• 1 Guiding principles
  • 2 Supervision
    • 2.1 My supervisory style
    • 2.2 Mentoring plan
  • 3 Your thesis
    • 3.1 Hypotheses and models
    • 3.2 Coding
    • 3.3 Writing
  • 4 Being a graduate student
    • 4.1 Being a gradute student at MUN
      • 4.1.1 Opportunities for professional growth
      • 4.1.2 Funding
      • 4.1.3 Student visas
    • 4.2 Work-life balance
    • 4.3 Mental health
    • 4.4 Diversity, equity, and inclusion
  • 5 Professional development
    • 5.1 Talks and conferences
    • 5.2 Reviewing
    • 5.3 Working in industry
  • 6 Links

Resources for graduate students in the Hurford Lab

6 Links

A list of professional skills from the College of Biological at UMN Duluth.

Ten simple rules towards healtheir research labs

A twitter thread on what I wish I knew when I started graduate school.

Stephen Stearns wrote Some modest advice to a gradaute students. This Dynamic ecology blog provides some good updated discussion on this classic.

A perspective on being a Chinese scholar in the USA; applicable to Canada too.