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Melissa Rethlefsen @mlrethlefsen.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Interested to hear NIH will be creating an Office of Metascience (actual name to be determined).

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The University of New Mexico @unm.edu · 11/09/2025

We've never been more quack. I mean back... Welcome back Duck Pond! 🦆 Read about the improvements made to the heart of campus. bit.ly/4mdVomR

View of a the Duck Pond, surrounded by lush trees and a pathway with people sitting on benches. Foreground features rocky terrain.

View from a green park chair overlooking the Duck Pond surrounded by lush trees in a well-maintained park.

A serene scene featuring a wooden bridge over a tranquil pond, with tall grasses in the foreground and lush greenery in the background.

A scenic view of a fountain in the center of the Duck Pond, surrounded by lush trees and a clear sky.

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Peer Review Congress #PRC11 Coming 2029! @peerreviewcongress.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

A @bmj.com RCT is comparing effects of use of an #OpenScience checklist on provision of study protocols, code, data, more. Too early to assess reproducibility FX! @mariskaleeflang.bsky.social @ingestegeman.bsky.social @floriannaudet.bsky.social @mlrethlefsen.bsky.social @amsterdamumc.bsky.social

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Melissa Rethlefsen @mlrethlefsen.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Had a great time working with Ayu and team on this project! (Maybe it works, maybe it doesn’t; still pending full results) #prc10

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Carrie Price @carrieprice.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

I’m pleased to experience the 10th Peer Review Congress and present with @mlrethlefsen.bsky.social! Our poster examines the perceptions and experiences of librarian peer reviewers for evidence synthesis methodologies. #prc2025

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Melissa Rethlefsen @mlrethlefsen.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

It is incredibly annoying that this new NIH so-called gold standard science plan uses the exact opposite definition of reproducibility and replicability from the NASEM report. Why, just, why?

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Melissa Rethlefsen @mlrethlefsen.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

So proud; my husband is teaching all of his colleagues how to do comprehensive author searches in multiple databases

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Melissa Rethlefsen @mlrethlefsen.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

And in better news, my library has network cable from 1993 that is still in use

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madison @beastlibrarian.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

we just lost all 7 of our Network of National Library of Medicine, Region 5 (NNLM) library workers. the grant that covered their salaries was terminated. this is heartbreaking and demoralizing.

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JAMA @jama.com · 20/02/2025

In a new Editorial, JAMA editors, JAMA Network Editors in Chief, and JAMA editorial leadership address the recent executive orders that have impacted the scientific process and reaffirm their commitment to scientific and editorial integrity. ja.ma/4b5LsIt

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Nature @nature.com · 20/02/2025

Almost all grant-review meetings under Trump 2.0 remain suspended at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), preventing the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research from spending much of its US$47 billion annual budget. go.nature.com/4gM6oW4

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Revealed: NIH research grants still frozen despite lawsuits challenging Trump order

The Trump administration is exploiting a loophole to keep a funding freeze in place, leaving researchers in limbo.

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Melissa Rethlefsen @mlrethlefsen.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Just finished reading Doctored, by Charles Piller. Distressing read, but highly recommend. It was good timing for teaching my rigor and reproducibility journal club this semester

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Melissa Rethlefsen @mlrethlefsen.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

I joined Twitter in April 2007, so I kept hoping it would go back to normal. Not so much.

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