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Building a Shared Culture: A Post-acquisition Interview with Krishna K. Chinnaiah and Alice Ellingham of Molecular Connections

Today, Alice Meadows talks to Krishna K. Chinnaiah and Alice Ellingham of Molecular Connections about their experience of (respectively) acquiring and being acquired

  • By Alice Meadows
  • May 21, 2025
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Guest Post — Fostering AI Adoption and Literacy Within Your Organization 

How can organizations facilitate safe and comprehensive engagement with AI? And how can individuals within those organizations engage and advocate for their own AI literacy? 

  • By Stephanie Lovegrove Hansen
  • May 14, 2025
  • 5 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

The Hidden Leadership Trap: Overcoming Reverse Delegation in Academia

Reverse delegation, a cycle where tasks flow back to the leader of an organization or team, can be difficult to overcome, particularly in academia.

  • By Roohi Ghosh
  • Apr 23, 2025
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

New Ways to Illuminate Stories in Your Usage Data

Usage data experiences are dominated by tabular reports from complex systems; we need new tools to illuminate the stories within the data.

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad
  • Apr 21, 2025
  • 7 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

American Psychological Association’s Stepped Approach to Managing Responsible AI: An Interview with Aaron Wood on Employee Policies, Rights Reservation, and Research Integrity

An interview with Aaron Wood, discussing the APA’s comprehensive approach to AI.

  • By Roy Kaufman
  • Apr 14, 2025
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Five Trends In The Publishers-Sustainability Nexus

In this article, I present five specific developments which may give us an idea how the relationship between sustainability and scholarly publishers is changing over time.

  • By Haseeb Irfanullah
  • Mar 26, 2025
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Mental Health Awareness Mondays — Unlocking Your Institution’s Collective Genius: Cognitive Inclusion Improves Wellness and Maximizes your Societal Impact

In today’s Mental Health Awareness Monday post, Lisa Colledge shows how your research culture can be an asset that boosts mental health and innovation.

  • By Lisa Colledge
  • Aug 19, 2024
  • 10 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

AI-Enabled Transformation of Information Objects Into Learning Objects

A look at how AI tools support transforming information access into information comprehension.

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
  • Jul 30, 2024
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

What To Do Once the Paper is Retracted: NISO Issues Recommended Practice on the Communication of Retractions, Removals, and Expressions of Concern

New NISO guidance on clear consistent display of retraction information will reduce inadvertent reuse of erroneous research.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Jul 16, 2024
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Guest Post – Mental Health Awareness Mondays: It’s OK to Talk ‘Mental Health’, Isn’t it? Two Founders, Two Opinions

Mental health affects everyone across an organization.  Today we explore insights on mental health with the founders and leaders of two industry organizations. What are the challenges of starting your own business and keeping it running?

  • By Lou Peck, Sowmya Mahadevan
  • Jul 15, 2024
  • 6 Comments
  • Time To Read: 14 mins

Mental Health Awareness — Overcoming Imposter Syndrome: A Fireside Chat with Sarah Durrant, Lead from Within (Parts 3 & 4)

A fireside chat with Sarah Durrant; independent coach and transformational teacher, on the subject of Imposter Syndrome. Today, parts 3 & 4.

  • By October Ivins, Ryan Reeh, Adrian Stanley
  • Jun 28, 2024
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 2 mins

Guest Post — At the Nature Picket

The strike at Springer Nature raises questions about how editorial work is valued.

  • By Charles Whalley
  • Jun 26, 2024
  • 7 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

18 Life Lessons

Charlie Rapple shares 18 hard-won nuggets of wisdom to ease your passage through your career, and through your life.

  • By Charlie Rapple
  • Jun 18, 2024
  • 33 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Mental Health Awareness Mondays — Better Mental Health through Embodiment

In this Mental Health Mondays post, we look at the construct of embodiment and practices within it that create a symbiotic relationship between embodied experiences and psychological flourishing.

  • By Danielle Feger, Briony Fane
  • May 28, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Guest Post — Results of the 4th Annual SSP Professional Skills Survey

The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) Career Development Committee is pleased to announce the 4th annual Professional Skills Survey and updated Professional Skills Map.

  • By Kate Heaney, Mandy Brannon, Jacklyn Lord, Cason Lynley
  • May 22, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

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