If you think PhD's are 100% accessible, I have to pay €3500 to travel to my own PhD defence, host a post-defence reception, host a dinner, and host an open bar party. All of this is customary in the Netherlands, which is absurd.
The face of someone whose just finished the first draft of her fifth chapter!
Only one chapter left until I've got a complete first draft of my thesis!!
I learned to code because at the beginning of my PhD my supervisor asked me to model something and I was too scared to say I didn't know how, so I learned the basics of Python and MATLAB over a weekend and had results by the Monday.
I don't dread Mondays. In fact, I look forward to Mondays. All I have wanted to do since I was 9 was get a PhD and every day I wake up grateful that I kept pushing myself through the best and worst of times to be here.
#AcademicChatter
As a former physics major and current physics postdoc, I almost failed computational physics at age 20, now I code on a daily basis. I used to cry over fractions, now I love derivatives and linear algebra. I used to hate experiments, now you can't get me out of the lab.
@lordofgummies33
I hate to say it, but as a former physics major, if you actually want to go into physics you should be the kind of person who finds this level of material completely obvious at 9 years old.
It's absolutely worth studying -- but physics only needs people who are math freaks.
Two weeks into a postdoc and it's bizarre -
I know exactly what to do, but I also don't.
I'm still tying up loose ends from my PhD, but my PhD supervisor is no longer my boss and it has to be done in my free time.
I'm meeting so many people, but don't know who they are.
It's my first invited talk as a postdoc! Today I'm at Bristol University, presenting my PhD work on superconductivity in the electron-doped cuprates (paper coming soon!).
TODAY I defend my PhD thesis - Strange metallicity and high temperature superconductivity in electron- and hole-doped cuprates.
The defence is public and can be watched at the following link from 12:30 CET for those interested 👋
I've had a lot of interest in my twitter👋
For those of you who are new here, I'm a final year Scottish physics PhD student in the Netherlands. Here I am with a set up I designed during my PhD, which I'm currently using in one of our 38 T Bitter magnets.
The day I started my PhD was the first day I set foot in a gym. Still here over four years later, and will continue into my postdoc🫡
#scientistswholift
Poor take. My supervisor is an incredible person and I'm pleased to have a good relationship with him. While I'd never refer to him as my "parent" he's certainly more than "just" a boss.
It's absolutely possible and healthy to have a relationship beyond "student/supervisor".
Your PhD advisor is not your "family", "parent", or "friend". They're a work supervisor. You're there to get a PhD from the university by providing research labor in a field of choice, which your supervisor oversees. It's a temporary contract. Don't lose yourself in it.
After several years of misleading the high-Tc community, falsifying data, denying allegations made against him and threatening lawsuits, I'm so glad Dias has finally been found guilty.
This is really good news for the upkeep of scientific integrity.
I said this in June, but this time I mean it - it's my last experiment week!
I can't quite say "last of my PhD" considering that's done, but it's the last before starting my postdoc!
One of my favourite textbooks when I need a reminder of something simple😌
Also, I need to befriend Steve Simon. We would be good friends. Hope he got his raise.
Girl has tough time, nearly dies, overcomes it, starts weightlifting, gains 23kg, moves country, is doing physics PhD, is happy, writes about it.
No shame or regret.
I don't even want to have a reception or party. Being the centre of attention is really not my style. I would rather present, get my paper, have dinner with a few people, and get out again.
Fierté française, message universel.
Célébrons ensemble l’entrée d’une nouvelle liberté garantie dans la Constitution par la première cérémonie de scellement de notre histoire ouverte au public.
Rendez-vous ce 8 mars, journée internationale des droits des femmes.
One of the most rewarding things about research is being allowed to do what you want (within reason). I'm lucky to have been given that opportunity during my PhD.
You all loved my Python and MATLAB story yesterday.
Well, during undergrad I sucked at electronics. This coming Monday I have a meeting about a spectrometer I'll be using. My reference is a PhD thesis written entirely in French.
Guess I have weekend plans...
If you are exceptionally bored of your PhD life, I may recommend learning to ride a motorbike.
Riding 80km/h over a hilly (for the Netherlands) road while the trees are in full Autumn mode is one of the most fun things I've done.
Just wish to extend a massive thank you to those of you who congratulated me yesterday, those who watched the defence, those who were interested in my work.
It's been a long four years of hard work and it's not the end. This is, however, a nice step.
Today I moved out of my apartment and into an Airbnb (with a dog). Tomorrow, I'm officially unemployed, and in just over a week I'll be a postdoc in France.
My 2024 is going to be manic to start with, so for NYE I've opted to stay in with the dog, a beer, and my next paper.
Exceptionally pleased to have passed my motorcycle exam this morning. So you'll see me - a powerlifting, piano-playing physicist - on the roads with my own bike very soon! 🏍️😎
With an influx of new folk here it's time for a reintroduction!
I'm your Physics Barbie Bench Press-loving final year PhD student, working on high-Tc cuprates.
Originally from Scotland, I'm currently in the Netherlands and will soon move to France for my (first) postdoc!
There are a nice number of new people here and my life is changing so let me reintroduce myself:
I've just finished my PhD studying the link between strange metallicity and superconductivity in the cuprates at the HFML (Netherlands).
I've been trying not to fall outwith the actual science of LK-99, however I saw a comment which irked me. Someone was disappointed in academics for being pessimistic about LK-99.
Let's get this straight, we WANT room temperature superconductivity.
With regards to LK-99 I have a few problems with the resistivity.
1. Resistivity shouldn't have a current dependence.
2. Two samples have a resistivity with 2 orders of magnitude difference but the same Tc. This isn't possible in BCS theory.
For those wondering what we're looking at here - my paper will be submitted soon and then significance of this fuzz will become clear.😉
Note that this is the raw data straight from my oscilloscope, obviously I have analysis to do!
I've just gotten an entire dataset I've been trying to get for more than two years. On a sample I made, with a technique I designed for high fields at
@HFML_FELIX
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This is one of the BEST (and most exhausting) days of my PhD😌
I jest, but I've never been so relieved and overjoyed to see a discontinuity in a sum of powers of T for something which takes up only 2.5e-12 m^3 of space.
Sure! We are doing Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy (ARPES). We excite electrons by firing light at a sample, we then measure the kinetic energy and angle of emitted electrons which allows us to map out the energy and momentum of the electron BEFORE it was excited.
Sure I just submitted my thesis, but it looks like I'm going to have reviewers to respond to in the next few days, and I have my next paper to work on.
So it never stops, but this is exactly what I was looking forward to🥹
Some showing-off to do, and some skills for me to hone in on! The helmet looks cool, but that doesn't stop me yelling on the 3-lane péage with all vehicles going 130+ km/h...
This week's successes:
Easy 100kg beltless squat warm-ups!
Motorbike lesson on the motorway - no issues riding 100 km/h+ in freezing conditions and wind!
I specifically chose bottle number 57 because I've predominantly worked on Lanthanum-based cuprates (LSCO and LCCO) during my PhD, and Lanthanum is the 57th element of the periodic table.
Very thrilled to have been offered my first postdoc position today! A very strong contender that I've already considered.
It looks like by the time I come to decide, I will have options!