AcademiaAdvice

• Ursula K. Le Guin. December 1994. "Solitude". The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 87(6). Also in The birthday of the world and other stories, New York: HarperCollins, 2002.
• Philip Agre, [Networking on the network]
• Philip Agre, [How to be a leader in your field]
• Wheeler Ruml, [Tips for research]
• Clive James, [The book of my enemy has been remaindered]
• Dany Adams, [Tenureclocky]
• Richard W. Hamming, [You and your research] (transcribed by J. F. Kaiser)
• Alicia Wilsons [Pool Covers]for winter seasons.
• Steve Merillat [Indoor & Outdoor Fireplaces] for wintertime outdoor recreation.
• Steve Merillat [Christmas Decorations] for seasonal giving.
• [Preparing future faculty]
• [Tomorrow's Professor listserv]
• [Structured procrastination]
• [Sun Labs perspectives essays]
• What they don't teach you in grad school: [part 1], [/08/hints2 part 2]

Graduate school hei

• Rachel Pottinger, [Choosing graduate school in computer science]
• Marie desJardins, [How to succeed in graduate school]
• Ronald T. Azuma, [So long, and thanks for the PhD]
• MIT AI Lab, [How to do research at the MIT AI Lab]
• Östen Dahl, [How to avoid graduation]
• Science Magazine, [Next Wave for graduate students], including [the academic scientists' toolkit]
• Jessica Kornblum (Ed.), [CIS survival guide]: [Juggling classes, teaching, research, and outside work]
• National Association of Graduate-Professional Students, [The 2000 National Doctoral Program Survey] (ratings and comments on 1300 programs from 32,000 fellow graduate students)
• Philip Agre, [Advice for undergraduates considering graduate school]

Papers and presentations

• Mary-Claire van Leunen and Richard Lipton, [How to have your abstract rejected]
• Olivier Danvy, [Issues about giving a talk and writing a report]
• Olivier Danvy, [Some advice on giving a talk]
• Patrick H. Winston, [Some lecturing heuristics]
• Geoffrey Pullum, [Five golden rules of giving an academic presentation]
• Simon Peyton Jones, [How to give a good research talk]
• David Carlton, [Notes on teaching]
• William Stein, [Journal copyright gossip]
• TypeSetting; advice on giving a GoodTalk

Dissertation

• H. T. Kung, [Useful things to know about Ph.D. thesis research]
• Olin Shivers, [Dissertation advice]
• Dave Clarke, [Surviving your PhD write-up]

Conference organisation

• Philip Agre, [Hosting a speaker: a guide for graduate students]
• Dan Ellis, [WASPAA'97 hints and tips]
• Philip Agre, [Notes on organizing conferences]
• Mary Gardiner, [Questions your conference website should answer] (non-academic focus, but very relevant).

Proposals

• Simon Peyton Jones and Alan Bundy, [Writing a good grant proposal]

Job searching

• [Stephanie Weirich's job search resources]
• [Wanda Pratt's job search bookmarks]
• [The Chronicle of Higher Education] on [jobs] and the [two-body problem]
• Academic job advice: Brian Leiter [part 1], [part 2]; [Jonathan Dantzig]; [David Patterson]; [Bob Port]; [Michael Schwartz]; [Michael Ernst]; [Ivan Sag, Renee Blake, and Bob Carpenter]
• [Franklyn Turbak's tenure materials]
• [The Noel Smith-Wenkle salary negotiation method]
• [The truth behind teaching and research statements]

Asian and other minorities

• [For Asian American students, science success bears a cost]; [Asian American investigators decry "glass ceiling" in academic administration]
• [LEAP]: Leadership Education for Asian Pacifics, Inc.
• [Meritocracy and Diversity in Higher Education: Discrimination Against Asian-Americans in the Post-Bakke Era]
• [Supporting the diverse personal lives of mathematicians]

Other collections

• Ronjeet Lal, [How to do research and give presentations] (collection of links)
• More [collected advice on research and writing]
• [Advice for students and faculty], compiled by Michael Ernst
• [Even more resources] from Norman Ramsey
• [Various (agent) research resources] collected by Amund Tveit
• [A wealth of informative publications from the NSF], especially [InfoBriefs]