Thanks for your hospitality! It was a wonderful trip to visit your group and to see Milan. Looking forward to our follow ups

ouch that's absolutely worst case. what a disaster this has been.

3%. Still waited 90 days after council meeting.

I could not agree more strongly with this. 💯

My PhD was: hey look 12,000 images of budding yeast! Yay computers!

there was less to know back then 😉

Obviously I'm posting today because I should be writing.

In my experience, huge increase in knowledge from yr 3 to 4 to 5, especially from PhD students coming straight from undergrad. Lots of conflating issues in the US like yr 1 rotations, requiring a pub, and PIs hanging on to trainees for too long, but 3 years postbac does not seem like enough to me.

Yep. there's that.

Also: Illegitimi non carborundum

I think you answered your own question. You do it because you love it. Because you were born to do this. Because there's nothing better than sifting through your data, and thinking about ways to make it better next time. Because that joy doesn't depend on other people; it comes from within.

no. but it sounds like something I'd do just because I'll never be confident whether it's "fides" or "fee-days". I'll write it but I won't say it.