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[leah🌻 @leahtfa]

Every day I get closer to dropping everything and moving to a faraway country where I don’t know the language

[dr diana @dianagithwe]

trying to convince someone that science isn’t all that bad when you know how much anxiety and tears it’s caused you personally, is a wild conversation 🫠 it’s giving .. stockholm syndrome 🫣

[The Struggling Scientists @TheStrugglingS4]

Think on the brightside.. you'll go viral with your next dance 😅

#academia #PhD #phdlife #science #xp @OpenAcademics @AcademicChatter

[dr diana @dianagithwe]

Really exciting opportunity for up to 10 Black students to apply for PhD studentships in any discipline at the @UofGlasgow!! Please RT 🙏🏾🎓

https://t.co/gPumuzcN1S

[Dr Meming @Dr_Meming]

Can only get better

[Darrion Nguyen @lab_shenanigans]

scientists running a western blot for the first time

[Dr Meming @Dr_Meming]

Me reading for the PhD I chose to apply for

[The PhD Place @ThePhDPlace]

Sitting down to write my thesis like

[Christopher Bouzy (spoutible.com/cbouzy) @cbouzy]

What the UK media is doing to Meghan Markle is insidious.

[Lowkey @Lowkey0nline]

It is troubling the ease with which our society can accept the met police shooting dead an unarmed 24-year-old black man, almost as if nothing at all happened.

[Jaclyn A. Siegel, PhD @jacasiegel]

I’ve said this before, and I’ll say it again: supportive partners (or friends, or family) are the backbone of academic progress.

[David K Smith @professor_dave]

So PhD students remain £775 a year short of national minimum wage and £1,200 short of a living wage. Increasingly difficult to see how they can afford accommodation, food and fuel, especially in the light of the cost-of-living crisis.

[David K Smith @professor_dave]

The minimum UKRI PhD stipend is £16,062 for 2022/23.
Although PhDs are training and do not legally require minimum wage, a comparison is worthwhile:
National minimum wage (age 21-23) is £19,094 (40h/week).
After tax that's £16,836.
Living wage is £19,760 (£17,280 after tax).

[EKC | @ekc96]

Really chuffed with the in silico chapter of my thesis… not so chuffed about writing the introduction 🤯🤯🤯

[Pippa Crerar @PippaCrerar]

There’s always an article

[KWAJO- Social Issues Campaigner @Kwajotweneboa]

🚨 It’s eviction night

[Dr Emma Francis @emmarubyfrancis]

Please RT. PhD students funded by @UKRI_News face a cash crisis. They are working full-time, yet earning less than living wage. With the rising cost of living and increasing pressure to deliver high quality research that benefits society, something needs to change. THREAD (1/10)

[Kiran Clair @kiranclairMD]

Abortion is not just health care, it is a human right. Beyond infringing on bodily autonomy, there are conditions in pregnancy that result in death without safe abortion care. This is a calling for all in medicine to stand on the side of justice https://t.co/8FdGtvwI2L