<p dir="ltr">A long, multi-car train metaphor: each carriage shows a different academic stereotype from obsessively hungry to oversharing knowledge, illustrating the varied—and often awkward—behaviours of researchers traveling together.</p>
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2017-08-21AltText
Train-car cartoon showing various PhD student stereotypes from hungry to overexplaining physics.Transcript
Person (car 1): When does the buffet trolley come, do you think?
Person (“I need coffee”)
Zzzzz
Arrgggh
Person: Oh you’re a PhD student. How’s the thesis comm—
Person: Run!
Person: You do physics? I read an article in the New Scientist on quantum cats, let me explain it to you
Person: Are you trying to run PCR with items from the buffet car?
sobbing *
Person: Are you reading a book? Shouldn’t you be working?
