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		<title>Online diagram tool: Gliffy</title>
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I&#8217;m a big fan of sketching diagrams on the computer to get to grips with complex ideas and processes - I&#8217;ve written before about dia, my favourite desktop diagram tool.  Here&#8217;s an online tool, Gliffy,  that looks like it does a similar job.

You can add shapes and connectors from various different palettes and set colours [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.phdadvice.com/2007/05/04/online-diagram-tool-gliffy/</link>
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		<title>Advice for managing labs</title>
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This question over at Ask Metafilter might not seem relevant to PhD students, but my last post on supervising as part of your PhD should make it clear why I think it is. I&#8217;ll let the title speak for itself:
&#8221; What books should I recommend to my scientist friend who is having a hard time [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.phdadvice.com/2007/05/02/advice-for-managing-labs/</link>
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		<title>Supervising undergraduate and masters students</title>
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In general, doing a PhD degree is about working on your own projects and managing your own research. However, it&#8217;s important to remember that there&#8217;s a good chance you&#8217;ll be asked to do some supervision of students during your PhD. The likelihood of this will vary between countries and institutions, but it can take several [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.phdadvice.com/2007/04/30/supervising-undergraduate-and-masters-students/</link>
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		<title>PhD advice from a doctoral student</title>
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Here&#8217;s a blog by a guy doing a PhD at Durham university in the UK in which he writes regularly about advice for PhD students. I particularly liked this recent post in which he discusses advice from a retired scholar who has supervised many PhD students.

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		<link>http://www.phdadvice.com/2007/04/26/phd-advice-from-a-doctoral-student/</link>
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		<title>Starting good work habits at Ask Metafilter</title>
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This post over at Ask Metafilter strikes me as being good reading for those starting a PhD; even though the question concerns starting a job. You should treat a PhD projects just like a job in many ways.  Here are some of the replies I think are particularly good advice (the last point of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.phdadvice.com/2007/04/24/starting-good-work-habits-at-ask-metafilter/</link>
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		<title>Shoke PDF manager</title>
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Further to previous posts (one, two) on how to organise collections of papers in PDF format, here&#8217;s a post at lifehacker describing Shoka, a PDF library tool. From a glance it looks like Shoka ticks all the right boxes - it&#8217;s free and open-source, and is written in Java so it should run on all [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.phdadvice.com/2007/04/22/shoke-pdf-manager/</link>
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		<title>Big online whiteboard list</title>
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Continuing in the theme of simple online tools, here&#8217;s WorkHack - an online whiteboard to-do list that&#8217;s as simple as it gets. There no signup or login required, just enter the tasks, set the priority, and rearrange them. I wouldn&#8217;t use this for organising a large project, but when you have a bunch of tasks [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.phdadvice.com/2007/04/13/big-online-whiteboard-list/</link>
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		<title>Online flashcard app</title>
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For all that academic research is supposed to be about original thought, there are times when life is made easier by a bit of rote learning. Here are a few things that I had to learn by rote during my PhD degree:

Prominent papers and their results
The meaning of various keywords in programming languages
Names of taxonomic [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.phdadvice.com/2007/04/11/online-flashcard-app/</link>
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		<title>How to deal with long-term goals</title>
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Here&#8217;s a question over at Ask Metafilter that I think is extremely relevant to anyone carrying out a long-term research project - how do you stay motivated when the goal you&#8217;re working towards is several years away? This can be a particular problem for PhD students as the goal that you&#8217;re working towards may be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.phdadvice.com/2007/04/09/how-to-deal-with-long-term-goals/</link>
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		<title>Large collection of advice on writing</title>
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Here&#8217;s a website full of articles about writing. The article listing shows a huge amount of material on a range of topics. While a lot of the stuff is geared towards fiction, there are some articles that look relevant to researchers.  Here&#8217;s a few that might be of interest:
6 Ways to Jump-Start Your Writing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.phdadvice.com/2007/04/04/large-collection-of-advice-on-writing/</link>
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