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Interestingly, since we started posting about how many fake university accounts there are on social media (👇), our website has received significantly more attempts to hack it.
I wonder if it is a coincidence.🤔
How universities can control what you see on social media:
The use of bots is commonly known, but that is just one way that universities can control what you see.
Another, much more effective, method is to have many accounts operated by real people.
Using these accounts allows…
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We need to normalize just how good PhD students are.
You already have a bachelors (maybe a masters). You’re highly qualified, and now you’re doing something that very few people IN THE WORLD can do. You’re literally one of the best in the world in your field.
Think about that.
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In order to write well, you must first write poorly.
You can edit a draft, you can’t edit a blank page.
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How To Do A Good Literature Review:
Literature reviews seem complex and difficult. But, once you understand what they’re for, they become very simple.
One common approach is to endeavor to cover all of a field, or as much of it as possible.
But, that doesn’t...👇
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People who do their PhDs in a language that isn’t their native one should get some kind of extra award.
It’s a whole extra task on top of an already challenging workload.
At the very least a box of cookies every week wouldn’t go astray😋🍪🤤
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We should normalize just how good PhD students are.
You already have a bachelors (maybe a masters too). You’re already highly qualified, and now you’re researching something that very few people IN THE WORLD can do. You’re literally one of the best in the world in your field.
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You either leave academia a hero, or stay long enough to become reviewer 2.😅
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As a PhD student, every hour you spend thinking about your project is actually an hour of work.
We’re thinkers, so thinking is work.
Remember to credit yourself with that time and count it toward your weekly work load.
Don’t overwork.
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PhD students, and academics in general, are not paid enough, especially given the inflation. This is a major problem that is forcing many below the poverty line, and out of academia.
To solve this problem, we’ve created a platform where academics can earn more money from their…
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How To Write An Abstract For A Paper:
Abstracts are incredibly important. After the title, the abstract of your paper is probably the most important part because most people will use it to decide whether it’s worth reading any more of your paper or not.
What’s...👇
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PhD students do better research when they’re not worried about basic living expenses.
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Anonymous question
“is doing a PhD a matter of intelligence ?
Personally, I think it’s more a matter of creativity, ideas, commitment and hard work
But I would like to see what other phd students thinks”
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Just because you’re not physically doing anything doesn’t mean you’re not working.
A PhD is just as much about figuring out what to do as it is about doing it.
So if you’ve spent all day figuring out what to do but haven’t done anything, then that’s still work.
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Your supervisor is the most important part of your PhD.
A good supervisor will almost always result in a good PhD experience.
A bad supervisor will almost always result in a bad PhD experience.
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Non-research person: “You’re a researcher.”
Researcher: “Yep.”
Non-research person: “Do you understand what researchers in other fields are talking about?”
Researcher: “I don’t even understand what researchers in my own field are talking about.”
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To all PhD students, you’re probably doing a lot better than you think you are.
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Being a PhD student means that you’re already an expert in your field.
Even if there are 1,000 people in your field, that means that there are only 1,000 people in the *entire* world who know as much about your field as you.
Hence, you’re an expert.
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To all PhD students, you’re probably doing much better than you think you are.
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Universities have got to increase PhD stipends with the inflation rate.
It makes sense for a university to do that because if you want to get decent research, the researchers can’t be worried about paying basic living expenses.
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5 Straight-Forward Steps to Doing a Literature Review:
1) Find all reputable publications related to your niche. (Ideally, all of them.)
2) Read as many of those publications as you can in the time allotted.
If you find that there are more papers than you...👇
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How To Write A Conference Paper Abstract When You Don’t Have The Results Yet?
Submission dates for conferences are usually a long way out, which makes writing abstracts difficult because often you don’t actually have the results yet.
How do you write a conference abstract...👇
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Just a reminder that 3 hours of focused work is better than 12 hours of unfocused work.
It’s better to do even 3 hours and take the rest of the day off than push through.
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We’ve written a book called, “100 tips for PhD students”. We want it to help PhD students as much as possible.
So, we’d like to give it to some people in the PhD Voice community (for free) to get feedback on it.
If you’d like a copy, let us know through DM. Thank you🙂
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You know what would really help mental health?
If universities paid PhD students properly.
It’s hard to feel good when you can’t pay your bills.
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How to write the start of your paper:
One of the most difficult parts of writing a paper is that first sentence, or two. You think, “Well...should I just jump in and start writing?? Where do I start?”
The easiest way to write this part is to think of your...👇
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How to write the cover letter for your paper:
A bad cover letter can get your paper desk-rejected, while a good cover letter makes it soooo much easier to get your paper accepted! And yet, no one seems to talk about how to do a good one.
The best way...👇
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Life of a PhD student:
Step 1: Get stuck on a problem
Step 2: Search and search for the answer
Step 3: Find it
Step 4: Feel relieved
Step 5: Close tabs
Step 6: Immediately forget what the answer was
Repeat steps 2-6 as many times as needed.
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A PhD is all about pretending to know stuff until they give you your PhD.🤔
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For those who have a good supervisor, what’s one good quality they have?
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Most PhD students (and academics in general) don’t get paid enough and are struggling to make ends meet. And the problem only seems to be getting worse.
So, we’re working on something that will solve that problem.
It’s big, really big! Maybe the biggest thing we’ve ever done.…
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1st year PhD student telling 5th PhD student how great her PhD is going to be.😂
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Be honest, how often do you think about running away from your PhD and living in the woods?😅
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Is it just me or is academia really good at taking away your confidence?🤔
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How To Plan The Method Section Of Your Paper:
The method section of your paper is of vital importance. It helps determine and prove the quality of your work. As such, it’s important to write a good one.
All good method sections start with a good plan. The...👇
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I think one of the coolest things about research is that you can email another researcher on the other side of the world, whom you’ve never met, and just start talking about your common research interest, and they’re happy to do that too.🤔
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Anonymous question
“How do you take notes of articles and keep track of all the notes for writing your PhD thesis?”
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As a PhD student (and a researcher in general), you’re not supposed to have all the answers.
Your job isn’t to do things perfectly.
Your job is simply to learn. That’s all.
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How to word your literature review👇
A literature review is there to highlight what should be researched next. As such, it is important to detail what has been done before, and often, what weaknesses past work had.
A bad way to do that is as follows👇
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The most important skill a researcher can have is the ability to say “I don’t know”.
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You know why they call it Doctor of Philosophy?
Because by the end you’ll be questioning all of your life choices.😅
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PhD students, you deserve to get paid far more than what you currently are.
Much of the research, if not most, in academia is done by PhD students. That’s the fundamental research that everything else is built on.
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It’s a shame how academia can take all these bright minds and make them depressed.😔
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We have a new free PhD supervisor resource: the Paper Planning Template.
It makes writing papers easier and quicker.
Use this paper planning template to help your students write their papers!
It's free here for you...👇
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Most people who have PhDs didn’t think they had what it took to finish their PhDs.
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I see A LOT of tweets about bad supervisors, and I really get it. There are a lot of bad ones.
But it’s also important to keep in mind that there are good supervisors out there too.
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Today we launch the WORLD’S 1st social media platform dedicated to PhD students and ECRs!!!
The PhD Voice Box!
Amplifying PhD students' voices!
(This beta version is free for the 1st few joining. Can’t promise it will remain free, servers 👇
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Okay so, Bruce Banner did 7 PhDs and now he’s always angry...coincidence?🤔
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This is an appreciation tweet for all of the good supervisors out there, doing their best even though they’re going through difficult times too.
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To help those who are getting rejections from PhD programs:
Current PhD students, how many rejections did you get before getting into your PhD program?
(And too many to remember is a valid answer as well)
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I think PhD students need frequent reminders that you’re one of the best in the world in your field.
Sure, there might be other fields, but just as an Olympic sprinter is still one of the best in their own field, a PhD student is one of the best in their field too.
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PhD students, and researchers in general, it’s okay to say “I don’t know”.
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At what point in a PhD is it too late to run away and live in the woods?...asking for a friend😅
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How to get your negative results accepted for publication👇
The method is; write in your cover letter,
“The results in this manuscript are important to our field, as evidenced by our literature review. Therefore, it is beneficial for other researchers...👇
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If your university offered you free therapy sessions, would you go?
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If you ever get a tough question during your PhD, just say “I need more funding to find out”.
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If you’re doing your PhD in a second language, don’t worry if you make mistakes during presentations, etc.
The main thing is to just get your point across.
No reasonable native speaker will mind if you make mistakes.
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Anonymous question
“How do a very "VERY" introverted PhD students deal with the networking "party" during a conference? I barely tolerate the loud noises.. In addition to that, I am not drinking alcohol due to religious restrictions.”
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You are an expert *during* your PhD. You don’t have to wait until you finish to consider yourself one because you are one already - very few people in the world know as much about your topic as you do.
Therefore, you are an expert.💪
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What do you think a university needs to do to keep their PhD students mentally healthy? 🤔
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One of the most demoralizing aspects of doing a PhD is that it’s so long.
You go years without reaching your end goal.
That’s why it’s so important to write down every little achievement you have along the way so that you get a constant reminder that you’re still progressing.
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If you’re a PhD student and you’re concerned about job prospects after you finish, just know that you can always become a super villain.
So don’t worry, you still have good career options available.🤔
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By the end of your PhD, you’re going to see so many ways you could’ve, and maybe should’ve, done things differently.
Congratulations, you’re now a critically thinking researcher. Everything a researcher should be.
Your PhD was a success!
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PhDs are long, and you need to take regular breaks.
What’s one thing you’ve done, just for yourself, this weekend?🙂
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Just get your PhD done, don’t worry about it being perfect…because it never will be perfect and it doesn’t need to be.
It’s just one step along the way.
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Whenever I feel down about my research, it always helps to remember that even a researcher like Charles Darwin had bad days.
This is what he said on one of them:
“I am very poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything.”
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Doing a PhD is a lot like solving a Rubik’s cube. You never know when you’ll finish and there’s a good chance of going crazy with frustration.
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We have a new free PhD template to help you make notes about each paper you read.
It makes remembering what a paper is about 3 or 4 years after you’ve read it much easier.
The template is simple and effective, and you...👇
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To help new PhD students starting this year, what are some of things you’d suggest they do at the start of their PhD?🤔
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PhD Students: “We need an increase in our stipend to afford basic living needs.”
Some Universities: “Have you tried finding a random bag of money on the street?”
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