You will get through your PhD

A supervisor who is there through thick and thin; is supportive through rejections; and trusts and respects the researcher's abilities is one of the most important factors that define the quality of a researcher's PhD journey.
PhD Voice - Independently Run

#PhD students: if you moved to a new city to study, did you live by yourself or in shared housing? With other students or professionals? University of Glasgow (@UofGFantasy), any advice for moving to Glasgow? Moving by myself, happy with shared or single. The PhD Place PhD_Genie #PhD Life

fellow grad students: how did you learn to make posters that don’t look like ass? I feel like no matter what I try, it’s looks like “‘middle school science fair” 😭

Philosophy folks: what are some red and green flags to look out for when choosing a PhD program? I am daunted by having to make this decision

Y’all remember when I said they’re gonna try to bring back Jim Crow…well it’s happening in Jackson Mississippi and I wish I was exaggerating but I’m not. The bill has passed the house vote.

I don't have a 1st author paper: papers never came up in interviews.

My company didn't ask for references: I only told my toxic former PI when I got the job.

So what did I actually do? I marketed my skills and experiences that matched the responsibilities in the job listing.

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Conferences, when you charge tons of money, you immediately exclude:
- Unfunded PhD researchers
- Independent scholars
- Global South scholars
- Precarious scholars
- Scholars with caring responsibilities
- Disabled scholars
No buffet dinner is worth that trade off😬

Alexa, tell ChatGPT to do my work.

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Check out the tags generalized-additive-model and mgcv

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Instead of showing me your diversity statement, show me your hiring data, your discrimination claim stats, your salary tables, your retention numbers, your diversity policies, and your leaders’ public actions against racism.

End performative allyship.

Popping on to say that Zotero made a killer iPad app—a beautiful PDF reader that supports the pen for highlights, annotations, & notes—feels like reading & marking up a book rather than browsing a computer screen—gorgeous—This is probably my new default for reading articles

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Content? Time? Cost?

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