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Academia do be strange

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  1. kacey
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    This Youtube channel focuses on chemistry (a la Nile Red), but occasionally the author'll put out pieces like this one, which sheds some light on the process of getting a PhD in Australia, and on...

    This Youtube channel focuses on chemistry (a la Nile Red), but occasionally the author'll put out pieces like this one, which sheds some light on the process of getting a PhD in Australia, and on the publishing process overall.

    TIL that peer reviewers are unpaid volunteers, and that researchers often need to track them down themselves! Also that -- at least in the author's discipline -- PhD students are effectively compensated less than minimum wage.

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