Taiwan for 6 months?

Do you have a PhD or are you just about to get one? Do you want to hang out with me and my friends in Taiwan for six months, all expenses paid? Eat great food, climb great mountains, learn Chinese and how to avoid getting run over by motorbikes?

Is this offer too good to be true? Well, maybe. But we are just in the process of applying for money to set up an “advanced studies institute” at NCTU (yes, like the one at Princeton). The idea is to accept some 6 foreign scholars per half-year. It could work as a post-doc or as a chance for someone who needs a fall-back position after Harvard denied tenure. If we get the money from the Ministry of Education in Taipei, we’ll start advertising for real. If you mention in your application that you read the news here, you’ll be placed first in line. Readership has its privileges.