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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How’s astrophysics and/or physics doing these days?[/quote]

I have a friend who was at JPL and they got slashed too.  She was able to find another job but some of her colleagues struggled.

The research cuts have been absolutely devastating to a ton of fields. [/quote]

JPL is an FFRDC of NASA, which happens to be operated by CalTech. FFRDCs have been specifically targeted by Vought. Now that body shop contractors cannot be owned by companies that make widgets, the need for FFRDCs has dropped. Separately, NASA is now re-focused on manned spaceflight, such as Artemis, which most Americans support by an huge margin; JPL is all about un-manned space missions, so it has the wrong expertise given current NASA priorities. Long thread about (various) FFRDCs is in the Jobs forum.

www.NRO.mil is hiring for wide range of STEM degrees - including physics and astro.

Likely that would be a food fit for JPL folks -- but those folks really also ought to be looking at commercial options like Blue Origin and SpaceX (which both are actively hiring with lots of openings).[/quote]

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