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Astronomy Cast Episode 409. Spin in the Solar System.

Welcome to Astronomy Cast, our weekly, fax-based journey through the cosmos where we help you understand not only what we know, but how we know what we know.

My name is Fraser Kane, I'm the publisher of the universe today, and with me is Dr. Pamela Gay, a professor at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, and the director of CosmoQuest. Hey, Pamela, how you doing?

I'm doing well, and we're coming today for me at least from a weird location. For those of you who are either watching this on YouTube or, I guess, watching us on YouTube.

Your work?

Yeah, I'm on campus today. So if the internet is a little weird, if the audio is a little weird, it's because I'm using the mic that we bought in 2006.

Yeah, so I've pulled out the old tech, and if you're watching this, you can see that one of the shelves behind me is completely filled with stuff, and the other shelf has a phone in it, and is otherwise completely empty, and it is empty waiting for one of our new hires to come and start sharing my office with me.

So if you are looking for a job, CosmoQuest has a bunch of jobs open right now, and you can read all about them at CosmoQuest.org slash x slash open dash jobs.

We have jobs for all education levels, and for the PhD positions, if we get a really good candidate from abroad, we have the ability to do visas.

We need people soon, because I don't sleep enough.

This is so weird. Normally, you are asking people for money, and now you're begging to give money away.

It's true. After many years of struggling to keep everything going, our hard work, our efforts, it's all being rewarded, and we have this chance to grow.

We watched our last postdoc Nicole go on to get a tenure track position up in New Hampshire, and she's doing great, and so we're ready for someone new to come in, and not fill her shoes, because that's not possible, but to take on new positions doing new things within CosmoQuest.

They're very noisy shoes. That's fantastic. I am so looking forward to the next couple of years.

We have such a wonderful opportunity to help really share our love of science and astronomy, and bring in this community that's been standing by our side for years, but now we've got budget to be able to work on science projects and outreach and research.

It's going to be a really exciting time.

So go check out the URL once again, Pamela.

It is CosmoQuest.org slash x slash open dash jobs.

Perfect. And let us give you a job.

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