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How to Survive a PhD — Before you drown #1
A map of the territory before the water rises
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A PhD is not confusing because research is hard.
It is confusing because expectations are implicit, authority is ambiguous, and projects are designed without edges.
Treating that confusion as a personal failure is convenient — and wrong.
open.substack.com/pub/docglall...
It is confusing because expectations are implicit, authority is ambiguous, and projects are designed without edges.
Treating that confusion as a personal failure is convenient — and wrong.
open.substack.com/pub/docglall...
Reposted by Giada Lalli, PhD
Do your New Year resolutions include a plan to leave higher education? These researchers tell Nature how to reinvent your career. #Academicsky 🧪
Fresh starts: how to thrive when you leave academia
Do your New Year resolutions include a plan to leave higher education? These researchers explain how to reinvent your career.
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January 19, 2026 at 2:17 PM
Do your New Year resolutions include a plan to leave higher education? These researchers tell Nature how to reinvent your career. #Academicsky 🧪
Reposted by Giada Lalli, PhD
A paper published in Nature Medicine presents SleepFM: a multimodal sleep foundation model trained on over 585,000 hours of polysomnography data. It can accurately predict 130 health conditions from one night of sleep, including dementia and heart failure. 🧪🩺
A multimodal sleep foundation model for disease prediction - Nature Medicine
A deep learning-based model, developed using the rich, multimodal data available from polysomnography-derived sleep recordings, performs well on common sleep analysis tasks and predicts future disease risk across a range of diseases.
go.nature.com
January 15, 2026 at 2:54 AM
A paper published in Nature Medicine presents SleepFM: a multimodal sleep foundation model trained on over 585,000 hours of polysomnography data. It can accurately predict 130 health conditions from one night of sleep, including dementia and heart failure. 🧪🩺
Most PhD students don’t struggle because they can’t think.
They struggle because they can’t tell what is being asked of them — early enough, clearly enough, and with consequences attached.
They struggle because they can’t tell what is being asked of them — early enough, clearly enough, and with consequences attached.
January 15, 2026 at 12:46 PM
Most PhD students don’t struggle because they can’t think.
They struggle because they can’t tell what is being asked of them — early enough, clearly enough, and with consequences attached.
They struggle because they can’t tell what is being asked of them — early enough, clearly enough, and with consequences attached.
Instead of just twisting me inside a mold, help me break out
January 14, 2026 at 6:56 PM
Instead of just twisting me inside a mold, help me break out
this morning discomfort level after hearing the news of the shooting and killing from ICE in Minneapolis: I checked the distance from Minneapolis to Boston and Washington to understand how far (and then how safe) my friends living in US actually are.
January 8, 2026 at 9:47 AM
this morning discomfort level after hearing the news of the shooting and killing from ICE in Minneapolis: I checked the distance from Minneapolis to Boston and Washington to understand how far (and then how safe) my friends living in US actually are.
Many PhD students spend years trying to “improve their time management” without ever being told what counts as
enough work,
progress,
or completion.
That is not a skills gap.
It’s a design choice.
open.substack.com/pub/docglall...
enough work,
progress,
or completion.
That is not a skills gap.
It’s a design choice.
open.substack.com/pub/docglall...
How to Survive a PhD — Before you drown #1
A map of the territory before the water rises
open.substack.com
January 6, 2026 at 11:05 AM
Many PhD students spend years trying to “improve their time management” without ever being told what counts as
enough work,
progress,
or completion.
That is not a skills gap.
It’s a design choice.
open.substack.com/pub/docglall...
enough work,
progress,
or completion.
That is not a skills gap.
It’s a design choice.
open.substack.com/pub/docglall...
Most people enter a PhD in good faith.
They expect difficulty — and are told that difficulty is the point.
They expect difficulty — and are told that difficulty is the point.
January 5, 2026 at 2:45 PM
Most people enter a PhD in good faith.
They expect difficulty — and are told that difficulty is the point.
They expect difficulty — and are told that difficulty is the point.
A PhD is not confusing because research is hard.
It is confusing because expectations are implicit, authority is ambiguous, and projects are designed without edges.
Treating that confusion as a personal failure is convenient — and wrong.
open.substack.com/pub/docglall...
It is confusing because expectations are implicit, authority is ambiguous, and projects are designed without edges.
Treating that confusion as a personal failure is convenient — and wrong.
open.substack.com/pub/docglall...
How to Survive a PhD — Before you drown #1
A map of the territory before the water rises
open.substack.com
January 3, 2026 at 9:33 PM
A PhD is not confusing because research is hard.
It is confusing because expectations are implicit, authority is ambiguous, and projects are designed without edges.
Treating that confusion as a personal failure is convenient — and wrong.
open.substack.com/pub/docglall...
It is confusing because expectations are implicit, authority is ambiguous, and projects are designed without edges.
Treating that confusion as a personal failure is convenient — and wrong.
open.substack.com/pub/docglall...