Late nights, typos, self-doubt and despair. Francis Collins, Sara Seager and Uta Frith dust off their theses, and reflect on what the PhD was like for them.
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Smith, K., Baker, N. Back to the thesis. Nature 535, 22–25 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/535022a
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