Ninety valuable seconds of emendation time were lost to the snapping of the pencil lead, which can make all the difference in Extreme Thesis Amending. Photo by flickr user Mario De Leo.
Word on the street is that, after setting the record for quickest ever emendations—clocking in at about eight minutes worth of work—our own Matthew Francis has completed his thesis, titled: ‘Dark energy, cosmic structure and the expansion of space’. He is, as ever, understated: “More of a shopping list than a title really.” But a shopping list, I would think, at a supermarket of awesome. Congratulations Matt!
No time will be wasted, either, with Matt and Mrs F. K. moving to Italy next Tuesday, as he begins work as a post-doc at SISSA in Trieste, the middle ‘S’ of which stands for ‘Superiore’. It goes without saying, and I say it just for emphasis really, that descriptions of thesis chapters make for excellent blog posts.
Letters to Nature 
Yay Matt! Congrats on being our group’s 4th (?) successful PhD completer. You should edit this post and link to your thesis! Then you’ll break your streak of two years without posting.
Super Duper!!!