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fht··on U.S. Weighs $100k Fee for Foreign Students Wanting to Work After Graduation
Archive link: https://archive.is/A4ywl
fht··on Claude Fable 5
I am a PhD student in Computational Biology, essentially just doing statistics on some biological data. By now some of the things I am working on have found its way to Claude's memory so literally any chat with Fable gets immediately flagged.
fht··on I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
Hi Peter,

Current Bio PhD student here. I would like to know more about ~ minimum requirements and costs for applying for an EB2 NIW. Bio papers take a long time to come out, so I would like to know whether I can still apply during the PhD while some of the papers are still in peer review or whether I would have to wait for a postdoc.

Thanks for doing this!

fht··on A mechanical keyboard with programmable knobs and full color screen panel
would order this immediately if it had a function row
fht··on I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
Hi Peter, PhD student here with some publications thinking about staying in academia. What do you think are the chances for a green card during the PhD i.e. EB1b or EB2NIW?
fht··on Advice for Prospective PhD Students
> For neuroscience, where there is relatively little competition

Insane take. Neuroscience is highly competitive. As someone in both fields, I would say it is only a little bit less competitive than AI/ML.

I largely agree with the rest of your advice, but I would argue that having multiple extremely positive reference letters from different research experiences are worth more than some middle author publication.

fht··on iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus
I get that the mini didn't sell well. But a refresh every few years would be nice.
fht··on Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer
On firefox you can also use sidebery. If I recall correctly it worked decently well. Currently I'm using Arc which performs well enough for my use cases, although being locked into chromium kinda sucks.
fht··on Proton Drive Windows App
The first thing I do on a fresh Windows install is unlink OneDrive. Always so annoying.
fht··on PhD Simulator
Current 4th year in Biology. Generally, 1 paper is expected, but it is not strictly necessary to graduate. Highly doubt that the PI will let you go without finishing your project though.