I would know today who to avoid, but I also put more effort into finding out than 24 yo me would have. I think for international people, the British "intense" is also ambiguous (to me it sounded like "it will be a lot of work")

true! I also once worked with a problematic person (pre-PhD), and I think when you're not exactly plugged into these networks you can't know these things. also, early career scholars often simply just need a job and let's say a job in Oxford sounds better than no job at all.

I don't want to lie, this is a bit funny... they'd make good participants for experiments though

happened to us this year

I am really not surprised, I think nobody is

actually, it was better when people were less aware.

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schopenhauer also had a dog called atman

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no surprises here, really! Congratulations, such exciting news!