I wanted to use an attitudinal survey design, but, having read up on it, I'm not so sure I Likert.

#PhDLife #AcademicChatter #SocialSciences #Puns #Likert

LAB CHRONICLE #20
-Data Acquisition -

Camera aligned.
Perfect focus.
→ Then I sneezed.
→ 4 hours of recalibration.

#LabLifeGoesOn #PhDLife #ExperimentalTragedy #LabReality #LeidenfrostEffect

Woah! Dieser Dopamin-Rush, wenn du zum ersten Mal eine Fehlermeldung in Texmaker ganz alleine gefixt hast! Unbezahlbar! Darauf bereitet einen niemand vor.

Der ganze Januar gehört der Diss; freut euch also jetzt schon auf weitere Folgen der Serie "Freud' und Leid mit LaTeX". #forschungsfrei #phdlife #itsajourney

FINISHED MY ABSTRACT! It is in for review 767 words long and I ended it with a question about when do we do something about climate change? #PhDLife

Had to stop working on my thesis today to
work on my abstract. My supervisor needs it done ASAP. Now, how to fit a thesis into 300 words? #PhDLife

Meeting with supervisor was good. He has stretched my time line though, he is on leave a lot lately and has to deal with stuff from his Dad's estate (his dad died just before Christmas) #PhDLife

Going to have coffee with my supervisor this morning. First day back on campus! #PhDLife

Nearly Midnight: I want to continue working on the thesis, but I need to sleep #PhDLife

Plan for thesis tonight is NO writing. Just a assessment of what needs to be done. I feel like I am being bogged down and getting stuck in detail that doesn't matter much. Do the big grammatical edit later. I am so very close! #PhDLife

Not to brag or anything but I did catch an error while going through proofs, about three seconds AFTER I hit submit. #PhDLife #AcademicSky #YouCanNoLongerMakeEdits

I have added poetry in my climate focused thesis!

“I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains
Of ragged mountain ranges
Of droughts and flooding rains”

- My Country by Dorothea Mackellar

#PhDLife

My tale started in 2018. As of 2025, I survived and became a citizen of this empire. Now, in 2026, I'm still standing.

Still hopeful, forever a survivor, proudly a gladiator, and finally a knight.

With love.

#PhD #AcademicMastodon #Academia #PhDLife #Research #HigherEd

Oh. Merke gerade, ich habe das ganze Jahr noch nix für meine Diss gemacht.
#MöphDiss #PhdLife

Unexpectedly went coding again in #rstats to create a figure for an "intermezzo" paper for my thesis. #phdlife

Quite a challenge to make a doughnut like diagram for community wellbeing based transport policy analysis, but this may even be a fruitful piece of software I can use in everyday work.

I was planning on taking a break this week but I feel like dipping into my thesis today. Maybe one hour 🥰 #PhDLife

No meme today. A historical question about mathematics: For centuries, we assumed the sign of numbers was fixed. It wasn’t. This video summarizes a historical path that leads to Multisign Algebra. The full mathematical treatment is available in the arXiv preprint linked via the QR code.
#Mathematics #HistoryOfScience #PhDLife

PhD life = endless PDFs 😵‍💫
What if you could cut literature review time by 60% — without risking ethics or credibility? 🎓🤖

👉 https://medium.com/@rogt.x1997/how-phd-researchers-cut-literature-review-time-by-60-using-ai-without-breaking-ethics-e8158826e59b

#PhDLife #AcademicAI #ResearchEthics
https://medium.com/@rogt.x1997/how-phd-researchers-cut-literature-review-time-by-60-using-ai-without-breaking-ethics-e8158826e59b

I have been revising my thesis manuscript this week and it feels exhausting to rewrite/reformulate the text. Even I am exhausted by this work, I really appreciate the commenting my supervisor has made and it helps to make my work better. At least I hope so.

#PhdLife

Counting myself so lucky to have another great review on Amazon for It Shouldn't Happen to a PhD Student

Even better for anyone who wants to pick it up, the Ebook is still on sale for only 99p for a few more days
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Shouldnt-Happen-PhD-Student-survive/dp/1806050757

#phd #phdproblems #phdchat #phdlife

Need to finish for the day, the introduction is still not finished. GAH. So. Close. Tomorrow. #PhDlife