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Jody's Advice to Young Scientists

  • How to read a journal article

  • How to give a class presentation

  • How to review a paper or grant

  • How to give a conference poster presentation

  • How to get good reference letters

  • Jody's reference letter checklist

  • How to write effective scholarship applications

  • Opinionated principles for scientific writing

  • Is your thesis "taking shape"? What shape?... hourglass or candlestick.

  • Error bars: What they tell you and what they don't

Others' Advice

  • Guidebook for New Principal Investigators (includes good advice for writing papers and grants that students and postdocs should read)

  • A CV of Failures, such as this one from Johannes Haushofer (an otherwise successful Princeton prof) is a good way to highlight that even successful people have a lot of (usually hidden) failures. If you're not failing enough. you're not taken enough risks.

  • 10 easy ways to fail a Ph.D.

  • Tutis Vilis's Survival Skills for Graduate Students

  • The importance of stupidity in scientific research

  • Advice from Brian Scholl:

    • How to give a class presentation

  • Ramon Y Cajal's Advice for a Young Investigator is an amazing book

  • Some thoughts on mentors from Stephen Jay Gould

  • Grammar rules that you'll remember:

    • How to use an apostrophe

    • How to use a semicolon

    • When to use "i.e."

Science

How to calculate visual angle and a proper visual angle calculator (usually you want to use “centered” version).

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