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Jody's Advice to Young Scientists

• How to read a journal article
• How to give a class presentation
• How to review a paper or grant
• How to give a conference poster presentation
• How to get good reference letters
• How to write effective scholarship applications
• How to write a journal article
• Error bars: What they tell you and what they don't

Others' Advice

• Guidebook for New Principal Investigators (includes good advice for writing papers and grants that students and postdocs should read)
• 10 easy ways to fail a Ph.D.
• Tutis Vilis's Survival Skills for Graduate Students
• The importance of stupidity in scientific research
• Advice from Brian Scholl:
  How to give a class presentation
• Ramon Y Cajal's Advice to a Young Investigator is an amazing book
• Some thoughts on mentors from Stephen Jay Gould
• A list of pages with advice for grad students
• Grammar rules that you'll remember:
  How to use an apostrophe
  How to use a semicolon
  When to use "i.e."