General Life Advice
Science
Doing the research
- The Importance of Stupidity in Scientific Research — Martin Schwartz
- Advice for a Young Investigator — book by Nobel scientist Santiago Ramón y Cajal
- How to do Research — MIT AI Lab
Navigating the PhD
- The Illustrated Guide to a Ph.D.
- So long, and thanks for the Ph.D.!
- A PhD Is Not Enough!: A Guide to Survival in Science
Scientific and Technical Writing
Scientific publications
- The Art of Writing Science — Kevin Plaxco
- Writing a Paper — George Whitesides
- Scientific Writing and Publishing — Nature masterclass
Software documentation
Presentations / Visual appeal
- BioRender — well-designed biology icons and templates
- Canva — templates for presentation and charts with pizzazz
- Prezi — map-like presentation of slides (e.g. zoom, rotate, glide to different slides)
- Visme — nice templates for presentations
- Design for an audience — design advice from a NY Times graphics editor
Patent Law / Technology Transfer
- A career in patent law
- Collection of patent law infographics
- Glossary of patent law terms and some flowcharts
- Flowcharts to compare proceedings at the USPTO including:
- Ex parte reexamination
- Inter partes review
- Reissue
- Certificate of correction
- Technology Transfer: From the Research Bench to Commercialization: Part 1: Intellectual Property Rights—Basics of Patents and Copyrights
Computational Chemistry
- Hit and lead generation: beyond high-throughput screening — a guide to drug discovery
- Fixed-Charge Atomistic Force Fields for Molecular Dynamics Simulations in the Condensed Phase: An Overview — an introduction to molecular dynamics
- Glossary of statistical mechanics terms
- Numbers in molecular modeling
- Lesser known Vim tips
Christianity + Science
- The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism
- The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief
Microsoft Office Automation
Last updated: June 12, 2021