Job! Job! Job! Boston University will be searching for a tenure-track assistant professor in Astronomy this Fall, with applications first considered starting Nov 1. Applications from all areas of astrophysics should apply! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/25624

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Apply to & advertise the AAS CSMA Micro-grants program! Offers grants of >$500 to support BIPOC undergrads to pay grad school app fees, GRE testing fees, virtual conference registrations, or to purchase textbooks & research supplies. Deadline is Oct 13! aas.org/posts/news/202…

I am disappointed that the NSF GRFP does not support students in PhD programs who earned masters degrees elsewhere. I suspect that this restriction is especially limiting to BIPOC students and Bridge students.

I am hoping to hire a postdoc to start in the summer or fall, to work on exoplanet or brown dwarf atmospheres! Details here: jobregister.aas.org/ad/c0d2c3a8 Join us here in beautiful Austin!

Excited to share the first of several positions opening up in my group GRAPPA Centre. This one is a postdoc position on multi-messenger astrophysics with the LISA mission. Please share widely & applications from ECRs are welcome, esp. those from underrepresented gps in physics

It works!! #XRISM

Our recent paper on JWST's overmassive black holes at z > 4 was featured on astrobites by MIT grad student Megan Masterson, in Erin Amira Kara's fantastic group! Great article! Thank you! :) astrobites.org/2023/10/20/jws…

Join us tomorrow, Nov. 3 at 12 PM Eastern for our monthly AXIS science seminar! This month, our speakers are: Helen Russell: AGN feedback in elliptical galaxies with AXIS & Anna Trindade Falcao: Resolving AGN-host Interactions in Nearby Seyfert Galaxies

PhysGAAP mentoring applications are now LIVE 🧑‍💻 This is an opportunity to connect with a current grad student mentor to get in-depth guidance about the MIT physics graduate application process and about graduate school. Apply at mit.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_be…

Awesome article, Anna-Christina Eilers !

Tip for those applying to grad school: many programs use rubrics now to evaluate applications. For examples, see Appendix V of the 2018 AAS Task Force on Diversity & Equity in Astronomy Grad Education Report (PDF here: assets.pubpub.org/8n7rgw19/31579…), e.g. this rubric from UT Austin.

.UMBC's Adi Foord, PhD explains the science behind the time-travel fiction. Spoiler: Prof. Foord quotes the incomparable Stephen Hawking: "The best evidence we have that time travel isn't possible is that we haven't been invaded by tourists from the future." discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/i…

Loved my time at UMD... Great department, great colleagues!

Searching for the elusive intermediate-mass black holes, Riccardo Arcodia found something quite puzzling arxiv.org/abs/2311.16220 (today). eROSITA #blackholes

I'm hiring a postdoc in my group (MITKavli MIT Physics ), working on a combination of machine learning, Dark Matter, Gaia, and simulations. The due date is FRIDAY! Please forward to interested candidates! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/25332

.Eileen Meyer and Adi Foord, PhD from UMBC Physics have been working to get the AXIS X-ray Probe off the ground (and into space)! Read more here: umbc.edu/stories/x-ray-…

Three PhD positions open in the University of Bath Astrophysics group, one on nuclear physics and neutron stars with Dr David Tsang (me), one on GRB afterglow simulations with Dr Hendrik Van Eerten, and one on AGN outlfows with Dr Carolin Villforth.

Congratulations to the #XRISM instrument teams! Resolve (the microcalorimeter) has even better energy resolution than its requirement, and look at that beautiful image from Xtend! Excited for all the AGN science to come :)

For 24 years, the Chandra X-ray observatory has unraveled the mysteries of the universe from right here in Massachusetts. With Chandra poised for groundbreaking discoveries into the 2030s, I'm urging NASA to continue Chandra's missions and enable many more years of discovery.