A talk for the physics and astronomy department at the University of Utah (fall 2016)
Links:
STEM PhD finishers in the UK: https://royalsociety.org/~/media/Royal_Society_Content/policy/publications/2010/4294970126.pdf
Science & Engineering PhDs awarded and faculty positions: http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v31/n10/full/nbt.2706.html
Declining proposal success rates in astronomy: http://arxiv.org/abs/1510.01647
Pamela Gay on soft money positions: http://www.starstryder.com/2015/11/12/dreaming-of-success-in-an-age-of-diminished-possibility/
Katie Mack: https://twitter.com/AstroKatie
Josh Wills: https://twitter.com/josh_wills
Drew Conway: http://drewconway.com/zia/2013/3/26/the-data-science-venn-diagram
Oliver Keyes: https://ironholds.org/blog/data-science-is-not-magical-unicorn-foo/
David Robinson: http://varianceexplained.org/r/year_data_scientist/