Open Science
- O que é ciência aberta. E quais os entraves para ela (in Portuguese)
- Ciência aberta: como fazer (in Portuguese)
- O desafio do acesso aberto à publicação científica (in Portuguese)
- Chasing Down the Data You Need
- Let go of your data
- What is replication?
- Data sharing and how it can benefit your scientific career
- Data management made simple
- Data sharing and management snafu in 3 short acts (video)
- Ten Simple Rules for the Care and Feeding of Scientific Data
- Ten Simple Rules for Creating a Good Data Management Plan
- How to make your scientific data accessible, discoverable and useful
Science Communication
- Divulgação científica e a autofagia acadêmica (in Portuguese)
- Divulgação científica: faça agora ou cale-se para sempre (in Portuguese)
- Top tips for getting your science out there
- Como e por que escrever um press release
- Uma alternativa às soníferas introduções gerais (in Portuguese)
- Como fazer um infográfico (in Portuguese)
Scientific writing
- Toolkit: How to write a great paper
- Essential elements for high-impact scientific writing
- Ten Simple (Empirical) Rules for Writing Science
- Ten simple rules for structuring papers
- Ten Simple Rules for Writing Research Papers
- Writing Tips for Ph. D. Students
Scientific computing
- Good enough practices in scientific computing
- Excuse me, do you have a moment to talk about Version Control?
- Git can facilitate greater reproducibility and increased transparency in science
- Ten Simple Rules for Taking Advantage of Git and GitHub
Publication
- How small changes to a paper can help to smooth the review process
- Para publicar com critério (In Portuguese)
- My lockdown literature-review challenge
- Prey tell, what makes a publisher predatory?
- Predatory journals: no definition, no defence
- Ten Simple Rules for Getting Published
- Your paper is not a Wikipedia article
Peer review
- How to write a peer review
- How to write a thorough peer review
- How to spot dubious claims in scientific papers
- Reviewers, don’t be rude to nonnative English speakers
- Ten simple rules for writing a response to reviewers
- How to respond to difficult or negative peer-reviewer feedback
- When sound science meets imperfect grammar
- If you can’t be kind in peer review, be neutral
- Science relies on constructive criticism. Here’s how to keep it useful and respectful
- How to Criticize with Kindness: Philosopher Daniel Dennett on the Four Steps to Arguing Intelligently
Academic rejection
- How I embraced my first academic rejection
- 6 ways to deal with rejection
- Three ways to turn the page after your first paper rejection
Statistics
- An unhealthy obsession with p-values is ruining science
- What a nerdy debate about p-values shows about science and how to fix it
- The 7 deadly sins of research
- Scientific method: Statistical errors
- Statistics: P values are just the tip of the iceberg
- Statisticians issue warning over misuse of P values
- Finally understanding what “statistical significance” and p-values mean
Programming
Resources
Others
- Propetips (in Portuguese)
- Ten Simple Rules (PlosOne Collections)
- Good enough practices in scientific computing
- 460 Free Textbooks
- Toolbox (Nature)
Insightful
- This simple tool shows you how to choose your mentors
- What kind of scientist are you?
- How to pick a great scientific collaborator
- Always scrambling to get things done? A simple tool can help you stay on track
- How to find, read and organize papers
- The 7 biggest problems facing science, according to 270 scientists
- Are we witnessing the dawn of post-theory science?
- No lucrativo mercado da ciência aberta, quem paga a conta? (In Portuguese)
- Sloppy Use of Machine Learning Is Causing a ‘Reproducibility Crisis’ in Science
- It matters who does science
- Computer algorithms infer gender, race and ethnicity. Here’s how to avoid their pitfalls