My job here is done

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It was cool, back in the day, to be mocked in the House of Commons:

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And of course I was happy a few months ago to be cited by the Supreme Court:

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But the high point of my journalistic career is being mentioned in Private Eye (see above). I can retire now.

3 thoughts on “My job here is done

  1. My adviser used to tell me “First there’s research, then there’s teaching, then there’s departmental politics.” Guess he missed the final stage–an infatuation with the topical press.

    • Numeric:

      It seems he missed the final three stages: infatuation with the topical press, blogging, and . . . blog commenting. Also golf must fit in there somewhere but I’m not quite sure where.

      • In fairness, blogging did not exist when he made this insightful comment to me (I’m happy to report he is now a Dean at a major university, so he’s reached stage 3 of his career trajectory). And it was hard for a scientist to interact with the press before everything went 24/7 and we had an explosion of outlets desperate for content. Incidentally, that comment about blog commenting is more psychologically insightful than I would have expected from you–guess reading all that literature does have an effect.

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