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Academic career advice

Tom Carsey, Tom's Comments: Advice about Graduate School, Finding a Job, Reaching Tenure in Political Science and other Social Sciences, and All of the Steps in Between

Jessica McCrory Calarco, A Field Guide to Grad School: Uncovering the Hidden Curriculum

Robert Peters, Getting What You Came For: The Smart Student's Guide to Earning an M.A. or a Ph.D.

Fabio Rojas, Grad Skool Rulz: Everything You Need to Know about Academia from Admissions to Tenure

Gary King, So You're a Grad Student Now? Maybe You Should Do This

Paul Musgrave, Being a Professor is a Job

Michael Munger, IHS essays and videos Kosmos podcasts on academic success

Michael Munger, Scholars Talk Writing

Erin Ackerman, "Analyze This": Writing in the Social Sciences

Paul Graham, How to Do Great Work

Alvaro de Menard, What's Wrong with Social Science and How to Fix It: Reflections After Reading 2578 Papers

Justin Grimmer, Barry Weingast, and Ken Schultz, Advice to PhD Students Going on the Academic Job Market

Carlisle Rainey, Thoughts on Talks

Arthur Spirling, Job Talks: A Talk

Emily Hanford, Don't Lecture Me: Rethinking the Way College Students Learn

Tom Carsey, What Makes for a Good Research Presentation

Phil Agre, Networking on the Network

Richard Hamming, You and Your Research

Phil Arena, Signaling Advice For Grad Students

Cal Newport, Some Thoughts on Grad School

Don Davis, Ph.D. Thesis Research: Where do I Start?

Ira Glass on the gap between your taste and your work and how to close it and Todd Henry on developing your creative voice

Journal editors on what makes a good review

Chris Blattman, How to get a PhD *and* save the world

Paul Edwards, How to Give an Academic Talk

Ezra W. Zuckerman, Tips to Article-Writers

Philip J. Guo, The Ph.D. Grind: A Ph.D. Student Memoir

Karen Kelsky, Should I Do an Edited Collection?

Hugo Lindgren, Be Wrong as Fast as You Can

Sam Altman, Productivity

Eric Chown, Giving Computer Science Students Freedom

Eve Ewing, How to write a personal statement for graduate school

Kieran Healy on nuance traps in theories of social behavior

Tyler Cowen on the relative importance of incentives vs. where we are on the innovation curve

David Karpf, The Dissertation as Teacher

Robert J. Stenberg, Self-Sabotage in the Academic Career

Andrew Oswald, Things I would have found it useful to have been told when I was a young researcher

Kurt Gray and Daniel M. Wegner, Six Guidelines for Interesting Research

Cosma R. Shalizi, On Academic Talks: Memory and Fear

Radhika Nagpal, The-Awesomest-7-Year-Postdoc or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Tenure-track-faculty-life

Nathan M. Jensen, My paper's journey through the review process

Gabriel Rossman on how we broke peer review and how to fix it

Chris Blattman, Frequently asked questions on PhD applications

Mark Cuban, Don't Follow Your Passion, Follow Your Effort

Kaitlin Gallagher, Fixed vs Growth Mindsets

Chris Blattman, Advice for new Assistant Professors

Jesse Shapiro, How to Give an Applied Micro Talk

John Patty, The Math of Getting a Job in Political Science

Marc F. Bellemare, How to Publish in Academic Journals

Brian McGill, William Shockley on what makes a person who publishes a lot of papers

Elliot T. Berkman, Advice for Grad Students (and Senior Faculty)

Scott Adams, Passion is overrated and goals are for losers

Jonathan Berk, Campbell R. Harvey, and David A. Hirshleifer, Preparing a Referee Report: Guidelines and Perspectives

Leonard Mlodinow on myths about where scientific discoveries come from

Ezra Klein's advice to young journalists (much applies to aspiring academics)

Avoiding gender bias in reference writing

Chris Jones, Nine Rules for Creative Work

Stephen M. Walt, How to Get Tenure

Scott Alexander, Nonfiction Writing Advice

Andrew Little, Three Templates for Introductions to Political Science Articles

Johannes Haushofer, CV of Failures

Daniel McCormack on why you shouldn't ask a professor whether you should pursue a Ph.D.

Paul N. Edwards, How to Give an Academic Talk

Jean Yang, The Genius Fallacy

Brett Mensh and Konrad Kording, Ten simple rules for structuring papers

Matt Might, 10 easy ways to fail a Ph.D.

David Evans, How to Publish Statistically Insignificant Results in Economics

Gary King, Dissertation Advice

Amy Catalinac, Overcoming Barriers to Women’s Advancement in Political Science

Jacquelyn Pless, 12 Job Market "Vitals"

Philip Guo, A Five-Minute Guide to Ph.D. Program Applications

Paul Niehaus, Doing research

Paul Graham, Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule

Ben Olken, My Epic Failures

Josh Kertzer, Five things I wish I knew over the past decade

Benjamin Lauderdale, Things that I have learned by being a journal editor

John Lofland, How to Make Out in Graduate Sociology

Jacob Steinhardt, Research as a Stochastic Decision Process

Arthur Spirling, Rejection

Arthur Spirling, On Being a (Successful) Graduate Student

Eric Zwick, The 12 Step Program for Grad School and How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Job Market