Collection of random things
Suggested readings
- For Open Access and In Solidarity with Library Genesis and Sci-Hub. Find here some historical and sociological context about Open Access policies in academic publishing.
Soft skills
- How to Make Sure Your Talk Doesn't Suck: David Tong's Slides
- How to Ask Questions the Smart Way: Advices from E. S. Raymond and R. Moen (not an endorsement of the author's opinions)
History of science
- Tycho Brahe's dataset on Mars (less than 400 kb), which lead Kepler to formulate his laws.
- R. Kippenhahn on the history of stellar physics: Interview transcript
Translations
I translated (from French to English) this guide for amateur astronomers to get started in spectroscopy written by François Cochard, published by EPD Science.
Searchable resources for astrophysics
- Online talks (List mantained by David Hendriks)
- Textbooks and notes collected by astroteaching
Computational tools
- iPython notebooks within Emacs
- My Emacs configuration
- Tool to compare nested MESA inlists compare workdir MESA
- Make your papers fully reproducible with showyourwork
This website
I built this using org-export-html using the tutorial from system
crafters and the website of Amery Gration for guidance and
inspiration.