What We Can Learn About Languages from the Words for Parts of the Body
Because body parts have always been with us, they can tell us a lot about the development of languages.
SSP’s Early Career Development Podcast Episode 19: An Ear to SSP’s 2024 Annual Meeting
This episode of SSP’s Early Career Development Podcast offers a ‘vox pop’ peek into the 2024 SSP Annual Meeting with a recap and on-site interviews with attendees. Hosted by Meredith Adinolfi (Cell Press) and Sara Grimme (Digital Science).
Guest Post: Improving Methods Reporting in the Life Sciences
What can we do to encourage and improve methods reporting in scientific articles? A new report summarizes recommendations for editors and publishers alike.
Digital Archiving, and What Would it Cost to Print an Always Up-to-date Version of Wikipedia
Is the easiest way to preserve digital materials printing them out? What if we’re talking about the constantly changing Wikipedia?
The American Sunlight Project Wants to Make It More Costly for Bad Actors to Spread Disinformation: How Will They Do That?
How will the American Sunlight Project make it more costly for bad actors to spread disinformation — and what does this mean for scholarly publishing?
Guest Post: Navigating a New Virtual Experience at the 2024 SSP Annual Meeting
The SSP Annual Meeting Planning Committee has put together a unique and strong program for virtual attendees to the SSP 2024 Annual Meeting.
A Cetacean Alphabet
A new paper uses AI to decipher sperm whale vocalizations.
Chefs de Cuisine: Perspectives from Publishing’s Top Table – Susan King
Robert Harington talks to Dr. Susan King of Rockefeller University Press (RUP), in this series of perspectives from some of Publishing’s leaders across the non-profit and for-profit sectors of our industry.
Guest Post: FoSci — The Emerging Field of Forensic Scientometrics
Leslie McIntosh names the emerging field of forensic scientometrics.
SSP’s Generations Fund Exceeds 75% Mark — Pulls Close to Goal
The Generations Fund is celebrating its next milestone achievement and SSP thanks 373 Individual & Organizational Contributors.
Guest Post — The Perplexing Puzzle of the Top 2% Scientists List
A list of the most influential scientists suffers from anomalies and inaccuracies.
What if the Earth Suddenly Stopped Spinning?
XKCD’s Randall Munroe has launched a video series around his “What If?” books and today answers the question, what if the earth stopped spinning?
Reading: It Can’t Be About the Numbers
How many books do we read in a year? Wouldn’t a better question be how well, how thoughtfully we had engaged with long-form content?
“Mrs. Foster Has Sworn A Rape”; or, What Do We Owe? Generosity, Attribution, and the Perilous Invisibility of Research Infrastructure
Attribution has many virtues, but among them it can make visible the vast infrastructure of research for a public largely unaware or unconcerned with how much hard-won knowledge, including creative endeavor, that research has facilitated.
Humanities and Jobs Data: What’s the Real Story?
Escalating attacks on the humanities often cite the problem of employment for humanities majors; a new report shows otherwise.