Here’s a list of resources that seem useful. If you find anything else useful, let us know and we’ll add it!
There are much more on the French page, since most of the GCD people are snail-eaters.
Some of them (especially the guides) can be consulted physically in our little space at the BU Jacques Hadamard (see the poster we made …ᘛ⁐̤ᕐᐷ).
Somes guides to go through PhD
Guide to a doctorate in France
A great guide to the PhD (from funding to completion, by defending or not), with a list of good and bad practices. It’s written by two official associations (the CJC and the ANDès), and it’s full of legal references that can be useful to PhD students, supervisors, doctoral schools, etc…
Practical guide against sexual harrasment at university
A practical guide full of legal references. Written by the wonderful association CLASCHES.
Other cool websites
An unordered list of various websites.
• Global PhD Server, a Discord server that gathers people from all over the world
• PHD STUDENTS, a very active Discord server, with thousands of members. Ours look quite ridiculous next to it, but hey, it’s not a competition… and the goal isn’t the same. It’s mostly in French, but there are English sections. Open from master’s students to young researchers (before supervising).
• The illustrated guide to a PhD, a funny little webpage.
• TOR University Challenge, a website to convince your university to host a TOR relay, and thus help citizens from authoritarian states to circumvent censorship. To contribute directly to a free internet, there’s the plugin Snowflake installable on personal browser.
• Terence Tao’s advices for young researchers .