I love The Scholarly Kitchen - this post made me laugh out loud, and it sums up all my anxieties about allowing automation to wander randomly through our lives ...  https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2023/01/20/the-dangers-of-automation-keep-your-pokemon-playing-fish-away-from-your-credit-cards/ While [ read more ]

If you’ve heard of neuromarketing then you’ll know that the evidence for its effectiveness is patchy and unconvincing, and some may say it is ethically dubious – and yet some firms have [ read more ]

Not that I’m at all worried or anything … but the sophistication of AI tools for scientific editing just keeps growing – last July, Springer Nature announced a pilot with American Journal [ read more ]

The European Association of Science Editors has launched a series of quick-reference infographic guides for journal reviewers and editors. The infographic for journal editors is ‘Selecting Peer Reviewers in 7 Steps’ and [ read more ]

Christmas may be over, but the tradition of the Christmas issue of the BMJ as a treasury of weirdly funny, satirical or just plain bizarre research papers is the gift that keeps [ read more ]

A research article published in 'Learned Publishing' analyses attitudes among authors towards article publishing charges (APCs) – given that the rise of open access publishing is moving the financial burden of scholarly [ read more ]