Basically Doctors

Basically Doctors

basically doctors

Episodes 11
Avg. Duration 1h 9m
Activity Sporadic
Since Nov 2023
Latest Episode Feb 2025

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Every 2 Months
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Episodic
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About This Podcast

Nina Perryman, PhD and Anna Lo, PhD are two synthetic organic chemists embarking on a journey of post-PhD self-recovery. Join us as we try to demystify the complex world of academia, offering guidance, advice, and anecdotes that spill the tea on what it's like to lose your 20s to graduate school.

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Recent Episodes

S2E2 Basically, How To Choose a Graduate School (feat. Prof. Jared Shaw)

Feb 20, 2025 1h 30m

On this week's episode of Basically Doctors, we are back with our PhD advisor Prof. Jared Shaw to talk about what to do once you have gotten in to a chemistry graduate program. In this episode we…

Basically, How To Get Into Graduate School (Feat. Prof. Jared Shaw)

Nov 27, 2024 1h 49m

We're back!! On this week's episode, we chat with our PhD advisor Prof. Jared Shaw about how to get into a chemistry graduate program. In this episode we talk about how to pick a graduate program to…

S1E9 Basically, Anyone Can Start a Podcast (Feat. Aidan Looby)

Mar 28, 2024 1h 30m

On this week’s episode of basically doctors, we have our first guest of the podcast, Aidan Looby from Synthesis Workshop!!!! (https://www.youtube.com/c/SynthesisWorkshopVideos) In this episode, we…

S1E8 Basically, Be An Empath

Feb 02, 2024 1h 3m

On this week’s episode of basically doctors, we discuss dealing with conflict both in real life and in graduate school! We talk about how we dealt with our personal conflict in graduate school, what…

S1E7 Basically, Write Your Dissertation Like The Simpsons

Jan 17, 2024 57m

On this week’s episode of basically doctors, Nina and Anna discuss how they wrote their dissertation featuring productivity tips and organizational tools. You don’t want to miss this ;) Check out…

S1E6 Basically, Are You Qualified To Be A Doctor?

Jan 11, 2024 1h 4m

On this week's episode, of basically doctors, we talk about our process for studying for our PhD qualifying exams at UC Davis! We cover what a qualifying exam is, how we prepared, and how we dealt…

S1E5 Basically, Are Postdocs Bad for Industry?

Dec 20, 2023 41m

Since we talked about Nina's postdoc journey in our last episode, we decided to close out 2023 with the story of Anna's journey from graduate school to her job in the pharmaceutical industry. We talk…

S1E4 Basically, Quit Your Postdoc and Leave the Country

Dec 13, 2023 42m

In this week's episode, we wanted to give a little backstory about what led Nina to move abroad earlier this year. You'll hear Nina share her story about quitting her post doc, our thoughts on what…

S1E3 Basically, How to Pick a Graduate Research Lab

Dec 06, 2023 1h

After a brief hiatus for Thanksgiving, we're back with an episode dedicated to how we picked our graduate research lab! We start by speaking generally about what you should look out for when doing…

S1E2 Basically, Mental Health Matters

Nov 15, 2023 1h 20m

!! Trigger Warning !! In this episode we discuss sensitive topics including anxiety, depression, and death by suicide. Please proceed with discretion! In this week's episode we talk about mental…

S1E1 So Basically We Graduated... Now What?

Nov 08, 2023 1h 1m

Every podcast has to start somewhere, so please enjoy our first episode of "Basically Doctors," AirPods audio and all! In our inaugural episode, we introduce ourselves and talk about the journey of…

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Basically Doctors has published 11 episodes since November 2023, covering topics in Education.

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Basically Doctors is currently sporadic with new episodes every 2 months. Average episode length is 1h 9m.

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