Amen to that!

Great to be on this list! Perhaps consider adding on my colleagues @mischawoods.bsky.social and @dodingroup.bsky.social who are not very active here at present, but could perhaps be enticed to be more so with this… 😉

1920s story: Bose was turned away by Marie Curie from training in her lab, citing past Asian colleagues' struggles with adjusting to French, without bothering to ask if he was fluent. He was. To avoid contradicting her, he simply returned some months later giving the impression he'd “learned” French

I was certainly long aware of the disappearance (often anecdotally noted as a historical curio in a lot of texts introducing the notion of a majorana particle), but am only hearing of the Venezuela story here for the first time.

It truly is! Wish Peter Weir made more films, still quite fond of his underseen last film The Way Back (2010).