2nd Annual #RCSAFellows Conference is underway in Tucson! Congrats to 2024 & 2025 Fellows, and thanks to our speakers, Facilitators & advisors for giving their time and advice so generously to help prepare these outstanding postdoctoral scholars for the faculty search process and the professoriate.

Apply this week to get mentorship while applying to astro postdocs!

Are you applying to postdocs in astro this year? Join AMP-UP, our mentorship program, for help with your applications! Current prize postdoc fellows including myself will help edit proposals, brainstorm ideas, and more: amp-up.space/mentorship.h...

Are you applying to postdocs in astro this year? Join AMP-UP, our mentorship program, for help with your applications! Current prize postdoc fellows including myself will help edit proposals, brainstorm ideas, and more: amp-up.space/mentorship.h...

RCSA has selected a new class of outstanding postdoctoral scholars in the second year of the #RCSAFellows Initiative, which aims to increase faculty excellence in the physical sciences through a multiyear program of job search preparation, professional development, and community building.

Our next paper is out! We explore different Pop III initial mass functions and star-by-star modeling in galaxy simulations arxiv.org/abs/2502.20433

I am where I am because of my unbelievable REU experiences. This is true for so many people. We are trying to scrounge up funding to continue the REU at Harvard in any way possible, but this is all so horrible. These programs change the lives of young scientists

NSF froze payments to researchers. State AGs said it was unconstitutional for exec branch to pause congressionally mandated funds. Judge issued restraining order. Payments resumed. But some inconsistencies in what the NSF has said (thread): www.statnews.com/2025/02/02/n...

Well, big news. I am planning to move the Space Library to a new home. And I need some help - in 35 years I've never asked for funding, donations or subscriptions for my Space Report, to keep it independent, but now I need to raise some additional funds. www.gofundme.com/f/fund-jonat...

Incredible talk by @astrotamalasado.bsky.social about the Cenca Bridge program The program provides research and professional development opportunities to students in Central America and the Caribbean through remote internships #AAS245 cencabridgeastro.weebly.com

Playing Spot-the-Astronomer on a plane to DC for #AAS245, currently at four people with space backpacks and/or telescope pins

Reminder: please nominate yourself or others! :) We still have 12 open slots for the winter and spring.

Aaand our next Aeos paper is out as well!! Jennifer Mead leads the paper, finding feedback blows out all metals from early halos until they reach a mass of about 10^7 Msun. Read it here: arxiv.org/abs/2411.14209

Our first Aeos paper is finally on arXiv!! ✨🔭 Read the summary below and the full paper here: arxiv.org/abs/2410.16366

Are you applying to postdocs in astro this year? Join AMP-UP, our mentorship program, for help with your applications! Current prize postdocs fellows including myself will help with proposals, career advice, and more: aas.org/posts/news/2... 🔭

If you just can't wait, our paper is out on arXiv now! arxiv.org/abs/2401.02484 Thread to come...

Excited about near-field cosmology, Galactic dynamics, and Rubin/LSST? Apply for a postdoc in my new group at the University of Washington! Please spread the word to interested applicants, reach out if you have questions, and/or come find me at AAS! 🔭 Due: Jan 15 jobregister.aas.org/ad/82a47f8f

Day 2 at NASA Johnson and we’re in Mission Control Center with Flight Director Pooja Jesrani! One hour before asteroid sample reveal #NASASocial #OSIRISREx #ToBennuAndBack 🔭

day 1 at NASA Johnson, let’s goooo #OSIRISREx #ToBennuAndBack 🔭

Heading to NASA Johnson for the Bennu asteroid sample unveiling!! Mostly posting on Twitter (X…) per NASA’s request, but gonna post stuff here as well

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