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Rubber Ducking For Research Communication: Why Explaining to Nobody Helps You Explain to Anybody

Explaining research to a rubber duck might sound odd, but it could be the secret to clearer thinking and better communication. This post explores how “rubber ducking” — a technique borrowed from programming — can help researchers explain complex ideas with more clarity, creativity, and confidence.

  • By Charlie Rapple
  • Apr 24, 2025
  • 12 Comments
  • Time To Read: 3 mins

The Hidden Leadership Trap: Overcoming Reverse Delegation in Academia

Reverse delegation, a cycle where tasks flow back to the leader of an organization or team, can be difficult to overcome, particularly in academia.

  • By Roohi Ghosh
  • Apr 23, 2025
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Guest Post – Bridging the Gap: Localizing Open Science for Asia’s Research Realities

While Open Science frameworks aim for global inclusivity, their implementation often overlooks the complex, everyday realities of research communities across Asia and the Arab world.

  • By Maryam Sayab
  • Apr 22, 2025
  • 50 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

New Ways to Illuminate Stories in Your Usage Data

Usage data experiences are dominated by tabular reports from complex systems; we need new tools to illuminate the stories within the data.

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad
  • Apr 21, 2025
  • 7 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Guest Post:  Preprints Serve the Anti-science Agenda – This Is Why We Need Peer Review

Science is built on a foundation of rigor and credibility. Preprints are adding to the crumbling of that foundation, which is already under attack by anti-science political agendas.

  • By David Green
  • Apr 17, 2025
  • 36 Comments
  • Time To Read: 3 mins

Guest Post — Horizon Shifting, Or, How to be a Human in Modern-day Scholarly Publishing

These are not normal times. This is a time where we are all navigating new ways of being, new ways of shifting our horizons on an hour-by-hour and day-to-day basis. It’s a time to give grace to one another.

  • By Stephanie Lovegrove Hansen
  • Apr 16, 2025
  • 10 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Guest Post — The Open Access – AI Conundrum: Does Free to Read Mean Free to Train?

It is time for OA proponents to engage in public debate with academic associations, universities and national funding agencies, because the widespread use of academic content in AI models poses significant risks for the research ecosystem.

  • By Stephanie Decker
  • Apr 15, 2025
  • 15 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

American Psychological Association’s Stepped Approach to Managing Responsible AI: An Interview with Aaron Wood on Employee Policies, Rights Reservation, and Research Integrity

An interview with Aaron Wood, discussing the APA’s comprehensive approach to AI.

  • By Roy Kaufman
  • Apr 14, 2025
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Guest Post — Valuing Community in a Time of Uncertainty

We asked the Program Committee Chairs what they’re looking forward to at this year’s SSP Annual Meeting.

  • By Erin Foley, Greg Fagan, Jessie Slater
  • Apr 11, 2025
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 3 mins

No One Size Fits All: The Case for Taking a National Approach to PID Adoption 

Today, Alice Meadows shares some learnings from MoreBrains Cooperative’s recent cost-benefit analysis of persistent identifiers, conducted on behalf of the Czech National Library of Technology (NTK).

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Apr 10, 2025
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Peer Review Has Lost Its Human Face. So, What’s Next?

I think human-dependent peer review has lost its human element, thus its relevance, so what we can do to install a new system by abandoning the present one?

  • By Haseeb Irfanullah
  • Apr 9, 2025
  • 19 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Misinformation, Disinformation, and Scholarly Communication (Part 2)

How should we think about the problems of misinformation and disinformation in the context of scholarly publishing, research, and libraries?

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Apr 8, 2025
  • 6 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Misinformation, Disinformation, and Scholarly Communication (Part 1)

How do the problems of misinformation and disinformation intersect with the concerns of scholarly communication?

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Apr 7, 2025
  • 30 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

In an Age of Chaos, Some Things Remain Constant. Like, Gravity…

In chaotic times, we must look for reliable things, like the joy of dropping stuff off a tall building…

  • By David Crotty
  • Apr 4, 2025
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

New STM 2029 Trends Report Provides a Bridge to the Future

Todd Carpenter describes the new 2029 STM Trends report, which provides a vision and a bridge to the future for the community.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Apr 3, 2025
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

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