• aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    The new discovery was made by Kokkonen, who recently graduated with a Master of Science degree. The study was a part of her master's thesis, and the research is published in the journal Physical Review C.

    Imagine being a fresh masters graduate and this is the first thing you do lol, during your thesis even. Woman is living the dream out there

    • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      You get a lot of cool stuff coming at the master's level. You get a dedicated year of research, but unlike a PhD you don't have a mininum number of publications required, so advisers tend to give out riskier projects at that level.

      • iie [they/them, he/him]
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        1 year ago

        My master’s thesis was basically just some coding gruntwork as part of a larger project