<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="auto">Sergey Gavrilets from the University of Tennessee posted these stages of an academic career today:</div><div dir="auto"><br>Stage 1. You give a talk about your professor's work.<br>Stage 2. You give a talk about your own work.<br>Stage 3. You give a talk about your students' work.<br>Stage 4. You give a talk about the state-of-the-art of your field.<br>Stage 5. You give a talk about the state-of-the-art of your field but the field has already moved away.<br>Stage 6. You write books on any topic you fancy at the moment. <br>Stage 7. You give a talk about consciousness.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Not all of us may have reached the late Francis Crick stage 7+, but I guess most of us are in an advanced stage already... Tomorrow there is a new DySoC webinar from Sergey by the way. Nathan Nunn is speaking about cultural mismatch. You can join by using Zoom</div><div dir="auto">https://www.dysoc.org/ess_webinars</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">-J.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div></body></html>