@lamb

Longtime media investment banker and information industry strategist.

 NYC
bit.ly/dlamb
Joined April 2007
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David Lamb retweeted
Elon Musk
@elonmusk8 May 2023
We’re purging accounts that have had no activity at all for several years, so you will probably see follower count drop
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Breaking: fish can drive via @nature
Ronen Segev@ronen_segev3 Jan 2022
I am excited to share a new study led by Shachar Givon & @MatanSamina 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/1eEnu…).
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I am excited to share a new study led by Shachar Givon & @MatanSamina 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/1eEnu…).
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Facebook philanthropy affiliate CZI actually went Meta almost 5 years ago techcrunch.com/2017/01/23/ch… #mvrs #fb

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative acquires and will free up science search engine Meta | TechCrunch

Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan's $45 billion philanthropy organization is making its first acquisition in order to make it easier for scientists to

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The wrong one of this pair is extinct
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I nominate this as one of the cleverest short headers the @nytimes has ever published. At the foot of A1 today... “A Patriot Says, ‘No Thanks’”. Because that’s what any true patriot would do...
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Thanks @nilanjanaroy for the mention in your perceptive @FT Weekend article on 'the shifting shape of the writer's life' #BookAdvisors /ht to @brianoleary @BISG
"In June, Book Advisors, a financial advisory firm, forecast in a research paper that 'mergers & acquisitions activity will gradually increase as publishers seek stronger partners and increased scale' in the wake of the pandemic."

ALT "In June, Book Advisors, a financial advisory firm, forecast in a research paper that 'mergers & acquisitions activity will gradually increase as publishers seek stronger partners and increased scale' in the wake of the pandemic."

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Without @elonmusk and @larryellison California may soon be habitable again
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Amazing professional triathletes, embarrassing amateur broadcasters #ChallengeDaytona
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David Lamb retweeted
Literary Hub
@lithub15 Oct 2020
“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-on…

Rebecca Solnit on Black Swans, Slim Chances, and the 2020 Presidential Election

I own a painting of a black swan by the artist Selene Perez of Creativity Explored, which I love because it’s a powerful painting of a bird that looks crowded by the paper it’s on—it looks as thoug…

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Have we checked to make sure Dr. Conley took the Hippocratic Oath and not the hypocritic oath? Might explain the discrepancy in reports.
Reuters
@Reuters4 Oct 2020
President Trump’s condition is improving as he is being treated for COVID-19 at a military hospital, and he could return to the White House as early as Monday, the doctors leading his treatment said reut.rs/34uK2W6
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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-…
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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...
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Lots going on in scholarly communications this month. #openaccess #scholcomm #stmpublishing #AcademicTwitter
C&E's The Brief@briefer_yet28 Jul 2020
The July issue of The Brief is out! Does the sale of HighWire end an era? Is Plan S crumbling? Are transformative agreements sustainable? Are publishing services RFPs approached all wrong? Where are the fault lines for U. Presses? Get Briefed to find out! mailchi.mp/ce-strategy/the-b…
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From my partner David Lamb: "Organized information creates its own authority." @lamb
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Essential reading for anyone interested in M&A activity in the trade publishing business (includes University Presses). @lamb maintains the league tables for the industry
C&E's The Brief@briefer_yet19 Jun 2020
Hot off the press: Our colleague @lamb provides a fantastic overview of M&A trends in trade publishing in his new article in Publishing Research Quarterly doi.org/10.1007/s12109-020-0…
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#bigny event on mergers and acquisitions featuring @bisg member ⁦@lamb⁩ of Book Advisors
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Here is the @JoshBillingsTri run route, from Richmond Pond to Tanglewood, mapped in @ridewithgps : ridewithgps.com/routes/28593… 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/28562…
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/…

Why Was Springer Nature's IPO Withdrawn? - The Scholarly Kitchen

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?

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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.
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