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Mental Health Awareness Week: Revisiting Mental Health Mondays

To honor the UK’s Mental Health Week, we take a look back at the Mental Health Monday posts in The Scholarly Kitchen with calls to action, practical tips, and tools for “taking ACTION.”

  • By Dianndra Roberts
  • May 11, 2026
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 3 mins

Announcing The Scholarly Kitchen’s Style Guide

Today we announce The Scholarly Kitchen’s new style guide for Chefs and guest bloggers alike.

  • By Scholarly Kitchen
  • May 8, 2026
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

Welcoming a New Chef in the Kitchen, Ashutosh Ghildiyal

Today we welcome a new Chef in the Kitchen, Ashutosh Ghildiyal.

  • By David Crotty
  • Apr 15, 2026
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

How Can Scholarly Publishing Overcome Its ‘SDG Inertia’?

Is there an inertia slowing efforts by scholarly publishers toward achieving the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)?

  • By Haseeb Irfanullah
  • Mar 26, 2026
  • 9 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Mental Health Awareness Monday — Sing the Songs That Bring You Joy

Today’s guest post shares personal reflections about mental health awareness, the importance of boundaries, and routines you can employ to embrace balance.

  • By Anna Jester, Sylvia Izzo Hunter
  • Feb 23, 2026
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

So… IS the Essence of a Journal Portable? Checking in on _NeuroImage_ and _Imaging Neuroscience_

How are two competing neuroscience journals faring since the editorial board of one departed to create the other?

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Feb 11, 2026
  • 10 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

2025 Readership Survey

The Scholarly Kitchen’s 2025 Readership Survey reflects feedback from our community that will shape the future direction of our blog.

  • By Alice Meadows, Dylan Burris, Simone Taylor
  • Jan 16, 2026
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 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

Guest Post — Sustainable Practices and UN SDG Alignment at the 2025 EASE Conference in Oslo

Today’s guest bloggers describe the efforts taken in organizing a sustainable 2025 conference of the European Association for Science Editors.

  • By Lovorka Čaja, Iva Grabarić Andonovski
  • Dec 10, 2025
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Guest Post — Science as Story, Memory as Infrastructure: A Conversation with Trevor Owens, Part 1

In today’s guest post, Wendy Queen (JHUP) speaks with Trevor Owens (AIP) about how the tools and sensibilities of the humanities are helping to preserve the record of the physical sciences.

  • By Wendy Queen
  • Nov 19, 2025
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Welcoming a New Chef in the Kitchen and Saying Thanks to a Few Departing Chefs

Today we welcome Stephanie Lovegrove Hansen to The Scholarly Kitchen as a full time Chef and say goodbye to several long-term Chefs (and offer our thanks for all the wisdom they’ve shared with us).

  • By David Crotty
  • Oct 14, 2025
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

New Directions in Scholarly Publishing: What We’re Looking Forward to This Year

What can you expect from this fall’s New Directions in Scholarly Publishing Seminar in Washington, DC?

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad, Ginny Herbert
  • Sep 12, 2025
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Welcoming a New Chef in the Kitchen, Maryam Sayab

Today we welcome a new Chef in the Kitchen, Maryam Sayab.

  • By David Crotty, Lettie Y. Conrad
  • Sep 11, 2025
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

Guest Post – ODI Survey on AI and Web-Scale Discovery

NISO’s Open Discovery Initiative (ODI) survey reflects the positive and negative expectations of generative AI in web-scale discovery tools.

  • By Ken Varnum
  • Sep 9, 2025
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Reflections on Shared Infrastructure and Distinctive Collections

Roger Schonfeld reflects on lessons from more than 20 years conducting research and supporting the work of libraries, publishers, and the research enterprise.

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld
  • Jun 18, 2025
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

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