His recommendation letter read: “I have a perfect editoress in mind: Yale sr, worked at Vogue last summer, runs her own campus mag, art major, completely connected, v small goodlooking blonde.”

.. "editoress"???

Osterbrock et al.'s article about Edwin Hubble from 1990 is a fascinating read, by the way: articles.adsabs.harvard.edu//full/1990AS...

This is how elite university faculty wrote recommendation letters 100 years ago. We are supposed to have learned a few things since then.

Absolutely blistering grilling of Scott Bessent by Rep. Casten on Trump’s massively illegal scheme to steal Venezuela’s oil.

Not just venting here, I did speak up, & I was not alone. In fact, the colleagues who were (unconsciously, tbf) shilling for Sam Altman were badly outnumbered. Everyone in the room who had thought even just a little about “AI in education” had reached the same eminently defensible conclusion.

Science is hard, even when you love it. And as much as I love it, it also takes a lot. We make sacrifices. Family. Physical and mental health. Financial security. Most of my colleagues went into STEM as an act of love. Love for people, for places, for the cosmos, for a planet we all share.

I'm so sorry. I feel the same -- just relentless grief & anger over the destruction of the govt, science, & education structures that we've all worked so hard to support. I get through most days but then find myself sobbing uncontrollably in the middle of a run. Things are not ok. You're not alone.

You may be right!

Injecting my personal thoughts: there are going to be people who think they are learning, who equate completing the work with learning. These are the people who will be harmed. It’s never the people who are passionate about learning. They after going to find a way to learn no matter what.

Forgot to include the link: covid19.ncdhhs.gov/dashboard/wa...