I'm in a tough point in my #PhD journey as changes in supervisory team are slowing things down and leaving me with a lot of uncertainty, while of course, I have like 1K of deadlines approaching.
So, for the first time in my life, I'm publicly admitting my mental health is in need of a boost, so please send good vibes :)
Cute pictures to remind me the beauty of our world are also welcome!
I start:
Here is my little cat Caffè tacitly reminding me the subtle art of not giving a f*
@phdstudents It's evening here in the UK and I really want to thank everyone today that responded to this post, sending nice pictures of animals and nature. Our world is beautiful and you are all beautiful people, who really cheered me up today. I'll cherish this post and will come back to it every time I'll feel a bit low.
Thank you very much #AcademicMastodon and #AcademicFedi you are really the best 💕
Currently writing an article that should be 8,000 words. I am now at 17,000 and I, as a beginner in professional academic writing, need some advice. I know I am the kind of person who thinks through writing. This means that I have probably written a lot that can be cut and left out.
But how do I learn to write reasonably lengthy papers? I swear I thought my topic and questions could be addressed in 8,000 words. I had an outline ... with word counts per section. Still, it went completely off the rails.
@natalie@academicchatter@phdlife@phdstudents it will get better by doing. You learn to make better estimations. But making a long article shorter is quite a job. Start with deleting entire sections. Then delete superfluous sentences. Then ask a friend to delete more. Then also kill your darling ideas that can be deleted. Then cry... and finally use a comb to get rid of the complicated sentences and superfluous words. If you have time, let it rest for a while and then delete even more.
I'm not an IT person, but anyone knows what's the point of university not allowing students and postgraduate researchers to share OneDrive documents with people outside their organisation?
Because to me it looks really just as a very dumb policy.
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Did you know that renaming a pptx file to pps starts straight as a slide show? This can save time at conferences and looks more professional in interviews or when giving presentations or workshops @phdstudents@academicchatter
@StephZihms@phdstudents@academicchatter Yeah, that was where I gave up. Apparently the correct one would be .ppsx but I haven't tried whether this works on a .pptx or not. Just literally had one sent via e-Mail after reading this 👍
@msjennmo@academicchatter@phdstudents So far just Masto and Discord for me. I do keep wondering about Threads due to its scale, however the ownership, the current lack of access in the EU, and the promised but not yet implemented federation have made me pause.
That kind of feeling of being at the same time a PhD student and a staff member at a university, and as a staff member you receive an email congratulating your supervisor for being appointed a higher position in a different university, in a different city, before, of course, he could tell you the news.
Welcome to academic limbos, Alx.
@alx That really sucks. I don't know what else to say
I also had one supervisor leave, to be replaced by someone who took 6 months to get up to speed and only ever gave generic advice. At a certain point I realised it was entirely down to me to get it done and submitted. I wish I'd realised this earlier, but I also really wanted to have someone to talk things through with. In the end, I just had to stay focussed on what I was doing, and supervision became an admin task
@ttpphd not sure why you assume that what I write on a social network while not giving advice to anybody about having a beer is representative of how I do this in person when I do give that advice. Kind of ironic actually. Thanks for the quick lesson anyhow, thankfully not needed.
I have been accepted for an external PhD at the University of Groningen focusing on the framings of displaced persons in the EU and ASEAN. Unfortunately, I just got rejected from a funding/scholarship from the Indonesian government. Any information about such funding opportunities and PhD programs related to #migration#refugees#populism#ComparativePolitics#phd would be greatly appreciated! @phdstudents
The UTS Visualise Your Thesis award ceremony turned out to be a great opportunity to talk about my research. It was great, especially considering how my friends and family are getting so sick of hearing about my research.
So, the last week of my #fieldwork starts on Monday. This has been so different from what I expected. My feelings are going up and down - I feel that the time run out and I should have planned much longer for this, at times I feel that I promissed too much in my research plan and I can't keep up with those promises, because I am not that talented researcher and pedagog that I thought. I have learned a lot and made new friends, but is that enough for a PhD thesis?
Putting final touches on my Editing your own writing workshop for the Scottish Graduate School of Arts & Humanities Summer school. The PhD students really like this one.
I really need to get some reading and thinking done, but my son is now on his school summer holidays and my brain is emphatically in "school's out" mode. #phdchat@phdstudents@phdlife
Kanban boards, task list organising and the canvas are game changers for me and will likely make #Obsidian my go-to app for projects, planning, writing and brain storming. All in one place should work well with my distracted brain @phdstudents@academicchatter
Excited to get stuck into this - just in time for my Write-Away! For publication workshop series where we write a draft paper together…@thesiswhisperer@phdstudents#AcademicChatter
Are you an academic researcher, PGR, or post-doc who is feeling overwhelmed and burnt out? Here are some tips (courtesy of the wall in my office) on how to improve your physical, mental, and social well-being!
