Last post of the series filled?

After all the other rounds of presentations associated with job vacancies (like this and this and this and this), we had one more session to finish it all off. My colleague David, the only geochemist in the School, will be retiring in summer, and we need a replacement. So I was glad to see presentations scheduled. There were only two shortlisted candidates. 

Given the small number of shortlisted candidates I figured we would get an email quite soon about the outcome. But a week later, there still was no news. Nothing still two weeks later. The grapevine had been buzzing frantically since the day of the interviews! The first candidate seemed to have accepted and agreed to start in July. But why was there no official news? Especially with David retiring in June already! Three weeks later: nothing. Now that I post it, it’s been almost four weeks. Still nothing. No idea what is going on...

Marine pollution. Pic by Rey Perezoso