Kasper Brandt

A Dutch PhD candidate studying seaweeds at Swansea university. There's probably a joke about the Dutch and weed in there but I still haven't found it. (he/him)

[Kasper Brandt @KMFBrandt]

@Timo_Micro No worries, we'll just have to drink bottled drinks at your housewarming. Hope the water damage wasn't too bad.

[Kasper Brandt @KMFBrandt]

Hello world. In October 2017 I started my PhD. Today I submitted my thesis.

I am very happy about this.

#PhDone

[Kasper Brandt @KMFBrandt]

Goodbye Wales! Thanks for taking care of me

Now off to the next adventure!

[Kevin Arbuckle @phylophile]

An important point about the @ucu strikes which I hadn't realised (just pointed out to me) is that many students do not realise that those striking will not be paid for those days. For those striking for 10 working days that's half of the month's pay lost. This is important 1/2

[Kasper Brandt @KMFBrandt]

I've peaked. It's all downhill from here

Wordle 235 2/6

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[Kasper Brandt @KMFBrandt]

Seaweed research really used to be a lawless land. Just tossing some orange juice into your culture medium could get you a publication in Nature.

https://t.co/zsdXTbQpBT

[Kasper Brandt @KMFBrandt]

My writing is going much faster now that I've set line spacing to 1.5 instead of 1.15

[Kasper Brandt @KMFBrandt]

Thank you @JNGriffy @JordiSC03 @FleurianeMLF, Rahul Kapoore, @algaecarole @sciencetell @tom_fairchild @treevineseaweed, Nathan Thomas, @AllaSilkina1 and @infohackit. (11/11)

[Kasper Brandt @KMFBrandt]

And that’s a wrap! #BPS2022 has been, in my humble and unbiased opinion, a great conference! Even though we couldn’t meet in person this year I really enjoyed all we could do digitally.
I do have some personal closing thoughts I wanted to share though. A thread 🧵 (1/11)

[Kasper Brandt @KMFBrandt]

And lastly but not leastly, the team of volunteers from @swanuni. We’ve had a rough go at organising a conference in times of omicron. Pretty last minute we had to switch gears to change from a hybrid conference to online-only. You’ve been absolute champions. (10/11)

[Kasper Brandt @KMFBrandt]

Last talk of the conference☹️. @RobertH27997952 is applying nanopore sequencing to the study of phytoplankton. A fascinating technique considering what it can do for a relatively low cost. #BPS2022