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We welcome our new AAS Media Fellow, Tarini Konchady of Texas A&M University, and wish her predecessor, Kerry Hensley, all the best as she works to wrap up her PhD at Boston University.

Here is a look at events on the schedule for October.

The nighttime astronomy facilities supported by the National Science Foundation are now operating as one organization: NSF's National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory.

Most AAS members receive the magazine Physics Today as a membership benefit. The October issue is now en route to subscribers' mailboxes and can be accessed online.

Argentina has 10% time on two 35-meter deep-space communications antennas operating in the S, X, and Ka bands and seeks international collaborators for scientific and technical projects.

If you're attending PhysCon 2019 in Providence, Rhode Island, or live within driving distance, the Society of Physics Students invites you to participate in their "Lunch with a Scientist" program.

Sky & Telescope offers astronomy-themed worldwide tours from Iceland to Australia to Botswana! Visit our website and book a tour today!

Now department chairs or institute directors may request a site visit to evaluate the workplace climate of their department or research institution.

The AAS is sponsoring a free skill-building workshop at AAS 235 in Honolulu to support early career astronomers in doing effective outreach to schools, families, and the public. Apply today!

AAS Nova provides highlights of recent articles from AJ, ApJ, ApJ Letters, and ApJ Supplements to inform you about discoveries you might otherwise overlook.

The aas-timeseries project, which works with the recently launched astropy.timeseries module, enables astronomers to easily visualize time-series data and submit the resulting figures to the AAS journals.

The annual AIP Follow-up Survey of physics and astronomy PhD recipients, classes of 2015 and 2016, contains information on initial employment and employment status one year after degree.

Want to be mission principal investigators? Apply to attend a November workshop in Tucson, Arizona, on how to attain leadership positions on mission proposals and large science teams. Deadline: 4 October 2019.

A new report from the American Institute of Physics Statistical Research Center details the initial employment outcomes of astronomy degree recipients from the classes of 2014, 2015, and 2016 combined.

If you're interested in the intersection of science, policy, and international affairs, the American Institute of Physics encourages you to apply for the 2020-21 AIP State Department Fellowship. Deadline: 15 October.