This site will be extremely useful for future #phd students to find a suitable lab (or avoid a bad one). Other options to get info include:https://twitter.com/GoatsThatStare/status/890556541505548289 …
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Contact previous and current
#phd students and#postdocs of the lab in question. A brief email with your intention to join is usually enough1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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Answers might not be straight forward - only a few people will reply 'better rethink your decision', but will provide more subtle cues
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If possible, try to find out the rate of completion for PhD students in the lab (e.g. by asking current staff)
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Another potential indicator of lab atmosphere quality: number of long-term collaboration w/ other labs (over more than one project)
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Twitter people, what else might be important here? What to add?
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This is extremely open to abuse and if you're checking completion that's not useful for eg UK universities where they enforce completion.
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Agree that this system is open to abuse & might end up being full of 'revenge' ratings. Alternatives? Or is there a way to prevent this?
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I'm a member of loads of whisper networks. Women, and some men, have been solving it for years using them.
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Replying to @o_guest
This is one option. But whisper networks quite often do not reach undergrad/grad students at different universities/institutions
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In my experience they do, but I'm aware my everybody has access etc.
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Also given what I've seen from such systems they will only serve to give women, ethnic minorities and other URMs bad reviews and powerful
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white dudes with established labs good reviews.
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