AstroBetter
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AstroBetter
@astrobetter
Blog and Wiki for professional astronomers.
Katılım Nisan 2009
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The next two installments of Julio Morales’s blog series on workflow management for scientists are now up in the blog! Read them at astrobetter.com
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@jrdmb @duetosymmetry Hi all, we were updating some backend things on the wiki, please let us know if you're still having account issues.
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This week we have a cross post from Emily Hunt detailing how to use Bluesky as an academic astrobetter.com/blog/2023/09/1…
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@MartianColonist Hi, Ryan, sorry for the late reply, the wiki should be fixed now, please let us know if you have further issues.
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The 2023-2024 Rumor Mill is now up and running for this hiring season! astrobetter.com/blog/2023/09/1…
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Today on the blog we have part 1 of a series of post from NMSU graduate student Julio Morales on how to cultivate a cohesive scientific workflow astrobetter.com/blog/2023/10/2…
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Looking for a new physics-based intro astronomy textbook? We have a new post on the blog talking about Astrophysics: Decoding the Cosmos by Judith Irwin at Queen's University astrobetter.com/blog/2023/02/2…
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Today on the blog, @BenneHolwerda writes about how he wrote the textbook Galaxy Morphology, with insight into how to break down monumental tasks into bite-sized chunks astrobetter.com/blog/2022/09/1…
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The 2022-2023 AstroBetter Rumor Mill is ready for the new job season! astrobetter.com/blog/2022/08/2…
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We have a guest post on the blog today talking about Typeset (typeset.io), a new tool for scientific publishing astrobetter.com/blog/2022/01/2…
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Do you have an advice for students applying to undergraduate astronomy programs? Please help us update our list of astronomy programs and opportunities for undergrads! Comment here or on the blog: astrobetter.com/blog/2011/02/1…
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Today's guest post from @AkAstronomy is about how to set expectations for your research group using a research group syllabus. Let's chat about what you think are best practices!
astrobetter.com/blog/2021/09/2…
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The 2021-2022 Rumor Mill for postdocs and faculty/staff have been turned over and are ready for the approaching job season! astrobetter.com/blog/2021/09/1…
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Today we have our first post in a little while, so please come to the blog and read Travis Metcalfe's post on administering grants through your own small research institute astrobetter.com/blog/2021/09/0…
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@eilatg Hi Eliat, I know this tweet is from a long time ago, but please feel free to update the wiki with any new information you discovered - it's all open source and depends on our community to keep it relevant!
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astro-Mac people, I am about to go pick up a new machine running Big Sur. Its been 5 years since I've set up a new computer. Is there a useful online site with tips? The @astrobetter wiki seems a bit out of date.
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When and how should you create a professional website as an astronomer? Emily Moravec helps to answer those questions and more in today's blog: astrobetter.com/blog/2021/05/0…
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End your year with a tutorial on how to unit test your code, brought to you by Daniel Evans. astrobetter.com/blog/2020/12/2…
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We're happy to consider posting well-supported opinion pieces on AstroBetter.
Paul Woods@dr_paul_woods
@sarahkendrew @LeoBurtscher Are there any realistic options here? (serious question). Most of the Astro journals have paywalls, Astro journals in general do not publish opinion pieces... so what does that leave us?
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