"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"

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...

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

Guest Post: The Human Heart of Science — Navigating AI Anxiety in the Academic World scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/02/13/g...

Guest Post — There's an Elephant in the Room, but Not in Your Usage Reports - The Scholarly Kitchen

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?)

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?

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"

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...

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...

So... IS the Essence of a Journal Portable? Checking in on _NeuroImage_ and _Imaging Neuroscience_ - The Scholarly Kitchen

scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/02/11/s... @mitpress.bsky.social

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...

"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...

Preliminary Evidence Linking Open Science to Research Integrity - The Scholarly Kitchen

Guest Post — AI Isn’t Going to Pay for Content … Part Two: The Path Forward - The Scholarly Kitchen

Guest Post - Call for Feedback: STM Task & Finish Group (TFG) Image-type Taxonomy for Alt Text - The Scholarly Kitchen

Politics and Scholarly Societies: 1200 Partnerships with External Organizations Terminated at the University of Kentucky - The Scholarly Kitchen

Why Authors Aren’t Disclosing AI Use and What Publishers Should (Not) do About It - Part 2 - The Scholarly Kitchen

Guest Post — Putting the "U" in FAIR - The Scholarly Kitchen

Designed for Someone Else’s Life: Balancing Academic Careers with Caregiving Responsibilities, via @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/02/09/d... #inclusion #AI

Guest Post — Putting the “U” in FAIR scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/02/10/g...

Responding to the Threat of Zero-Click Search and AI Summaries: How Do We Tame The Crocodile? - The Scholarly Kitchen

Back to the (Article of the) Future: An interview with Sami Benchekroun and Rod Cookson - The Scholarly Kitchen

Guest Post — Why Science Communication Must be the Next Competitive Edge for Scholarly Publishers - The Scholarly Kitchen

Designed for Someone Else’s Life: Balancing Academic Careers with Caregiving Responsibilities - The Scholarly Kitchen

Pleased to share my new guest post in the @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social (with Gareth Dyke and Maria Machado). Looking forward to your thoughts scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/02/06/g... #ScholarlyPublishing #ScienceCommunication #ResearchIntegrity #OpenScience #AcademicSky #ScientificPublishing

Designed for Someone Else’s Life: Balancing Academic Careers with Caregiving Responsibilities scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/02/09/d...

MY LANGUAGE! As a science communicator who pivoted with my PhD into scholarly communication I cannot agree more with this argument (I am a Visiting Fellow at ANU's Centre for Public Awareness of Science). Answering the 'who cares?' question is essential. scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/02/06/g...

Scholarly publishing’s next edge isn’t more papers. It’s better communication. Translate research clearly, fight misinformation, expand impact, and unlock new revenue. View full article via @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social : scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/02/06/g...

Guest Post — Why Science Communication Must be the Next Competitive Edge for Scholarly Publishers scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/02/06/g...

"A living article...dynamic...instead of a static document, an evolving knowledge object that combines narrative with data, code, methods, and context" This idea comes up often, but IME scientists are rarely as enthusiastic about it as publishers... 1/2 scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/02/05/b...

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! scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/02/05/b...

A practical framework for editors and publishers offers a way forward on AI disclosure in academic publishing. (🔗 via @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social, part II in series)

Back to the (Article of the) Future: An interview with Sami Benchekroun and Rod Cookson scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/02/05/b...

"Zero-click search amplifies and camouflages misinformation — by reformatting content, it removes the contextual cues that would otherwise help users make both conscious and subconscious choices about which content to trust."

AI summaries in search results are a huge problem for a lot of reasons, but also, hot take, perhaps we shouldn't be treating downloads of journal articles as our primary metric of usefulness.

This is one of the best overviews of this phenomenon that we've read recently. Well done @charlierapple.bsky.social

I've written in the @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social today about the project I'm launching to determine how the scholarly and medical communication sectors (publishers, platforms, repositories, websites in general!) can / should respond to the threat of zero-click search 👇

Responding to the Threat of Zero-Click Search and AI Summaries: How Do We Tame The Crocodile? scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/02/04/r...

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" 😡😱😞 scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/02/02/r...

I've found these articles on Scholarly Kitchen really useful: Why Authors Aren’t Disclosing AI Use and What Publishers Should (Not) Do About It (parts 1 & 2) scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/01/27/w... scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/02/03/w... @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social

Why Authors Aren’t Disclosing AI Use and What Publishers Should (Not) do About It – Part 2 scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/02/03/w...

Important to have clarity around the type of use. Is the AI responsible for intellectual contribution as well as language? One seems fine, the other requires sorting out authorship guidelines, most of which disallow AI authorship. Only the most egregious misuses are likely to be detectable.

My Scholarly Kitchen post today: scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/02/02/r...

Guest Post — AI Isn’t Going to Pay for Content … Part Two: The Path Forward scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/01/29/g...

Review the letter from the University of Kentucky and the associations with which it has terminated partnerships. Read the five areas used as the basis for those terminations. To say that this is disconcerting is too much of an understatement.

STM has released a draft image-type taxonomy to help authors write better alt text and prepare journals for the 2026 ADA accessibility update. Read more on @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social : scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/01/30/g...