How to Survive (and Thrive) in Research is the book every junior researcher wishes they had when they started. From choosing your PhD topic to starting your own research team, this book distills over twenty years of experience, mistakes, and lessons learned into short, brutally honest pieces of advice. Each one equal parts practical, insightful, and funny. No sugarcoating, no academic jargon, just real talk about the messy, unpredictable, and rewarding world of research. Whether you’re a PhD student, postdoc, or new Principal Investigator, this book will help you navigate the politics, the failures, the reviewers, and occasionally, the science itself. Accelerate your academic career by learning in a few hours what would otherwise take you years of trial and error. Take what fits your situation, ignore what doesn’t, feel free to disagree, and, above all, enjoy the process of surviving (and thriving) in research.