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- AllBookstores.com ⇒
- How to Get into Grad School [⇓; 1999 but still great]
- Study Guides & Strategies ⇒
- The Free Dictionary ⇒
General Info for Grad Students
- No, You’re Not An Impostor ⇒
- How to Succeed in Graduate School ⇒
- Modest Advice for Graduate Students ⇒
- The Importance of Stupidity in Scientific Research ⇓
- So many research scientists, so few openings as professors ⇒
Preparing Research
- Chamberlin (1890) ⇓ (required reading)
- Platt (1964) Strong inference ⇓ (required reading)
- Increasing Levels of Inference ⇓ (required reading)
- Writing good questions ⇒
- The Hurdles Model of getting published ⇒
- A suggestion for defenses ⇓
A Series of Ten Simple Rules [all ⇒]
- …to Get Grants
- …for Making Good Oral Presentations
- …for a Good Poster Presentation
- …for Writing Science [note features that boost citations]
- …to Get Published
Writing
- Co-authorship Rules ⇓ (Adopted in our lab; fits ICMJE guidelines)
- The 5 pivotal paragraphs in a paper ⇒ (great advice)
- How to Write Backwards ⇓ (great advice)
- How to write consistently boring scientific literature ⇓
- The science of scientific writing ⇓
- Where should I send it? ⇒
- Publication Rejection ⇓
Math & Statistics [all ⇒]
- R and RStudio
- cowplot & ggplot2 & Tufte in R
- Data Analysis Checklist @ simplystats.org and as a pdf
- Online Stats textbook (StatSoft)
- StatsPages.org – online stats tools
- SOS Math
- Math.com
Employment [all ⇒]