I said to my PI, I want to go do my postdoc, will you write a letter for me. And he wrote in my letter that I wasn't very creative .. I finally met with Magda and she told me she saw straight through the letter.
–Samantha Morris, Harvard Professor
@morris_lab@ZernickaGoetz
Be delusional about your potential.
Be delusional about your potential.
Be delusional about your potential.
Be delusional about your potential.
Be delusional about your potential.
Be delusional about your potential.
Be delusional about your potential.
Confidence doesn't come from believing in yourself. It comes from having done the uncomfortable thing enough times that your nervous system stops flagging it as an emergency. Because nothing is actually hard, it's just unfamiliar.
Your first attempt might not be very good, but nobody's early work is good. There will always be a gap between where you are and where you want to be. And the bridge between that gap is courage. The courage to look foolish in the beginning. The courage to show up again when your early work is criticized. The courage to look yourself in the mirror and say, "I realize I'm not good enough yet, but the only way to get better is to keep working on it."
Unsolicited advice for people preparing to start a PhD program in the fall:
Maintain your non-academic interests and resist the impulse (and recommendations) to fold them into your academic work
Universities don't need to "teach students to use AI well." The whole point of AI is that it doesn't require any skill. Universities *should* teach students how to write and research on their own, and foster an ethic of shaming people who outsource their basic ability to think.
Toxoplasma gondii oocysts from a feline fecal. Toxoplasma is an intracellular apicomplexan protozoan parasite. It undergoes both asexual and sexual reproduction in the enterocytes of the small intestines. It looks similar to the coccidian Cystoisopora, but is much smaller #dvm