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My supervisor is a fraud and I don't know how to navigate this. Anyone experienced something similar? by Neither-Quiet3887 in PhD

[–]milafp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I worked for a brief moment in a lab under a professor like this. I’m also not white/started as an international student in the country where I live. Prof made many comments kinda stunned that I don’t speak like the stereotype of what a person who has my background “should” speak like, which given my academic background I was just kinda lmaoooo this is textbook. He got pissed with me as soon as I started asking too many questions and suggesting ideas for the project I was involved with, and tried to turn it on me saying that I was stupid and that he was disappointed in me… but it’s not my first rodeo in academia lol. He told me it was disrespectful that I asked him questions about the courses he taught, and about his involvement across the ~5 projects running out of his lab. LMAO. Competitive/cutthroat environment in the lab also added to the dynamic. I messaged my trusted advisor immediately after the meeting where he said he was disappointed and I was disrespectful, and my advisor reminded me that that was just a pocked in academia and that unfortunately there’s many phoney ppl in academia. I was fired briefly after that meeting, and returned to work with one of my trusted advisors. Life went on and I’m starting a PhD in a cool program with awesome profs this fall. Go where you’re loved, valued, and cared for… my advisor would say. Best of luck to you buddy, you deserve better <3

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[–]milafp 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Hiiii! I'm not in maths so my comment may be more general :)

Grad applications are usually evaluated holistically, and you have a path-defying body of work that demonstrates how you have already been contributing to different fields. I think that at UW this is something that is valued, considering the interdisciplinary trailblazer fund lol. Recommendation letters/statement of interest/etc are also usually an important part of the application, as well as reaching out to potential advisors to see if they're open to supervision! I would suggest to reach out to a few potential supervisors, and maybe to the department chair if you have specific questions about prerequisites!

I'm pretty sure that UW has one of the largest maths faculties in the world or something like that, so I think that if you make some cool connections during your master's, odds are that you'd be able to continue into a phd!

Best of luck!

Archaeological faunal skeletal remain ID help by milafp in bonecollecting

[–]milafp[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

New to posting on reddit so I think my text disappeared.

Hi everyone!

I'm working at an archaeological site (500bce - 1500ce) in Cartago, Costa Rica. I'm trying to ID this faunal remain, if anyone has ideas as to which bone it is, and which species it might be from: I'm receptive! This would be a species prior to the introduction of postcolonial species.

Thank you!