Vitor Cardoso is a Visiting Professor at the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, where he will work on black hole spectroscopy and environmental effects and establish new collaborations with researchers at the Institute. He is also an organizer and speaker at the Gravity and Cosmology 2024, for which many of our group members will be present during a month-long visit. And here's Vitor at his office, in a splendid Autumn morning in Kyoto, with a crow (spot it!) flying by.