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Michael Clarke @mtclarke.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

@dancarlin.bsky.social fellow CU alumni here (BA 94 English). Would you consider putting together a list of your top 50 (or whatever number) history books? Looking to put together a reading list

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Michael Clarke @mtclarke.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Good question! I don’t know that anyone has yet even issued clear guidance on *data* as yet. The data aspect of this policy has never been clear.

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Michael Clarke @mtclarke.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Stuck on a tarmac due to shut-down related transit delays? We have you covered. A new issue of The Brief is out! It is not at all Brief, however. It is not our fault. A lot happened this month. www.ce-strategy.com/the-brief/ga...

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Gateway(s) | Clarke & Esposito

Wiley’s new AI offerings, journals backflip from S2O, giant journals, manifestos, OUP buys Karger

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 01/10/2025

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Michael Clarke @mtclarke.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Yes, yes, Europe has its benefits. Walkable cities. Cultural heritage. Amazing food. Little gun violence. Healthcare. Governments that are not shut down. But the number of website pop-ups asking one to accept cookies renders the continent pretty much unlivable.

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Michael Clarke @mtclarke.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Not just disciplinary differences. I am constantly seeing commentary from top 1% researchers (eg well funded at top universities) that can’t seem to fathom the needs and circumstances of the other 99%

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Michael Clarke @mtclarke.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

I am not convinced that “infrastructure” per se is a problem in the industry. Things like data governance or regional asymmetry in peer review seem bigger problems at the moment

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Michael Clarke @mtclarke.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

I have! Loved the sequel. It is shaping up to be a fantastic series.

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Hector Diaz @iamhectordiaz.com · 08/05/2025

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

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Michael Clarke @mtclarke.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

As a member of the editorial board of CMS, I can only say “Amen”

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Michael Clarke @mtclarke.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

The NIH *accelerates* the Nelson Memo while the US government sends vaguely threatening letters to several journals. Meanwhile, China enters phase II of its journals Excellence Action Plan. All in the latest issue of The Brief (@brieferyet.bsky.social) www.ce-strategy.com/the-brief/ze...

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Zero Minus Six | Clarke & Esposito

The NIH accelerates the Nelson Memo, letters sent to journals, and China moves forward

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Michael Clarke @mtclarke.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Your outtie thinks you’ll like the new displays

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Michael Clarke @mtclarke.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Vouchers do not even benefit families who send their kids to private schools as when the voucher program goes into effect the schools just raise tuition by the amount of the voucher. I speak from lived experience.

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NISO @nisoinfo.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

@lkric.bsky.social describes the book distribution system (TLDR: it's complicated!) in our third #NISOPlus25 pre-conference of the day, Assessing OA Ebook Usage. niso.plus/baltimore/

Woman in green blazer at podium presenting a slide with a complex and detailed flow chart; header is "The Complicated Version."

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Michael Clarke @mtclarke.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

New from @brieferyet.bsky.social. In re-writing this 6 times to keep up with the madness, we have focused on just the chaos related to publishing. And there is a lot. CDC retractions and the likely death of the Nelson Memo for starters www.ce-strategy.com/the-brief/ch...

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Chaos | Clarke & Esposito

Chaos rules. Nelson Memo dead? Probably. Morressier + Molecular Connections. OA beyond the APC.

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Michael Clarke @mtclarke.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

We are just curmudgeons. But also we were mostly channeling not our view but the likely view of indexers like WoS. If eLife created a separate preprint service (eLife Preprint) and only moved papers over to the journal once officially accepted, that would likely solve it. But I can't speak for WoS

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Michael Clarke @mtclarke.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

I would pay good money for those tix

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Michael Clarke @mtclarke.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

This is not about Zoom school or the pandemic. My son was just last week reading a book about the Trojan war that he brought home from school. He is in first grade.

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Michael Clarke @mtclarke.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

That is a lot of pressure on one scientific journal

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Michael Clarke @mtclarke.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

That is great Chris. I had not realized that ORCIDs Trust Markers were this far along

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Michael Clarke @mtclarke.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

A shame that the universal ID system that the industry came up with (ORCID) has not (as far as I am aware) shown any serious interest in identity verification

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Michael Clarke @mtclarke.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

As to Musk et al, the easiest path to not having NIH pay APCs is to not have a zero embargo OA policy 🤷‍♂️

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Michael Clarke @mtclarke.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

At a certain point it becomes very difficult to charge a subscription for freely accessible content. At the very least there will be downward pricing pressure on subs. Therefore publishers will need to charge APCs (or have TAs in place)

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Michael Clarke @mtclarke.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Whether author or publishers deposit to PMC, papers will be freely accessible without an embargo. While publishers can still employ a subscription model with some OA content, NIH is a big funder. And comes on top of Plan S and other OA mandates.

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Michael Clarke @mtclarke.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

The funds for APC will come from grants reducing money available for research unless congress were to increase the NIH budget accordingly which seems unlikely given the lack of enthusiasm on the Hill for the OSTP’s OA policies

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Michael Clarke @mtclarke.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

This is effectively (whether intentional or not) an (unfunded) gold OA mandate. Most publishers will be forced to require an APC and issue an CC license

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Michael Clarke @mtclarke.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Oh editors check. And then agonize over every paper that went on to land in a journal the editor doesn’t believe is total rubbish

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Michael Clarke @mtclarke.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Andersen was not shut down by the govt but bc no one would hire them after Enron. The market has to believe your books are real and Andersen’s imprimatur no longer meant anything. McKinsey works behind the scenes. But still — the ick factor in working with them!

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

This poor mom is dealing with her son who believes that 1990 was nearly 35 years ago. Our education system is in tatters when kids don’t know how to do basic math. 1990 was 11 years ago.

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Michael Clarke @mtclarke.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

100% agree. For me, writing is how I go about thinking about a topic. Using an AI is more like reading someone else’s thoughts than developing your own.

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Michael Clarke @mtclarke.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

I have on more than one occasion read half way through a book before finding notes in my own handwriting indicating I had read the book before (and having no memory of having done so)

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The Brief @brieferyet.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

100% written by actual humans. The Brief is the world's best newsletter (for those interested in professional and scholarly communication) www.ce-strategy.com/the-brief/un...

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Uncertainty | Clarke & Esposito

Will the Nelson Memo survive? MIT Press builds an open science research agenda. eLife loses its JIF. Is the conversation moving to Bluesky?

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Michael Clarke @mtclarke.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

How did they get anyone to submit papers before they had an impact factor?

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Michael Clarke @mtclarke.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

LOL. Maybe there is another prequel that explains why no one has an American accent. MS looks so much like ST I was like, wait, is that ST? Can't be. Could be? Can't be. Overall, I just kept thinking How did HBO approve this script? Or is it not HBO? Maybe this Max? I am so confused.

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Michael Clarke @mtclarke.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

In Ferris Bueller’s Day Off a great economic artifact is the part about how the reason he didn’t have a car was he asked for a computer instead. A computer did indeed cost about the same as a used car.

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Michael Clarke @mtclarke.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Yes, all true. But hear me out: what if the Emperor was played instead by Stanley Tucci?

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Michael Clarke @mtclarke.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Agree! I would also hazard that part of what makes the subscription a great model is that it forces choices and prompts reassessments of value

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Michael Clarke @mtclarke.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

It cuts both ways. I remember at Lolla some years walking right up to the stage to see Lou Reed because no one over 30 had any idea who he was. Ditto the Black Keys the year prior. And Billy Idol (who no one over 30 had heard of until Miley started singing with him like last year).

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Charlie Rapple @charlierapple.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I made a starter pack of people in #scholarly #publishing - I'm sure I missed lots of excellent people but there's a pretty smart bunch of bleeters–skeeters right here 👇 go.bsky.app/FanaExt

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Michael Clarke @mtclarke.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Wait, is the syrup on the bottom underneath the pancake🥞?! That is so wrong

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Michael Clarke @mtclarke.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

The Brief @brieferyet.bsky.social is now here on Bluesky! I assume that is why everyone signed up to this site all of sudden? 🤣 Also in handy email format: 👉 www.ce-strategy.com/subscribe/

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