Today's Peer Review Week post is a Kitchen Essentials interview with Daniela Saderi, Executive Director of PREreview.

With threats to research integrity continuing to increase, more and more attention is being paid to “trust markers.” There is currently no agreed industry definition of exactly what a trust marke

For Peer Review Week 2026, we asked the Chefs two questions: What is one uncomfortable truth about peer review that the scholarly publishing community doesn’t talk about enough? And, beyond recruiting...

Today's interview with Sylvia Chou and Alexa Romberg, formerly of NIH, sheds some light on censorship at the agency and the damage it's doing to health research.

Under a new partnership, the Defense Department would play a larger role in biodefense and pandemic preparedness. Democrats warned it could allow a Pentagon cash grab.

PEN America study details verbal and physical threats to librarians, funding cuts and proliferation of book bans

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has accused Pennsylvania of not cooperating with the CDC in its handling of a measles outbreak.

Americans love their national parks.There’s a reason why they were once described as “America’s best idea.”So why are Tr

Publishing infrastructure shapes careers. It shapes what questions get asked, what research gets validated, and whose voices enter the global scholarly conversation. As the scholarly publishing market...

Dolly Parton touched so many people's lives in so many ways. We reached out to the Chefs for their thoughts on her passing.

In a 2023 podcast interview, Heidi Overton called for the creation of “alternate systems” for publishing research that would back conservative policy

As students head back to school this fall, many will return to universities and colleges shaped not only by the hallowed traditions of research, learning, and teaching, but also by ideological whims a...

NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Request for Information (RFI) on Proposed Changes to Reporting Outcomes from NIH Peer Review NOT-OD-26-088. NIH

Read on for updates on the Declaration and how you can #DefendResearch

We are preparing substantial changes to OSF that will reduce its functionality, focus OSF on its unique strengths, and move toward an integrated model with complementary services. As part of that shif...

Today Alice Meadows interviews Jennifer Fleet (Aries Systems) and Christian Gruback (ChronosHub) about changing author needs and how their recently announced partnership is an effort to address them.

Today Alice Meadows interviews Jennifer Fleet (Aries Systems) and Christian Gruback (ChronosHub) about changing author needs and how their recently announced partnership is an effort to address them.

Global aid cuts mean malnourished families — already suffering under ‘gender-based lockdown’ — are being turned away from barren clinics

Growing concerns about political interference over what is allowed to be published, funder limits on paying publication fees, and rapid reductions in organizations' staff have all recently strained tr...

Across the country, politicians are trying to decide what Americans are allowed to read. Books are being pulled from school shelves, challenged in public libraries, and targeted for removal not becaus

Today, we asked the community: What key message(s) do you want policymakers to take from the responses submitted to the OMB?

What can today's researchers learn from those who have worked under authoritarian rule? Drawing on her experience as a scholar behind the Iron Curtain, Dr. Kempe will examine how authoritarian gover...