Chefs’ Selections: Best Media Enjoyed in 2025 (Part 2)
In the second of our Chef’s Selections series for 2025, we pause to look back on the best books, music, shows, and other cultural expressions we encountered in 2025.
Chefs’ Selections: Best Media Enjoyed in 2025 (Part 1)
In the first of our Chef’s Selections series for 2025, we pause to look back on the best books, music, shows, and other cultural expressions we encountered in 2025.
Guest Post — Building an Intelligence Infrastructure for Science
Today’s guest post spotlights a new scientific intelligence engine inspired by Thomas Kuhn’s theory of scientific revolution and the mission to give humanity the ability to see its own progress while it unfolds.
Guest Post — What Do College Students Lose When Libraries Are Ignored?
Today’s guest post argues that academic libraries are an investment in the very foundation of quality scholarship and responsible publishing.
Guest Post — From Cloud to Carbon: Exploring the Digital Carbon Footprint of Knowledge
Today’s guest post summarizes the discussion in the recent EASE / STM / webinar, exploring the digital carbon footprint of scholarly publishing.
Reasons To Be Thankful: 50 Years of Patti Smith’s Horses
We’re off for the Thanksgiving holiday. In what seems like a difficult year in which to be thankful, there’s still joy to be had.
Science as Story, Memory as Infrastructure: A Conversation with Trevor Owens, Part 2
In today’s guest post, Wendy Queen (JHUP) continues her conversation with Trevor Owens (AIP) about how the tools and sensibilities of the humanities are helping to preserve the record of the physical sciences.
Mental Health Awareness Mondays — Balancing Work and Caregiving: Flexibility That Works for Everyone
Today, nearly one in four adults serves as a caregiver. Because of this, work-life flexibility isn’t just a nicety it’s a game-changer, for individuals and organizations alike.
Guest Post — Five Years of GetFTR: A discussion with Librarians on Access, Integrity, and Collaboration
After five years of GetFTR, four librarians discuss how it is working in practice, its value to libraries and researchers, and what opportunities lie ahead.
Reimagining Scholarly Publishing Workflow: A High-Level Map of What Changes Next
Rather than just bolting on AI to existing publication workflows,there is a real opportunity to rethink and redesign them for human–AI collaboration. Some thoughts on what that looks like in practice.
Guest Post — Science as Story, Memory as Infrastructure: A Conversation with Trevor Owens, Part 1
In today’s guest post, Wendy Queen (JHUP) speaks with Trevor Owens (AIP) about how the tools and sensibilities of the humanities are helping to preserve the record of the physical sciences.
In Defense of Pluralism and Diversity: A Modest Manifesto for the Future of Scholarly Communication (Part 2 of 2)
Since every possible method and model of scholarly communication is imperfect, a healthy scholarly ecosystem must be pluralistic, providing space for experimentation and for a diversity of methods, models, and philosophies to coexist.
The Global Transition Has Already Happened – It’s Just Not the One You Expected (Part 1 of 2)
The global scholarly publishing ecosystem has already transitioned — not to open access, but to a diverse hybrid system. So much the better.
Preserving Human Ingenuity for a Future Planet Ruled By Octopuses
An engineer and musician teaches an octopus to play the piano.
Ask the Chefs: What’s Your Favorite AI Hack?
We talk a lot about AI in scholarly communications and publishing, but today, we ask the Chefs: What’s your favorite AI hack?
The Next Open Revolution: Equity, Impact, and the Architecture of Knowledge
Today, Alison Mudditt reflects on a Charleston Conference session that asked: what would it take to make the scholarly communication system truly equitable, impactful, and future-ready?