Episode 2

EPISODE 2: FEELING SELF-CONSCIOUS

EPISODE 2: FEELING SELF-CONSCIOUS

In this episode, we jump February 2012—about two weeks into my new postdoc. In this entry, I'm agonizing over whether to go to a conference or not, and I try to figure out my place in my new research group...and in Germany.

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Key issues discussed:

  • Anxiety when joining a new group
  • Insecurity

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EPISODE 3: I BLAME MYSELF

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A Postdoc's Journal
The podcast for disillusioned academics. An honest, personal memoir of my time as a postdoc; detailing the emotional roller coaster I went through.

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Simit Patel

Simit Patel, PhD, cares deeply about mental health, self improvement, and positive masculinity.

He is a biologist and former postdoc. He left academia in 2015. He's originally from the UK and is now living in Berlin, Germany.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/simit-patel-063388ab/