Short essays
True scientific news doesn’t make the news
Ready, fire, aim: the myth of the scientific method
Pure scientific research pays for itself
Scientific rationale: convenient little white lies?
Benefits of avoiding replication studies
The Goldilocks level of abstraction in science
Introductions in scientific papers can give warped and inflated perspectives
How science is changing
What does scientific genius look like in the 21st century?
Science in the ol’ days: A millennial’s perspective
Computers make me a worse mathematician, but a better scientist
Nonlinearity in scientific productivity
This is the best decade to be a grad student
Writing
My favourite word is appreciably: overused words in scientific writing
Scientific conclusions: a more journalistic approach
The formatting of Nature, Cell and Science papers improves their readability
Don’t start paragraphs with Figure n shows …
Science is interesting, but not exciting… according to our papers
Don’t write about your scientific paper, just write it
Citations
A better way to rank the scientific literature
Article titles are more important than your name
Software to use
Using Inkscape for scientific figures, posters, and presentations
Organise scripts and figures easily with Jupyter Notebooks
Jupyter Notebooks are gone from my scientific workflow
LyX: a middle ground to LaTeX and Word
A better web reading experience
Image conversion with a right-click
A better way to code up scientific figures
Non-scientific software that helps me get science done
Creating Figures
Scientific software skills make up for minimal artistic talent
To make a good schematic, copy, adapt, and refine
Transit map–style scientific figures
Figure captions need not be a half page
Figures need attention to detail
Remove redundant labels on multi-panel plots
Ugly scientific figures: Are scientists lazy, indifferent, or oblivious?
Captioning a scientific figure is like commenting code
Line graphs: the best and worst way to visualise data
Using Colour Effectively
Default colormaps: Are Parula and Viridis really an improvement over Jet?
Grey and one other colour: a foolproof colour scheme for scientists
Design for black-and-white printing
Design using the HSL colour space
Typesetting
Add any symbol without leaving the keyboard
A hyphen is not a minus sign, and other mistaken characters
Why LaTeX-typeset documents look professional
Four effortless LaTeX packages you should use
To italicise or not to italicise
Palatino and Source Sans Pro, the only fonts a scientist needs
Presenting data
Significant figures aren’t necessarily significant (especially in tables)
What can the fields of UI/UX teach scientists?
Toward simplicity
Embracing minimalism when presenting science
Remove cognitive overhead from your scientific papers
Talks and posters
Scientific posters needn’t look like scientific posters
Skip the outline slide; use a sidebar
Put three photos on your title slide
The realities of 15 minute scientific talks
Python and Matlab
Matplotlib animations the easy way
Elaborate Matplotlib animations
Vector and raster in one with Matplotlib
An improved Matlab command line
Python spoilt me; returning to Matlab is hard
Miscellaneous
Unintentional entertainment in scientific writing
Benefits of an e-reader for academics
Concluding a scientific paper with a video
100 things a scientist should know about
Does your scientific paper smell?
Scientific publishers, please give your documents better file names
Brushing Up Science 