Astronomer’s Handbook

I will be the first to admit that while I may have learned a lot in my life so far as a professional astronomer, I still have much more to learn. And I’m fairly certain I’m not alone. There’s a lot which you don’t really get taught as a PhD student, and so when you finally become a postdoc, you sometimes feel a little bit like this:

So I’m trying to compile a bunch of things which you probably should know to survive as an astronomer (or, for that matter, a scientist) in the real world.

Be careful out there…

• Installing IRAF on Mac OS X (out of date)
• How to Write a Research Proposal
• How to Construct a Hypothesis
• About Peer Review
• What is Occam’s Razor?
• “The Lost Artist”
• The Geoff Marcy Affair: What we can Learn
• 8 Science Journalism Clichés