Thursday, April 23, 2026

Crosspost: 14 Things Our PhD Supervisors Got Right and Why It Mattered


Today's crosspost is the fifth in a series from Nature's 2025 PhD survey. The article presents the positive support mentors provided their PhD students. 

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14 Things Our PhD Supervisors Got Right and Why It Mattered


by Linda Nordling

When someone talks about doing a PhD, the stories that surface are usually about what went wrong: the overbearing adviser, the chaotic laboratory experiments, the loneliness and the stress. But the experience is rarely only that. Amid challenges such as funding uncertainty, competition for positions, pressure to publish and disruptions caused by global conflicts and crises, many supervisors quietly do things that change a student’s trajectory for the better.

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