By Graduate Neuroscience Students At McGill
In the sciences, our work is rarely done alone. We stand on the shoulders of giants, but in addition to that, there are often many authors contributing to a single document. Whether you are writing a book chapter, a journal article, or a dissertation, it is important to work efficiently with your collaborators and avoid […]
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Growing up as scientists in a “publish or perish” culture, most of us think that publication (“the proof” of productivity) is the only thing that matters. This general pressure weighs heavily on graduate students’ daily lives as we prepare for a future as independent researcher. Number of publications and the accumulating sum of impact factors
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Want to make some polished figures and posters but don’t want to pay for expensive software? Inkscape is a free, open-source image-editing program like Adobe Illustrator, Corel Draw, Freehand, or Xara X. It’s a flexible and advanced tool, but sometimes all of that flexibility can be intimidating. Anastasia Sares put together a list of super-helpful tips
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Welcome back everybody from the Holidays and Happy New Year! Now that you are refreshed and ready to tackle your research, what better way to help you get started in the best way possible than a productivity post? Nothing, we should say! So here you go! Our first post of the year is a guest
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