Tips and Tricks for Professional Astronomers

• Assessing the Future Landscape of Scholarly Communication: An Exploration of Faculty Values and Needs in Seven Disciplines | UC Center for Studies in Higher Education
  An academic look at how astronomers communicate with each other. Also includes a basic overview of how the field works which could be useful for newbies. There’s a lot here and it might be worthy of its own post by someone who has read it more thoroughly than I have. (via August Muench)
• How to "clean install" Snow Leopard | The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
  Might be overkill, but if you haven’t upgraded yet, you might as well do it this way since it also forces you to do a full backup.
• Free yourself from distractions with Concentrate | Unclutterer
  Seems like the perfect app for enforcing short periods of timed writing.
• The Silence of the Adviser | FemaleScienceProfessor
  Tricky stuff: When and what to tell students and postdocs if considering a major move, such as leaving for another institution.
• Giving Better Presentations | Latex for Humans
  Some good tips:
  - Less is more: people can only hang on to about four bits of unrelated information at a time.
  - Use multimedia to your advantage: integrate your words and images, don’t overload the audience with on-screen text.
  (via Roban Kramer)
• How Not to Hurry | Zen Habits

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