Alan Cockerill

Academic Library IT Nerd @ James Cook University This is my vaguely professional Twitter account. DM me for my rabidly silly and political one.

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@TimWinkler basically iterating Goodhart's Law
"When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."
https://t.co/580OWN9W4b

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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
https://t.co/NTRBNI68k0

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"TEACHERS CRITICAL TO STEM WORKFORCE GROWTH"

The ambiguity of the English language strikes again!

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@Harri_Est 🇦🇺

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Kill me now

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

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@Friesein Sourced from BSky

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

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Outside the USA and needing #PubMed , NIH, NCBI?
The European 'mirror' is working fine https://t.co/YeVN4dko1c

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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?

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

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

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@DrNeilStone 👋, but how's Jeff?

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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
https://t.co/Fv5s8az0uU

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“If peer review were a drug, it wouldn’t be allowed on the market because it has not been rigorously tested” from https://t.co/E8mZSYRe1S via @FutureCampusAus

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

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

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India takes out giant nationwide subscription to 13,000 journals | Science | AAAS https://t.co/YHzihLt12g

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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."