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Links: Astronomy Culture Studied, Changing Institutions, Better Presentations, and More

by Kelle February 5, 2010

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 [...]

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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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Tips for a Successful Writing Retreat

by Kelle December 7, 2009

I recently spent four days on a writing retreat on the Big Island of Hawaii with three of my closest friends/collaborators. A writing retreat is basically where you abscond from your office to some resort-like place for a several days (or weeks) to concentrate on a specific task, ideally a paper. I think it’s [...]

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Links: Poster Design, iCal Pro, Daily Writing, and much, much more!

by Kelle September 30, 2009
  • Drop Thumbnails Onto One Another to Combine PDFs in Snow Leopard [PDFs] | Lifehacker
  • Designing scientific posters | michaelgalloy.com
  • Snow Leopard for this Astronomer | Urania
  • Dropbox Comes to the iPhone and iPod touch | Lifehacker
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