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I am so fortunate to be a mathematician / theoretical computer scientist - we always order authors alphabetically. In fact, the described situation (putting somebody just because they are in the same group) would be borderline (?) misconduct in maths / tcs.

The "Become a Master Academic Writer With AI using my course" part of your video description makes me feel that you are contributing to much more evil than you are exposing. Signed: a researcher in pure maths where almost every statement you make is blatantly false.

are Phd in Management sciences or in English?

I always enjoy your informational, sarcastic, and entertaining videos.

Isn't discipline or research field-specific? I'm talking about the structure and content, specifically it's wordiness...

This is great but sometimes theres just some projects that are fundamentally not gonna be explained with figures, no way out. Plus some of these examples would just not fly at some university departments and get downgraded for being too artsy.

How do access your course.

My new hero. You're the best author in the house.

I have never this. I also don't whisper or talk about this. I have never put someone else's name on my paper who did not work. I have never been on someone else's paper for which I did no work. Go look at my google scholar citations and find the article for which I did no work.

I totally agree with you

I have been watching your videos for awhile now. I am going to be starting my PhD in molecular, cellular, biochemical pharmacology on July 1st. Your videos have helped me with so much and I really appreciate it.

I have recently experienced many issues with Chat GPT-4. Has anyone noticed any changes? Even when I ask my usual prompts to respond to something as trivial as emails, it does not give me the usual structure of responses it used to. Does anyone know what to do about that?

Hey Andy, Googles NotebookLM is the sickest Research Tool of them all. You can upload 20 PDFs and get answers with citations. The tool jumps right to the part of the pdf. And its free. Please do a review. And maybeeee you could even do a full tutorial on how to do a Literature Review with the help of NotebookLM. THANK YOOOOU :)

My supervisor has always been into micromanaging, and enjoyed using his passive-aggressive attitude to get us in line. When I was writing my PhD thesis, considering that he had another PhD student that was his favourite, he offered me to read one chapter of my thesis, "because he had no time". I was shocked and I said that reading just one chapter would not change anything. The day of my PhD defence I got a lot of questions, some were related to how the thesis was structured and to the English (I'm not an English native speaker), but the commission liked my work and it was a success (with tons of suggestions on how to restructure it and fix the English). Later, when I was collecting my stuff in the lab, my supervisor came back and said he was happy that "our work" was met with interest and that I should leave him a copy of the thesis. So, surprising even myself, I told him: "F., choose a chapter, and I will leave it on the desk". He became angry and left. I thought he was the exception in the academic world: I was wrong. 15 years after I decided that I could not stand it anymore, and I left. Every day I wonder what it took me so long to leave the academia: I should have done it earlier.

Academia can be vicious. Especially when you get fragile egos involved.

You are right, It is happening in all walks of life. The rule of the game is gaming the system! To survive, play along with the game!

Compare to SCIspace which one is good ?

Enjoy? The process? 😂 The "real world" actually wasn't so scary...kept me grounded, tbh (think of the head in the clouds people from _Gulliver's Travels_ )

Just amazing

where is the extraordinary evidence for pedantic essay formatting requirements, transgender ideology, and starting classes at ungodly hours in the morning? There's plenty of evidence that schools disproportionately discipline boys over girls and zero tolerance policies are ineffective but thats still a thing in academia.

What age does someone normally finish their PhD please?

Thanks doctor for the info

I'd love to hear your opinion on Obsidian! I've been using it and found it to be very versatile, having even LaTeX support.

Thanks so much for speaking-out about academia

thank you

Hello Andy, how would you handle the situation where supervisors steal student's idea's for their own private benefit (i.e. starting a company, or use the idea for their own company)?

Andy, you are an effing genius! Thank you for this!

Phd in marketing ...ur opinion ?

Thank you for this advice, I am nearing defense and I wish I had heard this at least 3 years ago. One thing that I will add about much of this advice, especially the last bit is why an individual (like myself) might be resistant to acting on this advice: Part of the PhD training is the personal development of an intuitive sense of "rightness". Its easy to say, leave a project behind if its a dead end. It doesnt just take confidence to turn away from a dead end, but the development of an intuitive sense that the evidence you are faced with is evidence of a dead end. Unfortunately...it took me 4 years to recognize that, and by that point, I was too far in to turn back....As you predicted, it lead to a disillusionment with science. I don't think I'm cut out for this any more, and I don't really want to pursue this path after defense.

Entered a book contract with PhD supervisor's colleague (also a PhD student). I had recently finished my PhD and was working overseas. I did the majority of the editing and he cut my name from the book and published it as his own. He refused my phone calls and e-mails and put my name in the acknowledgments.

The mic: ^o^"

„Steaming pile of ..“ 😂 Having uploaded the final revision of my Masters thesis just over a week ago I would agree with this…

I am starting my m.phil theses

Hi, Andy! Thanks for your inspiring and useful videos. Been in my PhD for about 10 months and everything is going on well. Thanks to the advice I get from each of your videos, I have a more or less smooth PhD so far with an amazing supervisor. Could you also make a vidoe on how PhD students can find collaborators to write peer-reviewed research paper? It would be really helpful for most of us:)

#Question Are there supervisor licensing courses? Where I studied my PhD (Karolinska Institute) that thing do exist! What is your experience?

One of your best videos😀

In my entire years of pharmacy I haven't met uncertainty. Then suddenly I got into a master and doing science and it's suddenly different, a paper is not truth anymore...

Andy, thanks for your great vids. Why has nobody built a single app does everything a university student or researcher needs? You know, an all-in-one application (writing, literature research, citation reference management, pdf annotation, note taking, writing, scheduling, collaboration, presentation)? I believe that nobody needs all the bells and whistles some of the existing apps offer, and that instead, what we actually need is intelligent intuitive integration. I want to be able to access all of my research literature and annotated documents and experimental data and notes and citations/references while I work, while I write, while I doodle, while I make collections and view all of these resources in a flexible infinitely expandable living breathing data set, document/presentation builder. All of it always on and everything searchable and intelligently and predictive. It is funny sad that we are all so happy using all this shit software that is functionally equivlent to something available on the first Xerox PaRC Star system almost 50 years ago. All of our apps are stove pipes, none speak to each-other in any meaningful way, All store documents that are dead unless opened within that particular app. What the F? Do you know of any such software or platform? Is almost as if academic types get off on the difficulty and inscrutability of the tools and process. Technological hazing?

If you are doing a PhD in your 40's then what you have is a hobby. And no reputable PhD offers a part-time option or an "interdisciplinary" option - those both come only at the kid's table.

Papers are hugely important, they are the science; the problem is not with using them as metrics, the problem is using metrics; and individual performance reviews; and artificial scarcity to make academia a battlefield

Thanks, Andy!

What is your opinion about chatgpt 4o?❤

Want to do but can't due to family problem

Importer syndrome becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy

100% agree, a tool only to help identify trends in data

Don’t let ageism stop you from following your dreams! I know lots of moms that managed it. Older people that couldn’t do it when they were younger because they had to get a job and those that wanted to try something new like me!

Paper pal is shit. Seriously its “corrections” are laughably bad. Takes a sentence that makes sense and makes it incoherent. And it gives soooo many of these suggestions

I always plan assuming failure so if crap hits the fan i can move on to the other options. Alos the lack of a significant result is still a result. Only exception is health and safety if you are not trained in something ask any avaliable lab manager to train you up to make sure you caj do the thing safely. Dont try equipment you know nothing about if you where not trained. It could result in an deadly mistake or an exoensive one. But with that its take the darn initiative and ask for the training. (I working my PHD in disease mycology with diseases that can kill me or another person if i screw up lol cant be infected but the toxins they produce are deadly if breathed in or ingested in large enough quantities so i take that stuff with great caution but still move forward)

True ALL that!