This lovely piece has been circulating of late, but Sonke has been kind enough to allow the SCQ to present his "Advice for Potential Graduate Students" as a handy dandy pin-up, suitable for pinning up in some visible area of your lab.
Anyway, worth a read - as a previous grad student, and now supervisor type - the advice is pretty sound.
Go here to read the full piece in its entirety (or to download the pin-up). And/or check out Sonke's lab here.
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The trick to understanding evolution is less about finding good answer to questions, but rather, finding good questions to answer.
Read that sentence twice, because it is very important.
Funny grammar in the first sentence of your post...
oops. Thanks Bora
Ooops - I had no idea it was supposed to be a link to me ;-)