David Crotty
Executive Director, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press. Head Chef at The Scholarly Kitchen. Ex-Publishing Consultant, Ex-Editor-in-Chief, Ex-Scientist, Ex-etc. All opinions my own.
- Reposted by David CrottyThe new issue of @genomeresearch.bsky.social is now live. Follow the link to new research on transposable elements in pancreatic cancer, genomic evolution in living fossils, and more! tinyurl.com/Genome-Res-3...
- Bittersweet to see a new issue of @brieferyet.bsky.social out today without my participation but as always, the newsletter offers something really interesting, here an analysis of just what's behind the sudden drop in value for publicly traded scholarly publishers www.ce-strategy.com/the-brief/pl...
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- Reposted by David Crotty'to treat peer review as a throughput problem is to misunderstand what is at stake. Review is not simply a production stage in the research pipeline; it is one of the few remaining spaces where the scientific community talks to itself.' 1/3
- Reposted by David Crotty"Relx, which is the 16th largest company in the FTSE 100 index, lost just over £6 billion from its stock market value after Anthropic launched a new AI product that can help automate work for the legal industry." archive.ph/ya78V
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- My new favorite band/record. Yes, I may be related to one of the band members, but my opinion that this slaps is entirely objective. Spotify link below, other services in replies open.spotify.com/artist/7C35A...
- No surprise here www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
- Reposted by David CrottyIt's been 25 years since the publishing of the human genome project. I'd like to commission a review article for CSH Protocols on how the sequencing methods have evolved and where we might be headed. If you're interested, let me know!
- Reposted by David CrottyUpdating a 56 year-old JCB paper with digitized videos from 16 mm film 😍. Well done first author Tom Pollard!!
- #Addendum to 1970 paper, “CYTOPLASMIC FILAMENTS OF AMOEBA PROTEUS: I. The Role of Filaments in Consistency Changes and Movement,” includes eight video sequences originally recorded on 16-mm films. No technology was available at the time to include this data. 🎞️ rupress.org/jcb/article/... #Actin
- Reposted by David Crotty85% of AI music tracks are “played by bots rather than humans in order to siphon off royalties” - replacing listeners as well as creators…
- Reposted by David Crotty1. The thing about science that these jokers don't understand is that science cannot be vibe-coded. Whatever its flaws, the point with vibe coding is that you're trying to quickly make something that sorta works, where you can immediately sorta see if it sorta works and then sorta use it.
- As Stein’s law has it: “Anything that can’t go on forever eventually stops.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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- Reposted by David Crotty'How has AI affected your life?' Well, I click about four thousand Cloudflare prompts a day, so that's great. I mean, I PRESUME that's what's happening.
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- New report from @stmassoc.bsky.social on publisher research integrity processes s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/stm.offloadm...
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- Always happy for an excuse to post this: scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2016/11/07/d...
- I did indeed make these stickers. Because when one is casting about for first principles, #footnotes (accountability, transparency, collaborative knowledge production acknowledged!) are right up there for me.
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- Reposted by David CrottyThe new issue of @genomeresearch.bsky.social is now live. Follow the link to new research the 3D genome organization in breast cancer, assisted reproductive technology mutation rate, and more! tinyurl.com/Genome-Res-3...
- Reposted by David CrottyThis! And another new issue is big publishers using AI-suggested reviewer lists for us editors handling manuscripts; I’ve found the suggestions to be much worse than older systems, and AI garbage increased my workload even more as an editor! Sometimes >20 declines per paper until a reviewer agrees.
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- Trump Can’t Cap Overhead Rate on NIH Grants to Research Universities, Appeals Court Rules www.chronicle.com/blogs/the-tr...
- Reposted by David CrottyAs @jbakcoleman.bsky.social and I wrote, “Every time a scientist abdicates their work to an AI tool, that is a tacit admission that the work is not worth being done by the scientist.” Same goes for instructors.
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- Reposted by David CrottyThe new issue of @genomeresearch.bsky.social is now live. Follow the link to new research the 3D genome organization in breast cancer, assisted reproductive technology mutation rate, and more! tinyurl.com/Genome-Res-3...
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- Think about it @jenniferaregala.bsky.social
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- Not just AI. I wrote about this way back in 2014 scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2014/08/15/i...
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- Reposted by David CrottyGiving the gift of negative data 🥰 Since I joined @lsajournal.org I have handled several stellar manuscripts that report null results. These papers do very well and reviewers almost always appreciate them! Thanks @rockefeller.edu news team for the article! www.rockefeller.edu/news/38829-t...
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- Sigh. What is up with the continued referring to the “big five” publishers that ignores the commercial power players in the market like MDPI in favor of Sage which hasn’t been in the top five for ages? www.researchinformation.info/news/jisc-se...
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- A few things still emerging from my C&E days, including today's issue of @brieferyet.bsky.social AI in peer review, the AI-ification of all things Google (including Scholar), the OAwakening of cOAlition S and the current state of the post–Twitter academic social media fragmentation.
- An annual tradition…
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- Reposted by David CrottyIn my case, this painstaking labor in the process through which the science gets done. Science isn't measuring stuff in a lab. It's thinking deeply, extracting the heart of idea from the soup of thoughts running through my mind, molding it, and finding a way to communicate that idea to others.
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- Agreed: The Illustrated Children’s Book I’ll Never Stop Recommending to Adults www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/m...
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- Reposted by David CrottyThe opening keynote at #STMInnovation, Rachel Gubermann-Hill of U Bristol and UKCORI says there's no real evidence that the public doesn't trust scientists Here's the key article she recomended: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
- Reposted by David CrottyA lot of #scholcomm #publishing startups focus on using #AI to detect bad manuscripts at the point of review. Publishing is a late stage step in the scholalry supply change. Trying to detect what has happened at each upstream step is a fool's errand. The whole chain needs hardening #STMinnovation
- Reposted by David CrottyG&D Executive Editor, Dr. Eric Sawey is at #cellbio2025! If you’d like to share your work with us or learn about the journal, drop by the CSHL Press booth or reach out at sawey@cshl.edu #genesdev Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
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- Reposted by David CrottyHappy 76th Birthday, Tom Waits!
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