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Links: Employment Prospects, No Bullet Points in Star Wars, Acadamnit, and Much More.

by Kelle August 27, 2010

Postgraduate degrees produce employable people – it's official | onlinelibrary.wiley.com Subscription Required. “A survey has confirmed that [postgraduate degrees in astronomy, astrophysics and planetary science and particle physics] bring excellent long-term employment prospects and above-average salaries, within sciences and elsewhere, boosting the case for funding studentships in order to support science and industry.” (via @USA [...]

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Links: Grad School Advice and Admissions, Plane Crash Survival Odds, Rule of 200, and More.

by Kelle August 24, 2010

An Open Letter to New Graduate Students | ProfHacker Excellent article that you should consider circulating to the incoming class at your institution. Physics: number of A-level entrants roars beyond 30K | The Institute of Physics blog “Although the number of entrants has increased much work is still required to reduce the gender divide in [...]

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Links: Decadal Round Up, Myths about Girls in Science, New LaTeX Site, and Much, Much More.

by Kelle August 20, 2010

These posts are getting too long. I’m going to start doing this twice a week: Tuesdays, in addition to Fridays. Stop Admitting Ph.D. Students | Inside Higher Ed “Knowing that prospective students apply to graduate school of their own free will, with hope in their hearts and stardust in their eyes, doesn’t absolve faculty of [...]

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Links: Encouraging Creativity, Getting Started with Twitter, Ergo Mousing, and More.

by Kelle August 14, 2010

Scientific career renewal | Nature Jobs “Scientists must force themselves off the research treadmill periodically if they are to remain creatively stimulated. The culture and bureaucracy of science must encourage them to do so.” Taking “The Road Not Taken”: On the Benefits of Diversifying Your Academic Portfolio. (arXiv:1008.1586) | astro-ph “…young researchers should always allocate [...]

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Links: Representative Color Images, Unconscious Bias, Lecturecasting, Saying No, and More.

by Kelle August 6, 2010

Orange, Silver, and Black: The High Contrast Office. By brock2621, via Lifehacker. Astro Phony Colors? Or Just Misunderstood? | Spitzer A nice piece by Robert Hurt, one of astronomy’s premier visualizers, on the validity of “representative color” images. I particularly like the language translation analogy. Let’s rid our language of the misleading term “false color” [...]

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Links: Computing Upper Limits, Writing, Teaching, New Macs, IDL, and More.

by Kelle July 30, 2010

World’s Biggest Particle Physics Lab May Idle All Accelerators in 2012 | Science Insider On Computing Upper Limits to Source Intensities | IOP Science: ApJ Productivity, Writing, and Teaching Writing IS Thinking | Inside Higher Ed “If writing is thinking, then you don’t have to wait until you’re done reading, analyzing data, or figuring everything [...]

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Links: Astronomer HR Diagram, IDL 8.0, 20-20-20 rule, and More.

by Kelle July 23, 2010

Fun Stuff Astronomer H-R diagram | Astronomy Blog Are you on the main sequence? Astronomer Gifts, T-shirts, Stickers and more | CafePress Shout Outs: Does Hubble Still Gotchu? | Late Night with Jimmy FallonHubble guy is back around the 2:50 mark. IDL IDL 8.0: Lists and hashes | michaelgalloy.com Ergonomics Reduce Computer-Caused Eye Strain with [...]

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Links: More Postdocs in Canada, Less in Ireland; Apps for Distraction Avoidance and Break Reminders; Python Style Guide; and More

by Kelle July 16, 2010

Politics Postdoc Push in Canada | Inside Higher Ed (via Adam Kraus) Ireland Cuts Back on Ph.D. and Postdoc Support | Science News Antonelli, A.: A decline and fall in the future of Italian Astronomy? | astro-ph Career and Professional Development Report from the 2010 AAPT New Faculty Workshop | ProfHacker The American Association of [...]

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Links: Let Your Mind Wander, Credit Cards, Paranoid Collaborators, and More.

by Kelle July 9, 2010

Photo by Ed Yourdon. Discovering the Virtues of a Wandering Mind | NY Times Why I think lots of play time is crucial to a successful writing retreat: “To encourage this creative process, Dr. Schooler says, it may help if you go jogging, take a walk, do some knitting or just sit around doodling, because [...]

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Links: Combat Impostor Syndrome by Thinking Like a Creator Instead of a Sponge, Repercussions of Misrepresenting Results, To-Do Lists, and More.

by Kelle July 2, 2010

Photo by Chris Gierszewski Too Much Self-Doubt? Try Thinking Like a Creator | ProfHacker “Think like a creator, not like a sponge. Most of us were trained to be very good sponges: we can soak up information and absorb it so that it feels like its our own. But focusing on all that you don’t [...]

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