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• Starting your own non-profit organization
• How does an astronomer break into data science? Interview with Dr. Andrea Leistra
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• My Successful Experience with Sexual Harassment
• Slim down your bloated graphics
• How to improve the winter AAS meeting? (2014 edition)
• Astropy v0.3 Release
• Escape of the Clones: How to Get a Non-Academic Job
• Advanced Design Patterns in Python
• Linking Visualization and Understanding in Astronomy #AAS223 #AASviz
• Newbies Guide to Town Halls at #AAS223
• How to give a killer talk
• Flirt with extreme caution #AAS223
• Tweeting the #AAS223 meeting and introducing #AASviz
• Project to study gender in #AAS223 talks and questioners
• Sprint to #AAS223 and into 2014
• A New Way To Search, A New Way To Discover: MAST Discovery Portal Goes Live
• Make award winning posters
• Are we publishing unreliable research?
• I’m sorry this blog post is late
• Nailing the Tech Interview
• The “Gray Zone” of Academic Ethics: Results and Reactions
• Two Body Careers Survey
• A tale of three proposals
• Career Profiles: Astronomer to Research Analyst in the Defense Industry
• Advice for Applying to Grad School in Astronomy?
• Career Profiles: Astronomer to Research Scientist at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
• Learning to Accept Rejection, the Likely Outcome for Most of our Proposals
• Career Profiles: Astronomer to Non-Tenure-Track Lecturer
• Career Profiles: Astronomer to Electrical Engineer
• Professional development at the 2014 Winter AAS Meeting
• Friday links: the gender and enrollment gap
• Career Profiles: Astronomer to Physics Department Head
• Career Profiles: Astronomer to Tenure Track Faculty and Observatory Project Scientist
• Careers for Astronomy PhDs
• Career Profiles: Astronomer to Consultant
• Data Visualization at IRSA
• Plotting to a File in Python
• Career Profiles: Astronomer to Patent Examiner
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