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5 Feb 2024
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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23 Oct 2023
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…
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20 Sep 2023
This week we have a cross post from Emily Hunt detailing how to use Bluesky as an academic astrobetter.com/blog/2023/09…
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17 Sep 2023
The 2023-2024 Rumor Mill is now up and running for this hiring season! astrobetter.com/blog/2023/09…
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28 Feb 2023
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…
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14 Sep 2022
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…
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28 Aug 2022
The 2022-2023 AstroBetter Rumor Mill is ready for the new job season! astrobetter.com/blog/2022/08…
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24 Jan 2022
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…
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27 Dec 2021
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…
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21 Sep 2021
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…
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12 Sep 2021
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…
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1 Sep 2021
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…
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4 May 2021
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…
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28 Dec 2020
End your year with a tutorial on how to unit test your code, brought to you by Daniel Evans. astrobetter.com/blog/2020/12…
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4 Oct 2020
We're happy to consider posting well-supported opinion pieces on AstroBetter.
28 Sep 2020
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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13 Sep 2020
What are your best suggestions for teaching online/hybrid this semester - what tools have you found the most useful? What's your setup? Are you teaching synchronously or not? I'll put together a post if you all supply the content!
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25 Aug 2020
The 2020-2021 Rumor Mill is updated and ready for job postings (please remember that this is simply a tool, and your science is awesome, regardless): astrobetter.com/wiki/Rumor M…
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Astropy is committed to being an inclusive and welcoming community. To support this, we are welcoming proposals for up to $15,000 for any action that helps with inclusion, support, and empowerment of underrepresented groups in the Astropy community. github.com/astropy/project/b…
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27 Jul 2020
Our guest post today from Yi-Kuan Chiang describes The Tomographer, a new tool for estimating redshift distributions. astrobetter.com/blog/2020/07…
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