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“Used properly, this tool will encourage you, and your lab mates, to operate outside your normal mode of thinking.”

“Our recent personal history teaches us that what we will most likely receive when we seek guidance is a swift kick in the pants.”

The trouble is that if you start off without much space, your ability to produce good science is seriously compromised.

"If you have already learned how to function independently in a laboratory environment by the time you graduate from your undergraduate institution, then you are really well-prepared for graduate school." --Chris Burge

For students brave enough to dust off their passports in seeking a Ph.D., the rewards can be great.

Science Careers provides direct links to GrantsNet's funding database, so you can find your next science scholarship, internship, or research opportunity.

“The glut of graduate students enticed by the growing support a few years ago have since found it difficult to get their own work funded … and the sudden deceleration in funding has left many researchers feeling slighted even though their funding grew by leaps and bounds in the past decade.” --Yuval Levin

You don’t have to leave scientific training to have an enjoyable (and lucrative) side business as a technical consultant.

Diana Marques followed her passion for painting and biology separately until one day she saw an ad for a scientific illustration workshop.

"I sometimes think of it as doing a little 'armchair anthropology,' asking what it's like in this lab, and can I thrive here?" --Chris Golde

If they can't influence others positively, they will be relegated to running assays for the next 10 years.

It's a safe bet that some people in your lab are a lot different from you. A first step in getting along with your lab mates (or anyone, for that matter) is acknowledging that they may be hard-wired to approach problems in a certain way.

"Faced with falling grant-approval rates, researchers need to work harder and smarter to get their projects funded."

"The best applications ... have a plan of research ... that is ... realistic [and] at the same time has this visionary quality," says Anders Björklund, chair of the Neurosciences ERC panel.

"A strong application always demonstrates an appreciation of the background of the field, with appropriate references to the results of others."

"We hear persistent reports of postdocs and other folks working on grants who are either forbidden to take maternity leave or told that if they do, they'll be fired." --Joan Williams

Environmental forensics is an established discipline in North America, but in the United Kingdom and Europe, the field has emerged more slowly. It's gaining speed, however.

"Do I need to learn to rely on my own desires, the rest of the world be damned?"

"I, like every other graduate student I knew, developed a sixth sense for knowing when the dean's office had leftover hors d'oeuvres after a reception."