u/iOS_App_LabAssistant

Hey guys! I’m a PhD student, and I originally made this app for myself. I then thought it might be useful for others, so I decided to publish it on the AppStore.

There’s absolutely no commercial motive. The app is completely free, and I just want to help my colleagues.

The biggest problem is: it’s extremely difficult to get the app in front of people. Most communities don’t allow app promotion, and obviously I can’t afford to pay for advertising.

So, I’d really appreciate it if you could share it with other people.
I’m open to all kinds of feedback, positive or negative, so please be honest.

If there’s a feature you’d like to see, let me know. I may be able to add it in the next few days.

Since I’m posting this in a microbiology community, I’d especially love to hear from microbiologists about what would actually be useful. I don’t have many microbiology-specific features at the moment, so if there’s something you regularly need, find annoying, or wish you had an app for, I’d really appreciate your suggestions.

Thanks a lot!
The link and more detailed information are on my profile.

https://preview.redd.it/a0p013s3tejh1.jpg?width=2478&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fe2500dd5958e2ba9fdc04d1e390a24e59cb9d1c

Hey guys! I’m a PhD student, and I originally made this app for myself. I then thought it might be useful for others, so I decided to publish it on the AppStore.

There’s absolutely no commercial motive. The app is completely free, and I just want to help my colleagues.

The biggest problem is: it’s extremely difficult to get the app in front of people. Most communities don’t allow app promotion, and obviously I can’t afford to pay for advertising.

So, I’d really appreciate it if you could share it with other people.

I’m open to all kinds of feedback, positive or negative, so please be honest.

If there’s a feature you’d like to see, let me know. I may be able to add it in the next few days.

Thanks a lot!

The link and more detailed information are on my profile.

https://preview.redd.it/3di40sf7tejh1.jpg?width=2478&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e6da04a1f70ce84c550b186cc6a47a8a6cf1226b

Hey guys! I’m a PhD student, and I originally made this app for myself. I then thought it might be useful for others, so I decided to publish it on the AppStore.

There’s absolutely no commercial motive. The app is completely free, and I just want to help my colleagues.

The biggest problem is: it’s extremely difficult to get the app in front of people. Most communities don’t allow app promotion, and obviously I can’t afford to pay for advertising.

So, I’d really appreciate it if you could share it with other people.

I’m open to all kinds of feedback, positive or negative, so please be honest.

If there’s a feature you’d like to see, let me know. I may be able to add it in the next few days.

Thanks a lot!

The link and more detailed information are on my profile.

I’m still genuinely motivated by science, but I’m getting really tired of academia and the whole academic system, especially the constant pressure to publish.

Latelty, I also started feeling like I can’t fully trust published papers anymore. It feels like the publication pressure is pushing more and more people toward bad practices, like manipulating data, selecting results, or basically picking the data that fits their hypothesis.
And honestly, it’s really really discouragin when you still care about doing proper science.

I’m probably about 1.5 years away from finishing my PhD. Today I thought, “Okay, let’s pretend I’m graduating this year and just what I can apply.”

So I started looking at postdocs first.
I couldn’t find a single postdoc position that felt like a good fit for me. Or fits to my skills 100%.

Then I looked at industry jobs and other positions.

Again, pretty much nothing.

I know this is probably partly because I’m searching way too early and maybe I’m also not very good at finding positions?
But still, seeing all of this at honestly hit me harder than I expected. I ended up feeling pretty hopeless.

Has anyone else been in this exact situation? Still loving science, but feeling completely done with academia, and then having no idea where your skills actually fit….

Or am I just having a particularly bad day? 😅