Sir Usoro

Simple Guy | PhDing

[PhD_Genie @PhD_Genie]

How do you say in academic: "I disagree with you"?

[Prof Lennart Nacke, PhD @acagamic]

4 challenges every early-career PI faces:

1. Editing every student draft
2. Saying yes to every committee
3. Starting grants from scratch
4. Treating busyness as productivity

The solution? Systems.
Build them before you burn out.

[Lawrence Kitema @lawrencekitema]

Please monitor your financial life strictly. It’s hard to find help when you’re down. This is not advice—it’s a warning.

[Robert Greene @RobertGreene]

You must value learning above everything else.

[Michael Taiwo @AskMichaelTaiwo]

Academic Excellence will never go out of relevance.

[Francesco Capuano @_fracapuano]

Academia recruits better than industry

[Prof Lennart Nacke, PhD @acagamic]

Academia's dirty secret:

We know everything about someone's research.
We know nothing about their life.

The student working two jobs.
The technician months away from loved ones.
The postdoc navigating a family crisis.

You see them every day.

Ask how they're actually doing.

[Faheem Ullah @Faheem_uh]

PhD Students - Here are the questions you will be asked in your defense

𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐐𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬

1. What exact problem you solved?
2. What motivated you to solve this problem?
3. How novel is your research?
4. What's the importance of this research?
5. How your understanding of the topic evolved?

𝐎𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬

6. What is original about your research?
7. How your research advanced knowledge?
8. What are the key findings?
9. How your findings differ from existing findings?
10. Why your work is worthy of a PhD?

𝐌𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐝𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐄𝐯𝐚𝐥𝐮𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧

11. Why you chose the specific research methodology?
12. How you evaluated your approach?
13. What are the strengths/weaknesses of methodology?
14. What should you have done differently?
15. Why your approach is the right approach?

𝐑𝐞𝐟𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐅𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐃𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧

16. How your findings challenge current trends?
17. What are the implications of your research?
18. How can your work be extended in future?
19. Any advice for future PhD in this area?
20. What are your future plans for this research?

Any other question you'd like to add?

[The PhD Place @ThePhDPlace]

Thank you to the people that aggressively nod during presentations.

[Dr Juliet Turner @juliet_turner6]

🎊 I passed my viva exam!

After ~4 years of research, I successfully defended my thesis.

You can call me Doctor 😎

[Sir Usoro @usoroakpan]

@DrJoeAbah It's a just a simple way of living and I love that.

[Michael Weintraub @miweintraub83]

Just had a paper rejected! Posting this as part of my never-ending quest to normalize failure.

[𝐃𝐫 𝐁𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩 @DrJohnBishop]

In 2002, a quiet Nigerian pathologist working in a Pittsburgh morgue made a discovery that would shake the world of sports.

He had no idea he was about to take on a billion-dollar empire; or that they would fight tooth and nail to silence him.

He was just one man against an entire industry, fighting to expose the truth about brain damage in American football.

His discovery of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) shook the world of sports and changed how we think about head injuries forever.

This is the story of Dr. Bennet Omalu, the man who exposed the deadly truth about American football.

🧵 👇🏾

[Re-energising Your Career @career_re]

#AcademicTwitter Always makes me laugh!😂#phdvoice #PhDlife

[Dr. Carmen Muñoz-Ballester @Canxuki]

I submitted my first grant as an assistant professor!

It is internal, small and maybe not the best I have ever written but it is finished and submitted! Time to celebrate!

#NewPI #Proud

[The PhD Place @ThePhDPlace]

You’re the future of academia.

[Jesita Ajani @jesitaajani01]

Taking my TikTok and reposting it without consent, only to call 10 years of hard work and dedication a 'depressing way to spend your 20s,' says more about you than it does about me. To all the girls out there striving in academia: keep goingand don’t let anyone dim your light.

[Neal 🇦🇺 @NealGardner_]

Omar Marmoush is having a stellar season, but if Barça want a LW/CF hybrid, I’d rather suggest Ademola Lookman.

Contract expires in 2026…