PhD /sci/?

what's your field?

>>9001948
Medical imaging and biosignals

>>9001944
If you can manage your time, stick to plans and schedules, and are ready to travel a lot, then a PhD is not that terrible.

It also depends which kind of PI you have. Some group leaders are more laid back, others demand immediate results.

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>>9002021
>and are ready to travel a lot
Why?

t not OP

>>9002021
>and are ready to travel a lot
wtf you dont travel shit when doing a phd

>>9002221
>>9002223
If you aren't participating in conferences, you're doing it wrong.

>>9002223
>>9002221
At least in some fields you are expected to publish yearly at least a workshop paper and go to either a phd symposium, a summer school or some another networking meeting to at least give a presentation about your work.

It's more common in conference driven fields like CS, I know some pure maths phd students who didn't travel (or publish) at all before their thesis.

>>9001944
can anyone share their experience as PhD?

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>>9001958
That settles it then.

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>>9003033
Which fields have such conferences? Who pays for the travelling?

>>9003094
That sounds pretty terrible.

>>9003151
I'm PhD student in neuroscience. There are many conferences around the world. I get travel grants from scientific societies and sometimes prof pays for the whole research group.

>>9003207
Ok, thanks. How hard is it to get money for a trip?

if you have a master's, why are you asking people here? don't you have an advisor, or know any other PhD's in your field?

OP, what race are you? If Black or Hispanic, go for it. Your professors will bend over backwards for you and accommodate you every step of the way. If White or Asian, have you considered becoming an accountant?

>>9002021
You get to go to like 1 or 2 conferences annually, and they're usually the highlight of the whole year. It's hardly Ed Norton in Fight Club.

>>9003247
As a member of my regional physiological society I get my travel grant applications quite easily accepted. I usually get 75-100 % of the sum I ask for depending on country and which conference.

>>9003151
>That sounds pretty terrible
Why does free travel and discussing your ideas with peers from over the world sound terrible to you?

>>9002221
Really depends on your field and research group.

I am at the end of my master's in pure math and my PI literally encourages me to travel to conferences for which he ofc pays.

My PI has secured some huge grants though and is swimming in money and probably doesn't even know where to spend it all considering this is pure math after all.

>>9003339
It just sounds boring and unnecessary, you fucking twat. If I want to discuss my ideas, I'll do it over the Internet, not at some gay ass conference.

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>>9003349
>If I want to discuss my ideas, I'll do it over the Internet, not at some gay ass conference.

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>>9003311
Nice!

>>9003339
It requires having presentations, doesn't it? Besides, going abroad makes me anxious.

>>9003347
That sounds like a nice guy.

>>9003418
You'll start liking giving them once you gave 10 or so. Also it is in a professinal setting, the worst that may happen is that nobody cares. Not like in university where people are there to judge you.

>>9003443
That makes it sound slightly less terrible.

>>9003349
this is the worst post i have seen on /sci/ in a while

>>9003349
you should not do a PhD

>Also got a PhD question, hope you don't mind me butting in

When I finished my psychology MSc I wasn't interested in doing a PhD (for a while, at least), I just wanted to start paying back some of my debt and actually earning a bit of money for once. After getting rejected without interview from about 25 typical research assistant jobs (despite getting top grades for both my degrees), but somehow stumbled my way into a research job with a company which pays better than any of the university jobs, and fully funds a PhD for me too (which doesn't really take up much extra time either, because the research I'd use is what I do on a day-to-day basis). It's not in psychology though - without getting too specific (potentially doxxable), it's an architecture-related discipline which is starting to do more cross-disciplinary research with social scientists.

My reservation is the fact that lots of this discipline is just crap, even by the standards of psychology. They're essentially a practical discipline playing at science, so what passes for scientific research in their journals is really simple surveys where they just compare a few percentages, without even using the most basic statistical tests. My academic supervisor's research is like this, and all the 'top researchers in the field' he directs me to are pretty similar. The company I work for doesn't give a shit about the quality of the research because it's essentially just a marketing gimmick so they can say their services are evidence-backed (which again lowers the quality of my research, because there are clearly vested interests at play). I'll be doing the research anyway because the job pays well, but if I go through with the PhD, is there a chance that it might harm my future career prospects within academia? I'd like the possibility of being able to lecture in psychology at some point, but I'm concerned that churning out some crap research now will harm my future credibility.

>>9003937
So don't churn out crap research. They can churn out crap, and you can put out proper research using proper statistics.

>>9003948
Unfortunately academic supervisor has strong input into the design process of the research (and therefore the statistical methods used to analyse results). Also, the company pushes me towards crappy research because they have their agenda to meet. I don't mind being paid good money to do crap research if it's what the corporate world likes, it's just a case of putting my name to it and putting it in academic journals as if I think it's serious science.

>>9003937
i dont get your take exactly, psychology is meme tier and you most likely knew that when you joined, but now you're surprised?

>>9003977
I think this is a case of it being meme tier even by psychology standards.

>>9003977
I know /sci/ feels that way, but psychology is a serious scientific discipline when done correctly. You probably have a negative perception because of some meme-tier social psychology bullshit you've seen, but that's by no means representative of the whole discipline (although unfortunately it's becoming more prevalent, because of leftism in social science). But yeah, as >>9003985 says, the current discipline doesn't apply the same academic rigour that should be applied in psychology.

>>9003995
psychology is meme tier garbage, since most of their papers aren't remotely reproducible. psychology should be philosophical in nature to begin with, but this post-modernist abomination that exists today that's neither philosophy nor science is pure garbage

>>9004150
Again, that's a valid criticism of social psychology, but the field extends far beyond that.