I've seen a lot of tweets today from people embarking on the first day of their social science/humanities PhD. As I'm coming to the end of mine, there's one piece of advice I want to send back from the other side: write 🧵 #phdchat #phdlife 1/Before I started, I had no idea how much of 'doing' a PhD was learning how to write, learning to be a writer. From this side of the experience, a PhD looks like the painful (but ultimately, rewarding) daily business of figuring out how to say what you mean.