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Guest Post: The Human Heart of Science — Navigating AI Anxiety in the Academic World

Today’s guest blogger calls for “rehumanizing” our view on AI innovations and their impacts on our mental health and our communities.

  • By Krishna Kumar Venkitachalam
  • Feb 13, 2026
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Guest Post — There’s an Elephant in the Room, but Not in Your Usage Reports

Today’s guest bloggers spotlight a gap in traditional usage reporting, third-party AI usage, and recommend steps needed to recover missing usage data.

  • By Michelle Urberg, Chris Bendall
  • Feb 12, 2026
  • 7 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Guest Post — Putting the “U” in FAIR

Today’s guest blogger calls for adding “understandable” to the FAIR data principles, to ensure we do not surrender human knowledge in our rush for automation.

  • By Jeff Lang
  • Feb 10, 2026
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Guest Post — Why Science Communication Must be the Next Competitive Edge for Scholarly Publishers

Today’s guest bloggers assert that the future of the scholarly publishing depends on mastering science communication with the same rigor that global consumer brands apply to marketing.

  • By Ashutosh Ghildiyal, Gareth Dyke, Maria Machado
  • Feb 6, 2026
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Guest Post — Call for Feedback: STM Task & Finish Group (TFG) Image-type Taxonomy for Alt Text

Today’s post calls for community feedback on STM’s latest recommendations for alt-text metadata to support images in accessible scholarly publishing.

  • By Lorna Notsch, Beth Richard
  • Jan 30, 2026
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Guest Post – The Next Era of Reference Management: An Interview with William Gunn

Today’s guest post features an interview with William Gunn discussing how AI will (or won’t!) change the future of reference management tools.

  • By John Frechette
  • Jan 23, 2026
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Guest Post — The Ghost in the Machine: Why Generative AI is a Crisis of Authorship, Not Just a Tool

Today’s guest author raises the question of whether a researcher submitting an article that was significantly drafted by an LLM without clear disclosure is effectively engaging in a contemporary form of ghost authorship.

  • By Ch. Mahmood Anwar
  • Jan 22, 2026
  • 35 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Guest Post — Open Scholarship is Poised to Create More Value than Ever, but Are We Ready?

Today’s guest blogger observes how advances in technology create unprecedented opportunities in open scholarship, and asks: Can incentive structures keep up?

  • By Ginny Herbert
  • Jan 15, 2026
  • 6 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Guest Post — AI Use: From Policies to Reality

Today’s guest blogger reflect on their panel discussion about policies and realities of AI in scholarly communications at COPE’s Publication Integrity Week event last month.

  • By Gráinne McNamara, Jeremy Ng, Elizabeth Moylan, Coco Nijhoff, Lauren Flintoft
  • Jan 13, 2026
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

AI in Scholarly Publishing — SSP Pulse Check Report

The first of SSP’s new polling initiative, Pulse Check, explores AI in scholarly publishing and set out to understand how our communities are navigating this monumental shift. 

  • By Melanie Dolechek
  • Jan 9, 2026
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Hot Takes on the First Quarter of 21st Century Scholarly Publishing

Todd Carpenter looks back on the past quarter century of a digital revolution in scholarly publishing.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Jan 8, 2026
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

The Year in Review: 2025 in The Scholarly Kitchen

Before we plunge into 2026, a look back at 2025, a difficult year for many in the scholarly community.

  • By David Crotty
  • Jan 5, 2026
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 3 mins

Ask The Chefs: What Would You Ask of Academic Publishing Santa

To close out 2025, we asked the Chefs: What would you ask for from Academic Publishing Santa?

  • By Scholarly Kitchen, Roohi Ghosh, Roy Kaufman, Randy Townsend, Tim Vines, Hong Zhou
  • Dec 23, 2025
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Guest Post — DEI Under Threat: Collaborative Strategies to #DefendResearch

Today’s guest post reflects on the recent panel discussion, “Collaborative strategies to #DefendResearch and ensure academic freedom,” by speakers and organizers of the event.

  • By Terri Teleen, Sarah McKenna, George Cooper, Sara Rouhi, Josh Sendall, Mustafa B. Ozturk
  • Dec 22, 2025
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Guest Post — How AI is Transforming Platform Strategy: Beyond the Hype

Today’s guest blogger challenges us to look beyond the hype of AI, and embrace AI agents handling platform grunt work, validation, and parallel processing that expands what we can accomplish with immediate and substantial productivity gains.

  • By Stuart Leitch
  • Dec 19, 2025
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

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