Part Time Biologist Full Time Ninja

Phd student. Enough said.

[whatifiamunepipe]

Academia is crying at 1:49 am because you are working on a paper that’s due and you just found a quote in one of your sources that fits into your argument beautifully, causing you to be overcome by gratitude for the authors contribution to the world and your life in particular

[academicssay]

my self-regulation process

[parttimebiologistfulltimeninja]

The best academic acknowledgements ever

Glen Wright rounds up the best amusing, passive-aggressive and romantic acknowledgements in the scholarly world

[allthingseurope]

Zurich, Switzerland (by Davide Seddio)

[wheresmybubble]

How I prepare for the festive season.

This illustration is from my book ‘Quiet Girl in a Noisy World’: http://debbietung.com/books

[legogradstudent]

Streaming a show while outlining a paper, the grad student is neither entertained nor productive.

[parttimebiologistfulltimeninja]

me all the time

[parttimebiologistfulltimeninja]

Finishing the PhD – or What happens to otherwise normal people in the last few months of the PhD?

By Claire Aitchison There should be a warning to family and friends about what happens in the final stages of the PhD and it should read something like this: WARNING: Do not try to communicate or i…

As quick as a flash, the following words were thrown around the dinner table: obsessive, self-absorbed, single-minded, vague, emotional. They seemed to be talking about me...

[badsciencejokes]

Better not cry? — view on Instagram https://ift.tt/2G87XBJ

[armeleia]

Reminders for the Anxious/Depressed Creatives

You’re more than what you make.

Your productivity does not determine your value.

It’s okay to do nothing sometimes.

Not everything you do has to result in a product.

Not everything you make has to be important, significant, or even good.

You can make things just for yourself.

You can keep secrets for yourself, whether it’s not posting some of your projects or not sharing your techniques.

You’re allowed to say no.

You’re allowed to rest.

[allmymetaphors]

[parttimebiologistfulltimeninja]

... and then home for holidays!

[adventuresinchemistry]

I really hate the attitude that PhD training is necessarily training in all aspects of whatever job you may want. Like, PhD training can be a lot of things but it’s not necessarily training in anything but the skills you need for your particular PhD. It’s not training in how to manage people or work effectively in a team or professionalism or mentorship. Yes, you can pursue those aspects of it if you wish, and different labs/settings may be better for certain aspects of it than others, but don’t pretend it’s true for everyone. 

And we’re setting people up for failure by pretending it is.

[theslaybymic]

Watch: Kristen Bell opens up about the mental health double standard and how she manages her own struggle.

Follow @this-is-life-actually

[laureninlilly]

Hit reblog on this so hard

[geniusorinsanity]

SHOUT OUT TO KRISTEN BELL’S MOM THOUGH? WHAT KIND OF FANTASTIC SELF-AWARE PARENTING, WELL DONE MA'AM

[dukeofbookingham-deactivated202]

‪I haven’t used a real plate in like a week but every coffee mug and wineglass in the house is dirty, so that’s where we’re at in the semester ‬

[milamai]

Night seduction II (by Milamai)

[caffeinatedcraziness]

The only good thing about all this grad school hardship is that it’s really solidified what I care about in life and what I definitely do not want to do in the future…

[kineticpassion]

#Academia : One does not use “I” in academic writing. Not even to state anything the author did or analyzed. God forbid anyone finds out a research paper was written by an actual person. Unless you’re a tenured PhD professor; then we’ll let you sprinkle a couple of I’s in there.

— Paulina Lopez (@Kinetic_Passion) December 5, 2018

[human-becoming]

Academic empathy/empathetic academy

Academia needs more empathy. What that means:

- Professors who look students in their eyes and ask them how they are doing. - Professors that care. Genuinely care. - Professors who express vulnerability and frustration at being part of a soul-draining system that feeds off of their intellectual pursuits. - Professors who understand that their PhDs do not justify: speaking for, above, or instead of someone else, but nearby them (as Trinh Minh-ha would say). - Professors who acknowledge that growth is a lifetime’s work, as well as a two-way process: students are capable of challenging you, questioning you, or sometimes holding a mirror out for you to see that there are alternative modes of being and responding to the world. - Academic environments founded not upon superior performativity but expressions of care, trust, and solidarity. - Academic environments that foster passion, curiosity and endless outbursts of creativity unhindered by super-imposed frameworks.