Blog & Advice

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• Science and immigration cuts (Jun 14, 2025)

Advice

• Operations job market advice: a step-by-step guide I wrote while on the academic job market.

The following is a very partial list of things written by others that I've found useful; thank you to the authors!

• Guidelines for Academic Requesters on Mechanical Turk, WeAreDynamo
• A Guide To Using Corporate Data for Academic Research, Andrey Fradkin
• The Unwritten Rules Of PhD Research, Marian Petre and Gordon Rugg
• You and Your Research, Richard Hamming
• A Few Tips On Writing Papers With Mathematical Content, John Tsitsiklis
• How NOT to review a paper: the tools and techniques of the adversarial reviewer, Graham Cormode
• Many good links at the bottom of the page here, on how to do and present research. (Somewhat focused on CS theory)
• Michael Bernstein on Velocity and Vectoring in research: useful tips on how (and why) to prototype on the biggest risks to your research.