#neuroscience phd

[hawtchocolate]

Working from home = lots and lots of reading. And lots and lots

[postphdneurolife]

I feel like the universe is telling me I should quit my PhD...

or maybe I am attracting those signs by my pure thoughts?

Or maybe I am just searching for myself because I don’t know who I am.

Or maybe it is just bed time and I’m freaking tired and nervous about tmr.

[avery-is-studying]

hey everyone! I will be starting grad school next month, and I’m getting really nervous about the workload. I’m going for my PhD in neuroscience. does anyone have any advice for their first year of grad school? I don’t want to overwork and get burnout.

[hawtchocolate]

Mounting some thin (0.1 mm) slices of mouse brain on a slide for imaging. I'm interested in the hippocampus, which is responsible for memory consolidation and retrieval, and one of the two places in the brain that keeps making new neurons when you're an adult! I've washed these slices in a series of engineered antibodies, the last of which carries a fluorophore, in a process called immonuhitochemistry. This method allows us to attach these fluorescent markers to proteins of our choice, then use a microscope with a laser to make the markers light up!

[hawtchocolate]

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I've been compiling this list of lessons learned about how to be more organized as a scientist. I'm planning to check in with it regularly as a grad student but we'll see what happens haha

I had a separate little list on that sticky note of opportunities to flesh out my grad school CV, but I've migrated that into my next bujo notebook.

What ideas can you contribute to my list?

[hawtchocolate]

A few weeks ago I found myself thinking about my comfort level with the process of working toward a publication with my research. I wrote out my thoughts and ended up feeling v ready to be a grad student, so under my little journalling entry I made a list of reasons for my confidence. It's nice to look back now that I'm further through the application process

[hawtchocolate]

Over the last few interviews I've heard people ask a lot of good questions, so I tried to compile them for my own reference