Out of Office: Thank You for Giving Us a Place to Hang Around
Happy Thanksgiving — we’re off until Monday, but in the meantime, some gratitude via Lucinda Williams.
Mental Health Awareness Mondays — Being Your Whole Self: Disability and Neurodivergency
With all the intricacies of intersectionality – gender, ethnicity, disability, neurodivergency, mental health, and other identifiers – how can we be true to our whole self while also being authentic as our work-selves in our day-to-day roles?
The Necessity of Book Reviews
Is the scholar-to-scholar exchange found in book reviews still of value to the community? There is concern over their decline.
Mental Health Awareness Mondays — Put on a Happy Face: A Personal Reflection of Grief and Loss in the Workplace
We need to normalize the conversations around grief and depression. A personal reflection, and some thoughts on how we can better support our colleagues.
Ask the Community: How are you using Social Media in 2023?
Social media is changing — as we all reconsider our approaches and channels, we asked the community to weigh in with their response to the question, “How has your / your organization’s approach to social media changed in the last year?”
Last Call: Submit Your Session Proposals for the 2024 SSP Annual Meeting
As the deadline for submitting proposals for the 2024 SSP Annual Meeting rapidly approaches, Rebecca Benner interviews Tim Lloyd about this year’s theme and what attendees can expect.
Introducing Mental Health Awareness Mondays: Tips for Publishers from the Center for Workplace Mental Health
The first in a new series of posts, “Mental Health Awareness Mondays”. Today, Emma Jellen APA offers tips for publishers from the Center for Workplace Mental Health.
How Would a Starfish Wear Pants?
Nature provides the answer to a question that has certainly been on your mind — how would a starfish wear pants?
Introducing Kitchen Essentials — Interviews with the Scholarly Infrastructure Community
Today, Alice Meadows and Roger Schonfeld introduce a new interview series – Kitchen Essentials – featuring leaders of some of the key scholarly infrastructure organizations globally.
Smorgasbord: eLife and Significance vs. Accuracy, The Collapse of the Humanities, and a new NISO Draft on Retractions Standards
A mixed bag post from us — can you separate out the significance of research results from their validity? What will the collapse of the Humanities mean for scholarly publishing writ large? And a new draft set of recommended practices for communicating retractions, removals, and expressions of concern.
The Post-Covid Work Environment — We Can’t Go Back to “Normal”
The COVID pandemic brought changes in what was acceptable to working life. Should we give up those benefits for the sake of returning to the office? How does each individual person’s experience differ, and how can we create conditions that allow all to thrive?
Guest Post — Reflecting on a Decade with the Open Discovery Initiative: Insights from IEEE
Julie Zhu reflects on the IEEE’s journey with the Open Discovery Initiative (ODI) and the benefits of ODI conformance statements.
Welcoming a New Chef in the Kitchen, Roohi Ghosh
Today, Roohi Ghosh officially joins us as a regular contributor in The Scholarly Kitchen.
AI and Scholarly Societies
Robert Harington provides a template for scholarly societies wondering how to grapple with the overwhelming and omnipresent prospect of an AI future.
Building a Voluntary Contribution Transaction System
Here I propose a framework for a Voluntary Contribution Transaction system to recognize the voluntary contributions in the scholarly workflow and to give tangible benefits to the volunteers.