SUNY ESF
Graduate Seminar in Environmental Chemistry and Biochemistry

Thoughts on Designing and Giving Good Presentations

How To Conquer Public Speaking Fear
If the Gettysburg address were done on Powerpoint - Funny if you remember any of the original YouTube video on bad Powerpoint - Hilarious
Edward Tufte - the guru of presenting information and designing graphics. Look at his books (available at Moon and at SU Libraries)!
How to Give a Talk
Some Lecturing Heuristics

Arsenic-based life
Stimulus-triggered acquisition of pluripotency In which the authors failed to listen to the referees at least twice ( Science in August 2012 and Nature in April 2013). Unfortunately, the editors at Nature appeared to over-rule the referees. See also post-publication peer review on PubPeer
Sames-Sezen - research fraud at a top US Chemistry Department lead to six retractions
How a research group leader might avoid teaching the scientific method
Stripey Nanoparticles from a major skeptic's point of view.
Most Published Research Findings are False - for most research designs and for most fields.
Famous paper by J. P. A. Ioannidis. Why this claim was false!

For reporting and identifying papers that have been retracted (or maybe should be).

PubPeer.com - look up papers or start the discussion on a paper
RetractionWatch.com - Reports on retractions and related events, plus a database of retractions

How to be a good graduate student - by Marie DesJardins at Indiana University. See Part II: for Students and Advisors
So long, and thanks for the Ph.D.! - Irreverent but good advice for prospective or novice graduate students in (computer) science