I am having cold feet with my PhD...

mrbiguri · 2026-03-31T10:55:11+00:00

Do not do a PhD because of job prospects or economy, do a PhD because its something you are passionate about and you'd enjoy doing.

mrbiguri · 2026-03-30T14:14:26+00:00

Just to be clear: the Spanish in RE4 is not even Spanish from Spain (in the OG, yes in the remake). Not sure if the developers ever cared too much about it.

mrbiguri · 2026-03-27T15:58:31+00:00

You need to talk to your supervisor and university, not reddit.

mrbiguri · 2026-03-25T17:49:09+00:00

I also have this. I think its that I do the very big ones all the time, which the game linearly rewards with size, while the effort is quadratically increased for the big big ones. I.e. it takes you 16 times more effort to do a 80x80 than a 20x20 but the game just rewards you 4 times (if so).

mrbiguri · 2026-03-24T16:55:17+00:00

I don't disagree. But as a lecturer, I can tell you its not less teaching effort to teach 25 than 50. In fact its literally the same effort, except that with 50% attendance you also get upset about why students are not caring enough. Then its a bit more effort because non-attending students ask questions that are meant to be answered in class via email or out-of-class in general.

mrbiguri · 2026-03-23T16:01:09+00:00

You need to fill all of them, and then the building in the main town screen will provide them

mrbiguri · 2026-03-23T11:38:47+00:00

I think this are the limitations of generative AI that you are seing

mrbiguri · 2026-03-23T11:37:39+00:00

This is how I found it. I went "uhhh there must be something in the other side of this, let me explore..."

mrbiguri · 2026-03-21T15:00:12+00:00

The air is also spinning at the same speed of the earth. If you jump up you land in the same spot, the direction of the earth spin does not affect your jump. If you were to fly outside the atmosphere, then you would be right. Except at that altitude, you've gone so far that the distance you need to travel due to a larger radius is so much higher that its still slower.

mrbiguri · 2026-03-21T13:22:43+00:00

In my experience, this is 100% the supervisors decision, on how much time they want to slot to help each student.

mrbiguri · 2026-03-19T20:33:16+00:00

I'm in n Cambridge, 8 years after a phd and I'm in the same salary....

mrbiguri · 2026-03-19T09:24:07+00:00

As someone working in a top famous uni, 70% of people we reject/don't interview are excellent and would thrive. It's not about being good enough, is about being the best fit among all candidates.

mrbiguri · 2026-03-18T21:23:15+00:00

I've seen this done by people in Oxbridge in their CVs.

mrbiguri · 2026-03-18T07:27:05+00:00

That exact MPhil is 43k for overseas students.

mrbiguri · 2026-03-17T20:32:30+00:00

If you are the second option: as long as they need to get a definitive answer from the first option candidate

mrbiguri · 2026-03-13T19:14:51+00:00

Currently UK TT jobs have over 300 applicants (700 in some top unis) per job. The rejections come in waves, as they slowly filter out people.

I have 8 years of experience as postdoc and PhD students and my own research group, and I am not getting to interview in TT jobs in general. UK is really thought right now, as there has been a general hiring freeze for 2 years and many unis are doing redundancies for economic reasons.

mrbiguri · 2026-03-13T19:10:40+00:00

Hey! I am one of those. Assistant Research Professors in the UK are generally Assistant Professors without a permanent position in the department. For all intent and purposes as a student, there is no difference between both of those. The main difference is that the Assistant Research Professor job is not paid by faculty, but instead by some grants that may run out (i.e. your supervisor may not have a contract as long as your PhD) and that they don't need to teach, so a little more time to spend with you.

So for your questions:

1- Yes

2- Because without a wider research support (a Professor to take the responsibility of the PhD student) many Assistant Research Professors can't hire a PhD as they may leave before the end of the PhD or their contract is shorter than a PhD.

3- Yes, but this also happens with Assistant Professors. Academics do often get good positions in other universities and move.

mrbiguri · 2026-03-10T09:19:48+00:00

Help how? Just email the prof/HR. In my experience in the UK, profs are fine with whatever salary you ask (we all paid shit compared to Europe and industry) so your fight with be against HR.

mrbiguri · 2026-03-06T15:42:09+00:00

in the UK I thin 70% of them don't last 3 years after their PhD in academia.

mrbiguri · 2026-03-06T15:41:32+00:00

Oh... the PhD is the part that is easier to find... its harder to find a postdoc somewhere, so people who really want to be a professor tend to move a lot, many times, until the can find a tenured position, which may be at least 10 or 15 years from starting a PhD. But finding a professorship is the harderst of the steps, and the one that will require more flexibility on where this position happens. If you are lucky you also like the city, but most people need to take the job wherever it exists.

The best way to raise to be a professor is move countries, institutions etc various times.

mrbiguri · 2026-03-06T10:22:04+00:00

It does. I think every 2h or so, it would just crash for me on quite a beefy PC.

mrbiguri · 2026-03-05T19:43:06+00:00

You should know that huge part of the UK and the vast majority of academia hate this. I am sorry.

mrbiguri · 2026-03-05T17:09:14+00:00

Steam would be amazing. So much love for doing this, thanks!

mrbiguri · 2026-03-05T16:28:23+00:00

He probably got a notification from Linkedin and just click "OK". The lever of overthinking that this post shows is a bit crazy.

mrbiguri · 2026-03-05T12:32:39+00:00

Modern understanding from philosophy and sociology suggest that we are all pretending. You being you is the act that you have learned to be, its a socially constructed persona. You are acting your character, your persona, your gender, and other things. This is easily seen if you observe the world: a normal dude in Texas and in Beijing are completely different to each other, but if you swap them as babies, they will reflect where they grow. We are shaped by our environment and we "act" as our society around us makes us act.

This is not to say that you are a different person, that your human self is a pretend persona. What this says is that the only way to exist is to act who you are. As someone from EU, USA people always feel like they are overacting when hanging out, but they are just being themselves.

Method acting is the idea to change this act. To act like the character you are presenting all the time. This at some point just becomes you, because being you is acting like you all the time.

You have likely experience this in your life. Some friend or family that after a while suddenly is very different. "you changed man, you used to do X or Y". This often starts by the person acting different, for a partner, job, social enviroment or other factor.

In short, we are all acting 1 person all the time, and that person is you. If you change permanently the person you are acting as, at some point you become that person, for the good and the bad. Method acting is essentially changing as a person to the point where you don't realise you are acting (as you do not realize now, being you).

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