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 …