{"id":13394,"date":"2016-10-23T16:05:23","date_gmt":"2016-10-23T20:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=13394"},"modified":"2016-10-24T01:31:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T05:31:00","slug":"misc-plumfund-fundraising-astroparticle-postdoc-cr4-engineering-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=13394","title":{"rendered":"Misc: Plumfund fundraising + Experimental astrophysics postdoc + CR4 Engineering Forum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some miscellaneous items in my requested link queue:<\/p>\n<p>If you are thinking about a crowd-funding campaign, check out\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.plumfund.com\/\" target=\"_d\">Plumfund<\/a>, a &#8220;free online crowdfunding and fundraising website&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.plumfund.com\/AboutUs\" target=\"_blank\">About Plumfund<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Featured on Shark Tank in 2014 with investment from Kevin O&#8217;leary<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Easy to use with aligned branding (Giving Feels Good)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Flexible platform as a general crowdfunding site or a registry site for celebrations<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>===<\/p>\n<p>A friend at the institute in Sweden where I used to work asked me to post this astrophysics\u00a0postdoctoral job notice:\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kth.se\/en\/om\/work-at-kth\/stipendier\/postdoctoral-scholarship-in-experimental-high-energy-astrophysics-astroparticle-physics-1.678204\">KTH | Postdoctoral scholarship in experimental high-energy astrophysics\/astroparticle physics<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>A postdoctoral scholarship is available in the Particle and Astroparticle Physics research group ( <span class=\"tlc cid-1_678206 no-categories block link standardLink\" lang=\"en-UK\"><a class=\"standardLink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.particle.kth.se\/\">www.particle.kth.se<\/a><\/span>) at the Department of Physics, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>The position primarily concerns the development of space missions with a focus on X-ray polarimetry. The research group has conducted ballooning campaigns for hard X-ray polarimetry (PoGOLite, PoGO+), participates in the X-ray Imaging Polarimetry Explorer (XIPE) mission proposal for ESA M4, and is developing a national small satellite concept for gamma-ray burst polarimetry. The successful candidate will participate in the further development of X-ray polarisation missons within the group (instrument development and analysis of data from on-going missions).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>====<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m pointed to the\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cr4.globalspec.com\/\">CR4 &#8211; Engineering Forum<\/a>, an engineering discussion forum with<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Over 100,000 archived and searchable discussion threads.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Fifteen special interest categories, such as Aerospace, Civil Engineering, and Transportation.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>CR4 Daily Digest, a publication which shares the day\u2019s top posts with over 100,000 subscribers.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">====<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"\/\/rcm-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/cm?o=1&amp;p=12&amp;l=ur1&amp;category=wireless&amp;banner=02HND5YJK5NEFPBWFS02&amp;f=ifr&amp;linkID=7c7721c131c0bf76b1b2eecfd790e5b6&amp;t=hobbyspace&amp;tracking_id=hobbyspace\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some miscellaneous items in my requested link queue: If you are thinking about a crowd-funding campaign, check out\u00a0Plumfund, a &#8220;free online crowdfunding and fundraising website&#8221;. About Plumfund: Featured on Shark Tank in 2014 with investment from Kevin O&#8217;leary Easy to use with aligned branding (Giving Feels Good) Flexible platform as a general crowdfunding site or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=13394\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Misc: Plumfund fundraising + Experimental astrophysics postdoc + CR4 Engineering Forum<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-3u2","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8723,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8723","url_meta":{"origin":13394,"position":0},"title":"StarTalk Radio with Neil deGrasse Tyson &#8211; General Astrophysics 101","author":"TopSpacer","date":"September 1, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"The latest StarTalk Radio Show\u00a0with Neil deGrasse Tyson gives a quick intro to astrophysics: \u00a0Cosmic Queries: General Astrophysics 101.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Astronomy&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Astronomy","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=12"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6726,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=6726","url_meta":{"origin":13394,"position":1},"title":"Stephen Murphey of DIY Rocket Science on The Space Show + Citizen science workshop in Taiwan","author":"TopSpacer","date":"March 2, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Stephen Murphey\u00a0of\u00a0DIY Rocket Science\u00a0was on The Space Show last week to talk about a number of topics related to public participation in space such as building cubesats and pocketqube sats, open source hardware, crowdfunding, 3D printing, high-altitude ballooning, and more :\u00a0Stephen Murphy, Friday, 2-28-14 - Thespaceshow's Blog === The\u00a0Institute of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Amateur\/Student Satellite&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Amateur\/Student Satellite","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=4"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":15872,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=15872","url_meta":{"origin":13394,"position":2},"title":"Carnival of Space #557 &#8211; TheVenusTransit.com","author":"TopSpacer","date":"April 16, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"The Venus Transit hosts the latest Carnival of Space.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=2"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/sim-cold1.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":12155,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=12155","url_meta":{"origin":13394,"position":3},"title":"Video: Asteroid mining &#8211; Nina Cooper &#8211; TEDxHarvardCollege","author":"TopSpacer","date":"February 5, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Harvard College astrophysics student Nina Hooper gives a TEDx talk on the potential of asteroid mining:\u00a0Spotlight TEDx Talk: How asteroid mining could help us live in space -\u00a0TEDx Innovations Blog\u00a0\u00a0 Imagine a world with ubiquitous, affordable space travel, where getting in a spaceship is no stranger than getting in an\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Asteroids &amp; Comets&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Asteroids &amp; Comets","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=75"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/s-TVRtPlFIA\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3914,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3914","url_meta":{"origin":13394,"position":4},"title":"The Space Show this week","author":"TopSpacer","date":"August 12, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The guests on The Space Show this week: 1. 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