resources
Books
- Making the Right Moves (free ebook from HHMI)
- Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
- What they didn’t teach you in graduate school
- A PhD is not enough!
- The CS Asst Prof Handbook
Conference proceedings
- Ten simple rules for writing algorithmic bioinformatics conference papers
- An example of open hostility in the conference review process
Writing papers
- Why academics write so badly
- LSC 560 course on scientific writing
- Jeff Leek on Writing your first academic paper
- The craft of scientific writing by Michael Alley (book)
- Andrew Gelman’s Advice on writing research papers
- Improving your scientific writing (pdf) by Frederick Bushman
- Advice for responding to reviews
Giving talks
- Guidelines on giving talks, Amelia McNamara
- Leek group guide to giving talks
- Karl’s slides on How to give a scientific presentation
- UW-Madison DesignLab page about presentations
- Design principles for virtual presentations (video)
- The craft of scientific presentations by Michael Alley (book)
Elevator pitches
Posters
Lab notebooks
Grants
Reviewing papers
Articles raised in discussion of implicit bias
- NY Times: To make orchestras more diverse, end blind auditions
- Wired re Timnit Gebur
- Nat Comm article on gender in mentoring (retracted)
- Hidden contributions to theoretical population genetics
- “UW Black student journalists frustrated, disappointed after meeting with Blank”
- Thinking, fast and slow (book)
CV templates
- Awesome-CV
- Minimal-Resume (in LaTeX, at Overleaf)
Applying for jobs
Career building
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Beyond the professoriate (available to UW-Madison community)
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Pipers, droppers, nevers, and hoppers: Observed career pathways among STEM PhD scientists