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We have made great strides in combatting homophobia and transphobia, but some people now think that everything must be fine. And if everything’s fine, then why are LGBTQ…
Sometimes, as a PhD student, I feel that I am on my own little island. But, I’ve been very fortunate to be in a position that not many new PhD students get to be in i.e…
- Anthony David Cliffe
- June 28, 2019
Ever wondered what graduate students keep at their desk? Here, a PhD student will attempt to share with you the 17 most essential things he keeps at all times, at his…
This year was especially hard for me, because it was my first International Women’s Day since I left physics. The hashtag #PassOnMyWisdom has been bouncing around…
Peer Review Week 2019 will be celebrated from September 16 to 20, and this year the theme is “Quality in Peer Review.” Join us in being a part of this exciting global…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- June 27, 2019
Last week I submitted my thesis. No hoopla. No fanfare. No round of applause. It was merely a matter of printing four copies, getting them bound, then dropping them off…
- Ian Guest
- June 27, 2019
I am an American living in Japan, where I teach English to freshman high school students. But it was not always this way; I used to be a geologist. But clearly, all that…
My transition to graduate school had been rough, both socially and emotionally. I was lonely and distracted. I tried my best to concentrate and study, to put my feelings…
Over the last few years, I have wondered several times if my supervisors were ever graduate students at some point in their lives. It doesn’t really feel like it. So I…
It was the week before Christmas when I had to deal with an academic bombshell. Well, I might be exaggerating a bit, but it surely had many hallmarks of a bombshell:…
- Claire Jarvis
- June 26, 2019