kdnyhan

kdnyhan, 4 months ago to academicchatter

PSA: read your author agreement. Or at least save it, so that when you later on ask, "can I do X with my figure?" we have somewhere to start.
@academicchatter

danslerush, 5 months ago to random

« Terms Of Service » #infographic showing how long it takes to read the #CGU of the best-known s̶e̶r̶v̶i̶c̶e̶s̶ silots on the Web ⏱️
› https://visualcapitalist.com/terms-of-service-visualizing-the-length-of-internet-agreements/

kdnyhan, 5 months ago to medlibs

Hi #medlibs @medlibs and #EvidenceSynthesis folks

If you have thought about doing ES in the mold of "outcome-wide epidemiology" (Tyler J VanderWeele), let's talk

kdnyhan, 5 months ago to boardgames

Hi #BoardGames Mastodon, help me?
I'm trying to play #Décorum, which has a great conceit, but it looks like the two sets of conditions that we have to achieve are mutually exclusive. Am I getting something wrong?

:(
The maker, #Floodgate, is only accessible via Facebook and Twitter and "BGG" whatever that is - there's no link to that from their website.

kdnyhan, 5 months ago to random

"If I passed on an infection that sent them to hospital, could I forgive myself? And, if you gave me that infection in the first place, do you think I would ever forgive you?"

DavidElfstrom, 5 months ago to random

Four years into this and we can't keep duct-taping in-room filter solutions for clean air. It's just filter(s) and a fan.

We need open-source design, certifiable product, efficient, repairable using commodity filters and commodity components. Assembled and distributed by not-for-profit community-based social enterprise.

No more lock-in to proprietary filters, but verified commodity filtration performance for confidence and safety.

jonny, 5 months ago to RSS

I guess this is turning into a real project so putting this out there if anyones interested:

We're making a very lightweight tool to create RSS feeds for journals from crossref metadata (with room for other sources). If ya dont know, many publishers are shutting down their RSS feeds to drive people onto their surveillance platforms, and every enshittification leaves behind an opening for adversarial interop.

This opens some interesting possibilities like creating feeds for keywords indexed across journals to start breaking down journals as the major organizational scheme of scholarly lit - papers have metadata keywords, but they mostly arent used, so lets use them!

Eventually wed like to write a FastAPI plugin similar to activitypub-express so we can make all feeds available on the fedi as well, and that would be a really nice set of tools to build for smaller AP projects that dont necessarily want to be full instances.

This is designed to be extremely deployable so you can run your own feed generator, but we'll also host a reference instance here at feeds.neuromatch.social once we get it running.

Just getting started, help wanted and welcome from anyone who loves #RSS and reading papers ♥

Repo: https://github.com/sneakers-the-rat/journal-rss

Cc @lili and @roaldarboel

Stems from this thread: https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/111668885237921256

kdnyhan, 5 months ago to medlibs

Hi #medlibs #UKmedlibs @medlibs

Grey lit can be hard to find.... If you were doing a lit search about SARS-COV-2 transmission modality, or PPE, or infection control, would your typical sources and techniques surface this?

https://www.bma.org.uk/media/55hd1hpi/bma-capa-letter-to-nhse-ipc-guidance.pdf

Open letter from various professional associations to the NHS and other stakeholders, arguing that current IPC guidance is not fit for purpose.

ProPublica, 5 months ago to brainfood

Watch:

Our new short #documentary, "With Every Breath," follows patients and a doctor navigating the fallout of the massive #recall of #Philips breathing machines.

https://youtu.be/pkE8JIc5E0A?feature=shared

gbhnews, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to random

🎄🎶 so you want to listen to some #holiday #music but you want to hear more than the same 5 songs: a thread

suggestions & links from us and from you below ⤵️

kdnyhan, 5 months ago to random

What an improvement on a normal PDF CV publication list. Anyone know a shortcut to achieving this format, which can be filterered by tags?
https://www.psychmike.com/publications.php?tag=Pandemic
#AcademicChatter

kdnyhan, 5 months ago to accessibility

Hi #medlibs #lb #accessibility

Here's a #library with mask hours for accessibility

https://womenslibrary.org.uk/about-us/accessibility/

(scroll way down)

Do you know of other libraries / #GLAM orgs with a similar practice?

kdnyhan, 5 months ago to random

The volunteer pianist playing Beethoven in the radiation oncology waiting room... is wearing a mask and even twisted the ear loops in an effort to improve the fit.

The radiation oncology staff? No masks.

kdnyhan, 6 months ago to ShareYourMusic

Zoom versus in-person meetings, according to a project manager for a complex linked data cultural heritage project:

“exponentially more productive and more inclusive"

"galvanizing in terms of participation and availability"

#RemoteWork #Collaboration #Accessibility

Source: https://your.yale.edu/youryale/making-connections-0

dsalo, 6 months ago to random

On December 4, 2023, Code4Lib Journal released the third article in four years with major patron privacy and ethics issues, an article that included an actual data breach.

Please consider signing this open letter calling for the editorial board to make transparent and significant changes to align with library ethics, research ethics, and correct information-security practices.

Boosts welcome.

Letter: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1c-ADFaum9pB-W4AWQIxE6BPyVJs8goMlrVLoC00ucKc/edit?usp=sharing

Signature form: https://cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/form/view/HhUYX-oqNddhUdncQEUirVZ6TiaCBm5P5R8GGPvpOog/

kdnyhan, 6 months ago to medlibs

Hi #medlibs @medlibs

We spend sooooo much time on govt websites like PubMed and NIEHS Lit Portal and NAL - if we were using Firefox instead of Chrome/Safari, lots of benefits:

• more private for us and for our library users
• better performance according to https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/mozilla-firefox-chrome-review-comparison-2020/
• if US govt web analytics show low Firefox usage, they may stop supporting it in their web design https://www.brycewray.com/posts/2023/11/firefox-brink/

kdnyhan, 6 months ago to medlibs

#medlibs @medlibs #scholcomm
I missed this so maybe you did too:

In 2021, WHO began requiring that all WHO-authored and WHO-funded journal articles must be " published in an open-access journal or on an open-access platform."

They want authors to use journals that are indexed in DOAJ and that deposit the version of record in PMC.

kdnyhan, 6 months ago to random

It seems like everyone on #COVIDisAirborne Mastodon is talking about how great the new CDC wastewater page is. But I am not really getting it.

Would a value of 50% for the "current virus level" metric mean

• 50% of the historical readings at that site showed lower virus levels, and 50% of historical readings showed higher virus levels (like a percentile)
  or
• the current level of virus at that site is 50% of the highest level ever recorded at that site

Plus -- only 1 site with data in CT :(

augieray, 6 months ago to random

This is why you should stay home if you're sick, regardless of a negative COVID test:

Study argues AGAINST “continued recommendations for and public funding of non-targeted community-based rapid antigen testing” of #COVID19. Why? Because, “multiple commonly-used rapid antigen tests to now have diagnostic sensitivities below 30 % for previously vaccinated or infected, with even lower sensitivities the first 48 h of infection.”

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666535223000976