#academia posting

[uisce-portaigh]

this is what grad school feels like at its best if anyone is wondering

[absinthemindedly]

I set up my grad school accounts today!! I also compiled a reading list that I organized on Zotero; the goal is to read, annotate, and start drafting a literature review for my first set of grant proposals due in early September.

I'm thrilled to be starting my PhD, and to work with the people who have inspired me. I've also missed being a student

[unreal-unearth-undead]

I need to kill my advisor

[ddeck]

bros it really is over. im a dead man walking

[axel-tiredstudent]

i can write this paper i can write this paper i can write this paper i can write this paper i can

[ifwebefriends]

Chemistry is such an interesting discipline because when I was in high school and starting getting interested in it I saw the periodic table and was like “wow! 118 elements? There’s so many combinations! So many possibilities with just these 118 elements! The whole universe is made up of just these things! Isn’t that amazing?!” And then I got to college and started to study it more in depth and it’s like “we only really use about 30 of these elements and almost everything below row 5 is basically never used but boy howdy can we get a lot of mileage out of only 6 elements.”

[littlerabbitpng]

I think the worst part about existing in academic and fandom spaces simultaneously is that their respective social habits bleed into each other.

I read a phenomenal article on the nexuses between religion and genocide, and I am now starstruck by the author. Searched her name on Tumblr fully expecting an active fandom to be in place. Was slightly shocked to find that there is not a thriving community around this topic.

I'm about to make a flower crown edit of this genocide scholar. I want to meet her and have her sign my forehead.

[dichromaticdyke]

just found out about Unpaywall

Unpaywall

it’ll automatically search for free open access links to peer-reviewed articles that you’d otherwise have to pay for! strongly recommend this for those of you who can’t access various databases or journals for whatever reason.