- 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
Regarding clean installing Snow Leopard – you can also do the equivalent of the old Archive and Install by not formatting the disk, but instead booting from the DVD, and using the terminal to manually move all old files to a Previous/ folder then installing the system. More details here. Note, you should make sure you have a backup of the hard drive anyway – this just avoids the step of copying files back.
Wow, that academic study of astrophysics is impressive. Immense, though I can already tell it’s worth reading carefully (over time…)