Thoughts are with you and your family. I hope whatever comes next is awesome, and that your initiative, style and flair continues to contribute to innovation in optical astronomy.

For the curious (and for fair balance the SciAm article should really have mentioned this):
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakth...

Before fetching the pitchforks for this billionaire, at least he knows what science looks like (as opposed conspiracy word salad). Although major funding for Starshot never appeared, the same foundation is on track to spend $100M on Breakthrough Listen. Solid science at world leading Universities.

Just chiming in here to shamelessly attempt to hog full credit!. This was in a paper of mine form the nauties ... although to be fair I think it was Jamie Lloyd who insisted we make the subversive gambit to establish Splodge as the appropriate technical term ...

My reverse enginnering o fAI prompt for NYT artwork: "Modernist style painting of subject with egg all over his face"