don't give @philiproscoe.bsky.social any more ideas (we hear he's made his own knife so)

interesting... we'd've thought your experience was more like ours. up a fair bit of out of scope but not exploding; and up in general with the growth of the field

Our submissions at @histhum.bsky.social have increased massively in last 2-3 years. Huge amount of time now spent desk rejecting — many submissions wholly out of scope and many appear to be AI generated

So I'll have 100+ papers to desk review tmrw 😔 It's not all AI, though publisher says that's a likely contributor. But I don't fully understand what else is driving this crazy increase - or what to do before journals collapse under the strain

never

At first I was confused by the "kitchen" reference but then I realised it's a space of both production and consumption, where technical skill meets amateur expertise, and taste blends with measurement - indeed it's where the blender is kept - and where all sorts of new recipes are tested out...