Alan Cockerill

@TimWinkler basically iterating Goodhart's Law "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure." futurecampus.com.au/2025/06/24/awa…

Harsh - I can still separate Ex Libris culturally from Clarivate/ProQuest (so far). PS get your CERV votes in. A Master Class in Destroying Trust katinamagazine.org/content/articl…

"TEACHERS CRITICAL TO STEM WORKFORCE GROWTH" The ambiguity of the English language strikes again!

@Harri_Est 🇦🇺

Leave flag of your country in the comments with ✊️ to show your support for 🇺🇦 and President Zelenskyy!

Kill me now

@KareemRifai Right. And Reagan was in the movies. It all makes sense now.

I think it's because Russia has been the actual bad guy in real life for several centuries, Marge.

@Friesein Sourced from BSky

@Friesein Doesn't work. I get an error 500 if use the IP number 34.107.134.59 - is not a DNS lag.

Outside the USA and needing #PubMed , NIH, NCBI? The European 'mirror' is working fine europepmc.org

PubMed (NIH) is down. Internet Archive is down (so no Wayback retrieval of NIH docs) and now LibAnswers System Status Management is giving "Invalid response received" so I can't even tell people. End times?

PubMed/NIH down - and so is the Internet Archive.

@DrNeilStone And the internet archive is down too, so no alternate source available right now.

OK PubMed is down It's run by the NIH and the main way to search for academic papers. If this isn't a temporary thing , and is a Trump/Musk doing, academics around the world are royally screwed right now.

@DrNeilStone 👋, but how's Jeff?

Hands up if you had the Covid vaccine and are here to see 2025 🤚

Bluesky is 'go to' for scientists at the moment (given constant bot attacks against anything remotely climate change related) on the aptly named eX-Twitter digital-science.com/news/altmetric…

“If peer review were a drug, it wouldn’t be allowed on the market because it has not been rigorously tested” from doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2… via @FutureCampusAus

@wolfofx The largest named ancestries in California are Mexican (25%), Germans (9%), Irish (7.7%), English (7.4%), and Italian (5.8%)

22. In which state you can find the highest percentage of people with ancestry from every European country

@Alexk800101 @wolfofx It does say percentage, not number. Not that I trust it.

@wolfofx There are more polish in Wisconsin than n Chicago? That's a lie😂 "Within the US, the largest concentration of Polish Americans is in the state of Illinois, particularly in the Chicago metropolitan area. Chicago is often referred to as the "largest Polish city outside of Poland"

21. Is there a reason why this group of countries end their names with “stan”?

India takes out giant nationwide subscription to 13,000 journals | Science | AAAS science.org/content/articl…

No context librarians: "To use Dave's terminology, we'd like for the items of the Squishy Puppies library and the Scratchy Kittens library to be sent only to the Squishy Puppies reading room."