Reflecting at the end of 2025. Having this wonderful team is part of the reason why starting my lab @ WashU has been such a joy. I love seeing great teamwork and the discoveries that flow from it. Excited for 2026! (pic feat. @brianwskim.bsky.social visiting from @kollinginstitute.bsky.social)

I've realised my conference limit is 2 full days. My brain is at capacity. But social events definitely help. #AcademicSky

CMV: The longest part of an academic presentation should be the Background, not the Results. #AcademicSky

To what extent should academia be meritocratic? #AcademicSky

This weekend, I am taking a break from my PhD including Friday. Feeling much more refreshed. More rest more often. #AcademicSky #PhDSky

Today near brought me to tears. Almost a year of PhD work troubleshooting a singular error, and I feel incompetent. Every time I think I've solved it, it comes back. I don't know when to just throw in the towel... #AcademicSky #PhDSky

Alas, this year my abstract was rejected ❌ for an amazing international conference. BUT still happy to try again next year. Onwards and upwards. #AcademicSky #PhDSky

And with that, ethics approval for the final PhD study has been obtained. A truly grueling process with stringent frameworks for AI related research now 🥲 #AcademicSky

Anyone have tips for a part time PhD? #AcademicSky #PhDSky

Today, I spent 8 hours straight on an MRI IO error that I have been unable to crack for months. Maybe 100 hours on this tiny “simple” error. Just in case you think social media is only for highlights, nope. Today sucked. PhD feels impossible. I need to decompress. #AcademicSky

I went into hibernation for the past year trying to get my first PhD paper out. Blessed and can’t wait to publish our latest model open-source! #AcademicSky doi.org/10.1016/j.js...

I feel like statisticians rule the world - sometimes we just forget. #AcademicSky

Thoughts on personal websites (not just a CV page) and blogs for academics? Perhaps field-dependent, but I think they’re excellent ways of showcasing communication and potentially technical skills. #AcademicSky

HELP: How do you handle manuscript/figure/table version control? Filename_Final_v5_edit_USETHISONE_withFigs_FinalFinal_DONOTEDIT.docx #AcademicSky

What’s a simple writing tip that would improve every paper? E.g., consistency of terms is more important than making writing engaging with synonyms. Ditch the synonyms. #PhDSky #AcademicSky

I genuinely prefer basic/discovery research over clinical research and champion it. Sue me (but also, please don’t. I need grant money) #AcademicSky

As academics, why do we say “yes”to helping others with data analysis… EVERY SINGLE TIME? Is it productive procrastination? #AcademicSky

Years of writing and I still don’t know if I prefer Arial or Times New Roman #AcademicSky

What’s your good luck charm on your desk to help you through your PhD? #PhDSky

The stress I have when sharing a dataset with a potential collaborator… WHAT IF THEY DONT LIKE MY FOLDER STRUCTURE?! #AcademicSky

Reminder that setting up a Notion dashboard is procrastination in disguise 😂 #AcademicSky #PhDSky

What is a stats resource that every PhD student conducting quant analysis MUST read? #PhDSky #StatsSky

Supervisor seems to be sure that we have enough for a PhD thesis. I’m convinced it’s not enough. Any advice to objectively look at this? #PhDSky

The new default font Aptos is a vibe. I like. Great for my docs. Calibri can go die. #PhDSky

PhD confession: I have never read another person’s thesis. Hopefully I read mine 😂

The validation when a collaborator texts you that they would love for you to stay after the current project 🥰

PhD confession: I sometimes call myself a doctoral student instead to make me feel fancy.

PhD confession: I repeatedly think, “if only I had started now, there would be so much more time left” 😂

PhD fear: my supervisor is too busy to thoroughly check the quality of my work and it’s actually not good 😅

In Australia, hybrid teaching and research roles are disappearing. I don’t know if I could choose between an education-focused lecturer position and a research-focused postdoc. #AcademicSky

Zoom is surprisingly stable in the desert. Please do not agree to meetings when you are on holiday. #AcademicSky

Machine learning renaissance. Humble trio (Alex Krizchevsky, Ilya Sutskever, Geoff Hinton) brought back neural networks with more labelled data and shocked the world with how well a computer modelled after a crude model of the human brain did #AI&HCI Check out more below: youtu.be/c_u4AHNjOpk?...

How awesome if AI can mark structures for us? Computer vision is advancing quickly. But to start, how does anyone choose the learning rate, batch size, or any hyperparameter for training a neural network? nnU-Net is a fabulous read: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #AI&HCI

Early PhD fear: My gap is not meaningful enough 😖 #PhDSky

Experienced university teachers, how do you handle students feeling they deserve better marks? Particularly on a practical exam, not recorded, just with my written feedback at the time. Any tips for communication to reconcile differences? #AcademicSky

Hi friends! I’m a 1st year PhD student at The University of Sydney Faculty of Medicine and Health. A physiotherapist by background, my research is in deep learning for musculoskeletal imaging of the shoulder. Intersection of health science, biomedical engineering and radiology. #AI&HCI #PhDSky

Thank you for accepting me into the promised land! Now to fun chats about computer vision in musculoskeletal radiology. #HiSciSky #PhDSky #AI&HCI