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Chief Publishing Officer, American Mathematical Society.
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"Preprints aren’t a threat - they’re part of the ecosystem.” Robert Harington, the AMS Chief Publishing Officer, makes the case for coexistence, not competition, between journals and preprints in publishing.

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Preprints and Journals: A Model Publishing Ecosystem - The Scholarly Kitchen
Robert Harington digs into the world of preprints. He uses the field of mathematics to explore how an inclusive view of preprints and published articles leads to a research ecosystem that is greater t...
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July 18, 2025 at 7:36 PM
My Scholarly Kitchen “Chef de Cuisine” interview today, with Melissa Junior, Executive Publisher at the American Society for Microbiology.

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Chefs de Cuisine: Perspectives from Publishing's Top Table - Melissa Junior - The Scholarly Kitchen
Robert Harington talks to Melissa Junior, Executive Publisher at The American Society for Microbiology, in this series of perspectives from some of Publishing’s leaders across the non-profit and for-p...
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July 18, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Scholarly Kitchen Chefs, including me, reflect on the recent SSP conference in Baltimore.

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Ask The Chefs: What Did You Take Away from SSP’s 2025 Annual Meeting? - The Scholarly Kitchen
The Scholarly Kitchen Chefs reflect on what they took away from the conversations and vibes at the 2025 SSP Annual Meeting.
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June 9, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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“This debt …should be at the forefront of our minds this Memorial Day….We are being asked not to charge into a hail of …artillery fire but only to speak up and to stand up in the face of foundational threats.” Historian and former Harvard president Drew Faust. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/26/o...
Opinion | We Are Not Being Asked to Run Into Cannon Fire. We Just Need to Speak Up.
www.nytimes.com
May 26, 2025 at 9:46 AM
I am proud of the American Mathematical Society for launching this initiative.
May 16, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Just learned of this effort to crowd-source a mega list of examples of benefits to health, prosperity, and national security resulting from federally-funded research. 41 examples listed to date. Please share and send ideas!
publicusaresearchbenefits.com

h/t @carlosbrody.bsky.social
Searchable database of tangible benefits that federally-funded research gave us.
A crowd-sourced site. Health and Well-being. National Security. Prosperity.
publicusaresearchbenefits.com
May 15, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Wonderful message from Dr. Holden Thorp (EIC @science.org ) about @elisabethbik.bsky.social identifying fabricated data, sometimes in Science papers, & "trusted colleague" in the scientific publishing process. Deeply important for public trust to run towards, not away from, corrections.
May 15, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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A group of artists created these images of scientists impacted by federal firings and budget cuts

silencedsciencestories.com/the-scientists
Silenced Science Stories
Featuring scientists impacted by federal firings and budget cuts
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April 28, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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Humanity has developed a machine that is synthesizing the entire corpus of human knowledge and can now offer us contextual insights on and even reasoned analysis of its contents in milliseconds, but won't somebody think of the citation accuracy?
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/04/15/g...
Guest Post - The Open Access – AI Conundrum: Does Free to Read Mean Free to Train? - The Scholarly Kitchen
It is time for OA proponents to engage in public debate with academic associations, universities and national funding agencies, because the widespread use of academic content in AI models poses signif...
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April 17, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Another good article from Michael Roth, President of Wesleyan University.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/o...
Opinion | Trump’s Crusade Against Antisemitism Is Extremely Bad for the Jews
Antisemitism is real. But the enemy of our enemy is not necessarily our friend.
www.nytimes.com
April 7, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Really good from Michael Roth, President of Wesleyan University:

www.politico.com/news/magazin...
A College President Gets Real About Trump’s Attack on Universities
Wesleyan University President Michael Roth lets loose on Trump’s executive orders and the detention of Mahmoud Khalil.
www.politico.com
March 15, 2025 at 4:20 AM
March 12, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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A big ray of sunshine in the clouds for science!
openRxiv has arrived!

We’re thrilled to announce the launch of openRxiv as an independent, researcher-led nonprofit to oversee bioRxiv and medRxiv, the world’s leading preprint servers for life and health sciences.
openrxiv.org/introducing-...

#openRxiv #OpenScience #Preprints #bioRxiv #medRxiv
March 11, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Many thanks to Michael Roth & Wesleyan University for speaking up - we need more of this from our leaders!
March 8, 2025 at 10:03 PM
This one made me smile…needed that.
Need a laugh?

Here are this week's best science memes.

#AcademicSky 🧪
January 26, 2025 at 4:15 AM
In Seattle at the Joint Mathematics Meeting this week and theme is Mathematics in the Age of AI. I thought I would repost the below:
January 9, 2025 at 3:50 PM