Are you seeing this because you're scrolling X rather than working on something to do with your PhD? So many reasons why that's not a failing on your part ... When It Really Is Procrastination: The PhD Experience open.substack.com/pub/thrivingre… #phdwellbeing #phdmentalhealth

PhDs need tools for uniquely academic challenges: nebulous projects, decision fatigue, invisible thinking work, and the paralysing overwhelm. I wrote about what actually works: thrivingresearcher.substack.com/p/field-tested… #PhDChat #AcademicTwitter #PhDLife #PhdAdvice #AcademicWriting #GradSchool

Meet your unwelcome travel companion: the academic goblin. It appears when you’re most vulnerable and transforms specific research challenges into existential crises. New post: Navigation tools for when you’re lost in your PhD (and your goblin is catastrophising).

“I’d stopped saying ‘I think maybe...’ and started saying ‘In my experience...’“ The moment when you realise you’ve crossed from wanderer to guide in your PhD journey. New post on how getting lost transforms you: bit.ly/3Ytv1Aq #PhDchat #AcademicTwitter Ph.D. hardtalk

You Were Never Meant to Thrive in That System Why exhaustion doesn’t mean you’re broken — it means the system is misaligned "I thought I was just bad at research. I didn’t realise I’d internalised a system that rewards silence, self-sacrifice, and the illusion of constant