rharington.bsky.social
@rharington1.bsky.social
Chief Publishing Officer, American Mathematical Society.
My Scholarly Kitchen article today: scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/07/15/r...
Slow Food, Slow Publishing: The Beauty of Not Being First - The Scholarly Kitchen
Robert Harington reflects on our addiction to speed and advocates for slow scholarly publishing and the inherent beauty of not always being first.
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org
In my Scholarly Kitchen post today, I attempt to embrace a gloomy optimism as I muse on the state of publishing at a scholarly society. scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/03/24/r...
Scholarly Society Sustainability in an Unstable Publishing World: Reasons to be Cheerful, Parts 1, 2, and 3. - The Scholarly Kitchen
Robert Harington asks: "Do you -- like me -- wake up, read the news, and wonder in that Dorothy Parker way, “What fresh hell is this?” Or perhaps you are innately optimistic in that “Always Look on th...
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org
My Scholarly Kitchen post today: scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/02/02/r...
Politics and Scholarly Societies: 1200 Partnerships with External Organizations Terminated at the University of Kentucky - The Scholarly Kitchen
Robert Harington attempts to shine a light on some of the political problems scholarly societies and academic institutions face in the current political climate.
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org
My Scholarly Kitchen interview with Carsten Buhr, CEO of De Gruyter Brill today: scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/07/25/r...
Chefs de Cuisine: Perspectives from Publishing's Top Table - Carsten Buhr - The Scholarly Kitchen
Robert Harington talks to Carsten Buhr, CEO of De Gruyter Brill, in this series of perspectives from some of Publishing’s leaders across the non-profit and for-profit sectors of our industry.
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org
This is my world: www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-...
Math Is Quietly in Crisis over NSF Funding Cuts
A 72 percent reduction in federal funding is devastating to math research. The American Mathematical Society is offering $1 million in backstop grants—but it’s likely not enough.
scientificamerican.com
"Preprints aren’t a threat - they’re part of the ecosystem.” Robert Harington, the AMS Chief Publishing Officer, makes the case for coexistence, not competition, between journals and preprints in publishing. Read the article here: scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/07/14/p...
Preprints and Journals: A Model Publishing Ecosystem - The Scholarly Kitchen
Robert Harington digs into the world of preprints. He uses the field of mathematics to explore how an inclusive view of preprints and published articles leads to a research ecosystem that is greater t...
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org
My Scholarly Kitchen “Chef de Cuisine” interview today, with Melissa Junior, Executive Publisher at the American Society for Microbiology. scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/07/18/c...
Chefs de Cuisine: Perspectives from Publishing's Top Table - Melissa Junior - The Scholarly Kitchen
Robert Harington talks to Melissa Junior, Executive Publisher at The American Society for Microbiology, in this series of perspectives from some of Publishing’s leaders across the non-profit and for-p...
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/07/16/b...
Better Together: ORCID and Other Researcher Identifiers - The Scholarly Kitchen
This post is based on a recently-published white paper by Alice Meadows and Josh Brown of MoreBrains Cooperative, in which they discuss why ORCID iDs work best in combination with other researcher ide...
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org
My Scholarly Kitchen post today: scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/07/14/p...
Preprints and Journals: A Model Publishing Ecosystem - The Scholarly Kitchen
Robert Harington digs into the world of preprints. He uses the field of mathematics to explore how an inclusive view of preprints and published articles leads to a research ecosystem that is greater t...
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org
My Scholarly Kitchen post today… scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/07/02/c...
Chefs de Cuisine: Perspectives from Publishing's Top Table - Matthew Kissner - The Scholarly Kitchen
Robert Harington talks to Matt Kissner, CEO of Wiley, in this series of perspectives from some of Publishing’s leaders across the non-profit and for-profit sectors of our industry.
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org
Scholarly Kitchen Chefs, including me, reflect on the recent SSP conference in Baltimore. scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/06/09/a...
Ask The Chefs: What Did You Take Away from SSP’s 2025 Annual Meeting? - The Scholarly Kitchen
The Scholarly Kitchen Chefs reflect on what they took away from the conversations and vibes at the 2025 SSP Annual Meeting.
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org
“This debt …should be at the forefront of our minds this Memorial Day….We are being asked not to charge into a hail of …artillery fire but only to speak up and to stand up in the face of foundational threats.” Historian and former Harvard president Drew Faust. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/26/o...
Opinion | We Are Not Being Asked to Run Into Cannon Fire. We Just Need to Speak Up.
nytimes.com
Just learned of this effort to crowd-source a mega list of examples of benefits to health, prosperity, and national security resulting from federally-funded research. 41 examples listed to date. Please share and send ideas! publicusaresearchbenefits.com h/t @carlosbrody.bsky.social
Searchable database of tangible benefits that federally-funded research gave us.
A crowd-sourced site. Health and Well-being. National Security. Prosperity.
publicusaresearchbenefits.com
Wonderful message from Dr. Holden Thorp (EIC @science.org ) about @elisabethbik.bsky.social identifying fabricated data, sometimes in Science papers, & "trusted colleague" in the scientific publishing process. Deeply important for public trust to run towards, not away from, corrections.
A group of artists created these images of scientists impacted by federal firings and budget cuts silencedsciencestories.com/the-scientists
Silenced Science Stories
Featuring scientists impacted by federal firings and budget cuts
silencedsciencestories.com
Humanity has developed a machine that is synthesizing the entire corpus of human knowledge and can now offer us contextual insights on and even reasoned analysis of its contents in milliseconds, but won't somebody think of the citation accuracy? scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/04/15/g...
Guest Post - The Open Access – AI Conundrum: Does Free to Read Mean Free to Train? - The Scholarly Kitchen
It is time for OA proponents to engage in public debate with academic associations, universities and national funding agencies, because the widespread use of academic content in AI models poses signif...
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org
Another good article from Michael Roth, President of Wesleyan University. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/o...
Opinion | Trump’s Crusade Against Antisemitism Is Extremely Bad for the Jews
Antisemitism is real. But the enemy of our enemy is not necessarily our friend.
nytimes.com
Really good from Michael Roth, President of Wesleyan University: www.politico.com/news/magazin...
A College President Gets Real About Trump’s Attack on Universities
Wesleyan University President Michael Roth lets loose on Trump’s executive orders and the detention of Mahmoud Khalil.
politico.com
Too funny today on the Scholarly Kitchen: scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/03/14/a...
A Tradition Like No Other: The Minnesota State High School All Hockey Hair Team - The Scholarly Kitchen
A spectacular crop of lettuce at this year's edition of the traditional mullet spotting competition.
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org
A big ray of sunshine in the clouds for science!
openRxiv@openrxiv.bsky.social · last yr.openRxiv has arrived! We’re thrilled to announce the launch of openRxiv as an independent, researcher-led nonprofit to oversee bioRxiv and medRxiv, the world’s leading preprint servers for life and health sciences. openrxiv.org/introducing-... #openRxiv #OpenScience #Preprints #bioRxiv #medRxiv
Many thanks to Michael Roth & Wesleyan University for speaking up - we need more of this from our leaders!
In Seattle at the Joint Mathematics Meeting this week and theme is Mathematics in the Age of AI. I thought I would repost the below:
rharington.bsky.social@rharington1.bsky.social · 2y agoMy Scholarly Kitchen article posted today. scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2024/11/25/r...
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2024/12/06/f...
Filling the Gap: SSP Launches a Global Compensation Benchmarking Study for Scholarly Communications Professionals and Organizations - The Scholarly Kitchen
The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) is launching a new global Compensation and Benefits Benchmarking Study to fill a long-standing gap in the industry
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org
