This lecture is primarily of interest to first-year Ph.D. students.
Recommendations are given for beginning researchers. They include general recommendations for:

addressing people at conferences, career-orientedness versus loving ideas, choosing (ambitious or modest) topics, choosing co-authors, giving lectures, handling referees, not-to-do-Ph.D. if not planning an academic career, organizing homepage, overselling versus integrity, reporting errors made during a study, reputation-building needed before initiating revolutions, starting new rather than completing old projects, writing papers.

The lecture is based on many years of supervising Ph.D. students, seeing that they have the same misunderstandings that I had when I was a Ph.D. student.

To sign up for the lecture, please send an email to:  students-council@tinbergen.nl