Guest Post — Exploring Data Spaces in Scholarly Communications - The Scholarly Kitchen Today's guest post explains the new data space pilot, which will be the focus of the upcoming BISG/SSP webinar on May 12, 2026.

Exploring Data Spaces in Scholarly Communications

by Christina Drummond

scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/04/17/g...

Generally Recognised Standards — Archives & Records Association

Generally Recognised Standards for use in the data protection purpose ‘archiving purposes in the public interest’ [UK]

www.archives.org.uk/generally-re...

How ‘Tiny Shortcuts’ Are Poisoning Science: Seemingly harmless data tweaks are undermining the integrity of the entire field. We must define the problem to prevent it

By Thomas Plümper and Eric Neumayer

nautil.us/how-tiny-sho...

Text & Data Mining – E-Resource Licensing Explained This guide puts complex legal concepts and terms into understandable language for those librarians and library professionals without legal training.

Text & Data Mining – E-Resource Licensing Explained

berkeley.pressbooks.pub/eresourcelic...

Strengthening support for data citations and saying goodbye to Event Data - Crossref We’re excited to announce a new data citation API endpoint and are seeking your feedback. The new service makes existing data citation relationships in our metadata available, thereby surfacing this p...

Crossref is sunsetting Event Data:

Strengthening support for data citations and saying goodbye to Event Data

doi.org/10.64000/rzb...

What is an email address? A guide to your digital identity | Proton What is an email address, really? Discover how it works, what makes one valid, and simple tips to keep yours private.

What is an email address?

proton.me/blog/what-is...

Born Private: Reserve your child’s first email address | Proton Give your child a safer start online. Reserve a private, secure, no-ads address with Proton Mail that stays sealed until your child is ready.

Born Private: Reserve your child’s first email address with Proton

proton.me/blog/born-pr...

ISO 27000 standards for security and compliance | Proton Learn about ISO 27000: what they are, why they matter for security and compliance, and how to implement ISO-aligned credential controls.

Why ISO 27000 is a foundation for security and compliance

proton.me/blog/iso-27000

Also in version EN: Can You Brexit? A role-playing game

dogsandmunsters.github.io/Can-You-Brex...

Can You Brexit? A role-playing game

dogsandmunsters.github.io/Can-You-Brex...

Nobody Gets Promoted for Simplicity We reward complexity and ignore simplicity. In interviews, design reviews, and promotions. Here’s how to fix it.

Nobody Gets Promoted for Simplicity

“Simplicity is a great virtue, but it requires hard work to achieve and education to appreciate. And to make matters worse, complexity sells better.” — Edsger Dijkstra

terriblesoftware.org/2026/03/03/n...

Exclusive: Unrest at Wiley journal whose EIC is cited in more than half of its papers Timothy Lee (center) of Macau University of Science and Technology was named editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Tourism Research in 2023. On Feb. 18, a researcher in Italy sent a disgr…

Exclusive: Unrest at Wiley journal whose EIC is cited in more than half of its papers

retractionwatch.com/2026/02/26/e...

#RetractionWatch

Keeping Knowledge Connected – at PIDfest 2026! - The Scholarly Kitchen PIDfest is back and you're invited! Find out more in today's post by Alice Meadows about PIDfest 2026 (October 27-29, Leiden, The Netherlands).

Keeping Knowledge Connected – at #PIDfest 2026!

scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/02/26/k...

How far back in time can you understand English? An experiment in language change

How far back in time can you understand English?

An experiment in language change

by Colin Gorrie

www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...

Europe is ready to ditch US tech for private alternatives | Proton New research from Proton shows that Europeans want to shed US tech dependence and build tech sovereignty for Europe. Read the full report.

Europe is ready to ditch US tech for private alternatives

proton.me/blog/europea...

Octopus: aims and priorities Learn more about the aims and priorities of the Octopus platform, which is designed to positively disrupt research culture.

Octopus is designed to change the incentives in research to ensure that what is recognised, rewarded & encouraged is what will best drive best practices
* Sharing Research
* Addressing Biases
* Research Quality
* Research Culture
* Fair credit
* Finding relevant research

www.octopus.ac/octopus-aims

The leaders of four major physics infrastructure projects due to receive over £280m from UKRI were told in December they have “not been prioritised” for funding

The projects include an upgrade to the LHC at Cern and a new US particle accelerator
...

Guest post: Forget pickles and ice cream. I published a fake paper on pregnancy cravings for prime numbers Image generated by Google Gemini I had grown weary of the constant stream and abuse of spam invitations to submit manuscripts to journals and to attend fake conferences on the other side of the wor…

Guest post: Forget pickles and ice cream. I published a fake paper on pregnancy cravings for prime numbers

retractionwatch.com/2026/01/30/g...

Martin Paul Eve Martin Paul Eve, Professor of Literature, Technology and Publishing, Birkbeck, University of London.

@eve.gd "Institutions shifting away from big tech", eve.gd, January 25, 2026, doi.org/10.59348/bs2...

The future of software engineering is SRE | Swizec Teller When code gets cheap operational excellence wins. Anyone can build a greenfield demo, but it takes engineering to run a service.

The future of software engineering is SRE

When code gets cheap operational excellence wins. Anyone can build a greenfield demo, but it takes engineering to run a service.

swizec.com/blog/the-fut...

A Path Forward for PubPub

by Knowledge Futures

www.knowledgefutures.org/updates/2026...

The 5 stages of the ‘enshittification’ of academic publishing Academic publishing now shows the same decline that has hit social media and online marketplaces.

The 5 stages of the ‘enshittification’ of academic publishing

by Martina Linnenluecke & Carl Rhodes

theconversation.com/the-5-stages...

Dogged by retractions, Iraqi researcher and publisher uses a different name Abduladheem Turki Jalil Researchers change the name they publish under for many reasons, most of which aren’t fodder for a Retraction Watch story. Trying to skirt a publishing ban is one that is. A…

From Retraction Watch: Dogged by retractions, Iraqi researcher and publisher uses a different name

retractionwatch.com/2026/01/06/d...

Why self-improvement starts with maintenance It’s the time of year to ponder self-improving resolutions, and I find myself consulting one of my favourite 87-year-olds: the visionary author Stewart Brand. But if Brand is right, perhaps self-im…

Why self-improvement starts with maintenance

by Tim Harford

timharford.com/2026/01/why-...

A tale of three norths in three photos

1️⃣ The pier at Berwick-upon-Tweed, where the rare triple alignment of the Three Norths (True North, Grid North, Magnetic North) left England in December 2025, drifting out into the North Sea.

📸 Lewis Clarke (CC BY-SA 2.0)

you say "i asked chatgpt"
i hear "i asked [an improv comedy group]"

an improv group wrote this report
instead of a therapist i use an improv comedy group

My 2025 end-of-year reading and writing roundup As is my custom, I am writing, for my own historical logging, to show what I read and wrote this year. This year I have been working at Knowledge Commons, wh...

My 2025 end-of-year reading and writing roundup

eve.gd/2025/12/16/m...

Text reads: About synthetic panels Recruiting the right participants for a study can be difficult. You may not get the exact demographics you need, and the shorter the deadline, the less sure you can be that everyone will answer on time. One possible solution can be to use synthetic panels. Synthetic panels are powered by a first party proprietary AI model developed here at Qualtrics. Our synthetic panel is trained on thousands of responses from a variety of demographic backgrounds in order to more accurately predict how certain populations would respond to a survey. Our synthetic panel is based on the United States General Population, and is only available in English. This panel comes with ready-made quotas and target breakouts in order to represent your chosen population and make it easy to launch your survey right away.

Text reads: Question-writing best practices To get the most reliable and actionable results from synthetic audiences, consider these question-writing best practices: Ask forward-looking and attitudinal questions. Synthetic panels perform best with perceptions, preferences, and intent-based questions. For example, “How likely are you to try…?” Synthetic panels are less applicable for studies on past behaviors, detailed recall, brand recall, or awareness questions. For example, “When did you last visit…?”

Text reads: Discussion The current study aimed to conduct a meta-analysis of the TPB when applied to health behaviours which addressed the limitations of previous reviews by including only prospective tests of behaviour, applying RE meta-analytic procedures, correcting correlations for sampling and measurement error, and hierarchically analysing the effect of behaviour type and sample and methodological moderators. Some 237 tests were identified which examined relations amongst model components. Overall the analysis indicated that the TPB could explain 19.3% of the variance in behaviour and 44.3% of the variance in intention across studies. This level of prediction of behaviour is slightly lower than that of previous meta-analytic reviews which have found between 27% (Armitage & Conner, 2001; Hagger et al., 2002) and 36% (Trafimow et al., 2002) of the variance in behaviour to be explained by intention and PBC.

Did you know that from tomorrow, Qualtrics is offering synthetic panels (AI-generated participants)?

Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"

the brexit referendum remains one of the craziest fucking things a country has ever done

LOL. No.