What does a PhD look like?
Anatomy of the arc of grad school.
Distilled from โ100 hours of exit interviews and 1-1 coaching of PhD students, Pablo shares thoughts on the structure of a PhD in STEM and how students, advisors, and program directors can bring out the best of the experience.
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25.02.2026 17:18
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What is a PhD?
Why should "teacher" mark the pinnacle of knowledge?
Where does the idea of a PhD come from? What from its history can we return to as we attempt to define or redefine it?
Notes from Pablo on the MsEE Lab substack as graduate school admissions season rolls along.
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11.02.2026 22:11
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I [Pablo] am fortunate, grateful, and bewildered to have this opportunity in our present moment in history. 3/3
26.05.2025 14:45
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How do you prepare to set sail in a storm?
State of the Lab โ Summer 2025
Inspired by the intriguing and heartfelt writing of many others such as @cbo.bsky.social, I [Pablo] have begun writing too. I'm opening with a roadmap for science in these troubled times. I'd love you to join us for the journey, there is much to do. 2/3
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26.05.2025 14:45
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MsEE Lab's logo, highlighting cross-scale interactions between synthetic biology, population dynamics, and real-world applications.
The Multiscale Evolutionary Engineering Laboratory will open its doors in the summer of 2026 at the Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering in Cornell University, led by @pcr-guy.bsky.social. We will make frameworks for quantifying evolutionary outcomes in bioengineering. 1/3
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