Year 4
Weeks 191-200
Week 195
#phdlife week 195
— Albert Henry (@AH_AlbertHenry) June 26, 2022
It’s refreshing to see that even the most competitive academic rivals can still bond over mutual disdain towards a paper
Week 194
#phdlife week 194
— Albert Henry (@AH_AlbertHenry) June 19, 2022
A PhD thesis is not just a story about what were found at the end of the journey. It's a story about the journey itself.
Week 193
#phdlife week 193
— Albert Henry (@AH_AlbertHenry) June 12, 2022
Does having a good track record of on-time payment for full open-access articles in scientific journals count as a proof of financial stability for housing application? Asking for a friend
Week 192
#phdlife week 192
— Albert Henry (@AH_AlbertHenry) June 5, 2022
When you sit at the same table with an emeritus professor at a conference dinner#PlatinumJubilee pic.twitter.com/LmxSKdjS8P
Week 191
#phdlife week 191
— Albert Henry (@AH_AlbertHenry) May 29, 2022
A useful skill to develop during PhD is having an intuition on what is needed and how long it will take to complete a task
Weeks 181-190
Week 190
#phdlife week 190
— Albert Henry (@AH_AlbertHenry) May 22, 2022
TFW when a new error message pops up on screen mid-coding and you're not sure whether you just fixed a previous error or just made it worse.
Week 189
#phdlife week 189
— Albert Henry (@AH_AlbertHenry) May 15, 2022
Daily struggle pic.twitter.com/qcTy5QNInV
Week 188
#phdlife week 188
— Albert Henry (@AH_AlbertHenry) May 8, 2022
To the intelligence officer who is probably scrolling through my research portfolio for my recently submitted visa application: pic.twitter.com/piN09snGQW
Week 187
#phdlife week 187
— Albert Henry (@AH_AlbertHenry) May 1, 2022
Never underestimate the difference a good data visualisation can make in science communication
Week 186
#phdlife week 186
— Albert Henry (@AH_AlbertHenry) April 24, 2022
Early PhD: takes forever to spot methodological problems, takes a few minutes to find a solution that just works
Late PhD: takes a few minutes to spot problems, takes forever to find the most optimal solution
Week 185
#phdlife week 185
— Albert Henry (@AH_AlbertHenry) April 17, 2022
Make the most of time you spent not working
Week 184
#phdlife week 184
— Albert Henry (@AH_AlbertHenry) April 10, 2022
Methods: We used cutting-edge technologies
Supplemental Methods (online only): We cut corners
Week 183
#phdlife week 183
— Albert Henry (@AH_AlbertHenry) April 3, 2022
Attended one small in-person conference this week and already had more networking opportunities than I had in multiple large online conferences over the past two years
Week 182
#phdlife week 182
— Albert Henry (@AH_AlbertHenry) March 27, 2022
If you ever wonder how an average academic weekend looks like, between Friday eve - Saturday morning I received 2 peer-review requests, 1 article proof review request, and 1 password expired notification. I haven't even finished my PhD.
Week 181
#phdlife week 181
— Albert Henry (@AH_AlbertHenry) March 20, 2022
Impostor syndrome is so pervasive in academia such that academics develop an impostor syndrome for not having an impostor syndrome
Weeks 171-180
Week 180
#phdlife week 180
— Albert Henry (@AH_AlbertHenry) March 13, 2022
Reasonable data beget reasonable requests
Week 179
#phdlife week 179
— Albert Henry (@AH_AlbertHenry) March 6, 2022
A tip for new computational research students: invest in learning programming language / framework that likely will be relevant to topics you want to work on in future. Have a look at others' code to get a feel. If trend is unclear, it probably doesn't matter.
Week 178
#phdlife week 178
— Albert Henry (@AH_AlbertHenry) February 27, 2022
When you self-cite your previous papers pic.twitter.com/oEp3eX6A4w
Week 177
#phdlife week 177
— Albert Henry (@AH_AlbertHenry) February 20, 2022
Any null hypothesis can be rejected if you’re brave enough in making assumptions
Week 176
#phdlife week 176
— Albert Henry (@AH_AlbertHenry) February 13, 2022
Had a manuscript accepted recently so there goes my weekend doing all the formatting & proof-reading
Week 175
#phdlife week 175
— Albert Henry (@AH_AlbertHenry) February 6, 2022
P-value when you run a statistical test on a dataset with N = ginormous pic.twitter.com/PnQ5FBEAz9
Week 174
#phdlife week 174
— Albert Henry (@AH_AlbertHenry) January 30, 2022
TFW you see a co-author opening a shared online manuscript draft you're editing pic.twitter.com/ejWdrx69VX
Week 173
#phdlife week 173#Wordle wisdom:
— Albert Henry (@AH_AlbertHenry) January 23, 2022
A failed experiment brings you closer to the correct answer
Week 172
#phdlife week 172
— Albert Henry (@AH_AlbertHenry) January 16, 2022
A key transferable PhD skill is to be assertive without being the first three letters of the word
Week 171
#phdlife week 171
— Albert Henry (@AH_AlbertHenry) January 9, 2022
The key to popularity is to be productive and let everyone knows
The key to success is to be productive and let the right people know
The key to happiness, for some, is to be productive and let no one knows
Weeks 161-170
Week 170
#phdlife week 170
— Albert Henry (@AH_AlbertHenry) January 2, 2022
New year's resolutions are essentially prediction models with a poor positive predictive value
Week 169
#phdlife week 169
— Albert Henry (@AH_AlbertHenry) December 26, 2021
Facing the curse of dimensionality problem on leftover Christmas meals where N foods > N eaters. Need to implement some clever dimensionality reduction techniques.
Week 168
#phdlife week 168
— Albert Henry (@AH_AlbertHenry) December 19, 2021
All models are wrong. The goal is to create a model that is less wrong than previous ones.
Week 167
#phdlife week 167
— Albert Henry (@AH_AlbertHenry) December 12, 2021
P-value 🤝 Reviewer 2
suggests
to reject
Week 166
#phdlife week 166
— Albert Henry (@AH_AlbertHenry) December 5, 2021
TFW your analysis produces favourable results on first try pic.twitter.com/qBoc3NJvZS
Week 165
#phdlife week 165
— Albert Henry (@AH_AlbertHenry) November 28, 2021
As science becomes more open and collaborative, we should strive not only to be an individual science rockstar, but also to form a rock band or even orchestra with our peers
Week 164
#phdlife week 164
— Albert Henry (@AH_AlbertHenry) November 21, 2021
Nobody:
Nature article:
"Here are 10 new genomic landscapes you should explore before you die"
Week 163
#phdlife week 163
— Albert Henry (@AH_AlbertHenry) November 14, 2021
Fitting in a new sentence to an old text to accommodate reviewer's comments pic.twitter.com/5uGFS487LJ
Week 162
#phdlife week 162
— Albert Henry (@AH_AlbertHenry) November 7, 2021
Advice for new PhD students: find mentors
Emphasis on the plural
Week 161
#phdlife week 161
— Albert Henry (@AH_AlbertHenry) October 31, 2021
Halloween pumpkin carving idea for academics:
"Formatting guide"
Weeks 157-160
Week 160
#phdlife week 160
— Albert Henry (@AH_AlbertHenry) October 24, 2021
I heard reviewers like supplementary information so I put supplementary information in my supplementary information so they can supplement while supplement pic.twitter.com/wySWnrHdKr
Week 159
#phdlife week 159
— Albert Henry (@AH_AlbertHenry) October 17, 2021
Hell is other people... 's data
Week 158
#phdlife week 158
— Albert Henry (@AH_AlbertHenry) October 10, 2021
Science is easy
Good science is hard
Thanks for coming to my TED talk
Week 157
#phdlife week 157
— Albert Henry (@AH_AlbertHenry) October 3, 2021
And the cycle continues... pic.twitter.com/qKkteUtQ36
