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2021/09/29 | 483 | 1,998 | <issue_start>username_0: How often are research domains "competitive"?
That is, is there often a competition within the field for the "most content" or "highest quality results"?
Is it always the case?
OTOH, I find that "competition for truth" is inherent to scientific method, particularly "criticality", but OTOH I ... |
2021/09/29 | 689 | 2,969 | <issue_start>username_0: I am doing my final year research under my supervisor for my Master's degree. I also wanted to do a short project to utilize my summer vacation. So, I approached a professor who was teaching a semester course, who seemed to be happy to supervise such a project. He agreed to guide me on a short ... |
2021/09/29 | 1,284 | 5,234 | <issue_start>username_0: I had a research article posted in arXiv on November 2020 and it is currently in review by a leading journal, I call it J1.
Today when I was browsing research papers, I found that a research paper has been published in a lower tier journal (let's call it J2) and it has one section with ideas th... |
2021/09/29 | 797 | 3,479 | <issue_start>username_0: I have written a research article and everyone else has timely submitted their part of corrections after reading the paper. My supervisor is really busy, all the time. I can understand that.
However, I also have my interests at stake. A timely publishing means more citations and ensuring the i... |
2021/09/30 | 3,589 | 15,449 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm coming up to the end of my PhD. My work is industry funded, so although I've presented my work, and written technical reports and patents\*, I'm probably not as experienced in 'scientific writing' as perhaps I should be and my literature reviews have tended towards application-based, rather... |
2021/09/30 | 2,092 | 8,159 | <issue_start>username_0: I am in the position where I applied for a job in my **current** institution and did not get the position. I think one of my referees may have provided a negative reference. I know that Universities (or companies) are under no obligation, normally, to show a candidate the reference letter they ... |
2021/09/30 | 1,227 | 5,466 | <issue_start>username_0: Increasing citations of an individual or a journal across years is usually taken as an indication that this work is more impactful or gathering more interest. However, I suspect the number of journals, publications, and citations are increasing faster than the amount of publishing scientists, w... |
2021/09/30 | 954 | 3,901 | <issue_start>username_0: I was a PhD candidate from September 2016 until May 2021 in an university in the US. After that I dropped my PhD studies and switched to master's degree and graduated this August. Now, it's a couple of months that I started my work in a company and work outside of academia.
You can find the lo... |
2021/09/30 | 478 | 2,062 | <issue_start>username_0: If I wanted to do research related to the topology and geometry of space or their applications in quantum mechanics or general relativity, would it be possible to do that from a Mathematician’s POV without the upper level undergad physics typically required?<issue_comment>username_1: Check the ... |
2021/10/01 | 1,317 | 5,637 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a bachelor's degree in physics and I am finishing my master's degree in applied physics, in the field of biophysics. So, in particular, I study methods typical of physics to investigate biological issues.
I have to choose the argument of my master's thesis and only now I realize that my... |
2021/10/01 | 1,608 | 6,680 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm in my first year of a PhD program in the U.S. One of my professors scheduled a midterm exam for 8:30-11pm at night, and I think it will be very hard for me to stay up that late for an exam. I'm already working hard between my classes, TA responsibilities, and research. I sometimes go bed as... |
2021/10/01 | 3,356 | 14,510 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a huge doubt about the work I am doing. Although the results have been reproduced many times, the idea is not really known or even explained. I have been struggling to write it in a way that explains it well (I am still not a good writer), but I understand what the whole idea is after on... |
2021/10/01 | 393 | 1,622 | <issue_start>username_0: An advisor relationship is consequential, and losing your advisor has a real cost. Has anyone seen a student take out a policy on their advisor?<issue_comment>username_1: I doubt that this will solve any problems. If your advisor dies you just need to move to a new advisor and most universities... |
2021/10/01 | 968 | 4,319 | <issue_start>username_0: The question says it all but for a bit of context: Something I disliked about my former lab is how they handled the pandemic. It is important to me to work in a lab that cares about the safety of employees/students. For me, this means any lab that didn't take COVID seriously (require masks, all... |
2021/10/02 | 376 | 1,682 | <issue_start>username_0: How much of published papers is reasonable to expect to "fail" somehow? E.g. not having the impact you planned
Are there studies that would e.g. measure, how much of published papers become lesser than expected or become obsolete faster, than expected? Or the kinds of issues.<issue_comment>use... |
2021/10/02 | 1,621 | 6,785 | <issue_start>username_0: Neither of my parents went to college. Is this something that can be brought up in the context of university diversity hiring and outreach?
This is for academic jobs - postdoc, tenure-track, etc.<issue_comment>username_1: Yes, colleges do track and care about encouraging first generation colle... |
2021/10/02 | 5,224 | 23,058 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm affiliated with one British and one American university. Both mandate students to email from their university email accounts. Some students don't. When I emailed them to ask why, one student replied
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> I need to use my personal, rather than university, email account because of personal i... |
2021/10/02 | 2,425 | 10,130 | <issue_start>username_0: I go to a high school that allows us to attend college classes to obtain an associate's degree. I had this instructor for both physics 251 and physics 252 (calculus-based physics). I feel like he would be a really good reference, had I not cheated on two of his tests in physics 1.
The first ti... |
2021/10/03 | 510 | 2,128 | <issue_start>username_0: I submitted a paper to a scientific conference through easychair website and I have just received the reviewers' comments with an opportunity for rebuttal, where they said:
"Please include in the revised version one page where you explain how you addressed the reviewers comments".
I have a f... |
2021/10/03 | 337 | 1,485 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently I got a rejection of my research article from a mathematical journal. The referee report says "the results are correct but it has not motivation why should we care such results".
Now I have a got an idea and applied those results of my research paper to make a link with some interesti... |
2021/10/03 | 3,721 | 15,360 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a postgraduate student and will start my studies in Europe in the next two months. As you may know, it is prohibited in Islam to touch people of the opposite sex (regardless of their faith) except family members.
In case a girl/woman offers her hand, how can I refuse to shake her hand wit... |
2021/10/03 | 1,699 | 6,854 | <issue_start>username_0: I contributed to a conference. I just received feedback from reviewers. I need to write a rebuttal. But I am limited to 800 words.
Three reviewers pointed out some writing problems. For example, the picture did not explain clearly. The layout is unreasonable. But they all give a weak accept.
... |
2021/10/03 | 469 | 2,105 | <issue_start>username_0: I am in the process of writing a rebuttal response for a conference submission. Unlike others, a reviewer who only looked at the first 3 pages stated that there is a fundamental error (that he explained) and he rejected the paper without looking at the rest. I will explain to him how he missed ... |
2021/10/03 | 4,200 | 16,238 | <issue_start>username_0: Often when distinguishing one variable from another we use different characters or if using the same character different subscripts. For instance we might use x for one variable, and y for another, or we might use x\_1 for one variable and x\_2 for another. I was wondering if in a paper I could... |
2021/10/04 | 694 | 2,871 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an international student and applying for Ph.D. in a university in the US. The application portal is prompting me to select (Yes/No) the "**Residency (Tuition) Claim**" of that state. It is saying in-state and out-of-state and something like that. I cannot understand what this is.
I am go... |
2021/10/04 | 611 | 2,373 | <issue_start>username_0: I graduated from college in July, and I need to get someone to be a job reference. I have one from a previous job, but I need a second one. The recruiter indicated that I could use a professor with whom I'd taken a class as a reference.
I've contacted my former faculty advisor, who informed me... |
2021/10/05 | 786 | 3,370 | <issue_start>username_0: I am planning on applying for PhD positions in Europe (both open calls and cold emails). I have two publications from the lab where I did my BSc. Of course, they are listed in my CV but I am wondering if I should mention them in the cover letter? They're my only publications so far so I thought... |
2021/10/05 | 1,566 | 6,563 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently a postdoctoral fellow in a top institution. Sadly it did not really go well, principally for human reasons. Therefore I decided to leave my position and last year I made it clear to my PI that I would leave this year (I said exactly that it would be my last contract), which he wa... |
2021/10/05 | 1,382 | 5,909 | <issue_start>username_0: I've recently been doing some (non-serious) job search. My background is STEM with a focus on computing.
What I have noticed is that the requirement to get a job with many tech companies seems to be **much higher** than the requirement to obtain a graduate degree and even after getting a PhD i... |
2021/10/05 | 567 | 2,227 | <issue_start>username_0: I am working on the enumeration of some relations in Combinatorics, which is a branch of Mathematics.
OEIS is an online digital repository of over 3,50,000 integer sequences, and it has been cited in more than 800 papers.
I have a contribution to OEIS. It is sequence [A345317](https://oeis.or... |
2021/10/05 | 3,591 | 15,049 | <issue_start>username_0: Term just started and I think every class does have some students who sit in the back (which is totally fine) but sometimes are challenging to deal with when they show some disrespect towards other students who wish to participate.
For example, if their colleague asks a question they start lau... |
2021/10/05 | 667 | 2,934 | <issue_start>username_0: My parents are professional copy editors. On occasion, I will send them a manuscript to read for spelling, grammatical, and stylistic suggestions. It occurs to me that, whereas I would always automatically acknowledge any colleague who provided feedback on a draft (no matter how minimal), I hav... |
2021/10/05 | 344 | 1,556 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently wrote and submitted a research proposal for a fellowship. I am now also applying for a permanent lecturer position which requires an outline of research plans. Is there any problem taking text, directly or with minor changes, from the proposal and reusing it?
Of course, the proposal... |
2021/10/06 | 3,773 | 16,089 | <issue_start>username_0: While going through the lecture and study material on the internet, I came to realize that, in some universities in some countries (e.g. Hong Kong, New Zealand, etc) lecture materials are far more streamlined and easy to grasp.
For example, in the following universities, the teacher-supplied m... |
2021/10/06 | 531 | 2,285 | <issue_start>username_0: Assuming a student has full funding from an outside source. Do the TA and grading responsibilities become optional?<issue_comment>username_1: It entirely depends on the department, but most likely no. In the US, students can be funded on an internal or external fellowship (like you've described... |
2021/10/06 | 2,107 | 8,103 | <issue_start>username_0: We have 7 subjects to study every semester. You must be thinking "Oh that's a lot". It is not actually if you look at the exams. I am from India, here 90% of exam questions are already fixed(they come from past papers).
PS if 7 days a semester is an issue then no student should be performing we... |
2021/10/06 | 392 | 1,594 | <issue_start>username_0: I plan to apply for an MS in CS in the United States as an international student. While some universities provide guidance on the Statement of Purpose word limit, I can see that most don't. In such a case if my Statement of Purpose is 1000-1200 words and ends up spanning 1.5-2 pages, can that b... |
2021/10/06 | 880 | 3,635 | <issue_start>username_0: It seems to me like 10 weeks per course may not be enough time for some graduate courses if they are not developed carefully. Do colleges using the quarter system like Dartmouth or UC Irvine have about the same difficulty compared to similarly ranked universities using the semester system?<issu... |
2021/10/06 | 1,287 | 5,140 | <issue_start>username_0: How can one write a thesis in Computer Science, without actually providing the solution, but researching it and explaining how it's being solved right now but not for the specific problem (research area) identified by the researcher.
For instance, imagine that you spend your first year doing a... |
2021/10/06 | 577 | 2,434 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose some has done coursework in Algebra and Analysis. After that they want to pursue a PhD in commutative algebra or in Ring theory or any pure mathematics topics.
My question : In PhD programs, what type of work are PhD students doing after the coursework?
My thinking : I mean, there are... |
2021/10/06 | 2,392 | 10,142 | <issue_start>username_0: Programming skills such as experience with Java, Python, C++ or work experience as a software developer can be indispensable for applied mathematicians. How useful is it to have such experiences as a pure Math graduate student where the focus tends to be on proofs and rigor rather than computat... |
2021/10/07 | 1,212 | 4,982 | <issue_start>username_0: In my opinion, yelling and disrespecting should not be the case between supervisor(s) and their grad students regardless of how well or poor the student is doing. Supervisors are usually holding the highest academic degrees and they should be ideal principals for their students.
My question is,... |
2021/10/07 | 879 | 3,955 | <issue_start>username_0: While surveying a certain research area, I found 2 papers already published in 2 different conferences in 2019. Both have the same authors, same techniques, same figures (partially), but different titles and content descriptions. I'm so mad at their behavior, the editor's and also reviewers' ap... |
2021/10/07 | 919 | 3,763 | <issue_start>username_0: As a part of a research project, I perform numerical simulations in my computer, and initially I could not work with bigger systems due to lack of computer memory.
A friend from college had a spare RAM module, which was compatible with my computer. He gave it to me (for free), and I would retu... |
2021/10/08 | 2,168 | 9,291 | <issue_start>username_0: Aside from decoration, memory, self-infatuation or other personal reason, is there any non-personal reason in keeping the paper versions of one's college diplomas? Or can one just throw them away and present the electronic versions at the rare occasions when they are required?
Assume the degre... |
2021/10/08 | 2,496 | 10,731 | <issue_start>username_0: Hypothetical (somewhat farfetched, but still in the realm of possibility):
A ten year old child is sliding down a slide at the local school playground when she sees something sticking out from the ground. Curious, she digs it up and admires it for a while. Thinking that she found something tha... |
2021/10/08 | 753 | 3,043 | <issue_start>username_0: While reading books on Indian politics (not aware if this happens outside as well), frequently the citations for a particular claim is some interview with a person being talked about. In this case, one reading the book can trust the statement only if he personally gives his belief to the author... |
2021/10/08 | 505 | 1,927 | <issue_start>username_0: We would like to cite a not yet finished masters thesis in a project proposal, because the topic of the thesis is completely on point with the call. It shows that we are already actively working on the problem.
What is a good way to cite this?<issue_comment>username_1: Depending on the state o... |
2021/10/08 | 614 | 2,625 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an international student currently working in my home country - India. I got admitted for a fully-funded PhD program in the US. Although I was very confident about doing a PhD when I applied for it, my interest has decreased over time by staying in an industry job, and now I no longer feel... |
2021/10/08 | 373 | 1,617 | <issue_start>username_0: I accepted a PhD offer but next I had to reject it due to family reasons that I explained to my supervisors and they understood.
A couple of weeks later I have overcome these family hitches and the position is still open as I can see from the site, and of course I would like to join again but I... |
2021/10/08 | 396 | 1,544 | <issue_start>username_0: In a certain STEM graduate course, my professor made a claim and provided an solution without showing any derivations. After doing this, he mentioned that the students should derive the solution at home. I was able to derive the solution, but I was uncertain about some parts of my derivation. B... |
2021/10/08 | 667 | 2,839 | <issue_start>username_0: In academic recruiting it is often asked that one has lots of experience which includes being at different institutions preferably in different countries.
I would like to who:
1. What are the potential issues and downfalls for this approach in Academia?
2. How bad is it from an academic caree... |
2021/10/08 | 546 | 2,404 | <issue_start>username_0: A couple of years ago, a colleague and I collaborated on a research report where we each collected a different set of data for our report. At the time, I conducted a set of interviews with one group of participants (school teachers) and my colleague conducted interviews with a completely differ... |
2021/10/08 | 1,373 | 4,883 | <issue_start>username_0: what is the deep meaning of this quote ?
"A good mathematician always soaks his nuts while trying to solve a problem."
by [Grothendieck](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Grothendieck)
Reference:<https://mathoverflow.net/questions/5499/which-mathematicians-have-influenced-you-the-most/... |
2021/10/09 | 755 | 3,141 | <issue_start>username_0: After my PhD and postdoc in computer science I got a permanent position in a company's research lab. This is my first time to work without a supervisor nor colleagues (other members have there own, not related projects), and it is very difficult: I realize my previous successful projects were d... |
2021/10/09 | 708 | 2,965 | <issue_start>username_0: I want to apply for a PhD position in country X. My supervisor lives in country Y and wants me to apply only in Y. He is the corresponding author of my 4-5 publications. He said if I want to apply for any other country apart from Y, he would not write a LOR for me. In this case, what should I d... |
2021/10/10 | 1,204 | 5,230 | <issue_start>username_0: It has been three months since I joined as a postdoc. This is my first post doc position. I work along with another postdoc to set up pipelines for lab projects. This postdoc that I working along has more years of experience as postdoc but he is also new to the project that I am currently emplo... |
2021/10/11 | 1,184 | 4,912 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently a 5th year PhD student in math at an American university. I was talking with my parents recently and I told them that I had come to terms with the possibility of me not graduating with my PhD. As we all know in this community, getting a PhD is not a walk in the park. Rather, it i... |
2021/10/11 | 5,581 | 22,823 | <issue_start>username_0: While working on a paper, my PhD advisor (at a prestigious school, if that matters) sent revisions that included three pages plagiarized from a book. Thankfully I caught this before the paper was submitted, but otherwise it could have had terrible consequences.
The past year of the pandemic wa... |
2021/10/11 | 867 | 3,461 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm an 3rd year undergraduate student graduating this year studying computer science at a top 20 (read 10-20) school. I'm not sure how to even begin evaluating where I am compared to other students so that I can compile my "reach, target, safety" list, because I'm not sure what exactly admissio... |
2021/10/11 | 671 | 3,189 | <issue_start>username_0: In computer science, in general, the time complexity is one of the important features to be checked before publishing a research paper in a journal.
I am confused about this in deep learning. If I am able to design a model that can outperform the existing architectures for a particular task on... |
2021/10/11 | 646 | 2,839 | <issue_start>username_0: Is sending a shared spreadsheet with the university names, deadlines, and a box to check when completed be something beneficial or appreciated by my recommenders? I thought maybe it would be nice for them to have all the info there and also get to see if they forgot about a particular applicati... |
2021/10/11 | 1,179 | 4,302 | <issue_start>username_0: For this question I exclude the Nobel Peace prize.
A few years ago there was some [talk](https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-06879-z) by the Nobel committees and the Nobel Foundation board to be more inclusive. The committee explicitly called for nominations to take into account geograp... |
2021/10/11 | 1,177 | 4,428 | <issue_start>username_0: I am in the process of contacting potential advisors at various universities, and finding out if they would be willing to take me on as a student, and then mention this in the application. However, I have run into a problem. The area of research I am interested in (desalination & water treatmen... |
2021/10/12 | 1,159 | 4,359 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a US student applying to PhD programs in pure mathematics this semester. Most of the programs I am applying to are highly ranked schools which are making the subject GRE optional this semester. That being said, I scored an 810 (76th percentile) on the exam in September. I believe an 810 wou... |
2021/10/12 | 1,063 | 3,986 | <issue_start>username_0: With reference to manuscripts, does 'ensuring pagination' only mean that each page is numbered, or does it mean that lines are numbered as well? Is there an equivalent word/phrase for numbering lines?
The question is about the general use of the term, rather than a journal/publisher specific r... |
2021/10/13 | 1,006 | 4,694 | <issue_start>username_0: The vast majority of faculty applications I've made explicitly require the candidate to submit both a research statement and a teaching statement, and the institution usually describes the expected length and topics to be covered. However, a few institutions don't ask for any such statements, e... |
2021/10/13 | 605 | 2,316 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose we define an acronym in a scientific paper.
Should we do it like this?
>
> (...) We call this approach the First Output Once (FOO) (...)
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Or like this?
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> (...) We call this approach the first output once (FOO) (...)
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><issue_comment>username_1: It doesn't really mat... |
2021/10/13 | 1,256 | 5,458 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently received some reviewer's comments on a paper I have under review.
One reviewer (out of three) in particular has raised a large number of points. Some are very clear and target specific weaknesses in the paper (like 'do uncertainty calculations there' or 'are the findings robust to al... |
2021/10/13 | 264 | 1,138 | <issue_start>username_0: I want to apply for a PhD in Canada. The webpage of the university says that I have to submit "transcripts for all current and previous post-secondary study". Does that include high school transcripts?<issue_comment>username_1: No. Post secondary is undergraduate and beyond
Upvotes: 4 <issue_co... |
2021/10/14 | 673 | 2,537 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm reviewing a scholarship essay for a younger cousin. In the essay, she has taken a tone that I would consider too "casual". I don't know if "casual" is the right word, but it is a style of writing that I was taught not to use when I was in school. In her essay she uses many of the following ... |
2021/10/14 | 1,042 | 4,534 | <issue_start>username_0: After completing my phd, my advisor changed his behavior with me, starting to keep a certain distance, avoiding conversations like the ones we had throughout the phd. About 6 months later, he intimidated me with a video call and then removed me from the position of first author of an article we... |
2021/10/14 | 1,204 | 4,955 | <issue_start>username_0: In this situation in which Person (X) was approached by Person (Y) with a project idea, which is to be published as a research paper.
Person (X) has written the entire code, collected the dataset, ran all tests and prepared the outputs for the project. The time taken for this was around 2 mont... |
2021/10/14 | 1,224 | 5,129 | <issue_start>username_0: I am facing extreme anxiety and not enough sleep. My group always wants results. Every two weeks, you must have new results. Being sick is not accepted. I feel so drained and tired. There are constant messages, many ideas, and lots of collaboration. I know it may sound a good thing, but as an i... |
2021/10/14 | 449 | 1,861 | <issue_start>username_0: I am researching machine learning models for predictability, and I am doing a literature survey/review right now.
Can I use research papers from **non** computer-science journals in my proposals?
For instance, I am using machine learning to predict X. The reason why X should be predicted and ... |
2021/10/15 | 1,852 | 8,187 | <issue_start>username_0: What benefits do faculty members get by supervising PhD students?
What happens if a faculty member with many years of experience has never supervised a PhD student, but has supervised many masters and undergraduate students? Does this faculty member lose some benefits?<issue_comment>username_1... |
2021/10/15 | 755 | 3,221 | <issue_start>username_0: In recent years, as a PhD student in West Africa, I have helped several undergraduate and PhD students who were stuck with some particular problems to the point where they were barely to leave (I can't go into more details for obvious reasons). Sometimes, I had to spend weeks with their particu... |
2021/10/15 | 1,844 | 8,108 | <issue_start>username_0: When looking for online lecture notes, I notice that most of the time you have to be a student and login in using your institution information to get access.
Why would a professor not show the lecture notes freely for anyone who is interesting in learning?<issue_comment>username_1: Surely 'cuz... |
2021/10/15 | 455 | 1,871 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a high school sophomore and have been studying Sanskrit for 6 years. Recently I started studying Pali (similar to Sanskrit) and translated some classical English poems.
I am in India, and luckily there are many professors of Pali in universities here. Considering how there are barely any ... |
2021/10/15 | 270 | 885 | <issue_start>username_0: I am looking for a LaTeX CV template similar to (of possible identical to) this one. Let me know if anybody has it.
[https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~nika/files/Nika\_CV.pdf](https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/%7Enika/files/Nika_CV.pdf)
Thank you!<issue_comment>username_1: That looks like (or ... |
2021/10/15 | 626 | 2,587 | <issue_start>username_0: So, I just finished my master's in Computer Science, and I plan to apply to some PhD programs later this year.
The review process works in 2 phases: during 1st phase the paper goes to a group of reviewers, and if all reviews are sufficiently negative, the paper is rejected. Otherwise, it advan... |
2021/10/16 | 566 | 2,454 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a friend who is a PhD student in a program at a major US university. He will graduate this year, and he knows me. I am trying to ask him to indirectly recommend me to his supervisor who I am interested in as well so that I can improve my odds for PhD admission, given I satisfy all requir... |
2021/10/16 | 363 | 1,493 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently my paper was accepted for a conference and I presented the paper without any problem. At the final stages the publication committee is raising concerns my paper has significant plagiarism. However, the major source listed as plagiarized was my master's thesis from which I adapted my pa... |
2021/10/16 | 1,571 | 7,015 | <issue_start>username_0: The process of paper writing is intended to communicate our proposed model to a peer. The peer is assumed to have solid knowledge of the particular topic.
If one comes up with a state-of-the-art model on some task in a domain, then the contribution is evident to the peer.
Then what is the pur... |
2021/10/16 | 1,890 | 8,049 | <issue_start>username_0: I received a PhD in the US a bit more than a year ago. Recently I interviewed for a postdoc position. The interview went very well, and I think there was a great match between the planned research topics and my experience. Unfortunately a few days later I received a vague email rejecting me fro... |
2021/10/17 | 310 | 1,354 | <issue_start>username_0: As someone who has been offered a position with <NAME> as an associate scientific editor, I am unclear about the career progression in such an industry?
I am currently a 2 year postdoc in chemical engineering in the US.
Is it possible to shift to an industry other than publishing after reachi... |
2021/10/18 | 1,785 | 7,430 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose, hypothetically there is a group project. We can either meet in person or online. The choice is not democratic though because according to the university guidelines, everybody must agree on meeting in-person but if just one person feels too shy and intimidated by meeting real people, we... |
2021/10/18 | 1,101 | 4,829 | <issue_start>username_0: What would be the consequences, for instance, if the reviewer just rejected/accepted whatever paper they got, with a trivial or even nonsensical justification for it? Does the reviewer avoid doing that solely out of concern with the conference's quality?<issue_comment>username_1: They wouldn't ... |
2021/10/18 | 760 | 3,474 | <issue_start>username_0: I have accidentally found myself in a dual submission situation. I submitted it to one journal over four months ago. A few weeks later I sent another email inquiring about the status of the article. After waiting a further few months I assumed I had not been successful and there had been an err... |
2021/10/18 | 286 | 1,119 | <issue_start>username_0: This story happened to me over 30 years ago.<issue_comment>username_1: Strictly speaking, I guess I wouldn't say *asking* is unethical, as they had no power over you (in the sense of approving your thesis, getting you a job), they told you they were offering nothing in return.
However, if they... |
2021/10/18 | 2,389 | 10,386 | <issue_start>username_0: Usually when I write a history paper, I utilize many sources.
Currently I have an article, which will be published, for which citing many sources isn't really necessary. Quite simply, I'm taking a 250-page novel (basically a log book describing an historical expedition in first person), publis... |
2021/10/18 | 628 | 2,667 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm writing a master's thesis about a novel method. It is a multilayered algorithm with very large number of configurable parts and parameters. Furthermore, it involves machine learning and big data, which means each testing run is quite a substantial resource and time-consuming process. That's... |
2021/10/18 | 559 | 2,360 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently, I started sending cold mails to profs for upcoming PhD applications. Two of them replied instantly right after my mail:
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> Thank you for contacting me, I am planning taking graduate students and I have these two xx and yy projects fits your background very well. I strongly encourag... |
2021/10/19 | 902 | 3,676 | <issue_start>username_0: (I am new to the USA academic system, so please apologize if this is very naive.)
In the USA, is it possible to have a full-time job (e.g., industry scientist) and also pursue a part-time Assistant Professor position in academia, with a research/group-leading focus? Have you seen that happen b... |
2021/10/19 | 2,755 | 11,314 | <issue_start>username_0: Below is an email I received from a student whom I'm giving Spanish lessons to. He took a assessment test and failed it. I received this email (which I've attached below) from him today, and I'm not sure how to respond to it. I would like to encourage the student.
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> Dear teacher,
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> I ... |
2021/10/20 | 211 | 878 | <issue_start>username_0: I am based in China and am desperate to find a good email service as a researcher. The university email has suspicious delays and is probably censored. I used to rely on Gmail, but Google is blocked in China, and my emails from my Gmail are often blocked by our university. Are there good email ... |
2021/10/20 | 3,188 | 12,750 | <issue_start>username_0: Summary: My colleague is asking for my help in solving fundamental problem. They are having troubles on basic level, and I don't have time to guide them through it. How I can politely avoid wasting their time AND my time?
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I am a computer scientist (research focused on machine learning and... |
2021/10/20 | 801 | 3,536 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm an undergraduate student studying physics and I'm applying to graduate programs in both the U.S. and the U.K. In my personal statement, I tried to explain the research I'm doing and I included the titles of my publications. I wonder can I add the corresponding URL links to the text in my PD... |
2021/10/20 | 3,125 | 13,360 | <issue_start>username_0: I am decent at learning from videos. But poor at learning from textbooks, wikipedia articles etc. Unless the material is really easy to follow, I am unable to learn most of text content. How do I practice this? Last semester, I read 500,000 words to practice my reading, but I mostly learnt by i... |
2021/10/20 | 5,506 | 22,031 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a PhD in mechanical engineering and am currently a postdoc. I have been fairly productive in my research, published fair amount of papers during my 5 years PhD and 1.5 years of Postdoc experience. I feel confident that I can keep publishing quite more in the coming years too.
But the tr... |