“You are here to learn to ride a bicycle, not to invent a bicycle.” 🚲🧪 Read my story in Science Magazine on how I dealt with my "Mid-PhD Crisis". www.science.org/content/arti... @science.org @sciencecareers.bsky.social #ScienceWorkingLife #AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter #ScienceTwitter

Science Magazine@science.org · last yr.

"For half an hour, I vented everything I had been holding in for months … my supervisor … then calmly offered a line I’ll never forget: 'You are here to learn to ride a bicycle, not to invent a bicycle.' That one sentence landed softly, but it cracked something open." https://scim.ag/4lt1Ru0

"For half an hour, I vented everything I had been holding in for months … my supervisor … then calmly offered a line I’ll never forget: 'You are here to learn to ride a bicycle, not to invent a bicycle.' That one sentence landed softly, but it cracked something open." https://scim.ag/4lt1Ru0

Nice short, encouraging article by @hamzehsan.bsky.social about being a grad student: "The competitive environment of academia had distracted me from the real reason I was a Ph.D. candidate: to learn how to do research and how to thrive." www.science.org/content/arti...

How a Ph.D. is like riding a bike

This researcher struggled in grad school—until he embraced it as a time for learning

science.org