Non-Academic Careers for Astronomers and Physicists

Today I’m giving a talk for the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Utah about careers outside academia for astronomers and physicists. Check out my slides here, and links/references from my talk below.

• STEM PhD finishers in the UK (from the Royal Society)
• Science & Engineering PhDs awarded and faculty positions (from Nature)
• Declining proposal success rates in astronomy (from the National Science Foundation)
• Pamela Gay on soft money positions
• Katie Mack’s Twitter
• Josh Wills’ Twitter
• Drew Conway
• Oliver Keyes on data science
• David Robinson on building public artifacts