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

A 🧵 1/16 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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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)

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

(1/4) 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.

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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 You can now build complex Google site: searches the same way you can in Google Scholar...

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)

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) 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.
(2/20)

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

Here's a thread on what's very wrong about using only Google Scholar for a literature view, as done by Buribalova et al. in this recent review: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… #SystematicReview #EvidenceSynthesis Problem 1: Their search string is flawed. The authors say they used a 'systematic' search for articles on Google Scholar. However, their search will not work as intended because: