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.

#AcademicChatter #astrodon #XraysAreTheBestRays

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@vicgrinberg
I'm pretty sure that a chunk of what makes you senior is the skill buildup to do exactly that.
Show threadDr. Victoria Grinberg4d ago

@hypostase oh, absolutely!

And to me it's also the main reason to talk about it, to show the younger folks in the field what some of the skillset truly means (and also that it's Ok to fail sometimes and to be wrong, but that's another story).

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@vicgrinberg
Absolutely. I'm no academic, but I learned early that the sharing of skills really makes a difference.
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