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Summer App Space Innovation Speaker Series

Posted on July 21, 2017 by astrocompute

Summer App Space is a paid apprenticeship for LA students and teachers to learn to program while getting paid to do fun space-related projects, and this year they are funding 12 students to attend a six-week school learning to program … Continue reading →

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Research Software Engineers: State of the Nation Report 2017

Posted on April 20, 2017 by astrocompute

This report provides a history of the U. K.’s Research Software Engineers campaign and a snapshot of the state of the U.K.’s Research Software Engineer (RSE) community.  As I understand it, the term was coined at a U. K. Software … Continue reading →

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How Does An Astronomer Become A Data Scientist?

Posted on January 29, 2016 by astrocompute

I have been asked this question by several junior colleagues, so I thought my answer might be valuable to a broader audience. In particular, these young scientists were keen to learn how their skills might be transferable to another field. … Continue reading →

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There Is Life – and A Career – Outside Astronomy!

Posted on February 12, 2015 by astrocompute

This week, I am going to write about a different topic, jobs outside astronomy.  It’s a topic that is, in fact close to my heart, as I spent four illuminating years outside astronomy, working on calibration and quality assurance for … Continue reading →

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How Should Astronomy Pay For Software?

Posted on October 20, 2014 by astrocompute

So asked Frossie Enonomou at ADASS XXIV in Calgary, October 2014.  She gave her view of the answer to this question. It’s not of course about paying for software, but about paying people to write software.  Generally speaking, it’s not … Continue reading →

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Unproceedings from the .Astronomy4 Conference, Heidelberg, July 2012

Posted on January 25, 2013 by astrocompute

Broadly speaking, the .Astronomy conference series aims to bring together astronomers, software engineers and educators who wish to explore how to use “Web 2.0” technologies to serve astronomy and astronomy outreach. The conferences are by design interactive and informal, with … Continue reading →

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Science: It’s Universal

Posted on July 20, 2012 by astrocompute

This video was produced and directed by Amanda Bauer at the .Astronomy 4 meeting. Astronomers giving their thoughts on what science is and why they do it. <p><a href=”http://vimeo.com/45711303″>Science: It’s Universal</a> from <a href=”http://vimeo.com/user611471″>amanda bauer</a> on <a href=”http://vimeo.com”>Vimeo</a&gt;.</p> Read about … Continue reading →

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The Public Library of Science: Open Access Journals, and Advice For Scientists

Posted on June 11, 2012 by astrocompute

The Public Library of Science (PLoS) is a nonprofit open-access scientific publishing project aimed at creating a library of open access journals and other scientific literature under an open content license.  I learned of this organization the other day from … Continue reading →

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Resumes, interviews and getting jobs

Posted on September 6, 2010 by astrocompute

I thought that this week, I might offer some tips on these two essential parts of getting jobs. I have been on both ends of resumes and interviews for many years, but I wanted to give a employer’s perspective on … Continue reading →

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Was It Hard To Return To Astronomy and Research?

Posted on August 28, 2010 by astrocompute

This was the most common question I was asked about my last post. I spent several years in Earth Sciences before returning to astronomy in 2000 as the Manager of the Infrared Science Archive (IRSA) at IPAC, Caltech.  My position … Continue reading →

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