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(Modest) advice for graduate students

(Modest) advice for graduate students

Here you will find material that should help you to develop a scientific career. These are texts written by people who have gone through the various problems common to all graduate students. They offer tips on how to solve these problems. Some are obvious, others less so. Some might even pejoratively call them "self-help." Don't worry about the label. Give some thought to the tips, even those that are obvious at first. Maybe they're not...

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Giddings, M.C. 2008. On the process of becoming a great scientist. PLOS Computational Biology 4: e33.
Herman, I.P. 2007. Following the law. Nature 445: 228.
Jenkins, S.H. 2008. How do graduate students in Ecology choose a reasearch problem? Bull. Ecol. Soc. Am. 89: 401-406.
Lawton, J.H. 1992. (Modest) advice for graduate students. Oikos 65: 361-362.
Blog Sobrevivêndo na Ciência - Prof. Dr. Marco Mello (UFMG)
Moreno, E. & Gutiérrez, J.-M. 2008. Ten simple rules for aspiring scientists in a low-income country. PLOS Computational Biology 4: e1000024.
Powell, K. 2010. Publish like a pro. Nature 467: 873-875.
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Stearns, S.C. 2010. Some modest advice for graduate students.  http://www.yale.edu/eeb/stearns/advice.htm