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Job Posting and Hangout

By drorzel on January 28, 2014.

The Pip was sick this weekend, I had a deadline for a bunch of administrative crap that I pushed off back in December when I was rushing to finish the book, and I'm giving an exam on Thursday. So, I'm not doing lengthy blogging right now, but two quick notices:

1) A reminder (I think I posted this before) that the Union College Department of Physics and Astronomy is hiring a visitor, for up to three years (contingent on performance). If you're in the market for an academic job, albeit a temporary one, check out the ad. If you know anybody who might be interested, point it out to them.

2) Rhett Allain and I will be doing another G+ hangout, this time about our experiences blogging in academia. We're announcing this one in advance in case anybody would like to watch it live. I think there's also an opportunity to participate via chat, which might be useful as Rhett and I might be too much in agreement about some things, and we could probably use some input from a different POV. We haven't done this before, though, so I'm not 100% sure how this works. It'll be an adventure.

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