Are you mixed up by which scattering processes are relevant at different wavelength regimes? Don’t know the difference between type Ib and IIb supernovae? Can’t remember the distinction between ULIRGs, DOGs, and SMGs? Need some information on common telescopes or software astronomers use? If so, welcome to Astrobites Guides! Here we seek to distill fundamental ideas and information into helpful, jargon-free reviews. Is there a topic you would like to have a Guide for? Get in touch!
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Table of Contents:
Science (top)
- Everything you need to know for your first in-person observing run!
- BOINC: How You Can Contribute to Scientific Research Without Doing Anything
- Guide to Gravitational Waves
- Guide to Adaptive Optics
- Guide to the Electromagnetic Spectrum in Astronomy (NEW | OLD)
- Guide to Transient Astronomy
- Astrobites Guide to Polarimetry
- Classifying Supernovae
- Guide to Empirical Velocity Laws
- A Tour of Solar System Magnetospheres
- Getting Started in Sonification
- Blasts from the Past: How Astronomers Measure Echoes in Space
- The Radial Velocity Method: Current and Future Prospects
- Toothpaste Comes From Neutrinos: The Origin of Stuff
- Gravitational Lensing in the Canary Islands
- Stuff Hitting Jupiter: A Retrospective
- Let’s Lasso Us Some Space Rocks: Asteroid Mining And You
- Inelastic Dark Matter Ruled Out?
- 6 Real Planets That Put Science Fiction (And Cracked) To Shame
- Wishy-Washy Water World
- Classifying Civilisations: An Introduction to the Kardashev Scale
- Chury – a rubber duck with animal like characteristics
- Terrestrial analogs: A slice of Mars in your own backyard
Life Advice (top)
- Brave New World: Starting a PhD in a New Country
- Overcoming the Imposter Syndrome
- Managing Your Personal Finances In Grad School (and BEYOND)
- What Does “Success” Mean to You?
- Taking Care with Self-Care
- How to Be a Human Being: a Lesson I Learned from the South Side Science Festival
- Get those monkeys off your back!
- You should get Twitter…for science!
Graduate School (top)
PhD Life (top)
- Take Note: Building Your Note-Taking Skills!
- Overwhelmed with Grad School Decisions? Here are the Most Important Questions to Ask!
- Practical tips for setting up a research project, or “Things I wish I had known when I started my PhD”: Part 1
- Practical tips for setting up a research project, or “Things I wish I had known when I started my PhD”: Part 2
- Tools for Reading Papers, Part 1
- Tools for Reading Papers, Part 2
- Tools for Reading Papers, Part 3
- Strategies for Forming Research Talk Questions
- Hello, world! Virtually welcoming new grad students
How to choose an advisor? (top)
Job Market (top)
- A Comprehensive Guide to the NASA FINESST award
- How to write an effective personal statement for grad application
- Job title: Researcher | Writing skills: required | Talent: optional
- A guide to applying to astro postdocs. Part 1: Finding postdocs
- A guide to applying to astro postdocs. Part 2: The application process
- Drop It Like It’s Biased: A Step-by-Step Guide to Dropping the GRE
- List of Major US Fellowships for Astronomy Students
Communication (top)
- What’s a preprint, and how do I use it?
- Outreach for Astronomers: Skype a Scientist and Dark Skies, Bright Kids
- How to Be a Human Being: a Lesson I Learned from the South Side Science Festival
- Effective Science Communication
- Fixing academic posters: the #BetterPoster approach
- Astrobites at SciAccess 2021: Making your Poster Presentations Accessible for All
- Speak your science: How to give a better conference talk, Part 1
- Speak your science: How to give a better conference talk, Part 2
- Speak your science: How to give a better conference talk, Part 3
- How to successfully start and run a journal club
- How TAs Make a Difference in the Classroom
- Illuminating teaching, and the art of going where you want to go
Statistics (top)
Software (top)
- Git Started: A guide to using version control in your projects
- Notebooks For All: Making Jupyter Notebooks More Accessible
- Cloud computing for (observational) astronomy
- Learning more about exoplanet orbits using orbitize!
- Getting Started with LaTeX
- The Problem of Exascale Computing
- Towards better research code and software
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (top)
- Grad Student Unions 101
- #BlackInAstro: Black Women in Astronomy and Physics
- #BlackInAstro: Black Representation in Astro/Physics and the Impact of Discrimination
- #BlackInAstro: How Can We Support Black Astronomers?
- Accountability within Astrobites
- Beyond the Binary: Gender in Physics Education
- Introducing a New Series – Astrobiter: X
- Making your classroom accessible for diverse learners
- Astrobites at SciAccess2021
- Building an Inclusive Astronomy Community
Missions (top)
History (top)
Policy (top)
Other (top)
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