Major Revisions
Links to tutorials, infographics, and other resources to help you be the best scientist and academic you can be
Working with Data
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Data Visualization
From the Financial Times Visualization Journalism Team https://github.com/ft-interactive/chart-doctor/tree/master/visual-vocabulary |
Data Carpentry
Course materials and website design have been primarily developed and implemented by Ethan White and Zachary Brym. See the contributors page for more details. http://www.datacarpentry.org/semester-biology/ |
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Digital Data Storage
From Hart et al. (2016) PLoS One http://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005097 |
Compendium of Clean Graphics in R (v2)
From Eric-Jan Wagenmakers and Quentin F. Gronau http://shinyapps.org/apps/RGraphCompendium/index.php?utm_content=buffer631a3&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer |
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Data Organization in Spreadsheets
From Karl Broman & Kara Woo https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00031305.2017.1375989 |
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Science Writing
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10 Simple Rules for Structuring Papers
From Mensh & Kording (2018) PLoS One http://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005619 Summary of Schimel's Writing Science
Developed by Amy Burgin https://burginlab.files.wordpress.com/2016/07/schimel-in-a-sheet-copy.pdf |
The Five Pivotal Paragraphs in a Paper
By Brian McGill for Dynamic Ecology https://dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2016/02/24/the-5-pivotal-paragraphs-in-a-paper/ How to Write a Useful Manuscript Review
From Joshua Schimel's blog-- check out the rest of the blog too https://schimelwritingscience.wordpress.com/2018/04/13/how-to-write-a-useful-manuscript-review/amp/?__twitter_impression=true Also from the British Ecological Society https://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/Publ_Peer-Review-Booklet.pdf Notes on Writing Papers & Theses
From Ken Lertzman, Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America in 1995 http://cef-cfr.ca/uploads/Actualit%E9/Lertzman1.pdf |
Science Communication
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How to Convince When Facts Fail
by Michael Shermer for Scientific American https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-to-convince-someone-when-facts-fail/ aslo this comic by The Oatmeal on the topic http://theoatmeal.com/comics/believe |
The Message Box
Resources that help you create a message box (from Nancy Baron's Escape from the Ivory Tower) http://blog.uvm.edu/mpespeni/files/2015/08/MessageBox.pdf https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/e58a91_38af1e6731ab4b6bb6090fecc9bd4897.pdf |
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The Elevator Pitch for Scientists
Contributed by Uyen to The Postdoc Way http://thepostdocway.com/content/elevator-pitches-scientists-what-when-where-and-how |
Succeeding in Grad School
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Graduate School 101
Course developed by Mohamed Noor https://yang.entomology.ucdavis.edu/assets/pdfs/MohamedNoorGrad101.pdf The Productivity Pipeline
by Erin Marie Furtak for the Chronicle for Higher Education https://www.chronicle.com/article/My-Writing-Productivity/236712 |
Creating a Quarterly Work Plan
from Laura Jurgens https://twitter.com/seacurious/status/1011308556388163584 You're Not Alone- Depression in Grad School
by Dave Reay https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05080-6 |
Making a Career in Science
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Writing a Postdoc Cover Letter
by Bill Sullivan http://www.asbmb.org/asbmbtoday/asbmbtoday_article.aspx?id=48927 |
