as you know, we're in the opening round of the decadal survey, prioritizing astronomy research and facilities for the next decade - I occasionally suspect all of astronomy has shut down while all of us either write or read white papers and policy documents on some subfield or another...
anyway, Julianne over at CV came up briefly for air to summarize what is going on
what she said.
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So, what do we make of the NRC Rankings?
What drives the different rankings, and what are the issues and surprises?
The stories about prominent harassers in the field of astronomy have been coming out a lot lately, and kudos to the field for taking steps to end a severe and chronic problem that impairs the advancement of half the members of the human race.
tags: welcome to the universe, astronomy,
Fox Fur, A Unicorn, and a Christmas Tree
R. Jay Gabany
I scheduled my defense a few weeks ago. Having the chair of aforementioned survey on the committee made for an interesting piecewise solve.