An eclectic assortment of tools to assist the scientific endeavor

Inspiration

• How a genius thinks

Writing 

• 11 Principles (Strunk & White)
• 10 top writing tips and the psychology behind them 
• How to write a great journal article – act like a fiction author
• Conservation Bytes: How to write a scientific paper 
• The 5 pivotal paragraphs in a (scientific) paper
• Some well-known tricks for clear writing
• The first critic is you: Editing your own work
• Steven Pinker: “you should pretend that you, the writer, see something in the world that’s interesting, and that you’re directing the attention of your reader to that thing.”
• Practical Science Communication Strategies for Graduate Students (paper online)
• Guide to writing abstracts (from Nature)
• Structuring and writing academic papers (from Elsevier)
• Cormac McCarthy’s tips on how to write a great science paper

Analytics & Visualization

• R software
• Data Viz Gallery 
• D3 Gallery

Communicating Broadly

• From SESYNC: Communications & Broader Engagement Toolkit
• Giving Talks: Boosting the signal in scientific talks @Nature

Getting through graduate school

• A grad school survival guide (Science)
• Grants: “How not to get a DDRI award” (useful in general!)