A collection of useful links
Training
- Making the Right Moves, a terrific scientific managment guide. This is a textbook associated with a course I help teach on Preparing Future Faculty.
- Materials for nurturing scientists, A really great page by Uri Alon.
- Postdoc fellowships, compiled by Annelien Zweemer and Martin Stewart.
- Points of Significance, a collection of columns by Nature Methods, intro to statistical tools. We have given short workshops on these topics.
- git - the simple guide, an easy to follow guide for using git.
- How to write titles that tempt, a blog post by Mark Johnston.
- Simple rules for concise scientific writing, a useful guide for almost every scientist.
Lifestyle
- San Francisco Ballet, SF Ballet is one of the world's greatest dance companies
- Bay Area Theatre, Your one-stop shop for auditions, job listings, grants, discount tickets, and professional training opportunities in the San Francisco Bay Area
- Sonoma County Guide, With hundreds of wineries, restaurants, hotels, B&Bs, inns, and a million acres of gorgeous landscape to explore, this site helps you begin.
- San Francisco Chronicle, Exclusive Bay Area and San Francisco breaking news, sports, tech, and food and wine coverage
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Become a member os SFMOMA and enjoy first access to exhibitions, free admission for you and guests, etc
- San Francisco Opera, is known for commissioning numerous world premieres, training some of opera's greatest young artists and being one of the world's leading leading opera houses
- San Francisco Symphony, founded in 1911, this is a great activity for the whole family
- SF Visitors Guide, This is the place to find out about all things San Francisco
- San Francisco Pride, The San Francisco Pride parade is a world-renowned LGBT pride parade
General Resources
- Interactive Map of San Francisco
- Map of San Francisco
- San Francisco Chronicle Rental Listings
- San Francisco Weather
Schools
Government & Transportation
- Muni Metro System (buses and streetcars)
- BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit)
- San Francisco Government
- San Francisco International Airport