacy, Sovereignty Concerns. June 17, 2026. https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-state-department-africa-uganda-aid-medical-data-privacy.
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“Digital Colonialism”: U.S. Demands to Access Africans’ Data Raise Privacy, Sovereignty Concerns
The United States is requiring access to health data as part of lifesaving aid deals with African countries. The U.S. says the data will be aggregated and anonymized, but privacy experts fear the information could be misused or exploited.
Clearly there is some category (or categories) of PubMed records that aren't indexed with MeSH terms and aren't accounted for in the categories I've queried. What am I missing, that the rates don't add up to 100k per 100k?
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Chris LawtonI was off last week, but back to looking for engagement for the #library again this week. By popular demands we now take proxy votes online or by email from staff to put on the board. I love how successful such a simple idea gas been. #medlibs
Rachel PlayforthOoh possible librarian sighting in ER S4, locating some journals for Mark at the naval hospital where he's visiting his parents. She was on duty until midnight, yikes. #medlibs
I got very excited during our ER rewatch yesterday when two doctors conferred over a Medline search strategy! Obv they should also have conferred with a librarian but I haven't spotted one of those yet... #medlibs
One of my favourite things working in a #library. A nurse who was so nervous about being out of academia so long & who we've helped build the confidence and skills up of, just came to tell me she has passed her Masters. She is so thrilled & I'm happy we could play a small part in it.
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I didn't realize till now -- eLife articles are back in Web of Science Core Collection -- at least the manuscripts with an editorial assessment of: “exceptional,” “compelling,” “convincing,” or “solid” (rather than “incomplete” or “inadequate").
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New Environmental Health Perspectives articles are out, for example:
Notario Barandiaran, L., Bauer, J. A., Laue, H. E., Signes-Pastor, A. J., Jackson, B. P., Peacock, J. L., Madan, J., Bellinger, D. C., Korrick, S., & Karagas, M. R. (2026). Time-Varying Exposure to Element Mixtures and Children's Cognition at 5 Years of Age: Findings from the New Hampshire Birth Cohort Study. Environmental health perspectives, 134(1), 41–52. https://doi.org/10.1021/EHP.6c00030
This is exciting because the journal used to be run by NIEHS, was shuttered in 2025, and is now up and running again at a (very big and profitable) non-profit publisher.
Knowing good, reliable information is there, and getting the people who need it to know it's there is a long-term challenge for all healthcare librarians. #medlibs
Research gaps and disseminatio...
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