<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div><br></div><span id="docs-internal-guid-8f4cbcce-7fff-ace6-9052-177048e123cf" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><p dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.512; margin-top: 7pt; margin-bottom: 7pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: medium; display: inline-block; overflow: hidden; width: 602px; height: 172px;"><img alt="TextDescription automatically generated" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/Mb3fiZ-dc_YMiDmHSuQYO5xmRK-tqpdxb8IqCpZoXf7tdq5HQAzuq9F0dzOWFeir77d55aJvDvcNYOY4v-A_GLZm6UHOCLRZUTOefqQor2zKQwpEtpOMPbUhu5u3pPWfXyUsaX5KCJ6aTPSOdwUDvA" width="602" height="172" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" data-unique-identifier=""></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.8144; margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(204, 65, 37); font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tuesday, July. 25th: Monthly PDA General Meeting</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.8144; margin-top: 7pt; margin-bottom: 7pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">12:00pm - 01:00pm | Hybrid (E25-141 and on</span><a href="https://mit.zoom.us/j/2107649429" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">zoom</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.8144; margin-top: 7pt; margin-bottom: 7pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Join the PDA for our monthly general meeting to hear news about and from the MIT postdoctoral community.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.26; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;"></p><hr style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"></p><p dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.8144; margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><font size="5">Voting for the MIT PDA Officer elections!</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;"><font face="Helvetica" color="#ff225e"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 15px;">Elections are here! </span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.8; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;"><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size: 15px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Please take a minute to </span><a href="https://forms.gle/RF1wQ3YmiMC8JFYo8">vote for the 2023/2024</a><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> officer cohort of the MIT PDA! </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Voting only takes 2 minutes! </b></span></font><b style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 15px; font-family: Helvetica;"> </b></p><p dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.26; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;"></p><hr style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"></p><p dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.8144; margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Wednesday, July 26th: Postdoc town hall</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.26; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;"><span style="color: rgb(55, 56, 58); font-family: Slack-Lato, Slack-Fractions, appleLogo, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">A group of postdocs (supported by the PDA) will hold a town-hall-style event for discussion and to get to know each other, with free pizza (courtesy of PDA funding, thank you!). They are going to start by collecting some experiences and topics of discussion from you all, before dispersing into smaller groups and talking more about those topics over pizza. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.26; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;"><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size: 15px;"><b data-stringify-type="bold" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(55, 56, 58); font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Everybody is welcome</b><span style="color: rgb(55, 56, 58); font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">, regardless of whether you have anything specific to bring up! You can just drop by spontaneously, but for planning it would really hel</span><font><span style="color: rgb(55, 56, 58); font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">p if you </span><a href="https://forms.gle/9Y8uGXrJcDqidrFd9" style="caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">sign up here!</a></font></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.26; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;"><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size: 15px;"><font><font color="#333333">For any further questions, do not hesitate to contact</font><font color="#000000"> </font></font><a href="mailto:sanchezx@mit.edu" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">sanchezx@mit.edu</a><font color="#000000">. </font></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.26; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;"><span style="color: rgb(55, 56, 58); font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size: 15px;">Location: MIT/Kendall Open Space (if bad weather: 68-180)</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.26; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;"><span style="color: rgb(55, 56, 58); font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><font face="Helvetica"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><br></span></font></span><img src="cid:7668BE36-AC29-4355-B57A-79035C948CEB" alt="Postdoc_townhall_1.jpeg"></p></span><div>
<meta charset="UTF-8">==============================================<br>Benedict Borer<br>Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT, Bablab<br>President of the MIT Postdoctoral Association<br>bborer@mit.edu<br><br>
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