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.
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.
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.
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.
Can Peer Review Keep Up? Announcing the Theme for Peer Review Week 2026
Today, we share the results of a global community poll that produced the theme for Peer Review Week 2026 (14–18 September): “Peer Review Capacity: Volume, Speed and Quality.”
Guest Post — Call to Action: Shaping Our Collective Voice Through Advocacy
SSP’s Advocacy Task Force Co-chairs encourage members to participate in this month’s Pulse Check Survey on our collective advocacy activities.
AI Rollout Is a People Problem: A Pulse on All Things AI, Part 2
Faced with technological shifts not seen since the advent of the internet, Todd Toler and Angela Cochran posit that the biggest challenges for organizations building an AI strategy are human, not technology.
Guest Post — The Perils of Using Generative AI to Perform Research Tasks: Editors’ and Publishers’ Viewpoints
Today’s guest post offers a review of a panel of publishers and editors discussing the pros and cons of using Generative AI, along with ethical and policy implications.
Guest Post — Who Owns Our Knowledge? An African University Press Perspective
Today’s guest post asks readers to reckon with the idea that knowledge reflects power, and the global knowledge economy excludes the Global South.
Guest Post — Shaping a Sustainable Future for Academic Publishing: Our Journey so Far
Today’s guest post demonstrates how publishers can reduce their carbon footprint and be leaders in environmental sustainability.
Standing Up by Stepping Down
Today’s post discusses the impact and intention of DEIA advocacy and the value of taking a pause as an act of resistance and self-preservation.
Mental Health Awareness Monday — Sing the Songs That Bring You Joy
Today’s guest post shares personal reflections about mental health awareness, the importance of boundaries, and routines you can employ to embrace balance.
Guest Post — Re-imagining Scholarly Integrity: The “Continuum of Consensus” Quality Control System
Today’s guest blogger proposes the “Continuum of Consensus” as a solution to shore up research integrity, peer review, and the public trust in scholarly research.
Part 2 — Why Authors Aren’t Disclosing AI Use and What Publishers Should (Not) do About It
Current AI disclosure guidelines are failing and driving AI use underground rather than making it transparent. In this follow-up post, I turn to the more challenging question: what publishers should do about it.
Politics and Scholarly Societies: 1200 Partnerships with External Organizations Terminated at the University of Kentucky
Robert Harington attempts to shine a light on some of the political problems scholarly societies and academic institutions face in the current political climate.