Resources

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 August 2026

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]
• Presenting your work
  • How to make your first scientific poster [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]