• Suggested readings for incoming grad students
  
• Suggestions for undergraduates seeking research experience
  

• The utility of reading papers, attending talks, etc.
  
• Should researchers be evaluated by their best work or by the mean quality of their work?
  
• When should you read the literature in a new field?
  
• Breadth vs. depth: Playing the devil's advocate to Cajal's 'sword' metaphor
  
• Why there's no such thing as the ideal scientist
  
• A heuristic for evaluating intellectual productivity: the 'ideas per paper' quotient
  
• Seeing the intellectual forest from the trees
  
• Why I don't care about your hypotheses
  

• 'How I work' by Paul Krugman  
  On the surface this presents some thoughts on how to be a good economist, but I think the advice here is much more broadly applicable -- in particular to cognitive psychology, where many of the same situations apply (e.g. the ubiquity of ultimately useless demonstrations of technical firepower).  
   
  
• 'Some modest advice for graduate students' by Stephen Stearns (Yale EEB)  
  On the surface this presents some wise (and refreshingly blunt) thoughts on how to be a begin a career in evolutionary biology, but much of the advice here is applicable to many fields, including cognitive psychology! (One key recommendation that I disagree with is the suggestion to first take a full year to read and think before starting a research project. The motivation for this is right -- you want to get a sense of the big picture, certainly, and not just begin by doing the next step in one of your advisor's grants, or extrapolating from previous research. But another key task for your first year is to figure out if you really like doing research, and the only way to tell is to start doing it.)  
  

• Where I work
• Hard at work early in my career
• Why I sometimes come to work late (#1), Why I sometimes come to work late (#2)

• My Erdos number is (not more than) 5
• My academic lineage leads back to some interesting people and ideas

• Milestones: Year 1, Year 2, Years 3 & 4, Years 5-8, Years 9+
• Early exposure to cognitive science (courtesy of my graduate students) (5/10; 20 MB .mov file)
• Teaching Yale students about language acquisition (10/12)

Co-authors' webpages

Alice Albrecht, George Alvarez, Dick Aslin, Adam Bear, Marlene Berke, Wenyan Bi, Ohad Ben-Shahar, Chris Chabris, Andrew Chang, Yi-Chia Chen, Erik Cheries, Hoon Choi, Marvin Chun, Clara Colombatto, Julian De Freitas, Matt Doran, Ansgar Endress, Jacob Feldman, Chaz Firestone, Jozsef Fiser, Jon Flombaum, Steve Franconeri, Tao Gao, Tamsin German, June Gruber, Jim Hoffman, Phillip Isola, Julian Jara-Ettinger, Marcia Johnson, Justin Junge, Min-Shik Kim, Ami Klin, Jonathan Kominsky, Alan Leslie, Dan Levin, Qi Lin, Brandon Liverence, Adam Lowet, Alexandria Marino, Greg McCarthy, Jacques Mehler, Hauke Meyerhoff, Steve Mitroff, Steve Most, Ken Nakayama, Josh New, George Newman, Nic Noles, Joan Ongchoco, Zenon Pylyshyn, Hannah Raila, Monica Rosenberg, Laurie Santos, Bob Schultz, Dan Simons, Amir Soltani, Brent Strickland, Laurel Trainor, Teresa Treat, Polly Tremoulet, Nick Turk-Browne, Stefan Uddenberg, Ben van Buren, Rob van Lier, Kristy vanMarle, Johan Wagemans, Robert Walter-Terrill, Vivian Wang, Emily Ward, Julie Wolf, Kim Wong, Karen Wynn, Fei Xu, Yaoda Xu, Tristan Yates, Do-joon Yi, Ilker Yildirim, Steve Zucker

Interesting cogsci-related miscellany

• The Auditory List
• Classics in the History of Psychology
• James Gibson's 'Purple Perils'
• ViperLib
• VisionScience

Random things worth reading

• The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online
• Crypto-Gram
• xkcd
• Journal Declarations of Independence

Some services I find useful

• LISICOS (Real-time surface and bottom temperatures in Long Island Sound)
• ThrowAwayMail (for disposable email accounts)
• EFF CoverYourTracks (Browser tracking/privacy/fingerprinting tests; formerly Panopticlick)
• MacInTouch (Macintosh news)
• OpenSourceMac (Open-source Macintosh software)

Things I like

• Fiction: Neal Stephenson, Iain Banks, Vernor Vinge, Steven Brust, Kim Stanley Robinson
• Music: Rush, Pat Metheny, Goose, Cheryl Wheeler, Hamilton
• My Copious Spare Time: Kayaking, Poker (Poker?, Poker!), Go, Other games