John Johnson on Undergraduate Research
Are you an undergraduate researcher? Read what a Caltech professor has to say about why what you’re doing is important and why you’re going to be better at it than you ever thought.
John Johnson on Graduate Admissions
Are you planning on going to grad school? Check out what the chair of the graduate admissions committee at Caltech has to say about getting into a program like his.
Code you can use: the MCMC Hammer
What’s the best way to sample a banana? A new code implements an efficient solution to this and other Bayesian inference problems.
NGC 4261’s off-kilter globular cluster population
We think many galaxies we see today had mergers and interactions in their past, but how can we know for sure? Bonfini et al. look to evidence from a subtle pattern in the distribution of globular clusters in NGC 4261.
Concluding 1 year of Astrobites
Astrobites looks back at its first year as the astro-ph reader’s digest.