A list of various resources I’ve found useful over the years. Please contact me if you find a broken link or would like to suggest a resource.
Updated October 2025
Getting started: research & publishing
- Graduate school
- ESA Bulletin: Advice on applying to graduate school in ecology and evolutionary biology [link]
- A comprehensive guide by Brian O’Meara on applying to US graduate schools (targeted toward EEB, but broadly applicable to ecology) [link]
- Includes a section specifically for prospective international students [link]
- Peer review
- Peer review should be an honest, but collegial, conversation [link]
- The golden rule of reviewing [link (PDF)]
- Statistics & analysis
- A protocol for conducting and presenting results of regression-type analyses [link (PDF)]
- A protocol for data exploration to avoid common statistical problems [link (PDF)]
- Good enough practices in scientific computing [link]
- Nature Reviews: methods primers [link]
- Scientific writing
- Writing a scientific article: A step-by-step guide for beginners [link]
Useful websites
- College Tables [link]
- A comprehensive filterable database of post-secondary institutions across the US
- DMPTool [link]
- A browser-based tool to write comprehensive data management plans
- Field Inclusive [link]
- An organization focused on supporting and amplifying marginalized voices in natural resources research and academia
- Happy Git and GitHub for the useR [link]
- Detailed instructions for getting started with git and R
- Dr. Zoë Ayres: Mental Health Resources for Academics [link]
- Includes links to Managing Your Mental Health During Your PhD, a book about mental health in academia, and free mental health informational posters
- The Professor Is In [link]
- Resources and opinion pieces about academia and graduate studies
Miscellaneous resources
- Creating a personal academic website [link]
- How to write a student travel award application [link]
- Proteus - Darryl MacKenzie: Statistics how-to and occupancy modeling (YouTube) [link]
- The importance of stupidity in scientific research [link (PDF)]
- Tips for sharing your research online [link]
- Tips for working with the media [link]