# @life_and_sunshine on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DQw_gDnCPQW
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/63278567-life-and-sunshine-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-11-07T18:35:26.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Nat ☀️ (@life_and_sunshine) — https://gondola.cc/life_and_sunshine

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I couldn’t decide if this was gonna be a popular or unpopular opinion 😂 So I’ve put it down as a potentially popular opinion because I hope you guys agree with me 🤓
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I don’t think it’s fair to depend getting your PhD on whether or not you have published any of your science 📑 A PhD is meant to teach people how to be independent researchers 👩‍🔬 Just because your science hasn’t (yet) resulted in a publication 🧫 doesn’t mean you haven’t learned the skills required of you to be a scientist 🤓
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And if it’s the scientific writing you’re worried about 🤔 each PhD student still writes an ENTIRE book 🤯 before defending 😅 So problem solved! 😊
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I do think it’s a good idea to incentivize publishing research 😊 because I believe in open science and sharing your work with the world 🤩 So maybe some sort of bonus system could be created? 👀 I’m not sure how exactly 😂 but I think it’s better than failing students because sometimes science doesn’t work 😊
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