phd-advice

A collection of advisory blogs and other resources that I have found useful.

Giving Research Talks:

• How to give a great research talk video - Simon Peyton Jones
• How to give a good research talk slides - Stephanie Weirich
• A small guide to giving presentations slides - Markus Püschel
• 10 tips for academic talks blog - Matt Might

Academic Writing:

• How to write a great research paper video - Simon Peyton Jones
• Talk on the book “Sense of Style” video - Steven Pinker
• Another talk on the book “Sense of Style” video - Steven Pinker
• Storytelling 101: Writing Tips for Researchers blog - Nick Feamster
• Stylish Academic Writing video - Helen Sword
• Scientific Writing video - Judy Swan
• Shortening papers to fit page limits blog - Devi Parikh
• Novelist’s tips on writing a great scientific paper blog
• Write to Express, Not to Impress blog - Ali Mese
• Advice for Students blog and Guide for Scholarly Writing blog - Shomir Wilson.
• Tweet tweet - Sam Greydanus
• Some books:
  • The elements of style - Strunk and White
  • Sense of Style - Steven Pinker
  • On Writing Well - William Zinsser

Miscellaneous (uncategorized) PhD/Research Resources:

• How to be a successful PhD Student doc - Mark Dredze, Hanna M. Wallach
• Increasing Well-being in academia blog - Isabelle Augenstein
• Advice for Research Students website - Jason Eisner
• Advice for short-term ml research projects blog - Tim Rocktaschel
• How to Do Great Research website - Nick Feamster and Alex Gray
• 10 Tips for Research and a PhD blog - Sebastian Ruder
• An Opinionated Guide to ML Research blog - John Schulman
• You and Your Research blog - Richard Hamming
• Principles of Effective Research blog - Michael Nielsen
• How to send and reply to email blog - Matt Might
• Small Guide to Making Nice Tables slides - Markus Püschel

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• https://github.com/lehgtrung/research-advice
• https://github.com/imalisamar/awesome-phd
• https://github.com/smilli/research-advice
• https://github.com/macoj/phd