A Tradition Like No Other: The Minnesota State High School All Hockey Hair Team
A spectacular crop of lettuce at this year’s edition of the traditional mullet spotting competition.
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.
A spectacular crop of lettuce at this year’s edition of the traditional mullet spotting competition.
As if our world wasn’t already going crazy, now octopi apparently have shells.
The US government is looking to drastically reduce the amount paid in “indirect costs” in federal grants. Just what are “indirect costs”?
Because body parts have always been with us, they can tell us a lot about the development of languages.
Bringing back a post from 2018, as funders increasingly demand measurements of “real world” impact from researchers. Does this steer us toward the same traps we’re already in from the ways we already do research assessment and is this short-term thinking problematic for the future of science?
Seeking a little order amidst the chaos? Why not enjoy Irish postal codes…
A battle to the death, the Grammarian versus the Errorist. Who will triumph?
Before the chaos of 2025 really kicks in, luxuriate in the dogs of 2024.
Come join us in The Scholarly Kitchen! We are seeking a Deputy Editor.
Before we plunge into 2025, a look back at 2024, a year of uncertainty in The Scholarly Kitchen.
Why does everything on the internet look and feel the same? What role are algorithms playing in driving cultural stagnation (and what might it mean for scholarly discovery)?
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 1 today.
We’re off for the US Thanksgiving holiday. Some musical gratitude to celebrate with.
As we enter the bleak months of winter, now is the time to ponder the really important questions, like, what would happen if every person on earth shined a laser pointer on the moon?
In 2023 we twice assessed the social media landscape and with the explosion of Bluesky over the last weeks it seemed a good time to reassess. How do Chefs use social media differently now, and what are they seeing as platforms of choice or opportunity?