Starting your own research group is a daunting proposition. TIR offers some pointers to help you on your way… Continue reading
Setting up shop (a short guide to starting a research group)
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Check the technique (a short guide to critical reading of scientific papers)
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In the latest “How to…” guide, TIR offers a few tips and recommendations on the critical evaluation of scientific papers. Continue reading
Remembrance of experiments past (a short guide to keeping a lab book)
Keeping a lab book is a simple and utterly indispensable aspect of benchwork. TIR offers a few tips on how to make your record a reliable one. Continue reading
Centre stage (a short guide to scientific presentations)
It’s arguably never been more important for young scientists to be able to present their data in person. Here’s TIR’s guide to preparing and delivering scientific presentations, and how to handle the questions afterwards. Continue reading
Seeing triple (a short guide to experiment reproducibility)
With the reproducibility crisis in science showing no signs of abating, it’s never been more important to clearly communicate how rigorously your data were obtained. Here’s TIR’s short guide to technical replicates, biological replicates, independent experiments, and what they do and don’t tell you. Continue reading
Apprentice yourself, part 2 (a professor’s perspective)
We have a guest posting this week from Prof. Tim Skern of the Max F. Perutz Laboratories in Vienna, Austria. As well as providing a counterpart to TIR‘s earlier post on how to choose a PhD position, Tim also offers a number of recommendations for how to handle yourself in PhD interviews.
Setting sail (a short guide to choosing a postdoc in academia)
In the latest of our “How to…” guides, we’ll be looking at how to choose a postdoc position in academia.
