Blogs about research

If you find this blog helpful (or even if you don’t but you’re interested in blogs on research issues and tools), there are a few other blogs about doing research that you might find useful. Here are a few that I read.

• Patter – Pat Thomson.

• The Thesis Whisperer – Inger Mewburn.

• The Research Whisperer – several RMIT researchers.

• the (research) supervisor’s friend – Geof Hill.

• My Research Rants – Jordi Cabot.

• profserious – Anthony Finkelstein.

• Academic Life – Marialuisa Aliotta.

• Help for New Professors – Faye Hicks.

• The Art of Scientific Writing – Faye Hicks.

• Explorations of style– Rachael Cayley.

• sharmanedit – Anna Sharman.

• GradHacker – writers from several universities.

• PhD Life – Warwick Uni students.

• PhD Comics – essential reading for every PhD student, and good therapy.

Of course, there are lots of statistics blogs as well, and blogs about other research disciplines. The ones above are those that concentrate on generic research issues.