Reminder: we are hiring a Research Software Engineer @flatironinstitute.org !

Our REU renewal was funded!

We found out today so we are accepting applications now! Like right now!

Application review is going to happen swiftly as we know we’re are late in the typical cycle.

pa.msu.edu/undergraduat...

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Interesting piece, Natalie. As somebody who sees software as a science in itself, I don't entirely agree with your views, but I can appreciate them. As you say, we care about the things we are good at. I wonder where it all leads.

Oh yeah me too

The Center for Computational Astrophysics @flatironinstitute.org is hiring a new Research Software Engineer to work on @astropy.org and to support the software and computing efforts within the CCA. Apply by May 22!
apply.interfolio.com/184639
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I Was a Victim of Unschooling How unschooling has affected my past, present, and future.

I put another article up on my substack!
open.substack.com/pub/theearly...

NASA sends Outlook around Moon, immediately needs IT help : In space no one can you scream, at Microsoft

One of our favourite Register reader comments on this story: "So NASA can still talk to Voyager 1 & 2 at over 13 billion miles away and nearly 50 years after launch, but get Microsoft involved and you lose your comms in less than a day." Quite
www.theregister.com/2026/04/02/a...

Please spread the word! In addition to becoming an important part of the MESA project, the person in this role would have opportunities to collaborate on scientific software across CCA, which has a vibrant, interactive community of scientists and code developers.

RR Slugger is great

It turns out that, while students think that AI is helping them learn, it is actually doing the opposite, or, at best, nothing at all.

(papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....)

Okay I feel better about mistaking you for a grad student now

Our 2026 Public Outreach schedule!

Nice Mimas model you have there!

4-Year Elizabeth Gardner Fellowship in Physics/Astro @ Edinburgh!
- early career
- personal background currently under-represented in the School
- Pay Grade: Lecturer (~Assoc. Prof.)
- ***Deadline 20 April 2026***
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🚨 Job vacancy!

We are recruiting a Computing Officer for the School of Physics and Astronomy at St Andrews ⚛️🔭

High-Performance Computing is critical to our work on understanding the Universe, including the search for life on other planets. 🪐🧑‍💻🖥️

www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

Please boxelder bugs, find a different place to chill

Five year Astro career development fellowship in Oxford open for applications, broadly in survey astronomy including transients and cosmology. College teaching and research. Do think about joining us. Happy to answer questions! 🔭

2026 Flatiron Institute Center for Computational Astrophysics Pre-Doctoral Program How to Apply 2026 Flatiron Institute Center for Computational Astrophysics Pre-Doctoral Program How to Apply on Simons Foundation

Applications are open for our visiting grad student pre-doctoral program at the CCA @flatironinstitute.org !

More info here:
www.simonsfoundation.org/2023-flatiro...

computational science postdoc fellowship here at Stony Brook, through the SUNY Promoting Recruitment, Opportunity, Diversity, Inclusion and Growth Plus (PRODiG Plus)

apply.interfolio.com/179315

Dr Héloïse Stevence is a Schmidt AI in Science Fellow at the University of Oxford.

We catch up with Héloïse Stevence @sydonahi.bsky.social to talk astronomy and machine learning – and discover how many Rubin images this Schmidt AI in Science Fellow can classify per minute with the human eye. Read our latest In the Spotlight interview: www.lsst.ac.uk/news/2026-02... 🔭

We're hiring a tenure-track computational / physical scientist. It will be joint with the home department and the Institute for Advance Computational Science. Job ad here:
apply.interfolio.com/181179

Looking for an internship opportunity and interested in the impact of open science?

Come work with us to investigate the impact of NASA’s open science activities!

stemgateway.nasa.gov/s/course-off...

If you're on the postdoc market for exoplanet/ML applications--strong recommendation to apply for this job at Macquarie, Ben is great!!

Aaaaaand it’s officially on @arxiv.bsky.social 🥳🥳

arxiv.org/abs/2602.08078

Wanna do Fisher, XY Fisher or DALI with a chosen derivative method backend in a simple sleek Python way? Look no further, my friend. We got you!

Simple examples here

docs.derivkit.org/main/example...

It's *fine* they were just having to cut out the framing of the original fuse box and getting annoyed about it.

Words I didn't want to hear from an electrician "yeah this is a doozy"

The application deadline for the 2026 Code/Astro workshop is in a couple of days. Open to anyone interested in learning how to develop open-source software for astronomy! Both in-person and virtual options available.

Apply here: semaphorep.github.io/codeastro/

We don't have a project-wide policy, but for Google Summer of Code we have a note in our checklist here: tardis-sn.github.io/summer_of_co... (link may break as we are reorganizing the site a bit)

Science Archives Development and Operations Manager Science Archives Development and Operations Manager

A couple of great vacancies in @science.esa.int: a Science Archives Development and Operations Manager jobs.esa.int/job/Villanue... and a Science Operations System Engineer for Cloud Platform jobs.esa.int/job/Villanue... 🔭

I’m hiring a postdoc to work with me at UMBC on AGN and galaxy mergers 💫

Details: apply.interfolio.com/180085

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