tips

Funding Opportunities

• University Paris-Saclay 
• Campus France
• Frontières du Vivant
• AID
• PhD offers in France
• European PhD portal
• CIFRE [industrial partnership]
• Chateaubriand fellowships [from USA to France]

Postdoctoral Fellowships

• Postdoc Funding scheme worldwide
• Prestige Grant
• Marie Curie Fellowships
• Fondation Fyssen
• Human Frontiers Science Program
• Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale

New Comers

• Please, take a look at the Cognition & Brain Dynamics Manual and ask for the newcomers’ checklist
• Science Accueil

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Life as a PhD Student

• What’s a PhD?
• What is the point of a PhD?
• Tough love
• How to be a good graduate student
• PhD survival guide

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Learn

Neurosciences, Cognition

• Cognitive Neuroscience Compendium
• ENS savoirs
• Science Network
• MIT open courses Brain & Cognitive Sciences
• Cognitive Computational Neuroscience talks
• COSYNE talks
• History of Neuroscience . SFN
• Neuroportraits
• Institut Neurosciences Cognition
• Philosophy of Mind . OpenMind
• The Brains Blog
• Interactive Sensation Lab experiment
• MIT (2011) Intro to Psychology
• Sensation & Perception (Psyc 220, 2021, Julia Strand)

Maths & co

• The essence of linear algebra
• Digital Signal Processing for neuroscientists
• Convolution and cross-correlation
• Tutoriels Pensée Artificielle

Critical Thinking

• Detect Bullshit
• Think again: How to understand arguments (on Coursera by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong)

Ethical Research, Open Science

• MOOC: Transparent and Open Social Science Research
• World Health Organization
• INSERM
• NIH

Anatomy

• The human brain atlas
• Talairach applet
• Van Essen
• WebCaret
• the whole brain atlas

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Do rigorous science

Record Keeping & Accountability

• AAAS: How to keep a lab notebook
• NIH: Keeping a labnotebook
• Guidelines for keeping a lab notebook

Collaborative Tools

• github share your code and contribute to the community
• colaboratory
• Open Science Framework to share published data or projects
• overleaf collaborative LaTeX editor
• authorea

Experimental Design

• psychopy
• psychopy courses by Jonas Kristoffer Lindeløv
• psychtoolbox requires matlab or octave

e-Experiments

• jsPsych
• gorilla.sc
• Pavlovia
• Expyriment
• ZEP
• Psytoolkit

M/EEG Analysis

• BIDS data formatting
• MNE-python wiki & github
• visualization of brain data
• fieldtrip wiki
• brainstorm
• SPM
• Lucas Parra’s EEG tutorial 
• Michael Crosse et al (2016)  Multivariate Temporal Response Function (mTRF) matlab toolbox & mne-python
• VoytekLab

Code

• How to organize your code
• Rougier: python tutorials numpy, matplotlib
• scipy-lectures
• Christope Pallier’s Programming for cognitive and brain sciences
• codeacademy
• nbviewer ipython notebooks
• Graph Network analysis

Stats

• Lectures
  • A Psychologists guide to R (github course)
  • MIT Undergraduate Statistics for Brain and Cognitive Science
  • Crump, M. J. C., Navarro, D., & Suzuki, J. (2019, June 5). Answering Questions with Data (Textbook): Introductory Statistics for Psychology Students. https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/JZE52
  • Statistical computing for biologists (by Paul Magwen)
  • How to teach stats
  • Linear models
  • SDT basics
  • RT distributions by Jonas Kristoffer Lindeløv
  • Bodo Winter’s tutorials to get started on linear mixed effects models: [1] [2]
  • Modélisation statistique bayésienne
• Textbooks
  • Russ Poldrack’s Statistical thinking for the 21st century
  • Seeing Theory 
  • Introductory visualization of linear mixed effect (hierarchical) models
  • Intro to data science
• Misc
  • R
  • swirl for R
  • Learning stat with R
  • psignifit to fit psychometric curves
  • Bayesian ANOVA
  • effect size calculators [github]
  • beyond p values [pdf]

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Communicate Science

Graphic design

• Fundamentals
• Martin Krzywinski readability & aesthetic in scientific reports
• Color Universal Design
• Brewer Palette double [check the appropriateness of your color palette]
• Ten Simple Rules for Better Figures

Speak

• sound advice
• pdf
• nature presentation
• academic talk
• what not to do

Write

“I am writing a longer letter than usual because there is not enough time to write a short one.” Blaise Pascal, Lettres Provinciales (ca. 657)

• Carandini, M. (2022). Some Tips for Writing Science. Eneuro, 9(6).
• PloS Writing Center
• How to write a paper in a week-end by Prof Pete Carr
• ***Steven Pinker (2015) Linguistics, Style & Writing in the 21st Century (feat. jargon, passive voice, the curse of knowledge)
• Concise scientific writing
• *how to literature review
• how to write a paragraph
• how to write a paper
• APA
• rules of thumb [pdf]
• writing for non native [book]
• clarity, conciseness, & cohesion
• talk by Simon Peyton Jones
• general editorial tips
• More resources from the JazLab