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I’ve been using Feedbin since Google Reader shut down. Been very happy with it. I access it through the web on desktop and using Reeder 4 on iOS; both work well.

Worse is Better is Worse: https://www.dreamsongs.com/Files/worse-is-worse.pdf Same author (name is an anagram).

Really depends what you mean by “a career in astronomy”. Being a research astrophysicist at a university or major lab likely requires a PhD and (to achieve tenure) many years of po…

Academic jobs are weird, right? I think trying to write down contract that specifies everything involved would be pretty challenging. At any rate, the last time I was employed as a…

I don't think this is true in general. Certainly, they aren't paid by the publisher, but I'd imagine most referees are in paid employment with institutions that expect them to revi…

I'm British. Lived in the USA for six years: three in Manhattan, three in Seattle. Moved to the Netherlands in late 2020; currently living in Utrecht. Downsides: The most obvious s…

See also Gabriel's (Nickieben Bourbaki is an anagram) rebuttal of his own paper: Worse is Better is Worse ( http://dreamsongs.com/Files/worse-is-worse.pdf ).

Princeton, NJ / Full Time / Onsite The Department of Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton University has an open position for an experienced software developer to work on the develo…

Actually, Mail.app can include your own mail in a conversation, but only if you ask it to: select View->Show Related Messages.