#phd life

[pefkaes]

23.04.2024 // some affect theory and writing on a fairly warm day. i'm taking it slow this week, mostly because i feel lazy and kind of...blah.

affect always escapes any attempt to explain or understand it because it lies outside of language or cognition. perhaps that explains why affect seems so vague and abstract. im trying to figure out if affect theory will be useful for my research but I won't pursue it if it continues to be beyond my grasp.

#studyblr #studyblr community #academia #studyspo #studying #study blog #phdblr #study #phd life #phd #study aesthetic #university

[alexistudies]

monday, april 22nd 2024

happy earth day! this morning, i broke the ice on working on my first IRB form. i feel like this is such a big kid step in the PhD world, it's very exciting. hoping to get a good chunk of it done before friday and i'll probably need more help from my PI than i originally expected on it but that's okay :)

the past weekend was a great balancing act of adulting, relaxing, and academia. had a study date with a friend at the library for neural engineering, went to the pool, had date night w the boyf, and also went for a run with the pup. and i finished 2 library books (praise the LORD)

#alexistudies #alexi's phd year 1 #studyblr #studyspo #studying #genspen #heygen #morningkou #stemblr #scienceblr #collegeblr #uniblr #phdblr #gradblr #grad school #grad student #phd life #academia #graduate school #elkstudies #hey sprouht #selkiestudies #student life #study motivation #university

[penandpaper-love]

November 30, 2023

Still feeling drained and tired. At least we have snow and it's incredibly beautiful...

#mine #studyblr #100 days of productivity #motivation #phd life #literature #phdblr #soft academia #light academia

[volchiitza]

clearly trying to stop fixating on "productivity" has actually improved my focus

#gradblr #phdblr #phd life #phd #studyblr #study motivation #listen tumblr's new thing where you can copy paste previous tags and they paste as tags instead of a line of tags is impressive #omggg you can also edit the text in a tag?????!!!! #hello when did tumblr actually start listening to our suggestions and implementing them??? #look i know those are fake flowers but hey my office is a little bleak and i needed some reminders of happiness and fresh flowers are #difficult because a) they dont sell them near campus and b) i go in pretty sporadic so they wilt and die so easily #even though the same flowers would last weeks when i get them for the house

[legogradstudent]

Collaborating on a project with several colleagues, the grad student is unable to identify exactly what he is contributing.

#LEGO #PhD #PhD life #grad student #grad student life #grad school #grad school life #graduate life #grad life #teamwork #collaboration #group work #coauthors #contribution #what am i doing here #free riding #when will everyone kick me out

[foxscarf]

26.3.24

it's time for one more big effort! I'm determined to get this all done now.

(and I'm in love with my vintage desk I bought second hand only last week; plus my gran's blanket is keeping me cosy. So I'm beginning to feel I'll be alright!)

37/100 days of productivity

#:') 💪🤞✨ #wish me luck friends #hoping motivation strikes us all tonight! #my work #studyblr #100 days of productivity #dark academia #light academia #studyblr aesthetic #desk space #motivation #cosy #spring #gradblr #phdblr #phd life

[signals-and-soma]

19/100 days of productivity | 19/01/2024

study break = trying the buns from home weekend special (tea and custard - yum)! found a cute little cafe to do some reading

#100 days of productivity #phd #phd life #phdblr #study blog #study motivation #studyblr #studyfulltime #studyspo #study notes #motivation #studyinspo #study aesthetic

[amnhnyc]

Research alert! Imagine putting flippers on a 24-foot Komodo dragon. That’s how Amelia Zietlow, a Ph.D. student at the Museum’s Richard Gilder Graduate School, describes Jormungandr walhallaensis, a newly identified species of mosasaur that was named in part after a sea serpent in Norse mythology.

Living some 80 million years ago during the Cretaceous, this mosasaur is thought to represent a transitional period between other well-known species. In addition to flippers and a stumpy, shark-like tail, Jormungandr had a bony ridge on its skull that would have given it the appearance of having “angry eyebrows.”

#science #amnh #museum #natural history #nature #paleontology #mosasaurus #research #phd life #phd

[sleeplessant]

Hey Tolkien people and history buffs of Tumblr, I'm in need of your assistance. Does anybody know if there was an actual historical inspiration (or many) to the narrow, no rails, stone bridge of Khazad-dûm?

For context, I'm trying to use it as an example in my theoretical physics dissertation on the dynamics of pedestrians moving in a single line, but I've already met with some resistance from advisors with No Taste. All my google searches have conducted to analyses of the effectiveness of the Khazad-dûm scene in the book & movie, instead of an analysis of the actual "physical" bridge.

I know I could use other modern examples from construction scaffolds or bus and plane boarding/exiting schemes for single-line movement, but that's boring. Uninspired. Everyone does it. What I want is a badass illustration from The Lord of the Rings, and a JRR Tolkien quote on my very theoretical, so abstract that is basically useless, physics dissertation.

A physicist calls for aid.

#j r r tolkien #j. r. r. tolkien #john ronald reuel tolkien #lord of the rings #lotr #fellowship of the ring #bridge of khazad dum #khazad dum #bridges #stone bridges #humanities people help a stem girly out #single line movement #pedestrian flow #dumb procrastination shit i do instead of writing #gondor calls for aid #if you don't know the answer could you please reblog??? pretty please #or point me in the right direction #phd life #ah the wonders of academia #pedestrian traffic #durin's bridge #dwarrowdelf #mines of moria #tolkien #legendarium #tolkien legendarium

[meg-megbanom-ezt]

Kis szakmai szőrszálhasogatás rovatunk bemutatja: a vaníliát

Láttam egy tusfürdőt, aminek a címkéje szerint orchidea- ÉS vaníliaillata van. Na most...

A vanília IS orchidea! Szóval ez olyan, mintha azt mondanánk, hogy "láttam madarakat és gólyát" - végül is talán nem helytelen, "csak" értelemzavaró.

Az orchideafélék - vagyis magyarul (az ellenség megtévesztésére) a kosborfélék - családjába (Orchidaceae) tartozik a vanília nemzetség (Vanilla), itt az egyes fajokat magyarul már nem különböztetik meg (amennyire ez a Wikiről lejön), elsősorban a Vanilla planifolia nevű fajt használják fel fűszertermesztésre. Ez a faj Mexikóban őshonos és egyetlen, szintén ott őshonos méhfaj képes csak beporozni - úgyhogy amíg Edmond Albius ki nem dolgozta a mesterséges megtermékenyítés módszerét, csak az őshazájából tudták exportálni és hát ezért volt kheczi drága az igazi fűszervanília. Na jó, valójában ma is kheczi drága, mert hiába tudják már máshol is termeszteni, a kézi megtermékenyítés továbbra is fáradságos munka. Vannak nagyon jó leírások, hogyan is csinálni, sőt természetesen videók is, ide be is vágok egyet:

Persze ez gyakorlatilag önbeporz(at)ás - az a kis bigyó, amit itt csak flapnek neveznek (de a fenti linkekben a rendes nevén), amit hátra kell hajtani, hogy lenyomhasd a porzót a bibéhez, az a rostellum (magyarul csőr), ami pont az önbeporzást hivatott megakadályozni és egyébként ő maga is egy módosult, meddő bibe. Ez utóbbihoz nincs linkem, de bro, just trust me. Ja, várjál, van (Ctrl+F, meg hát angolul, de na)! ;) De ebből is látszik, hogy a kosborfélék virágának milyen lenyűgözően bonyolult a felépítése (amivel remekül lehet szopatni a BSc-s diákokat, de persze én nem vagyok olyan...). A vanília tokterméséből lesz végül a fűszer.

A vaníliának még egy érdekessége, hogy kúszónövény. Gyűjtöttem is pár nagyszerű képet az inaturalistról* (kép 1, kép 2 és 3), hogy lássátok vadon, de van még, ahonnan ez jött (csak olyanokat linkeltem direkt, ahol engedélyezték a képmegosztást).

*(egy igen nagyszerű közösségi oldal és adatbázis, ahová bárki feltöltheti a megfigyeléseit állatokról, növényekről, gombákról stb. és szakértők segítenek meghatározni (nem, ez nem fizetett hirdetés, őszintén imádom))

#Youtube #Vanilla planiflora #hétköznapi botanika #inaturalist #mém #phd life

[archaealice]

Had a workshop in Athens with my lab and got to visit the Akropolis on our last day

#ancient culture #ancient greece #ancient history #archaeology #studyblr #phd diaries #phd life #phdblr #phd #phd student #phd journey #study motivation #dark academia #dark academia aesthetic #academia

[pefkaes]

20.04.2024-21.04.2024 // it is strange how time functions. each day feels so long and then i look back and realise that months have passed. research work is picking up steam but I've been adamant about carving out social time for myself. perhaps, i'm not being as productive as i could be. but i cannot let my research/work consume me; un/non-productive time is as productive.

a snapshot of my days – studying during the day and chill time post-dinner.

#studyblr #studyblr community #academia #studyspo #studying #study blog #phdblr #study #productivity #study aesthetic #phd life

[honeesblog]

a lot of people in my program really only do their studies and to my other PHD's I urge you: make sure you have other things going on! I have a near endless list of weird hobbies and sports and other interests and I just want you to know that you don't need to eat, sleep, and breathe only your topic and subject! Read a fiction book for fun, paint something badly, find a nice shop to browse in, go for a walk in a green area, take a break and don't rush through it. Pleasure and relaxation are valuable and worth your time. The point of a PhD/Masters is not to work in a hard and unsustainable way until you are done but instead to learn how to be an academic, what type of academic you are, and how you want to live your life/balance your academics and everything else!

When you are studying/working, don't be afraid of being wrong or doing things messily or poorly. On hard days, give yourself leeway, add an extra scoop of sugar to your coffee or tea, and listen to the rocky theme!

#phd #academic #female academic #phd life #phdblr #phdjourney #women in academia #phd advice #light academia #dark academia #chaotic academia #graduate student #graduate school #grad school #mypost

[penandpaper-love]

February 11th, 2024

I still feel exhausted and it's so hard to bring myself to do anything for work. There's a few things I should get done but I just can't. Luckily I have a week off. I'll have to work a few days but there'll also be time to relax.

#mine #studyblr #100 days of productivity #phd life #phdblr #motivation #literature #soft academia #light academia #dark acadamia aesthetic #classic academia #teacher

[fullofmultitudesfullofshit]

I’m posting this so I have evidence and can’t feel guilty later:

If you’re a grad student and you need to take your weekend off, fucking do it.

Especially,,,, for my colleagues in a goddamn Phd program, like, what a hell scape, please take the weekend off. I told myself for the longest time that I had to just keep working because I couldn’t NOT work over the weekend or I would burst into flames - oh my fucking god !?!?!?!? If you’re looking for a signal that you should just say ‘fuck it’ and take the day for yourself, then fucking do it. PLEASE.

The truth about being in an English PhD program: Everything is awful, no one gives a shit what you do, just ask for an extension, like for the love of GOD, just ask for an extension. Please take the full weekend and go for a long walk in the snow and pet a dog.

#phd life #grad school #for me to remember too bc fuck #I’m always looking for ways to feel guilty and die #but honestly this school has given me nothing #I already give it 5 days a week on full blast #do something more for me and then we’ll talk #life in the fucking humanities

[legogradstudent]

Repairing his run-down laptop, the grad student is tempted to obliterate the anxiety-ridden piece of junk instead.

#LEGO #phd #phd life #grad school #grad school problems #grad student #grad student problems #grad life #graduate school #tech #technology #laptop #computer #run-down #repair #junk #hitting it might help #did you try restarting #can i restart my life instead