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Yamin Ma submitted her PhD thesis today. She doesn't run a blog, so I'm making sure that recognition for her achievement reaches as many in the UWA community as possible. Yamin's thesis ended up with the title ''Vegetation as a biotic driver for the formation of soil geochemical anomalies for mineral exploration of ...

I'm sorry to say, but today marks my 4 1/2 year mark of being a PhD student. And I am even sorrier to say today that my scholarship expired. So, I'm going to be 'roughing it' until I can find any sort of employment, the search for which is still being unfruitful. I submitted my nomination of examiners form this week, so that should be on its way ...

I wonder if the stresses of PhD research was what Mylo had in mind when writing the song ''Dr Pressure''? Somehow, I think not, but you never know... Anyway, I am starting to feel those stresses as I look at my diary this morning and realise I only have about 50 days left to finish! All I can really do is take it one day at a time and just get ...

Cue the very 80s sounding music of the same title that has been used to death for just about every Australian election television coverage that I can remember. With some fair amount of horror, I realised today that I am meant to submit my thesis in 100 days. Cue doomsday-esque music and evil maniacal laugh. I REALLY don't want to have to ask for ...