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.
[…] researcher is not only about learning how to get to the right answer, but also noticing what other questions to ask when the answer is not forthcoming. With information-seeking via generative AI, it is now almost always possible to get […]
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.
[…] support sponsored research through specialized services and become more embedded in research workflows, some libraries and institutions are beginning to ask how best to sustain these services and make these essential contributions visible within institutional funding models that are facing […]
[…] change and enhance the collective benefit of research. The Deeper Question: Benefit to the World Beyond immediate stakeholders, we must ask whether the current state of scholarly publishing truly benefits the world at large. While it sustains the careers of […]
Before we plunge into 2025, a look back at 2024, a year of uncertainty in The Scholarly Kitchen.
In this post, Alice Meadows shares some thoughts about PLOS’s recently announced R&D project to help overcome the lack of recognition for Open Science contributions, and the lack of affordability for researchers.
The Scholarly Kitchen’s Mental Health Awareness Working Group has been active for around six months now. With May designated as Mental Health Awareness Month, we wanted to take a look back at what we’ve achieved, and a look forward […]
[…] reasons for this proposal are: human-dependent peer review is inequitable, suffers from injustice, and is potentially unsustainable. In last week’s Ask the Chefs piece on peer review, I shared a few examples; let me give some more below. 1) We say reviewers […]
Will artificial intelligence fatally undermine the integrity of scholarly publishing? A formal debate from the annual meeting of the Society for Scholarly Publishing.
[…] and research infrastructure The last part of the masterclass was a brainstorming session where attendees were split into groups and asked to come up with ideas on how to tackle challenges around research integrity. Understandably, many of the groups looked […]
Erich van Rijn looks at the University of California’s Luminos open access books program and reviews lessons learned and what is needed for such programs to succeed.
eLife’s recent announcement that it will reinvent itself as a “service that reviews preprints” has generated much discussion over recent weeks. But what are the primary drivers and goals, and what might we all learn from this bold experiment?
Revisiting a 2017 post looking at how, due to the slowing growth of content licensing, sophisticated content providers are building businesses supporting researcher workflow and university business processes.
Dianndra Roberts is joining The Scholarly Kitchen as the Associate Editor focusing on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility.