I think this is pretty true. I think almost all of the hard science researchers are part software developers. Pretty much every professor I had in mechanical engineering was doing some type of programming or had graduate students/post docs doing it. My masters in oceanography was almost entirely built in Matlab and Python. One of the physics professors was studying black holes and their work revolved around making a cheap super computer with PS4s and running his black holes merger simulations on it.

We were strongly encouraged by both physics and astronomy professors to major in physics rather than astronomy if we wanted to work in astronomy. We were told (by the astronomers) that although an astronomy major has more of the needed skills, the physics majors were seen as better hires. We were told by the physicists that of course physics majors had those skills (that seemingly weren’t anywhere in the curriculum). :)

Tech breaks, dude :) sleep for all eternity, alright.

Everything is a jewel if you look hard enough.