"I sat in my supervisor’s office, red-faced and anxious, words tumbling out faster than I could control. For half an hour, I vented everything I had been holding in for months: the stress, the doubt, the sense that I didn’t belong. I was in the third year of my Ph.D., and a creeping fear had taken root that I wasn’t cut out for academia.
"I expected some kind of judgment or disappointment. Instead, my supervisor listened patiently, then calmly offered a line I’ll never forget: 'You are here to learn to ride a bicycle, not to invent a bicycle.' That one sentence landed softly, but it cracked something open."
Check out one of our top #ScienceWorkingLife essays of 2025: https://t.co/I9q8RgC0wb
“The public sharing of ‘injustices’ garners far more attention and emotional outpouring, rewarding people who are able to perpetually feel victimized with ever-growing amounts of attention and sympathy.” - THE SUBTLE ART OF NOT GIVING A F***
“The idea of not giving a f*** is a simple way of reorienting our expectations for life and choosing what’s important and what’s not” - THE SUBTLE ART OF NOT GIVING A F***
“The most important kind of form a garden can have is an itinerary - scenes of mystery, melancholy, romance, humor, and even sublime terror unfolding in succession along the garden path.” - SECOND NATURE
“The garden winter doesn’t visit is a dull place, robbed of springtime, unacquainted with the extraordinary perfume that rises from the soil after it’s had its rest. So, when I go out from the garden for the last time in autumn, I leave the gate open behind me” - SECOND NATURE!
A gap-filled and partitioned eddy covariance flux dataset for 34 sites across Northwest China is now publicly available online. Our data paper, led by Xufeng Wang, just came out in Earth System Science Data.
https://t.co/80Mue6otmH
Out now!!! Open access!
Net Radiation Drives Evapotranspiration Dynamics in a Bottomland Hardwood Forest in the Southeastern United States: Insights from Multi-Modeling Approaches https://t.co/enoGBEC4hJ #mdpiatmosphere via @Atmosphere_MDPI
“We believe in a particular order NOT because it is objectively true, but because believing in it ENABLES us to cooperate effectively and forge a better society.” - Sapiens!