Future Graduate Students

• Nature: Job Satisfaction: Turbulent Times
  "Nature's 2012 Salary and Satisfaction Survey suggests that many scientists are content with their work, but uneasy about finances." See also Chronicle summary.
  

New Graduate Students

• Storify: Grad School Advice
  Tips via Twitter. See also the #phdchat Twitter tag for even more stories and ideas.
• Chronicle of Higher Education: 6 Things Your Dissertation Director Wishes You Knew
  "Only you can figure out how to manage your personal and emotional life; as advisers we can listen, challenge comfort, and offer guidance." Read the comments, and see also a response.
  

Grad Student Life

• Inside Higher Education: Life Lessons From Patti Smith
  "I finished reading Just Kids last night - Patti Smith's incredible memorial to her relationship with Robert Mapplethorpe. I am grateful that she let me into her world and I recommend it to anyone who is interested in the social nature of creativity."
• Chronicle of Higher Education: Embrace Your Inner Insecurity
  "Do you feel inadequate even though you have done well professionally? Do you worry that you could be fired tomorrow, even if you constantly receive positive feedback? Do you work harder than most people in order to prove that you are not an impostor? If you answered “yes” to one or more of these questions, you are probably remarkably successful."

Writing and Research

• Patter blog: Is writing a book chapter a waste of time?
  "A couple of weeks ago a colleague suggested that I might want to offer some advice on whether it was better to write a book, a journal article or a book chapter."
• London School of Economics and Political Science blog: Organizing your personal research library and compiling bibliographies: I was an EndNote refusenik, but now I’m a Mendeley convert
  "Until a few days ago the way I organized my research library was a bit chaotic, and doing references and bibliographies was always a huge chore that often took days at a time. Essentially I had hundreds and hundreds of PDFs, extracts from blogs and web pages, Word documents and presentations swilling around my hard drive." See also this presentation. Techcrunch has more analysis on Mendeley.
• AskMetafilter: How can I write my dissertation at home?
  "I'm looking for advice on how to make dissertation writing time at home as productive as possible and to make working at home feel more like an job and/or office. I know that I'm supposed to set aside regular hours and unplug the internet, but I'm looking for ideas on how to do that better and to really differentiate between computer work time and computer fun time in order to be as productive as possible at home." They also have an archive of other questions tagged "gradschool" but beware the point where reading tips stops being useful and becomes a procrastinating timesuck.
  

After Graduation

• Wired: The Results are in: Scientists are Workaholics
  "Far from academia being a cushy and lazy lifestyle as sometimes portrayed in fiction, researchers know that science is an around-the-clock endeavor. Well, we now have some quantitative data to back this up."