Weeks 151-156

Week 156

#phdlife week 156 pic.twitter.com/eQ4EjuDDwr

— Albert Henry (@AH_AlbertHenry) September 26, 2021

Week 155

#phdlilfe week 155

Never forget that there is "fun" in funding

— Albert Henry (@AH_AlbertHenry) September 19, 2021

Week 154

#phdlife week 154

Academic writing be like:
typed 4 paragraphs
deleted 7
ended up with fewer contents than before

— Albert Henry (@AH_AlbertHenry) September 12, 2021

Week 153

#phdlife week 153

I notice many academics have their own network of regular “papermates” / “grantmates”. Perhaps that’s a key to thrive in academia.

— Albert Henry (@AH_AlbertHenry) September 5, 2021

Week 152

#phdlife week 152

It’s that time of the year when academics wonder what have they done during the past year and realise that time flies

— Albert Henry (@AH_AlbertHenry) August 29, 2021

Week 151

#phdlife week 151

After going through several rejections, I'm pleased to announce that my submission has finally been accepted. This is about changing university password by the way.

— Albert Henry (@AH_AlbertHenry) August 22, 2021

Weeks 141-150

Week 150

#phdlife week 150

Anyone that says academia is a harsh place probably doesn't know that we academics keep sending friendly, gentle, and kind emails to each other. Most of the time they are reminders though.

— Albert Henry (@AH_AlbertHenry) August 15, 2021

Week 149

#phdlife week 149

When writing , I find it helpful to keep asking myself: "What was the research question again?"

— Albert Henry (@AH_AlbertHenry) August 8, 2021

Week 148

#phdlife week 148

Take good care of both your physical and mental well-being

— Albert Henry (@AH_AlbertHenry) August 1, 2021

Week 147

#phdlife week 147

Did a "negative" update in the last lab meeting and talked about recent failures, unmet goals, things that went wrong, etc. It was surprisingly refreshing and got a lot of positive feedback.

— Albert Henry (@AH_AlbertHenry) July 25, 2021

Week 146

#phdlife week 146

The hardest part of writing is holding back the urge to delete the writing and burn it all

— Albert Henry (@AH_AlbertHenry) July 18, 2021

Week 145

#phdlife week 145

Normal people:
It’s coming home

Academics:
A sport in which the two opposing teams attempt to score by moving the ball past the opposition’s goal line without an active involvement of upper extremities could be returning to the habitat where it originated from

— Albert Henry (@AH_AlbertHenry) July 11, 2021

Week 144

#phdlife week 144

need GitHub copilot but for academic writing

— Albert Henry (@AH_AlbertHenry) July 4, 2021

Week 143

#phdlife week 143

Had a lot of fun organising the @UCL_CodeClub #hackathon2020plus1. Wonderful to see cool projects all around and learned a lot, both technical and soft / professional skills :)

— Albert Henry (@AH_AlbertHenry) June 27, 2021

Week 142

#phdlife week 142

High-impact journals pic.twitter.com/LALjjztWGu

— Albert Henry (@AH_AlbertHenry) June 20, 2021

Week 141

#phdlife week 141

Superhero:
With great power, comes great responsibility

Early-career researcher:
Without great power, still comes great responsibility

— Albert Henry (@AH_AlbertHenry) June 13, 2021

Weeks 131-140

Week 140

#phdlife week 140

Academic lingo pic.twitter.com/D4Brui27uP

— Albert Henry (@AH_AlbertHenry) June 6, 2021

Week 139

#phdlife week 139

PhD project:

Year 1: you don’t understand your supervisors

Year 2: your lab mates don’t understand you

Year 3: your supervisors don’t understand you

Year 3+: you don’t understand yourself

— Albert Henry (@AH_AlbertHenry) May 30, 2021

Week 138

#phdlife week 138

Academic writing pic.twitter.com/dn4qQ1D3Ep

— Albert Henry (@AH_AlbertHenry) May 23, 2021

Week 137

#phdlife week 137

Best thing about writing is that it actually makes us think what the hell have we done

— Albert Henry (@AH_AlbertHenry) May 16, 2021

Week 136

#phdlife week 136

Academia is full of Schrödinger's projects:
They're neither published nor perished until someone check the email

— Albert Henry (@AH_AlbertHenry) May 9, 2021

Week 135

#phdlife week 135

Saw different variations of "types of scientific paper" across many fields recently and notice that scientists have one thing in common: they dislike most papers they come across. pic.twitter.com/Dw0PfU7Y7e

— Albert Henry (@AH_AlbertHenry) May 2, 2021

Week 134

#phdlife week 134

What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger 💪

— Albert Henry (@AH_AlbertHenry) April 25, 2021

Week 133

#phdlife week 133

Manuscript resubmission

pic.twitter.com/3USVq3oxyI

— Albert Henry (@AH_AlbertHenry) April 18, 2021

Week 132

#phdlife week 132

Academics giving advice on work-life balance pic.twitter.com/79CEu0pqlg

— Albert Henry (@AH_AlbertHenry) April 11, 2021

Week 131

#phdlife week 131

When you see university website says it's college closure time but it's pandemic and you're a PhD student pic.twitter.com/3BpNLMLAVx

— Albert Henry (@AH_AlbertHenry) April 4, 2021

Weeks 121-130

Week 130

#phdlife week 130 pic.twitter.com/626JBbBZEg

— Albert Henry (@AH_AlbertHenry) March 28, 2021

Week 129

#phdlife week 129

PhD priorities:
Year 1 - courses & conferences
Year 2 - publication & presentation
Year 3 - thesis
...
Final year - friends we made along the way

— Albert Henry (@AH_AlbertHenry) March 21, 2021

Week 128

#phdlife week 128

Who says academics are bad at saying no?
We say no to our null hypothesis all the time

— Albert Henry (@AH_AlbertHenry) March 15, 2021

Week 127

#phdlife week 127

There are 4 main types of experimental studies in modern life science:

in vitro
in vivo
in silico
in my brain (data not shown)

— Albert Henry (@AH_AlbertHenry) March 7, 2021

Week 126

#phdlife week 126

A 1904 poem by BA Stanley said that live, laugh, and love are keys to success

No wonder many academics feel unsuccessful

— Albert Henry (@AH_AlbertHenry) February 28, 2021

Week 125

#phdlife week 125

A science communicator makes complex ideas sound simple

A science complicator makes simple ideas sound complex

— Albert Henry (@AH_AlbertHenry) February 21, 2021

Week 124

#phdlife week 124

Roses are red
Violets are blue
Careful when you see a Twitter thread
For it is not always true

— Albert Henry (@AH_AlbertHenry) February 14, 2021

Week 123

#phdlife week 123

Academia: Don't be a perfectionist

Also academia: There is no room for mediocrity here

— Albert Henry (@AH_AlbertHenry) February 7, 2021

Week 122

#phdlife week 122

Is "not liking the publication fee" a conflict of interest?

— Albert Henry (@AH_AlbertHenry) January 31, 2021

Week 121

#phdlife week 121

If failure is the best teacher, then a career in research is a freaking huge top-rank university full of the very best of teachers

— Albert Henry (@AH_AlbertHenry) January 24, 2021

Weeks 111-120

Week 120

#phdlife week 120

Hello revision, my old friend
I’ve come to talk with you again

— Albert Henry (@AH_AlbertHenry) January 17, 2021

Week 119

#phdlife week 119

Research project collaboration with a multidisciplinary team pic.twitter.com/jWWimEAC9q

— Albert Henry (@AH_AlbertHenry) January 10, 2021

Week 118

#phdlife week 118

Don’t feel too bad if your new year’s resolution is something that you should have done months ago but got delayed because of the pandemic. Professionals do that all the time for no apparent reason.

— Albert Henry (@AH_AlbertHenry) January 3, 2021

Week 117

#phdlife week 117

Thank you 2020 for teaching us the hard way that science knowledge means little without communication skill, leadership, empathy, and conscience

— Albert Henry (@AH_AlbertHenry) December 27, 2020

Week 116

#phdlife week 116

All I want for Christmas is an empty to-do list

— Albert Henry (@AH_AlbertHenry) December 20, 2020

Week 115

#phdlife week 115

Recently made this for lab meeting presentation pic.twitter.com/GUyg30eELL

— Albert Henry (@AH_AlbertHenry) December 13, 2020

Week 114

#phdlife week 114

Welcome to the official week of trying to finish everything before everyone leaves

— Albert Henry (@AH_AlbertHenry) December 6, 2020

Week 113

#phdlife week 113

I have a joke about PhD student but I feel like it’s not good enough

— Albert Henry (@AH_AlbertHenry) November 29, 2020

Week 112

#phdlife week 112

No research is perfect, but most published research articles have at least gone through: research ethics review, authors & co-authors review, editor consideration, and peer review. A poor article represents a poor process by the system.

— Albert Henry (@AH_AlbertHenry) November 22, 2020

Week 111

#phdlife week 111

I noticed that one sign of a healthy scientific discussion is when people are not afraid to ask the most basic questions and to state their opinions.

— Albert Henry (@AH_AlbertHenry) November 15, 2020

Weeks 104-110

Week 110

#phdlife Week 110

During the #USElection2020 saga, I noticed that the difference between number of supporters for each candidate on my Twitter feed far exceeded the reality. This is a classic example of sampling bias and it shows how social media can easily mislead.

— Albert Henry (@AH_AlbertHenry) November 8, 2020

Week 109

#phdlife week 109

We academics are mostly civilized people. We don't do #panicbuying, we only do panic writing.

— Albert Henry (@AH_AlbertHenry) November 1, 2020

Week 108

#phdlife week 108

When you find another literature midway through a literature review pic.twitter.com/cTVRJSQw60

— Albert Henry (@AH_AlbertHenry) October 25, 2020

Week 107

#phdlife week 107

where do I put my Tweet Impact Factor on my CV?

— Albert Henry (@AH_AlbertHenry) October 18, 2020

Week 106

#phdlife week 106

My thesis:

how it started vs. how it's going pic.twitter.com/0wzMhCiIle

— Albert Henry (@AH_AlbertHenry) October 11, 2020

Week 105

#phdlife week 105

When you check the original paper of a trending new method in your field that everyone cites pic.twitter.com/Lejop14Jb5

— Albert Henry (@AH_AlbertHenry) October 4, 2020

Week 104

#phdlife week 104

No child, only brainchild

— Albert Henry (@AH_AlbertHenry) September 27, 2020