Tune in to our conversation with Andrea, a third-year PhD student in Clinical Psychology based in Chicago, about her path to grad school with a background in social work and what her day-to-day life looks like. Andrea also breaks down how she structured her career according to her long-term goals, and why she chose to pursue a PhD in Clinical Psychology. Finally, the three of us discussed the similarities and differences in each of our path to academia and current experiences. Research areas: Clinical Career stage: PhD student Affiliation: Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine Follow Andre ..read more

A few months later, we are back! Kat and I have been busy with grad school, but we finally sat down and recorded an episode in light of recent events, specifically the overturning of Roe v. Wade. In this episode, we talk about how we have been dealing with the current news cycle, how we try to navigate the terrains of 2022, and how we experience these events as 20-something grad students struggling to find meaning and focus in our everyday work at the same time of war, continuing pandemic, and diminishing human rights. We find ourselves questioning a lot, and there is a glimpse of desperation ..read more

Tune in to our conversation with Cas, the host of Clinically Psyched Pod (a podcast about the hidden curriculum of grad admissions to Clinical Psychology programs), where she talks about her interests and knowledge in Sexual Psychology! We also discuss her ongoing journey to grad school and share our own experiences and difficulties in our respective applications cycles. Shows mentioned: Succession (available on HBO), Sex Education (available on Netflix), Pop Culture Detective (YouTube channel); this came up in our post-recording chitchat and requires reader's discretion (TW: may elicit the fa ..read more

Keywords: Chronic pain, fibromyalgia, traumatic life experiences, career path Tune in for our conversation with Ariane, a PhD student at the University of Manchester whose project aims to develop diagnostic tool for chronic pain treatment in clinical settings using Bayesian models. We talk about her career trajectory and her experience in her PhD so far, as well as what it means to take a hollistic approach to understanding the human mind. Ariane completed her Master's degree in Neuroscience at the University of St. Andrews, where she studies stress and decision-making, and transitioned into p ..read more

Keywords: Autism, consciousness, connectivity, development, cognition Tune in to an episode with Dr. Lucina Uddin, head of the Brain Connectivity and Cognition Lab situated at the University of Miami, where we learn about her career trajectory and thoughts on autism and cognitive flexibility.  Taken from her lab website, they are broadly focused on investigating the relationship between brain connectivity and cognition in typical and atypical development. Within a cognitive neuroscience framework, their research combines functional connectivity analyses of resting-state functional magneti ..read more

Keywords: race, ethicity, mental health services, intervention Tune in to an episode with Tasfia, a graduate student at Emory University and research coordinator at Harvard University. We dive into her undergraduate Honors Thesis on cultural tailoring in mental health services specific to race and ethnicity, where she engages in qualitative research and develops her own codebook. She also discusses her role as a Research Coordinator and her future research aspirations. Research areas: Clinical  Career stage: Research assistant & graduate student Affiliation: Emory University ..read more

Keywords: career, work-life balance, decision fatigue  Tune in to our chat with Simone, where she tells us about her career path, thoughts on work-life balance, and offers candid advice to graduate students on the importance of finding focus. Simone is an Experimental Social Psychologist at the University of Cambridge, where she is also a fellow at Jesus College. In this episode, we also discuss one of her recent papers, Quantifying the Cost of Decision Fatigue: Supoptimal Risk Decisions in Finance, with Dr. Tobias Baer on decision fatigue applied to the finance sector, specifically how c ..read more

Keywords: career path, addiction Tune in for a conversation with Ara, an incoming Clinical Psych PhD student at the University of Rhode Island this fall, where she talks about her career path to date and experience with addiction research. We also discuss the future of research in Clinical Psych using virtual reality and psychedelics. Ara is also a co-founder of Psychin' Out, a Slack resource for grad applicants. Research area: Clinical Career stage: PhD student Affiliation: University of Rhode Island Follow Ara on Twitter @arasrinagesh ..read more

Keywords: career path, grad apps, programming struggles Thinking of grad school? Join us for a special episode (rant) with Emily Turner for a candid talk of the good, the bad, and the ugly on her grad school quest without a psych background, where we also discuss the barriers in academia as grassroots researchers! Resources mentioned: Psychin'Out (Twitter, Slack), OpenAcademics, "Why Women Can't Program" (article; well, we can and we do), more info on the gender gap in STEM, and a paper that looked at female 6-12th graders' confidence in math and science. Finally, our personal recommendation o ..read more

Keywords: sex work, Southeast Asia, colonialism Tune in to our conversation about Huiyeon's recent project on colonialism and sex work in Southeast Asia during the 20th century! Huiyeon is a Philosophy and Data Science student at the University of Southern California. If you are interested, the book Huiyeon recommended is Dealing In Desire. To see a list of other sources, here is a shareable doc. Research area: Philosophy Researcher Status: Undergraduate Student Affiliation: University of Southern California ..read more