How it started vs. how it’s going
Today I passed the final step toward candidacy, my proposal defense, after completing my comps this past spring. It’s official! 🥹🧪 #PhDlife
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Fully stitched and before the rinse to remove stabilizer and dirt and such.
#ThreadArt
#PhDLife
I used 3 colors in the French Knots and varied b/t 2 & 3 wraps around needle.
I cannot do a colonial knot to save my life, it seems (or maybe they’re supposed to look malformed and too small)
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I also loved graduate school 💙!
This “being happy in grad school” became nearly taboo on the other site… (only “hating grad school” became cool). I’m happy to see people being able to say PhD life was a positive experience for them!
Who else enjoyed graduate school?! 🧪🧠👩🔬🦋 #neuroscience #phdlife
Audrey Drotos, PhD 🧠 🔬 @audreydrotos.bsky.social
Not many people would say that grad school was the best five years of their life, but I loved every second of getting my PhD in the @robertsneuro.bsky.social lab. I’m packing up my things to move today and feeling so grateful for my people—it’s been an absolute honor. ❤️ 🧪 🧠
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Not a new paper, but still helps (1/2)
PhD survival guide @embopress.org
#PhD #PhDlife #academics #scisky #medsky
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Somehow I'm done with the 1st year of my PhD! It's been everything I've hoped for and couldn't be happier w/my cohort, profs, dept and staff. My dissertation on Japanese American disability history will be a dictionary-length book. Taking the summer off to sleep! #PhDLife #AcademicSky #DisabilitySky
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Yay! I got a scholarship to buy $500 in books about disability, disability history, disability studies, critical disability studies, etc. I need a bookshelf. #AcademicSky #PhDLife #DisabilitySky #BookSky #Skystorians
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Happy Fri-YAY!! 2 months of thesis writing finally comes to an end today #Science #PhDLife #SleepDeprived
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*sighs heavily in anthropologist that researches nationalism
And heritage amongst other things*
Heritage & its performance is a critical means of contemporary nation-state construction and maintenance.
This is white supremacist fascism.
#PhDLife
#DissertationWriting
Amy J. Rutenberg @amyjay401.bsky.social
Last week, while visiting several Smithsonian museums, I kept wondering how long it would take for this administration to direct exhibits to be pulled. Not long, it turns out. 🗃️ www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...
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I have written a post about the State of Los Alamos; its inability to substantially accelerate or add new missions; and why trying to do so is a bad idea.
Also: don't touch things in Plutonium Facility-4 & I'd stay out of the Basement & away from its mysteries.
#PhDLife
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Los Alamos: Filthy, Strained, Exemplary | Martin Pfeiffer
Los Alamos: Filthy, Strained, Exemplary by Martin Pfeiffer on Patreon. Join Martin Pfeiffer's community for exclusive content and updates.
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Super excited for my first day as Assistant Prof at @cuanschutz.bsky.social in the Dept of Pharmacology! The lab is open, and now I can't wait to do exciting science! #FirstGen #newPI #STEM #AcademicLife #ExcitingScience #PhDLife #WomenInSTEM #MomInSTEM #GenomeStability #CellBiology #DNARepair
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#Etymology and #History folks:
Are Old Norse "Austr" and Latin "Auster" coincidence or cognates?
#phdchat #phdvoice #phdlife
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#Evolution #Anthropology friends:
What criteria define #Homosapiens?
Ive read that they existed prior to anatomically modern humans, so what makes early H. sapiens included despite not being physically the same?
#phdchat #phdvoice #phdlife
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Day 1 of the Symposium on Cellular Biophysics 2026 is a wrap! 🥳🔬
Huge thanks to faculty members
@idikic.bsky.social and @heilemannlab.bsky.social for two fantastic opening talks on cellular homeostasis and super-resolution microscopy.
Photos by Louise Duever.
#IMPRS_CBP #phdlife
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1750 words written on the Qualifying Exam this morning and it feels solid.
#PhDLife
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PhD Degree (06)-Fully Funded at University of Nottingham, England
#VacancyEdu #PhD #PhDposition #PhDlife #PhdScholarship #FutureDoctor #DoctoralCandidate #Postgraduate #PhDstudent #ResearchOpportunity #PhDcommunity #PhDStudentship
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PhD Degree (06)-Fully Funded at University of Nottingham, England
University of Nottingham, Nottingham, England invites online Application for number of Fully Funded PhD Degree at various Departments. We are providing a
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🦠 Monday = Journal Club day! 📚🔬
This time, Anna Sofia Parianou (DC9) took the stage to guide us through some very unusual S. aureus science: turning bacteria into… stone?! 🪨🦠
Thanks Anna Sofia for leading this month’s session! 💜
#AUREUS #JournalClub #MSCA #DoctoralNetwork #PhDLife
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Postdoctoral Fellowship (16) at Indiana University (IU), Bloomington, United States
#VacancyEdu #Postdoc #Postdoctoral #PostdocJobs #ScienceCareer #AcademicJobs #Researcher #PhDlife #PostdoctoralFellowship #JobSearch #ScholarshipAlert
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Postdoctoral Fellowship (16) at Indiana University (IU), Bloomington, United States
Indiana University (IU), Bloomington, United States invites online Application for various Postdoctoral Fellowship in their different Departments. We are
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Can catching Pokémon help you survive a PhD? New research shows how gaming, TV, exercise and other leisure activities can help doctoral students cope with stress and pressure. scitube.io/catching-pok...
#PhDLife #Research doi.org/10.1007/s10755-02…
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Catching Pokémon to Survive a PhD: Revealing the Secret Lives of Doctoral Students - SciTube
Graduate school is notoriously gruelling. The pressure to publish, the long hours, the financial strain, and the creeping isolation of dissertation life take a real toll. These pressures are not accid...
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Just submitted a revised manuscript after the first round of (mostly) positive peer reviews.
Mostly minor-moderate revisions, so hopefully I did alright 😬
This will be my second published paper if all goes well 🤞🤞
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Postdoctoral Fellowship (09) at University of Zurich, Switzerland
#VacancyEdu #Postdoc #Postdoctoral #PostdocJobs #ScienceCareer #AcademicJobs #Researcher #PhDlife #PostdoctoralFellowship #JobSearch #ScholarshipAlert
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Postdoctoral Fellowship (09) at University of Zurich, Switzerland
University of Zurich, Switzerland invites online Application for various Postdoctoral Fellowship in their different Departments. We are providing a list of
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Two weeks of close reading and only 76 pages into Middlemarch. Is this too slow? Or is learning when slowness is still doing useful work part of becoming a researcher?
My latest PhD Diary
#phdlife @academic-chatter.bsky.social
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Close Reading, Slow progress - PhD Diaries #6
The pleasure - and panic - of slow reading
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