The Importance of Student-Advisor Communication (article)

Managing Your Adviser (article)

How to Manage a Working Relationship with Your Adviser (article)

Guide to Meetings with Your Adviser (guide)

Having “The Conversation”: Telling Your Adviser You Don’t Want to be a Professor (article)

Banish the Smarm (article on networking)

Not Networking 101: Building Relationships for Success (video)

The 7 Point Plan That Took Me From Networking Novice To The Center Of Connectivity (article)

Developing Your Teamwork Skills (article)

Speaking Science: A university-wide initiative to provide immersive opportunities for faculty, postdocs and graduate students to learn how to better communicate their science to audiences beyond the academic community. They offer an annual conference, workshops, and improv training.

UMN Library tutorials on communicating your research. The library also offers occasional workshops on topics related to communication (e.g. giving presentations, podcasting, etc.)

COMPASS: An organization that prepares scientists to become leaders and changemakers by improving their communication skills. Some of their services are fee-based, but their Message Box tool is freely available and is an excellent resource for scientists wanting to tailor their message for a specific audience. Their blog houses many helpful articles about science communication.

Tips for Superstar Presentations (video): Learn to use basic design principles to create clearer, more powerful presentations.

Communicating Science guide from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund provides advice from scientific speakers, tips on putting together talks, insights into how to use technology to your benefit, horror stories about speeches gone wrong, and pointers to inexpensive, approachable resources available in most communities to polish speaking skills and gain confidence.

Communication Toolkit from AAAS: Provides guidance for scientists to build skills to more effectively communicate and engage with public audiences, including ways to apply the fundamentals of communication to scientific topics.

CommKit from MIT’s Department of Biological Engineering Communication Fellows: Each guide is a short, self-contained discussion about how you can craft a successful document or presentation. To help translate theory into practice, we include annotated real-world examples like published papers and application materials from successful fellowship applications.

Mini workshops on communicating science from AAAS: Workshops focus on the fundamentals of engaging with a public audience, using social media to engage with the public, and engaging with policymakers.

Rethinking Scientific Presentations: Slide Design & Delivery (video series)

Making Scientific Writing Painless (video)

The Art of Science Communication course from ASBMB: An 8-week online course that provides fundamental training in science communication, focusing on how to present science to a nonexpert audience in a formal setting, such as a public lecture. This course is offered three times per year, and participants can receive a certificate of completion. (Cost: $25 for ASBMB members, $100 for non-members.)