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.

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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Behind the numbers: The truth about Gaza's death list ***

“Even if the argument over the total number of dead is, for now, largely settled, disagreement in Israel continues over who the dead were…. None of this alters the stark figures in the table. Of the recorded deaths, 20,876, about 30 percent, are young girls, teenage girls and women.”

How tech turned against women As AI-generated sexualised images proliferate and app-facilitated abuse spreads, we are sleepwalking into a new age of gender inequality. It is time to regulate properly

"large language models such as ChatGPT were consistently advising women to ask for lower salaries than men in recruitment processes,... AI tools already in use by more than half of England’s councils were downplaying women’s medical conditions, potentially resulting in unequal care"

‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...

A British grandmother with a valid visa detained by ICE for 6 weeks.

"So why did ICE detain her, and keep her locked up for so long? ICE officers are paid a bonus every time they detain someone. 'Individual ICE agents get money per head that they detain – the guards told me that,' Karen says."

Two pedestrians injured in separate Brookline car crashes on Thursday - Brookline.News One crash was outside the Driscoll School, and the other in Coolidge Corner.

I was looking into an incident of a pedestrian struck and injured while walking in a Brookline crosswalk yesterday, near Driscoll School. By the time I had enough information to publish a story, another pedestrian had been struck and injured in a different crosswalk.

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Yes huge thanks to everyone for your support & a special shout out to honorary Declaration co-author @funsizesuze.bsky.social for all her contributions
So grateful to be part of this amazing team
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Webinar Series Since releasing the "Declaration to Defend Research Against U.S. Government Censorship" in mid-February, the #DefendResearch team has engaged with scholars and experts around the world who view the cu...

FYI, there's still time to register for this Thursday's #DefendResearch webinar with @penamerica.bsky.social to learn about what's going on with academic #censorship and what we can do about it #AcademicChatter #ScholComm #Academia #SciSky www.defendresearch.org/events/webin...

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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.

"Make “understandable” a priority in everything we do. Let’s not leave the data to the machines at the expense of our own understanding"
Great @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social guest post by Jeff Lang on putting the U (for understanding) in #FAIR
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I'm really looking forward to this! The #NISOPlus events are always so worthwhile & it will be lovely to reconnect with my former @nisoinfo.bsky.social friends and colleagues, make some new connections, and learn from them all!

Back to the (Article of the) Future: An interview with Sami Benchekroun and Rod Cookson - The Scholarly Kitchen In this interview with Alice Meadows, Sami Benchekroun (Morressier/Molecular Connections) and Rod Cookson (The Royal Society) share their thoughts about how and why scholarly publishing needs to move ...

I enjoyed talking to Sami Benchekroun of Molecular Connections & Rod Cookson of @royalsociety.org about their thoughts on the need for a "living article" for this @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social post -- lots of interesting ideas!
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Webinar Series Since releasing the "Declaration to Defend Research Against U.S. Government Censorship" in mid-February, the #DefendResearch team has engaged with scholars and experts around the world who view the cu...

Trying to understand the profound threat facing universities, #education, #knowledge, #research--i.e. our future? Register for the Feb 12 #DefendResearch webinar with PEN America to learn about their report "America's Censored Campuses." #censorship #HigherEd www.defendresearch.org/events/webin...

Politics and Scholarly Societies: 1200 Partnerships with External Organizations Terminated at the University of Kentucky - The Scholarly Kitchen Robert Harington attempts to shine a light on some of the political problems scholarly societies and academic institutions face in the current political climate.

Excellent but alarming post by @rharington1.bsky.social in @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social on @universityofky.bsky.social decision to terminate 1200 partnerships w/ external orgs (including his own) that "may restrict participation based on race" 😡😱😞
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V much looking forward to #NISOPlus26 -- I'm also moderating a 3rd session on the importance of #metadata as a tool to #DefendResearch, w/ John Chodacki, Patricia Feeney & Lauren Marra 😊

Publishers Association launches Publishing Inclusion Pledge The Publishers Association has launched the Publishing Inclusion Pledge to help publishers support inclusion in all its forms.

"At this precise time it feels crucial to re-state our responsibility as leaders to create a publishing industry that supports inclusion in all its forms." @publishersassoc.bsky.social launch inclusion pledge with >40 signatories https://share.google/dPxVeCYM7AG8dNnhc

Meanwhile, while Trump has focused much of the world on Greenland, this happened.

Creating a Culture of Diversity and Inclusion Revisited: An Interview with Vicky Williams of Emerald Publishing  - The Scholarly Kitchen In this follow-up to a 2018 interview, Alice Meadows revisits the topic of DEIA with Emerald Publishing's CEO, Vicky Williams to find out what progress has been made and where improvements are still n...

Happy to share this interview w/ @emeraldpublishing.bsky.social CEO Vicky Williams, revisiting my 2019 interview w/ her with a new set of questions about #DEIA - at Emerald & in the wider #scholcomms community
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Very excited about this next chapter of my consultancy journey - please get in touch if we can help with anything!

Photo of a butterfly on leaves from ORE Consulting website

Hello! We're a new consultancy specialising in #OpenResearch and #ScholComms -- a collaboration between Josh Brown & @alicemeadows.bsky.social (both formerly of @morebrains.coop). Learn more at ore.consulting or contact us here if you'd like to chat!

“#OpenAccess APC waivers do not redistribute power”
@godwyns.bsky.social keynote on building justice in social communication at #APE2026

Kitchen Essentials: An Interview with Tanja Niemann of Érudit / Une Entrevue avec Tanja Niemann d’Érudit - The Scholarly Kitchen For today's Kitchen Essentials post, Alice Meadows interviews Tanja Niemann, Executive Director of Érudit, a Quebec-based non-profit open access publishing platform.

I loved working with Tanja Niemann & the @erudit.org team on this @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social Kitchen Essentials interview - such an inspirational organization (en francais aussi 😊)
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Hope to see lots of #information community people at this @nisoinfo.bsky.social webinar on Jan 14, 11am ET. Jay Patel @saysjkemp.bsky.social @kawulf.bsky.social @webmz.bsky.social & bsky.app/profile/rant... will be discussing the state of our community now & in future
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The Year in Review: 2025 in The Scholarly Kitchen - The Scholarly Kitchen Before we plunge into 2026, a look back at 2025, a difficult year for many in the scholarly community.

What a nice start to 2026 - my @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social post about the Declaration to #DefendResearch against US Govt Censorship was the 4th most read in 2025 🎉🎉🎉
We also published a record number of guest posts last year -- 45%!
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Very much looking forward to this - it's a great group of speakers with lots of interesting thoughts on the state of the #scholcomm community!

Looking forward to this! Speakers are @kawulf.bsky.social @saysjkemp.bsky.social Chirag Patel, Randy Townsend, & Maryam Zaringhalam. Hope you can join us!

“While generative AI can do amazing things, it is also perhaps the most wasteful use of a computer ever devised. If you do 1+1 on a calculator, that’s one calculation. If you do 1+1 in generative AI, that is potentially a trillion calculations to get an answer....”

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Guest Post — DEI Under Threat: Collaborative Strategies to #DefendResearch - The Scholarly Kitchen Today's guest post reflects on the recent panel discussion, "Collaborative strategies to #DefendResearch and ensure academic freedom," by speakers and organizers of the event.

Great post on @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social by @rouhiroo.bsky.social @tteleen.bsky.social & more on their #ScholarlySocial talk about #DEI under threat & strategies to #DefendResearch 👏👏👏
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Wow, just… wow

YouTube video by Charleston Hub A Conversation with Kathleen McEvoy, Senior Policy Fellow, EveryLibrary Institute

Many thanks to Kathleen McEvoy of @everylibrary.bsky.social for this nice shout out to the #DefendResearch Declaration in this Charleston Conference Leadership Interview!
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