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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42574208/ re: Literature Searching and AI pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42574208/ Not sure I agree with the esteemed authors in @jama.com

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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Alexandra #Eala records her SIXTH top 10 win of the season, beating Elina Svitolina, and sets the tennis court alight with her incredible talent .....and her heart of gold 💛 #WTA #AlexEala #MubadalaDCOpen

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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Automated indexing in MEDLINE (scoping review). Happy to chat about any of the topics. Skip to the good part(s)! #medlibs jmla.mlanet.org/ojs/jmla/art...

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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

BC Nurses - Job Action, July 8th Re: the UBC Biomedical Branch Library at VGH and the Diamond Centre is closed until further notice. Feel free to slip into dms or via email dean.giustini@ubc.ca Hours updates for the library can be viewed here: hours.library.ubc.ca#view-biomedi...

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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

1,000,000 views. Yup, one (1) million. wiki.ubc.ca/Knowledge_Sy... Don't let anyone tell you "No, it can't be done that way"

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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

How are researchers using AI to perform / supplement traditional GL searching? "...Such approaches are generally intended to complement traditional grey literature search methods rather than replace them. AI tools may be particularly useful where..." wiki.ubc.ca/Artificial_i...

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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Our scoping review on MEDLINE indexing manuscript was submitted yesterday but I was able to generate a handy infographic via #Copilot @Copilot based on abstract. 🗂️ Note sections on searching: implications for librarians and #algorithmic effects in #MEDLINE #medlibs

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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

I'll ADD "Less AI, More Human-In-The-Loop Models". 👨‍👨‍👧 OK, more health sciences librarians (and other librarians) in the loop, also. I may try to put into practice more "LOUD SINGING" 🤣

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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Reporting guidelines in medicine in the AI era! Here's CHART 2025 and summarized on my wiki: wiki.ubc.ca/Chatbot_Asse... CHART is "...designed for studies that evaluate generative-AI chatbots when used to summarize clinical evidence or to provide health advice"🍁 #librarians #medlibs

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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Thanks to the convenors of the @medlibassn.bsky.social "Systematic Review Caucus" for hosting me. I think we had about 70 participants but here is the data from the two polls I adminstered during my presentation📚

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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

"Which of the following (including experts) sources do you use primarily to stay current with AI developments in evidence synthesis?” ✒️MLA “Systematic Review” caucus 🗽Library Association webinars e.g., CHLA/ABSC, MLA 📕Aaron Tay aarontay.substack.com 🛟Key journals 🤣Other? Please comment, thanks!

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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Top twelve (12) Entries by "Most to Least Views: wiki.ubc.ca/User:DeanGiu... Knowledge Synthesis (KS) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) Related Topics... #artificial_intelligence #knowledge_synthesis

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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

50+ entries on #knowledge_synthesis topics, #artificial_intelligence issues in libraries, and AI powered search tools such as #Elicit, #Undermind & @openevidence.bsky.social Amazing - 250,000 views in a short period. Browse for info: wiki.ubc.ca/User:DeanGiu...

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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Consensus.app is an AI-powered search tool using #Copilot based on LLM; ask a question, click on search, get an answer with bullet points / references to published papers. No fake citations—but summaries have errors. wiki.ubc.ca/Consensus Talk to your librarian folks about using other sources, too.

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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Here comes ASTA — scholarly research assistant w/ coverage via corpus of 108M+ scholarly abstracts & 12M+ full text in Semantic Scholar. Initiative of Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) "to accelerate scientific discovery through trustworthy open-source agentic AI." Untested. wiki.ubc.ca/Asta_(agenti...

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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Will Google Scholar survive the AI-powered bots? and AI-powered search tools? Time will tell. wiki.ubc.ca/Google_Scholar

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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

The #MTIX (Medical Text Indexer neXt gen) is NLM's automated indexing / AI powered indexing system that uses #NeuralNetworks 🐧To know #MEDLINE in 2025, we must know more about AI & neural networks. 😇Here's the Knowledge Synthesis and AI wiki entry: wiki.ubc.ca/Neural_netwo...

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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Artificial intelligence (AI) Search Tools Used in Literature Reviews and Comprehensive Searching / Giustini, 2025 🖊️n=29 papers on AI searching in lit / systematic reviews It's a start. More wiki entries later. #medlibs wiki.ubc.ca/Artificial_i...

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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Re: PubMed.AI 📭AI-powered tool designed to "enhance" searches and support evidence-based med decision-making ✏️Is @NLM_NIH behind this AI? If not, who is? I can't see anything to indicate transparency. Talk to a medical librarian, folks. #medlibs /2of2

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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Re: @openevidence.bsky.social #PubMedAI 📭OpenEvidence outperforms pubmed.ai by delivering concise, clinically focused summaries ✏️Clinicians should use these tools as adjuncts to, not replacements for, clinical expertise and comprehensive resources like UpToDate. /1of2 #medlibs

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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Pope Leo's mother Mildred Martínez was a #librarian. He will carry his beloved mother's love of books in his heart (and mind). 📚 Mildred Martinez Prevost was of Spanish decent, and graduated from DePaul University with a bachelor’s degree in library science in 1947. Mildred passed away in 1990.

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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Here's a better view into the searching and those GL papers. Thanks for the question. Before we complete the manuscript, these numbers have to be updated as new papers have been published.

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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

We presented "Automated indexing of the biomedical literature: a scoping review" at @medlibassn.bsky.social MLA Conference 2025. See our handouts, slidedeck, poster, and our protocol : osf.io/zkj8p #MLANET25 #medlibs

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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

A thing of beauty... in #tennis terms. Federer's one-handed backhand. Baryshnikov-level "#sprezzatura". 🎾🕺

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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Canadian women - you know what to do. 📕🇨🇦

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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Giustini, Dean. “Undermind.Ai (Product Review).” See UBC's Institutional Repository cIRcle: hdl.handle.net/2429/90524 Bottom line: #Undermind.ai is a useful tool for early searching; librarians must consider #ethics in #AI #medlibs

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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Self-care is going to be paramount, folks, in the coming days and weeks. #medlibs Friends will be important to survival. 🧑‍🤝‍🧑

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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

"...We, the undersigned, citizens of Canada, call upon the Prime Minister to revoke Elon Musk's dual citizenship status, and revoke his Canadian passport effective immediately." www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

#EDUCAUSE #AI 2025 Chart 📚"Primary Motivators for AI-Related Strategic Planning" 🍫"Students use it" -strategic? 🐈"Inappropriate" use ranking high - good signs 🗑️Faculty "peer pressure" to adopt; impact on libraries #hype #urgency #FOMO #pushback #medlibs library.educause.edu/resources/20...

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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

In his 2023 book, #Floridi argues humans must not be treated as data points in AI-driven systems but must remain active responsible, ethical agents in infospheres. Why cede intellectual autonomy incl. our human dignity to blackbox AI? An argument I've been developing as pushback in my own field...

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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Happy Valentines Day, all! 💝 The Greeks had many types of love, eg: . Philia, friendship . Agape, love for all . Philautia, self-love . Storge, family love . Ludus, playful love . Eros, sexual passion Even if you are feeling alone today, you are definitely still loved. #Valentinesday2025

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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

I thought this was interesting:

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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

I followed up with #deepseek about #hallucinating reference #3. Here's its response (which recommends a paper that is not on point). #medlibs

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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Testing #deepseek today given the hubbub, crash of the #NASDAQ & techbros saying it's a "game changer". In my early testing about my research into "automated indexing of #Medline" it hallucinated about 1/3 (33%) of the references. More testing to follow. #medlibs

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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Daybreak on the prairies | 1970 Robert Newton Hurley

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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Monsieur #Poilievre appears in front of so many beautiful books, well done. 📚As an #academic #librarian, my first question to him would be "What are you reading these days? What are the titles, authors, ideas of these books"? Any favourite books? Why cover the books with a generic gold paper?

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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

#illuminate one of my favourite things: libraries repurposing books to celebrate the season. It's also carbon (semi) neutral! Back on "X", our biomedical library's #tree post was one of most viewed in 2024. Happy holidays 🎅🎁☃️🎄

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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Floating subheadings are the bomb! One of my favourite moves in advanced workshops is to discuss testing other subheading approaches incl. "exploding subheadings". #Medline really is a gift🌎 @carrieprice.bsky.social

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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Our #MLA2025 proposal has been accepted 🎉 In 2022, NLM moved to "automated Medline indexing" also known as "algorithmic indexing". In 2024, the tool used is informed by a neural network, a type of artificial intelligence. We're concerned about the impact of AI on Medine indexing and its accuracy.

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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

The. #Names. Of. Things. Objects. Weird #Stuff. One of the cooler things about #librarianing is knowing all kinds of random things from helping people we serve find stuff. I used to spend hours looking at interesting reference books when I was in grad school. Still true today! #medlibs

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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

November 22nd is the feast day of #SaintCecilia, patron saint of #music and #musicians. Born to a noble Roman family in 2nd century AD, she sang to God as she died a martyr’s death. Today, Saint Cecilia is often commemorated in paintings & stained glass windows as sitting at (or carrying) an organ.

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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

#iSchool students, library assistants, colleagues - always empower, never diminish, always #amplify #medlibs

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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

A walk along Jericho, nearly alone near the beach, in the distance a lowish tide, en route to the gym, with ships in the bay, and clouds in the sky. Just beyond, blue skies 🌎 The migration continues...like the tide, always in flux...

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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Working with this group was a professional highlight! #JMLA pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

In terms of moving to this new social platform #Bluesky (lovely name! and, note the photo I use in my profile, which is of Vancouver's blue skies) the question has to be: "Is this necessary"? As in searching, I guess we'll see! #medlibs

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