Dean Giustini

@allancho Congratulations Allan. Look forward to reading 📚

My piece is published now in the "Journal of Creative Library Practice." I enjoyed writing about this initiative that I helped shape a few years ago, "Libraries as Places Where Stories Begin: Building A Writer-in-Residence Program at UBC Library" creativelibrarypractice.org/2026/03/21/pla…

@cassandrafree17 Thank you for your kind words, much appreciated 🥳

@giustini You do amazing work, I always shared and recommended your Wiki to colleagues when I worked as a med librarian. Thank you for all you do.

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

@allancho Thanks Allan. I'm looking at where traffic is coming from with the help of Will - amazing. More than 50 countries.

@giustini Amazing, Dean!

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_int…

Moltbook is a new Artificial intelligence (AI)-only social network... URL: moltbook.com where software agents post, comment, and vote creating discussions that resemble human activity. I consider the implications of the new social network here: wiki.ubc.ca/Moltbook

Our scoping review on MEDLINE indexing manuscript was submitted but I generated this handy infographic via #Copilot @Copilot based on abstract. 🗂️ Note: Implications for librarians #algorithmic effects in #MEDLINE #medlibs

"Louder Singing" appeals to me. Less "Doom Scrolling" on X.com is definitely up on the list 🤣

@RodKahx How would the oil get to US refineries in the volume needed? It's also heavy crude and the Gulf Coast has limits around tanker traffic. Just wondering.....

Taking all into account. Trump is about to announce a full blown invasion to take over Venezuelan oil reserves. This impacts Canada. This is bad.

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

ps. Well, at least Facebook hasn't completely torqued down my social media account. 2 likes? c'mon x.com

Things are getting festive around here...early! 🍁🎅 Ah well, no time like today to have a good time with the books in the library (medical journals I mean!)🎄

ps. I neglected to mention that for "Other" ways of staying current in AI and knowledge synthesis, librarians mentioned @FarhadShokrane and #julieglanville

Thanks to the convenors of the @MedLibAssn 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📚

@marktmaclean non*empty 🤣

Yes.

@aarontay @FarhadShokrane agree 😀

@giustini @FarhadShokrane That's my worry. I notice evidence synthesis people being extremely harsh on such tools when most of them were never designed to be used for evidence synthesis. At best you use them for exploratory search

"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?

@aarontay @FarhadShokrane ...yes, but the tools you evaluate .... are used in evidence synthesis...so that was my point with that poll. Once I get the results of that poll, I'll share with you Aaron.

@giustini thankful evidence synthesis experts like you , @FarhadShokrane and others are sharing my work and I can see medical health librarians subscribing cos of that. But important to note while I'm *fascinated* by the field of evidence synthesis I don't really do that work much (1)

@janicekung I was able to incorporate, and agree! Almost every class I'm teaching and "Open Evidence" is mentioned wiki.ubc.ca/Open_Evidence

Great blog post! "OpenEvidence: Smart Medicine or Smart Marketing?" kraftylibrarian.com/openevidence-s… If there is any tool that locks out librarians, I'm immediately skeptical! What are you hiding, OpenEvidence?! #medlibs #canmedlibs