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Just a scientist trying to contribute to making academia a better place. #AcademicTwitter

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This should be posted in every lab/office

#phdchat #scicomm #AcademicTwitter @AcademicChatter @DNA_RNA_Uni @_atanas_

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Rescinding PhD acceptance offers is changing the admission criteria from 'who is the best applicant' to 'who accepted the offer sooner'... Why? #AcademicTwitter

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grant reviewers be like: let me the judge of what's best for your research direction 😒

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If we fail to improve the salaries and prospects in academia today, tomorrow, there will be no such thing as a post-PhD academia. Fewer and fewer bright minds will hold a professor position. The net result is a decline in quality of scientific training. Country-specific.

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Perhaps @X should add a verified link or a button for scientist X profiles that will go to the publications of the scientist. A collaboration with ORCID or Google Scholar? @PhDVoice @_atanas_

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Balancing life/work in academia around deadlines

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How to prevent waste of time for PhD students and devaluation of the PhD:

1) two first-author research papers to graduate with a PhD, or get Master's to exit.
2) it should be PI's responsibility to keep the median PhD length in their lab = 5 years.
3) abolish dissertation.

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Academic perseverance gold medal 🥇

[Lucina Uddin @LucinaUddin]

I applied for faculty positions at UCLA 8 different times before getting my current position. Sometimes the 9th time's the charm.

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Are scientific careers scientific? @AcademicChatter @PostdocVoice @PhDVoice @_atanas_

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Comparison is a thief of joy

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minds referencing moaning on social media without having realistic experience/information on a specific issue. Complaining about academia on social media (and thus pushing away young scientists) while actively benefiting from the training etc that it gives sounds unfair to me 2/2

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People who are in academia and complain about it are just like people who are abroad and complain about it. If you don't like it so much, why are you here? Frequently moaning about academia and its many problems on social media is helpful? I'm hearing more and more young 1/2

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When someone brings their kids to the lab

https://t.co/liDyBDv73e

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

The avengers being shocked by Hawkeye's family will always be funny

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Does anyone know what to do with a plate reader's excitation grating start up error?

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What can make NSF as popular as NASA?

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Science on the weekends feels different.

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If Lord of the Rings is not a saga describing a PhD student's adventures on the way to submit the precious dissertation 💍 to its final destination 🌋, while making collaborator-friends and fighting reviewer-foes, I must have downloaded the wrong movie...

[Måns Thulin @mansthulin]

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Being successful (in academia or elsewhere) is not a prerogative. It takes talent, hard work, sacrifice. It's easy to overlook these aspects of success in #science. Everybody shouldn't get a 🏅 just for showing up 🤷‍♂️