Carissa Gilman
@chickybird.bsky.social
I work in scholarly publishing and spend as much of my free time as possible with horses, dogs, and cats. Director in the journals program at the American Cancer Society and past president of the Council of Science Editors. Opinions expressed are my own.
Reposted by Carissa Gilman
Mental Health Awareness Mondays — Balancing Work and Caregiving: Flexibility That Works for Everyone scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/11/24/m...
Mental Health Awareness Mondays - Balancing Work and Caregiving: Flexibility That Works for Everyone - The Scholarly Kitchen
Today, nearly one in four adults serves as a caregiver. Because of this, work-life flexibility isn’t just a nicety it’s a game-changer, for individuals and organizations alike.
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November 24, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Mental Health Awareness Mondays — Balancing Work and Caregiving: Flexibility That Works for Everyone scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/11/24/m...
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Manuscript Submissions Are Up! That’s Good, Right? scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/11/04/m...
Manuscript Submissions Are Up! That’s Good, Right? - The Scholarly Kitchen
Publishers have led themselves into a mess by focusing on rising submissions as a positive indicator of journal performance.
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November 4, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Manuscript Submissions Are Up! That’s Good, Right? scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/11/04/m...
Exclusive: Future of chronic disease journal in limbo after cuts at CDC | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Exclusive: Future of chronic disease journal in limbo after cuts at CDC
Researchers dismayed by the targeting of Preventing Chronic Disease’s editorial staff
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October 31, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Exclusive: Future of chronic disease journal in limbo after cuts at CDC | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Alternative to CDC's Flagship Journal in the Works at CIDRAP www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...
'Alternative' to CDC's Flagship Journal in the Works
CIDRAP, NEJM Evidence plan to publish when MMWR can't
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October 23, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Alternative to CDC's Flagship Journal in the Works at CIDRAP www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...
MMWR, "Voice of CDC," Goes Silent www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...
'Voice of CDC' Goes Silent
In departure from the past, MMWR staff not allowed to be exempted from shutdown furlough
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October 16, 2025 at 6:08 PM
MMWR, "Voice of CDC," Goes Silent www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...
Journals and publishers crack down on research from open health data sets | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Journals and publishers crack down on research from open health data sets
PLOS, Frontiers, and others announce policies trying to stem the tide of suspect research
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October 9, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Journals and publishers crack down on research from open health data sets | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Drummond Rennie (1936-2025), in his own words retractionwatch.com/2025/09/15/d...
Drummond Rennie (1936-2025), in his own words
Drummond Rennie I first became aware of the work of Drummond Rennie almost by accident: By borrowing his office. It was the summer of 1997, and as a rising fourth-year medical student, I was spendi…
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September 16, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Drummond Rennie (1936-2025), in his own words retractionwatch.com/2025/09/15/d...
There's a Major Publishing Slowdown at CDC's Flagship Journal www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...
There's a Major Publishing Slowdown at CDC's Flagship Journal
Each MMWR article now requires clearance by the HHS secretary, sources said
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July 25, 2025 at 8:44 PM
There's a Major Publishing Slowdown at CDC's Flagship Journal www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...
NIH to Cap How Much Journals Can Charge Authors for Open Access www.medpagetoday.com/washington-w...
NIH to Cap How Much Journals Can Charge Authors for Open Access
Exact amount still to be determined, agency says
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July 11, 2025 at 2:23 AM
NIH to Cap How Much Journals Can Charge Authors for Open Access www.medpagetoday.com/washington-w...
454 Hints That a Chatbot Wrote Part of a Biomedical Researcher’s Paper www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/h...
454 Hints That a Chatbot Wrote Part of a Biomedical Researcher’s Paper
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July 3, 2025 at 4:04 PM
454 Hints That a Chatbot Wrote Part of a Biomedical Researcher’s Paper www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/h...
White House MAHA Report may have garbled science by using AI, experts say
White House MAHA Report may have garbled science by using AI, experts say
The report, led by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., was intended to address the reasons for the decline in Americans’ life expectancy.
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May 30, 2025 at 2:25 PM
White House MAHA Report may have garbled science by using AI, experts say
RFK Jr.'s MAHA Report Cited Studies That Don't Appear to Exist www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...
RFK Jr.'s MAHA Report Cited Studies That Don't Appear to Exist
The White House acknowledged problems with the report
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May 29, 2025 at 8:52 PM
RFK Jr.'s MAHA Report Cited Studies That Don't Appear to Exist www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...
Germany Plans Global Alternative to PubMed www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...
Germany Plans Global Alternative to PubMed
In the wake of a brief PubMed outage, team launches project to ensure uninterrupted access
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May 29, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Germany Plans Global Alternative to PubMed www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...
My favorite part of this story is that he thinks reprint sales are still a significant revenue stream for journals. What year is he living in?
RFK Jr. May Ban NIH Scientists From Publishing in Top Medical Journals www.medpagetoday.com/washington-w...
RFK Jr. May Ban NIH Scientists From Publishing in Top Medical Journals www.medpagetoday.com/washington-w...
RFK Jr. May Ban NIH Scientists From Publishing in Top Medical Journals
HHS secretary claims pharma influence renders journals 'sock puppets for the industry'
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May 29, 2025 at 12:18 AM
My favorite part of this story is that he thinks reprint sales are still a significant revenue stream for journals. What year is he living in?
RFK Jr. May Ban NIH Scientists From Publishing in Top Medical Journals www.medpagetoday.com/washington-w...
RFK Jr. May Ban NIH Scientists From Publishing in Top Medical Journals www.medpagetoday.com/washington-w...
"We’re going to create our own journals in-house." Meanwhile they're preparing to shut down important journals at the CDC. What a fiasco.
RFK Jr. threatens to bar government scientists from publishing in leading medical journals www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
RFK Jr. threatens to bar government scientists from publishing in leading medical journals www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
RFK Jr. threatens to bar government scientists from publishing in leading medical journals
The health secretary said the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association and The Lancet are in bed with pharma.
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May 28, 2025 at 2:23 PM
"We’re going to create our own journals in-house." Meanwhile they're preparing to shut down important journals at the CDC. What a fiasco.
RFK Jr. threatens to bar government scientists from publishing in leading medical journals www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
RFK Jr. threatens to bar government scientists from publishing in leading medical journals www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
Clarivate to stop counting citations to retracted articles in journals’ impact factors retractionwatch.com/2025/05/15/c...
Clarivate to stop counting citations to retracted articles in journals’ impact factors
Clarivate will no longer include citations to and from retracted papers when calculating journal impact factors, the company announced today. The change comes after some have wondered over th…
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May 15, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Clarivate to stop counting citations to retracted articles in journals’ impact factors retractionwatch.com/2025/05/15/c...
Trump Withdraws U.S. Attorney Nominee, Whose Extremism Tested Limits for G.O.P. Senators www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/u...
Trump Withdraws U.S. Attorney Nominee, Whose Extremism Tested Limits for G.O.P. Senators
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May 9, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Trump Withdraws U.S. Attorney Nominee, Whose Extremism Tested Limits for G.O.P. Senators www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/u...
Incredibly honored to join my Short Course Subcommittee co-chair @dreandea.bsky.social in receiving the Distinguished Service Award from @councilscienceed.bsky.social at #cseminneapolis. Thank you to CSE and to Amanda Ferguson, who presented the award.
May 7, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Incredibly honored to join my Short Course Subcommittee co-chair @dreandea.bsky.social in receiving the Distinguished Service Award from @councilscienceed.bsky.social at #cseminneapolis. Thank you to CSE and to Amanda Ferguson, who presented the award.
@emiliemgunn.bsky.social assumes the presidency of @councilscienceed.bsky.social at #CSEMinneapolis and gives past president Glenn Landis the ability to literally put on his CSE hat.
May 5, 2025 at 3:48 PM
@emiliemgunn.bsky.social assumes the presidency of @councilscienceed.bsky.social at #CSEMinneapolis and gives past president Glenn Landis the ability to literally put on his CSE hat.
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We are excited to feature five short courses as add-on options at the 2025 CSE Annual Meeting. It's not too late to register! Sign up here to reserve your spot in one of these invaluable courses! Register today at cse.memberclicks.net/annual-meeting
April 18, 2025 at 5:15 PM
We are excited to feature five short courses as add-on options at the 2025 CSE Annual Meeting. It's not too late to register! Sign up here to reserve your spot in one of these invaluable courses! Register today at cse.memberclicks.net/annual-meeting
Colossal squid filmed in its natural habitat for the first time | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Colossal squid filmed in its natural habitat for the first time
The enigmatic predator, the heaviest known invertebrate, had never been seen alive in deep water
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April 16, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Colossal squid filmed in its natural habitat for the first time | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Our published work in a government journal curiously disappeared www.minnpost.com/community-vo...
Our published work in a government journal curiously disappeared
Several studies for a CDC journal were purged without explanation before a judge’s order restored them. That's unacceptable.
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February 19, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Our published work in a government journal curiously disappeared www.minnpost.com/community-vo...
Here's the Extent of the Fallout From Trump's HHS Purge www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...
Here's the Extent of the Fallout From Trump's HHS Purge
'This is exactly the way not to do it,' one expert says
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February 19, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Here's the Extent of the Fallout From Trump's HHS Purge www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...
The “Wild West” of Cancer Misinformation Online www.harvardmagazine.com/2025/02/harv...
The “Wild West” of Cancer Misinformation Online | Harvard Magazine
At Harvard’s Chan School of Public Health, experts discuss web and social media cancer misinformation
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February 14, 2025 at 9:48 PM
The “Wild West” of Cancer Misinformation Online www.harvardmagazine.com/2025/02/harv...
Trump Slashes CDC Workforce www.medpagetoday.com/washington-w...
Trump Slashes CDC Workforce
Agency's leadership was notified of the decision Friday morning
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February 14, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Trump Slashes CDC Workforce www.medpagetoday.com/washington-w...