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Foundations
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Supervisor Cold-Email Kit
Five email templates for contacting a potential PhD supervisor — and the checklist to send them safely.
5 email templates · Markdown
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Statement of Purpose Template
A paragraph-by-paragraph structure for a PhD statement of purpose, with prompts and word budgets.
SOP structure · Markdown
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Literature & Proposals
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Literature Search & PRISMA 2020 Worksheet
Plan a reproducible literature search and track your screening — with a ready-made screening log.
Worksheet + screening log · Markdown, CSV
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Research Proposal Reviewer Checklist
Score your own proposal like a reviewer would — before you submit.
Scoring rubric · Markdown
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Writing & Publishing
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Reviewer Response Letter Template
A point-by-point response letter for journal revisions, plus a short-form conference rebuttal.
Letter + rebuttal templates · Markdown
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Viva & Thesis Defence Question Bank
44 questions examiners commonly ask, what each is testing, and how to prepare.
44 questions + prep plan · Markdown
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Technical & AI Tools
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Experiment Protocol & Ablation Planner
Fix your evaluation plan before you run experiments — the fastest way to avoid reviewer objections.
Protocol template · Markdown
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AI-Assisted Research Verification Checklist
Use AI tools in your research without hallucinated citations, wrong numbers, or policy violations.
Checklist + disclosure templates · Markdown
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SLURM Starter Scripts for ML Research
Three job scripts (single GPU, job array, multi-GPU) and a cheat sheet for university HPC clusters.
3 scripts + README · .sbatch, Markdown
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LaTeX Paper Template + Reproducible Repo README
A clean Overleaf-ready paper skeleton and a README template that makes your code reproducible.
main.tex + .bib + README · LaTeX, Markdown
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Practical guides on supervisor emails, statements of purpose, PRISMA, rebuttals, viva prep, and more.
Read the guides5-day proposal email course
Five days, nine prompt templates, one finished research proposal.
Start the free course5-day PhD application email course
How admissions work, supervisor shortlisting, the cold email, the statement of purpose, and your final package.
Start the free courseResearch proposal library
Journal-quality proposals across protein structure, drug discovery, medical imaging, and genomics.
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