Making Research a Global Enterprise
Haseeb Irfanullah reflects on the recent Scholarly Kitchen webinar discussing the future of research as a global exercise.
Indigenous Knowledge and Research Infrastructure: An Interview with Katharina Ruckstuhl
Today’s interview, with Dr. Katharina Ruckstuhl of the University of Otago, looks at why and how we should implement research infrastructure processes that support Indigenous knowledge.
Unreachable/ Unwritable Histories: Russia, Ukraine, Eastern Europe
First in a series on histories made difficult or impossible though war or climate disasters, this post features two historians of Russia and Eastern Europe.
Guest Post — Love in the Time of COVID: Lessons in Change Management and Hope Amid the Chaos
Lily Garcia Walton discusses Silverchair’s ongoing adaptation of working spaces and policies as the COVID-19 pandemic continues.
What an Urban Historian and a Physicist Can Tell Us About Building Community…
Meet the keynote speakers for the 2022 SSP Annual Meeting.
Community, Inclusivity, Adaptability, and Integrity
In today’s post, Alice Meadows talks to Randy Townsend and Miranda Walker about the recent work they led to identify and articulate SSP’s core values, and how they’ll be embedded in the society’s future activities.
Ask the Chefs: How Do You Feel About In-person Conferences — Including SSP?
Today we ask the Scholarly Kitchen Chefs how they’re feeling about in-person conferences in general, and the 2022 SSP Annual Meeting in particular.
“Common Knowledge” and How False Facts Become Entrenched
Some scientific “urban legends” get debunked in today’s video. How does incorrect “common knowledge” become established?
Revisiting: Historians in Historic Times
We are always living through history. For historians, though, the current moment is always a culmination. Revisiting a post from January 2021 in preparation for a series.
Revisiting: A Parable of Innovation in Publishing — A Mostly True Story
Joe Esposito looks back at a 2011 post offering a parable of the role in innovation in publishing and makes the case that we should not criticize companies that try and fail to do new things.
Accelerating Open Research: A Multi-stakeholder Discussion
Robert Harington reports on the recent SSP Publisher-Funder Task Force closed forum of funders, publishers, librarians and academics, who met to discuss how collaboration among stakeholder groups may accelerate a transition to open research.
Guest Post — Offensive or Inclusive Language in Scientific Communication?
Richard de Grijs comes to grips with his field’s use of potentially offensive language.
Guest Post: Preprint Feedback is Here – Let’s Make it Constructive and FAST
ASAPBio offers set of principles and guidelines for preprint feedback.
Wordle, The 1980s Version
What exactly is Wordle, and more importantly, what would it have looked like on a computer in the 1980s?
The Future of Scholarly Societies: Interviews with Society Leaders (Part 1)
In this first of two posts, Robert Harington talks with several forward-thinking Society Executive Directors/CEOs, representing a range of fields, on the future of scholarly society operations and strategy.