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Whitney Townsend @bergney.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

The [free!] recording is available for our December 15th Taubman Talks webinar "Developing Systematic Search Skills: Peer-to-Peer Learning with Practice Sets"! You can find the recording and files at the bottom of the webinar page on the Taubman Talks site: guides.lib.umich.edu/TaubmanTalks...

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Research Guides: Taubman Library Talks: Developing Systematic Search Skills: Peer-to-Peer Learning with Practice Sets (December 2025)

The home for videos and webinars created by Informationists at the Taubman Health Sciences Library

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Whitney Townsend @bergney.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Hmm.... I created a medlibs feed in the early days of BS, but I think this is beyond me! :)

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Whitney Townsend @bergney.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Thanks for looking into it; these are the questions that folks using the product for research impact info will ask (or may not think about until it happens and causes problems with measuring their research impact). This is a great addition to Alt Metric, looking forward to promoting it!

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Whitney Townsend @bergney.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Example: my article is cited in Guideline X in 2015. Guideline is updated in 2020, old guideline is removed from the org's website (never published as a journal article). Does my article still show that 2015 guideline "cite", or is it gone with the 2020 update?

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Whitney Townsend @bergney.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Thanks! This does beg the larger question: if you're pulling guideline info from lots of different online sources, some/many orgs will pull their old guidelines when they're updated so practitioners don't use them. What happens to that data then? does it stay in AltMetric, or go away?

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Whitney Townsend @bergney.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

whoopsie, forgot image alt text: screenshot of Altmetric Explorer item "Podcast Extra: from climate lawyer to climate activist" showing the following Mentions: 60 X users, 2 Facebook pages, 3 Redditors (and no guidelines)

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Whitney Townsend @bergney.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I might be doing something wrong, but your example doesn't currently show any guideline citations/mentions for this item? I've tried a few other known articles that are cited/mentioned in guidelines and they seem to be working ok...I don't trust, I try, and then if it doesn't work I ask what's up :)

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Whitney Townsend @bergney.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

I don't share the personal very often on this site, but I'm proud of my guy and the work he puts in to help others be the best versions of themselves: "Behind the scenes, this ultimate Michigan Man helps Wolverines reach their potential" www.mlive.com/wolverines/2...

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Behind the scenes, this ultimate Michigan Man helps Wolverines reach their potential

How one Michigan staffer, without ever drawing up a play, helps Wolverines reach their potential

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Whitney Townsend @bergney.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

And I start my reintegration with a typo.... Sigh. "The Bluesky side of things"

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Whitney Townsend @bergney.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Haven't been hanging around here much, but trying to get back into the Bluesky setting of things since other spaces have turned into even bigger cesspools than they were. I'll still be both here and there for the time being....

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Whitney Townsend @bergney.bsky.social · 07/06/2024

Monday, Monday, MONDAY! (in my monster truck announcer voice)

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Whitney Townsend @bergney.bsky.social · 07/06/2024

And thank YOU for your advocacy! And thanks to every medlib who filled out the feedback form :)

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Whitney Townsend @bergney.bsky.social · 08/02/2024

Oooh, good eye! I don't think it was an option when I first made it (or I didn't notice it :) ). I added the block to the feed and updated it, so we'll see how it works! Thank you!!!

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Whitney Townsend @bergney.bsky.social · 08/02/2024

Update: I used SkyFeed to create the custom feed, and there are limited options for how many posts it will show (and no option that I saw to display a true feed of all posts with the hashtag). If anyone knows how to do this, let me know and I'll make changes! #medlibs

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Whitney Townsend @bergney.bsky.social · 07/02/2024

When I made it, the longest option was for 24 hours (I have no idea why; and kind of useless that way?). I'll go in and see if they've updated the options, because it's been a while!

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Whitney Townsend @bergney.bsky.social · 15/11/2023

There may have been a few f-bombs yelled in my office during the editing of this trascript... :)

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Whitney Townsend @bergney.bsky.social · 14/11/2023

[Recording available!] Taubman Library Talks: Behind the Scenes of "Research Reproducibility Activities in Health Sciences Libraries" (from Nov 9). Find all materials on the event site: guides.lib.umich.edu/TaubmanTalks... #medlibs #reproducibility

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Research Guides: Taubman Library Talks: Behind the Scenes of "Research Reproducibility Activities in...

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Whitney Townsend @bergney.bsky.social · 14/11/2023

Nothing like editing video transcript for an hour and half only to have it erase all changes since the session timed out. I want to scream.

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Whitney Townsend @bergney.bsky.social · 08/11/2023

We'll miss you! Good luck on your presentation!

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Whitney Townsend @bergney.bsky.social · 08/11/2023

THIS THURSDAY! FREE webinar from the U-M Taubman Library! Nov 9: Behind the scenes of "Research Reproducibility Activities in Health Sciences Libraries" w/ Sara Samuel and Mark MacEachern. Find out more: guides.lib.umich.edu/TaubmanTalks... #medlibs #datalibs #reproducibility

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Research Guides: Taubman Library Talks: Behind the Scenes of "Research Reproducibility Activities in...

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Whitney Townsend @bergney.bsky.social · 25/10/2023

Reminder, coming soon: FREE webinar from the U-M Taubman Library! Nov 9: Behind the scenes of "Research Reproducibility Activities in Health Sciences Libraries" w/ Sara Samuel and Mark MacEachern. Find out more: guides.lib.umich.edu/TaubmanTalks... #medlibs #datalibs

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Research Guides: Taubman Library Talks: Behind the Scenes of "Research Reproducibility Activities in...

The home for videos and webinars created by Informationists at the Taubman Health Sciences Library

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Whitney Townsend @bergney.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

Fortunately the skunk was just as startled as we were, and we all just quickly backed away from each other.

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Whitney Townsend @bergney.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

Nothing like walking directly into a skunk to get the blood flowing during the 5:30am dog walk. (You know, the walk we take so the dog doesn't get skunked in the backyard when it's still dark out)

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Whitney Townsend @bergney.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

I get that message if I Google for ECRI Guidelines and follow the top link but if I use the URL provided above, it works (for me at least :) )

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Whitney Townsend @bergney.bsky.social · 28/09/2023

Oh no....how should I be pronouncing it?

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Whitney Townsend @bergney.bsky.social · 27/09/2023

Since I originally posted this when this site was pretty quiet (for #medlibs, at least), I'm posting again. The next (free) Taubman Library Talk has been announced!

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Whitney Townsend @bergney.bsky.social · 26/09/2023

I'm super excited! Been wanting a peek at your operation for a while!

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Whitney Townsend @bergney.bsky.social · 26/09/2023

I usually like to show the search details (how to open it up in the advanced search) so they can see how Pubmed translates their searches if something seems wonky (if they're running searches without field tags that is). Useful, since most folks won't regularly be searching using field tags/MeSH/etc

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Whitney Townsend @bergney.bsky.social · 26/09/2023

I guess I'd assume that any acronym that had several different possibilities would not be set up to map since it could get real confusing real fast...but the mystery puts it up there with the phrase index :)

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Whitney Townsend @bergney.bsky.social · 26/09/2023

Some used to, but it was a real crapshoot which ones did (in my experience). So I'm not sure if something changed, or if those particular terms never mapped... (I'm not much help, lol)

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Whitney Townsend @bergney.bsky.social · 26/09/2023

Hope you can keep going, you're doing such important work!!

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Whitney Townsend @bergney.bsky.social · 25/09/2023

That seems to be the case. Now that I made this post, I'm not getting an error anymore. I'll see if I can change it to have no time limit, but I think 24 hours was the upper limit in Skyfeed...

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Whitney Townsend @bergney.bsky.social · 25/09/2023

Testing if my #medlibs feed has broken already...possibly it only shows the last 24 hours of posts, and gives an error if there aren't any?

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Whitney Townsend @bergney.bsky.social · 20/09/2023

per usual, if you notice anything weird, wrong, or not working on the site, let me know!

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Whitney Townsend @bergney.bsky.social · 20/09/2023

A conversation yesterday reminded me that I should probably re-share the link to the "For Search Professionals" page of our SR/ES guide; it has potentially useful/interesting things that we've developed at U-M: guides.lib.umich.edu/sysreviews/s... #medlibs #medlib #systematicreviews

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Research Guides: Systematic Reviews: For Search Professionals

Information on how to conduct systematic reviews in the health sciences.

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