Anna, PhD retweeted
meeting the person who is training you at a new job is exactly like when a baby duck imprints on its mother. following them around clueless as shit. someone else will be like hey can you send this email and it’s like no i’m not sure i can. i’ve never done that without jeremy
Anna, PhD retweeted
PhDs have a range of transferable skills but are not taught how to market them.
Here are 10 high-value transferable skills:
Anna, PhD retweeted
I was feeling really tired and moody lately. I googled my symptoms and it turns out I’m a postdoc.
Anna, PhD retweeted
Did it hurt? Seeing a paper of questionable methodological quality published in the journal that just rejected your manuscript?
Anna, PhD retweeted
Everyone talks about how social media is bad for your mental health, but what about R?
Anna, PhD retweeted
Were you the “good kid” who “parents never had to worry about”?
Watch out for those kids. They may turn up in therapy 10-20 years later with repressed emotions, overfunctioning, and the inability to ask for help because they’ve always had to be perfect.
Anna, PhD retweeted
Refusing to let teenage girls go to the toilet 'because they should have gone at break'? It's worth bearing in mind their period may not have started conveniently between 10.40 and 11am... and no they shouldn't have to say it...
Anna, PhD retweeted
there are very few problems that can’t be solved by smelling some garlic and onions sizzling in olive oil
Anna, PhD retweeted
Me at the office: "I'll work on this at home"
Me at home: "I'll work on this at the office"
Anna, PhD retweeted
A 🧵 on burnout
Yesterday I learned that when people are burnt out, their amygdala enlarges. For all you non-neuroscientists, here's what that means and why it's important. 1/
#AcademicChatter @AcademicChatter @CouragePhD
Anna, PhD retweeted
So proud of Dr @annahudd ! You were amazing and you answered the questions like a pro.
Congrats to my grad school sib - started together and finished together. 💕💕💕
(Goblins send congrats too 💚🐈⬛💚🐈⬛) – at Sherbrooke, Québec
Anna, PhD retweeted
My two work modes:
1) I've done 30mins of work in 8 hours
2) I've done 8 hours of work in 30mins
