Bookmarks

Here are some useful resources that I have encountered in my life in academia so far. I have found most, if not all, of them through others, so full credit goes to them for discovering these.

For students:

• GRE requirements and admission fees for US/Canadian Astronomy and Physics Programs
• Information about the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (GRFP): the basics, some guidelines, and some examples of successful essays.
• Astrobites: journal articles in a digestible format. You can also submit your own research!
• AstroSites: contains a tutorial to build a website for yourself!
• AstroBetter Talk Series for Early Career Astronomers: list of talk series that early-career astronomers can participate in for networking.
• AstroTeaching: resources for teaching astrophysics.

Visualizations:

• AstroAnimations
• DSN Now
• Exoplanet Travel Bureau
• Gaia’s Stellar Family Portrait: explore the properties of over 1 billion stars in our Galaxy, and learn about how color-magnitude diagrams can be used to determine a star’s position in its life cycle.
• NASA Eyes on Exoplanets
• NASA free ebooks
• NRAO’s Cosmic Coloring Compositor: utilize the entire electromagnetic spectrum to make an awesome image of your favorite galaxy.
• NRAO’s Interferometry Explained: explore how the Very Large Array and ALMA gather data with their many antennae.
• NRAO’s Milky Way Explorer: explore the Milky Way with NRAO astronomers.
• NRAO Mission Control: see what the Very Large Array and ALMA are observing right now!
• Our galactic neighborhood: a really beautiful interactive graphic for exploring some well-known local dwarf galaxies.
• Quantum made simple: great visualizations of abstract quantum mechanics concepts and experiments.

Reading:

• The Technology of Radio Astronomy

Tools:

• Coblis (color blindness simulator): useful for checking if figures in your papers or talks are able to be easily understood by those with low or no color vision.
• Implicit bias tests: learning about your own unconscious biases is the first step in changing them.
• Propagation of uncertainties: I always always have to check this when propagating uncertainties.