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@nealhaddaway
Apr 17, 2022 • 8 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
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🚨greylitsearcher update🚨

Significant upgrade to greylitsearcher! Now supports advanced searching of Google AND provides a search report text file.

estech.shinyapps.io/greylitsearche…

Here's some details... 🧵

#medlibs #InformationRetrieval @SystematicSearching #EvidenceSynthesis greylitsearcher hex logo
You can now build complex Google site: searches the same way you can in Google Scholar... screenshot of the search pa...
And you can search across multiple sites simultaneously... (just be sure they support Google site: searching)

developers.google.com/search/docs/ad… Screenshot showing filled i...
greylitsearcher builds a set of links for each page of search results for each site you enter: Screenshot of the results t...
It then grabs the HTML for each page of results, pausing to remain 'friendly' to the bots at Google HQ: Image
The grabbed HTMLs are then scraped for patterned data and the results are tabulated for each source page, showing titles, descriptions and links: Image
As well as downloading the CSV file of search results, you can save a search history record, showing exactly what you searched for and when, and which URLs were grabbed and scraped. search record text file sho...
If you have any feedback or troubles using greylitsearcher, please let me know by adding an issue on the GitHub repository here:
github.com/nealhaddaway/g…

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Oct 10
It's #WorldMentalHealthDay - so I want to spend some time talking about what I call 'gnostalgia'.

From the Greek ‘gnosis’ (knowledge) and ‘algos’ (pain) - this word captures how it feels to understand the science behind our planetary crises.

#climateEmotions

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Many researchers will feel unease at discussing emotions in a professional context - subjectivity is even trained out of us.

But no human is truly objective.

Seeing our planet destroyed and its people suffer has an immeasurable toll.

#climateCrisis #planetaryCrises

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But not talking about the emotions we face can leave us feeling isolated and alone, unaware that many if not most of our colleagues feel similar emotions.

#isolation #mentalHealth #loneliness #WoldMentalHealthDay #climateAnxiety

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Oct 4, 2022
The other day, my (lovely) dentist asked what I did for a living - I said I've been working in environmental science and recently climate stuff a bit.

She said 'Wow - that must be an exciting time for you?'... (1/7)

#climateCrisis #climateAnxiety #climateEmotions #anxiety
No, it's not an exciting time, it's terrifying - we're sleep walking into the end of civilisation as we know it, sat back on our soft sofas, drinking lattes, watching Netflix as the vast majority of the planet's population deals with all the crap we've done to get us here. (2/7)
Even as our lives get harder we can't even imagine how shit things are going to be for the less privileged 90% of the human race. I watch heroes getting arrested for desperately trying to get politicians to wake up and act urgently, whilst middle-aged white men hurl abuse.. (3/7)
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May 5, 2022
Are you attending the #Stockholm50 academic conference on June 1st? Look out for my photography exhibition, 'Hope? and how to grieve for the planet'.

#Photography #DocumentaryPhotography #PhotoStory #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #ClimateEmotions

nealhaddaway.com/hope

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My project asks how environmental scientists and communicators deal with the emotional impact of working with alongside #EnvironmentalCrises.
nealhaddaway.com/hope

Many of us a grieving for our planet, and sharing our #emotions could be vital in the continuing battle.

(2/4) Black and white photographs of environmental researchers and
I'm really honoured to have my work selected alongside several other arts projects aiming to complement the academic conference.

If you're in Stockholm (01/06/22) and want to come, send me a DM for a (free) registration link.

#Stockholm50

(3/4) "Hope? and how to grieve for the planet" A photogr
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Oct 12, 2020
In this paper in @NatureEcoEvo we outline 8 major problems that can occur with traditional ways of reviewing the literature, and provide concrete advice on how to avoid them: rdcu.be/b8pp0

This thread outlines our key points! (1/23)
#EvidenceSynthesis #SystematicReview
Traditional ways of reviewing the literature may be susceptible to bias and end up giving us incorrect conclusions.

This is of particular concern when reviews address key policy- and practice- relevant questions. (2/23)
Systematic reviews aim to maximise rigour and minimise susceptibility to bias using rigorous methods.

But despite these methods being available, poor reviews are still published: these could be improved with a few key processes; some not prohibitively costly. (3/23)
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Oct 9, 2020
Check out our new paper on the need for better understanding of academic searching:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jr…

#InformationRetrieval #MedLibs #EvidenceSynthesis

A thread with our key points... (1/20) Image
We agree with others that we now face an 'information crisis' (#infodemic). There is SO much published research we need to find and digest.

Doing this reliably requires systematic review approaches, but even then, it's hugely challenging to find all relevant research.
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Academic searching/information retrieval is an art form, and there is no 'perfect' search strategy - it takes careful planning and requires substantial skill and training.

These searches are highly complex and must be used in fit-for-purpose bibliographic databases. (3/20) Image
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Oct 8, 2020
I've built an R package to scrape search results from up to 100 pages of hits from Google Scholar: github.com/nealhaddaway/G…

It's probably a bit buggy, but feedback greatly appreciated!

Here's a thread on how it works...

#AcademicTwitter #InformationRetrieval #MedLibs
1) It generates a set of up to 100 URLs, each corresponding to a page of visible search results Image
2) It then downloads each of these pages of results as an HTML file Image
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