Graduate school blogs

March 16, 2011 11:05 AM

Best blogs and other reading materials for social science graduate students/academics?

I'm looking for blogs/books/etc. on navigating the graduate school process:

- How to evaluate research topics
- Publication strategy
- How to structure papers
- How to make the most of graduate school
- Career strategy
- Etc.


Also:
- Cool trends in research in economics, psychology, sociology, etc. especially as they relate to technology.

I know this is the type of tacit knowledge people pick up from their advisors and colleagues (and some is very discipline-specific), but please throw anything and everything at me that might help. I know there are also a zillion books on Amazon about "How to do a PhD", and I can't tell which ones are the best ones -- any suggestions would be much appreciated.

posted by metametababe to Education (4 answers total)

you want "research confidential" edited by eszter hargittai. you would also like her posts at crooked timber.
posted by escabeche at 11:46 AM on March 16, 2011

Some technical stuff doing research, writing dissertations, etc at Academic Productivity
posted by jander03 at 12:28 PM on March 16, 2011

Getting what you came for
posted by k8t at 6:59 PM on March 16, 2011

nthing Crooked Timber.

Check out previous AskMeFi questions about grad school advice, such as this one.

Academic Chic for women.
posted by brainwane at 8:48 PM on March 16, 2011