Getting Started with LaTeX
LaTeX is the typesetting software used by the scientific community to produce high-quality, professional documents. Getting started is easy, and learning LaTeX is a skill that will last your whole career.
Building an Inclusive Astronomy Community
This bite lays out the Nashville Recommendations, from the Inclusive Astronomy meeting in 2015.
Tools for Reading Papers, Part 1
ADS, ADS Bumblebee, arXiv, and arXiver all help make searching for research papers much easier. Learn more about them in today’s post!
Taking Care with Self-Care
As studies have shown, self-care is crucial for a healthy and happy body and mind. Today we go over a collection of self-care habits and resources that can help us all stay sane in the hectic world of academia.
Illuminating teaching, and the art of going where you want to go
We all teach, in some form, every single day. For many academics that means a class full of students eager to learn. And yet we are so very rarely taught to teach. Here we introduce one simple morsel that can improve our way of explaining something immensely: deciding what you want to say, and then saying it.
Let’s talk about policy, baby
Whether we like it or not, policy affects the way we do science. Read on to learn about it, and how you can help shape policy yourself!