Allison Kirkpatrick is a professor of astronomy at the University of Kansas. She studies supermassive black holes and their effect on galaxies. She chairs her department’s Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion committee, and she is a co-Director of the university-wide Multicultural Scholars Program. When I joined the Physics & Astronomy Department at the University of Kansas [...]
The Rumor Mill ready for the new season is now up and running: Postdoc and Term and Faculty and Staff. The archives from previous years remain available. As a reminder, here the AAS Policy on Postdoc positions: The AAS Council has passed (1988) and reaffirmed (2003) a resolution stating that no postdoctoral position should require a [...]
This is a guest post by Travis Metcalfe who founded White Dwarf Research Corporation while he was a graduate student. In 2008, with support from several technology companies, he initiated a nonprofit adopt a star program that funds an international team working on observations from NASA’s Kepler/K2 and TESS missions. More than 20 years after [...]
Emily Moravec is a postdoctoral researcher at the Astronomical Institute of the Czech Academy of Science and a support scientist at the Czech node of the European ALMA Regional Center. She is a radio astronomer and her research interests are active galactic nuclei (AGN), radio galaxies, galaxy clusters, and the evolution of radio-AGN. She investigates [...]
Daniel Evans is a former PhD student at Keele University, where he worked on the detection of stellar companions to exoplanet host stars using high resolution imaging. He has spent the last two years as a Python software developer at JBA Risk Management, where he has worked on developing the first flood catastrophe model with [...]
The Rumor Mill ready for the new season is now up and running: Postdoc and Term and Faculty and Staff. The archives from previous years remain available. As a reminder, here the AAS Policy on Postdoc positions: The AAS Council has passed (1988) and reaffirmed (2003) a resolution stating that no postdoctoral position should require a [...]
Sergi Blanco-Cuaresma is an astrophysicist and the Software Development & Operations Lead for the NASA Astrophysics Data System, based at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. The Astrophysics Data System (ADS) is pleased to introduce the new myADS email notification system! It is now more powerful than the 20-year-old ADS classic-based service thanks to the new, [...]
Yi-Kuan Chiang is a CCAPP fellow at the Ohio State University working on data-intensive survey astronomy and galaxy evolution. He is on a mission to promote the use of often underutilized diffuse photons in sky surveys across a wide range of wavebands. Astronomers observe the sky in two dimensions, but we often encounter the major [...]
Katharina Lutz is a postdoc at the Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg (CDS). She works on gas and star formation in nearby galaxies, and the dissemination of the Virtual Observatory (VO) and the CDS services. This involves maintaining and developing tutorials, and mentoring at VO Schools. This post was written in collaboration with the [...]
Katharina Lutz is a postdoc at the Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg (CDS). She works on gas and star formation in nearby galaxies, and the dissemination of the Virtual Observatory (VO) and the CDS services. This involves maintaining and developing tutorials, and mentoring at VO Schools. This post was written in collaboration with the [...]