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Mendeley: The future to managing science papers?

by Eli March 22, 2010

This is another guest post by Sarah Kendrew (blog, Twitter) a postdoc in infrared astronomy at Leiden Observatory working on instrumentation for the European Extremely Large Telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope. She’s also contributed an article about Evernote.

Staying on top of the literature, even in a narrow field, is one of the biggest [...]

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Automatically Create a Webpage of Articles for Astro-ph Discussion with PHP and Python.

by Kelle February 15, 2010

Here is a guest post by Ian Crossfield, a third-year graduate student at UCLA working on the infrared characterization of exoplanet atmospheres, and Nate Ross, a first-year graduate student working on various projects relating to the history of star formation in the universe.

Like many astro groups, UCLA has had an informal astro-coffee discussion for years [...]

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Links: Dark Matter, AstroPy, Writing, and More

by Kelle January 1, 2010

Happy New Year!

Dark Matter Tools Website | dmtools.brown.edu Via Cosmic Variance
US LHC Blog » Who will pay for the arXiv? | blogs.uslhc.us Cornell to ask for voluntary donations from heaviest user institutions.
BetterTouchTool Customizes Your Mac’s Multitouch Gestures | Lifehacker
AstroPy Info Page | mail.scipy.org Mailing list for Astronomers interested in Python. It’s relatively low traffic, [...]

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myADS arXiv RSS Feeds: Now with Abstracts!

by Kelle August 26, 2009

A while back, I wrote a primer on RSS feeds for astronomers. In my opinion, RSS is ideal for browsing and managing the daily astro-ph listings and is far superior to the one big daily email most people get. In particular, I like the feed provided by myADS because it sorts the articles based [...]

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RSS feeds for Astronomers

by Kelle May 18, 2009

One of the major advances in web surfing during the last decade is RSS. Using RSS to consume the web is way more efficient than email subscriptions and traditional browsing since the content comes to you without cluttering up your email inbox. In this post, I point to a couple resources to help you [...]

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