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Putting climate change on the syllabus
The history of the Earth and its climate are integral to our cosmic perspective, yet climate change is rarely taught in astronomy courses. Today’s bite discusses why and how it should be on the syllabus.
Deepening Broader Impacts: Mentorship, DEI, and Career Advancement at AAS 245
From Tyler Smith: The National Osterbrock Leadership Program (NOLP) is an initiative that equips early-career astronomers with the tools to integrate mentorship, leadership, and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) into their professional practices. Catch their session at #AAS245.
Guide to ΛCDM
In this Guide, we breakdown one of the most important models in astrophysics: the ΛCDM model of cosmology!
AAS Diversity Committee Wrapped 2024
In the leadup to AAS 245, we asked the AAS diversity committees what they’ve been up to for the past year!
Invisible Tripwires in a Minefield: Could Dark Matter Ignite White Dwarfs?
Could dark matter be responsible for spontaneously exploding white dwarfs? Find out in today’s bite about Ca-rich gap transients!
An Exercise in Satellite Mission Design
Today’s bite is an overview of the science motivation and design for a mid-resolution UV hybrid imaging-spectrograph concept named MAUVE!
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Science Journalism: What I learned at the AAS meeting
Ever consider a career in science journalism? Here’s some advice on the topic, as well as reflections from someone who got to try it out for a few days!
Careers 101 Workshop
The Monday morning workshop “Careers 101” at the AAS Austin meeting provided a room full of graduate students with several important aspects to ponder when considering our potential career paths, as well as some action advice to follow to develop our careers in the direction that we choose. I blogged a summary of the workshop here, and promised to follow up with some more specific details. I invite comments on this post, if you have any suggestions or advice you would like to contribute related to astronomy career paths. The workshop was organized around a panel, introduced and moderated by Alaina Levine (founder of Quantum Success Solutions). Panelists: Dawn Gelino (NASA Exoplanet Science Institute) Adam Kraus (Hubble Postdoctoral Fellow) Edward Ajhar (NSF Program Officer) Anita Cochran (Assistant Director of McDonald Observatory) Joe Bernstein (Argonne National Lab) Advice (in no particular order): 1. Network. Establish your brand, realizing that at every stage of your career you can be the world’s expert on a niche subject at some level. Find confidence in this. 2. Make yourself stand out. If you are in a collaboration (especially if it is a large collaboration), take ownership of some aspect of the science. 3. Prove yourself by earning your own grants and fellowships. Writing proposals is good experience, even as a grad student or postdoc. 4. Think about what will make you happy. Is an R1 research career, tenure track, what you would enjoy doing? Ask others, do some soul searching. Keep in mind that only 1 in 4 of us will get a tenure track position. Whatever you decide, you CAN change your mind…
So you need half a million new collaborators?
Kevin Schawinski of Yale University, co-founder of the Galaxy Zoo project, explains how to use crowd sourcing to make sense of enormous data sets.
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