No manuscript, proposal, or research experiment will ever be perfect. The goal is not perfect. The goal is good enough.
Ask yourself what you would get out of more time spent on the current project compared to the impact you could have using that time on the next thing in line.
As a PhD student, my supervisor never answered my emails.
Then I became a PhD supervisor and realised why
A thread🧵 of my mistakes and how to avoid them
#phdchat#AcademicTwitter
99% of all R criticism:
1. R is different from my favorite programming language (usually Python or JavaScript).
2. I didn't bother to learn R and I'm upset that it doesn't behave the way I expected.
3. R is bad for task X, where X is something for which R was never designed.
Just because you’re not physically doing anything doesn’t mean you’re not working.
A PhD is just as much about figuring out what to do as it is about doing it.
So if you’ve spent all day figuring out what to do but haven’t done anything, then that’s still work.
#PhDVoice
Professional skills such as communication and leadership are not an add-on to the PhD experience. They are an essential part of it.
If a PhD program is only teaching research skills, then it is not preparing students to be PhD-level researchers.
Knowing a lot about a research area and having the skills to be a great leader are not the same thing. Academia would be so much healthier if we stopped conflating these things.
I used to dread writing. I never dreamed that I would someday dream of spending three days just writing, but that’s what I’m doing this week.
We never stop growing and changing and the things you dread early in your career may end up being your favorites later.
R 4.1 was released today! If you're updating, you'll want the preview release of @rstudio too: it adds support for R 4.1's |> operator, lambda syntax, graphics engine, and other goodies.
https://t.co/0u2ZB37u2j
#rstats