BMI 883 professional skills
  • syllabus
  • schedule
  • assignments
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resources

Articles raised in discussion of implicit bias

  • Wired re Timnit Gebur
  • Nat Comm article on gender in mentoring
  • Hidden contributions to theoretical population genetics
  • “UW Black student journalists frustrated, disappointed after meeting with Blank”
  • Thinking, fast and slow

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)

Posters

  • UW-Madison DesignLab page about research posters
  • Designing conference posters (blog post)

Lab notebooks

  • Data management and laboratory notebooks (ch 8 of Making Moves)

Grants

Open Grants repository

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

Reviewing papers

  • Jeff Leek on Reviewing academic papers

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!

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