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Cumol  ·  1444 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: “Where’s My Mentor?!”

This is such a big issue that needs to much more attention.

As someone who is basically doing a PhD without mentorship (because my mentor is crap) a lot of the things on the list hit home.

I can say without exaggerating that his way of "mentoring" is the main reason many of his current and former students are quitting academia. Doing your PhD in a "high impact" lab that is heavily ERC-funded is not enough.