Great to see Australia's under-funding of PhD candidates making the news. Australia pays PhD students - the engine of University research - an absolute pittance. If we don't raise the stipend to a livable rate, we risk losing a generation of researchers.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jan/17/phd-student-jesse-gardner-russell-earns-20-an-hour-experts-say-low-pay-is-turning-australias-best-and-brightest-away

#Introduction
So here I am, someone who tried and failed Twitter numerous times, now attempting to get a handle on this I don't know if I'm on the right server, I guess time will tell!

I'm a #PhDStudent at #NewcastleUniversity using #animalBehaviour, #neuroscience, #physiology and #socialScience to improve #laboratory #animalWelfare (jeez that's a lotta hashtags!).

In my spare time I enjoy hunting, identifying, and sometimes even eating #fungi. I also like #photography and #baking vegan goodies

NIH releases new stipend pay tables for academic laborers.

https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-24-104.html

#NIH #PhDStudent #PostDoc @academicchatter @academicsunite

I’m seeking recommendations for PhD programs. My masters level graduate work is focused on #posthumanism, and I have extensive experience in #CommunityDevelopment. For my doctoral research I’d like to merge the two fields to re-imagine how we do and be #community in the #Anthropocene. I’m looking for a program that is pretty self-directed and ideally offers opportunities for independent studies. I’m just starting this search process from scratch.

All suggestions welcome!

#academia #phd #phdapplication #phdprograms #phdprogram #phdstudent #phdlife #interdisciplinary #interdisciplinarystudies #gradschools #posthumanism #posthumanstudies #gradstudent #doctorate #doctoralresearch #degree #doctoratestudent #phdstudentlife #graduateschool #doctoralstudent #doctoraleducation #phdapplicant #phdadmissions #academic #humanities
@academia

#introduction for the #newserver

I am Fabrice, a #neuroscience #PhDstudent @ University of Padova
I am moving instances from sigmoid.social, where I've been staying as a deep learning scientist (too many still and only on X, little discussion outside LLMs, )
My research focuses on classic machine learning as well as self supervised neural networks applied to problems in neurology, such as post-stroke rehabilitation.
I've been interested in #perception, #cognition, #reasoning in living and artificial systems since forever.
I naturally love online interactions, but most places I was used to were deeply toxic. I'm liking Mastodon for now!
Feel free to boost around a bit

Currently writing an article that should be 8,000 words. I am now at 17,000 and I, as a beginner in professional academic writing, need some advice. I know I am the kind of person who thinks through writing. This means that I have probably written a lot that can be cut and left out.

But how do I learn to write reasonably lengthy papers? I swear I thought my topic and questions could be addressed in 8,000 words. I had an outline ... with word counts per section. Still, it went completely off the rails.

Will this get better at some point?

#phd #phdlife #phdstudent #academicwriting @academicchatter @phdlife @phdstudents

Accurate #academia @PostdocVoice @TressAcademic
@PhDVoice @PhD_Genie
@PhDForum
@THINKAcademia
@OpenAcademics
@Momademia
@academicvoices
@AcademicChatter
@Academicsol
@hapyresearchers
@firstphdchat
@Dr_Meming
@careerconversa1
@AcademiaLite
@PhDspeaks @PhD_Balance
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RT @monayousefalza1
Studying for PhD..

#PhD #phdchat #phdvoice #phdlife #البحث_العلمي #الدكتوراه #phdstudent #AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter #phd
https://twitter.com/monayousefalza1/status/1639586639792971778

3 solid years since I felt comfortable sitting in a cafe reading and writing over delicious coffee and feeds. I certainly took this for granted. I’m not sure I’ll ever feel that comfort again
#PhD #Writing #Reading #PhdLife #PhDStudent #AcademicMastodon @phdlife @academicchatter @academicsunite

I'm a #PhDstudent in #sociology at @Uni_Stuttgart.
My doctoral #research is about labeling #eldermistreatment, applying a #mixedmethods design for my #dissertation.

Anyway, #ageing is my main research interest. This involves e.g. #retirement, #grandparenthood, #informalcaregiving.

I love #teaching basic #statistics to newbies! I help students to ged rid of frustration about numbers & formulas to make room for aha-moments.

#Introduction 2nd year #PhDStudent (awkward social media hi I’m new wave) #ADHD #ActuallyAutistic
#Reading #Writing #Nature #Vegetarian #Academia #AcademicChatter #PhDLife #introductions

Hello world! #introduction

I study #decentralized online social groups: organizational structure, how technology shapes human collaboration, the effects of content #moderation, the emergence of #AltTech, all that juicy stuff. I'm a #ComplexSystems #scientist (#PhDstudent), so I use a combination of #ComputerScience, #CSCW, mathematical #modeling, #NLP, and statistics to study social phenomenon.

Outside academia, I apply that work at #DDoSecrets, a publishing collective that distributes leaked documents to journalists and researchers, and when appropriate, the public. Most of my contributions are behind the scenes (infrastructure, some #infosec, academic coordination and collaboration), so I rarely speak publicly for the collective.

Sometimes I post about side projects, like turning a toaster into a server, my conspiracy shrine made out of dumpster-salvaged electronics that reads and synthesizes conspiracies from the web, or adventures with obscure tech like virtual reality gopherholes. I write about my academic, DDoSecrets, and other pursuits at my blog: https://backdrifting.net/

Howdy! Just popping on by to hedge my bets as twitter implodes. I'm a #PhDstudent at #SUNYESF working on #conservationBiology and #biogeography of #ants #landSnails & other #invertebrates often in #Palau #Belau #Micronesia

My research often involves #ecology & #evolutionaryBiology in some combination, and I've used a few different tools/systems, including #bioinformatics #fossils #leafLitter sampling, simulations, etc. I'm a pretty shoddy coder, but know a wee bit of #Rstats and #JuliaLang

Brainstorming on some tags relevant to me, the stuff I work on, and this account... Here it goes for #FollowFriday:

#sexuality #sex #gender #queer #trans #transgender #2SLGBTQIA #LGBTQIA #LGBT

#genderstudies #transstudies #womensstudies #sexresearch #socialscience #psychology #socialpsychology

Time to reintroduce myself: #introduction

Hi , I’m Laura.

By day I am a PhD student in computer science specializing in low-power communication for the Internet of Things (IoT). #cs #IoT #PhD #PhDstudent #science

Other than my work, I am a non-binary trans person constantly trying to more and more figure out who they are. I’m active in the local queer students group and like to read (or rather listen to) queer books. #trans #transbubble #enby #queer