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A collection of AWESOME projects, applications, tools, resources for science communication in general.
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A collection of AWESOME projects, applications, tools, resources for science communication in general.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/pglira/awesome-science-communication
- Owner: pglira
- Created: 2022-05-19T05:34:38.000Z (over 2 years ago)
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# Table of Contents
- [Table of Contents](#table-of-contents)
- [Scope](#scope)
- [Advices for writing scientic publications](#advices-for-writing-scientic-publications)
- [Collections of useful phrases](#collections-of-useful-phrases)
- [Websites](#websites)
- [Papers](#papers)
- [Books](#books)
- [Videos](#videos)
- [Tools for creating slides](#tools-for-creating-slides)
- [Tools for presenting slides](#tools-for-presenting-slides)
- [Tools for writing papers](#tools-for-writing-papers)
- [Tools for managing your bibliography](#tools-for-managing-your-bibliography)
- [Tools for creating figures](#tools-for-creating-figures)
- [Tools for taking notes](#tools-for-taking-notes)
- [Other useful tools](#other-useful-tools)
- [Journals](#journals)
- [Find conferences to attend](#find-conferences-to-attend)
- [Publication databases](#publication-databases)
- [Other](#other)
- [Fun](#fun)
- [Related awesome lists](#related-awesome-lists)
- [License](#license)
- [Acknowledgments](#acknowledgments)
## Scope
TODO
## Advices for writing scientic publications
- [McDaniel - Related Work](https://www.cse.psu.edu/~pdm12/cse544/slides/cse544-relwork.pdf) - A few slides from Prof. McDaniel with advices on how to describe related works
### Collections of useful phrases
TODO
### Websites
TODO
### Papers
- [How to write a research journal article in engineering and science](https://mhiet.edu.eg/academic-files/English/1001.pdf) by Socolofsky (2004)
- [Ten Simple Rules for a Successful Collaboration](https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.0030044) by Vicens and Bourne (2007)
### Books
- [Writing Science: How to Write Papers That Get Cited and Proposals That Get Funded](https://www.amazon.com/Writing-Science-Papers-Proposals-Funded/dp/0199760241/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1314843099&sr=1-1) by Schimel (2012)
### Videos
TODO
## Tools for creating slides
- Desktop applications:
- ![Commercial Software][Money Icon] [Apple Keynote](https://www.apple.com/keynote/) - Apple solution to create stunning and memorable presentations
- ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] [Beamer (LaTeX)](https://github.com/josephwright/beamer) [](https://github.com/josephwright/beamer) - A LaTeX class for producing presentations
- ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] [Calligra Stage](https://calligra.org/stage/) [](https://github.com/KDE/calligra) - An easy to use yet still flexible presentation application
- ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] [Ipe](https://ipe.otfried.org) [](https://github.com/otfried/ipe) - The extensible drawing editor Ipe can also be used to generate presentations, see [here](https://ipe.otfried.org/manual/manual_presentations.html)
- ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] [LibreOffice Impress](https://www.libreoffice.org/discover/impress/) [](https://github.com/LibreOffice/core) - A presentation program resembling Microsoft PowerPoint
- ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] [Marp](https://marp.app) [](https://github.com/marp-team/marp) - Marp is the ecosystem to write your presentation with plain Markdown
- ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] [OnlyOffice Presentation Editor](https://www.onlyoffice.com/presentation-editor.aspx) [](https://github.com/ONLYOFFICE/DesktopEditors) - Open, create and edit stunning PowerPoint presentations, desktop version
- ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] [Pandoc](https://pandoc.org) [](https://github.com/jgm/pandoc) - Pandoc is a Haskell library for converting from one markup format to another
- ![Commercial Software][Money Icon] [Microsoft PowerPoint](http://office.microsoft.com/PowerPoint) - The standard tool to create presentations
- Web applications:
- [Google Slides](https://docs.google.com/presentation) - Free Online Presentations for Personal Use
- ![Commercial Software][Money Icon] [Microsoft PowerPoint](http://office.microsoft.com/PowerPoint) - Web version of the standard tool to create presentations
- ![Commercial Software][Money Icon] [Microsoft Sway](https://sway.office.com) - Makes it easy to create and share interactive reports, personal stories, presentations, and more
- ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] [OnlyOffice Presentation Editor](https://www.onlyoffice.com/presentation-editor.aspx) [](https://github.com/ONLYOFFICE/DocumentServer) - Open, create and edit stunning PowerPoint presentations, online version
- ![Commercial Software][Money Icon] [Prezi Present](https://prezi.com/de/) - Create moving, zooming presentations that grab attention and keep it
- HTML/CSS-based:
- ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] [Bespoke.js](http://markdalgleish.com/projects/bespoke.js) [](https://github.com/bespokejs/bespoke) - Presentation Micro-Framework
- ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] [deck.js](http://imakewebthings.com/deck.js/) [](https://github.com/imakewebthings/deck.js) - Modern HTML Presentations
- ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] [DeckTape](https://github.com/astefanutti/decktape) [](https://github.com/astefanutti/decktape) - High-quality PDF exporter for HTML presentation frameworks
- ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] [impress.js](https://impress.js.org) [](https://github.com/impress/impress.js) - Presentation framework inspired by the idea behind prezi.com
- ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] [inspire.js](https://github.com/LeaVerou/inspire.js) [](https://github.com/LeaVerou/inspire.js) - Lean, hackable, extensible slide deck framework
- ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] [remark](https://github.com/gnab/remark) [](https://github.com/gnab/remark) - A simple, in-browser, markdown-driven slideshow tool
- ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] [reveal.js](https://revealjs.com) [](https://github.com/hakimel/reveal.js) - An open source HTML presentation framework
- ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] [shower](https://github.com/shower/shower) [](https://github.com/shower/shower) - Another HTML presentation engine
- ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] [Slidev](https://sli.dev) [](https://github.com/slidevjs/slidev) - Presentation Slides for Developers
- ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] [Spectacle](https://formidable.com/open-source/spectacle/) [](https://github.com/FormidableLabs/spectacle) - A ReactJS based Presentation Library
## Tools for presenting slides
- ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] [pdfpc](https://pdfpc.github.io) [](https://github.com/pdfpc/pdfpc) - A presenter console with multi-monitor support for PDF files
- ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] [Pympress](https://github.com/Cimbali/pympress/) [](https://github.com/Cimbali/pympress/) - Pympress is a PDF presentation tool designed for dual-screen setups such as presentations and public talks
- ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] [IpePresenter](https://ipepresenter.otfried.org) - IpePresenter is a presentation tool to show PDF presentations
## Tools for writing papers
- ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] [LaTeX](https://www.latex-project.org) - The popular document preparation system
- ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] [Kile](https://kile.sourceforge.io) [](https://github.com/KDE/kile) - An Integrated LaTeX Editing Environment
- ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] [Texmaker](https://www.xm1math.net/texmaker/) - A free, modern and cross-platform LaTeX editor
- ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] [TeXstudio](https://texstudio.org) [](https://github.com/texstudio-org/texstudio) - An integrated writing environment for creating LaTeX documents
- ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] [Overleaf](https://www.overleaf.com) [](https://github.com/overleaf/overleaf) - The easy to use, online, collaborative LaTeX editor
## Tools for managing your bibliography
... a.k.a. reference management software
An exhaustive list can be found here:
- [Wikipedia - Comparison of reference management software](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_reference_management_software)
However, these seem to be the most used ones:
- ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] [BibDesk](https://bibdesk.sourceforge.io) - Mac bibliography manager
- ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] [KBibTeX](https://apps.kde.org/kbibtex/) [](https://github.com/KDE/kbibtex) - Reference management application which can be used to collect TeX/LaTeX bibliographies
- ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] [JabRef](https://www.jabref.org) [](https://github.com/JabRef/jabref) - An open-source, cross-platform citation and reference management tool
- [Mendeley](https://www.mendeley.com) - A free reference manager that can help you store, organize, note, share and cite references and research data
- ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] [Zotero](https://www.zotero.org) [](https://github.com/zotero/zotero) - Free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources
## Tools for creating figures
- Desktop applications:
- ![Commercial Software][Money Icon] [Adobe Illustrator](https://www.adobe.com/products/illustrator.html) - Vector graphics editor and design program developed and marketed by Adobe
- ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] [Asymptote](https://asymptote.sourceforge.io) [](https://github.com/vectorgraphics/asymptote) - Asymptote is a powerful descriptive vector graphics language for technical drawing
- ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] [Calligra Karbon](https://calligra.org/karbon/) [](https://github.com/KDE/calligra) - A vector drawing application with an user interface that is easy to use, highly customizable and extensible
- ![Commercial Software][Money Icon] [CorelDRAW](https://www.coreldraw.com/en/) - A vector graphics editor developed and marketed by Corel Corporation
- ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] [Dia Diagram Editor](https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Dia) [](https://github.com/GNOME/dia) - A GTK+ based diagram creation program developed by GNOME
- ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] [diagrams.net (formerly draw.io) Desktop](https://github.com/jgraph/drawio-desktop) [](https://github.com/jgraph/drawio-desktop) - A diagrams.net desktop app based on Electron
- ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] [GIMP](https://www.gimp.org) [](https://github.com/GNOME/gimp) - A cross-platform image editor
- ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] [Gnuplot](http://www.gnuplot.info) [](https://github.com/gnuplot/gnuplot) - Portable command-line driven graphing utility
- ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] [Graphviz](http://www.graphviz.org) - An open source graph visualization software
- ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] [Inkscape](https://inkscape.org) [](https://github.com/inkscape/inkscape) - Inkscape is professional quality vector graphics software
- ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] [Ipe](https://ipe.otfried.org) [](https://github.com/otfried/ipe) - The extensible drawing editor for creating figures in PDF format with LaTeX support
- ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] [latexdraw](https://github.com/latexdraw/latexdraw) [](https://github.com/latexdraw/latexdraw) - A vector drawing editor for LaTeX
- ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] [LibreOffice Draw](https://www.libreoffice.org/discover/draw) [](https://github.com/LibreOffice/core) - A vector graphics editor, raster graphics editor, and diagramming tool
- ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] [TikZ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PGF/TikZ) - TikZ is a TeX packages for creating graphics programmatically
- ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] [TikZiT](https://tikzit.github.io) [](https://github.com/tikzit/tikzit) - TikZiT is a super simple GUI editor for graphs and string diagrams
- ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] [ParaView](https://www.paraview.org) [](https://github.com/Kitware/ParaView) - A open-source, multi-platform data analysis and visualization application
- ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] [Xfig](http://mcj.sourceforge.net) - An interactive drawing tool which runs under X Window System
- [yEd graph editor](https://www.yworks.com/products/yed) - High-quality diagrams made easy
- Web applications:
- ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] [diagrams.net (formerly draw.io)](https://app.diagrams.net) [](https://github.com/jgraph/drawio) - A configurable diagramming/whiteboarding visualization application
- [Google Drawings](https://docs.google.com/drawings) - Web application to create diagrams and charts
- ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] [SVG-Edit](https://github.com/SVG-Edit/svgedit) [](https://github.com/SVG-Edit/svgedit) - The most popular open source SVG editor
- Powerful plotting libraries:
- Python:
- ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] [Altair](https://altair-viz.github.io) [](https://github.com/altair-viz/altair) - A declarative statistical visualization library for Python, based on Vega and Vega-Lite
- ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] [ggplot2](https://ggplot2.tidyverse.org) [](https://github.com/tidyverse/ggplot2) - A system for declaratively creating graphics, based on The Grammar of Graphics
- ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] [Matplotlib](https://matplotlib.org) [](https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib) - A comprehensive library for creating static, animated, and interactive visualizations
- ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] [Plotly](https://plotly.com/python/) [](https://github.com/plotly/plotly.py) - A graphing library to create interactive, publication-quality graphs
- ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] [seaborn](https://seaborn.pydata.org) [](https://github.com/mwaskom/seaborn) - Python data visualization library based on matplotlib
- Julia:
- ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] [Plots](https://docs.juliaplots.org/) [](https://github.com/JuliaPlots/Plots.jl) - Powerful convenience for Julia visualizations and data analysis
- ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] [Gadfly](https://github.com/GiovineItalia/Gadfly.jl) [](https://github.com/GiovineItalia/Gadfly.jl) - A plotting and data visualization system written in Julia
- ![Commercial Software][Money Icon] [Matlab plot functions](https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/creating_plots/types-of-matlab-plots.html) - Overview about Matlab functions to generate plots
## Tools for taking notes
- ![Commercial Software][Money Icon] [Bear](https://bear.app) - A beautiful, flexible writing app for crafting notes and prose for iPhone, iPad, and Mac
- ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] [Boost Note](https://boostnote.io/) [](https://github.com/BoostIO/BoostNote-App) - A collaborative real-time markdown note app for developer teams
- ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] [CherryTree](https://www.giuspen.com/cherrytree/) [](https://github.com/giuspen/cherrytree) - A hierarchical note taking application
- [Evernote](https://evernote.com) - App designed for note taking, organizing, task management, and archiving
- [Google Keep](https://www.google.com/keep/) - A note-taking service by Google
- ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] [Joplin](https://joplinapp.org) [](https://github.com/laurent22/joplin) - An open source note-taking app
- ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] [Laverna](https://laverna.cc) [](https://github.com/Laverna/laverna) - A JavaScript note taking application with Markdown editor and encryption support
- ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] [Notable](https://notable.app) [](https://github.com/notable/notable) - The Markdown-based note-taking app that doesn't suck
- ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] [Mark Text](https://marktext.app) [](https://github.com/marktext/marktext) - Next generation markdown editor
- ![Commercial Software][Money Icon] [Microsoft OneNote](https://onenote.com/) - A note-taking program for free-form information gathering and multi-user collaboration
- ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] [Simplenote](https://simplenote.com) [](https://github.com/Automattic/simplenote-electron) - All your notes, synced on all your devices
- ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] [Standard Notes](https://standardnotes.com/) [](https://github.com/standardnotes/web) - A free, open-source, and completely encrypted notes app
- ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] [TiddlyWiki](https://tiddlywiki.com/) [](https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5) - A self-contained JavaScript wiki for the browser
- ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] [Trilium Notes](https://github.com/zadam/trilium) [](https://github.com/zadam/trilium) - A hierarchical note taking application with focus on building large personal knowledge bases
- [Typora](https://typora.io) - A truly minimal markdown editor
- ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] [Zim Wiki](https://zim-wiki.org) [](https://github.com/zim-desktop-wiki/zim-desktop-wiki) - A graphical text editor used to maintain a collection of wiki pages
- [Zoho Notebook](https://www.zoho.com/notebook/) - The most beautiful note taking app across devices
## Other useful tools
- Desktop applications:
- ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] [LibreOffice Math](https://www.libreoffice.org/discover/Math) [](https://github.com/LibreOffice/core) - An application designed for creating and editing mathematical formulae
- ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] [pandoc](https://pandoc.org) [](https://github.com/jgm/pandoc) - A universal document converter
- ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] [sioyek](https://github.com/ahrm/sioyek) [](https://github.com/ahrm/sioyek) - A PDF viewer designed for reading research papers and technical books.
## Journals
- [Metrics on Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=metrics_intro&hl=en) - Top cited publications over the last five years
## Find conferences to attend
- [WikiCFP](http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/) - A semantic wiki for Calls For Papers in science and technology fields
## Publication databases
An exhaustive list can be found here:
- [Wikipedia - List of academic databases and search engines](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_academic_databases_and_search_engines)
However, I find most useful:
- [arXiv](https://arxiv.org) - A free distribution service and an open-access archive
- [Connected Papers](https://www.connectedpapers.com) - Explore connected papers in a visual graph
- [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com) - The biggest academic database & search engine
- [Papers with code](https://paperswithcode.com) - Free and open resource with machine learning papers, code, datasets, methods and evaluation tables
- [ResearchGate](https://www.researchgate.net) - Commercial social networking site for scientists and researchers
- [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org) - Mostly computer science and biomedical publications
## Other
- [Orcid](https://orcid.org) - Get you own open researcher and contributor ID (ORCID)
## Fun
- [phdcomics](http://phdcomics.com) - "Piled Higher and Deeper" (PhD) is the comic strip about life (or the lack hereof) in academia
- [xkcd](https://xkcd.com) - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language
## Related awesome lists
- [Awesome LaTeX](https://github.com/egeerardyn/awesome-LaTeX) [](https://github.com/egeerardyn/awesome-LaTeX/)
- [Awesome Python Data Science](https://github.com/krzjoa/awesome-python-data-science) [](https://github.com/krzjoa/awesome-python-data-science/)
- [Awesome research tools](https://github.com/emptymalei/awesome-research) [](https://github.com/emptymalei/awesome-research/)
- [Awesome Scientific Writing](https://github.com/writing-resources/awesome-scientific-writing) [](https://github.com/writing-resources/awesome-scientific-writing/)
- [Awesome Scientific Computing](https://github.com/nschloe/awesome-scientific-computing) [](https://github.com/nschloe/awesome-scientific-computing/)
- [Delightful Open Science](https://codeberg.org/teaserbot-labs/delightful-open-science)
## License
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