Anna Asratian

PhD student @ Linköping university 🇸🇪
working with small RNA in reproduction 🐷
|| former gymnastics coach for ~18years

[Anna Asratian @Substantianna]

When the PI says it's a two person job: https://t.co/0Hsi8GcgMS partner in crime: @skogsigne 👩‍🔬

#phdlife #labwork #academia #pipette #manuscript #deskrejection #phd #pipette

[Anna Asratian @Substantianna]

Me: I work in Oinkology
Other researchers: Cool, I also work in oncology 🧬
Me: No, Oinkology, as in oink oink 🐷

[Anna Asratian @Substantianna]

@liu_universitet @lab_ost And the Expert reviewers of the seminar were Annelie Lindström and Carlos Guerrero Bosagna @Carlos_GB_Lab that thoroughly reviewed my work and challenged me with interesting questions!

[Anna Asratian @Substantianna]

A week ago I had my halftime where I presented the research I've done so far - before I was nervous, after I was proud! 🥂 Thank you all that has been with me through this process and let's make the second half even more fun! 🥳 @liu_universitet @lab_ost

[Anna Asratian @Substantianna]

This journey was so far taken with supervisors (in order of apparence): @DanielNatt (that is no longer with us), Anita Öst (@lab_ost ) and @columwalsh !

[Anna Asratian @Substantianna]

Feeling energized after last weeks course in Comparative reproductive biotechnologies! The discussions, the people and the 25th jubilee of CRU was amazing to be part of! :)

[Anna Asratian @Substantianna]

When the whole world is talking about AI (artificial intelligence), I'm at a PhD course talking about the original AI (artificial insemination)! 🐷

[Richard Hanania @RichardHanania]

Strong evidence showing that getting a PhD is extremely bad for your mental health.

A new paper uses Swedish medical records and matches them to the full population of PhD students for which the authors could get gender and birth year data from 2006 to 2017. After some exclusion criteria, they end up with a sample size of 20,085 individuals.

The paper compares PhD students to those who have masters degrees and don't start a PhD program.

Before starting a PhD program, people who stop at a masters and those who go on to seek a PhD have similar rates of psychiatric medication use and hospitalization.

A few years into a PhD program, however, 40% more individuals are on psychiatric medications, before the number falls off as people leave or finish their studies.

You see the same pattern with psychiatric hospitalizations. PhD students are up to 150-175% more likely to be hospitalized after starting a program!

These are incredible numbers, too massive to be the result of chance or a flaw in the methodology. This is comparing the same people over time.

If you're considering a PhD program, and the terrible job prospects and waste of time aren't enough, here's yet another reason to stay away.

[Anna Asratian @Substantianna]

1991*

[The PhD Place @ThePhDPlace]

Me in 1997 wasting time resting instead of writing my thesis

[Anna Asratian @Substantianna]

RNA journal club in the sun, because finally it has arrived! 🌞 #phdlife #phd

[Anna Asratian @Substantianna]

@JSuvilehto Thank you 💖 Haha trying my best 🐷🪄 and your course in R is helping a lot!!

[Anna Asratian @Substantianna]

Taking a bioinformatics course with @NBISwe and trying to spread the way of @jokergoo_gu calling bioinformaticians for bioinformagicians because they truly create magic! 🪄 Thank you @skogsigne for all you knowledge and help! 💖

[Silvia Castany @CastanySilvia_]

😌😽

[Anna Asratian @Substantianna]

Started reading about RNAs in sperm, took a turn at post-meiotic translation and finished with that the profile, not the levels, of the transcript pool drives the proteome pattern during cell differentiation. Did I finish the first article? No. Was the trip fun? Yes. #phdlife

[Anna Asratian @Substantianna]

@guido_meijer 😂😂😂

[Anna Asratian @Substantianna]

@columwalsh @UlsterUniBiomed @PersonalMedNI @spit_project @gareth_radical4 @NICHE_ULSTER @liu_universitet I hope you will have many exciting adventures with us @liu_universitet 💪🌟 🐷

[Anna Asratian @Substantianna]

Interesting take, who gives consent to be included in research when the subject had been dead for a long time? #ethics #research #consent

[Anna Asratian @Substantianna]

@fmdefaria @PhD_Genie Yes, no doubt!! Second year expectancy: Olympic medal Third year: Nature or Science publication, but most reasonably both in the same year. And of course, finish of the fourth year with a Nobel Prize! 🏅 Easy peasy lemon squeezy!

[Anna Asratian @Substantianna]

@skogsigne Du är grym 💪💃✨

[Anna Asratian @Substantianna]

@SanneToivainen @esbra_society Rock it girl ⭐💖