My bluesky feed is mostly bad news these days, but every so often I see a post that makes me cheer. Congrats on the promotion Jeannette!!! 🎉🎉🎉

Also, @nytimes.com, Con Hall is not normally reserved just for graduations. I teach my 2000-student course on Biodiversity and Adaptation there. Many other intro science courses, like physics, are taught there too.

It is only a "pivot penalty" if citations measure the value of the pivot. Citations are, at best, a deeply imperfect measure of the worth of the work to the field, or to the scholar who pivots