The new service I noted last week is now live, courtesy of Bourget & Chalmers.  I gave them permission to incorporate the appointments information collected so far on this blog for this academic year.  Because PhilJobs now works with the APA, one major aim of the joint initiative with the APA is to collect systematic demographic information on new hires.

Going forward, I will certainly continue to post news about senior hires, since those are often of immediate relevance to prospective students and the PhilJobs site will not, of course, include any editorial commentary on the significance of particular moves.   I will continue to run the tenure-track hiring thread for the rest of this season as well; at some point, I'll take a poll of readers to see whether it is worth continuing to run such a thread here.  One possibility is just to open it late in the season for placement directors to post summaries of their placements for the year.