Welcoming Dianndra Roberts as The Scholarly Kitchen’s DEIA Associate Editor
Dianndra Roberts is joining The Scholarly Kitchen as the Associate Editor focusing on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility.
What an Urban Historian and a Physicist Can Tell Us About Building Community…
Meet the keynote speakers for the 2022 SSP Annual Meeting.
Guest Post: A Decade of Open Data in Research — Real Change or Slow Moving Compliance?
Mark Hahnel looks at the progress that’s been made toward open research data — what’s been achieved, what still needs work, and what happens next?
Evo-Devo, the A Capella Version
A Friday video, as the evolutionary conservation of pattern formation is set to music.
Guest Post – Cybersecurity and Academic Libraries: Findings from a Recent Survey
Susie Winter reviews recent data on cybersecurity for academic libraries, as well as a survey of awareness and attitudes toward best practices among librarians.
“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.
Returning to the Workplace
With the Omicron surge in the rearview mirror, our Chefs reflect on returning to the workplace.
Missing the Obvious
The 2021 Illusion of the Year from the Neural Correlate Society. Can you spot what’s out of place?
Revisiting: Why Aren’t There More Women at the Top in Scholarly Publishing?
Alice Meadows revisits a post from 2013 that looked at how the scholarly publishing field fares in terms of the number of women in leadership roles. Nine years later, has anything changed?
Guest Post — Learning from the Experience of SSP’s 2021 Virtual Annual Meeting
What can the SSP learn from our experience of the virtual 2021 meeting that can inform future annual meetings, whatever the format?
The Burden of Knowledge: A Historian Reviews Popular Period Movies
How infuriating is it to watch a movie about your area of expertise and realize just how wrong it is?
Libraries and the Contested Terrain of “Neutrality”
Are libraries “neutral”? That question is way too simplistic to serve as anything other than a political football.
Guest Post — Offensive or Inclusive Language in Scientific Communication?
Richard de Grijs comes to grips with his field’s use of potentially offensive language.