As there has recently been a surge of visitors coming from Moodles and other learning platforms, I thought I’d say hi — hello there!! — to everyone who is new to this blog, and provide some guidance in the form of a table of contents of sorts.

So, where have you landed at? This is a blog by me, where me = Jari Saramäki, an interdisciplinary physicist and a professor at Aalto University, Finland, dabbling in network science and other complexities, and a big fan of lucid writing. Also, a bass guitar player, because someone has to be.

The blog contains things that students have found useful (which may be why you are here), in particular, advice on how to write scientific papers and how to develop your scientific writing skills:

• If you are here for my academic writing series, this is a good blog post to start!
• If you’d like to download the writing cheatsheets, see here and here and here
• You can also download a slide set of my writing talks for CCS Palma ’22 and for NetPlace@NetSci ’23
• If you are interested in my writing guidebook “How to Write a Scientific Paper – an Academic Self-Help Guide for Ph.D. Students“, follow this link for Amazon and this link for other stores
• If you are interested in Aalto University and perhaps in M.Sc. studies in complex systems, click here
• If you want to know why network science is the coolest thing, read this one first

Welcome again, and I hope you’ll find something in this blog that is either useful or entertaining, or both!