Resources
General advice for graduate students
- Should you go to grad school? — Advice from renowned network scientist Duncan Watts.
- The PhD Grind — A 122-page memoir of Philip Guo’s PhD career in computer science.
- The Professor Is In — An excellent resource by Karen Kelsky, former tenured professor and academic career coach.
- Pearls of Wisdom — Professionalization advice from The Professor Is In.
- Sterne’s collection of academic professionalization resources.
- Ph.Do — Eszter Hargittai’s advice column on professionalism.
- Get a life, PhD — Advice on writing, working effectively, and professionalization.
- Academia vs. Industry — Lada Adamic’s summary of the pros and cons of both worlds.
- Key books for communication graduate students.
Agentic AI for social science
- Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham’s excellent video tutorial, Getting Started with Claude Code: A Researcher’s Setup Guide.
- Agent skills I find useful
Statistics and related resources
- R courses developed by VU Amsterdam
- Just Enough R
- Intro to R for social scientists
- R analysis examples from UCLA
- Quick-R
- Course on R and R programming by Ruth Ripley
- Data Carpentry module for social science
- R style guide by Google
- Machine-learning resources