New study warns "that protracted PhDs and lengthy postdoctoral stints are holding back even the best scientists from 'achieving independence and tenure'."
Author argues that "universities should have more flexible rules that allow them to promote people quicker if they prove to be 'really outstanding in their early steps' [...and that] funding should shift to younger scientists,"
@erinnacland@academicchatter@ingorohlfing How does such a laudable goal contribute to the university's paramount goal: Institutional aggrandizement? I can't see that it does. Seems the university's goal is best served by maintaining PhD wannabes as a powerless and dependent money stream.
Currently writing an article that should be 8,000 words. I am now at 17,000 and I, as a beginner in professional academic writing, need some advice. I know I am the kind of person who thinks through writing. This means that I have probably written a lot that can be cut and left out.
But how do I learn to write reasonably lengthy papers? I swear I thought my topic and questions could be addressed in 8,000 words. I had an outline ... with word counts per section. Still, it went completely off the rails.
the best writing style varies, a lot, depending on the individual
that is my contention
so it is good to try different approaches, but if an approach doesn't work for you, then you should really try another approach
@natalie@academicchatter@phdlife@phdstudents I also tend to think through writing, and I routinely write 2-3X the word limit and then edit things down to size. It's not ideal, certainly, but I don't anticipate developing new habits at this stage in my career. The good news is that, if you save all the 'extra' material you can often repurpose it for other projects.
Any tipps for survival and priorities in the writing phase of a PhD? I have to write a monograph, finished data collection and now go into in-depth analysis/ writing the thing. I have a bit more than 1,5 years of funding left and am trying to sort planning/ priorities out. @anthropology@sts#anthropology#academicparents#phdlife
@AnjaKlein@anthropology@sts make goals by week with a calendar. Try to organize to have enough sleep and give yourself permission to rest a day every week. You can do it 💪
There is a concern that those with graduate degrees are leaving Canada to look for better opportunities elsewhere, contributing towards a "brain drain".
A new survey has been made to better understand the issue: If you are a current graduate student in Canada OR a graduate in the last 10 years please complete this 5-10 minute survey https://tinyurl.com/mrybapfp
@erinnacland@academicchatter@academicsunite I’m outside you parameters but when I graduated college a lot of us went south for a 6 figure US starting salary 20 years ago because we were so specialized. Here? It wasn’t even a livable wage.
Cleaning my academic CV. I sort of forgot that I wrote three papers with just my two #phd supervisors.
I was funded on an interdisciplinary grant, and both didn't really know the topic.
The first true feedback I would get after submission to the journals. Luckily they trained me well, being critical of my own work in the context of the literature and having me seek out other opinions.
Happy to host Polina Rusanova, between Oct 2023 and Jan. 2024, for her #PhD internship. Her thesis title is "Moving towards a sustainable use of #fisheries resources: Nutritional quality, #contaminants, #bioactive compounds, and new bycatch based #food", Università Di #Palermo, Italy.
It breaks my heart thinking about all the #students who were ready to start their new #MSc or #phd in foreign countries and now they have to give up because they cannot travel from many more countries other than #Israel and #Palestine
Critically acclaimed horror film of the 2010s or your PhD program? 😅
"You find yourself in an opulent but sinister setting that possesses subtle but undeniable links to antebellum slavery. Everyone who has been there longer than you seems to have completely lost the will to live. You are warned by at least one of them to get out. You try to comply but powerful forces keep pulling you back."
Are you an academic researcher, PGR, or post-doc who is feeling overwhelmed and burnt out? Here are some tips (courtesy of the wall in my office) on how to improve your physical, mental, and social well-being!