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Friday Food for Thought: Surviving the Cyclospora Outbreak

Today, The Scholarly Kitchen brings you literal cooking tips — recipes and advice for your weekend menus!

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad
  • Jul 24, 2026
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 2 mins

Guest Post — Why Research Expectations Have Outpaced the Systems That Enabled Them (Part 2)

Today’s post is the second in a series arguing that fractures appearing across research systems are symptoms of a mismatch within today’s research ecosystem.

  • By Lisa Colledge
  • Jul 23, 2026
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Guest Post — What Does Commercial Adoption Mean for the Preprint Movement?

Today’s guest bloggers suggest that the involvement of commercial publishers is not unequivocally bad for preprints, and provide some optimism about open access as a whole.

  • By Shaun Khoo, Mahesh Miikael Karnani
  • Jul 22, 2026
  • 11 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

How Bangladesh Is Reducing The North-South Divide In Scholarly Publishing

Four Bangladeshi academics touch upon different aspects of academic publishing by linking them with the SDGs: accessing research; equity in co-authorship; editorial leadership; and SDG framing.

  • By Haseeb Irfanullah, Sharif Ahmed Mukul, Samiya A. Selim, Abdullah Shams Bin Tariq
  • Jul 21, 2026
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Guest Post — Why Research Expectations Have Outpaced the Systems That Enabled Them (Part 1)

Today’s guest blogger questions the operating model around scholarly research and asks why these capabilities are so difficult to sustain at scale.

  • By Lisa Colledge
  • Jul 20, 2026
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

The Latest Merger: Annual Reviews Acquires Underline Science

Annual Reviews have been on a steady growth trajectory these last few years, so we sat down with Richard Gallagher to learn more about their latest acquisition.

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad
  • Jul 17, 2026
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Guest Post — From Parasitism to Symbiosis: Escaping Peer-Pressure and For-Profit Publishers Through Diamond Open Access

Two environmental researchers argue that open-access publishing has undergone major “environmental” shifts, triggering rapid and far-reaching evolutionary responses, not unlike natural ecocystems.

  • By Camille Thomas, Romain Vaucher
  • Jul 16, 2026
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Slow Food, Slow Publishing: The Beauty of Not Being First

Robert Harington reflects on our addiction to speed and advocates for slow scholarly publishing and the inherent beauty of not always being first.

  • By Robert Harington
  • Jul 15, 2026
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 3 mins

Open Science 2.0: Building Understanding in an AI-Mediated World

Open Science 2.0 must focus not only on access, but also on trust, interpretation, learning, and effective communication. The challenge facing the scholarly publishing ecosystem is ensuring that what is open is also trustworthy, understandable, and genuinely useful.

  • By Ashutosh Ghildiyal, Maria Machado, Gareth Dyke
  • Jul 14, 2026
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Guest Post — Research Needs a Shared Standard for AI Disclosure

Today’s guest post presents outcomes of the WCRI’s (World Conferences on Research Integrity) Focus Track to address this gap in clarity and standardization of AI disclosure.

  • By Kari D. Weaver, Bert Seghers, Kiera McNeice, Mike Perkins , Sergio Santamarina, Lorelie Lingard, Natalia Tsybuliak, Felix Dijstal
  • Jul 13, 2026
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

The OMB Guidance Revision Threatens All Research

The OMB proposed revision is about all research — and humanities research is just as vulnerable as STEM.

  • By Karin Wulf, Sarah Weicksel
  • Jul 10, 2026
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 3 mins

Guest Post — Why Research Libraries Oppose the OMB Revisions to the Uniform Guidance

Today’s post explains how the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is responding to the proposed rule changes for US federal grants.

  • By Marcel LaFlamme
  • Jul 9, 2026
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Guest Post — Where Do We Go From Here? How Scientific Societies are Thinking about the Proposed OMB Funding Rule

Today’s post features conversations with society publishing leaders resisting the proposed OMB rule change for federal research funding.

  • By Jessica Miles
  • Jul 8, 2026
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Ask the Chefs: How Are You Responding to the OMB Proposed Rule Changes for US Research Funding?

Today, we ask the Chefs how they (or their organizations) are responding to the proposed changes to how US federal research grant funds can be used.

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad, Robert Harington, Haseeb Irfanullah, Roy Kaufman, Alice Meadows
  • Jul 7, 2026
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

The Emotional Rollercoaster of Scholarly Publishing

Today, we take an emotional journey through scholarly publishing and aim to understand how emotions impact authors’, reviewers’, and editors’ experiences in the scholarly communications lifecycle.

  • By Haseeb Irfanullah
  • Jul 6, 2026
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Social Media in Scholarly Communications — SSP Pulse Check Report

SSP’s latest Pulse Check survey offers a community-wide snapshot of social media in scholarly publishing as it stands today.

  • By Melanie Dolechek
  • Jul 2, 2026
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins
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