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Andy Hickner @andyhickner.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

@nealhaddaway.bsky.social just a heads up that there seems to be an issue with loading articles using a CSV file on citationchaser. Loading with RIS is working fine. Colleagues suggested I report the issue to you. Thanks for this very useful tool.

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Andy Hickner @andyhickner.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

It baffles me how many library school students/prospective LIS students/early career librarians use library Reddit to ask questions they could easily find answers to much more quickly using Google. You're a librarian! Knowing how to do research efficiently is the most basic aspect of our work!

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Andy Hickner @andyhickner.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Ross Barkan is writing about writing/editorial/media jobs, but he could just as easily be describing similar patterns in libraries and archives that result from too many candidates chasing too few jobs: rosselliotbarkan.com/p/the-matter...

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Andy Hickner @andyhickner.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

If you do happen to be represented by a Republican in the House and/or Senate, by all means, pick up the phone and express your opinion to whoever answers, and ask for a written response. That’s the way to do it.

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Andy Hickner @andyhickner.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

While I share everyone's distress about Trump administration's layoffs of the CDC librarians, I don't love EveryLibrary's astroturf-based approach. Signing online petitions to Congress doesn't work. It only provides you with the illusion that you're doing something effective. (1/2)

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Andy Hickner @andyhickner.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

@npr.org newscasters, this is your friendly reminder that Grand Blanc in Michigan is pronounced “Grand BLANK.” This is true of pretty much every French place name in MI btw - think of how a 7-year-old native English speaker would pronounce it the first time she encountered it on the page

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Andy Hickner @andyhickner.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

"Instead of ostracizing the people they hate, Bluesky’s progressives are only isolating themselves... Within this little hothouse world that American progressives have created for themselves, there’s not much to do except try to cancel each other."

noahpinion.blog

The Bluesky-ization of the American left

Progressives discovered a seemingly invincible weapon. One day it stopped working.

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Andy Hickner @andyhickner.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

As a librarian, I think nursing reference/lit searches are MUCH harder than medical ones. Nurses come to us with the craziest questions, most of which aren't answerable with conventional bibliographic database searches.

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Andy Hickner @andyhickner.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Welp that’s the last time I use the Lyft bikeshare option

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The Onion @theonion.com · 05/07/2025

Conscientious SUV Shopper Just Wants Something That Will Kill Family In Other Car In Case Of Accident theonion.com/conscie...

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Andy Hickner @andyhickner.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

After tonight they are updating the criteria for clinical diagnosis of homosexuality to test whether the patient can recognize Cole’s wig as an homage to Bernadette Peters

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Andy Hickner @andyhickner.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

At the risk of sounding like an asshole, I have to say I really don't think the library literature needs another study about imposter syndrome among librarians. We get it. It's a thing that some of us have.

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Andy Hickner @andyhickner.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Everyone on social media loves to hate Matt Yglesias, but if you actually read him it turns out he does, in fact, have fairly persuasive reasons for supporting heterodoxy among Democrats that aren’t just trolling progressives.

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Andy Hickner @andyhickner.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

When returning from travel, what are your favorite things to come home to? Mine are 1. Our dog, 2. Our big bed pillows, 3. Our bidet.

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Andy Hickner @andyhickner.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Medical Library Association members: I'm sharing this statement about the difficult decision to change the name of MLA's Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Committee, authored by Community Building and Belonging Committee Chair Kelsa Bartley. (1/2)

mlanet.org

Name Change Statement by MLA’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Committee

On April 9, 2025, the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Committee requested that the MLA Board approve its name be changed to the Community Building and Belonging (CBB) Committee and requested…

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Andy Hickner @andyhickner.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

What's up with librarians randomly putting proper names in all caps? I'm thinking of Ovid, which for some reason everyone writes out as OVID (my favorite is "OVID Medline"), and then today I encountered "CANVAS" (for the Canvas LMS).

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Andy Hickner @andyhickner.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Grateful my director fought for our travel funding this year. I know a lot of my colleagues aren’t so lucky, and I will have to self-fund next year. I can only speak for myself but… (1/2)

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Andy Hickner @andyhickner.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Visiting Pittsburgh has reminded me how low-key my favorite American cities are all the historic second-tier ones east of the Mississippi that have seen their best days: PGH, Baltimore, Providence, New Haven, etc. Honorable mention to Montreal which is Canadian but falls in the same category IMO

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Andy Hickner @andyhickner.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

My coauthors and I are thrilled to announce our newly published article in JMLA, which provides 2 validated search filters that can be used to retrieve research about queer women's health in PubMed. Read the full article for free: jmla.mlanet.org/ojs/jmla/art...

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Andy Hickner @andyhickner.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

TIL the EMTREE for "skin aging" is "cutaneous parameters"?!? I want to slap whoever made this decision.

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Andy Hickner @andyhickner.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

OK I’m a little fat, but I’m not “Downloading the bundt cake app to my phone” fat, OK?

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Andy Hickner @andyhickner.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Every time I see this sign I read it in Gia Gunn voice

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Andy Hickner @andyhickner.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

I love that Laura Dern and Isabella Rossellini are each other’s date to the Oscars 😍

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Andy Hickner @andyhickner.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

For my colleagues who are medical librarians, MLA has published a statement addressing the recent flurry of executive orders and other actions taken by the federal government: mailchi.mp/184b14bd09ff...

mailchi.mp

MLA Statement on Protecting Access to Health Information

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Andy Hickner @andyhickner.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

I don't know how you people in poly relationships do it. I have a hard enough time staying on top of one relationship!

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Andy Hickner @andyhickner.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

No, we did not need a tropical house cover of Tracy Chapman’s Fast Car. Burn it with fire

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Andy Hickner @andyhickner.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

I love that EBSCO overhauled and rebuilt their entire search platform, but somehow couldn’t be bothered to implement the export functionality every other search platform has provided for decades.

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Andy Hickner @andyhickner.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

I will never, ever forgive Biden for his role in the mess our country is now in, and I think people who make excuses for him are deluding themselves.

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Andy Hickner @andyhickner.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Hey medical librarians, MLA is now on Bluesky! @medlibassn.bsky.social

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Andy Hickner @andyhickner.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Impossible choice but this is the first that came to my mind

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Andy Hickner @andyhickner.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

There are only a couple of days a year where we get good news from the Supreme Court. Today is one of them. Happy RIP TikTok Day to all who celebrate!

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Andy Hickner @andyhickner.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

There's been an interesting stampede to the altar (or rather to the courthouse) this week among gays. Everyone seems to be citing "threats to queer people from the new administration." There are a lot of things I fear about the second Trump term but same-sex marriage isn't one of them. 1/2

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Andy Hickner @andyhickner.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

I happen to be in one of those female-dominated professions (librarianship) where gay men outnumber straight ones. I’ve always half-joked that it’s like being a hairstylist with a master’s degree

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Andy Hickner @andyhickner.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

www.thebulwark.com/p/can-we-ban...

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Andy Hickner @andyhickner.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

DUO is officially my least favorite app. So annoying

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Andy Hickner @andyhickner.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

The professor who always asks me to do library orientation for her class after I finish in 10 minutes because the students, of course, don’t have any questions

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Andy Hickner @andyhickner.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

If I had as many followers as @georgetakei.bsky.social, i wouldn’t be sharing fake content

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Andy Hickner @andyhickner.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Don't go into debt. Move to Chicago instead!

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Andy Hickner @andyhickner.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Why I roll my eyes whenever I read a New York Times commenter claiming they have to drive into Manhattan because the subway is too dangerous: open.substack.com/pub/natesilv...

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Andy Hickner @andyhickner.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Awww guys the law firm that dropped me from the Marriott Data Breach class action Suit sent me a Christmas e-card🎄Great to hear from old friends this time of year 🥰

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Andy Hickner @andyhickner.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

I love these pie charts @jvl.bsky.social created to depict the effect of the Internet on the information ecoystem. (As Last notes, these are made up numbers, but they're consistent with my personal experience.)

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 17/12/2024

My mother in law Cathy Cade was a lesbian feminist photographer who documented social justice movements in the Bay Area. We are going through some prints for her obituary and I just found the most lesbian image I have ever seen.

A group of women marching behind a banner that says “Dykes on books: women who love women who love books.”

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Andy Hickner @andyhickner.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Well clearly I’ve made it on bluesky, Charlize Theron is following me, I can die now

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Andy Hickner @andyhickner.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

I’ve been binging Slow Horses, and I’ve realized I need a buddy flick with Selina Meyer and Diana Taverner

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Andy Hickner @andyhickner.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

"(W)e need private insurers to drive a harder bargain with the most expensive doctors and hospitals. When we demonize insurers for doing precisely that, we aren’t standing up against our health care sector’s profiteers — we’re sticking up for them."

vox.com

A big insurer backed off its plan to pay less for anesthesia. That’s bad.

What the fight between Anthem and anesthesiologists was really about.

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