I have a son who's just finished his first year as a physics undergrad. As you can imagine, I occasionally pass along a link or two to him pointing to stuff on the web I think he might find particularly interesting or useful. Thinking on that fact, I surmised that perhaps other science students might find those links interesting or useful as well. Hence, this series of posts here on the blog.
By necessity and circumstance, the items I've chosen will be influenced by my son's choice of major and my own interest in the usefulness of computational approaches to science and of social media for outreach and professional development.
- 15 Principles for Data Scientists
- Behind the Greatest Experiments: Basic Research
- How to Attend a Conference
- Is math real?
- How To Use Math To Crush Your Friends At Monopoly Like You've Never Done Before
- 10 truths a supervisor will never tell you (how to choose a PhD supervisor)
- Tutorial 16: giving good talks (in four parts)
- Science Is Not Solitary
- Think Like a Physicist
- ‘Is the BA a ticket to nowhere?’ No. Employers want independent, critical thinking workers
- Be employable, study philosophy
The previous posts in this series are here, here, here, here, here and here.
Please feel free to add your own suggestions in the comments.