In this episode, Thomas and Kat discuss managing your time and mental health as a PhD student or academic. They discuss their own challenges and how they've tried to overcome these.

In this episode, we discuss Spoon Theory and how we and others have found it useful for describing how our brains function and interact with the academic environment. We want to acknowledge the origin of Spoon Theory in the chronic illness community. Read more at the link below.

Spoon Theory: https://www.butyoudontlooksick.com/articles/written-by-christine/the-spoon-theory/

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In this episode, Thomas and Kat discuss the many objects in space which appear to be flat and the why and how of this very common phenomenon seen in planets, solar systems, black holes and entire galaxies!

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In this episode, Thomas and Kat discuss networking as an early career researcher and how to handle those early conferences when you know no one.

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