Helpful Tips for Trainees - cogcommscience-lab/lab-docs GitHub Wiki

UCD Opportunities

• Envision UC Davis: The program sponsors California senior undergraduates and recent bachelor's degree grads for an action-packed weekend on the Davis campus, allowing them to envision their future as a graduate student at UC Davis
• McNair Scholars Program: The McNair Scholars Program is designed to prepare undergraduate students for doctoral studies through involvement in research and other scholarly activities
• ASPIRE Program: The ASPIRE program offers a select group of UC Davis undergraduate students a unique opportunity to gain hands-on experience conducting research under the mentorship of world-renowned UC Davis faculty

Inclusion and Diversity

• Freeman, 2018: LGBTQ scientists are still left out
• Metcalf, 2018: Creating a stronger STEM community by addressing our bias
• Cikara, Falk, Samanez-Larkin, Yee: Concrete Steps for Recruiting, Supporting, and Advancing Underrepresented Minoritized Scientists
• UCD DEI: Resources for Racial Trauma
• Lewis et al., 2020: Tips for easing the service burden on scientists from underrepresented groups
• Clark & Hurd, 2020: Addressing racism and disparities in the biomedical sciences
• Subbaraman, 2020: How #BlackInTheIvory put a spotlight on racism in academia
• Gewin, 2020: What Black scientists want from colleagues and their institutions
• Gewin, 2021: The hashtags that brought Black scientists together
• Podcast: The Science of Effective Mentoring in STEMM

Research Ethics and Misconduct

• Gunsalus & Robinson, 2018: Nine pitfalls of research misconduct
• FiveThirtyEight Demonstration on How p-hacking works: Hack Your Way To Scientific Glory
• OSU Policies on Research Misconduct: Office of Research Compliance: Research Misconduct
• Chivers, 2019: Does psychology have a conflict-of-interest problem?

How to Peer-Review

• Stiller-Reeve, 2018: How to write a thorough peer review
• Puce, 2019: On civility & criticism in science
• Wilcox, 2019: Rude paper reviews are pervasive and sometimes harmful, study finds
• Salmi & Blease: A step-by-step guide to peer review: a template for patients and novice reviewers
• Haroz, 2022: Reviewing Tip: The 10-Minute Data Check

Grad School and Job Market Advice

• Barres, 2013: How to pick a graduate advisor
• Alon, 2009: How To Choose a Good Scientific Problem
• Langin, 2019: What matters in a Ph.D. adviser? Here’s what the research says
• Ruben, 2015: How not to apply to grad school
• Kelsky, 2015: The professor is in: The essential guide to turning your PhD into a job
• Van Bavel: Tips for writing an outstanding research statement
• Science Magazine: Letters to young scientists column
• Van Bavel et al., 2018: Applying for a Ph.D.? These 10 tips can help you succeed
• Van Bavel et al., 2019: In the tough academic job market, two principles can help you maximize your chances
• Taylor, 2018: Twenty things I wish I’d known when I started my PhD
• Toor, 2019: 10 Tips to Help You ‘Win’ at Graduate School
• Niv: PNI/PSY Graduate Program Application Tips
• Kim et al, 2021: Networking 101 for Graduate Students: Building a Bigger Table
• Gupta & Waismel-Manor, 2006: Network in Progress: A Conference Primer for Graduate Students
• Duke Emerging Leaders Institute: Time Management Resources for Graduate Students and Postdocs

Lab Life

• Norris et al., 2018: Health tips for research groups
• Fyshe, 2018: How to start a research lab
• Maestre, 2018: Seven steps towards health and happiness in the lab
• Maestre, 2019: Ten simple rules towards healthier research labs
• Hund et al., 2018: Transforming mentorship in STEM by training scientists to be better leaders
• Aly, 2018: The key to a happy lab life is in the manual

Tips for Writing

• Mensh & Kording, 2017: Ten simple rules for structuring papers
• Nature: How to construct a Nature summary paragraph
• Robb, 2018: How to Get Fresh Perspective on a Project You’re Sick Of
• Savage & Yeh, 2019: Novelist Cormac McCarthy’s tips on how to write a great science paper
• Kallestinova, 2011: How to Write Your First Research Paper
• Lab: Creating Outlines
• Ecarnot et al, 2015: Writing a scientific article: A step-by-step guide for beginners
• Wagenmakers, 2009: Teaching Graduate Students How to Write Clearly

Tips for Writing Grants

• Lewis et al., 2019: Help funders help you: Five tips for writing effective funding applications

Tips for Presentations and Posters

• Smith, 2000: How not to give a presentation
• Erren & Bourne, 2007: Ten Simple Rules for a Good Poster Presentation
• Lewis, Gruber, Van Bavel, & Somerville, 2019: Three tips for giving a great research talk
• NYU: How to Create a Research Poster
• Colin Purrington: Designing Conference Posters
• Bloom: How to give a better-than-average talk

Where to Print a Poster at UCD

• First Choice: LSIT Poster Printing
  • 24 hour turnaround
  • Prints on 42 inch poster paper
  • Costs $33
  • Poster paper is of low-quality
• Second Choice: Repo Graphics
  • 5-day turnaround
  • Unknown paper size
  • Unknown cost (but probably high)
  • Unknown quality (but probably high)
• URC: Undergraduate Research Center
  • 5-day turnaround
  • Prints on 36 inch poster paper
  • Free!
  • High quality

NB: For all posters, you'll need a recharge account. Ask Richard.

Tips for Programming

• Bilschak, Davenport, & Wilson, 2016: A Quick Introduction to Version Control with Git and GitHub
• Gau: Crash course on BIDS, Docker, and Git/GitHub
• Chang: Introduction to fMRI data analysis - includes notebooks
• Healy: The Plain Person’s Guide to Plain Text Social Science
• Harvard: CS50: Introduction to Computer Science

Tips for Data

• Nowogrodzki, 2020: Eleven tips for working with large data sets

Philosophy of Science

• Schwartz, 2008: The importance of stupidity in scientific research
• Cacioppo, 2008: A letter to young scientists

Mental Health

• Evans et al., 2018: Evidence for a mental health crisis in graduate education
• Pain, 2017: Ph.D. students face significant mental health challenges
• Furnell, 2017: Breaking the silence around mental health
• Services at OSU: Office of Student Life: Student Advocacy Center
• Björnmalm, 2019: In academia, hard work is expected—but taking a break is effort well spent, too
• UC Davis: Aggie Mental Health

fMRI Concerns

• Bandettini, 2018: Twenty-Six Controversies and Challenges in fMRI

Computational Concerns

• Riley, 2019: Three pitfalls to avoid in machine learning
• Whitaker, nd: Code review
• Jane, nd: Code Review GitHub

Crash Course on Different Methods

• Jordan, 1987: An Introduction to Linear Algebra in Parallel Distributed Processing
• Fried & Robinaugh, 2019: Improving psychological science by formalizing psychological theories: The value of computational modeling
• Markiewicz, 2019: Contemporary Python Packaging
• Bajada & Lipp, 2019: OHBM ONDEMAND HOW-TO: DIFFUSION MRI
• Bartlett, 2021: Introduction to Power Analysis
• Devlin, 2022: Designing and Analysing fMRI Experiments
• Luck: Virtual ERP Boot Camp: Introduction to ERPs
• Mumford: fMRI End of Summer Cram Session
• Saxe: fMRI Bootcamp
• Lindquist & Wager: Principles of fMRI
• Shaw & Flake: MLM and SEM
• Mueller: Distance, Similarity, and Multidimensional Scaling, Self-Organizing Maps
• Pakzad: Reading & Editing DICOM Metadata w/ Python

Open Science Resources

• Open Neuro Documentation: https://docs.openneuro.org/

Starting As A New Assistant Prof

• Lebo, 2016: Managing Your Research Pipeline
• Nagpal, 2013: The Awesomest 7-Year Postdoc or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Tenure-Track Faculty Life
• Aguiar, 2022: Rethinking Research Assessment for the Greater Good: Findings from the RPT Project
• Pike et al., 2022: 10 Simple Rules for a Supportive Laboratory Environment

Thanks to RILAB for their lab-docs repo, on which this wiki was modeled.