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This Week in Jobs: Change your clocks and your career with these 19 tech opportunities

Getting rid of daylight saving time is more complicated than you think.

Did the time change leave you feeling a bit Daffy? (Gif via Giphy.com)

Good morning! Still feeling groggy?

For many of us, the only consolation to Sunday’s “fall back” was the promise that it would be our nation’s last. But is that really the case?

Back in March 2022, the Senate unanimously passed the Sunshine Protection Act, proposing that once we fell back this fall, we’d never change the clock again. But since that show of bipartisanship, this legislation’s been at a standstill.

Of course, there have been more important Congressional issues to address, but even so, the passage of this bill through the House (and Biden’s signature) could be an uphill battle. For one, medical professionals oppose the act, saying that we should, as a nation, default to standard time (aka an hour earlier), not daylight saving time. Throw in that some states are trying to end daylight saving time on their own, and it gets complicated.

Whether we set the clocks an hour forward in 2024 is still a mystery. In the meantime, spring forward onto this week’s new opportunities.

The News

Curious about a career in Geographic Information Systems? Learn how Temple University’s PSM program prepares students for a variety of jobs and sign up to attend the free GIS Day event on Nov. 15 for more info.

Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs announced its latest accelerator cohort. Meet the 10 startups selected to join the program focused on enterprise AI solutions.

Find out how these 11 local orgs are supporting advances in biotech and life sciences.

How will AI be used? Here’s how the president’s executive order last week could impact the future of artificial intelligence.

Speaking of AI: The Center for Government Excellence at Johns Hopkins University and Bloomberg Philanthropies want to advance the tech to improve public services.

In the latest How I Got Here column, a University of Pittsburgh researcher and technologist shares his journey from developing assistive technology to accepting a medal at the White House.

The Jobs

Philly + Delaware

DC + Baltimore

Pittsburgh

Remote

The End

Fall into something new. See you again soon!

Editor’s note: Every week we ship an email newsletter featuring the region’s most exciting career opportunities. We’ve lovingly called it This Week in Jobs (aka TWIJ — “twidge.”). Below is this week’s edition; it’s meant to live in your inbox. Sign up for the newsletter here.

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