The Scholarly Kitchen
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What's hot and cooking in Scholarly Communications. Blog from the Society for Scholarly Publishing -- account run by Editor David Crotty
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...
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 “...
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February 17, 2026 at 11:28 AM
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...
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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.
February 15, 2026 at 11:58 PM
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.
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"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: 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.
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February 13, 2026 at 2:47 PM
"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"
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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 — 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.
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February 13, 2026 at 11:28 AM
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.
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/02/12/g...
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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
@scholarlykitchen.bsky.social #research
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.
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February 13, 2026 at 10:16 AM
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
@scholarlykitchen.bsky.social #research
Guest Post: The Human Heart of Science — Navigating AI Anxiety in the Academic World scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/02/13/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.
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February 13, 2026 at 10:59 AM
Guest Post: The Human Heart of Science — Navigating AI Anxiety in the Academic World scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/02/13/g...
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Guest Post — There's an Elephant in the Room, but Not in Your Usage Reports - 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.
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February 12, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Guest Post — There's an Elephant in the Room, but Not in Your Usage Reports - The Scholarly Kitchen
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Here’s a radical idea: why not base purchasing decisions on the nature and quality of the research, rather than how many people have clicked on it? 🤔
(Maybe like how libraries used to do it and did for thousands of years?)
(Maybe like how libraries used to do it and did for thousands of years?)
Guest Post — There’s an Elephant in the Room, but Not in Your Usage Reports scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/02/12/g...
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.
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February 12, 2026 at 12:02 PM
Here’s a radical idea: why not base purchasing decisions on the nature and quality of the research, rather than how many people have clicked on it? 🤔
(Maybe like how libraries used to do it and did for thousands of years?)
(Maybe like how libraries used to do it and did for thousands of years?)
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Usage isn't just about the full text anymore - it's evolving into a scale from "search result" to "looked at the abstract" to "viewed the full text" with very porous borders in between. And in that world, does high usage really reflect the value of the content or optimization done by the publisher?
Guest Post — There’s an Elephant in the Room, but Not in Your Usage Reports scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/02/12/g...
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.
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February 12, 2026 at 2:47 PM
Usage isn't just about the full text anymore - it's evolving into a scale from "search result" to "looked at the abstract" to "viewed the full text" with very porous borders in between. And in that world, does high usage really reflect the value of the content or optimization done by the publisher?
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The way ahead for tracking use of scholarly publications: " machine-consumable 'knowledge objects' with explicit context and provenance as the new unit of scholarly use"
Guest Post — There’s an Elephant in the Room, but Not in Your Usage Reports scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/02/12/g...
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.
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February 12, 2026 at 2:07 PM
The way ahead for tracking use of scholarly publications: " machine-consumable 'knowledge objects' with explicit context and provenance as the new unit of scholarly use"
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Care work doesn’t wait.
Parenting. School calendars. Aging parents.
It doesn’t replace work.
It runs in parallel.
And yet academia is designed for uninterrupted lives
Read more about this in my latest post on @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social blog
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/02/09/d...
Parenting. School calendars. Aging parents.
It doesn’t replace work.
It runs in parallel.
And yet academia is designed for uninterrupted lives
Read more about this in my latest post on @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social blog
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/02/09/d...
Designed for Someone Else’s Life: Balancing Academic Careers with Caregiving Responsibilities - The Scholarly Kitchen
Most people in academic careers will at some point be faced with parenting and/or caregiving responsibilities. But is academia designed to support caregivers and parents?
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February 12, 2026 at 7:57 AM
Care work doesn’t wait.
Parenting. School calendars. Aging parents.
It doesn’t replace work.
It runs in parallel.
And yet academia is designed for uninterrupted lives
Read more about this in my latest post on @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social blog
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/02/09/d...
Parenting. School calendars. Aging parents.
It doesn’t replace work.
It runs in parallel.
And yet academia is designed for uninterrupted lives
Read more about this in my latest post on @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social blog
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/02/09/d...
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𝘕𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 abhors a vacuum
So… IS the Essence of a Journal Portable? Checking in on _NeuroImage_ and _Imaging Neuroscience_ scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/02/11/s...
So... IS the Essence of a Journal Portable? Checking in on _NeuroImage_ and _Imaging Neuroscience_ - The Scholarly Kitchen
How are two competing neuroscience journals faring since the editorial board of one departed to create the other?
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February 11, 2026 at 7:14 PM
𝘕𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 abhors a vacuum
Guest Post — There’s an Elephant in the Room, but Not in Your Usage Reports scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/02/12/g...
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.
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February 12, 2026 at 10:38 AM
Guest Post — There’s an Elephant in the Room, but Not in Your Usage Reports scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/02/12/g...
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So... IS the Essence of a Journal Portable? Checking in on _NeuroImage_ and _Imaging Neuroscience_ - The Scholarly Kitchen
So... IS the Essence of a Journal Portable? Checking in on _NeuroImage_ and _Imaging Neuroscience_ - The Scholarly Kitchen
How are two competing neuroscience journals faring since the editorial board of one departed to create the other?
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February 11, 2026 at 12:30 PM
So... IS the Essence of a Journal Portable? Checking in on _NeuroImage_ and _Imaging Neuroscience_ - The Scholarly Kitchen
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When NeuroImage’s board left to launch Imaging Neuroscience, would authors follow? 2.5 years later: both journals are thriving. Read full article via @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social: scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/02/11/s...
So... IS the Essence of a Journal Portable? Checking in on _NeuroImage_ and _Imaging Neuroscience_ - The Scholarly Kitchen
How are two competing neuroscience journals faring since the editorial board of one departed to create the other?
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February 11, 2026 at 4:16 PM
When NeuroImage’s board left to launch Imaging Neuroscience, would authors follow? 2.5 years later: both journals are thriving. Read full article via @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social: scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/02/11/s...
So… IS the Essence of a Journal Portable? Checking in on _NeuroImage_ and _Imaging Neuroscience_ scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/02/11/s...
So... IS the Essence of a Journal Portable? Checking in on _NeuroImage_ and _Imaging Neuroscience_ - The Scholarly Kitchen
How are two competing neuroscience journals faring since the editorial board of one departed to create the other?
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org
February 11, 2026 at 10:36 AM
So… IS the Essence of a Journal Portable? Checking in on _NeuroImage_ and _Imaging Neuroscience_ scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/02/11/s...
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"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
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/02/10/g...
Great @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social guest post by Jeff Lang on putting the U (for understanding) in #FAIR
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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.
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February 10, 2026 at 3:44 PM
"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
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/02/10/g...
Great @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social guest post by Jeff Lang on putting the U (for understanding) in #FAIR
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/02/10/g...
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Preliminary Evidence Linking Open Science to Research Integrity - The Scholarly Kitchen
Preliminary Evidence Linking Open Science to Research Integrity - The Scholarly Kitchen
Is open scholarship an honest signal of researcher integrity? Today's post presents preliminary evidence that data and code sharing, preprinting, and other open behaviors are indeed less common in papermill articles.
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January 28, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Preliminary Evidence Linking Open Science to Research Integrity - The Scholarly Kitchen
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Guest Post — AI Isn’t Going to Pay for Content … Part Two: The Path Forward - The Scholarly Kitchen
Guest Post — AI Isn’t Going to Pay for Content … Part Two: The Path Forward - The Scholarly Kitchen
Today’s post paves a clear path forward in making AI work for publishers in the brave new agentic world.
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January 29, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Guest Post — AI Isn’t Going to Pay for Content … Part Two: The Path Forward - The Scholarly Kitchen
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Guest Post - Call for Feedback: STM Task & Finish Group (TFG) Image-type Taxonomy for Alt Text - The Scholarly Kitchen
Guest Post - Call for Feedback: STM Task & Finish Group (TFG) Image-type Taxonomy for Alt Text - The Scholarly Kitchen
Today's post calls for community feedback on STM's latest recommendations for alt-text metadata to support images in accessible scholarly publishing.
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January 30, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Guest Post - Call for Feedback: STM Task & Finish Group (TFG) Image-type Taxonomy for Alt Text - The Scholarly Kitchen
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Politics and Scholarly Societies: 1200 Partnerships with External Organizations Terminated at the University of Kentucky - The Scholarly Kitchen
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.
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February 2, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Politics and Scholarly Societies: 1200 Partnerships with External Organizations Terminated at the University of Kentucky - The Scholarly Kitchen
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Why Authors Aren’t Disclosing AI Use and What Publishers Should (Not) do About It - Part 2 - The Scholarly Kitchen
Why Authors Aren’t Disclosing AI Use and What Publishers Should (Not) do About It - Part 2 - The Scholarly Kitchen
Current AI disclosure guidelines are failing and driving AI use underground rather than making it transparent. In this follow-up post, I turn to the more challenging question: what publishers should do about it.
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February 3, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Why Authors Aren’t Disclosing AI Use and What Publishers Should (Not) do About It - Part 2 - The Scholarly Kitchen
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Guest Post — Putting the "U" in FAIR - The Scholarly Kitchen
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.
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February 10, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Guest Post — Putting the "U" in FAIR - The Scholarly Kitchen
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Designed for Someone Else’s Life: Balancing Academic Careers with Caregiving Responsibilities, via @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social
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#inclusion #AI
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#inclusion #AI
Designed for Someone Else’s Life: Balancing Academic Careers with Caregiving Responsibilities - The Scholarly Kitchen
Most people in academic careers will at some point be faced with parenting and/or caregiving responsibilities. But is academia designed to support caregivers and parents?
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org
February 10, 2026 at 12:06 PM
Designed for Someone Else’s Life: Balancing Academic Careers with Caregiving Responsibilities, via @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social
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#inclusion #AI
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#inclusion #AI