General Thoughts on Being a Grad Student

• Mohammad Nour’s Grad101 Guide for First Year Students

Peer Review

• Guidelines for constructive peer review. Ten rules for reviewing manuscripts.

Scientific Presentations

• Designing PowerPoint slides for scientific presentation. A short video outlining key principles for designing effective PowerPoint slides using examples from science presentations.

Networking, CVs and Selling Oneself

• Tweet your Science. A guide to twitter and information on how scientists are using twitter.
• Science Careers: Making the Most of a Conference. Tips on choosing conferences to attend and meeting people once you get there.

Organizational tools

• Reference managers: Mendeley, Papers, Zotero, Endnote (for current Emory students: link). Comparison of reference managers
• To-do lists, notes: Evernote, Trello, Toggl (time tracker)
• PDF reading: GoodReader (iOS app), iAnnotate (iOS app), LiquidText (iOS app)