Resources

Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity resources

Imposter Syndrome and Mental Health Resources

• Impostor Syndrome and You: A Discussion of a Little-Discussed Phenomenon published in Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, an American Phytopathological Society Journal
• Dr. Lowe-Power’s open letter about living with Anxiety and Depression as a scientist
• UC Davis has Therapists who serve as bridges to help navigate acute and chronic mental health:
• Academic and Staff Assistance Program for graduate students, postdocs, faculty, and other UC Davis employees.
• Counseling Services through Graduate Studies – a second resource for graduate students.

Building inclusion

• How LGBT+ scientists would like to be included and welcomed in STEM workplaces. Highly recommended reading for examples of how to welcome and build inclusion for marginalized scientists.
• Dr. Beronda Montgomery’s Keynote Talk for #BlackInMicrobiology week 2020. An excellent presentation and Q&A to watch to understand the importance of an inclusive climate and mentoring and for wisdom about developing your academic path. 1 hr and worth it.

Avoiding Implicit Bias in reading & writing Letters of Recommendation

• Avoiding racial bias
• Avoiding gender bias
• Materials to host 1 hr workshop on implicit bias in letters of recommendation

Resources for Faculty

• UC Davis STEM Faculty Resource Guide - For Faculty Starting to Learn about Equity, Inclusion, Justice and Anti Racism
• Rubrics for departmental self-assessments:
  • From American Astronomical Society (Rubric begins on page 63 of the report)
  • From American Institute of Physics (Appendix 8 in the Task Force Report)
• Funding opportunities for graduate fellowships to support underrepresented trainees
  • USDA National Needs Fellowships

Science resources

Experimental (Methods, training resources, etc)

• Lowe-Power lab protocols

The Philosophy in PhD

• iBiology’s Let’s Experiment. A self-paced online class (5 weeks; ~3 hrs / week) that will give concrete steps and advice to help you build a framework for how to design experiments in biological research.

Data Visualization & Presentation Resources

• An assortment of Tiffany’s tips & tricks for visual presentations using ppt and illustrator. Download here
• Scientific illustration resource: Margaret Senior Plant Disease Bulletins
• Plant Illustrations Figshare Group
• BioRender platform for biological figure design Note: The free version exports with watermarks.

Bioinformatics

• Stratton’s bioinformatics course webpage with useful bioinformatics information, articles, databases, etc. compiled and created by Dr. Edward Marcotte of UT–Austin

Career / professional development resources

• Tool: The most intuitive meeting scheduling tool www.when2meet.com
• Article: ‘Growth Mindset’ vs ‘Fixed Mindset’. Adopting a growth mindset might improve your resilience to the imposter syndrome.
• Article: Tips for PhD students & early career researchers
• Article: The quest for postdoctoral independence: How to step out from the shadow of your principal investigator
• Resource: Writing letters of recommendation with less implicit bias.
  • Quick Guide.
  • Long form: Workshop on reducing implicit bias in letters

Science Communication (#SciComm) Resources

Tiffany’s Advice for Grant and Paper writing (Currently down, but will be uploaded at a new location after Fall 2020)

Curated from diverse sources that are hopefully cited properly.

• Lecture 1: The Human Context of Grantsmanship
• Lecture 2: High Impact Writing (Word Choice)
• Lecture 3: High Impact Writing: Building Sentences
• Lecture 4: Writing Strategies

Data Visualization

• Same Stats, Different Graphs: Generating Datasets with Varied Appearance and Identical Statistics through Simulated Annealing

Scientific Writing

• Bacterial genetics: A how-to guide to notation on naming bacterial genotypes and phenotypes by Tiffany Lowe-Power
• Getting started: An Ode to the Shitty First Draft by Angely Mercado.
• Revising and improving: Effective and High Impact Writing (pdf) handout from ASM workshop led by Dr. Susan Marriott and Dr. Sonia Morgan-Linnell. This will help you diagnose ‘bad writing’ and revise your writing.
• Revising and improving: Science of scientific writing (pdf) by George Dopen and Judith Swan
• Abstracts: Annotated example of how to write an abstract (aka Summary)

Grant Writing

• Advice on applying for the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Webinar by Kelsey Wood. (Released in 2020, so details will change. But Kelsey provides timeless advice about the program)
• Advice for a Strong NSF Standard proposal by Caitilyn Allen
• The Human Context of Granstsmanship 1 hr lecture by Tiffany Lowe-Power with materials adapted from Gary Roberts and JD Sauer at UW-Madison and John Boothroyd at Stanford.

Writing Letters of recommendation

• Avoiding racial bias
• Avoiding gender bias

Peer-Review

• Peer-Reviewing Scientific Manuscripts by Caitilyn Allen

Conferences / Talks / Posters

Abstracts

• Why and how to write abstracts for conferences by David Gadoury

Talks

• Guide to preparing a research talk by Luis Pedro Coelho

Posters

• Guides to printing scientific posters on wrinkle-free cloth through Spoonflower.com. Guide 1 and Guide 2. Plan for 10 business for printing & shipping.
• Better Poster Blog. Although I don’t perfectly agree with this authors’ opinions, they have suggestions on how to improve scientific poster design.

Conference Advice

• Advice on how to get the most out of a conference and maintain your sanity

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