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2021/08/12 | 531 | 2,096 | <issue_start>username_0: There were three people working on a paper: a PhD student (S1), her advisor (A), and another PhD student (S2).
The advisor A passed away before the paper was finished.
At that moment the amount of work done by corresponding parties could be estimated as S1 - 45%, A - 45%, S2 - 10%.
Both S1 and... |
2021/08/13 | 933 | 4,009 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a researcher in the early stage of my career with a few publications. I work on High Energy Physics and published papers in top ranked journals with relatively high h-index. My query is regarding how to promote my research among other researchers working in the same field.
I often read va... |
2021/08/13 | 1,037 | 4,444 | <issue_start>username_0: I am going to apply to the US universities for the fall, 2022 for PhD. I have decided to include the names and research interests of three professors in my SOP with whom I would like to work, if I get admitted to their university. I have tried to contact them but haven't got any response. There... |
2021/08/13 | 664 | 2,652 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing a paper and want to cite an author's work. I don't know the authors pronouns and while I could go by pictures I find of the author online, I cannot find their pronouns anywhere.
I can always write "Author (YEAR) wrote ..." but to mix things up in a whole paragraph I write on autho... |
2021/08/13 | 2,197 | 9,169 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a university professor, Egypt, and one of my academic research projects five years ago, on which I spent a really long time, was to develop and evaluate an online community and library of freely accessible and quality video content. [The project](https://presentationtube.com) allowed parti... |
2021/08/14 | 662 | 2,850 | <issue_start>username_0: Machine learning has connected with many other displines or research directions, for example it has been combined with materials, fluid mechanics and so many research directions, so what is your daily life if you have to use machine learning methods to complete your PhD topic or your postdoc re... |
2021/08/14 | 860 | 3,659 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a very low undergraduate GPA. I used to play a sport at the state level and thought I could cope up but didn't. Failed in multiple papers, completed a 3-year degree in 5 years. In the end, I had a 2.0 GPA (On the 4.0 scale). However, I got admission at one of the top universities in my c... |
2021/08/15 | 2,399 | 10,391 | <issue_start>username_0: I’m one year into my PhD program, and I recently drafted my first review article. I’m a native English speaker, and was often applauded for my writing during high school and college. My advisor made mean comments during a group meeting, discussing that my writing is too bad to be published. My ... |
2021/08/15 | 1,985 | 8,294 | <issue_start>username_0: I am facing an inconvenient situation that I will try to explain as well as I can. Here is my case:
One and a half years ago, I submitted my paper to Journal A. The reviewing process started and I managed to convince three out of four reviewers. All of the reviewers asked the editor to accept ... |
2021/08/15 | 359 | 1,560 | <issue_start>username_0: I have accepted a postdoc offer, then an other offer came out and I declined it mostly because I already accepted the first one. After taking time to think and consider multiple factors I have some regrets.
Is it normal to ask if that position has been filled yet and if not is it okay to take i... |
2021/08/15 | 4,008 | 16,249 | <issue_start>username_0: My advisor is a decent person. She is helpful and supportive. She has continued to support me throughout financially. However, she advices me that I should have offers before submitting my thesis and defending it.
It has been over 6.5 years of PhD. I have 4 journal papers in okayish journals (... |
2021/08/15 | 3,692 | 15,032 | <issue_start>username_0: I got a postdoc job offer from a UK university. The job offer only contains the payment scale, which is grade 7, and an annual leave of 25 days, work hours. Nothing about notice to leave or sick leaves or anything.
What should I do?
in the job description, they say that I would do anything th... |
2021/08/15 | 2,123 | 9,144 | <issue_start>username_0: I commenced a Postdoc 1-2 months ago and recently presented my proposed experiments at a group meeting that was broader than my immediate team. After the short presentation I was met with a barrage of criticism from senior people in the group in front of my new team along the lines of whether t... |
2021/08/16 | 2,005 | 8,353 | <issue_start>username_0: In daily writing, I normally use the possessive form as "**shareholders' wealth**" or "**firms' cash holding**", but it seems that in research, I did not see people use the " **'** " for possession if the subject is not human beings, similar to how my English teacher guided me, except this [pap... |
2021/08/16 | 835 | 3,392 | <issue_start>username_0: I just finished my dissertation at a German university that requires that I include personal data (place of birth, date of birth) on the title page of the dissertation. While I have no problem giving this to the University, it has been published on the library webpage and is easily discoverable... |
2021/08/16 | 913 | 3,797 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a finance student.
I am learning the ***impact of bribery laws on dependent variable Y***. The literature supports both sides: some studies support that Y will increase after the laws, others support that Y will decrease after the laws. I am wondering how to generate the hypothesis in thi... |
2021/08/16 | 1,678 | 6,651 | <issue_start>username_0: I don't have hard numbers (if you know a good source, please do share), but it is quite apparent that there are *many* more Ph.D. student positions advertised than PostDoc positions, at least in my field (engineering/CS, Europe). My feeling would be that many labs I know have a ratio of maybe 5... |
2021/08/16 | 376 | 1,569 | <issue_start>username_0: Considering the elapsed time of Covid crisis, have any vaccination regulations been put into place for international students waiting to apply for masters programs in US or related research programs in general? If so, are both doses required if already vaccinated by one dose of a two-dose vacci... |
2021/08/17 | 576 | 2,400 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm attending grad school out of state, paying upwards of $17K/semester. Over the summer, I was offered an internship (40 hrs/week). A couple of fellow students were also interested in this internship, but I was selected after my code interview. When grad school starts in the Fall, my manager h... |
2021/08/17 | 439 | 1,876 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a new researcher in immunology and biology. I am unable to keep track of so many papers being published in journals. Do I need to check **Conference Proceedings** as well? I am not sure what to follow and what to not follow .<issue_comment>username_1: It is simply not possible to read ever... |
2021/08/17 | 287 | 1,121 | <issue_start>username_0: We are using OJS 3 and all of our articles are in Google Scholar, except one we published in 2020. How can we add it, is there any solution?
We have removed that article one time from the system due to major changes and then published it again after a few days. So what is the solution now to a... |
2021/08/18 | 1,076 | 4,651 | <issue_start>username_0: A buddy of mine who lives in Amsterdam told me that it is not a good idea to apply for a PhD as an international student because the chance of getting admission is narrow these days. I would just pay for the application fee and other things without getting tangible results. He said although we ... |
2021/08/18 | 202 | 859 | <issue_start>username_0: Is there a software or website where I can track the status Editorial Manager system for all, or most, of my journal submissions rather than logging into all of their websites individually?
As an example a website like mint.com tracks all my banks together.<issue_comment>username_1: There isn'... |
2021/08/18 | 1,294 | 5,298 | <issue_start>username_0: The following question is asked by an international non-EU person:
Is it possible to apply for a PhD at a German university/institute without having an external funding/scholarship? In other words, can PhD students finance their own costs while doing their PhD in Germany? For example, you can ... |
2021/08/18 | 1,496 | 6,082 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a new Instructor, started during the pandemic and am only going into my second year. I work for a smaller local college, full-time. The college is a located in the U.S. in the Mid-West (Ohio), it offers 2 and 4-year degrees.
When starting in 2020, I was hired with the understanding that I... |
2021/08/18 | 622 | 2,661 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently did a research study and submitted it to a suitable journal which covers the field. One of the referees said that the same analysis has been already done and referred to an article that was submitted to arXiv two months before our submission date. The mentioned article covers less th... |
2021/08/19 | 3,858 | 16,216 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an EU student studying for my MBA in Germany. I have been a top student throughout the year. However, my thesis (24% supposedly plagiarized text) and the last two assignments (55% and 56%) have resulted in plagiarism.
The plagiarism has happened mainly because of self-plagiarism in my thes... |
2021/08/19 | 698 | 3,194 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a rising junior, looking to apply to PhD programs in Statistics in a couple of years. I go to a liberal arts school and there is almost no research going on during the semester. I did research (3 months) this summer, which went really well. We managed to write three papers, and one of them... |
2021/08/20 | 540 | 2,425 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently submitting an article to a prestigious journal. However, after about four months, the article still has yet to be assigned to an editor. We contacted the journal two months ago, to which they replied that they were experiencing difficulties in finding an appropriate editor. We su... |
2021/08/20 | 8,870 | 37,666 | <issue_start>username_0: My organisation has recently started advertising certain meetings as being "Safe Spaces" without describing what is meant by such a thing.
[Merriam-Webster](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/safe%20space) describes it as:
>
> a place (as on a college campus) intended to be free of b... |
2021/08/20 | 414 | 1,940 | <issue_start>username_0: A lot of software offer student or academic licenses that prohibit the use of the software for commercial purposes. A lot of scientific journals are edited by for-profit companies and publish papers for their own commercial purposes. Now my question is:
If the software is used to - for example ... |
2021/08/20 | 1,747 | 7,311 | <issue_start>username_0: I do not study physics at the university, but I have a very important scientific research. I do not think that a magazine will accept my research, though, because I am not sufficiently specialized in the field. Is there any way to obtain intellectual property for my research without publishing ... |
2021/08/21 | 519 | 2,113 | <issue_start>username_0: I submitted a major revision for an article to a World Scientific journal today. However I am in a confused state.
I had to submit two documents: 1. Revised Manuscript, 2. Response to Reviewers, both in PDF format.
**Though I submitted both the documents, I find that in the complete PDF that I... |
2021/08/21 | 814 | 3,542 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a group research proposal assessment at my university, and my friend had previously completed the subject, so he gave me his assessment as guidance for how the proposal should look. His group and my group's research proposals are completely different, but the layout design of how the ass... |
2021/08/21 | 631 | 2,543 | <issue_start>username_0: My paper has been rejected recently but its content could be seen in the [Research Square](https://www.researchsquare.com/) website. Why has this happened, and why did it also get a DOI link?
I asked and they answered:
>
> Thank you for your message. Your work has been posted as a preprint o... |
2021/08/21 | 1,611 | 6,844 | <issue_start>username_0: I have taught an introductory statistics class at a local university for a number of years now, and have a policy of no late work/tests without prior approval. (Of course, emergencies are exempt) I have also told my class that illness is a valid reason for missing a test, and as I understand th... |
2021/08/21 | 547 | 2,164 | <issue_start>username_0: I am planning to send emails to potential Ph.D. supervisors in my area of research at the start of September. I recently found out that most of my colleagues have already sent out these letters as early as July, and I am now worried that I waited too long. What are the negative consequences of ... |
2021/08/22 | 1,691 | 7,164 | <issue_start>username_0: This post [How do mathematicians conduct research?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/34038/how-do-mathematicians-conduct-research) includes some explanation on things mathematicians do. I am now also a little curious about how much money/resources are used in this process.
For simp... |
2021/08/22 | 621 | 2,821 | <issue_start>username_0: How to scientifically approach theories and research them as a high school student to get it published? (Given that the theory is not yet proven by anyone and may or may not be true).<issue_comment>username_1: You will need an experienced researcher to guide you. Most high school students that ... |
2021/08/22 | 1,501 | 6,543 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD student in Mathematics.
I am writing research papers but I am confused with one thing:
*What papers should I cite?*
I want to know, in particular, what the criterion is for which a paper should be cited.
I received a revision from a SCIE indexed journal recently. The Reviewer shar... |
2021/08/22 | 1,053 | 4,709 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an early mathematics researcher. Last year I was approached by a contemporary for collaboration. We started discussing the problem with possible approaches, I read all literature related to the problem. I had some failed attempts. But it was him who eventually solved the problem. And the l... |
2021/08/22 | 1,555 | 6,078 | <issue_start>username_0: US public school physics PhD
1. There is a PI at my institute who is amazing. She doesn't have funds for more than her 2 current students.
2. My program is huge, and thus does not have the funds to support any PhD who doesn't get $$$ from their PI for research in the form of indefinite TA stip... |
2021/08/22 | 628 | 2,822 | <issue_start>username_0: Would getting an undergrad degree in mathematics hurt my chances of of getting into a CS PHD program? Are there statistics on admissions rate by major online?
Edit: in the us<issue_comment>username_1: I doubt the statistics would help you much. But a switch from math to CS is possible with jus... |
2021/08/22 | 3,299 | 14,465 | <issue_start>username_0: **Summary**: Students who have never taken a particular course often can get "[credit by exam](https://www.lanecc.edu/copps/documents/credit-examination-cbe)". However, it's extremely common for credit by exam to be disallowed to students who have previously taken and failed a course. For examp... |
2021/08/22 | 1,359 | 5,683 | <issue_start>username_0: There is a leading conference that will take place in Jan 2022. Graduate students are encouraged to present a poster about their thesis work, however, the slots are limited so a recommendation letter from the advisor is needed to ensure that the student has made a significant progress in their ... |
2021/08/23 | 537 | 2,450 | <issue_start>username_0: I am reviewing conference submissions (specialized branch of engineering). One of them, although technically more interesting than some of the other submissions, is a typical case of "salami publishing". When looking into existing research on the topic during my review, I found two already publ... |
2021/08/23 | 527 | 2,222 | <issue_start>username_0: I've written my MSc thesis and my supervisors and myself think that the results we got are worth writing an article. Of course, we cite my original thesis in the article to avoid self-plagiarism issues. However, it seems to be in direct contradiction with the requirement that some conference en... |
2021/08/23 | 699 | 3,042 | <issue_start>username_0: I have recently started to appreciate the importance of illustrations and figures in scientific publications. Be it a visual abstract, a visual TOC, or part of a poster or a presentation, I always find a nice illustration to be quite catchy. Because of this, I want to put in some effort and lea... |
2021/08/24 | 844 | 3,454 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently I became aware that a journal is recruiting a board member. The subject matter is very close to my research background and I am very interested in the position.
I have a PhD in the field (with an active academic email) but am currently working in the industry (my current affiliation i... |
2021/08/24 | 1,112 | 4,657 | <issue_start>username_0: I went to do my postdoc (organic chemistry) in ICCAS Beijing, although I also had offers from other places. As soon as I arrived there, I was informed the professor had many unsubmitted works. After a lot of thought I stayed there because I had a good fellowship and the quality of the work impr... |
2021/08/24 | 884 | 3,932 | <issue_start>username_0: I am Dutch, but have only studied in the Netherlands for my undergraduate degree. I am now applying to assistant professorships. The places where I have been for my PhD and afterwards were quite relaxed; essentially there was not a worry in the world. Obviously that changes as you get loaded wi... |
2021/08/24 | 2,774 | 11,743 | <issue_start>username_0: My BSc dissertation has recently been accepted for publication in the proceedings of a small conference. My supervisor has co-author credit as his assistance was naturally instrumental.
While I'm been working a career, my supervisor has **very kindly** been shopping the paper around for public... |
2021/08/24 | 1,539 | 6,470 | <issue_start>username_0: I am from India, and I would like to pursue further education (maybe even a Ph.D.). I've messed up my BE degree (in Computer Science and Engineering) by getting consistently low marks from the second to fifth semester. My 6th semester marks are a little bit better (8.12), but that still does no... |
2021/08/24 | 1,236 | 5,307 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an undergraduate who is determined to attend grad-school, and as such, I am hungry for opportunities to demonstrate my academic worth. In a recent course, my dialogue with the instructor naturally extended, and soon he gave me materials and open problems on which I made progress/results th... |
2021/08/25 | 1,302 | 5,824 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently working on a research project with my PhD supervisor. The focus of this project is a sub-field that my supervisor has not previously published in and one that I am not familiar with. This sub-field has also been studied in the literature for more than 30 years. From past research... |
2021/08/25 | 586 | 2,462 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently in the 4th year of my PhD in math. My main research focus is complex analysis (geometric function theory) but I'm also learning and working on PDE modelling. After my PhD, I want to apply for an industry job that is (at least somewhat) research oriented. Ideally, I would like to a... |
2021/08/26 | 977 | 3,894 | <issue_start>username_0: Tenured professors can be fired for a variety of reasons, the most common being incompetence, negligence, immoral/personal conduct, and financial exigency.
Several questions:
1. Do these four reasons also apply to firing endowed professors? I'm guessing financial exigency does not apply becau... |
2021/08/26 | 714 | 2,992 | <issue_start>username_0: I am applying for MS programs in the US, and I'm wondering if I should include my photograph in the CV.
According to [this post](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/30043/in-what-situations-would-it-be-appropriate-to-include-ones-photograph-in-a-cv) one should never include photos bec... |
2021/08/26 | 886 | 3,942 | <issue_start>username_0: I plan to write a structured literature review in a relatively new field in which only a few peer reviewed articles already exist.
How would you approach this? Find articles in adjacent topics and clearly underline the existing gap in research OR rather lower the quality of the papers I includ... |
2021/08/27 | 867 | 3,720 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently I reviewed a submission to a journal. The editor even sent me an email saying the review was received. In my review I suggested correction of several minor mistakes but there were also a couple major ones that in my view needed to be addressed before acceptance for publication. Wheneve... |
2021/08/27 | 1,154 | 4,768 | <issue_start>username_0: I was wondering how PhD admissions actually work. Do we have to mention the professor we want to work with in our application? Do we reach out to them before we actually apply? And what if my research experience is in one area (theoritical computer science and coding theory) but I'd like to do ... |
2021/08/27 | 1,155 | 4,402 | <issue_start>username_0: A few years ago, while I was working as a freelancer, I did something very stupid. On a freelancing website someone posted a few exercises about ordinary differential equations and asked someone to solve them (I don't remember the details exactly, but I think it's safe to assume it was their ho... |
2021/08/27 | 3,088 | 12,774 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a course instructor and was finalizing my syllabus when I hit a bit of a wall and would love to hear the community's input. If you're teaching a class that meets twice per week, do you prefer to hold the exam on the earlier meeting time, or the later one? (E.g. if you have a Tuesday/Thursda... |
2021/08/27 | 1,140 | 4,574 | <issue_start>username_0: I worked with a professor over the summer where I explored a slightly original avenue in a fairly niche domain. Basically, I ran simulations that validate previous lab experiment results. The work also explored a slightly new scenario in the domain, and I also conducted a parameter study.
As f... |
2021/08/27 | 525 | 2,156 | <issue_start>username_0: I graduated with my B.S. during the pandemic and decided to go directly into a non-thesis Masters in Earth Science. I want to pursue a PhD, however I am unsure about my eligibility without having completed a thesis beforehand. I do have some research experience which have resulted in 4 conferen... |
2021/08/27 | 3,176 | 13,345 | <issue_start>username_0: I finished my Ph.D. in mathematics in 2016 and then worked at the same university (in Germany) and under the same professor (now retired) as a postdoc for the next four years.
I knew my contract would only last until the end of 2020, so I started applying for positions in academia around June l... |
2021/08/28 | 484 | 1,971 | <issue_start>username_0: I wanted to apply for an official semester break during my PhD; I am enrolled in a German University; my concern is that could I show the paper published during the semester break in the dissertation?<issue_comment>username_1: I don't think that should be a worry, though I'm not from Germany. D... |
2021/08/28 | 760 | 3,203 | <issue_start>username_0: Are there any disadvantages with working for non-tenure track professors? Is it possible that they get fired and you need to restart with someone else? Do they have less funding? Any other drawbacks?
Currently applying to phd programs.<issue_comment>username_1: The one concern I would have wit... |
2021/08/28 | 806 | 3,218 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a last year PhD student; I love doing research and mentoring younger researchers. I'm looking to apply for faculty this Fall. In my field, there are also multiple companies where you can currently publish and do open-ended research. I'm strongly doubting between both paths: more money, and ... |
2021/08/29 | 1,174 | 4,814 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a lovely professor who I've become very close with over the past three years. I am an international student and we are both from the same original culture.
I recently finished my master's and am now working in a job in industry. I really admire my advisor and he is one of my role models... |
2021/08/29 | 738 | 3,224 | <issue_start>username_0: I'll be starting a postdoc position in a Canadian institute soon. However, I could not secure any independent lectureship in the course of my contract interval (but just a limited joint lectureship with my PI which is 3 sessions of a 17-session lecture). Since teaching seems like a gap in my re... |
2021/08/29 | 834 | 3,710 | <issue_start>username_0: I was wondering if a nomenclature section is necessary, especially when you have described parameters in the body of the paper right after the formula. Personally, I don't think it is a good idea to avoid describing the parameters in the body and put them in a different section. This is because... |
2021/08/30 | 501 | 2,090 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm applying to phd programs after being out of school for a couple of years working as a software engineer. The problem is that all my research and work experience has been in machine learning, but I'm not that interested in this field. Not only so, there's too much competition in this area fo... |
2021/08/30 | 224 | 870 | <issue_start>username_0: My paper is under review in an Elsevier journal. It has been over a month and it's still in review stage. It might take another month for the reviews to come back. I should have submitted it to arxiv before submitting to the journal. However, is it too late to submit it now to arxiv?
The journ... |
2021/08/30 | 2,256 | 9,210 | <issue_start>username_0: Many of you will know that, whether per subscription fees or via open access models, there is a ridiculously absurd amount of money flowing to many big (or medium-size) publishers for getting our research outputs (i.e. papers, etc.) published in high-quality venues in the field.
**The problem:... |
2021/08/30 | 494 | 1,978 | <issue_start>username_0: I can’t find an answer that explicitly says that a case study is a type of research (e.g. analytical research paper, persuasive research paper, definition research paper, etc.). There’s this site that says that a case study is a research methodology (it’s the third chapter of a research paper).... |
2021/08/30 | 385 | 1,687 | <issue_start>username_0: I participated in some prestigious conferences as a poster presenter but, these conferences do not issue certificates so, when I list them in my CV, what is the proof for the reader that I did participate?
I once asked a conference for a certificate of participation, the organiser told me "we ... |
2021/08/31 | 1,948 | 8,193 | <issue_start>username_0: I would like to ask something about the master program. I'm a student from one of the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) and I have a bad GPA and an undergraduate history full of fails in the basic subjects like linear algebra and calculus. I have 22 fails on subjec... |
2021/08/31 | 1,173 | 4,813 | <issue_start>username_0: My supervisor has asked me to compile a list (in order of preference) of potential examiners for my viva.
### Subject area
How close to my own subject area should I look?
My thoughts so far are that I would like to be examined by someone who has done work that is as close as possible to the ... |
2021/08/31 | 406 | 1,872 | <issue_start>username_0: As you all are familiar, most journals use manuscripts submission systems hosted on some separate domain. Why is that so, are there some other benefits except separation of the presentation layer and the editorial layer?
Open source solutions such as OJS (Open Journal System) provide both of t... |
2021/08/31 | 554 | 2,490 | <issue_start>username_0: As a student thinking about a career in research, more precisely pure or fundamental research, I would like to know more about possible careers. I haven't decided on the field yet, so I'm interested in as many fields as possible.
First of all, academia seems to be the most obvious path. But I ... |
2021/08/31 | 1,516 | 6,686 | <issue_start>username_0: I may be in the position soon of going to do a postdoc at a highly prestigious University. I am currently at a good university in the UK doing my first postdoc. I have applied for a Lecturer position at this university, but there maybe the option to do a second postdoc at more prestigious unive... |
2021/09/01 | 1,780 | 7,190 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD student, and also trans (MtF, she/her). I've recently done some work with a research group based at the same institute as me, and this has led to me being CC'd in a few emails to various people, some of whom I don't know, and most of whom I don't know very well.
There is a senior ac... |
2021/09/01 | 2,251 | 9,776 | <issue_start>username_0: Does it hurt the professor's career in any way if their students drop out? Assume a PhD student gets the professor's funding and publishes an adequate amount of papers. They then decide to quit (maybe with a master's). What benefit is it to the professor for the student to continue working?
Pr... |
2021/09/02 | 2,112 | 8,895 | <issue_start>username_0: I feel like I wouldn't want to work with >70 years old professors because they're too old and have less chance of coming up with new ideas. is this a reasonable concern?<issue_comment>username_1: So long as an academic is not suffering from cognitive decline in old age (and I speak here of seri... |
2021/09/02 | 1,133 | 4,589 | <issue_start>username_0: At many European universities (I don't know how it is in other countries), you still have to write a proper PhD thesis, while others allow for writing a summary and attach three published articles. For the former case, it is still best to publish the research before submitting the thesis, and t... |
2021/09/02 | 1,358 | 5,602 | <issue_start>username_0: I was asked to review for an MDPI journal and realized while requesting to extend the deadline for my review that the editor at MDPI intended to send review requests to several reviewers, to gather enough reviews to make a decision on the basis of the first 2-3 he received. This means that the ... |
2021/09/02 | 1,019 | 4,322 | <issue_start>username_0: I was interviewed for an academic job where I pretty much answered all the questions and the interviewer seemed positive. He even shared his contacts for further questions and said there would be more rounds of interview if everything goes well. However, at the end he said to me "All the best f... |
2021/09/02 | 2,768 | 11,709 | <issue_start>username_0: **Edit #1:**
Thank you all for the comments. After sorting out some messes in my recent life and thinking things through. I do realize quitting isn't just a "magic bullet" to make world perfect. Still, it is good to read all of your posts and the solutions you guys offer!
**TL;DR:**
New star... |
2021/09/02 | 4,013 | 17,519 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an instructor at a community college in California. On occasion, a student with a documented learning disability will sign up for one of my courses. I do my best to provide them the additional care required with the aim of providing an equivalent learning experience. This often results in ... |
2021/09/03 | 1,261 | 5,626 | <issue_start>username_0: What would be better for a PhD admission?
I'd suspect having a weak conference paper would certainly be the better option, but my supervisor was very adamant about **not** sending it to a weak conference, that a strong one would be preferable, even if rejected. And I think the chances of it be... |
2021/09/03 | 1,454 | 6,083 | <issue_start>username_0: I am doing a undergrad thesis under a professor. We decided to work on some domain say "X" however now he is giving me work related to some other domain say "Y". Both "X" and "Y" can be related to my degree however I wanted to work in domain "X" and there is no relation between "X" and "Y".
I ... |
2021/09/03 | 1,766 | 7,228 | <issue_start>username_0: In my department, there is a professor who is not my advisor who constantly asks me about my career plans and how is it going with my research, how far I went in my research, and what did I do in that conference and this presentation ..etc.
I am not comfortable sharing information unless it is... |
2021/09/04 | 860 | 3,652 | <issue_start>username_0: There is a phenomenon in my country. I am not judging whether it is correct or not because of my ignorance on it. My honest opinion, as per my current knowledge, is that the phenomenon is bad as whole.
The phenomenon is as follows:
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> A student completes either doctorate or post graduation ... |
2021/09/04 | 1,213 | 5,181 | <issue_start>username_0: Many universities have service bureaus where one can obtain media in alternative formats (e.g. see the [University of Colorado](https://www.colorado.edu/accessible-technology/alternate-format)). These offices can transform books and articles into different formats such as large print, audiobook... |
2021/09/04 | 816 | 3,110 | <issue_start>username_0: I have at least 3 offers from some of the top research institutes in my country (Written examination +interviews) in Computer Science.
Should I mention them in my CV? Would it strengthen my CV?<issue_comment>username_1: Thinking strategically, I guess I wouldn't mention them. There is a possibl... |
2021/09/05 | 930 | 3,822 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a Masters (Physics) student from India and I am looking to apply to the UK and Europe for a PhD for Autumn 2022. I am making a list of people I would like to work under. In doing so I have a few questions. I am set to graduate from my Masters in April 2022 and will have a thesis dissertatio... |
2021/09/05 | 1,046 | 3,865 | <issue_start>username_0: Do Chinese-speaking universities operate on a 996 schedule, meaning that under normal (non-pandemic) circumstances they expect their employees to be present from 9am-9pm or longer, six days a week or more?
I don't refer to the actual time working: for example, many (lower rank) academics work ... |
2021/09/05 | 755 | 3,059 | <issue_start>username_0: One of my research colleagues has a BSc degree in Biology with a CGPA of 3.93 and has been involved in research for about 2 years after completing his BSc. Actually, he has been involved in research since he was in his 3rd year so that makes it more than 3 years of him being involved in researc... |
2021/09/05 | 356 | 1,411 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a post-grad MS student doing my thesis in a lab. Should I put this on my resume/CV or leave it out? If so, how do I word it?<issue_comment>username_1: In most places RA is a specific title/job, given by the university. It isn't something you can assume or claim on your own. Give a descripti... |