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2020/01/04 | 1,575 | 6,303 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a fourth-year Ph.D. student in pure mathematics. I am studying abroad. I need some advice.
Before getting through to my question, let me say something about myself. I am studying at a good university in Europe. I have 3 papers, which two of them are my own papers(without co-authors). I am ... |
2020/01/04 | 2,502 | 10,546 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a research scholar who published a paper in an Elsevier journal recently.
My advisor had almost no contribution in the paper, but since it is mandatory to put the advisor’s name in the paper, I had to put it.
I was the first author and also the corresponding author.
Recently my advisor sa... |
2020/01/04 | 672 | 2,820 | <issue_start>username_0: It maybe sounds emotional, but I am struggling because I have been delayed two years until I found a new program that could accept me. I was kicked out because of a racist supervisor. It hurts me as in the new year everyone asks did you finish your Ph.D., I panic as I did not let anyone know. W... |
2020/01/04 | 1,077 | 4,276 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm starting as an Assistant Professor at an R1 university, and will be teaching my first undergraduate course (~2.5h/week) in the Spring of 2021. I've been asked if I have a preferred teaching time. What are some factors to consider when deciding the class time? Is there a specific time that s... |
2020/01/05 | 3,507 | 14,662 | <issue_start>username_0: I earned my PhD in continental Europe. Except going to a few conferences outside Europe, my network, collaborations and events were all in Europe so I was pretty much living in a European bubble. I am still here, but now that I am in a faculty position I started collaborating with people from e... |
2020/01/05 | 583 | 2,315 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently got the news that my prof and his colleagues were got many grants/funding.
Is it common to write them a congratulation?
I prepared this simple sentences, how should I wish him more success in the future for his ever growing research group?
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> Congratulations on your recent achiev... |
2020/01/05 | 2,217 | 10,683 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose I would like to do an experiment that compares two existing methods for solving a certain problem, and decides which method is better (in some predefined metric).
I can start with a hypothesis: "Method A performs at least as good as method B", and then do the experiment and refute the ... |
2020/01/05 | 963 | 4,115 | <issue_start>username_0: I have used github code for my research paper. But that code comes with no license. I have asked author to add license to code but he has not replied so far. Will this be a problem for me in future? I have not intentions for owning that code. I have just used that code without any changing and ... |
2020/01/05 | 577 | 2,457 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently a year-one history PhD student at a UK University. I didn't get any fund from the school or outside. I just supported my study by myself relying on my personal savings and some helps from my parents.But the tuitions fees for international students in the UK are very high. The sch... |
2020/01/05 | 927 | 4,042 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been told that private high schools would likely hire this candidate,
* MSc/PhD in physics (but no teaching certificate or degree, just TA duties in undergrad and grad school),
and that public schools would likely hire this candidate,
* BS/MSc in physics with teaching certificate/degr... |
2020/01/05 | 1,313 | 4,828 | <issue_start>username_0: I was surprised to see the description given for "liberal arts education" in Wikipedia as follows:
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> Liberal arts today consists of four types of areas: the natural sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. Its central academic disciplines are physics, biology, philosophy, logic, lin... |
2020/01/05 | 467 | 1,900 | <issue_start>username_0: I know that in the United Kingdom I can sit examinations equivalent to GCSE/A-levels without actually doing the years required in a school or other institution.
I want to know if there are other exams that I can sit that are considered higher than A-levels and I am given a certified certificat... |
2020/01/05 | 847 | 3,578 | <issue_start>username_0: I just started a new job teaching at a university last September; because of that, I’m also in a long-distance relationship. (We’re not married or even engaged at this point.) My partner is also in my field and has applied for a job in my department which would start this September. My question... |
2020/01/05 | 515 | 2,046 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it possible?, do Universities recognize the knowledge you have and believe in your billingual skills in the field that you are studying, or is it completely not being acknowledged, and require you to retake the degree in the language you want to get Master's degree as if you were without the... |
2020/01/05 | 557 | 2,361 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm not quite sure where this question fits, but is it possible in any field to get funded while you are abroad? As a post-doc is it possible to get funded say while you work remotely? I'm mainly talking in the EU.
This is purely hypothetical I'm just curious if this would ever be possible for... |
2020/01/05 | 847 | 3,569 | <issue_start>username_0: When a graduate student, or PI does government funded (NSF/NIH/etc) research at a US R1 institution who owns the data?
What portion of the copyright for the research data does the graduate student have and what portion does the PI have? My understanding is that graduate students are supposed t... |
2020/01/06 | 933 | 3,475 | <issue_start>username_0: I rarely see academic prizes mentioned on academic CVs. I suppose many students who are completeting a PhD also have a few of such prizes. I am thinking, amongst others, about
* best MSc dissertation,
* top of year,
* top mark in a certain module,
but also about
* scholarships,
* reduction o... |
2020/01/06 | 1,556 | 6,467 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm taking an independent phys ed course at my local university. I'm also currently studying for the GRE and I'm hoping to start grad school here in a totally different department in fall 2021. There's a professor I really like and have a good connection with here so I'm pretty set on this univ... |
2020/01/06 | 1,390 | 6,237 | <issue_start>username_0: I am applying for a PhD program in US. The university has asked to address the following in personal history statement:
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> How your perspectives or activities contribute to social or cultural diversity and/or make you sensitive to the experiences of underrepresented groups
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Honestly... |
2020/01/06 | 2,199 | 9,393 | <issue_start>username_0: In Sweden, a PhD student can change its supervisor according to [the higher education rules and regulations](https://www.uhr.se/en/start/laws-and-regulations/Laws-and-regulations/The-Higher-Education-Ordinance/#chapter6). They actually have quite a lot of rights during their studies. I wanted t... |
2020/01/06 | 838 | 3,403 | <issue_start>username_0: I was dismissed from a (Canadian) PhD program on the charge of plagiarism. I had muddled up sources, and the professor insisted I deliberately did it to get higher grades. My student advocate informed me that plagiarism is plagiarism, whether intentional or not, whether only on a single line or... |
2020/01/06 | 1,119 | 4,725 | <issue_start>username_0: Example: I have a simulation to run that requires social media data sets. The data sets that actually matter are too big to be able to simulate anything useful on. Instead, I picked a data set that's much smaller that had similar properties and I (hoped) would therefore have similar behavior.
... |
2020/01/06 | 847 | 3,777 | <issue_start>username_0: I am in the unfortunate situation where I am being forced to leave a PhD program with a master of art in an engineering discipline. Advisor left while I was on leave (health reasons), couldn't find a new advisor in the same field (had to do it while off campus, which made it so much harder) so ... |
2020/01/06 | 1,097 | 4,866 | <issue_start>username_0: Update: I talked with my advisor about (1) the possibility of asking the editor about submitting our paper this journal X and (2) the possibility of me as the sole author to submit this paper. She said no and no :(
Background info: I am from the field of social science, and this paper is from ... |
2020/01/06 | 467 | 1,965 | <issue_start>username_0: I submitted a paper with my co-author to a Springer Journal in the area of computational Mathematics. It has been nearly a year now and we have not heard from the editor. There was no response for inquiries made every 3 months. I requested status from managing editor few weeks ago but still wit... |
2020/01/07 | 1,833 | 7,719 | <issue_start>username_0: I plan to apply to approximately 16 schools and am wondering whether that's too many for my recommendation letter providers.
It's happened before that a professor of my friend refused to provide all letters for him because they're too many. They refused to send all the LoR and cut it from 10+... |
2020/01/07 | 432 | 1,981 | <issue_start>username_0: This might be a weird question. But here we go.
I'm applying for business/data-related master programs.
I'm a stutter with a certified moderate language disorder.
Do I need to tell my professors (who provides recommendation letters) the fact of my disorder?
I'm afraid that the recommendati... |
2020/01/07 | 1,473 | 5,545 | <issue_start>username_0: My son is in his second year at a UK univ. It guarantees accommodation just for first...students rent privately themselves. It discretions other year. For privacy, I won't say his degree. We live in Canada. Given vacations, he's in the UK for just 7 months. We thought [extended stay](https://tr... |
2020/01/07 | 1,436 | 6,545 | <issue_start>username_0: Do search committee members ever see or take into account the time that candidates submit an application as a postdoc or faculty member. Does submitting close to the deadline (same day or few hours before) carry a risk of predudicing your application due to being considered unorganised for subm... |
2020/01/07 | 324 | 1,396 | <issue_start>username_0: I have submitted a paper to a journal as part of my degree at university X. This paper includes my correspondence e-mail and affiliation to the laboratory at university X, of which my co-authors were a part.
I have now moved to another university in a different country and the paper has been r... |
2020/01/07 | 628 | 2,743 | <issue_start>username_0: Often, one gets a notification email with, typically 2 to 5, review reports compiled together and one would respond to each of these reviews with a list of *"quote/response"* items (if needed, referring to the **revised manuscript**) in form of a **response letter**. Now, facing the case of bot... |
2020/01/08 | 191 | 836 | <issue_start>username_0: As a just graduated student, I have submitted my contribution proposal for an academic event and the organising committee has accepted it.
Despite I have still met none of the above mentioned committee members, would it be fine to already send a connection invitation on LinkedIn to most of t... |
2020/01/08 | 470 | 1,970 | <issue_start>username_0: My situation is that I already hold a Master's degree in computer science (in machine learning specifically), I apply for some doctoral schools but haven't got any offers yet.
During my master's study, I have built some background in coding and some machine learning area knowledge. However, I ... |
2020/01/08 | 1,472 | 6,017 | <issue_start>username_0: As everyone else here probably does, I receive a lot of unsolicited emails. I don't like it, but I've gotten used to it and can just ignore them with a friendly smile on my face, because at least those emails give some unfortunate person a job and an income.
However, today I got an email that ... |
2020/01/08 | 772 | 3,394 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it acceptable to create YouTube videos about exercises of a University level course ?
I struggle to follow a quantum mechanics course I need to take and thought about making YouTube videos where I explain the exercises and their solutions provided to us step by step. I already did that for ... |
2020/01/08 | 1,752 | 7,270 | <issue_start>username_0: I have always wondered, why it seems I have never seen people using excel-generated charts for publishing. Is excel considered less professional/not serious? [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/t3dJ1.png) Say I have a time-series like... |
2020/01/08 | 569 | 2,526 | <issue_start>username_0: I am applying to PhD schools in physics in the United States. I would like to know if there is any advantage to applying early rather than just before the deadline. Honestly, I was trying to focus on research and I was also trying to write a good statement of purpose, hence this delay.<issue_co... |
2020/01/08 | 888 | 3,675 | <issue_start>username_0: While completing my PhD, I was assisted by my advisor in writing three papers. Because he had to go on medical leave for a period, we have been slow in getting them submitted for publication. (He did not allow me to submit the papers myself. He insisted on controlling the submission). I am firs... |
2020/01/08 | 428 | 1,798 | <issue_start>username_0: I've been working in a lab for more than 3 years and during this time I have worked on several projects. I have collaboration works too. Most of my projects have been submitted recently. For example, I have finished a project a year ago but it got so many corrections from the supervisor that it... |
2020/01/09 | 9,303 | 40,298 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD student at a German university. Motivated by a longer absence of a (technical) coworker due to illness, the accessibility of data of the members of my institute has been discussed for such cases. My computer is owned by the institute, but I am the only one using it, and I have comple... |
2020/01/09 | 688 | 2,601 | <issue_start>username_0: I have received an e-mail inviting me to join the program committee (PC) of a well-established and renowned conference in computer science.
The e-mail looks genuine, based on the sender address and the links provided to accept the invitation.
However, I do not directly know the guy writing to ... |
2020/01/09 | 526 | 1,856 | <issue_start>username_0: My first article was accepted with minor revisions, one of them being the correction of a citation. This citation points to the first time the method I am improving was proposed, which was 1962.
Here is a link to the Paper : <http://www-isl.stanford.edu/~widrow/papers/c1961generalizationand.pd... |
2020/01/10 | 890 | 4,025 | <issue_start>username_0: I've been a software developer for about 10 years or so and am familiar with various security related concepts (SQL injection, server-client validations, man-in-the-middle attacks, etc.)
I'm upgrading from a college diploma and found myself sitting in an "Enterprise Application Development" cl... |
2020/01/10 | 1,865 | 7,503 | <issue_start>username_0: (Content warning - some people may find this post distressing due to discussions of mental health and self-harm.
Hello academic community - I could use some advice! I’m a 1st year PhD student, and I went through a difficult time during my MA that I’d like to get some help with.
I worked as ... |
2020/01/10 | 712 | 3,058 | <issue_start>username_0: The University of Illinois physics PhD deadline is January 15th. When I submitted on January 1st I got an email confirming submission and it included the following:
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> *"Committee reviews will begin immediately after the application deadline, January 15 for Fall term. Admissions decisions ar... |
2020/01/10 | 329 | 1,253 | <issue_start>username_0: In my understanding, the common understanding of the word "*topic*" is as defined in the [Wiktionary](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/topic):
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> *Subject; theme; a category or general area of interest.*
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**Now which discipline deals with this and related effects, for example how to d... |
2020/01/10 | 547 | 2,272 | <issue_start>username_0: Years ago, I published a paper with some collaborators, and recently a comment to the paper has been submitted. Together with the other authors, we published a reply to comment, which has been published on the journal.
Is it reasonable to list the reply as a publication in my CV, in addition ... |
2020/01/10 | 584 | 2,462 | <issue_start>username_0: I published 3 papers as first author. Now, my supervisor requested me to place him as first author in my 4th paper. Should I agree to my supervisor's request to place him as first author of my paper? Is this ethically fair and legitimate? Is this only in my country?
He has the contribution of... |
2020/01/10 | 4,989 | 20,479 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been studying for a PhD and unfortunately had been suffering from depression during the first year and on medication, so I didn't make much progress at all. My supervisor seemed understanding, telling me I was 'one of the strongest students' he'd taught, and not to worry as sometimes lif... |
2020/01/11 | 4,921 | 20,149 | <issue_start>username_0: About halfway through last semester, my professor asked me to do research under her with a group of people I had been friends with since freshman year. Dream come true! These are all people I already like working with, it's research in a field we are all interested in, we already spend a lot of... |
2020/01/11 | 941 | 3,901 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm confused about the existence of vanity journals. My impression is that they often charge significant sums of money yet provide no peer review, editing, etc.
If I want to claim I published something to stoke my ego, why wouldn't I just create my own "Journal of articles that were totally pe... |
2020/01/11 | 278 | 1,238 | <issue_start>username_0: Context: I am planning to apply to a US lab.<issue_comment>username_1: Many universities have mandatory requirements for letters of recommendation (LoR) for a postdoc position, and that's the main reason they ask you to submit LoR. There were some PI who interviewed me told me this and also tol... |
2020/01/11 | 410 | 1,562 | <issue_start>username_0: ISBN is for books. Is it a standard procedure to assign an ISBN for a Ph.D. thesis?<issue_comment>username_1: No, it would be unusual for a thesis to have an ISBN. It would be an unnecessary expense.
Edit: The Astrophysics Data System says my dissertation has an ISBN. However, the ISBN provide... |
2020/01/11 | 644 | 2,089 | <issue_start>username_0: I assume this is something related to the US and NIH Research Project Grant Program (R01), but I don't understand how one put value on a "single word"
Is there anyone who understands this sentence and care to elaborate what was implied by that?
[... |
2020/01/11 | 460 | 1,779 | <issue_start>username_0: I am going to be applying to schools for a PhD in the not so distant future and I received a couple of scholarships in my masters degree that are worth over $10 000.00. I am not sure if it would be a wise idea to include the values next to the awards or just the actual award names themselves. H... |
2020/01/11 | 383 | 1,364 | <issue_start>username_0: I tutored a student in math for two weeks to help her prepare for an exam. I expected her to inform me how the exam went, but she did not.
Is it appropriate to ask her how the exam went?
We are in Ireland.<issue_comment>username_1: >
> I expected her to inform me how the exam went
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2020/01/12 | 1,119 | 4,713 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a first year PhD student. I just finished my first rotation lab and absolutely loved it. I met with my PI every week, and I never felt like she had a problem with me. Though I never had a frank discussion with her regarding the fact that I wanted to commit to her lab (big mistake, I know),... |
2020/01/12 | 754 | 3,150 | <issue_start>username_0: I am leaving graduate school in May with a Master of Science in Mathematics. For the past few weeks, I have been applying to full-time instructor/lecturer positions (mostly 2-year with a few 4-year). I started with a list of ~40 and after whittling it down, have completed applications for 18.
... |
2020/01/13 | 1,271 | 5,059 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm curious if there's been anyone who's really good at research but also really bad at teaching - for example traditionally, Nobel Prize winners are required to give a public lecture related to the topic that won them the prize. For the hypothetical winner, nobody would look forward to the lec... |
2020/01/13 | 2,674 | 10,346 | <issue_start>username_0: A while ago, I spent some time working for a lab doing biology research. While I was there, my main job was to write code to automatically perform specific kinds of analysis on the collected data, because they collected too much data to be analyzed manually. I did that job for a couple months, ... |
2020/01/13 | 831 | 3,731 | <issue_start>username_0: A commonly asked question during the faculty position interview is
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> How do you fit in with the department?
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It is quite similar to but different from
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> How do you fit in with the position?
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I want to seek some specific suggestions as to answering this question, assu... |
2020/01/13 | 468 | 2,011 | <issue_start>username_0: The application for math postdoc at United States is the end of every year. Want to know when it usually releases the results?
Has someone already got an offer or some shortlist notifications?<issue_comment>username_1: I believe that in math the first round of postdoc offers usually go out s... |
2020/01/13 | 1,016 | 4,271 | <issue_start>username_0: I've just finished my under-graduation in psychology in my country and I'm very motivated to start publishing and making my own experiments.
Following this answer: [Does one need to be affiliated with a university to publish papers?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/3010/does-one-ne... |
2020/01/14 | 4,771 | 19,728 | <issue_start>username_0: Generally
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There's a question which asks [is it possible to get a PhD while working full time](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/8747/is-it-possible-to-work-full-time-and-complete-a-phd)? The responses to this were essentially "yes but say goodbye to anything except school ... |
2020/01/14 | 542 | 2,381 | <issue_start>username_0: I am working on a paper and I found open-source code that I could use for running a simulation. Should I write my own code for that simulation? Will it be enough if I refer to the code in my citations/references section?<issue_comment>username_1: You'll need to conduct due diligence to ensure t... |
2020/01/14 | 382 | 1,560 | <issue_start>username_0: When writing a journal paper, we are expected to write in third person. But when I present some assumptions of other researchers and then want to say that I disagree with that and then present my own hypothesis, how do I write it?
Example:
Artificial neural networks store neural weights, w... |
2020/01/14 | 4,718 | 19,660 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a student of Indian origin. I am Studying Mechanical Engineering in a local university in north of Germany.
I am writing my thesis in a company. My task is to optimize the throughput of the line. I tried to apply 2-3 concepts on optimization to the output of the line, but my all efforts b... |
2020/01/14 | 1,146 | 4,945 | <issue_start>username_0: I have an on-campus interview next month. Being my first time to make an on-campus interview, I have no experience on how to properly do that. I was asked to give a teaching demonstration for 30~45 minutes. The university is focused on teaching and they have only a master program (no PhD ). I a... |
2020/01/14 | 785 | 3,254 | <issue_start>username_0: I just finished the first draft of my thesis in computational neuroscience. It contains all the published work and some other material that is relevant to the main theme of the thesis. I deliberately kept some very recent work out of it because I thought it won't add any value to the reader.
... |
2020/01/14 | 675 | 2,740 | <issue_start>username_0: I am wondering what affiliation to put down on a paper that has been accepted (now going through the proofs).
I worked in one department (a centre, or institute, within my university) while I was conducting the research. I am now in another department (not a centre/institute, but a different ... |
2020/01/14 | 829 | 3,760 | <issue_start>username_0: During a statistical analysis of a study, I found an interesting relationship between two variables that was not part of the original hypothesis. It is, however, clinically interesting and I want to report it in the study.
I've never seen a medical study in which authors admitted to data dredg... |
2020/01/14 | 771 | 3,221 | <issue_start>username_0: A lecturer of the programming course said: "In this course you can't use Google. If we find you are cheated, you will fail the course".
What kind of rights there are if I accidentally write something that is already published on the internet and I don't know it? The problems seems to be so bas... |
2020/01/14 | 935 | 4,031 | <issue_start>username_0: Good side of my background
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I'm 27 years old with a Ph.D. in **electrical engineering** and now I'm about to finish my postdoctoral research.
During my Ph.D. program, I've developed an innovative device that successfully passed a trial operation period and entered in... |
2020/01/14 | 1,452 | 6,139 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently in the first year of my MSc in an European university and as time goes on I'm thinking of what to do afterwards. One of the options is continuing on to a PhD and so I find myself from time to time browsing arXiv or some other journals in my field of interest, hoping to see a profe... |
2020/01/15 | 604 | 2,536 | <issue_start>username_0: There is one topic in the course that I am TAing that I felt interested to re-learn (since I forgot most things about it). I also had some questions I want to ask about the topic (that could be beneficial to students). As in the question, knowing that the room is frequently overflowing, is it n... |
2020/01/15 | 600 | 2,580 | <issue_start>username_0: Many times, you receive comments such as:I am unable to accept your manuscript for publication in "Journal name" The reason for this decision is that in its current state, the level of English throughout your manuscript does not meet the journal's required standard.
The work was revised thought... |
2020/01/15 | 1,924 | 7,990 | <issue_start>username_0: Nowadays universities judge faculty based on their h-index, to be promoted from assistant to associate or to be hired as associate in some universities you need at least a h-index of 10. I am struggling to increase mine, I have tried all the tips I found online, shared my papers on social media... |
2020/01/15 | 1,506 | 6,468 | <issue_start>username_0: I give lectures to postgraduate students. The number of students in this batch is very low (< 20). The lectures are foundation lectures for the course. We are only into the basics of the course.
A few (maybe 4) students of this batch are requesting to cancel two lectures as they won't be avai... |
2020/01/15 | 2,446 | 10,311 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose you teach a course in which you display slides. Two approaches exists:
* distribute the slides (or any document that summarizes the content of the slides);
* rely on students to take notes.
[EDIT: When I say "distribute the slides", it does not imply that taking additional notes is fo... |
2020/01/15 | 712 | 3,130 | <issue_start>username_0: I am working in a lab as a research assistant for the last 3 years.
During this time, I published three papers (1 first author) and three of them were published in good journals. In one of my published work (I am a co-author), I had to repeat almost most of the works (writing, figure, table).... |
2020/01/15 | 1,489 | 6,074 | <issue_start>username_0: I am creating a mathematical model in [R (programming language)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_(programming_language)) as part of my thesis. I created the first part of the model no problem and sent it to my advisor. She said I did a fantastic job on it. For the second part, I need to look ov... |
2020/01/15 | 1,372 | 5,885 | <issue_start>username_0: I have heard from academics in various fields that the usefulness of their research is not always immediately clear, but sometimes, a piece of research will inadvertently become important at some point in the future.
If this is true, i.e. if the usefulness of a research idea is not immediatel... |
2020/01/15 | 931 | 3,751 | <issue_start>username_0: Let's assume a hypothetical context where someone figures out that a given businessperson's claims to have a PhD from a prestigious university are not true. The person in question was enrolled in a PhD program but they never finished and therefore no degree was awarded. The person is introduced... |
2020/01/15 | 1,230 | 5,177 | <issue_start>username_0: Every answer in this related question has some phrasing about it being unethical or, as the first answer "does not have the right". [Does a supervisor have right to submit paper without consents of coauthor students?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/30200/does-a-supervisor-have-rig... |
2020/01/16 | 1,234 | 4,938 | <issue_start>username_0: I've just finished my bachelor degree in Psychology as a second under-graduate degree. My first degree was in mathematics.
I am 37 years old and I would like to know if it's possible to pursue a master's degree program in Psychology. My under-graduate degree in psychology was unique for the fo... |
2020/01/16 | 221 | 987 | <issue_start>username_0: How to find about info about proportions of different categories in budget in grant applications? For instance, how much put in travel, how much put in RA fees etc.<issue_comment>username_1: If you are lucky your University has a research support unit, which you tell what you need and they crea... |
2020/01/16 | 529 | 1,969 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a study in which I have several promising variables, all concurring with previous literature and significant at alpha=0.05.
However, I have this one variable that is of special interest and this variable is significant even with the conservative bonferroni correction.
How do I go by sl... |
2020/01/17 | 668 | 2,709 | <issue_start>username_0: For example a review might say:
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> This paper is acceptable if the following comments are addressed:
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> 1. In section two, change "this is a topy" into "this is a typo"
> 2. Instead of writing "Log" for the natural logarithm, write "Ln". This issue is present in sections two, three and ... |
2020/01/17 | 436 | 1,844 | <issue_start>username_0: A faculty member recently brought their young child to a graduate seminar. The child had a fever -- and therefore was deemed not healthy enough to be at school. The faculty member did not ask the students if this would be okay, but merely stated the situation.
Is this a breach of ethical or p... |
2020/01/17 | 617 | 2,527 | <issue_start>username_0: Currently, my math professor isn't very good and I have had plenty of experience using Khan Academy and my Googling skills. However, I'm afraid that if I diverge from the class, I might accidentally study something he's not testing us. Or he might go out of order and teach us chapter 6 when we'... |
2020/01/17 | 695 | 2,730 | <issue_start>username_0: To illustrate what I'm thinking of, [this page](https://www.ucl.ac.uk/brexit/support-ucl-community/faqs-students) by UCL on Brexit says:
>
> **Are EU students welcome in London?**
>
>
> Yes. In the words of <NAME>, Mayor of London: "To the almost one million Europeans living in London ... y... |
2020/01/17 | 322 | 1,319 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing a research paper to be submitted to an IEEE conference. Part of the work was performed as a part of my University. I have graduated from there and am no longer a part of the university. My work has evolved and I would like to publish these results. What should my affiliation be for... |
2020/01/17 | 1,449 | 5,838 | <issue_start>username_0: Just after submitting my CV to graduate school for masters admission, I realized that there was one spelling mistake on the first page of my CV. I misspelled the word 'merchandising'(missed the h). Is it going to be a major issue for my application?<issue_comment>username_1: **No**.
Check [th... |
2020/01/17 | 2,750 | 11,047 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a freshman at <NAME> right now and intend to pursue Theoretical physics in the future. I will likely apply to graduate school immediately after graduation and have no plans of working in the industry for too long. So, I chose to double major in Physics and Mathematics as I think they compl... |
2020/01/17 | 1,074 | 4,828 | <issue_start>username_0: After managing a project at a research institution in the US, I was awarded a grant (did it for free, so this is the remuneration). The grant covers travel, books, research equipment ("that does not contain a hard drive") and some other things. They strongly recommended confirming with their re... |
2020/01/17 | 927 | 3,900 | <issue_start>username_0: During literature review for my research proposal, I have come across a professor who has published several papers in my field, some closely related to the topic of my own research. In a series of papers he uses a specific model, expanding on and extending it in each paper. In my work, I want t... |
2020/01/18 | 326 | 1,335 | <issue_start>username_0: Do conferences ever reject low quality abstracts? I've never heard of anybody wanting to attend conferences and being rejected.
If they do screen abstracts, will they reject abstracts that are not of low quality but are too broad in theme? Will organizers give applicants a chance to revise abs... |
2020/01/18 | 554 | 2,189 | <issue_start>username_0: Is [EF-SET English Certificate](https://www.efset.org/) accepted for higher education or jobs across the world? Did anyone try using that? I have not yet seen any place where they accept this.<issue_comment>username_1: The EF-SET English certificate is a test you take online without any supervi... |
2020/01/18 | 1,257 | 4,894 | <issue_start>username_0: How should I dress for my visits to math programs as an accepted student? As if I were showing up to a job interview? Shirt and tie? Suit?
The visit seems nicely planned by the program - jam-packed with meetings and events with faculty and students.
(I'd guess that this visit would also be a ... |