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  • Project workflow: Planning and setting up a Study
    • Developing a study: What to consider and basic steps
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    • Determining authorship order
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    • Creating an OSF page for your study
      • Anonymizing your links for review
    • Creating and sharing study materials and data
    • Programming a study
      • EyeLink (Experiment Builder)
      • PsychoPy (PyHab)
    • Pre-registering a study
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        • Downloading LEQ data from Qualtrics
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      • Demographics
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      • Running an HPP study
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  • Project Workflow: Collecting Data
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          • English
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      • Scheduling Software: Acuity
      • Group recruitment e-mails: Mailmerge
    • Participant Photos
  • Project Workflow: Data Analysis
    • Master Subject List
    • Hypothesis testing for categorical variables
    • Getting started with R
      • Data Visualization
      • Coding in the tidyverse
    • Wrangling eyetracking data
    • Pupillometry data
      • Resources and courses
    • Mixed Effects Models
      • Growth Curve Analysis
    • Anonymizing data
  • Graduate program and career building
    • Non academic career resources
      • Building a LinkedIn page
    • CV how tos
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    • Establishing an Online Presence
      • Creating an Academic Website
      • Academic Twitter
      • LinkedIn
    • Applying to grad school
      • Thesis supervisors
      • Funding
    • Applying to post-graduate jobs
    • Applying to academic jobs
      • Psych jobs Wiki
    • Applying to postdoctoral positions
      • Cog Dev listserve
    • Writing a cover letter
    • Requesting a letter of recommendation/Reference letter
  • Project Workflow: Manuscript Preparation and Publication
    • Choosing a journal to publish in
    • Co-writing with Krista and othe co-authors and submitting a manuscript
    • Publishing pre-prints
    • Writing your manuscript in R Markdown
    • Writing a response to reviewers comments
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Writing a cover letter

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Last updated 2 years ago

Resources for writing cover letters for academic jobs:

jobs.ac.uk (ebook)
University of Birmingham (tips)
McGill University (guide)