PhDTEA

serving you brutal grad school realness in less than 250 characters, courtesy of underpaid and overworked PhD students ✨

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PI: we publish high impact papers here, we guarantee you’ll have a Nature paper by the time you graduate

The lab: doesn’t calibrate pipettes and only owns p200s and p1000s 🤨🥴

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Don’t you love it when everything in your life is going south? 🤧

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What keeps me up at night: will I ever graduate ?

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academia got me leaving lab at 11pm and screaming my frustrations into the deserted streets

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Interviewing and choosing new lab members should be done by the whole lab, not just the PI alone. #AcademicTwitter

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Sweetie no ♥️ that’s not the point :) you can’t ignore the D in EDI 🥰

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an Indigenous PhD student asked for Black and Indigenous mentors. The departmental EDI committees response? “Don’t you want a mentor in your field instead?” 🙄🙄🙄

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They don’t deserve students. And that’s the TRUTH.

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I honestly want to drop out of my program. My project changed so many times, my supervisor is USELESS and won’t give me a god damn idea on a new project and tells me to go figure it out by myself. I fucking hate this.

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How can a trainee whose literally learning how to design projects, be a scientist “FIGURE IT OUT” when there is legit NO GUIDANCE what so ever? Honestly some PIs deserve to be called out on blast lol

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#PhDChat #AcademicChatter #GradSchool @thephdstory @PhdExhausted @thoughtsofaphd @AcademicChatter

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reminder: your PI most likely does not have your best interests in mind. only you can tell them what’s acceptable, feasible and best for YOU and not your PI’s agenda.

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God I hate covid.

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#AcademicChatter #PhDChat #GradSchool @AcademicChatter @thoughtsofaphd @PhdExhausted @thephdstory

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some charged energy today: here to remind myself and other grad students that you are worth much more than anything a supervisor/academia can provide. Grad students are underappreciated and fucking deserve better.

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another day of shedding tears while I do tissue culture - thank you grad school and COVID19

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does any grad student actually leave the lab happy? Or is that a myth? #gradschool #PhDChat #academicChatter @PhdExhausted @PhD_Balance

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why pay exuberant rent when I can live in lab? The mice can live here rent free so why can’t I? #AcademicChatter #PhDChat @thephdstory @PhDVoice #GradSchool

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ATTN PIs: Your grad students are tired and overworked. They need encouragement. They need to be appreciated for what they do. Your trainees are one of the biggest reasons why your lab is functioning in the middle of a pandemic. SO STOP BEING A SELFISH ASSHOLE.