Michael Clarke
@mtclarke.bsky.social
Managing Partner at Clarke & Esposito | I help mission-driven organizations grow revenue and better engage customers and communities |🇺🇸 + 🇬🇧
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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.
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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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November 11, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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.
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We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
October 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
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.
October 2, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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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A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
May 8, 2025 at 5:36 PM
A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
As a member of the editorial board of CMS, I can only say “Amen”
New Pope Declares All Style Manuals Other Than Chicago As Schismatic
May 9, 2025 at 4:03 AM
As a member of the editorial board of CMS, I can only say “Amen”
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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...
Zero Minus Six | Clarke & Esposito
The NIH accelerates the Nelson Memo, letters sent to journals, and China moves forward
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May 1, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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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@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/
February 10, 2025 at 6:20 PM
@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/
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...
Chaos | Clarke & Esposito
Chaos rules. Nelson Memo dead? Probably. Morressier + Molecular Connections. OA beyond the APC.
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February 3, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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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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.
Our education system is in tatters when kids don’t know how to do basic math.
1990 was 11 years ago.
December 13, 2024 at 12:54 AM
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.
Our education system is in tatters when kids don’t know how to do basic math.
1990 was 11 years ago.
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.
Is anyone else just *not interested* in using AI for their writing? All accuracy and morality aside, I just don't want to. I want every last word I put on a page to have flowed out from my own body. Maybe I'm romanticizing it, but I just can't see it any other way.
December 10, 2024 at 11:18 PM
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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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...
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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December 4, 2024 at 1:14 PM
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...
We take longer to write an issue of The Brief than Korea takes to have, and then repel, a coup. www.ce-strategy.com/the-brief/un...
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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December 4, 2024 at 1:12 PM
We take longer to write an issue of The Brief than Korea takes to have, and then repel, a coup. www.ce-strategy.com/the-brief/un...
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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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Scholarly publishing people
Join the conversation
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November 20, 2024 at 1:48 PM
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
go.bsky.app/FanaExt
The Brief @brieferyet.bsky.social is now here on Bluesky! I assume that is why everyone signed up to this site all of sudden? 🤣
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November 20, 2024 at 11:51 PM
The Brief @brieferyet.bsky.social is now here on Bluesky! I assume that is why everyone signed up to this site all of sudden? 🤣
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The Nov. issue of The Brief is coming together. Topics to include:
- The fate of the OSTP "Nelson Memo" after the 2024 election
- Momentum at Bluesky (hello!)
- eLife loses its impact factor
- C&E worked on a new report from MIT Press on the future of OA
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- The fate of the OSTP "Nelson Memo" after the 2024 election
- Momentum at Bluesky (hello!)
- eLife loses its impact factor
- C&E worked on a new report from MIT Press on the future of OA
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November 20, 2024 at 11:30 PM
The Nov. issue of The Brief is coming together. Topics to include:
- The fate of the OSTP "Nelson Memo" after the 2024 election
- Momentum at Bluesky (hello!)
- eLife loses its impact factor
- C&E worked on a new report from MIT Press on the future of OA
👉 Get Briefed: www.ce-strategy.com/subscribe/
- The fate of the OSTP "Nelson Memo" after the 2024 election
- Momentum at Bluesky (hello!)
- eLife loses its impact factor
- C&E worked on a new report from MIT Press on the future of OA
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We are getting questions about what the change in administrations means for the "Nelson Memo" and related federal agency OA policy. While we are monitoring the situation closely (and scenario planning with clients) the short answer is "no one knows"
November 19, 2024 at 11:46 PM
We are getting questions about what the change in administrations means for the "Nelson Memo" and related federal agency OA policy. While we are monitoring the situation closely (and scenario planning with clients) the short answer is "no one knows"
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Really happy to see the report we helped put together for @mitpress.bsky.social on the workshop we held meant to build a research agenda for advancing open science. Press release here with a link to the report and videos of each session www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
The MIT Press releases workshop report on the future of open access publishing and policy
The MIT Press releases report on the future of open access publishing and policy
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November 18, 2024 at 6:44 PM
Really happy to see the report we helped put together for @mitpress.bsky.social on the workshop we held meant to build a research agenda for advancing open science. Press release here with a link to the report and videos of each session www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
Post a picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline
November 17, 2024 at 11:12 PM
Post a picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline
Wow—everyone just showed up all at once here. Let’s get this party started!
November 15, 2024 at 7:41 PM
Wow—everyone just showed up all at once here. Let’s get this party started!
The perfect ending to a horrible media empire www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/...
November 14, 2024 at 3:42 PM
The perfect ending to a horrible media empire www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/...
After 64 issues I have finally made the ending quote in The Brief. I consider this a career milestone 🤣 www.ce-strategy.com/the-brief/ca...
May 2, 2024 at 3:45 PM
After 64 issues I have finally made the ending quote in The Brief. I consider this a career milestone 🤣 www.ce-strategy.com/the-brief/ca...
99% informative. 1% snark. The March issue is out. www.ce-strategy.com/the-brief/pe...
PeerJ Exits | Clarke & Esposito
PeerJ sells out, Congress lets OSTP off the hook, and the year in eLife & cOAlition S
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March 29, 2024 at 5:27 PM
99% informative. 1% snark. The March issue is out. www.ce-strategy.com/the-brief/pe...
Media businesses just don't scale. They scale a little in an old-school way (you can combine back office functions and whatnot) but they don't scale like tech businesses. Vice, much like WeWork, pretended to be a tech business. Reality bites. www.cnn.com/2024/02/22/m...
February 27, 2024 at 4:21 PM
Media businesses just don't scale. They scale a little in an old-school way (you can combine back office functions and whatnot) but they don't scale like tech businesses. Vice, much like WeWork, pretended to be a tech business. Reality bites. www.cnn.com/2024/02/22/m...
I somehow got on the mailing list of service called "BookRetreats" where you book a yoga retreat or whatever. Every time I get an email from them I think it is a service where you go and read books for a week somewhere and am all like "oooh, I want to do that" and then am deeply disappointed
January 2, 2024 at 8:25 PM
I somehow got on the mailing list of service called "BookRetreats" where you book a yoga retreat or whatever. Every time I get an email from them I think it is a service where you go and read books for a week somewhere and am all like "oooh, I want to do that" and then am deeply disappointed