I think for academic careers, it’s typically understood as ~5 years since you finished grad school, but could be different for different tracks. Definitions/suggestions that don’t involve age are so useful for this reason!

dunno if she checks this but tagging in @blockrockdoc.bsky.social for insight

almost all the kronos quartet minutes are also terry riley

Point of clarification since your first post mentioned a gendered dynamic — when I "soften" emails on purpose, it's not because I'm a woman-ish and feel the need to be perceived as less aggressive, it's because I'm a New Yorker and probably do need to take it down a notch for most academics

I'd probably go with "Hi first name," just bc I think "hi" feels softer. Getting more formal with someone I'm already informal with feels like someone is in trouble, and presumably you're asking for a rec letter because you're comfortable with the person so I don't think you need to act otherwise

damn this is how i found out i went to high school with a guy who works for rfk jr now

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this is the first post i saw about it

Topics in this session include: queer and trans field safety, N transport by caribou, methane plumes in an arctic analogue for Mars, and ostracod sexual dimorphism over the PETM ⚒️🧪

I don't think there's a super convenient method for R, but I found it pretty easy to generate curves using this tool and export to csv github.com/PaleoIPSL/Py...

now that’s a slump/grunt