Resources
Astrophysics and Science
Introduction
Astronomy as a field by Polzin et al. 2023
The circumgalactic medium
The circumgalactic medium (annual review by Tumlinson, Peeples, & Werk)
Galaxies
Galaxy properties GUI by Leung et al.
Data and the way to do the science in the future
Surveys & datasets
SDSSS https://www.sdss.org/
The DESI Legacy Imaging Survey https://www.legacysurvey.org/
DESI https://www.desi.lbl.gov/ (A beautiful map of DESI by Claire Lamman https://www.desi.lbl.gov/2021/08/19/cosmic-cartography/)
unWISE http://unwise.me/
ULLYSES dataset https://archive.stsci.edu/hlsp/ullyses
SPHEREx https://spherex.caltech.edu/
WFIRST https://roman.gsfc.nasa.gov/
Euclid https://www.euclid-ec.org/
eROSITA https://www.mpe.mpg.de/eROSITA
Map of the Universe https://mapoftheuniverse.net/
NOIRLAB https://datalab.noirlab.edu/
SPARCL https://astrosparcl.datalab.noirlab.edu/sparc/ if you want to extract SDSS / DESI spectra
Some useful tools for research
My previous visualization explorations Interactive spectra
Website for checking the visibility of objects on the sky http://catserver.ing.iac.es/staralt/
Very nice talk by Prof. Tien-Hsien Chang about how to be a good scientist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIwHE8A7Amg&ab_channel=EPOASIAA
Online resources for Statistics, data analysis and machine learning
The Shiny app: Bayesian and Frequentist side by side [video]
Python tutorial by CS231n
DESI Python https://github.com/michaelJwilson/desihigh/tree/main/cheatsheets
https://cmasher.readthedocs.io/user/introduction.html
PhD survival
About how to give great talks
About writing
About being productive
Advice for doing science and looking for academic jobs
About education, self-development, viewpoints
https://president.yale.edu/president/speeches/intellectual-humility
https://president.jhu.edu/speeches/2016/05/18/2016-commencement-ceremony/
How-to series
how to read a paper https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020arXiv200612566C/abstract
how to write a paper https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022NatAs...6.1021K/abstract
how to review a paper https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022arXiv220514270N/abstract
how to ask questions at presentation https://zakamska.johnshopkins.edu/COMPUTING/questions_guide.html
how to prepare a presentation https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IuIcrkiYwgwWHaTYtkkGOHFpCAvrXMN7FTv7lI-ittQ/edit?usp=sharing
Others
早點開始專精 vs 多花點時間探索 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6lBtiQZSho&ab_channel=TED
SpaceBook for outreach https://lco.global/spacebook/
"We lead, we don't follow" - Anna Wintour
"Just like moons and like suns
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I'll rise." - Maya Angelou
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