Karin Wulf
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Past articles by Karin:
The Indigenous Americans Who Visited Europe
A new book reverses the narrative of the Age of Discovery, which has long evoked the ambitions of Europeans looking to the Americas rather than vice versa → Read More
The Dea(r)th of Social Media? Assessing "Twexit"
The brave new world post-Twitter, or post-the Old Twitter, or has anything really changed? Chefs ponder the new social media. → Read More
Chefs' Selections: Best Books Read and Favorite Cultural Creations During 2022, Part 3
The beginning of the holiday season means it’s time for our annual list of our favorite books read (and other cultural creations experienced) during the year. Part 3 today. → Read More
Thoughts and Observations on the OSTP Responses to Our Interview Questions
Karin Wulf and Rick Anderson reflect on the OSTP's response to their interview questions, and on some implications of those responses and of the memo itself. → Read More
New Light on the New OSTP Memo: An Interview with Dr. Alondra Nelson
Karin Wulf and Rick Anderson interview Dr. Alondra Nelson, acting director of the White House Office on Science & Technology Policy when the new OSTP memo was published. → Read More
The New OSTP Memo: A Roundup of Reactions and an Interview Preview
Karin Wulf and Rick Anderson provide a roundup of responses to the new OSTP public access memo -- and a preview of their interview with OSTP leadership. → Read More
Does Trust in Research Begin with Trust in Peer Review?
Kicking off Peer Review Week 2022: Does trust in research begin with trust in peer review across the whole ecosystem, and what does that look like for different communities and stakeholders? → Read More
Ask The Chefs: OSTP Policy Part II
Day 2 of Chef reactions to the OSTP Policy memo. What are your thoughts? Share your views with the Scholarly Kitchen community. → Read More
The SSP Humanities Community Network Lifts Off
A Humanities and Social Sciences Publishing Professionals Community of Interest Network is launching! An interview with facilitators Laura Ansley and Dawn Durante about the group and its focus --and how it's meeting a clear need. → Read More
Revisiting: Humanities Research Infrastructure is Great ROI
What brings humanities infrastructure together -- whether materials-based (content) or process-based (projects) or tools-based (platforms and laboratories) -- is an iterative process of knowledge creation. Revisiting a post from 2020. → Read More
Still Ambiguous at Best? Revisiting 'If We Don’t Know What Citations Mean, What Does it Mean When We Count Them'
If we don't know what citations mean, what does it mean when we count them? Revisiting a 2015 (!) post in light of recent developments in citation metrics and impact. → Read More
Announcing Peer Review Week 2022: An Interview with the Co-Chairs
The theme for Peer Review Week 2022 is Research Integrity: Creating and supporting trust in research - learn more in today's interview with co-chairs Danielle Padua and Jayashree Rajagopalan → Read More
What Universities — and Libraries, Researchers, and Publishers? — Owe Democracy
Universities need democracy, and vice versa. An important book shows the 20th century history of that relationship in the United States, and offers a prescription for what we do now that both are imperiled. → Read More
Humanities and Graduate Education: The Crisis is Real, but Not New
A new study offers -- surprise -- mostly bad news about the state of Humanities graduate education. Even while we know how important humanistic perspectives are for, well, humanity. → Read More
Unreachable/ Unwritable Histories: Russia, Ukraine, Eastern Europe
First in a series on histories made difficult or impossible though war or climate disasters, this post features two historians of Russia and Eastern Europe. → Read More
Revisiting: Historians in Historic Times
We are always living through history. For historians, though, the current moment is always a culmination. Revisiting a post from January 2021 in preparation for a series. → Read More
A Century Ago, American Reporters Foresaw the Rise of Authoritarianism in Europe
A new book tells the stories of four interwar writers who laid the groundwork for modern journalism → Read More
Returning to the Workplace
With the Omicron surge in the rearview mirror, our chefs reflect on returning to the workplace. → Read More
More on Checking out Library Books
More about books about libraries and librarians, with a compilation of suggested readings. → Read More
Reading About Libraries and Librarians
Libraries and librarians the world over are complex, diverse, and distinctive -- and they make for fascinating reading. → Read More