Useful information for graduate students

Writing

How to Write a Scientific Paper, courtesy of Conservation Bytes, outlines a process for planning out the structure of a paper, with an emphasis on being concise and sticking to a clear simple message.

Guidelines for Scientific Writing, from Duke University, provides style and grammar guidelines, with an emphasis on sentence construction and flow. Great for editing your writing once you have a first draft to work from.

Data analysis

Mixed effects models

Here are a couple of websites that I have found useful in getting to grips with mixed effects models:

A nice graphical explanation of the concepts behind random intercepts, courtesy of Bristol University.
How to write and intrepret mixed effects models using the lmer function in R, from the Madison SSCC.

Graphs

Multi-panel graphs in R

A few alternative options for multi-panel plotting using base R, ggplot or lattice packages courtesy of RPubs.