Hi all, Two exciting bits of news: 1) We just posted the announcement of a second grant to BIDS for NumPy, this time from the Sloan Foundation: https://bids.berkeley.edu/news/bids-receives-sloan-foundation-grant-contribu... This is for $659,359 over two years, very similar to the previously-announced Moore Foundation grant. These two grants were originally written together as one, then split in half between the two foundations, then the schedules drifted apart... I'm excited to finally have this all sorted out so we can move ahead with the original plan! 2) We have successfully navigated UC Berkeley's administrative systems and posted an actual job opening, which you can apply to *right now*: https://jobsprod.is.berkeley.edu/psp/jobsprod/EMPLOYEE/HRMS/c/HRS_HRAM.HRS_CE.GBL?Page=HRS_CE_JOB_DTL&Action=A&JobOpeningId=24142&SiteId=1&PostingSeq=1 We're hoping to hire 2-3 people under that job description, so please tell your friends, relatives, enemies, whoever. This is a fully open search and we want our candidate pool to be as large and diverse (in all senses) as possible, so if you're on the fence about applying, why not give it a shot? Or if you want to know more, feel free to send any questions to me (njs@berkeley.edu) and/or Stéfan van der Walt (stefanv@berkeley.edu) -- we'd love to chat. We'll also do another round of publicity/reminders in the new year after everyone's had a chance to recover from the holidays, but wanted to at least get this out now so those who are interested can start putting their application together... -n -- Nathaniel J. Smith -- https://vorpus.org