Here is the Josh Billings run route, from Richmond Pond to Tanglewood, mapped in Ride with GPS : ridewithgps.com/routes/28593553 I think this is accurate but not sure of the exact finish. As mapped it reads 6.9 miles. tgkolodz has kindly mapped the bike route ridewithgps.com/routes/28562468

#bigny event on mergers and acquisitions featuring @bisg member ⁦David Lamb⁩ of Book Advisors

Essential reading for anyone interested in M&A activity in the trade publishing business (includes University Presses). David Lamb maintains the league tables for the industry

From my partner David Lamb: "Organized information creates its own authority." David Lamb

Lots going on in scholarly communications this month. #openaccess #scholcomm #stmpublishing #AcademicTwitter

Priceless correction in today's #WSJ "A Business Watch article on Saturday incorrectly said companies are embracing lasting remote UNemployment" Though they're doing that too...

Sheridan's parent company, CJK Group, acquires Cenveo Publisher Services and Cenveo Learning. There is now effectively 1 major printer of journals in the US. sheridan.com/news/cjk-group…

Have we checked to make sure Dr. Conley took the Hippocratic Oath and not the hypocritic oath? Might explain the discrepancy in reports.

“The tricky thing about hope is to not confuse it with optimism.” Rebecca Solnit looks ahead to November 3, and wonders what might come after. lithub.com/rebecca-solnit…

Amazing professional triathletes, embarrassing amateur broadcasters #ChallengeDaytona

Without Elon Musk and Larry Ellison California may soon be habitable again

Thanks Nilanjana Roy 📚🦊 for the mention in your perceptive Financial Times Weekend article on 'the shifting shape of the writer's life' #BookAdvisors /ht to Brian O'Leary Book Industry Study Group

I nominate this as one of the cleverest short headers the The New York Times has ever published. At the foot of A1 today... “A Patriot Says, ‘No Thanks’”. Because that’s what any true patriot would do...

The wrong one of this pair is extinct

Facebook philanthropy affiliate CZI actually went Meta almost 5 years ago techcrunch.com/2017/01/23/cha… #mvrs #fb

I am excited to share a new study led by Shachar Givon & samina matan w/ Ohad Ben Shahar: Goldfish can learn to navigate a small robotic vehicle on land. We trained goldfish to drive a wheeled platform that reacts to the fish’s movement (authors.elsevier.com/a/1eEnubrwfBCwg).

Breaking: fish can drive via @nature

We’re purging accounts that have had no activity at all for several years, so you will probably see follower count drop

Very sorry to hear that the legendary Peter Mayer has died. Had the good fortune to spend a bit of time with him this year, and will always remember him smoking up a storm at the Overlook stand in Frankfurt.

In Springer Nature's "botched" IPO, did the market see it as one of the publishers at risk of being left behind by real innovation in scholarly communication and research workflow? scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2018/05/15/spr…