Advice
The "Surprisingly Helpful" tab
in Academia Obscura has excellent grad school and writing advice.
Awesome Blogs
There are an amazing amount of excellent science blogs out there.
Despite writing one I'm not a huge blog reader unless I'm looking
for something specific, so I've done most of my blog-hunting
for this page from scratch. I was surprised to see that
commercial or commercial-like PhD blogs usually pop up when you
search for posts; I far prefer
blogs where you know who the author is, so I've tended to include
more of those. Happy reading!
- A collection of blog posts
from PhD students mainly at the
University of Warwick with a nice tone
- A list
of PhD student blogs to check out
- Another collection of posts from
PhD students, nicely curated
- Mallory Ladd has an excellent
blog, especially with regards to
help on the NSF graduate application
- Erin C. McKiernan's blog tackles
a lot of different topics like neuroscience, open access, open science, and women in science
- Neil Saunders's blog
is an example of a more data-oriented blog; less about the
experience of being a PhD student and more about projects.
This type of blog is quite fun as well and you're more likely
to encounter them when searching for resolving bugs and
getting sidetracked.
- A collection of blogs/websites analyzing published studies! These are in neuroscience.
- Mind Hacks, "Neuroscience and psychology news and views."
- Neuroskeptic
- The Neurocritic, "Deconstructing the most sensationalistic
recent findings in Human Brain Imaging, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Psychopharmacology"
- BrainFacts.org, "Opinion and conversation about what’s new, notable, or inspiring in neuroscience."
- Neurophilosophy from the Guardian
- The Scicurious Brain, "The Good, Bad, and Weird in Physiology and Neuroscience"
- I'm intrigued by the list
of blogs here on "Analytics, Big Data, Data Mining, Data Science, Machine Learning"
but haven't had a chance to do more than a brief glance through. More
science and data blogs!
- Targeted blog post on anxiety in science!
- Academia Obscura
has blog posts on all the academic papers published on
Star Wars, as well as evaluations of citation programs. They're great.
- Here's the Churchland Lab blog,
a great example of a blog written by a PI about lab activities. The Fairhall Lab blog is great as well;
another is from the Voytek Lab
- More blogs! Study Hacks blog, tenure-track blog, graduate student blog
- It can fun to follow scientists on their websites or Twitter- Steven Pinker
posts on Twitter and has lectures on his website,
for example. Just found this PhD student rocking on: @flourneuro.
Prof. Tania Lombrozo does pop sci: @tanialombrozo!
- WHOA there are a lot of science blogs at Scientopia
- This was another blog I found while searching for specific advice-
FemaleScienceProfessor
was very useful. And it linked to a whole bunch of other female professor blogs!
FemaleComputerScientist,
PhD-ing in industry,
xkyademiqz,
zinnemin's random thoughts,
Psycgirl,
#HOPEJAHRENSURECANWRITE,
inBetween,
This is what a computer scientist looks like
