@Vtrivedy10: fwiw doing a PhD can be a great training ground for this you have regular meetings with your lab, have to explain the l…
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The tweet discusses how a PhD can serve as a valuable training ground for building momentum, managing failed experiments, and fostering collaboration within a research lab.
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fwiw doing a PhD can be a great training ground for this
you have regular meetings with your lab, have to explain the last week of experiments and say why none of them worked 😅
and you help your lab mates get set up on the cluster, review their paper sections, share cool ideas, run experiments/viz with them, etc
if stuff doesn’t work, that’s totally ok, you go again the next week!
Viv (@Vtrivedy10): this is such good advice, can’t recommend it enough, bro is just being real with it
just do stuff to build momentum, tell ppl about it every day, even if it doesn’t work (it would be legit insane if your stuff worked all the time)
help your teammates!
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