New Partnership: PhD Comics & PF

[Greg Bernhardt]

We have struck a partnership with PhD Comics! "Piled Higher and Deeper" (PhD) is the comic strip by Jorge Cham about life (or the lack thereof) in academia.

We will be featuring a forum in General Discussion called "PhD Comics" that will be updated with the newest comics strips. Furthermore you can see if a new comic is available by scanning the link list on the homepage under the sciam news.

In return PhD comics will feature a box on each of their comic pages on their website encouraging his readers to sign up and post their comments in the "PhD Comics" forum here at PF.

 

[turbo]

Cool! Those are pretty nice comics at times. I like a recent one when he graphs one's response time to the question "what do you do" against the length of time you've been in academia. I found myself in just that situation last weekend when my wife told my father and brother that a paper I had been working on for the last two years was accepted for publication. I tried to describe the motivation, methodology, etc, only to get puzzled/blank expressions in return.

 

[Cyrus]

Sounds like a good way to get a bunch of grad students to learn about PF and get more knoweldge base around here.

 

[G01]

This comic strip is hilarious! I have been reading it for some time now, so having them posted on PF will really streamline my web browsing!

 

[Moonbear]

This comic strip is hilarious! I have been reading it for some time now, so having them posted on PF will really streamline my web browsing!

That sounds like material for another one...streamlining web browsing.

 

[Math Is Hard]

That's wonderful! I love PhD comics!

 

[cristo]

Great idea, Greg.

 

[mattmns]

Very nice, great comic!

 

[Astronuc]

That sounds like material for another one...streamlining web browsing.

Something I heard to today - "The internet is meant to be fast."

 

[Gokul43201]

Test post + congrats to Greg on the scoop!

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Jorge got the PF link on the comics page now
http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php

 

[mbrmbrg]

Could the strips be titled with all dates having two digits (06/09/2008 vs 06/9/2008)? That way if people sort by thread tite, the PhD strips would conveniently be sorted by date.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Could the strips be titled with all dates having two digits (06/09/2008 vs 06/9/2008)? That way if people sort by thread tite, the PhD strips would conveniently be sorted by date.

It's fed by an RSS feed, so no, sorry :)

 

[Alfi]

Very nice combination.

Thanks.

 

[_Mayday_]

I don't even get some of them!

 

[morphism]

This is pretty cool. I love PHD Comics!