Ashley Stein

All I ever see on here are webinars on how to leave academia. Where are the ones on how to stay? How do I find a post doc or a lecturing position, what do I need to think about in the last few months of my PhD, how do I keep building my career? That's what I actually want to know!

Had an incredible time at #IASPM last week in Paris. Being surrounded by other researchers, taking about music, making connections, it was brilliant. Feeling quite down to be back in the throes of PhD life; an overwhelming workload, loneliness, and unemployment. Ever hoping it will get better 🙏

Omg haha! Apparently so!

Made it to Paris for the @iaspmofficial.bsky.social conference! I've actually never been on plane on my own before or this far from home by myself. So I'm super grateful for the opportunity to present & so happy to be well enough to make it over here 💖

Love opening a notebook and finding a ratty piece of paper with all my best thoughts on it. Truly no clue I'd done this 🫠 thanks #adhd or whichever comorbidity was in charge that day.

Ever closer to figuring out my new research question 🤞

#PhDsky #phdlife

A year and a half in to my PhD (or a year and a half to go, depends how you look at it!) and my research has changed direction, prompted by a recent breakthrough. But thanks to involuntary time off & ADHD I'm struggling to remember what my revelation was.

#phdlife #phdmusic #phdvlog

Tomorrow night at 9pm on BBCTwo our second series of ‘Inside Our Minds’ begins with a programme exploring the lived experience of those with ADHD . Necessary , urgent , powerful and heartfelt . . . please watch and share on @bbciplayer.bsky.social

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Spent the other week in the Highlands at a wonderful songwriting retreat 🏞️

I wandered around the stunning estate, had inspiring conversations, & wrote some great songs about arguments, ASBO's & an East Lothian girl moving to the city 🌆

Excited to get my new songs finished & out in to the world 🎹

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This was their response:

Thank you haha! Yes it went down the sink, back to where it came from!

What the absolute hell is up with your water though England good god. Spoilt for it in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Made it to Cambridge for the British Forum for Ethnomusicology conference 🎵 this time last year I couldn't have imagined going so far from home on my own. The world is bloody massive, excited to be seeing more of it 🚇

💯 frikin percent but I would be here all day 🌌