Table of Contents

Career Advice

• Nature: Convert your weaknesses into assets - career advice after/during postdoc
• Neuron: How to Pick a Graduate Advisor
• Chemistry World: How to become a professor
• Awesome-Diversity - A curated list of amazingly awesome articles, websites and resources about diversity in technology
• Brown Professor Michael Littman’s Requests when being asked for letters of reference - these are useful things to provide your reference letter (in my opinion)
• Random Ponderings: How to Write an Academic Teaching Statement
• Early-career funding sources: you will not find what you do not seek - Nature: getting funding as early faculty.
• Nature: Secrets to writing a winning grant
• Advice on giving talks - Clay Scott, ML Professor at U Michigan
• Materials for academic job hunting 1.0
• CS faculty job search: a social experiment
• National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity

Computational Research

• Online Courses:
  • Using Python for Reseach - Harvard - EdX 
  • Calling Bullshit: Data Reasoning in a Digital World - Syllabus (w/ links to readings) for course at Univ of Washington
  • Improving your statistical inferences
  • Open Science MOOC - Online course on doing research

External Resources

• Articles about Research and Phd Advice
• Enhancing Postgraduate Environments - resources for planning a postgraduate career

Suggested Additions

• Essential Skills for Your Career Development
• Essential Skills for Your Career Development Course (suggested by company, FutureLearn)