给研究生和博士后的资源

ADVICE ON BEING A GRADUATE STUDENT

John Thompson’s On Being a Successful Student in the Sciences – REQUIRED READING (PDF) 

Steve Stearns classic “Modest Advice” article (PDF)

Ray Huey’s reply to the Stearns article (PDF)

Phil Acre’s Networking on the Network: a guide to professional skills for PhD students (HTML)

Isaak and Hubert’s BioScience article, Catalyzing the transition from student to scientist (PDF)

Carmen Wong’s Preparing for the field season in BESA (PDF)

NSF DDIGS AND GRANT WRITING

David Skelly’s 2003 BESA article on writing a successful DDIG (PDF)

Spencer and Leonie’s observations of successful and unsuccessful DDIGs (PDF)

Link to advice on “Broader Impacts” from NSF itself (PDF)

Deneb Karentz’s 2006 Tips for proposal writing (PDF) 

Marissa Backett’s list of funding agencies for ecologists (HTML) 

ADVICE ON GETTING A FACULTY JOB OR OTHER KINDS OF JOBS

Faculty jobs:

Anurag Agrawal’s excellent guide (PDF)

Armin Moczek’s equally excellent guide (PDF) 

Brian Inouye et al.’s interview guide (2006 BESA), mostly questions to ask during interviews (PDF)

Alan Tessier’s thoughts on the socio-intellectual side of interviewing (PDF)

Advice on keeping your faculty job from Phil Stoddard at FIU (PDF)

Spencer and Leonie’s advice on “Making the Shortlist” (PDF) 

Bradbury et al.’s “B&B Primer on first job haggling  (PDF) 

HHMI’s Making the right moves: a practical guide for scientific management for post-docs and new faculty (PDF)

An NCEAS compilation on early career advice (PDF) 

So many others on Marissa Baskett’s fantastic page – you must visit it (HMTL) 

Postdocs:

Bourne and Friedberg’s 10 Simple rules for selecting a post-doc (PDF)

HHMI’s Making the right moves: a practical guide for scientific management for post-docs and new faculty (PDF)   

General:

Thoughts on academic vs. other types of jobs for PhDs (PDF)

Phil Acre’s Networking on the Network: a guide to professional skills for PhD students (HTML)

HHMI’s Making the right moves: a practical guide for scientific management for post-docs and new faculty (PDF)  

ADVICE ON GOOD WRITING

Ken Lertzman’s Notes on writing papers and theses (PDF)

Chris Harley et al.’s 2004 Scientific writing and publishing — a guide for students in Bull. Ecol. Soc. Amer. (PDF)

A how-to guide on scientific writing from Bates College (HTML)

L.B. Railsback’s Comments on good writing and editing, from a geological perspective (HTML)

Good writing from William Wells in JCB (PDF)

Steve Ellner’s notes on successful theory papers (PDF)

Greg Demas’ Elements of style in science (PDF)

Kaj Sand-Jensen’s “How to write consistently boring scientific literature” in Oikos (PDF) 

George Orwell’s classic on politics and the English language (PDF)  

ADVICE ON GOOD TALKS AND POSTERS

Talks

Lynda Delph and Curt Lively’s (Indiana U) Notes for giving good talks (PDF) 

Jamie Smith, Judith Myers, and Isla Myer Smith’s 2007 Tips for effective communication in Ecology, in Bull. Ecol. Soc. Amer. (PDF)

Lawrences Bragg’s 1966 The art of talkiing about science in Science (PDF)

Martin Köchy’s 2004 Things That Can Go Wrong with Powerpoint Presentations in Bull. Ecol. Soc. Amer. (PDF)

John Cairns Jr.’s 1989 Speaking at length in BioScience (PDF)

Simon L. Peyton Jones et al.’s 1993 How to give a good research talk (PDF)

Mike Dahlin’s 2006 Giving a conference talk (PDF)

Simon Pickett et al.’s 1991 Strategy and checklist for effective scientific talks in Bull. Ecol. Soc. Amer. (PDF)

Thomas Wolcott’s Mortal sins in oral presentations or How to give a talk if you never want to talk again (HTML)

The Oceanographic Society’s 2005 “Scientifically Speaking - Tips for Preparing and Delivering Scientific Talks and Using Visual Aids” (HTML)

Melissa Hine’s Scientific presentation skills (PDF)

A list of more resources selected by the DIALOG group (HTML)

And even more resources on Marissa Baskett’s page (HTML) 

Posters

Thomas Wolcott’s Mortal sins in poster presentations or How to give a poster no one remembers (HTML)

Steven Block’s 1996 Do’s and dont’s of poster presentation in Biophysical Journal (PDF)

Collin Purrington’s Advice on designing scientific posters (HTML)

GUIDES/THOUGHTS ON AUTHORSHIP

Carlos Galindo-Leal’s article in the Bulletin of the ESA (PDF)

Jake Weltzin et al.’s 2006 article on authorship in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment (PDF)

Kathy Barker’s 2002 Accountability and authorship in Science (HMTL)

 TEACHING

Karen Wilson and Stephanie Hampton’s 2004 Ecology teaching tips for first-year professors in Bull. Ecol. Soc. Amer. (PDF) 

OTHER PEOPLE’S PAGES FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS

Marissa Baskett’s (UCSD) fabulous resource page – you must visit this page (HTML)

Dan Horn’s warehouse of general advice from Ann Arbor – some targeted more for Michigan students (HTML)

Ronald T. Azuma’s guide for computer science grads (still great stuff for Biologists) (HTML)