[Air-L] social science postdoc opportunity to study LSST astronomy

[Diesner, Jana]

Dear colleagues, the LSST Corporation announces its Catalyst Fellowship Funded by the John Templeton Foundation for postdocs in the social sciences (broadly construed). The Catalyst Fellowship in social science supports early-career researchers to study social aspects of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) for up to three years. Prospective applicants may be interested in, for example, collaboration networks, the social organization of large-scale collaborations, broader implications of astronomical science, and methods for studying socio-technical systems. The social science postdocs will be part of a cohort with astrophysics postdocs and will be supported by a broad network of renowned mentors to realize the full potential of Rubin Observatory's LSST. Applicants can propose to work at any LSSTC member institution (https://www.lsstcorporation.org/node/3<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.lsstcorporation.org/node/3__;!!DZ3fjg!7LbGp48wbgFdG5QFSSyC7XKjGGx0OB5q-GHxd4EktgKuu227e-MtqJe7Z8d-FfIRJIebO0xRtKBkmIT1UVYqeRhPAFbvOz5a6BmW-T1K$>) with a faculty supervisor of their choice. Application deadline is January 15, 2023. For job details see (bit.ly/lsstsocsci<https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/bit.ly/lsstsocsci__;!!DZ3fjg!7LbGp48wbgFdG5QFSSyC7XKjGGx0OB5q-GHxd4EktgKuu227e-MtqJe7Z8d-FfIRJIebO0xRtKBkmIT1UVYqeRhPAFbvOz5a6IkEYZfJ$>). There will be an online information and networking session on October 6, 2022 (for details on that see bit.ly/lsstideaslab<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/bit.ly/lsstideaslab__;!!DZ3fjg!7LbGp48wbgFdG5QFSSyC7XKjGGx0OB5q-GHxd4EktgKuu227e-MtqJe7Z8d-FfIRJIebO0xRtKBkmIT1UVYqeRhPAFbvOz5a6HCvUn6b$>).

Let me know if you have any questions. Kind regards, Jana


Jana Diesner, PhD
Associate Professor
Director of Undergraduate Programs
Director of Social Computing Lab
Faculty Affiliate, Department of Computer Science
School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
jdiesner at illinois.edu<mailto:jdiesner at illinois.edu>
http://jdiesnerlab.ischool.illinois.edu<http://jdiesnerlab.ischool.illinois.edu/>