Jennifer Kilpatrick
@jenkilpatrick.bsky.social
Health care journal publisher, runner, cyclist, gym rat, book lover, Catholic choir singer, tea drinker, lover of nature.
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V good & impt 🧵. Scholarly publishing is a critical industry & essential infrastructure. Changes driven largely by STEM at scale (+ $$, politics, state of world) are not just bad for humanities --even in the most celebrated of relevant hums fields, med humanities --but for humans, and humanity.
My very last issue (on ♿️) has now come out with BMJ Medical Humanities: I have stepped down from my role as Editor in Chief. There are a lot of factors—after 17 years editing two consecutive journals, it was time. But there’s more, and I feel we should talk about the climate of #academic publishing
January 9, 2025 at 1:12 PM
V good & impt 🧵. Scholarly publishing is a critical industry & essential infrastructure. Changes driven largely by STEM at scale (+ $$, politics, state of world) are not just bad for humanities --even in the most celebrated of relevant hums fields, med humanities --but for humans, and humanity.