Jared Pence

From Harvard to BU to Brown, New England schools are enrolling fewer new PhDs this year. Why? - The Boston Globe Elite universities are taking fewer doctoral candidates after decades of beefing up their research enterprises.

Really appreciated this Globe article, though I wish @ditikohli.bsky.social had been more skeptical about institutions saying they “can’t afford” to admit PhD students. It’d be interesting to see which parts of budgets are increasing or where cuts are not being made (top administration salaries?)

“The idea that one might drink coffee for pleasure, to delight in its complexity of flavour, still has relatively little penetration into global culture” (p. 7).
–James Hoffmann, The World Atlas of Coffee

“I have hated my mother for most of my life but it is her face I see as I drown.”
– Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy, p. 1
I have low expectations for this book, but I like the opening line.

“That is not what I meant at all;
That is not it, at all.”
—T.S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

“For all our advances in science…we’ve always held the same obnoxious, rotten souls. Souls that have festered for millennia while science grew.”
—Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!, p. 111