From Content to Trusted Knowledge: Reflections on Frankfurt Book Fair 2026
Thoughts on the Frankfurt Book Fair 2026: how do we turn trusted content into useful knowledge — and help people act on it?
Guest Post – Artificial Intelligence in Scholarly Publishing: Are We Moving Faster Than the Evidence?
Today’s guest blogger reflects on why the next phase of AI adoption needs more evaluation, collaboration, and human judgment.
Mental Health Awareness Mondays — The Courage to Feel: Why Discomfort Is Not the Enemy
Today’s post explores the relationship between avoidance, attention, and healing, suggesting that psychological discomfort is not simply an obstacle to overcome, but a signal to understand.
#DefendResearch and PEN America Present… Word Wipe!
Today’s Fun Friday post introduces a new anti-censorship tool — Word Wipe allows you to see what a world redacted of words banned by the US government looks like.
TRACE Project Launches to Advance AI interoperability
The community comes together to launch TRACE, a project to improve generative AI systems’ interoperability, verifiability and usage tracking.
The Representation Is Not the Scholarship
The problem with AI may not be that machines are growing more intelligent. It may be that we are becoming increasingly skilled at amplifying a highly capable, but limited form of cognition.
Ask the Chefs: What Would You Have Done Differently About Open Access/Open Science if You Predicted the World as it Exists Today? Part 2
Let’s continue our “Ask the Chefs” conversation about what they might do differently with their open access strategy if they knew then what they know now.
Mental Health Mondays: What We Haven’t Talked About
Today’s post shares a personal reflection on the importance of Suicide Prevention Month and how our community can best support colleagues who may need support.
Guest Post — Integrity First: Inside Ukraine’s Publishing Reforms
Today, we feature an interview with Tetiana Yaroshenko, Deputy Director for Research and International Affairs at the State Scientific and Technical Library of Ukraine, and Denys Kurbatov, Deputy Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine.
Damned if You Do, Damned if You Don’t: Multilingual Researchers’ Use of AI in Academic Writing
Generative AI has made language tools ubiquitous, but it introduces risks of homogenized texts and semantic slippage.
Rethinking Scholarly Evaluation: Matching Rigor to Purpose
What if the systems designed to protect scientific rigor are also making it harder for new ideas to emerge? Do different scholarly contributions deserve unique forms of evaluation?
Kitchen Essentials: An Interview with Daniela Saderi of PREreview
Today’s Peer Review Week post is a Kitchen Essentials interview with Daniela Saderi, Executive Director of PREreview.
Guest Post — Peer Review Triage: Deciding What’s Worth Saving
Today’s guest post asks what about our current peer review system is worth saving and if we’re able to establish one that protects editorial judgment and preserves research integrity.
Ask the Chefs: Peer Review Capacity — Uncomfortable Truths and Overlooked Conversations
For Peer Review Week 2026, we asked the Chefs two questions: What is one uncomfortable truth about peer review that the scholarly publishing community doesn’t talk about enough? And, beyond recruiting more reviewers, what conversation about peer review capacity are we overlooking?
Up Close and Personal with the Trump Administration’s NIH Funding Cuts: An Interview with Sylvia Chou and Alexa Romberg
Today’s interview with Sylvia Chou and Alexa Romberg, formerly of NIH, sheds some light on censorship at the agency and the damage it’s doing to health research.