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2021/01/21 | 1,071 | 4,466 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a couple of questions about how to report the funding I earned or maintained while at my previous employer on my CV. I worked for a public university academic research center where we had several state government contracts. The center director was listed as PI on all of these contracts, ... |
2021/01/22 | 2,637 | 11,130 | <issue_start>username_0: My partner is currently interviewing for tenure track positions. I am a first year PhD students and We would ideally like to be in the same city. Ideally I would like to find a co-superviser to continue the path of my current PhD or find a new PhD that I like and start over.
When is the best t... |
2021/01/23 | 1,656 | 6,798 | <issue_start>username_0: I am about to submit my application to a PhD in Statistics and I was wondering whether writing in the SoP about being willing to work in the industry to make a tangible impact would downgrade my application with respect to writing that I would enjoy being a professor in the future.
They alread... |
2021/01/23 | 701 | 2,924 | <issue_start>username_0: I am preparing a research seminar talk in an academic discipline which I'll give online (with Beamer) at University X.
I like to show images of the people whose ideas have gone into my work. Most of the time I can get images which have been clearly released under some form of Creative Commons ... |
2021/01/23 | 681 | 2,836 | <issue_start>username_0: As a graduate school student, I have two professors teaching two separate classes that go from 4:30PM to 5:50pm and 6:00pm to 9:00PM. This happens every one day of the week.
I'm not sure whether I can handle concentrating for 5 hours and I have the option to not take a class but it would delay... |
2021/01/24 | 3,667 | 15,229 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a lecturer in charge of a course with over 250 students and several TAs. The TAs are partly responsible for grading the homework assignments. Since these are assignments in programming, no two submissions are identical, so it is impossible to cover all possible cases in the grading guideli... |
2021/01/24 | 2,001 | 8,515 | <issue_start>username_0: I always find myself in a difficult situation on the rage of students who are upset about their marks they just received. I feel it is kind of difficult to reply to students' emails that sound very angry. Especially when they first receive their marks.
1. Why did I get this MARK!
2. How could ... |
2021/01/24 | 654 | 2,783 | <issue_start>username_0: As an undergraduate in the field of biology/Chemistry, I've seen plenty of professors recommending at least two textbooks for a mere credit hour of two, each of which comprised of more than 1000 pages. I'm somehow confused by this huge amount of text and it came to my mind to only rely on my cl... |
2021/01/24 | 384 | 1,652 | <issue_start>username_0: So I did my masters in the UK, but I didn't build any relationships with my professors (I wasn't thinking I would be wanting to do a PhD later on). I only saw my thesis tutor once during my whole dissertation. Now I want to apply to a PhD scholarship, and they ask for reference letters. I am cu... |
2021/01/24 | 2,726 | 11,525 | <issue_start>username_0: I am doing postdoc in developmental biology. Recently I started to leave work at the lab, meaning that I don't work at home anymore. Before I spent many hours at night (at home) analyzing my data; now I spent that time on my side project not related to science.
I would like to ask if that kind... |
2021/01/25 | 731 | 3,157 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently an American sophomore undergrad and I'm looking into research opportunities at the moment. My problem is that the area of mathematics that interests me the most is mathematical logic and set theory, and even more specifically inconsistent mathematics, but there appear to be no opp... |
2021/01/25 | 932 | 3,760 | <issue_start>username_0: I thought getting a PhD in my mechanical engineering field would lead in gaining confidence in the field. However, it became other way round. I am far less confident on my skills and knowledge than I was when I started my PhD.
I am well published in my research field, I have decent theoretical... |
2021/01/25 | 3,414 | 14,051 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it fine for a teacher who makes a topic look easy by saying things like:
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Things I can think of in favor of doing this is that it might reduce students' concerns and will create an ... |
2021/01/25 | 607 | 2,032 | <issue_start>username_0: In my research paper, I have cite from a curriculum published by the Ministry of Education in my country. Should I cite the name of the ministry in my own language (i.e. *Milli Eğitim Bakanlığı*; MEB as abbreviated in subsequent citations) in Turkish or in English translation (as Ministry of Na... |
2021/01/25 | 675 | 2,079 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a novice researcher.
I received an article to review, and I don't know very well how to critique such an article.
Can you recommend an excellent book (or other source of information) about how to critique a journal article?
Any recommendations are highly appreciated!<issue_comment>usernam... |
2021/01/26 | 379 | 1,610 | <issue_start>username_0: I was taking a language exam that asked us to finish writing an essay. Because of COVID, the exam went online and used Canvas as the platform. Neither scratch paper nor any other software was allowed so we had to use the textbox to draft the outline. The textbox was tiny. Therefore, I had to sc... |
2021/01/26 | 2,378 | 9,945 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD student. This is my first month in the program. I met my advisor a while ago. Very nice guy, but as the title says, he does not know what I am writing about. I don't mean it figuratively. He literally does not know what I am writing about.
I was taken aback when I realized he is not... |
2021/01/26 | 2,217 | 8,833 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a relatively new tenured professor. My responsibilities increase gradually, and this year I have started supervising students' thesis: a bachelor thesis and a master thesis. (This is in Europe, so master thesis is not PhD-lite).
Somehow it feels like I am expected to already know how to b... |
2021/01/26 | 1,308 | 5,639 | <issue_start>username_0: I realize that this is a very atypical question for this forum. To be frank, I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask. But it is part of my academic life, so I'm going to give it a try.
In the beginning of Fall 2020, our university (in the U.S.) created a mailing list and automatically s... |
2021/01/26 | 574 | 2,497 | <issue_start>username_0: I've recently completed my Master's Thesis (and I'm a little proud of it). I'm interested in publishing my findings in a journal, but I'd also like to expand on my ideas and write a book for a wider audience. Is this an acceptable thing to do? I don't want to shoot myself in the foot.
For cont... |
2021/01/27 | 1,930 | 8,391 | <issue_start>username_0: Disclaimer: This is the [third](https://medicalsciences.stackexchange.com/questions/25556/how-is-trustworthiness-of-medical-research-established) [incarnation](https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/50245/how-is-trustworthiness-of-medical-research-established) of my question because the p... |
2021/01/27 | 403 | 1,789 | <issue_start>username_0: I will change my affiliation from University X to University Y in mid February, and I have got a paper accepted just before I move. The proofs will be sent back to the journal just a week before I change my affiliation.
Is it valid to use my new affiliation in the paper? This would be useful a... |
2021/01/27 | 695 | 2,994 | <issue_start>username_0: I was invited for an interview for a postdoc position at a research institution in another country. At the end, the panel told me that the HR will reach out early next week. I didn't hear back from the HR and decided to follow up the next week, in which the HR told me that "the panel are yet to... |
2021/01/27 | 1,296 | 5,665 | <issue_start>username_0: Some time ago, I wrote a paper with a coathor, who is the head of the lab I am currently working at and, essentially, my boss. We sent the paper to one of the best journals in our field, got overall positive reviews, revised the paper, and recently the paper was accepted for publication.
My la... |
2021/01/28 | 2,126 | 8,772 | <issue_start>username_0: I just finished the grad school application process, and I'm getting my first letters of acceptance. I got one letter from one of my bottom three schools, one from a "middle of the pack" school, and one from a dream school. And, at the risk of humble bragging, this is a great school with a grea... |
2021/01/28 | 578 | 2,408 | <issue_start>username_0: For example, take the sentence: "Gaussians are widely used in mathematics & statistics".
At this point there probably tens of thousands of papers that use Gaussian functions in some way (that's not even counting the papers in other fields like the social sciences that make use of Gaussians). I... |
2021/01/28 | 1,960 | 8,488 | <issue_start>username_0: I am doing my Masters in Mathematics at a reputable university in the UK. I am taking a statistical programming class. There has been a lot of cheating so far.
Due to Covid, we have two forms of assessment:
1. Coursework
2. Open-book, open-internet, two-hour exams
Throughout the first semest... |
2021/01/28 | 2,314 | 9,188 | <issue_start>username_0: Today I watched [a YouTube video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkNf00Ut2TQ&t=56m33s) interview of [Pierre Deligne](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Deligne). I have some confusion about a statement given by Pierre (video timing: 56:33 to 58:20). Here is the outline of the statement in th... |
2021/01/29 | 428 | 1,797 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm working on some edits to a paper under review with coauthors. Comments include advice that a better writing style be used and awkward wording be fixed. Coauthors are comfortable and expressive in English as a second language but to me some sentence construction and phrasing is awkward and u... |
2021/01/29 | 1,262 | 5,304 | <issue_start>username_0: I just failed my 2nd Qualifying Exam in my PhD program. It was supposed to be a 60,000 word paper but it was an incomplete work.
I am in my 4th year at my PhD and my research is in field of humanities. My major is Geography. It is an integrated course, as in I joined as soon as I got my Bachel... |
2021/01/29 | 1,849 | 7,716 | <issue_start>username_0: I am doing a course in a university. Course has 60% of weightage alloted to the project (which involves implementing algrithm to solve a problem), which we may turn into thesis if at all we succeed to find out something new (we have only one semester duration). I have to write a initial documen... |
2021/01/30 | 482 | 1,948 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm finishing grad school in STEM. I have a postdoc offer already, but will be applying for more. During grad school I volunteered at a suicide line taking phone calls. If you volunteer a certain number of hours (I have) they will write you a letter of recommendation.
I chose to volunteer just... |
2021/01/30 | 920 | 4,000 | <issue_start>username_0: I would like to ask you concerning a situation I was a few years back.
I was an unofficial intern at a research institution. The aim of the internship was to study and search for new methods from a field that was unfamiliar to me or my supervisor and to check how it could be used in my supervi... |
2021/01/30 | 1,908 | 8,039 | <issue_start>username_0: There is something called a [habilitation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habilitation)\* in Poland, Germany, Austria, and a number of other European countries.
How is a European habilitation viewed by people in the United States?
\* "Habilitation is a qualification required in order to conduc... |
2021/01/30 | 1,268 | 5,114 | <issue_start>username_0: This question has been bugging me for a long time.
I don't know how to put it according to Academia.SE 's prescribed standard. Kindly help me to formulate this question by editing my question if you find it not conforming to the standards.
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I know a Pakistani guy who has a Ph.D. in leader... |
2021/01/30 | 671 | 2,873 | <issue_start>username_0: I am in the last year of my Master in Physics, I am writing the Master Thesis and I am looking around for some PhD positions. It is something totally new for me. I have seen that people in general require 2 reference letters.
The problem is that the only person who knows me well is my supervis... |
2021/01/30 | 564 | 2,349 | <issue_start>username_0: I've worked through a major publisher to contribute applied portions to several textbooks, and am listed in the acknowledgements sections. These were not one-day content reviews and singular practitioner projects, but ongoing contributions spanning over a year. I currently have the books cited ... |
2021/01/30 | 664 | 2,777 | <issue_start>username_0: I have found a very good overview of a topic and I want to cite it in the introduction of my paper. The writers are very well known people in the field. Is it then okay to cite the paper that is not published and is only available in arXiv?<issue_comment>username_1: If you use the work and you ... |
2021/01/31 | 722 | 2,843 | <issue_start>username_0: This interview is at a liberal arts college and will be 15 minutes. Is it necessary to wear a suit to this sort of interview or is it okay to wear a dress pants, dress shirt, and a tie?
Update: There seems to be some confusion about what I mean by 15 minutes. I meant that the interview is sche... |
2021/01/31 | 1,934 | 8,006 | <issue_start>username_0: Every now and again, academic departments are threatened with closure by university administrations.
One current example: Pure Mathematics in Leicester is under threat of closure (making academic staff redundant).
What successful strategies have departments been able to use to see off threats... |
2021/01/31 | 1,242 | 5,269 | <issue_start>username_0: 15 months ago, I improved the bounds for an open math problem which I think is worthy of publication. Later, 9 months ago, I came up with two further results that I also would like to publish. I have even confirmed with the authors whose work I have improved upon that my results are interesting... |
2021/01/31 | 1,852 | 7,763 | <issue_start>username_0: How does a math journal react to a crackpot math research paper?
In mathematics (especially in Number Theory) there are many meaningless papers on the web, and possibly a ton of meaningless submissions. Also, how does a journal react when a proof of a major unsolved problems, such as the 'Riema... |
2021/01/31 | 333 | 1,357 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a master student in mathematics. I developed a new notion and did calculations for some examples. I believe it is original because I can't find it in literature. Now I want to publish my results, but I don't know if they are publishable or not. I have already asked my advisor but he said h... |
2021/01/31 | 1,398 | 5,875 | <issue_start>username_0: There is a related question about questions to expect for PhD defenses here: [What questions to prepare for PhD defense?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/42627/134392), but the question (and answers) are referring to the public oral defense.
Generally, at least in Biology in the U.S., the... |
2021/01/31 | 2,100 | 8,397 | <issue_start>username_0: Since I was a master student in (the North American) X university, my email `<EMAIL>` has been still active, even though it is a couple of years that I have left that university. Now, I'm about to finish my Ph.D. in (the European) Y university, and Y will be immediately closing my current `<EMA... |
2021/02/01 | 691 | 2,935 | <issue_start>username_0: Inspired by a recent question regarding [Crackpot research paper](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/162044/78796), I was asking myself, what to do, if you have a new theory or approach but it is not accepted in the community? You are not allowed to speak on conferences, your papers are rejec... |
2021/02/01 | 492 | 2,067 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm about to submit a paper where one of the authors is a past student who got a master's degree at my university a few months ago (I was his advisor). He plans to apply for PhD positions at the next deadline, but is presently unemployed. What should we write on the manuscript for his instituti... |
2021/02/01 | 1,344 | 5,823 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a friend whose has a professor who is forcing students to sign up for a website (that requires them to pay a monthly subscription fee) where they will be posting lectures, notes, assignments, etc. The professor did not inform them of this until a few days before the first class would be ... |
2021/02/01 | 476 | 2,083 | <issue_start>username_0: I had an interview for a lecturer position at a UK Russell group University 2 days ago and haven't heard back yet. From previous experience, I am usually given a call within 24 hours of being successful in an interview. I am holding off signing an offer by another University (not a great Univer... |
2021/02/01 | 452 | 1,808 | <issue_start>username_0: On my hunt for a postdoc position, I have applied for some postdocs at many universities, but also I am applying for a postdoctoral fellowship (result date in July 2021) with a professor X at University A.
I can't help but think of a scenario where the two events will clash. Suppose I found a ... |
2021/02/02 | 297 | 1,246 | <issue_start>username_0: I already know of the app Researcher, but lately I found it is quite buggy and was wondering what people do to keep updated. Do you just join mailing list from selected journals or search daily for some keywords? Or is there something else I could use?<issue_comment>username_1: A postdoc is not... |
2021/02/02 | 261 | 1,078 | <issue_start>username_0: How can I change my position/title that was mistakenly written in a published paper?<issue_comment>username_1: A postdoc is not usually considered a permanent academic position. It is the most temporary of temp academia positions. The rule on not holding a "permanent" position likely means that... |
2021/02/03 | 3,419 | 14,458 | <issue_start>username_0: Currently, the situation in academia is that graduating from a top PhD program is almost a requirement for landing an R1 tenure-track job. However, many of these graduates will not end up at similarly top-ranked schools for their job, and as such are at middle to lower ranked schools.
At these... |
2021/02/03 | 1,654 | 6,746 | <issue_start>username_0: I started last November but I've been having this gut feeling that this project may not be the one for me
The big picture is that I'm not really happy with the theory- if I'm being totally honest with myself, I feel that the project is disconnected from what I truly enjoy.
It's not something ... |
2021/02/03 | 1,727 | 7,011 | <issue_start>username_0: Long story short, I realise that I do not like the field of study I have chosen and I Cannot see myself having the ability to successfully complete a PhD in it. I studied physics and went onto enrol on an applied mathematics PhD- whilst it doesn't sound that far removed from physics, I am a phy... |
2021/02/03 | 690 | 3,097 | <issue_start>username_0: I have come to know a prominent EU university in which it is an official policy that examination questions will be external to the lectures.
For example, say, they are teaching Probability & statistics. Say, they didn't lecture on Poisson distribution. They will put a question on Poisson distr... |
2021/02/04 | 427 | 1,948 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a junior research engineer of AI.
Looking for the code in the particular paper, I found two git-hub repositories.
However, I think it's weird that how they show different performance, even though they are based on exact same paper and have a similar structure at the code level.
(Of course,... |
2021/02/04 | 2,590 | 11,033 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a PhD student in Physics and I'm very worried about something. I have participated in two conferences in the last year. The first one was in a field related to the one I'm studying and the second exactly related to the field I'm studying.
In these two conferences something got me *very* wo... |
2021/02/04 | 1,349 | 5,639 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently worked on a research project for a client of my organization who was chosen for a highly prestigious lecture in my field (delivered annually). As part of convention, the lecturer is also afforded the opportunity to publish, ahead of the lecture, a single-author-only invited paper in ... |
2021/02/04 | 841 | 3,651 | <issue_start>username_0: I’m a Postdoc. Last year I was given some data from a former postdoc. My PI told me that the data had never been published and. I worked on that project night and day, designed the analysis plan, did tons of analysis, came up with a novel technique (which hasn’t been used in the literature befo... |
2021/02/04 | 590 | 2,248 | <issue_start>username_0: I study Msc in Belgium and I just got my exam results back. This was my first semester and I was 5 weeks late into the semester due to visa and immigration issues. Out of 4 exams I got 16-15-15-9 out of 20 scale which is like A, B+, B+, F on the US scale. This is the first time in my life that ... |
2021/02/04 | 573 | 2,117 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm wondering which are the best search engines for scientific books. I know google book, but here I'm not able to find books which contain the specified key words and published by a specific editor. E.g. key word "real-time system", editor "wiley".
Could you suggest me which are the best sear... |
2021/02/05 | 365 | 1,520 | <issue_start>username_0: This is probably a very USA-specific question: My university is implementing a new sensitivity training framework. This is so new that no information about it can be found in faculty handbook, school website, or anywhere I tried. This framework appears to be completely independent from colleges... |
2021/02/05 | 863 | 2,477 | <issue_start>username_0: I am long retired (2008) In the field of cardiology I am a pariah, there is an embargo on my publishing in major journals. I have therefore been forced to go to obscure journals where the referees are not from the cartel that ban me. <NAME>. and <NAME>. I have so far with these journals persuad... |
2021/02/05 | 2,262 | 9,956 | <issue_start>username_0: I have recently been accused by someone of stealing their idea and doing the work required. In fact they had come to me to do, let's say, a literature review because they didn't have the expertise to do one themselves. They gave me an umbrella topic and told me to figure the rest out. I ran wit... |
2021/02/05 | 4,127 | 16,386 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm confused about a statement [<NAME>](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Grothendieck) made in his book *[Récoltes et semailles](https://forum.azimuthproject.org/discussion/2208/grothendieck-quote)*.
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> In fact, most of these comrades whom I gauged to be more brilliant
> than me have ... |
2021/02/05 | 2,742 | 11,320 | <issue_start>username_0: Many years ago, as an undergraduate, I was taking a physics class which had a peculiar exam arrangement: on Tuesday, the professor gave us a take-home portion of the exam which would be submitted on Thursday, but on Thursday, there would also be an in-class portion of the exam with a different ... |
2021/02/05 | 2,259 | 9,285 | <issue_start>username_0: The community college I attend has an IRB that is not registered with the FDA and is supposed to review projects conducted by students or faculty. I (as a student) would like to conduct a survey (that involves minimal risk) through a mobile application that would be meant for, and open to the g... |
2021/02/05 | 671 | 3,028 | <issue_start>username_0: Students often seek help from a variety of sources, including private tutors, who can be found either locally or remotely on websites such as Wyzant, Chegg, Tutor.com, Varsity Tutors, etc.
As a relative newcomer to the world of online tutoring I am gradually coming to realize that protection o... |
2021/02/06 | 2,781 | 11,746 | <issue_start>username_0: I am not a course instructor, but I am a teaching assistant for a large course in [STEM](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science%2C_technology%2C_engineering%2C_and_mathematics) in the large US school. I have been soliciting advice from students to improve the course and tutorial for the past som... |
2021/02/06 | 321 | 1,305 | <issue_start>username_0: Sometimes it is easier for the reader to understand a image if it is reused, even in the same publication. Just like we sometimes need to go back to a slide when doing a presentation.
What is the original reason for forbidding this? My guess is to save some pages. But now it is digital and man... |
2021/02/07 | 664 | 2,782 | <issue_start>username_0: My research is in computational modeling of an additive manufacturing (3D printing) process.
My PhD advisor and now my postdoc advisor seems satisfied with my research output. My collaborators (professors from my university and other universities) seem happy with my work. I like my research fi... |
2021/02/07 | 874 | 3,553 | <issue_start>username_0: Apologies in advance for a possibly naive question. When I search for literature relevant to my research work, I come across articles that are published variously as either a "Short Communication" or "Note" or "Research Article". Possibly there are other variants as well. I have seen this disti... |
2021/02/07 | 2,947 | 12,597 | <issue_start>username_0: In another [contemporaneous post](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/162300/when-should-private-tutors-communicate-with-course-professors), I asked about whether private tutors ought to establish communication with the course heads of their students, and received several thoughtful re... |
2021/02/07 | 484 | 2,241 | <issue_start>username_0: I was recently asked for a minor revision a review paper submitted, including more detailed reporting on parts of the analysis. When performing this additional analysis, I noticed a big data extraction error which had a small effect on the results and conclusions. It has no relevance to our mai... |
2021/02/08 | 1,992 | 8,480 | <issue_start>username_0: I am interested in applying to graduate schools in the US in a certain sub-area of computer sciences. However, most of my educational background is in engineering (BS+MS in systems engineering from a good university in Europe). While I have some research experience in the specific research sub-... |
2021/02/08 | 2,438 | 10,237 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an undergraduate student pursuing a double major in Computer Science B.S. and Mathematics B.S.
My dream career is to work in quant. finance. However, my school does not have a dedicated department to this field, resulting in lack of dedicated classes and opportunities for it. The page for... |
2021/02/08 | 708 | 2,863 | <issue_start>username_0: Is there a way to get your research article peer reviewed without submitting to a conference or journal?
I am imagining something like openreview.net or even some private peer review system since you would most probably publish that article later in a conference/journal.
**Note** I work in co... |
2021/02/08 | 457 | 2,113 | <issue_start>username_0: I have applied for PhD programme (in Dec 2020) and informed my potential supervisor that I have completed my application. Recently (9 days ago), he asked me if I have received any communication from the institute regarding my application and told me he has not received my application yet. To th... |
2021/02/08 | 362 | 1,628 | <issue_start>username_0: I am preparing some reviews of conference contributions. The online review management asks me to grade the assigned papers, add comments for the authors and comments for the program chair. I cannot leave any field blank -- so I am wondering what comments I should give to the chair? To my knowle... |
2021/02/08 | 717 | 3,073 | <issue_start>username_0: There is a course at my university that has not had a correctly posed exam as far as any student remembers.
The exam consists of five problems of the type "Prove that if A, then B". At least one of the statements to be proved later turns out to be false.
This happens every year. No one from t... |
2021/02/08 | 2,122 | 8,968 | <issue_start>username_0: I have never seen (or realized) an example of an academic website which displays ads.
I am thinking of a website not hosted by the institute, but as a personal website, paid by the faculty member.
Does it look weird/unethical/unacceptable if a person uses a service similar to AdSense for thei... |
2021/02/09 | 4,866 | 20,588 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a first year PhD student in mathematics and I'm in a pretty bad spot.
Over the last year or so of undergrad and first semester of grad school, I've completely atrophied my problem solving skill. At some point I became more comfortable with looking up a solution than trying to solve it myse... |
2021/02/09 | 433 | 1,695 | <issue_start>username_0: In manuscripts, a text between the chapter heading and before the first section might exist. Does this have a name?
This seems to be a good community to know the answer.
Thanks in advance.<issue_comment>username_1: If the text is a quotation, it is called an *epigraph*. See [this APA blog post... |
2021/02/09 | 925 | 3,750 | <issue_start>username_0: As a PI, I have quite a few projects that have gone nowhere. For some of these projects, I have submitted a manuscript that has been rejected. In others, I have written portions of a manuscript, but feel like the results are rather inconclusive. I could submit these manuscripts as they are, but... |
2021/02/09 | 1,594 | 6,523 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently finished my PhD, and now I'm in the process of submitting a journal article on the work I did in the final few months of my degree. This work is an extension to some conference papers that I'd published earlier, and so I've cited them in my journal article stating how the submitted w... |
2021/02/10 | 286 | 1,195 | <issue_start>username_0: I am preparing a manuscript for submission to Journal of Cardiology. The author instructions say "***Please provide inclusive page numbers, e.g., 51-9.***" What does that mean? How else can you cite page numbers.<issue_comment>username_1: Depending on the context, page numbers can be reported a... |
2021/02/10 | 1,072 | 4,597 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an undergraduate who recently worked on a 1-page abstract (as a team of 3) and got it accepted to the conference.
However, neither our advisors nor the university agreed to aid us on the registration fee, which means that our paper will not be presented (I am not saying published here, ... |
2021/02/10 | 1,330 | 5,790 | <issue_start>username_0: I am in high school and I find myself enjoying math a lot more than physics, probably because of the more focused teaching approach found in physics, which looks at specific cases and experiments and then goes on to explain these mathematically, where as in maths it seems to me a broader stance... |
2021/02/10 | 630 | 2,644 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently an European undergraduate Senior waiting on results for various Master's applications.
I have applied to programs in both the US and Europe, my goal following my Master is to pursue a PhD in the US in said field hopefully in a top school (MIT,Stanford,Caltech,...). For such purpo... |
2021/02/10 | 973 | 4,133 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently enrolled in a Computer Science PhD program in USA, and this is my third year(I changed my PhD advisor after my first year).
I have written two papers with my new PhD advisor. The first one was submitted to two top-tier conference, but get rejected twice. The second one was submi... |
2021/02/11 | 930 | 3,971 | <issue_start>username_0: Can phd students submit their paper on their own? I have finished writing and polishing my manuscript (with my advisor listed as the corresponding author) and then sent it to my phd advisor almost a year ago but still has gotten no response from him. I am wondering if I can say sth like 'if I d... |
2021/02/11 | 659 | 2,830 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose I write a paper that contains mostly results that I previously published in my M.Sc. or Ph.D. thesis. The paper contains another author that is not related to the thesis (not the supervisor), who contributed some other results. How should I relate to the thesis when writing the paper?
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2021/02/11 | 845 | 3,484 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing a textbook and am in the process of making final adjustments, such as the positioning of figures and tables.
I know the basics: figures and tables need to be at the top or bottom of the page. However, I'm concerned about fine-tuning. I have three questions:
1. figures are always ... |
2021/02/11 | 625 | 2,936 | <issue_start>username_0: I have recently received peer review on a systematic review after six months, with revisions requested. This is on a dynamic subject with significant literature published since. I re-screened the papers and was able to include a further 5 from those published in the past 6 months.
Is it accept... |
2021/02/11 | 575 | 2,119 | <issue_start>username_0: Let's say a famous researcher contributed only a bit to a research project by a student, and the student could reasonably choose either to include or not include them as a coauthor.
Is it beneficial to the student to include them? It seems that having a big name would increase viewership and p... |
2021/02/12 | 630 | 2,870 | <issue_start>username_0: In computer systems, it's relatively common to have a large problem which is broken up into multiple sub-problems, each of which is substantial in its own right and is in the realm of different subsets of students. Suppose there's two parts, A and B. Suppose that properly presenting B requires ... |
2021/02/12 | 2,324 | 9,232 | <issue_start>username_0: I’ve been interning at a research lab for 8 months now, putting upwards of 10 hours a week into our project. We find out if our first of three papers was accepted for a significantly-sized conference soon, the next two will come in March. Basically, I’ve put a lot of work into this project and ... |
2021/02/12 | 1,025 | 4,716 | <issue_start>username_0: It's typical in my field that after we post to the arxiv, people from the community reach out to the authors to ask questions about the paper. Every time this has happened to me, I've responded with more explanation to try and address their specific questions. Sometimes it does seem like the pe... |
2021/02/12 | 730 | 3,206 | <issue_start>username_0: While reviewing applicants for a position, I noticed a disclosure in a letter of recommendation that is potentially unethical. I'm sure this happens from time to time - something like "<NAME>'s contributions are especially impressive because her husband is constantly busy working at a hedge fun... |