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Betteridge's law of headlines
https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/02/did-chatgpt-help-health-officials-solve-a-weird-outbreak-maybe/

In puzzling outbreak, officials look to cold beer, gross ice, and ChatGPT

An AI chatbot convinced health investigators they had the right answer.

Ars Technica

Peter Johnson 2d ago

#medlibs blog.openalex.org/openalex-api...

New Features and Usage-Based P...

New Features and Usage-Based Pricing - OpenAlex blog

Today we’re adding some features to the OpenAlex API: better search, content download, and new docs. Most importantly, we’re also introducing usage-based pricing. New features Advanced search at last We’ve had lots of request for advanced search features to support systematic reviews. Good news: they’re here! Find details and examples of advanced search in the […]

OpenAlex blog

Peter Johnson 5d ago

#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 🙂

Kate Nyhan 5d ago

Hi Fedi #medlibs (all four of you? ;))
Anyone planning to propose something for LESSS?

Kate Nyhan Feb 17

Somehow I missed this (until I noticed that DOIs were not resolving properly)
Environmental Health Perspectives, the diamond OA journal published by NIEHS (ultimately part of NIH) has been transferred to ACS.

ACS = American Chemical Society, technically a non-profit but as a librarian I think their approach to article processing charges and subscriptions is quite as grasping as their for-profit peers.

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Kate Nyhan Feb 11

New way for #medlibs to use Lens:
1. search for your concept
2. say "yikes that is a lots of results!"
3. filter OUT records with PMIDs
4. bring up the filter showing the prevalence of different journals in the remaining results set
5. show that list to the domain expert, who will probably say "hmm, journals X and Y and Z will probably have relevant stuff; I thought they were in PubMed"
6. explain that PubMed doesn't include all content from every journal
7. return to step 2

Kate Nyhan Feb 9

RE: https://mastodon.social/@verge/116041069446538092

I understand that many #medlibs who used to use Twitter ended up on a Discord. Maybe they will come here next?

Briagne Feb 5

Hey, can any #medlibs source this supposed endorsement by the AMA of restrictions on surgery for trans patients under 19 that NYT and the Advocate are reporting? Is it literally just this Natl Review article (https://archive.ph/gukPX), where they asked AMA for comment on the ASPS position statement and a spokesperson said yeah we generally feel like surgery should be delayed? I don't find any press releases from the AMA or anything other than news orgs reporting the same Natl Review quote.

Kate Nyhan Feb 4

Hi #medlibs
Reading the Covidence Responsible Automation Principles

I wonder how many teams have used their validated RCT classifier... in studies where the inclusion criterion was not *RCT* but just *any kind of intervention study*?

Hilda Bastian Feb 3

A lot to think about in my annual roundup of peer review research:

— AI, mostly bad, but some suggestions of ways it may help

— State of evidence on financial incentives for peer review

— Studies on the influence of editors' biases

& more on equity and diversity, & librarians & systematic reviews

https://absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2026/02/02/5-things-we-learned-about-journal-peer-review-in-2025/

#PeerReview #MedLibs

5 Things We Learned About Journal Peer Review in 2025 - Absolutely Maybe

Back in 2019 I wrote a couple of posts summarizing what we had learned from research about peer review at journals. Since…

Absolutely Maybe