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

Those who stick with bio into 2nd year will have me, more pikas, and this awesome remix of a pika covering Freddie Mercury. (Megan and I do teach biology other than pikas).

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zpf...

Incoming life science students at U of T will have me as a prof for first-year biology this fall, and there will be pikas