Ahalya Suresh

PhD candidate @BlueCarbonLab | @Deakin | @DeakinSEBE | #Bluecarbon | #Rstats enthusiast | Blogger @medium | She/her

[Ahalya Suresh @ahalya_]

"The only person worth comparing yourself to is the one you were yesterday."

#PhDLife #AcademicJourney #Researcher #AcademicChatter #PhDCommunity #PersonalGrowth #SelfImprovement

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

111 years ago today, Franz Kafka summed up adulthood

[The Struggling Scientists @TheStrugglingS4]

Dear network,

We published a paper (that you won't read) about a topic (that you don't find interesting) in a journal (you most likely never knew existed until this post).

Link to paper

[The Struggling Scientists @TheStrugglingS4]

It's going well 🔥

[The Struggling Scientists @TheStrugglingS4]

😢

[Re-energising Your Career @career_re]

#AcademicTwitter Get a grip! 😂#phdvoice #PhDlife

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

brain: did we get some writing done?

me: no

brain: ok, then we finished other work so we can write tomorrow?

me: somehow also no

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

“We have now incorporated all of the reviewer feedback…”

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

When you edit your writing and make it worse

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

Is the draft well written? No. But is the argument coming together? Also no. But was it at least enjoyable to write? No.

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

Staring at your draft for 6 hours willing it to be good

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

The hardest part of academia is deciding whether to spend your day failing to write or failing to read

[Prof Lennart Nacke, PhD @acagamic]

How I published 3 papers in top journals in 6 months.

Most academics won't tell you this secret:
It wasn't talent that got me there.

It was pure terror.

[The Struggling Scientists @TheStrugglingS4]

5 minutes after submitting, already clicking the refresh button.

[The Struggling Scientists @TheStrugglingS4]

Thug (PhD) life 

Do you remember your worst day of the PhD?

[The Struggling Scientists @TheStrugglingS4]

Please be accepted with minor revisions!

[Reviewer 2 @GrumpyReviewer2]

#AcademicX #AcademicChatter #PeerReview

[Prof Lennart Nacke, PhD @acagamic]

Most PhD students work 10x harder than needed.

I see it daily - smart students drowning in manual tasks tools could handle.

(This kills your research productivity)

8 use cases where you can cut your workload in half:

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

Obstacles to writing:

1) not enough ideas
2) too many ideas
3) distraction out the window
4) under/over caffeination
5) it’s almost lunch
6) you just had lunch

[Dr Raul Pacheco-Vega @raulpacheco]

Story of my life...

#AcWri #AmWriting #GetYourManuscriptOut