More Advice:

On Jobs

• Making the Right Moves: A Practical Guide to Scientific Management for Postdocs and New Faculty: Burroughs Wellcome Fund and Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
• Listen to some excellent advice "Starting a Research Group in 1978: Are the Lessons Still Relevant?" 2002 course keynote by HHMI President and Nobel laureate Thomas R. Cech. Advice on obtaining a faculty position and achieving tenure, leading a research team, mentoring students, balancing research and teaching, and more.
• QUALMS AND QUESTIONS FOR AN ACADEMIC JOB INTERVIEW (a PDF file) By Clyde F. Herreid II and Robert J. Full
• The role and rights of postdocs
• Choices in neuroscience careers by Tamas Bartfai, Tom Insel, Gord Fishell and Nancy Rothwell
• Preparing your academic job search by LH Ting
• Preparing for your academic job interview by LH Ting
• The B&B Primer on First Job Haggling

On being a graduate student

• The Canadian Society for Life Science Research (CSLSR) is a nationwide non-profit initiative developed by Canadian student researchers
• Graduate Student Resource Page.
• What Every New Grad Student Should Know.
• So Long, and thanks for the Ph.D. required reading for every new graduate student.
• A good book. A Ph.D. is Not Enough! A guide to Survival in Science. Peter J. Feibelman. Addison-Wesley Publishing Company 1993

On teaching and research

• But why "university professors still concentrate far too much on research"

And finally some welcome relief:

• Effects of PhD examination stress
• "Graduate Student Humor Page"
• A Day in the Life of a Grad Student
• The How to be a terrible thesis advisor
• Why God Never Received Tenure
• Top ten subtle differences between grad school and Hell