Guest Post — Your Next Reader Is a Machine, and We Are Ready
Machine readers replacing human readers can sound like a threat. Today’s post argues that our community is well prepared to face these challenges and seize the opportunities.
Guest Post — The Guild and the Gap: What One Rejection Revealed About the Cost of Credentialism
Today’s guest post asks: Do trust markers and other systematic fraud-prevention practices exclude unaffiliated authors from contributing to the scholarly record?
Reading Between the Lines, Part 2: Cognitive Debt and the Adaptive Publisher
The central risk of AI in scholarly publishing is therefore not hallucination but cognitive debt: the gradual erosion of the human capacities that give scholarship its originality, integrity, and meaning.
Reading Between the Lines, Part 1: A Cognitive Framework for AI in Scholarly Publishing
AI is now a permanent feature of the scholarly landscape. The question is no longer whether it should be used, but how it should be understood and governed.
Guest Post — Do we need (r)evolution in peer review?
Whether peer review needs revolution or evolution may be the wrong question. The more pressing one is whether the academic community is prepared to let scientific ideas be published, contested, and refined in public, rather than behind closed doors.
Guest Post — The Third Time is NOT the Charm: Who Will Own How AI Participates in Scholarship?
Today’s guest post warns the community that, in the AI era, we cannot keep building the pieces that lay the foundation and letting someone else own what gets built on top of it.
The Hidden Cost of Trust
Research integrity demands stronger safeguards in order to protect the scholarly record. But for editors, when new integrity measures are introduced, they do not replace existing tasks; they are added alongside them, compounding workloads and responsibilities.
Friday Food for Thought: Surviving the Cyclospora Outbreak
Today, The Scholarly Kitchen brings you literal cooking tips — recipes and advice for your weekend menus!
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.
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.
Guest Post — Now is the Time for AI in Peer Review, and Publishing Policies Need to Recognize This
Today’s post asks us to acknowledge the role of AI in peer review and ensure practical guidance and policies that help scholars respond with consistency and confidence.
Before the Guardrails: Why AI Governance in Research Must Start with Purpose
The future of scholarly communication will not be determined by how powerful AI becomes, but by whether the research community remains clear about the purpose those capabilities are meant to serve and whether it can govern them together.
Guest Post — Milestones that Matter: Celebrating a Wartime SSP Presidential Term
Today, we reprise the talk by outgoing SSP President Rebecca McLeod at last month’s SSP Annual Meeting.
Guest Post — Legitimate but Not Loved: What Academic Librarians Think About AI
While it’s true that AI may be viewed as “legitimate,” it’s far from universally loved. Understanding that distinction tells us something important about how the technology may ultimately be adopted — and governed — within academia.
A Platform Comes Apart: Part 1
Today’s post explores what happens to the scholarly content platform when AI agents become the users.