It's a 3 day weekend. People should be out of the house and not worrying about the damned rumor mill. Right now, stressed-out job-seekers are tossing accusations around on the wiki when they should be stepping back for some perspective.
The only reason I'm not taking my own advice is that I'm observing.
Hey, I'm a theorist I don't care, just curious.
But our junior colleagues hoping to be employed really really care. The postdoc market is not going to move until the Hubble Fellowships are announced.
At first, I thought that the NASA fellowships were all waiting to make calls on the same day, but that was clearly wrong. I have yet to hear even a whisper about the Hubble fellowships at my large, thin walled institute. I guess they want to keep everyone in a sweat.
I know they care (and I'm observing with someone who is on the postdoc market). But we all know that nothing will happen on a 3-day weekend anyway. The way to stay sane while on the job market is to put off worrying about things that you cannot control.
There were people (probably just one or a few people) using the wiki to make accusations of unfairness regarding one of the fellowships, and I think that's a sign of a loss of perspective. It should be used for information, not for sniping.
Steinn,
It's a 3 day weekend. People should be out of the house and not worrying about the damned rumor mill. Right now, stressed-out job-seekers are tossing accusations around on the wiki when they should be stepping back for some perspective.
The only reason I'm not taking my own advice is that I'm observing.
Hey, I'm a theorist I don't care, just curious.
But our junior colleagues hoping to be employed really really care. The postdoc market is not going to move until the Hubble Fellowships are announced.
At first, I thought that the NASA fellowships were all waiting to make calls on the same day, but that was clearly wrong. I have yet to hear even a whisper about the Hubble fellowships at my large, thin walled institute. I guess they want to keep everyone in a sweat.
I know they care (and I'm observing with someone who is on the postdoc market). But we all know that nothing will happen on a 3-day weekend anyway. The way to stay sane while on the job market is to put off worrying about things that you cannot control.
There were people (probably just one or a few people) using the wiki to make accusations of unfairness regarding one of the fellowships, and I think that's a sign of a loss of perspective. It should be used for information, not for sniping.
And now they're being posted...