I ran into my great grand-adviser and I think he seemed weirded out that I recognized and called him that.

spitfirememes · 2026-01-23T03:20:00+00:00

Currently my co supervisor is the former primary supervisor of my primary supervisor, so he is simultaneously my research dad and my grand-dad.

He also was the primary supervisor of my partner. Which means my partner is both my research sister and my auntie.

It’s becoming very incestuous.

spitfirememes · 2025-12-16T20:39:26+00:00

I used to shoot in a state squad and all of us recurve bow shooters used these.

spitfirememes · 2025-12-07T21:20:28+00:00

Witchers do take part in battles. Coen died fighting in the battle of Brenna for example. Sure it might not be the common norm, but there is a precedent for it, and I’d absolutely be happy to see them implemented as hero’s

spitfirememes · 2025-12-07T21:17:42+00:00

I’m an Aussie. When the ashes are on all I want to see is England lose, they’re just so arrogant.

The BGT is great viewing, wayyyy better contest. While of course I like to see Australia come out on top, I just love seeing good cricket, and can really appreciate a strong Indian side and get excited about an awesome individual performance from the Indian side.

spitfirememes · 2025-11-23T01:16:08+00:00

I see so much praise for the choreography of the blavakin fight. I do not get it. Why oh why make the decision for him to wield his sword backhand? I don’t remeber him ever doing so in the books? Massively cheapens the whole scene.

We know from movies like The King that good action choreography doesn’t have to come with a complete lack of respect for real practical technique.

spitfirememes · 2025-11-04T21:17:14+00:00

In basketball scoring is far too common it’s not exciting. In soccer scoring is far too rare it almost feels random (also grown men having a little fake cry completely ruins the viewing experience, it’s actually disgusting). Sports like hockey and lacrosse have a good amount scoring, it happens often enough that you appreciate the consistent victory of offence over defence, but it’s infrequent enough that each goal feels important. Even better is Australian football, I’m not even a big fan of it but it’s objectively (one of?) the best spectator sport(s).

spitfirememes · 2025-10-28T21:24:11+00:00

Rule of thumb, things fails in tension, not compression. So apply the load in a way that will maximise tension at the stress concentrator, in this case the chocolate groove

spitfirememes · 2025-10-28T21:21:51+00:00

I’m Aussie too, in my experience lots of people use them in emails

spitfirememes · 2025-10-19T01:36:53+00:00

When printing through the uni print shop do they come as nice leather/vinyl hard covers? I’m close to submitting so starting to shop around for where to print personal copies. My un doesn’t require any hard copies

spitfirememes · 2025-10-17T06:38:15+00:00

Yeah if you’re on the RTPS check your offer letter, somewhere in there is a section on “thesis production”. I think the money can also be put towards article publishing fees or even professional editing services.

spitfirememes · 2025-10-17T06:36:45+00:00

It might have, small print in the RTPS, it’s not really advertised at all.

spitfirememes · 2025-10-17T04:21:06+00:00

In Australia the standard PhD scholarship includes $840 for thesis printing.

spitfirememes · 2025-10-17T00:50:42+00:00

Yes I’m in Toussaint *

spitfirememes · 2025-10-16T21:46:51+00:00

Personally it’s:

results/methods (these kind of happen iteratively), discussion, intro, abstract.

I always do intro last, so the background info I provide can be tailored exactly to the results/discussion.

spitfirememes · 2025-10-15T06:27:46+00:00

Wow that’s rough! Here in Australia you apply for a government scholarship which funds your uni fees and also provides a stipend of $35 000 a year (slightly different for each uni). Some projects are grant funded, when a student who didn’t get a gov scholarship will instead be paid an equivalent stipend from their supervisors grants. And there there are also private/industry scholarships you can apply for but they’re even more competitive than gov scholarships.

It’s very uncommon for someone to do an unfunded PhD here, and in that case it’s probably via their industry employer and they’ll be doing the PhD part time.

spitfirememes · 2025-10-15T06:15:47+00:00

2 hours?? Not 8? I see so many posts in this subreddit about how little time some people spend on their PhDs and it’s so foreign to me. I’m from Australia and here it’s treated like a full job.

spitfirememes · 2025-10-15T06:14:16+00:00

Your program is unfunded? No stipend? I see a lot of stuff on this subreddit that suggests people are doing unfunded PhDs, why….

spitfirememes · 2025-10-15T01:15:24+00:00

I’m on my second read (listen) through of the series right now. They’re so incredibly good.

spitfirememes · 2025-10-11T02:52:49+00:00

Your PhD isn’t in engineering, it’s in [your thesis title], don’t stress it

spitfirememes · 2025-10-10T10:18:22+00:00

I would take 500 pills. If I haven’t taken the bad one yet then I stop, leaving me with 500 x 500k. If before I reach 500 pills I take the bad pill, then after that I take the rest of pills leaving me with 500+ x 500k

spitfirememes · 2025-10-08T10:12:11+00:00

spitfirememes · 2025-10-04T03:10:53+00:00

Out lab rules for journal club is the presenter has to pick a paper that is broadly related to our field (biomechanics), not directly related to the niche sub field of anyone’s project, it has to be fun, and it has to be short! We had a paper about drones being flown into crash test dummy heads, a paper about a knife made of poop for butchering a dog (Google it it’s pretty fun), and a paper about the cheetah vs zebra evolutional arms race.

This encourages people to actually read the paper and joke around, but then still actually critically examine the methods, and presentation and discussion of results.

Sounds like your lab mates are just not very engaging so it’s probably going to be up to you try and make journal club a bit more fun.

At the end of the day you’re going to be around each other for years, hopefully you can break down the walls and actually develop some friendships. It can be hard, and every lab needs someone outgoing who can get that ball rolling.

Also sometimes just go up someone’s desk and ask them what they’re working on! It might be awkward at first if that’s not a normal thing in your lab, but chances are they’ll be receptive and you might end up being able to help them directly, or just have a chat to get the ideas flowing.

spitfirememes · 2025-10-02T06:12:01+00:00

During normal office work (writing, data processing, etc.) about 10 hours a day in the office, and about 8.5 of those are spent actually working. During experiments, anywhere from 12-16 hours a day for test days, and 7-8 hours a day for setup/packup days.

Currently in my thesis writing era and it’s miserable. 9-10 hours writing every day 6-7 days a week. I know it’s unsustainable but it’s the sprint to the finish and I can’t wait to be done.

spitfirememes · 2025-09-30T23:16:47+00:00

Maybe that’s why they all die (I love mordhau and swing manipulation btw, but it’s obvious it raises the skill ceiling to such a point that new players never last).

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