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Hi Fabienne,

Selling someone on your Phd is an arduous task, so concentrate on what you do because that is really interesting. I love your insightful postcards and your photos are amazing. πŸ™‚

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I am on a mission to make it at least a tiny bit more accessible and relatable, glad you enjoy it. Your feedback makes me smile a big smile over my coffee here! πŸ₯°

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Jun 26Liked by Fabienne Mannherz

I want VIP iceberg tours πŸ˜₯

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Would you bring Bear? 😍

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Jun 26Liked by Fabienne Mannherz

of course!! its his natural habitat after all :)

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Can I just say (for the hundredth time) that your photos are AMAZING. 🀩

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Aweee πŸ₯° Thanks a lot!

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Exactly what you say at the end! We can change this.

Omg Svalbard?!? I’m running to read those postcards!!!

Thank you so much!

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I spent 5 months studying there ☺️

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Wow!!!

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Hi Fabienne!

Omg I was squealing at your photos - you know what I’m researching, so you understand πŸ˜‰Sooooo beautiful! I hope I get to go to the Arctic as well some day.

It’s so great that you take the time to explain what a PhD is - a lot of people don’t know what it is. I remember when I started mine, people were asking me what I was doing and I said PhD. Then they said so what is that? And I told them a Doctorate.

The question I mostly got was: β€œBut you’re an English teacher. Why do you want to become a doctor?” (They meant a medical doctor.)

So I needed to explain further - and it’s fine. Some people don’t know. πŸ˜€(I did initially wonder why they didn’t, though πŸ˜‰)

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Hi Vicky,

You might want to take a look at my earlier postcards from Svalbard and the pictures I took up there 😍

I really hope to visit the Arctic one day, not only for your research but also for personal experience. It's such a unique and magical region of the world.

So happy you can relate to this experience. I actually feel that unless you have studied a master's degree or know someone who works in academia, most people will associate a doctorate with a medical doctor rather than an academic education for any other research field there is. But I feel the two of us are also want to change exactly that πŸ˜…

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Jun 28Liked by Fabienne Mannherz

Love the illustration of your methods! - and I do hope your PhD methods involve more whales wearing headphones :)

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Thank you so much! I will bring those 🎧 along for sure πŸ₯°

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Big hug πŸ€— 🀩

This was a very enlightening read!!

Thank you for the mention and Sven is a smart man πŸ˜„

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Thank YOU for inspiring this post! 🫠

Sven is a smart man - and a little pain in the ass with these things πŸ˜‚

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