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Guest Post — Shaping a Sustainable Future for Academic Publishing: Our Journey so Far - The Scholarly Kitchen Today's guest post demonstrates how publishers can reduce their carbon footprint and be leaders in environmental sustainability.

Guest Post — Shaping a Sustainable Future for Academic Publishing: Our Journey so Far - The Scholarly Kitchen

🌍 Our sustainability journey features in The Scholarly Kitchen today!
In her guest post, Liz Martin shares how IOP Publishing has turned its carbon‑cutting ambitions into action and what we’ve learned along the way.
👉 Shaping a Sustainable Future for Academic Publishing: Our Journey So Far

Guest Post — Shaping a Sustainable Future for Academic Publishing: Our Journey so Far - The Scholarly Kitchen Today's guest post demonstrates how publishers can reduce their carbon footprint and be leaders in environmental sustainability.

Guest Post — Shaping a Sustainable Future for Academic Publishing: Our Journey so Far scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/02/27/g...

Keeping Knowledge Connected – at PIDfest 2026! - The Scholarly Kitchen PIDfest is back and you're invited! Find out more in today's post by Alice Meadows about PIDfest 2026 (October 27-29, Leiden, The Netherlands).

It's back! #PIDfest2026 takes place in Leiden, Netherlands on Oct 27-29. It's a must for all #PID enthusiasts & the call for proposals is now open! Learn more in my post on @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social today - & submit your proposal by Mar 22.
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Standing Up by Stepping Down - The Scholarly Kitchen Today's post discusses the impact and intention of DEIA advocacy and the value of taking a pause as an act of resistance and self-preservation. 

Standing Up by Stepping Down - The Scholarly Kitchen

Keeping Knowledge Connected – at PIDfest 2026! - The Scholarly Kitchen PIDfest is back and you're invited! Find out more in today's post by Alice Meadows about PIDfest 2026 (October 27-29, Leiden, The Netherlands).

Keeping Knowledge Connected – at PIDfest 2026! - The Scholarly Kitchen

Keeping Knowledge Connected – at PIDfest 2026! - The Scholarly Kitchen PIDfest is back and you're invited! Find out more in today's post by Alice Meadows about PIDfest 2026 (October 27-29, Leiden, The Netherlands).

Keeping Knowledge Connected – at PIDfest 2026! scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/02/26/k...

Standing Up by Stepping Down - The Scholarly Kitchen Today's post discusses the impact and intention of DEIA advocacy and the value of taking a pause as an act of resistance and self-preservation.

Powerful post in @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social on how marginalized people (esp Black women) can & should stand up for #DEIA advocacy by stepping down -- & the rest of us must step up. Thanks to @dianndramarie.bsky.social Valarie Guagnini, Devyani Mahajan 👏
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This is a must read, not only for those who are so often called upon to lead DEIA initiatives, but for those who have power who should be using it to lead.

“Organizations must break the pattern of looking to the most impacted people to protect them from criticism, explain the issues, or lead the healing.” — Dianndra Roberts and Valarie Guagnini, “Stepping Up By Stepping Down,” @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social

Standing Up by Stepping Down - The Scholarly Kitchen Today's post discusses the impact and intention of DEIA advocacy and the value of taking a pause as an act of resistance and self-preservation.

Standing Up by Stepping Down scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/02/25/s...

Guest Post — Re-imagining Scholarly Integrity: The “Continuum of Consensus” Quality Control System - The Scholarly Kitchen Today's guest blogger proposes the "Continuum of Consensus" as a solution to shore up research integrity, peer review, and the public trust in scholarly research.

Guest Post — Re-imagining Scholarly Integrity: The “Continuum of Consensus” Quality Control System - The Scholarly Kitchen

Mental Health Awareness Monday — Sing the Songs That Bring You Joy - The Scholarly Kitchen Today's guest post shares personal reflections about mental health awareness, the importance of boundaries, and routines you can employ to embrace balance.

Mental Health Awareness Monday — Sing the Songs That Bring You Joy - The Scholarly Kitchen

Guest Post — AI Readiness and the New Value Equation in Scholarly Publishing - The Scholarly Kitchen Today's guest bloggers explain how semantic enrichment of scholarly content allows publishers to shape the next generation of technology by making it indispensable to AI.

Guest Post — AI Readiness and the New Value Equation in Scholarly Publishing - The Scholarly Kitchen

Guest Post — AI Readiness and the New Value Equation in Scholarly Publishing - The Scholarly Kitchen Today's guest bloggers explain how semantic enrichment of scholarly content allows publishers to shape the next generation of technology by making it indispensable to AI.

Guest Post — AI Readiness and the New Value Equation in Scholarly Publishing scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/02/24/g...

Mental Health Awareness Monday — Sing the Songs That Bring You Joy - The Scholarly Kitchen Today's guest post shares personal reflections about mental health awareness, the importance of boundaries, and routines you can employ to embrace balance.

Mental Health Awareness Monday — Sing the Songs That Bring You Joy scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/02/23/m...

Guest Post — The Evolution of the Editorial Office: From Kitchen Tables to Global Infrastructure - The Scholarly Kitchen Today's guest bloggers discuss how peer review management became a profession and how they are advancing the next chapter together.

Guest Post — The Evolution of the Editorial Office: From Kitchen Tables to Global Infrastructure scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/02/20/g...

Interesting! I'm unsure about early feasibility (e.g., how would reviewers manage the increased burden during transition between systems), the reproducibility priority would need to be hashed out more (method or results?), and the ethics of the open data requirement would need to be considered.

Excellent post detailing the rationale that lay behind the creation of Open Book Collective and other similar collective funding initiatives.

We have to stop thinking of open access in terms of 'free' content & instead start viewing it as infrastructure and labour that needs systematic funding.

Guest Post — Re-imagining Scholarly Integrity: The “Continuum of Consensus” Quality Control System - The Scholarly Kitchen Today's guest blogger proposes the "Continuum of Consensus" as a solution to shore up research integrity, peer review, and the public trust in scholarly research.

Guest Post — Re-imagining Scholarly Integrity: The “Continuum of Consensus” Quality Control System scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/02/19/g...

Guest Post: The Human Heart of Science — Navigating AI Anxiety in the Academic World - The Scholarly Kitchen Today's guest blogger calls for "rehumanizing" our view on AI innovations and their impacts on our mental health and our communities.

Guest Post: The Human Heart of Science — Navigating AI Anxiety in the Academic World - The Scholarly Kitchen

From “AI helps me write” to “AI runs the workflow”: Eight Tech-trend Reports through a Publishing-and-learning Lens - The Scholarly Kitchen A review of eight technology industry trend reports that offer a similar conclusion: AI is no longer a feature. It’s becoming infrastructure — and the unit of value is moving from “a better tool” to “a better system.”

From “AI helps me write” to “AI runs the workflow”: Eight Tech-trend Reports through a Publishing-and-learning Lens - The Scholarly Kitchen

Guest Post — Diamond Open Access Needs Institutions, Not Heroes - The Scholarly Kitchen Today's guest blogger asks: What would it mean to support community-led publishing as infrastructure, rather than as a collection of heroic individual efforts?

Guest Post — Diamond Open Access Needs Institutions, Not Heroes - The Scholarly Kitchen

Guest Post — There's an Elephant in the Room, but Not in Your Usage Reports - The Scholarly Kitchen Today's guest bloggers spotlight a gap in traditional usage reporting, third-party AI usage, and recommend steps needed to recover missing usage data.

LIES & DAMN STATISTICS - people are using AI summaries and not clicking through and are moving away from searching, so how to we track usage? scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/02/12/g...

Guest Post — Diamond Open Access Needs Institutions, Not Heroes - The Scholarly Kitchen Today's guest blogger asks: What would it mean to support community-led publishing as infrastructure, rather than as a collection of heroic individual efforts?

Guest Post — Diamond Open Access Needs Institutions, Not Heroes scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/02/18/g...

From “AI helps me write” to “AI runs the workflow”: Eight Tech-trend Reports through a Publishing-and-learning Lens - The Scholarly Kitchen A review of eight technology industry trend reports that offer a similar conclusion: AI is no longer a feature. It’s becoming infrastructure — and the unit of value is moving from “a better tool” to “...

From “AI helps me write” to “AI runs the workflow”: Eight Tech-trend Reports through a Publishing-and-learning Lens scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/02/17/f...

Interesting report from The Scholarly Kitchen @scholarlykitchn asking a simple question after the 𝘕𝘦𝘶𝘳𝘰𝘐𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘦 editorial board split and launched 𝘐𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘕𝘦𝘶𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦: does a journal’s “essence” travel with the editors.

Guest Post: The Human Heart of Science — Navigating AI Anxiety in the Academic World - The Scholarly Kitchen Today's guest blogger calls for "rehumanizing" our view on AI innovations and their impacts on our mental health and our communities.

"Conversations about AI’s impact mainly focus on efficiency and scale or on policy and ethics. What matters equally is the emotional toll: the exhaustion from daily recalibration, the isolation of not knowing if colleagues share your values, the constant rebuilding of systems we’d just learned"

Guest Post — There's an Elephant in the Room, but Not in Your Usage Reports - The Scholarly Kitchen Today's guest bloggers spotlight a gap in traditional usage reporting, third-party AI usage, and recommend steps needed to recover missing usage data.

What challenges do third-party AI tools create for measuring usage? Our AI metrics working group has been working on this for a while and it's great to see this post on @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social exploring the issues.
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Guest Post — Putting the "U" in FAIR - The Scholarly Kitchen Today's guest blogger calls for adding "understandable" to the FAIR data principles, to ensure we do not surrender human knowledge in our rush for automation.

Jeff Lang writes about #researchdata and the FAIR principles, reminding us that even in the age of #AI, the human element is essential for making #data understandable and valuable. Read more on the Scholarly Kitchen blog 👇

@scholarlykitchen.bsky.social #research