Resources for Early Career Astronomers

This page is a collection of resources that can be helpful for early-career astronomers & their supporters. Are there resources missing? Please email: floor.broekgaarden[@]cfa.harvard.edu. Feel free to share this website or any of the resources listed below with your network. 

 

 

Links of other websites/groups that collect Astronomy resources

 

Academic writing/reading: 

Making a personal website 

 

Mental Health resources

Applying to PhDs resources:

Applying to Summer schools/internships resources

Postdoc Application resources (note that all advice might be biased, or work for some but not everyone)

see also https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1549572711587819520.html for an unroll of the original twitter thread

First some general overviews on the application process:

Some Astrobetter blogs that I found helpful:

How to find jobs:

  • AAS job register
  • astrophysics job rumor mill from last year and ALSO two and three years ago — some jobs are only offered every 2-3 years
  • websites of depts you’re really interested in
  • talk to people (profs, current postdocs) at places you’re interested in
  • talk to people here who have been postdocs there in the past
  • your advisor
  • ask the grad students who graduated 1-2 years ahead of you
  •  some fields maintain their own lists, for example, Gravitational Waves has: https://t.co/9QQXsFk9IM created by the LIGO collaboration

Writing 

Interview questions:

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USA: 

Netherlands: 

Spain:

 

 

GOOD LUCK ! 

PhD comics

Faculty Application resources

Mentoring networks that early-career researchers can join: 

 

Mentoring resources

Giving talks / public speaking

Tips for making Posters

Career advice 

Finding/attending conferences