We are off for the US Thanksgiving holiday and will return with new posts on Monday. Our Chefs are lining up their favorite books (and other cultural creations) recommendations for the year as is our annual tradition, so look for those posts shortly.

In the meantime, though things may look dark in many ways, we all have much to be grateful for. Take a moment for gratitude if you can.

Find below a favorite, as I have a deep love for the mid-1980s period Beastie Boys where they went back to playing their own instruments rather than sampling (with The In Sound from Way Out instrumental album as a particular highlight) Find below “Gratitude” from Check Your Head and remember that “things they bounce, like a Spalding” and they’ll eventually bounce back.

David Crotty

David Crotty

David Crotty is the Executive Director of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press. Founded in 1933, CSHL Press is an internationally renowned publisher of books, journals, and electronic media, and is a division of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, an innovator in life science research and the education of scientists, students, and the public. Previously, David was a Senior Consultant at Clarke & Esposito, a boutique management consulting firm focused on strategic issues related to professional and academic publishing and information services. 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.

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