Jorge Cham, creator of the cult comic strip Piled Higher and Deeper, or PHD, is probably the most gut-achingly funny/tragic counsellor you could recommend to a PhD student -- or to any confounded ...

Earlier this year, graduate students suddenly found themselves deprived of a major source of procrastination when updates of the Piled Higher and Deeper Comics suddenly reduced to trickles. The hiatus ...

Earlier this year, graduate students suddenly found themselves deprived of a major source of procrastination when updates of the Piled Higher and Deeper (PHD) Comics suddenly reduced to trickles. The ...

PhD Comics has long been a great quick digital diversion for academics (and particularly graduate students) in need of a little self-parody. However, as it has aged the comic has also provided a ...

The trailer for the highly anticipated movie (or at least highly anticipated for those among us who have ever experienced the pain that is graduate school) adaptation of PhD Comics has arrived. “PhD” ...

The second part of the PhD comic strip I mentioned yesterday is out, and lots of astrobloggers are linking to it. But no one seems to have noticed the glaring error ...

The creator of the popular online comic strip "Piled Higher and Deeper" has turned it into a feature film. The PhD Movie, which opened this week at a handful of US universities, will be screened at ...

In the process of writing this review, I accomplished a decent amount of procrastination including, among other things, some serious browsing of the Piled Higher and Deeper (PHD) comic-strip archive.