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So... I'm a TED Fellow
[](http://www.ted.com/) Iâm happy to announce that I am one of the 2014 TED Fellows. Itâs a fantastic opportunity and an awesome group to be a part of - youâ¦
Astronomy in Everyday Life
Astronomers are sometimes asked to defend public funding of their work. Itâs difficult to answer because I really do think that there are lots of things weâ¦
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Astronomy and Computing: A New Journal
A new journal begins today, Astronomy and Computing, covering the intersection of astronomy, computer science and information technology. This journal isâ¦
More on Men and Women in Astronomy
The response my previous blog post about gender bias took me by surprise. Apparently if you talk about this stuff openly, people have a lot to say. More thanâ¦
Searching for Planets in the Pleiades
[](https://media.orbitingfrog.com/uploads/wp-migrated/2013/06/m45-pleiades-jack-newton.jpg) Image Credit: Jack Newton There's a cool paper on arXiv today inâ¦
Geocoding the Literature
I (or rather my computer) spent most of this morning geocoding the database of astronomical papers that I scraped from NASA ADS a while back. Iâve got about aâ¦
ADS Labs
This is a great, new beta tool for exploring the ADS database and finding papers about topics, people or themes. ADS Labs