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What NOT to ask a PhD student 😂 #phdlife #phdchat #PhDone #AcademicTwitter #AcademicMentalHealth #AcademicChatter University of Hertfordshire uh PhD Balance PhD Voice - Independently Run PHD Comics

You cannot “resilience” your way out of systemic oppression, chronic pain/fatigue/illness, or societal barriers.

“Rights aren’t pie - you don’t get less just cos another group is given some”. But the trans lobby isn’t really asking for the same rights as the rest of us. The trans lobby is demanding that the resources women have carved out for ourselves be reallocated to male “trans women”

The worst thing I see people in academia go through is lose their confidence and more so of when you are an immigrant as you are almost controlled with your visa situation or the fact that you came from elsewhere. There is no inclusion. #academia #AltAcChats #AcademicChatter

A few years ago, a dept chair at another institution told me "A faculty member's behavior has nothing to do with their job performance - they are completely separate things." That one sentence sums up so much of what is broken in academia as well as how we can fix it.

Suffering rarely makes sense. Suffering is unreasonable; it is irrational. Still, we work very hard to make sense out of it. I often think that the ability to explain suffering is the clearest indicator of never having suffered.

Too many manchildren in academic faculty positions. Just because they can do research, it doesn't mean they can manage and supervise people. The consequences of their immaturity, petulance and mismanagement are dire. They should be held accountable for their misbehaviour.

Having a code of conduct and diversity initiatives is meaningless if you won’t take action against bullies. It’s actively harmful to bring people from minoritised backgrounds into an environment where you will not support them. This will not be a safe environment SVP

Have you ever felt this way?

It's not okay to offer funding where the recipient uses their own money first and is reimbursed later. This puts serious pressure on those in less privileged positions. Many struggle (silently) or lose out completely. Reduce inequity by offering resources up front.

Looks like at least I did. Even though it's been a couple of years since I defended my PhD thesis I still get badly triggered every time I think about my PhD supervisor's evaluation of me and me work. 😢 It was the most demeaning thing I've ever read in my life!

Generally what kind of questions are asked in a postdoc interview, especially in the area of theoretical physics? Academic Chatter™

One of the best pieces of advice I can give to grad students is something that I learned from my time as a competitive swimmer: It's natural to want to see how fast others around you are going, but looking around slows you down and ruins your form. Focus on your own goals & time.

Depression is more common in the suburbs than in city centers, finds new research The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand Science Advances doi.org/dzwbm5 medicalxpress.com/news/2023-05-d…

If you have a leadership job, then you also have a kindness job. Yes, there is work to get done and goals to meet. But we also have a responsibility to leverage our authority and decision making capability to uphold human dignity.