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Mental Health Awareness Mondays — The Courage to Feel: Why Discomfort Is Not the Enemy

Today’s post explores the relationship between avoidance, attention, and healing, suggesting that psychological discomfort is not simply an obstacle to overcome, but a signal to understand.

  • By Ashutosh Ghildiyal, Holly Koppel
  • Oct 12, 2026
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Guest Post – Do Not Go Gentle: Duke University Press Turns 100

As Duke University Press celebrates its 100th year, we take some time to reflect on our history and the important role played by university presses.

  • By Dean Smith
  • Oct 8, 2026
  • 7 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

The Representation Is Not the Scholarship

The problem with AI may not be that machines are growing more intelligent. It may be that we are becoming increasingly skilled at amplifying a highly capable, but limited form of cognition.

  • By Ashutosh Ghildiyal
  • Oct 5, 2026
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

Guest Post — Medical and Health Data Sharing Policies Need Specific Guidance: New STM Recommendations Aim to Help

STM has released voluntary recommendations to help journals and publishers clarify data sharing guidance for medical and health science researchers, where privacy, regulation, and ethics make generic policy language especially hard to apply.

  • By Matt Cannon
  • Sep 30, 2026
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Guest Post — Integrity First: Inside Ukraine’s Publishing Reforms

Today, we feature an interview with Tetiana Yaroshenko, Deputy Director for Research and International Affairs at the State Scientific and Technical Library of Ukraine, and Denys Kurbatov, Deputy Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine.

  • By Iryna Izarova
  • Sep 25, 2026
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Guest Post — Does Peer Review Favor Familiarity Over Innovation?

Closing out Peer Review Week 2026, today’s post suggests that research novelty and capacity for innovation should be given greater priority than clarity and comprehensiveness in peer review.

  • By Sami Samiei Esfahany
  • Sep 18, 2026
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Guest Post — Not the Real Housewives of Scholarly Publishing

Today’s guest bloggers reflect on an SSP panel conversation about how scholarly publishing is not only built through shared work but also through shared understanding.

  • By Scholarly Kitchen, Anna Jester, Chyanne Turner , Jude Perera, Dana Compton, Simon Holt
  • Aug 25, 2026
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Reading Between the Lines, Part 2: Cognitive Debt and the Adaptive Publisher

The central risk of AI in scholarly publishing is therefore not hallucination but cognitive debt: the gradual erosion of the human capacities that give scholarship its originality, integrity, and meaning.

  • By Ashutosh Ghildiyal
  • Aug 13, 2026
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

The Published Voice: Whose Voice Are We Really Reading?

What happens then to “author voice,” which has always been an important consideration to authors and reviewers alike, if AI is helping researchers with their writing?

  • By Roohi Ghosh
  • Aug 5, 2026
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 3 mins

From Hub to Hustle: The Scattered Social Landscape in Scholarly Comms

How has the social media landscape in scholarly communications changed, according to data from the recent Pulse Check, past community surveys, and checked real, live marketers?

  • By Stephanie Lovegrove Hansen, Kara Estelle-Powers
  • Aug 4, 2026
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Ask the Community: What’s Next for the OMB Rule Change?

Today, we asked the community: What key message(s) do you want policymakers to take from the responses submitted to the OMB?

  • By Lisa Schiff, Anna Culbertson, Eric J. Rubin, Yael Fitzpatrick
  • Aug 3, 2026
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

How Bangladesh Is Reducing The North-South Divide In Scholarly Publishing

Four Bangladeshi academics touch upon different aspects of academic publishing by linking them with the SDGs: accessing research; equity in co-authorship; editorial leadership; and SDG framing.

  • By Haseeb Irfanullah, Sharif Ahmed Mukul, Samiya A. Selim, Abdullah Shams Bin Tariq
  • Jul 21, 2026
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Guest Post — From Parasitism to Symbiosis: Escaping Peer-Pressure and For-Profit Publishers Through Diamond Open Access

Two environmental researchers argue that open-access publishing has undergone major “environmental” shifts, triggering rapid and far-reaching evolutionary responses, not unlike natural ecocystems.

  • By Camille Thomas, Romain Vaucher
  • Jul 16, 2026
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Guest Post — Beyond the Prestige: Why Scientific Impact is More Than a Numbers Game

Today’s guest post introduces the YCR-index as an alternative to measuring value with raw citation counts.

  • By Yehonatan Banino
  • Jul 1, 2026
  • 10 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Guest Post — Trust & Community Are the Moat, Infrastructure is Your Leverage: Dispatches from PurePub.AI

Today’s guest post asserts that AI infrastructure will let publishers truly leverage machines, while brand and community are what will keep them meaningful to humans.

  • By Laura Harvey, Adam Hyde
  • Jun 9, 2026
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

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