Happy to help, but need some more specifics: What's the audience for the reading? You? Undergrads?

Harvard is just a decade or so behind the times, so the next steps are quite obvious

Do I want to ask who got the money? Supposedly the US Treasury, but I assume this goes into some slush fund for problematic purposes.

Idk, I prefer the over the top Cold War/civil rights thing to the late 1990s Clinton/Gingrich Washington is broken vibes.

So much better than its remake as Gladiator though!

Totally. I was supposed to make a mid-December trip to DC, so was going to tell you about that nowish, but who knows what's happening now.

Yuck, sorry, no fun at all. "Complicated" is a nice way to put it

What used to be true 15 years ago no longer is. Based on your scenario, do not go to out of state publics unless you get a tuition waiver to make your costs in-state. If you are upper-middle class, out of state publics make less sense than elite privates. Happy to provide further data.

It is the "most realistic" disease move or so the makers claim.

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Having worked on a mostly SI race, the island is 3 separate electorates: north shore, mid-island, and south shore that go from very left to very right. The initial breakdown basically shows that although mid-island is a little more Cuomo than perhaps expected but like outer Queens in demographics.

Well you learn a lot, since consultants like this are brought in everywhere now, so I recommend the podcast to many people. A (perhaps obvious) key takeaway after listening to 50+ episodes is that very rarely do education and research show up. Everything is metrics and data about other stuff.

People you have tagged know this far better than me. I found this podcast (ironically?) very helpful to understand higher ed consulting ideas/approaches: eab.com/higher-ed-po..., even if the ideas are objectionable. Went back 2-3 years and caught up on many of them.

Agreed that you don't need more. As for the difference, the postdocs require more on paper, but the job still requires a Zoom and a multi-day on campus, so I think the latter takes more time, but just later on.

And for the "big" postdocs - society of fellows or open ones - they get hundreds of applicants whereas jobs tend to be written more narrowly and not have as many applicants (generalizing here). Does this make it better? No, but just gaming out the practical side of this. 2/end

My guess (and there is no answer here) is the critique of extra materials for jobs has made inroads into institutional practice whereas postdocs can be more one-off. Moreover, jobs have 3-4 levels to get more stuff whereas postdocs tend to have 1-3 (3 being unusual in my experience). 1/