Winter Break

Congratulations on making it mostly through the second straight year of March, 2020. We’re off for the winter break and will return in early January. This has been a roller coaster of a year for our community for so many reasons, and we wanted to take a minute to thank all of you readers and guest authors for all the kind words and support. This year we’re closing in on 1.9M views (our most-read year ever). We’ll take a full look back at 2021 in The Scholarly Kitchen upon our return. In the meantime, I thought I’d leave you with a brief Winter playlist of songs for the cold days ahead. I couldn’t resist throwing in a Christmas song at the end for those who celebrate the holiday — I always say that you should put a star at the top of your Christmas tree, and there ain’t no bigger star than Dolly.

Be well, see you on the other side.

David Crotty

@davidacrotty

David Crotty is a Senior Consultant at Clarke & Esposito, a boutique management consulting firm focused on strategic issues related to professional and academic publishing and information services. Previously, David was the Editorial Director, Journals Policy for Oxford University Press. He oversaw journal policy across OUP’s journals program, drove technological innovation, and served as an information officer. David acquired and managed a suite of research society-owned journals with OUP, and before that was the Executive Editor for Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, where he created and edited new science books and journals, along with serving as a journal Editor-in-Chief. He has served on the Board of Directors for the STM Association, the Society for Scholarly Publishing and CHOR, Inc., as well as The AAP-PSP Executive Council. David received his PhD in Genetics from Columbia University and did developmental neuroscience research at Caltech before moving from the bench to publishing.