(Rev. 13:16) “And he causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads.”

Theologians discussed long time, what it is. But that’s simple: the mark of the forehead is a scientific degree, a mark that you have a working forehead. The mark of the right hand is the mark that you have worker skills.

Does it mean that a PhD person cannot be saved? Of course not: (Rev. 14:11) “And the smoke of their torment ascends up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receives the mark of his name.” The word translated here as “receives” is Greek “lambano”, meaning “actively lay hold of to take or receive,” or “aggressively (actively) accepting what is available (offered)”. This means that you accept the mark of the beast, if you receive your salary (especially, a PhD salary that may be available to you) and take it, instead of giving it for a project that liquidates separation of people to PhDs and non-PhDs. If you are in your PhD carrier and don’t allocate money for killing this separation, you simply go to the hell, for being on the devilish side.

I call you now to change your faith from receiving money only to stopping laying hold of it, but instead giving to the project that stops separation of the world. Jesus dies for sins of whole world (incorrect translation: entire world), and if the world you live in is not heading to wholeness, then you will go to the hell. Your need in your faith that the world needs to be made whole, and only living faith (leading to particular deeds) can save you.

Whether you are yourself a PhD or non-PhD, if you don’t war against this fascist separation, you are doomed to the hell together with all fascists. If you simply pronounce, “All people should have equal rights.”, it does not help you, to separate from fascists you need to act actively.

Why, would you ask, separation to PhDs and non-PhDs is so bad? It’s because ordered semicategory actions were discovered by a non-PhDs, and thus most of the future science was lost for the world. This is called in Revelation of John by the word “beast”, where the bestiality means to lack human mind. The stamp to the forehead broke the forehead and made the world unable to accept ordered semicategory actions, lowering the mind to beast state. I accept no world without ordered semicategory actions and you should, too.

Your way of resistance is giving to the project that stops separation of the world or to support my software development.

Again, not giving and being saved are incompatible. If you don’t give, it is obvious that you have the faith broken by a solid stamp that hit your forehead.

“PhD in theology” sounds especially funny after this, doesn’t it?

I’ve been working on my papers/dissertation for a while now, but I’m looking at the other PhD students in my program and they’re officers in like, five or six different societies/groups in their field. They’re constantly going to this or that meeting, or this or that conference, for what I’m assuming is the padding of their CV.

I, on the other hand, am absolutely thrilled if I just find the motivation to write a couple of pages in a day.

How are these other students not completely burning out?

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I want to make an engaging presentation and was wondering if you knew any websites like Canva from which to get Powerpoint slides templates :)

Sorry if this is not the right place to post.. I need to create a small sketch to explain an algorithm Im using in my methods. What is the best and most efficient/ fast way? Adobe? Inkskape? Microsoft? Keynote? Please your recommendations

Were you just gunning for a top journal from the moment the first hypothesis struck you? Was there a key experimental finding that had to be confirmed to convince you? Did a senior/well-respected researcher have to suggest you to take a shot at it before you realized the gravity of your findings?

I’m curious about the experiences both of people who have published a first-author C/S/N paper, as well as those who at some point thought their work was worthy of a C/S/N paper (or perhaps their PI or committee suggested it was) but it never panned out.

Trying to gauge just how deluded I am 😅

I started my PhD about 2 years ago and joined a new lab where I became her first PhD student. Obviously I had a lot things to accomplish. So I help setup the lab learnt and explored everything needed to run our lab smoothly. Once everything was ready I started working on my thesis. I passed my qualifier exams and was admitted to continue my PhD directly. All these times I've been so patient and took all the criticism from my Pi. The work I do is never good for her. The way she communicates towards me is so demeaning and I don't really know if I can continue. She calls my work trash, she bashes my work, laughs at my work and I feel so down every time I go see her office. I really love my work and I am trying so hard to just keep moving forward but now I don't know if I can do it anymore. Yesterday I had meeting with her and I wanted her advice on helping me organize my thoughts on a poster that I'm planning to present in about 2 weeks. She looked at my poster and said ok this is good and looked and suggested some things. I was happy but then she started to circle out and mark everything breathing so loud like an annoyed person. She then suggests that I should ask for another student to help me fix it. At this point I just don't get it if she is even helpful because this is what her suggestions is always that I should go and ask some other students. I mean isn't she my professor to help guide me some this things to improve my skills? I know I'm not perfect and I have a lot to learn but if she's not willing to guide me then what's the purpose of me having her as my major professor. I thought about mastering out multiple times but considering the biotech/pharma job market is not very good right now I stuck on continuing my study.

Country:USA Any advice is welcome.

Yesterday I woke up to a rejection from a journal, one I was really hopeful about. I tried to brush it off, but I just couldn't shake it. An hour later I got rejected from another journal.

Two in one day??

Wrong! Because a third journal rejected me three hours later. No, I am not kidding.

I spent the day wallowing in self pity like anyone would, not working at all on what I planned to.

Thinking my day was over, I checked my email at around 9 pm and saw an email from another journal. An acceptance!

Could not believe how many journals decided to send me their decision all on the same day, even worse that 3/4ths rejected me! Haha

Thought you all would appreciate both 1) the absurdity and the sadness of three rejections in one day and 2) the rollercoaster of that last acceptance.

i have no choice other than submitting, but i’m feeling ashamed and guilty. have any of you had a similar experience? how was the defense? and afterwards?

I have had a research project in mind for my thesis for a while, and my supervisor was on board with it. However, I've now got more research projects in the works than fit in my thesis. I was considering doing some as side projects, but my supervisor now has a new incoming PhD student who is focusing her whole PhD on one of these projects of mine and wants me to hand over it completely to this new PhD student. She said in return I get to be a co-author.

While it sounds good to not have to do the major work myself, I really was interested in driving this project and I feel like I'm giving away my hard work. Is this a common practice? Is it a good thing or a bad thing? What would you do in my situation?

Hey everyone,

Pseudo follow up to this prior post: https://www.reddit.com/r/GradSchool/comments/1cgr4ff/phd_slated_to_graduate_in_august_30_years_old/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Now that I've realized how unusual my experience was before I got to this point, I feel ashamed about how I got here. Likely not going to use my Ph.D and disappoint folks in the process, but I guess that's that. Roast me if you want idc. That's just the post is all.

So I gave a practice talk this week, and everyone said it was spectacular. And they gave me some helpful feedback to improve the presentation. But now, I have just two weeks left and I feel so burnt out and have no motivation to improve the PowerPoint even though it'd really only take me 6-8 hours to do. Next, I have a couple other things to do at lab, and I have absolutely zero drive to get started on them.

So how can I hang in there for this final stretch?

So basically, I am a first year PhD student in India and I just found out that my supervisor is retiring next year. This was supposed to be a classified information and so I cannot talk to him about this atleast right now but this is nonetheless making me really stressed. Is there a standard procedure for who ends up being your supervisor if your earlier supervisor retires? (Plus points if someone familiar with Indian PhD could answer)

I begin my journey as a PhD student in Geography this fall studying human-environment interactions (located in the US northeast). I am well aware of the competitive job market for academia/professorship that I will likely face with post-PhD. While I am not opposed to working in industry afterwards, my true passion is in research. Therefore, I want to do everything that I can to proactively increase my chances of landing a job as a professor later on. What are some things a PhD student can do during their studies to give them an edge in finding success in the academia job market afterwards?

I’m already in the program but need to start a project from scratch. Supervisors constantly point out at my lack of working experience but how do people do it right after masters degrees?

I have graduated from medical school and did a masters and started a PhD under another supervisors, it failed and they have given a new team who is satisfied with my motivation and work ethics but say it’s easier to find a gap when you work in the field.

I'm a PhD student (UK) in the final months of my PhD. I really want to start applying for post-docs in UK universities, but I'm not confident because I haven't any publications. I have ADHD and it took me 7 years of PhD to get into the finish line. That also hindered me from focusing on anything besides my thesis. My advisor said it wasn't a problem, and that I can publish after my PhD. What are your thoughts?

Hello, I graduated with my undergrad last fall and am set to start my PhD (USA, social science) program this fall. I’ve always enjoyed and been excited about research but and becoming a TT prof is still my dream job, but I can’t help but feel like the looming job market and lack of stability is concerning me. I’m not averse to putting in the work if I know the outcome will be successful, but with how many colleges and universities are shutting down, enrollment growing stagnant, and a seemingly growing distaste for teaching due to the increase in use of AI/lack of critical thinking, I’m starting to wonder if I’m making a mistake going down this path.

My undergrad and PhD would be in the same major (discipline in the social sciences). I’m wondering if I’m better off pursuing an MBA or a masters in an area like finance.

Would love some personal opinions from those who’ve done their PhD or opinions from those doing it now. Good or bad!

I am really lost about choosing my mentor for my PhD and could use some advice. I’m choosing between these two:

Mentor A - This was my earlier rotation, went amazing. The lab culture is great and the PI clearly cares about his students. Generally, the work is in line with what I enjoy but I think the professor is a little too focused on some older theories. The cons are that he sits on papers because he only wants to publish Nature etc, and that his lab is only students. Like no post docs at all so I’m worried that as people graduate I will lack the mentorship built into the lab.

Mentor B/C - This would be a comentorship between two people. Both are really well renowned in the field. One has a huge lab (40ish) and publishes super often, has the work I’m most excited about by far, but is notoriously not a mentor - just not in their students corners etc. The second one is an amazing mentor, very hands on, and has their students best interests and success in mind. They work next to each other and are already trying to establish some grants together. I think the downsides of the first mentor could be balanced out by this approach, while still being able to get the benefits of the their amazing work etc.

So here is the situation. I had my candidacy two weeks ago and I did not pass. I was also the only one in my year that did not pass which made me feel very shitty. Everyone I told about it was definitely in shock because I had multiple practice presentations and everyone said they believed that it was great. My friends also believed that my advisor told my committee something that hindered me from passing. Because of this whole situation I see my advisor in a very different light.

I feel like it could’ve been a recipe for disaster because 1, my advisor never read my thesis paper from top to bottom. 2, they canceled many of my 1-on-1s. 3, I had to add a whole new method I’m not well versed on 3 weeks before my candidacy exam even though I asked if I should add it when talked to them the month before.

For now I plan to do a masters defense to have a chance to be able to stay in the PHD program, however I am very very nervous. Also after my defense in the event I pass I will be switching labs. In the meantime I will remain in my current lab to finish out my masters. I just wanted some outside opinions on what I should do between now and my defense to have a better outcome next time. Also if anybody has any advice on how to handle the fact that I failed because even though everyone says I shouldn’t be embarrassed, I still do feel embarrassed about being the only one in my year that failed.

Hey everyone,

I’m working on an app that you can ask from your papers/books/… and it gives answer with citations (where the answer comes from) for fact checking. Then you can save, curate and organize the useful responses and create a knowledge base for your thesis or course.

We are a small team of engineers and students who need your help to improve it. The only thing I’d like is having some students and folks using it and giving me some feedback.

The catch for me is the feedback then I can improve it and build something useful, and the catch for you is using GPT 4 for free and more.

You can read more here, also we’re building a discord community that you can join.
It’s not publicly available to everyone, so I need to give access manually.

I provided an example here (image) for better understanding how it works, then you can save them as notes and edit them:

https://preview.redd.it/pg393z0xz7yc1.png?width=1848&format=png&auto=webp&s=248f6f64aff67e0d6edf4295cd1eecc2c78a6820

I hope this is not a stupid question but it is something I struggle with as a beginning PhD student.

I keep making changes (eg adding covariates, filtering out a group of participants etc) and there is just so much results, and I am wondering how does everyone deal with that. Obviously, I do not want to keep rerunning the code forever. The ideas I had so far are simply keeping a document with the outputs (seems impractical) or maybe keeping them in the code with hashtags.

But I thought maybe someone smarter than me came up with a neater solution. If so, please let me know.

Long story short. I spent the last 3 years collaborating with a bigger study as a phd which failed. After the drama, the university gave me tuition and a new supervisory team to do what I want. 

I spent the last 3 months trying to find a subject that is closer to the expertise to my supervisor, I barely have a research question and my annual examination is due October.  My supervisors constantly critique my lack of working experience and thus not knowing what to focus on (real life problem), but they are satisfied with my commitment and output (slow progress). 

Now, my second supervisor is telling me there is an opportunity with similar subjects of interest. A study she is working on with a group and they need someone to analyse data and its enough for a phd. 

Now, I am thinking if I collaborate again and fail. The university will blame it on me and stop my tuition. If I continue on my own, the university can’t say anything but I might have passed an interesting opportunity and would have to make it on my own despite the critique and slow progress. 

What do you think?

I am ending my 5th year in comparative literature while having a full time job in another country. With work, family, and housework I haven’t been able to keep the 20 pages a month that my supervisor and I agreed upon last August. Exhaustion, stress, and above all, guilt wrecked me pretty bad last week (fighting with my wife did not help much either). I wrote a « sorry but that’s all I could write this month, I can’t deal with this right now » message to my supervisor. She just told me to chill out for a few days, and try to not feel guilty about lack of output. And I did: I took care of my yard, played with the kids, bonded with my youngest over video games, took long walks with my dog. I am now writing my end of year (for us it’s September to June) report, vibing with some good music. I realize that even if it’s not amazing, I actually did some pretty decent work (about 110 pages), especially considering that I barely wrote anything in the first 3 years. Anyway, I just wanted to share that small victory. Love you guys (and ladies).

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Hi all. I'm in the final year of my PhD in the UK (7 months of funding left). I would say I'm pretty much on track to finish in that time.

However, I've been starting to look at jobs and found one that was PERFECT for me and they rarely come up. I applied and mentioned that I will not be finishing my PhD until December. I managed to get an interview which is next week.

Does anyone have experience with working alongside the end of your PhD funding? It's technically against the 'rules' of my funding so has anyone ever been caught?/ ever gone part time towards the end?/ ever given up your funding for the sake of your job and still handed in?

ANY ADVICE would be amazing.

P.s I am aware I haven't even been offered the job yet xo

I'm currently studying for the doctoral state exam (in EU), so taking a break from research in my 4 year program. No publications yet. Maybe by the end of the year I'll squeeze out something worthy of publishing, and my supervisor will start guiding me better. One can dream ;p Anyway cheers everybody, keep up the good fight 😁

Hi everyone,

Have you had any experience of applying for UKRI funding which could include the use of animals abroad?

We’re applying for funding to conduct a study looking at AMR in farm animals and humans in Southeast Asia, if anyone has any experience applying for UKRI funding along those lines I’d really appreciate hearing from you.

Thanks!

I’m am based in the UK, and our partners are Thailand and Malaysia