#Academia:
What is your advice to brand new Master's and PhD students joining a lab?
How does one pitch a thesis idea? Where to start? How to begin a literature search without drowning in papers?
(Resource links and personal advice are encouraged with the caveat that each situation is unique.)
www.fpbase.org and public.brain.mpg.de/SpectraViewer/ (the latter does not seem to get updated anymore(?).