Megan Chong
@mkchong.bsky.social
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Some good advice in here but one critical piece I always give is this:
Get a hobby. Preferably a mildly social one. One that has NOTHING TO DO WITH SCIENCE. NOTHING.
You need friends. Not colleagues. FRIENDS. Friends who will love you no matter your research prospects...
Get a hobby. Preferably a mildly social one. One that has NOTHING TO DO WITH SCIENCE. NOTHING.
You need friends. Not colleagues. FRIENDS. Friends who will love you no matter your research prospects...
What's one piece of advice you'd give to someone considering a PhD?
We asked 3785 doctoral candidates across 107 countries for their hard-won wisdom
go.nature.com/4nDjJ7t
We asked 3785 doctoral candidates across 107 countries for their hard-won wisdom
go.nature.com/4nDjJ7t
27 things we wish we’d known when we started our PhDs
Nature’s survey of PhD candidates reveals hard-won wisdom on choosing supervisors, managing mental health and surviving academic culture.
go.nature.com
October 6, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Some good advice in here but one critical piece I always give is this:
Get a hobby. Preferably a mildly social one. One that has NOTHING TO DO WITH SCIENCE. NOTHING.
You need friends. Not colleagues. FRIENDS. Friends who will love you no matter your research prospects...
Get a hobby. Preferably a mildly social one. One that has NOTHING TO DO WITH SCIENCE. NOTHING.
You need friends. Not colleagues. FRIENDS. Friends who will love you no matter your research prospects...
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This moment from our latest episode with science writer @edyong209.bsky.social is 🔥
We asked Ed — how do we talk up the benefits of science in the face of government cuts? He told us that's the wrong approach. 🧪
Listen wherever, or watch on Spotify 👇
open.spotify.com/episode/7Evh...
We asked Ed — how do we talk up the benefits of science in the face of government cuts? He told us that's the wrong approach. 🧪
Listen wherever, or watch on Spotify 👇
open.spotify.com/episode/7Evh...
October 1, 2025 at 2:56 PM
This moment from our latest episode with science writer @edyong209.bsky.social is 🔥
We asked Ed — how do we talk up the benefits of science in the face of government cuts? He told us that's the wrong approach. 🧪
Listen wherever, or watch on Spotify 👇
open.spotify.com/episode/7Evh...
We asked Ed — how do we talk up the benefits of science in the face of government cuts? He told us that's the wrong approach. 🧪
Listen wherever, or watch on Spotify 👇
open.spotify.com/episode/7Evh...
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The Trump administration’s pressure on universities echoes past authoritarian efforts in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.
A comparative and international education expert explains: buff.ly/zSTmtwz By @isilova.bsky.social, Arizona State 🗃️ #highered #edusky
A comparative and international education expert explains: buff.ly/zSTmtwz By @isilova.bsky.social, Arizona State 🗃️ #highered #edusky
Universities in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union thought giving in to government demands would save their independence
Before the Nazis, German universities were among the best in the world. Step by step, the universities gave up their independence until they were instruments of the state.
buff.ly
August 9, 2025 at 10:03 PM
The Trump administration’s pressure on universities echoes past authoritarian efforts in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.
A comparative and international education expert explains: buff.ly/zSTmtwz By @isilova.bsky.social, Arizona State 🗃️ #highered #edusky
A comparative and international education expert explains: buff.ly/zSTmtwz By @isilova.bsky.social, Arizona State 🗃️ #highered #edusky
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A group of middle school girls playing with a Ouija board is more interesting than anything people have typed into ChatGPT.
Your ChatGPT prompts just aren’t interesting. Really, a mother should have told you this but here we are. It needs to be said.
July 21, 2025 at 5:46 PM
A group of middle school girls playing with a Ouija board is more interesting than anything people have typed into ChatGPT.
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Trofim Lysenko's work was junk. But the promises he made about crop yields and his broad criticism of Western thought won over Stalin’s government. @mkchong.bsky.social, on the dangers of politicizing science. zps.la/4n2KceN
What Denying Science Cost the Soviet Union | Essay | Zócalo Public Square
How scientific repression in the Soviet era impacted discovery, innovation, and individual scientists’ lives.
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June 18, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Trofim Lysenko's work was junk. But the promises he made about crop yields and his broad criticism of Western thought won over Stalin’s government. @mkchong.bsky.social, on the dangers of politicizing science. zps.la/4n2KceN
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This news is hot off the press! We are so excited to present the 2025 #MassMediaFellows! These 17 scientists will spend their summer writing, reporting, and working on their #SciComm skills in news outlets across the country! Learn more about the #MMF50th class here: www.aaas.org/news/aaas-ma...
April 24, 2025 at 5:15 PM
This news is hot off the press! We are so excited to present the 2025 #MassMediaFellows! These 17 scientists will spend their summer writing, reporting, and working on their #SciComm skills in news outlets across the country! Learn more about the #MMF50th class here: www.aaas.org/news/aaas-ma...
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It’s time to organize: “The internet has conditioned us to constantly seek new information, as if becoming a sponge of bad news will eventually yield the final piece of a puzzle. But there is also such a thing as having enough information.”
www.404media.co/you-cant-pos...
www.404media.co/you-cant-pos...
You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism
Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.
www.404media.co
February 5, 2025 at 5:00 PM
It’s time to organize: “The internet has conditioned us to constantly seek new information, as if becoming a sponge of bad news will eventually yield the final piece of a puzzle. But there is also such a thing as having enough information.”
www.404media.co/you-cant-pos...
www.404media.co/you-cant-pos...
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Latest report from a highly credible source. An SRO issuing study section guidance to not address the Diversity Plan or include it in the impact score for a mechanism that required the plan to be included.
January 22, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Latest report from a highly credible source. An SRO issuing study section guidance to not address the Diversity Plan or include it in the impact score for a mechanism that required the plan to be included.
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Wadman and Kaiser are on it, over at ScienceInsider at the glam mag
Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring
Researchers facing
www.science.org
January 23, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Wadman and Kaiser are on it, over at ScienceInsider at the glam mag
Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...