Both branches should do all they can to bridge the gap between disciplines.

This is so important. I worked on the experimental side, and then went to a grad school where there are no laboratories for space physics, and only a handful of people who remember the days when the university used to have them. My instruction was entirely theory. So I've kinda been un-pigeonholed by accident. It really, really, really sucked to get launched into theoryland after four years of lab work, but knowing a bit of both helps me get a leg-up on the competition.

I'm working with a guy to run some simulations that'll require superclusters at a scale only available through entities like NERSC. It's going to take me about a year to make damn sure I've got my parameters right before pressing "go". Fuck-ups at that scale can probably ruin careers.

Without e-mails, I would've never seen this response. Hadn't cleared out my notifications, and since this is several layers deep in a thread, my hubwheel didn't turn orange. I'm not sure if this is a bug or intentional, but clearly, I need to dismiss my notifications more often than once every few weeks. It's safe to assume that I've accidentally ghosted people because of this. My bad!