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[–] jawa22@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Remember these wise words:

[–] i_love_FFT@jlai.lu 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What's the thesis topic?

The folding of Thorn Displays in Monroe? Doesn't make sense to me

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] i_love_FFT@jlai.lu 5 points 2 days ago

According to "explain xkcd", its "The Evolution of Threat Display in Mammals"

[–] Quexotic 3 points 2 days ago
[–] darkdemize@sh.itjust.works 53 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Congrats! What did you write your thesis on?

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 89 points 4 days ago (13 children)

How people have been fucking up nature for 10k years lmao.

[–] snoons@lemmy.ca 22 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Save the Wooly Mammoth before it's too late!

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 28 points 4 days ago (1 children)

the columbian mammoth is the last of the mammoths to die out about 13kyears ago, very recent, by insular dwarfism in channel islands of CALIFORNIA. fun fact mammoths are more related asian elephants than african bush elephants/forest. ELEPHAS vs loxodon.

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 16 points 4 days ago
[–] faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I look forward to the meme translation of your thesis

[–] pseudo@jlai.lu 5 points 3 days ago

Amazing! "Ma thèse en 180 secondes" has reach another level.

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[–] perishthethought@piefed.social 42 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 11 points 4 days ago
[–] negativenull@piefed.world 21 points 4 days ago

Whoa! Congrats!

[–] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Now enjoy a little bit of coasting before the next level drudgery begins!

I miss the pre deposit days sometimes, but there was like 6 or 8 weeks after submitting where it just seemed like things were done and accounted for and that was kind of the best IMO.

Edit:

Oh shoot you said submitted and I was thinking deposited. Yeah you're in for the shitty part next 😂. Just remember that your committee doesn't know where the bodies are buried, only you do and it all still counts!

[–] pseudo@jlai.lu 4 points 3 days ago

I come back to say congratulations once again, because what you did was amazing! Congratulations!! Tell us we we can start to call you Dr.Fossilesque :-)

Congratulations because this sounds big not because I understand what a PhD thesis is. Sounds smart asf tho

[–] finitebanjo@piefed.world 22 points 4 days ago (6 children)

Good luck I hope its well received and contains no em dashes.

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Lmao there's definitely some llm placeholder captions they'll have to forgive me on.

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[–] Sal@mander.xyz 3 points 3 days ago

Woah! Congratulations!!! 🥳 🎉

[–] Deconceptualist@leminal.space 16 points 4 days ago

This is a precursor to defending your thesis, right? I don't mean to discourage, I've just been away from academia for a few too many years and my memory is getting rusty on the order of operations.

Regardless, it's a massive milestone and I commend your commitment to humanity's knowledge in the strongest possible terms.

[–] halvar@lemy.lol 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

should only take three years after this

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 3 points 2 days ago

cries that I have to now turn these into papers

[–] RagnarokOnline@programming.dev 13 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Hell yeah! Now go get blackout drunk

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 16 points 4 days ago

Working on it.

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[–] HakunaHafada@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 4 days ago

Congrats! Best of luck on whatever the next step is.

[–] HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Excellent! You can be proud of your accomplishment. Make sure to connect with loved ones and to find a time-consuming hobby in order to avoid the post-thesis depression.

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 4 points 2 days ago

lmao I have so much work to do now. it never ends!!

[–] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Hell yeah! What's your research about?

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 28 points 4 days ago (8 children)
[–] 404@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 days ago
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[–] Bombastic@sopuli.xyz 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Good shit, king. We're proud of you

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] Bombastic@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 days ago

Good shit, queen. We're proud of you

[–] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

My dearest Fossil! Congratulations! Super proud of you dude - that's not a small feat. My M.Sc. damn near did me in.

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Bruh, my MSc was no new data for this site which is a challenge (had to focus on methods), this nearly killed me lol.

[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)
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