Our 2026 iteration of the block course “Research Skills” will start on Monday March 2nd. The objective of this course is to learn discipline-independent skills for quantitative research. For more details and sign-up information, see the links our teaching page. 

Contents

1. Introduction to philosophy and history of science, the scientific method
2. Finding a good research question
3. Literature research and organization
4. Design of experiments and reproducibility
5. Data analysis in R
6. Visualization
7. Introduction to LaTeX
8. Scientific writing,
9. Logic and clarity
10. Scientific presentations
11. Good scientific practice