Uch, this week. The incoming US administration is embarking on a path that looks increasingly ominous for the next four years of academic research (and universities in general). While I’m sure this will become an ongoing focus here in The Scholarly Kitchen, our Friday posts are, ideally, a way to end the week with a bit of entertaining distraction. We were asked about last week’s Friday post, and for scheduling reasons, when we have a post that an author really wants to get out, we will on occasion run a regular post on a Friday. But not today.

Here we present a chilling look at one of the great battles of our time, good vs. evil, grammar vs. chaos. In a time where “literally” actually means “figuratively”, I know which side of the battle I support.

David Crotty

David Crotty

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.

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