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		chrisseaton on Sept 28, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Abuse isn’t an “advising style”: Consequences of M... > In most contexts I’ve experienced, the professor’s research and the student’s are more or less one and the same. A PhD is an individual research degree - ideally you’re supposed to be working on your own ideas not someone else’s.

srtjstjsj on Sept 28, 2020 [–]

That's not how it works in a lab that relies on expensive equipmentvand multi-year research programs. Those PhD thesis projects are minor variants on your PIs research program.

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