{"id":5896,"date":"2011-11-12T14:37:20","date_gmt":"2011-11-12T14:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2011\/11\/12\/wanted-non-academic-astronomer\/"},"modified":"2011-11-12T14:37:20","modified_gmt":"2011-11-12T14:37:20","slug":"wanted-non-academic-astronomer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/11\/12\/wanted-non-academic-astronomer\/","title":{"rendered":"Wanted: Non-Academic Astronomer in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone from the American Astronomical Society ran across the <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/jobs\/pnas\/\">Project for Non-Academic Science<\/a> posts here, and is looking for someone to participate in a career panel at their <a href=\"http:\/\/aas.org\/meetings\/aas219\">upcoming meeting in Austin, TX<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The American Astronomical Society (AAS) Employment Committee is hosting a panel discussion at our annual AAS winter meeting in Austin on current issues related to the postdoc job market, with a focus on the increase in post-doc type positions without a corresponding growth in potential permanent academic positions. The session will be on Wednesday, January 11th from 10-11:30 am. They are particularly interested in including the perspective of those who have switched from the astronomy\/astrophysics track into a non-academic track.<\/p>\n<p>Please contact the panel organizer (Fred Rasio  (rasio at northwestern dot edu)) if you have an astronomy\/astrophysics PhD, held an astronomy\/astrophysics postdoc position, and then went on to pursue a non-academic career route. Since there is no funding for transportation costs, likely this will be easiest for those already in the Austin area. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is outside my area, and may be outside the area of most of my readers, but I&#8217;ll give it what signal boost I can, and maybe some of the more astronomy-focused blogs can get it in front of the right people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone from the American Astronomical Society ran across the Project for Non-Academic Science posts here, and is looking for someone to participate in a career panel at their upcoming meeting in Austin, TX: The American Astronomical Society (AAS) Employment Committee is hosting a panel discussion at our annual AAS winter meeting in Austin on current&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/11\/12\/wanted-non-academic-astronomer\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wanted: Non-Academic Astronomer in Texas<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,57,58,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-jobs","category-non-academic","category-science","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}