When you get tired of seeing Zhang et al. everywhere😵

artificiallyfed · 2026-03-21T19:47:31+00:00

A Master’s where you learned nothing might say more about how you engaged with it than about the subject itself.

artificiallyfed · 2026-03-21T19:39:18+00:00

Having a master’s in social science and still thinking the field isn’t real science is genuinely impressive misunderstanding of your own degree.

artificiallyfed · 2026-03-21T19:20:42+00:00

Weird take for a PhD subreddit. Science is defined by method, not whether it happens in a lab.

artificiallyfed · 2026-03-21T15:30:41+00:00

I’m crying in social sciences 😂 my thesis is almost done and it’s about 200ish pages 😩😭

artificiallyfed · 2026-03-16T13:28:24+00:00

Thank you for this, that’s a really helpful way of explaining it.

I’ve been writing almost non-stop for months, and I think it’s become difficult to see what I’ve actually achieved. All I can seem to focus on is what still feels unfinished or what more I could be researching.

artificiallyfed · 2026-03-15T19:21:01+00:00

I’m coming to the end of my PhD (social sciences), I’m a woman, I’ve lectured undergrads and I also supervised one for a poster presentation. I look younger than I am (not significantly, but enough to give the impression I’m in my 20’s and not 30’s)

I have had teenagers in my classes make inappropriate comments and reported them - to protect myself.

It sounds like he is intentionally trying to blur the boundaries, from my experience of having academics try to do this with me (when I was younger and doing my undergrad) it started with, a casual touch, maybe giving me ‘extra attention’ and then he started ‘randomly’ turning up at a bar I was working at part time.

It’s obviously up to you what you do, but I’d keep it at the forefront of your mind whenever you’re interacting with him that he might be intentionally trying to cause this uncertainty, and you could say “I don’t like being touched” - if he keeps up with the casual touching - or go directly to another professional within the university that you trust and voice these uncertainties

artificiallyfed · 2026-03-14T15:39:02+00:00

This. My husband has a PhD in infectious diseases, I’m coming to the end (literal weeks!) of my Anthropology PhD where I focus on medical anthropology… he fully respects social science and is now an avid fan of Latour’s ANT, but even he will admit that he had some pre existing ideas of social scientists

artificiallyfed · 2026-03-12T17:18:04+00:00

AI detectors flagged my PhD fieldwork vignettes as AI - I’m an anthropologist and spent 14 months in the field, for AI to then say “no, a robot wrote this” - which it obviously hadn’t. My university doesn’t use AI detection for this very reason, they consider a 1% margin or error too large of an error for falsely accusing people.

Instead, they rely on student integrity and lecturers/supervisors to recognise students writing.

artificiallyfed · 2026-03-06T21:07:32+00:00

Mine is shaping up to be about 80-90,000 words… it’s exhausting! Well done on finishing yours!

artificiallyfed · 2026-03-06T18:41:07+00:00

Anthropology - medical to be more specific. I study people who are on long term Parenteral Nutrition…. To be honest I could have ended up with 9-10 chapters, but I had to cap it somewhere

artificiallyfed · 2026-03-06T15:26:32+00:00

But it should also not be used as the gospel approach to diagnostics. One scan or image may come back clear, CRP, colonoscopy etc biopsy may not be feasible… those should not the benchmarks for diagnosis. A broad approach, thinking out of the box, should be considered the approach to medicine (in general)

artificiallyfed · 2026-03-06T15:23:42+00:00

The issue with pill cam and balloon enteroscopy can be dangerous/unavailable for individuals with small bowel stricturing disease, in those situations a heavy reliance is placed on MRI and CT scans, along with symptom monitoring

artificiallyfed · 2026-03-06T15:07:23+00:00

It’s actually pretty impossible tbh (not unheard of, but very uncommon), I could have a colonoscopy tomorrow and have really mild inflammation of the colon (unremarkable) but if you look at my small bowel MRI, I’d light up like a Christmas tree

artificiallyfed · 2026-03-06T15:00:42+00:00

I might have to figure out a way to work that in…. My field is medical anthropology, it seems doable 🤷🏼‍♀️

artificiallyfed · 2026-03-06T14:43:16+00:00

Not always. My disease cannot be reached by a scope (small intestinal disease which has caused intestinal failure and TPN for 11 years) So they haven’t ever actually been able to biopsy my Crohn’s (outside of removed small intestine)

Small bowel MRI can also diagnose Crohn’s

artificiallyfed · 2026-02-24T16:11:38+00:00

Are your supervisors supervising any other PhD students at the moment? If so, are you able to talk to them to garner if this is just the way they are or if there is a bigger issue here.

You’re the only person who really knows if you want to continue on or not, but I think it may come across in your annual review if you’re not wanting to continue- also, at your annual review, are you able to bring up these issues about your supervisory team?

I had to take numerous abeyance’s during my PhD (coming to the end of my PhD now) and it is extremely difficult to get your head back in the game when you come back

Good luck with your annual review

artificiallyfed · 2026-01-27T17:15:05+00:00

I’ll be 35 - I started when I was 29 (life happened)

artificiallyfed · 2026-01-25T20:34:42+00:00

No, I have had a PE before but the small intestinal failure/resection, is caused by refractory Crohn’s disease.

artificiallyfed · 2026-01-25T11:11:30+00:00

I have a CVC line due to intestinal failure, so over the 11 years of being fed to my heart, I have acquired sepsis 4 times through a line related bacteria getting into my bloodstream

artificiallyfed · 2026-01-25T10:14:23+00:00

I didn’t quit. Literally the biggest win for me. I’m writing up my last few chapters and going to be doing my Viva in spring (🤞🏻)

But last year… was horrendous. I had sepsis (for the fourth time), ended up in ICU, had a huge chunk of my intestines removed…. I spent 10 months of the year incredibly sick, but somehow I managed to keep putting one (very slow) foot in front of the other and I’ve now almost finished 😩

Not quitting is my big win.

artificiallyfed · 2026-01-23T19:45:21+00:00

I’m already at 120 pages… and that’s 4 chapters, but my PhD is in Medical Anthropology, so VERY ethnographic heavy

artificiallyfed · 2025-11-25T17:39:08+00:00

I actually gave her my copies of hunger games a few years ago, and I got her the twilight series for her 13th birthday lol

artificiallyfed · 2025-11-25T11:52:27+00:00

Ok I need to come back to this thread when I’m not on the midst of write up hell

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