resources for Science and related
Science goodies
UNSW's HDR Extend: Everything from how to get started, to what to do after you finish
https://hdrextend.unsw.edu.au/
Soft Matter
Soft Bites, an easy-to-digest soft matter blog: https://softbites.org/
What is soft matter?
https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/PT.3.4135
Astrobiology
A Primer: https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/ast.2015.1460
NASA's Astrobiology page: https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/
The Australian Centre for Astrobiology: https://www.aca.unsw.edu.au/
Origins of Life
Good intro website: http://exploringorigins.org/protocell.html
Exploration of a terrestrial origins of life: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/life-on-earth-came-from-a-hot-volcanic-pool-not-the-sea-new-evidence-suggests/
Overview of protocells research: https://www.ibiology.org/evolution/origin-of-life/
The role of compartments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UamnEWT9N8s
HoloPy - a Python package for holography and light scattering
Science-related goodies
LaTeX: easy, beautiful typesetting for dissertations and papers
https://www.overleaf.com/learn/latex/Tutorials
Learn to code: make your life easier by automating things
A good place to start: https://www.codecademy.com/learn/learn-how-to-code
A compact Python distribution: https://docs.conda.io/en/latest/miniconda.html
A recommended full Python distribution: https://www.anaconda.com/distribution/
Jupyter Notebooks online with Google's Colab: https://colab.research.google.com/
UNSW courses to help you learn: https://research.unsw.edu.au/research-technology-training-courses
UNSW Hacky Hour - drinks and tech help all at once: https://research.unsw.edu.au/hacky-hour
UNSW research tech resources: https://research.unsw.edu.au/research-technology-services
Drawing figures and image processing
FIJI/ImageJ - free and powerful image processing: https://fiji.sc/
Affinity Designer - worth the $, and way less $$ than comparable products https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/designer/
Inkscape - imperfect but free design software for illustration, design, and figures: https://inkscape.org/
Zotero (reference manager): manage, share, and export with ease https://www.zotero.org/
Microscopy resources
https://twitter.com/jencwaters
https://www.youtube.com/microcourses
GitHub: version control your work and manage collaborative projects with ease: https://github.com/
Communication: it's important
UNSW's style guide: https://view.joomag.com/unsw-writing-style-guide-unsw-writing-style-guide/0437740001581050437?s
Public outreach: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/scientists-need-to-talk-to-the-public/
How to tell a story: https://hbr.org/2012/10/structure-your-presentation-li
Paper preparation checklist: https://beta.springernature.com/pre-submission
How to write a paper (long): https://www.nature.com/scitable/ebooks/english-communication-for-scientists-14053993/writing-scientific-papers-14239285/
How to write a paper (short): http://blogs.nature.com/naturejobs/2014/11/03/how-to-get-published-in-high-impact-journals-big-research-and-better-writing/
How to write a cover letter: http://blogs.nature.com/methagora/2013/09/how-to-write-a-cover-letter.html
Be wary of impact factors: https://elifesciences.org/articles/44799 and https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/09/how-journals-nature-science-cell-damage-science
Reverse outlining to check for clarity, and to generate a template from well-written documents you like: https://www.amherst.edu/academiclife/support/writingcenter/resourcesforwriters/revision/reverse_outline
Supervision and related communication: https://research.unsw.edu.au/supervision-resources
Literature review: https://library.sydney.edu.au/help/online-training/literaturereview/ and https://guides.lib.berkeley.edu/c.php?g=444859&p=3063273