#Grad

Tip for writing essays on a time crunch: make your initial outline really comprehensive for you that touches on every question and small assumption asked by the prompt. THEN gather
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listen pals. I’m 25 y/o. I eat well. I’m not in terrible shape. outwardly, I’m a young, healthy grad student. I also had heart surgery when I was 6 MONTHS
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day 1 of post grad: every idea I’ve ever had now exists without the excuse of “I’ll start after I graduate.” trying to build an audience for the inevitable creative
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MERITOCRACY IN THE NEWS @David_Goodhart and Michael Sandel have both written provocative new books about the trouble with 'meritocracy'. Both argue that non-graduates have been undervalued and that graduates in
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This is gonna be a thread about how dumb it was trying to get diagnosed when I was a kid and how i advocated for myself and my mom advocated
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After listening to all of Kanye’s albums front to back and being completely open minded, I have realized just how genius Kanye really is. I’ve always respected him as an
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I've been chirping all day about a rude email I got this morning and my husband said "don't you have better things to do than put people on your list"?
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When I was in grad school, I had a job in conjunction with the Cartoon Art Museum in SF where we taught undereducated kids how to read and write by
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Soooo in honor of science not being 100% sure if the Rocky Mountain locust is extinct or notwho wants to hear about the time I maybe found one?and yes I
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Very excited to unveil a white paper I’ve been working on: “The American biomedical research enterprise in a post-COVID-19 world”. http://rescuingbiomedicalresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Report-Final.pdf 1/ This was a months-
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Paper tweet y’all: this one is Taren Ong’s thesis magnum opus In @NatureComms we show coincidence detection between mitogens and meningeal ECM molecularly controls ciliogenesis & Sonic hedgehog response via Ras and
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Just stop. This is embarrassing. I don’t know who told you that growing up poor means that you get to dictate to Black people how we should think. But privilege
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A brief thread: I have found that most people don't know that being a professor entails more than teaching. #AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter #phdchat 1/ It's easy to get frustrated when you
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every david and patrick kiss, a thread: 3x13 (grad night) 4x01 (dead guy in room 4) 4x02 (pregnancy test) 4x03 (asbestos fest) 4x04 (girls’ night) 4x07 (the barbecue) 4x12 (singles
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As the school year kicks off & grad students start signing up to see profs, here are some thoughts about planning your research. To me, the 2 questions PhD students
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10 years ago I was smack dab in the middle of a two-year postdoc down at Harvard. Right now grad students are working on their applications for a variety of
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