It's always both a sad time and a joy to see early-career researchers move on, but it is also part of life as a senior academic. I mentored several people (not from my group) on dealing with microaggressions. I was happy to hear that one of the students whose PhD I recently supervised got a job at CERN this week. And as a final bittersweet goodbye I was excited to see someone else grow and spread their wings (going to my previous group in Brussels). #academiclife #professor #academia