⁉️ What to know before starting your Ph.D. program

To help you make the transition, we asked current Ph.D. students and postdocs what they wished they had known about grad school when they started. https://bit.ly/4vNuFlZ

#NextGenSci #PhDChat #PhDAdvice

#AcademicFixers: HR, general counsel, compliance staff whose real function is containment. Their job title says support. Their job function is making your complaint disappear.

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#TipsEditoriales compartimos con ustedes información sobre la importancia de la utilización de la Taxonomía de Roles de Contribución (CRediT) en la investigación: n9.cl/sd6p2 #ComunicaCiencia #phdchat #Journals

Last week I shared some thoughts about mentorship in higher education (and the lack thereof).

Id love to hear some thoughts and experiences from others too!

Let me know the good, bad, and ugly you've seen :)

#phdchat #phdvoice #phdlife

#UCEA #EducationLeadership #EducationalLeadership #UCEA2026 #UCEA26 #UCEAGSC #GSS2026 #GraduateStudents #PhDlife #PhDchat

#MentalHealth tip: It's easy to forget, but you are not your PhD. If your PhD is having a bad day, that does not mean you are a bad person. You are more than your PhD. #PhDchat #ECRchat #postdoc #PhDforum

A small but very important word to add to your vocabulary.
Yet.
I'm not a very good writer ... yet.
I'm not very good at stats ... yet.
I don't know how to do xxx ... yet .
Yet allows you to learn, grow, develop.
#PhDchat #PhDforum #ECRchat #postdoc #acwri

The version of you that arrived on #campus had a whole life before #academia got hold of it. This workbook goes looking for that person.

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*how* does dividing by (n-1) for sample variance make it unbiased?

Why n-1? Why not a different negative?

So much #stats #education tells us what to do but neither why nor how it works.

Anyone savvy enough to help a naive but enthusiastic learner?

##phdchat #phdvoice #phdlife

Fun @plosone.org paper to end the week!
"How science gets by with a little help from the Beatles: Detecting cultural wordplay in scientific literature using large language models"
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
#beatles #TheBeatles #music #stem #academia #phdchat #ecrchat

Use what talents you possess
The woods would be very silent
If no birds sang
Except those that sang best.
Just because someone else can sing well doesn't mean you shouldn't
Sing your own song
Write your own #PhD
#PhDchat #ECRchat #postdoc

Multi-failing: Doing several things at the same time and doing them all less well. The reality is we're not very good at multi-tasking. Focus on one thing and do it properly. #PhDchat #ECRchat #Postdoc #PhDforum

Somewhere out there is someone who went through exactly what you did. 💞 The anonymous survey at buff.ly/3Qn8xeQ helps us find the pattern — and each other.

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An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field. Niels Bohr, Nobel Prize 1922. #PhDchat #ECRchat #postdoc

Academia has a mentorship problem.

My thoughts on crossing the invisible bridge.

bencturnbull.wordpress.com/2026/09/09/c...

##phdchat #phdvoice #phdlife

Once a #TitleIX complaint begins, anonymity ends. You're named. Cross-examined.

This petition asks Congress to fix that.
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Best AI Model for Academic Writing 2026, Part by Part

proofreaderpro.ai/blog/best-ai-model-academic-writing-2026

#Undergraduate #PhDChat #LitReview

Ready to rock and roll!
#CCCUGraduation #CCCUProud #PhD #PhDone #PhDChat #PhDLife
@canterburyccuni.bsky.social @ccpolres.bsky.social

#IvoryHeir: the protégé who inherits a powerful faculty member's lab, grants, network, and methods. The system doesn't just protect predators. It reproduces them.

🪜🎓📜🍎♀️ #PhDSky #Blackademia #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #MeToo #HigherEd #PhDChat #WomenInStem

Academia shapes you slowly, subtly, and without asking permission. Here's a new resource to help you process that and come back to the real you.

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