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Professional Development Depot

Page history last edited by Joshua Pepper 12 years, 2 months ago

This page has been created to provide resources and tips to help us all develop as professional astronomers. Please feel free to add links to websites that you have found useful in your career that would be helpful for everyone.

 


 

General Tips :

PhD is not Enough : A book describing some tips on how to better yourself a scientist in the job market. Having a PhD is not the only thing that you need to land you the job that you are after. The book presents effective skills like giving a good presentation, what to do during your first postdoc, how to write a paper,etc. as food for thought during your academic path. It is a short book that contains a lot of useful information. 

The book is by Peter Feibelman, and is also located in the Vanderbilt Library, and you can request it here.

 

ProfHacker article: An Open Letter to New Graduate Students

Honestly, an excellent piece about the new experience of graduate school.  

From the post: "...the purpose of this post is to make explicit the unwritten rules, norms, and quirks of academia. Not that people will be intentionally keeping information from you; rather, it's very easy to forget what it was like to be in your position and that what we take as self-evident is actually the product of specific departmental-, institutional-, or field-specific contexts."

Oh, make sure to read the comments :)  There are some good additions in there!

 

New York Times Article: Forget What You Know About Good Study Habits

The author distills what current (and past!) learning and educational research tells us about how people learn.  It's a rather short one - only two (web)pages.  I've also uploaded a PDF of it (in case the NYT gets crazy).

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