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Mental Health Awareness Mondays — Leading with Heart: The Transformative Power of Empathetic Leadership

Research suggests that empathy is a skill that can be honed and is beneficial to all. Empathetic leadership is an art form to convey to your team that you value them as individuals, all while maintaining a keen focus on the organization’s success.

  • By Damita Snow, Rebecca McLeod, Dana Compton, Jeff Mahony, Gladys Alejandra López Morales
  • Mar 24, 2025
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

Building a Neuro-inclusive Workplace

Organizations that do not actively include and support neurodivergent individuals risk missing out on exceptional talents and undermining employees’ ability to work to their full potential.

  • By Amanda Rogers, Patty Brady, Dianndra Roberts
  • Mar 17, 2025
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion in Pre-Award Funding Processes: Actions, Not Words

In today’s post, Alice Meadows shares an update on a project to improve DEI in pre-award funding applications.

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Mar 6, 2025
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Revisiting Mental Health Mondays 

A look back, highlighting posts with helpful information on supporting workplace mental wellbeing

  • By Dianndra Roberts
  • Feb 24, 2025
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

The 2025 Scholarly Kitchen Readership Survey is Now Open

The 2025 Scholarly Kitchen readership survey is now open. We would greatly appreciate your ideas and feedback to help us remain a high-quality resource of industry news and discussion

  • By The Scholarly Kitchen Cabinet
  • Feb 21, 2025
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 2 mins

Guest Post — Learning from the Archives to Build the Future at the APS Press

Jon Repetti reflects on the lessons being learned from the American Philosophical Society’s re-entrance into the fray of the scholarly publishing marketplace.

  • By Jon Repetti
  • Aug 13, 2024
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Guest Post — Never Waste a Good Crisis: A Conversation with Klaas Sijtsma, Former Rector Magnificus of Tilburg University

An interview with Klaas Sijtsma discussing the importance of statistical analysis in research integrity.

  • By Natalie Simon
  • Aug 7, 2024
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

SSP’s Early Career Development Podcast Episode 19: An Ear to SSP’s 2024 Annual Meeting

This episode of SSP’s Early Career Development Podcast offers a ‘vox pop’ peek into the 2024 SSP Annual Meeting with a recap and on-site interviews with attendees. Hosted by Meredith Adinolfi (Cell Press) and Sara Grimme (Digital Science).

  • By Meredith Adinolfi, Sara Grimme
  • Jul 31, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 2 mins

Guest Post — New Directions Seminar: Reverse Roundtables Kept the Post-Lunch Conversations Going!

What are the new directions in scholarly publishing? Check out the unique “reverse roundtable” discussions at SSP’s New Directions seminar!

  • By Matt Cannon, Heather Staines, Jordan Schilling
  • Jul 23, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Ask the Fellows: SSP 2024 Annual Meeting

We asked the 2024 SSP Fellows, “What was the highlight of attending SSP 2024 for you?”

  • By Michelle English
  • Jul 2, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 12 mins

Mental Health Awareness — Overcoming Imposter Syndrome: A Fireside Chat with Sarah Durrant, Lead from Within (Parts 1 & 2)

A fireside chat with Sarah Durrant; independent coach and transformational teacher, on the subject of Imposter Syndrome. Today, parts 1 & 2.

  • By October Ivins, Ryan Reeh, Adrian Stanley
  • Jun 27, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 2 mins

Guest Post:  Many Patches Make a Quilt — SSP’s Membership Survey

Here we present the results from the SSP biannual membership survey.

  • By Sharon Mattern Büttiker
  • Jun 12, 2024
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Why Are English Language Spellings So Weird?

Why are English spellings so inconsistent and weird?

  • By David Crotty
  • May 31, 2024
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

Guest Post: Jagged Edges of Conversational Interfaces Over Scholarly and Professional Content

The gaps in capability of AI will narrow over time, but publishers and end users need education on those gaps to make investment decisions and to confidently utilize Generative AI tools effectively.

  • By Stuart Leitch
  • May 30, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Guest Post — Results of the 4th Annual SSP Professional Skills Survey

The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) Career Development Committee is pleased to announce the 4th annual Professional Skills Survey and updated Professional Skills Map.

  • By Kate Heaney, Mandy Brannon, Jacklyn Lord, Cason Lynley
  • May 22, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

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