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What is #PhDnoobies?

I started PhDnoobies as a hashtag on Twitter in 2016. #PhDnoobies provide great tips for improvement and empowering in this lifestyle. . . Science.

Students, PhDs, enthusiasts in Science communication and so on are welcome to follow this hashtag and joining this community.

Here, you will find several posts in key sections. Enjoy!

David A. Paz Garcia

Productivity

**** The Six Morning Routines that Will Make You Happier, Healthier and More Productive

**** Time Blocking: Improve your focus and get more meaningful work done

**** How to Be More Productive Without Putting in Extra Hours

**** Unique Productivity Tips: How to Be More Productive with Less Effort (Video)

7 hábitos de la gente altamente efectiva (Video)

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Finding the Best Advisor

***** Why good leaders make you feel safe

**** To be a great leader, you need to start by leading yourself (Video)

**** What makes a great PhD supervisor? (Video)

**** Not all PhD supervisors are natural mentors – some need training

**** Meet the supervisors who helped to shape four scientist' careers

**** The 5 types of mentors you need in your live

**** A message for mentors from dissatisfied graduate students

**** Four lessons for being a great mentor to undergrads

Great mentoring is key for the next generation of scientists

The best supervisor

Younger scientists need better support

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PhD life

***** What is a PhD? Advice for PhD students

**** Videos for doctoral students

**** Careers in ecology: a fine-scale investigation of national data from the U.S. survey of doctorate recipients (Paper)

**** Failing is a key part of PhD success

**** A fieldwork flop needn’t be a disaster

**** Stories and stats for insight into the lives of PhD-holders with non-academic jobs

**** How to keep a lab notebook

**** 10 ways to make the most of your time as a PhD student

**** Great advice: Do novel, interesting things

Image doctoring must be halted (Paper)

The Importance Of Stupidity In Scientific Research (Paper)

Why it might be a good time to start a career in science

Twenty things I wish I'd known when I started my PhD

How to survive your PhD

Don't miss your PhD deadline

How to write your Ph.D. thesis

Hacer un doctorado en el Extranjero

PhD students should have science-communication committee members

"I'll work on it over the weekend": hight workload and other pressures faced by early-career researchers

What should I call my professor?

Five reasons to do an internship during our phD programme

El doctorado perjudica seriamente la salud mental: uno de cada tres estudiantes está en riesgo

Am I really a scientist?

Am I a Microbiologist?: Alicia Reigel Presents at ASM

Great tips on making impact during PhD

Six project-management tips for your PhD

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Data management

***** Ten simple rules for biologist learning to program (Paper)

***** How to (seriously) read a scientific paper

Ten simple rules for writing and sharing computational analyses in Jupyter Notebooks (Paper)

Speeding Ups Systematic Reviews: This New Method for Automated Keyword Selection Will Save Your Time (Webinar)

Best Practices for Data Science Project Workflows and File Organization

Tips for effective literature searching and keeping up with new publications

How and why you should manage your research data: a guide for researchers

Tips for effective literature searching and keeping up with new publications

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Image Design and Tables

Formatting tables and figures in your research paper

True colors of oceanography: Guidelines for effective and accurate colormap section

Clear off the Tables

Data looks better naked

Tables with style

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Statistics & R

***** Statistics for Biologists (Collection)

***** RStatistics Resources (Collection)

***** A ggplot2 Tutorial for Beautiful Plotting in R (Collection)

***** An Introduction to Hierarchical Modeling (Vizualization)

**** Comparing means in R (Collection)

**** Ten quick tips for effective dimensionality reduction (Paper)

**** Ten common statistical mistakes to watch out for when writing or reviewing a manuscript (Paper)

**** RStudio Webinars (webinar)

Logarithmic scales in ecological data presentation may cause misinterpretation (Paper)

Using Biological Insight and Pragmatism When Thinking about Pseudoreplication (Paper)

Amazing interactive 3D scatter plots #R software and data visualization (Vizualization)

Five ways to fix statistics

Guía definitiva para encontrar la prueba estadísitca que buscas

Yet Another PCA Explenation

Stadistical test and assumptions

PCA and PCoA explained

Simple Guide for Selecting Statistical Tests When Comparing Groups

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Bioinformatics

The ten commandments for learning how to code

The three technologies bioinformaticians need to be using right now

10 Steps to Success in Bioinformatics

A Beginner's Guide to Bioinformatics - part I

A Beginner's Guide to Bioinformatics - part II

I want to learn bioinformatics! A guide for complete beginners.

Top GitHub best practices guide

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Conferences

**** 10 Tips for grad students to make the most of a scientific conference

An introver's guite to networking at conferences

How To Work the Conference (Part One)

How to Work the Conference (Part Two)

How to Work the Conference (Part Three)

How to write a killer conference abstract: The first step towards an engaging presentation

Seven steps to make travel to scientific conferences more sustainable

Conference attendance boost authorship opportunities

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Conferences: Poster

***** How to design and award-winning conference poster

**** How to create a better research poster in less time (Video)

Desinging effective research poster

Conference presentations: Lead the poster parade

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Conferences: Presentations

***** Designing effective scientific presentations (Video)

***** 8 Presentation openers that grab your audience from the get-go (Video)

***** Assembly Buildings Conference Centre-A Virtual Visit Tour

**** 12 pieces of advice for giving talks that have impact (Video)

**** Answering questions after your presentation

Effective Presentations

Ways to give an effective seminar about your research project

Presence, Structure, Performance: 5 Tips to Improve Your Public Speaking

Five 'secrets' you always wanted to know about public speaking (but were afraid to ask)

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Science Communication

***** Talk nerdy to me (Video)

***** Selling without selling out: How to communicate your science (Video)

***** Never Ask These 5 Stupid Questions (Video)

***** English Communication for Scientists

***** Open science training courses (Collection)

**** Using narratives and storytelling to communicate science with nonexpert audiences (Paper)

**** Practices and promises of Facebook for science outreach: Becoming a "Nerd of trust" (Paper)

**** Why researchers should use social media (Video)

**** All in three: how to pitch your PhD in 180 seconds

**** SELF-GUIDED CLASSES: Poster, Video

**** All About Molecular Biology

**** How I learned to teach like a scientist

Authors. Tips for promoting your research (Collection)

Twitter Predicts Citation Rates of Ecological Research (Paper)

New class for September 2019: Create science videos with your smartphone

10 clever tips for promoting your research online

How to write a blogpost from your journal article

Why you should use Twitter during your Ph

Twitter in The University: How Using Twitter Can Benefit Students and Early Career Researchers

A PhD student guide to Twitter

Communicating science to policymakers: six strategies for success

How to write a blogpost from your journal article in eleven easy steps

9 Tips For Communicating Science To People Who Are Not Scientists

What scientists can expect when dabbling in science writing

Rethinking impact factors: better ways to judge a journal

How to write a blogpost from your journal article in eleven easy steps

How to explain anything to anyone: 4 steps to clearer communication

Necesario acercar la ciencia al público para que el conocimiento sea un bien de la sociedad

Communicating science at a music festival - with 135,000 attendees

Infographic: How to write better science papers

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Manuscript Writing Guidelines

**** What to think about before you start to write a journal article (Video)

**** A Step‐by‐Step Guide to Undergraduate Writing in the Biological Sciences (Paper)

**** The rules of the game: a short guide for PhD students and new academics on publishing in academic journals (Paper)

**** Guide to constructing a paper abstract

**** Writing for an academic journal: 10 tips

**** Tips on how to write a great science paper

**** Science Writing: Guidelines and Guidance

10 Consejos de Escritores (Video)

Writing a PhD in your second language: 7 reasons you’re doing great and 5 ways to do even better

7 steps to publishing in a scientific journal

A young researcher's guide to writing an original research article

Working Scientist podcast: How to write a top-notch paper

How to write a first-class paper

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Journals and Editors' advice

**** How to get published in academic journal: top tip from editors

**** Editing: Things they don't tell you about what journal editors want (Webinar)

**** Thirty one things to consider when choosing which journal to submit your paper to

**** The Importance of Journals for PhD Students

**** 5 Unethical publication practices journal editors hate to see (Video)

**** Tips for Writing a Good Cover Letter

**** Advice: how to suggest referees in your cover letter to the journal editor

**** 4 ways to win an editor's heart

Observations from my first year as an associate editor

Writing for highly-selective journals

How to get published in an academic journal: top tips from editors

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Authors & Ms Structure

***** The co-author or not to co-author

***** Ten simple rules for collaboratively writing multi-author paper (Paper)

**** Narrative Style Influences Citation Frequency in Climate Change Science (Paper)

***** Ten simple rules for structuring papers (Paper)

***** The 5 pivotal paragraphs in a paper

**** The advantage of short paper titles (Paper)

**** Manuscript structure: How to create an outline for your research paper (Video)

**** How to report data in a way that readers need to know

It's not just you: science papers are getting harder to read

Essential elements for high-impact scientific writing

When writing, tell us your biological results

Are graphical abstracts a good idea?

A graphical abstract opens the door to your research publication

A glance at graphical abstract

Aims and objectives-what's the difference?

Word: Track Changes and Comments (Video)

Generating Citations with the MS Word and OpenOffice Plug-ins (Video)

Effective technical writing: e.g./ i.e. / et al.

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PrePrint

What are Pre-prints? (Video)

Guide to posting pre-prints for ecologist

Springer Nature journals unify their policy to encourage preprint sharing

Transparent Review in Preprints

Introduction to Preprints (Webinar)

Stop submitting papers

I love preprints, invaluable versions of potential journal articles

Tracking the popularity and outcomes of all bioRxiv preprints

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Peer-Review

What is Peer-Review? (Video)

***** Author and reviewer tutorials (Collection)

***** How small changes to a paper can help to smooth the review process

**** Review with care (Paper)

**** How to become good at peer review: A guide for young scientists

**** Mistakes Reviewers Make

**** Manipulating the peer review process: why it happens and how it might be prevented

**** Rude paper reviews are pervasive and sometimes harmful, study finds

Single-blind vs Double-blind Peer Review in the Setting of Author Prestige (Paper)

How Not to Conduct Peer Review (Video)

What is Plagiarism?

El drama de escribir papers para casi nadie

Junior researchers are losing out by ghostwriting peer reviews

A beginners guide to scientific publishing and the open access movement

What's in a name? How false author affiliations are damaging academic research

What Makes a Good Peer Reviewer

10 Things You Need to Know Before You Peer Review

Across the Desk: An Editor's Guide to Peer Review Best Practice

Tips for good practice in peer review

Quality in peer review: a view through the lens of time

Quality and transparency in peer review

Five great features of Publons you might not be aware of

Predatory journals: no definition, no defence

5 Strategies to move your writing forward after rejection

Working Scientist podcast: How to bounce back from a bruising peer-review or paper rejection

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Postdoc

***** Choosing your postdoc position (Collection)

**** Postdocs: Big lab, small lab? (Paper)

**** Scientist are opting for remote postodc positions

**** Stop blocking postdocs’ paths to success

Stop exploitation of foreign postdocs in the United States

For how long should I be a postdoc?

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Early Career Researcher

**** Surviving academia as an early career researcher: an unreliable guide (Paper)

Ten simple rules towards healthier research labs (Paper)

Retirement: Dollars and sense

How to raise a genius: lessons from a 45-year study of super-smart children

7 Recipes for Becoming a Top Researcher

Top ten tips to kick-start your career in 2018

Top tips for building and maintaining international collaborations

How to design a winning fellowship proposal

Networking for introverted scientists

Male researchers "vague" language more likely to win grants

The 11-step guide to running effective meetings

Some hard numbers on science leadership problems

Seven steps towards health and happiness in the lab

Robust research needs many lines of evidence

The hunt for the lesser-known funding source

Scientific Society Journals: By Scientists for Science (Paper)

Salary and careers survey 2018

Listen: Small research teams are better than big ones at disrupting science

The best-kept secrets to winning grants (Paper)

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Professional Growth

***** Nobel Lureates speak out against impact factors

***** Becoming more creative in academic work

**** Evidence of Experimental Bias in the Life Sciences: Why We Need Blind Data Recording (Paper)

**** Changing demograpics of scientific careers: the rise of temporary workforce (Paper)

**** How the entire scientific community can confront gender bias in the workplace (Paper)

8 Paradoxical Habits Of Wildly Successful People

Where Nobel winners get their start

Research integrity is much more than misconduct

When English is not your mother tongue

Seven steps to boost your research career in 2019

Why scientists should take more coffee breaks

A winding path to satisfaction (Paper)

Valuing time over money predicts happiness after a major life transition: A preregistered longitudinal study of graduating students

Six tips for adapting to a new language and culture

The 7 biggest problems facing science, according to 270 scientists

How I lost my identity - and embraced a new one

The secrets of learning a new lenguage

To fix research assessment, swap slogans for definitions

How to be good at stress

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