Dr. Victoria Grinberg6d ago

It's fun how, even as a pretty senior person, you end up in research projects with PhD candidates or postdocs who assume you an expert while you panicky try to read up on what you are working on and at least understand the basics enough to be able to follow and usefully contribute.

In other news: X-ray polarization is weird.

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Show threadPeter Kretschmar
@vicgrinberg - as you may guess I do know that feeling for some more years. 🙂 Even worse though when you find you’re out of your depth in something you once mastered rather well but now struggle for not being active in this for too many years … 😬
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Show threadDr. Victoria Grinberg3d ago
@pkretsch you mean you did not know everything when I was a PhD student and asking you things? 😁🤣
Show threadPeter Kretschmar3d ago
@vicgrinberg in truth - you knew that already back then. 🙂But this now brings up a formative memory: my own thesis advisor, a full generation older, grey-haired, tall and very upright in any sense of the word - in brief the embodiment of Authority Figure - reacting to a question during his lecture by sitting down on the table, looking pensive for a short while and then answering: “I honestly don’t know, I will read up on this and try to give an answer next week.”.