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Guest Post — Restoring Trust in Science: What Would Make a Difference?

Today's guest post asserts that trust won’t be restored by "better messaging" alone, but via better incentives, more disciplined public communication, and really listening to the people who have walked...

  • By Steve Smith
  • May 12, 2026
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  • Time To Read: 9 mins

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Mental Health Awareness Week: Revisiting Mental Health Mondays

To honor the UK’s Mental Health Week, we take a look back at the Mental Health Monday posts in The Scholarly Kitchen with calls to action, practical tips, and tools for “taking ACTION.”

  • By Dianndra Roberts
  • May 11, 2026
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 3 mins

Announcing The Scholarly Kitchen’s Style Guide

Today we announce The Scholarly Kitchen’s new style guide for Chefs and guest bloggers alike.

  • By Scholarly Kitchen
  • May 8, 2026
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

Guest Post — Love, Death & Robots: Scholarly Edition

Today’s guest post proposes a method for identifying, measuring, and managing robotic usage of scholarly content.

  • By Tim Lloyd
  • May 7, 2026
  • 6 Comments
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

Zero-Click Readership: Are AI Overviews Changing the Way We Discover Research

Today’s post asks: If research is increasingly accessed through AI-generated summaries rather than via primary sources, then what does it mean to “engage with research” at all?

  • By Roohi Ghosh
  • May 6, 2026
  • 5 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Stronger Together: BioOne and Johns Hopkins University Press Join Forces

Today BioOne and Johns Hopkins University Press announced that they’re joining forces. Learn more in this interview with Lauren Kane, Barbara Kline Pope, and Wendy Queen

  • By Alice Meadows
  • May 5, 2026
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Mental Health Awareness Mondays — The Validation Trap: Rethinking Confidence Through Emotional Fitness

Today’s Mental Health Awareness Monday reflects on the need for validation in publishing careers, and how we might reduce unnecessary pressure on performance while preserving rigor.

  • By Ashutosh Ghildiyal, Akshay Masurekar
  • May 4, 2026
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Shaping Our Collective Voice Through Advocacy — SSP Pulse Check Report

This month’s Pulse Check survey focuses on our community’s views on advocacy, industry priorities, and challenges of engaging with policymakers and the public.

  • By Melanie Dolechek
  • May 1, 2026
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Guest Post — SSP Annual Meeting: The Highlights are Coming

Today, members of SSP’s 48th Annual Meeting Program Committee share reflections for all attendees — including those joining the Highlights Webinar on June 17, 2026.

  • By Marianne Calilhanna, David Turner, Jennifer Regala, Michelle Urberg
  • Apr 30, 2026
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 3 mins

Guest Post — When Thinking Is Outsourced: A Warning from a Scientist Trained Before AI

Today’s guest post sounds an alarm about the use of AI in research and warns that no amount of computational efficiency can compensate for the loss of our capacity for human thought.

  • By Mohamed Mannaa
  • Apr 29, 2026
  • 8 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Guest Post — Develop to Delegate: How Investing in Early-Career Professionals Strengthens Organizations

Today’s guest post advocates for investing in the development of early-career professionals to foster a healthy pipeline of emerging talent in scholarly publishing.

  • By Kelly Harvey
  • Apr 28, 2026
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Guest Post — Quality Over Quantity: Why Scholarly Publishing Needs Stronger Front-End Gatekeeping to Build Trust and Long-Term Value

Today’s guest bloggers call publishers to lean into, rather than away from, their liability for science integrity and rigor.

  • By Claudia Taubenheim, Sarah Hands
  • Apr 27, 2026
  • 22 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Evidence Isn’t Just for Research

This Friday, we offer a humorous take on the importance of empirical evidence in this era of fraud and mis/disinformation.

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad
  • Apr 24, 2026
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

The Opportunities and Perils of Discovery: STM Releases its Trends 2030

The new STM Trends 2030 was released, symbolizing a world full of opportunities but also with dangers lying just below the surface for scholarly publishing.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Apr 23, 2026
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Academic Publishing in the Age of AI: From Content to Trust

AI in science should not be viewed merely as a productivity tool layered onto existing workflows. It represents a structural shift in how knowledge moves through society, and therefore in how scientific authority is established and maintained.

  • By Ashutosh Ghildiyal, Maria Machado, Gareth Dyke
  • Apr 22, 2026
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Guest Post — Moving from Identifier to Identity for Researchers

Today’s post calls for collective action to address the researcher identity verification gap in scholarly communications and champions STM’s Researcher identity group.

  • By Tim Lloyd
  • Apr 21, 2026
  • 7 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins
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