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Kate NyhanHi <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/EvidenceSynthesis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EvidenceSynthesis</a> folks Am I the first person to read the TERA-Tools terms of use before signing up? The links in the TOU refer to an acceptable use policy and a privacy policy, but the hyperlinks don't work and I can't find them elsewhere on the website. These TOU are dated 2023.... I get that "no one reads terms and conditions" -- but I am surprised that *literally* no one seems to have read it.

Wolfgang Viechtbauer<a href="https://scholar.social/tags/ESMARConf2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ESMARConf2025</a> is live now (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/@esmarconf" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/@esmarconf</a>), starting with a talk by <a href="https://ecoevo.social/@ASanchez_Tojar" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@ASanchez_Tojar</a> on "Practising what we preach: Rethinking standards in meta-analysis for ecology and evolution".At 11am (CEST), I will give a talk on how to visualize the amount of heterogeneity in forest plots.<a href="https://scholar.social/tags/MetaAnalysis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MetaAnalysis</a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Rstats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Rstats</a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/EvidenceSynthesis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EvidenceSynthesis</a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/ResearchSynthesis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ResearchSynthesis</a>

Kate NyhanHi folks, anyone else in the <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/RAISE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RAISE</a> webinar? <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/EvidenceSynthesis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EvidenceSynthesis</a>

Kate NyhanHi <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/EvidenceSynthesis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EvidenceSynthesis</a> folks and <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/medlibs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#medlibs</a> You have about ten minutes to give feedback to the ESIC peopleLink: <a href="https://qualtricsxm45bq73zl3.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_a4bGY6aWrCu8fMa" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://qualtricsxm45bq73zl3.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_a4bGY6aWrCu8fMa</a>The Stage 3 reports are at <a href="https://evidencesynthesis.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ESE/pages/219217921/Stage+3+Reports" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://evidencesynthesis.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ESE/pages/219217921/Stage+3+Reports</a>Since you don't have time to read them at this point, I will suggest some talking points:1 The AI working group's suggestion of generic classifiers (to tag/retrieve/screen studies with a particular study design, population, setting, outcome, whatever) is one of the few ideas that are IMO both valuable and feasible2 You can say that technical mechanisms will someday allow for an AI-led framework where human oversight is significantly reduced, yet evidence integrity remains uncompromised – but saying that doesn’t make people believe it.3 Before we build <a href="https://xkcd.com/927/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://xkcd.com/927/</a> in terms of literature databases, or ES data sharing standards, or ontologies -- let's reflect on the benefits of decentralization. Would the rest of the EBM world be worrying quite so much about US politics if not for the centrality of NCBI, NLM, PubMed, PMC, CDC, HICPAC, NIOSH, etc in global information networks?

Kate NyhanSomeone explain to me -- I thought the whole point of considering using LLMs for <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/EvidenceSynthesis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EvidenceSynthesis</a> screening was to process large datasets quickly. But in this paper Ghossein, J., Hryciw, B. N., Ramsay, T., & Kyeremanteng, K. (2025). The AI Reviewer: Evaluating AI’s Role in Citation Screening for Streamlined Systematic Reviews. JMIR Formative Research, 9(1), e58366. <a href="https://doi.org/10.2196/58366" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.2196/58366</a> They had a human-labeled dataset of 1186 citations, and they only tested their LLMs on 121 of them -- all of the included studies and 9% of the excluded ones.

Kate NyhanThis, but replace "writing code" with "writing sensitive and reproducible <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/EvidenceSynthesis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EvidenceSynthesis</a> searches" And replace "a requirements document" with "a systematic review protocol"

Kate NyhanWhat absolute perfect timing in light of the announcement that DOGE is cutting the size of ERIC significantlyFitzgerald, S. R., Weaver, K. D., & Droog, A. (2025). Selecting a specialized education database for literature reviews and evidence synthesis projects. Research Synthesis Methods, 16(1), 30–41. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1017/rsm.2024.11" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1017/rsm.2024.11</a><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/EvidenceSynthesis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EvidenceSynthesis</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Education</a>

Wolfgang Viechtbauer1/3 In a recent paper, we described the use of location-scale models in meta-analysis to not only examine how moderators may be related to the size of the effect, but also how moderators may be related to the amount of heterogeneity among the effects: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1002/jrsm.1562" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1002/jrsm.1562</a>Such models can be fit with the metafor package in R: <a href="https://wviechtb.github.io/metafor/reference/rma.uni.html#location-scale-models" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://wviechtb.github.io/metafor/reference/rma.uni.html#location-scale-models</a><a href="https://scholar.social/tags/statistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#statistics</a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/MetaAnalysis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MetaAnalysis</a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/EvidenceSynthesis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EvidenceSynthesis</a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/ResearchSynthesis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ResearchSynthesis</a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Rstats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Rstats</a>

Kate Nyhan is changing serversNew paper out: Rethlefsen et al (including me!) (2025). Improving peer review of systematic reviews and related review types by involving librarians and information specialists as methodological peer reviewers: a randomised controlled trial. BMJ evidence-based medicine, bmjebm-2024-113527. Advance online publication. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjebm-2024-113527" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjebm-2024-113527</a> <a href="https://social.esmarconf.org/tags/medlibs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#medlibs</a> <a href="https://social.esmarconf.org/tags/PeerReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PeerReview</a> <a href="https://social.esmarconf.org/tags/EvidenceSynthesis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EvidenceSynthesis</a>

Kate Nyhan is changing serversCan anyone explain to me the relationship between the "SHOW ME the evidence" paper published in JBI Evidence Implementation, Campbell Systematic Reviews, Clinical and Public Health Guidelines, Cochrane, and Environmental Evidence in November, and the "Evidence Synthesis Infrastructure Collaborative"? <a href="https://social.esmarconf.org/tags/EvidenceSynthesis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EvidenceSynthesis</a> <a href="https://social.esmarconf.org/tags/SystematicReviews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SystematicReviews</a>

Nathaniel D. Porter<a href="https://sciences.social/tags/JobOpportunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JobOpportunity</a> at <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/VirginiaTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#VirginiaTech</a> University <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/libraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#libraries</a>. Join our growing <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/EvidenceSynthesis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EvidenceSynthesis</a> team as Evidence Synthesis Information Scientist. First review April 1. <a href="https://careers.pageuppeople.com/968/cw/en-us/job/532611/evidence-synthesis-information-scientist" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://careers.pageuppeople.com/968/cw/en-us/job/532611/evidence-synthesis-information-scientist</a>

Wolfgang ViechtbauerThe Evidence Synthesis and Meta-Analysis in R Conference (ESMARConf) is back! It will be held June 11th to the 13th, 2025.<a href="https://esmarconf.org/2025/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://esmarconf.org/2025/</a>Recordings of the talks and workshops from previous years can be found here: <a href="https://esmarconf.org/recordings/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://esmarconf.org/recordings/</a> (and directly on you YouTube channel: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@esmarconf" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/@esmarconf</a>).<a href="https://scholar.social/tags/ESMARConf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ESMARConf</a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/MetaAnalysis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MetaAnalysis</a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/EvidenceSynthesis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EvidenceSynthesis</a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/RStats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RStats</a>

Kate Nyhan is changing serversWow, PROSPERO look very different and it sounds like it is very different. This is a great idea IMO <a href="https://social.esmarconf.org/tags/EvidenceSynthesis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EvidenceSynthesis</a> <a href="https://social.esmarconf.org/tags/medlibs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#medlibs</a>

Kate Nyhan is changing serversAnd here it is: where you can request free access to Policy Commons to search for <a href="https://social.esmarconf.org/tags/GreyLit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GreyLit</a> for an <a href="https://social.esmarconf.org/tags/EvidenceSynthesis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EvidenceSynthesis</a> project: <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe8qQKZ6lvye6ZKD0wh0TInKOoBulPOynnxdcpo5qzsz1QIug/viewform" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe8qQKZ6lvye6ZKD0wh0TInKOoBulPOynnxdcpo5qzsz1QIug/viewform</a>

Kate Nyhan is changing serversOK I know that <a href="https://social.esmarconf.org/tags/EvidenceSynthesis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EvidenceSynthesis</a> is becoming a bigger part of the literature but I didn't realize the rate was climbing this steeply, or that it's already so high. More than one in twenty articles in PLOS ONE have been systematic/scoping/rapid reviews, or their protocols, for two years and a bit? Seems surprising.

Kate Nyhan is changing serversFrom today's Policy Commons newsletter <a href="https://social.esmarconf.org/tags/EvidenceSynthesis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EvidenceSynthesis</a>

Alfredo Sánchez-TójarToday is the day. We are hosting the workshop at Bielefeld University "The <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/EvidenceSynthesis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EvidenceSynthesis</a> Toolkit: Perspectives from Philosophy and Biology"Unmatchable list of speakersMore at: <a href="https://shorturl.at/4OP1V" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://shorturl.at/4OP1V</a>Supported by DFG, NC3, JICE InChangE <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/systematicreview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#systematicreview</a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/metaanalysis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#metaanalysis</a>

Kate Nyhan is changing serversThe first gen AI study that I really want to read (maybe even do): 1 recruit participants WITH DIFFERENT LEVELS of experience in evidence synthesis and searching 2 show them chatbot output for prompts like "pretend you're a medical librarian and create a SR search strategy to use in PubMed for my research question," using whatever the state of the art guidelines are for "prompt engineering" 3A ask the participants to evaluate the chatbot output<a href="https://social.esmarconf.org/tags/medlibs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#medlibs</a> <a href="https://social.esmarconf.org/tags/EvidenceSynthesis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EvidenceSynthesis</a>

Kate Nyhan is changing serversFor 1000 *protocols* of *living* systematic reviews, how many reviews get published, and how many continue to be updated on the original schedule? Anyone have an estimate? <a href="https://social.esmarconf.org/tags/medlibs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#medlibs</a> <a href="https://social.esmarconf.org/tags/EvidenceSynthesis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EvidenceSynthesis</a>

Kate Nyhan is changing serversHave you ever seen an SR that did a sensitivity analysis based on only the OA included papers? Or even pointed out how many of the included papers are OA? Would love to read examples, don't care if they included only version of record OA or not. <a href="https://social.esmarconf.org/tags/EvidenceSynthesis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EvidenceSynthesis</a> <a href="https://social.esmarconf.org/tags/SystematicReviews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SystematicReviews</a> <a href="https://social.esmarconf.org/tags/OA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OA</a> <a href="https://social.esmarconf.org/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OpenAccess</a>

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