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2021/10/20 | 1,189 | 5,174 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a MS student working on publishing my first manuscript. I wrote the draft, had it reviewed by my advisor (a co-author), then sent it out to my other co-authors for feedback.
Two of them (out of 4) strongly suggested removing a specific section in my draft, because they thought the results ... |
2021/10/17 | 18,028 | 78,191 | <issue_start>username_0: *This is a special community wiki 'canonical' question that aggregates advice on a frequently-asked question. See [this](https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5038/canonical-question-on-how-admissions-works-in-different-countries) meta discussion. Please feel free to edit this quest... |
2021/10/21 | 1,029 | 4,149 | <issue_start>username_0: Controlling for a specific department/university/fellowship do more desirable students get better stipends? For example, is everyone who's offered an RA position at University of Washington (or whatever) in Computer Science paid the exact same, or are more desired students paid better?
Also, a... |
2021/10/21 | 4,328 | 18,435 | <issue_start>username_0: I speak English with a heavy non standard accent. I'm away from my British university, in a different time zone. No surprise I have to send emails! In September 2021, my Department Chair — who used to be a barrister — emailed me
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> In accordance with the complaints you are facing, you must n... |
2021/10/21 | 558 | 2,367 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a new postdoc working in a project I really like. I've been there for three months and I'd say I'm doing an acceptable progress. My PI is lovely and we get along quite well, however not long ago I found she's advertising the EXACT SAME project that I'm working on, but this time to get a PhD... |
2021/10/21 | 1,796 | 7,577 | <issue_start>username_0: TW: Depression/suicide
**TL;DR** Thinking of quitting my PhD; Don't want to because of the perception that I'd be closing some doors on my future, but in my heart of hearts I know it's probably in my best interest to do so for my health.
Before I get into it, I would like to note that I am re... |
2021/10/21 | 961 | 4,003 | <issue_start>username_0: Can we submit our journal paper(formatted in IEEE-paper style) in arXiv which is already submitted in IEEE journal for review(the paper's decision is not yet made)? or it's mandatory to publish the paper only in arxiv format
Regards<issue_comment>username_1: No, that is often not allowed. Once ... |
2021/10/21 | 661 | 2,760 | <issue_start>username_0: Many research journals and Ph.D. thesis has the requirement of originality for the content.
According to the dictionary, the meaning for the word [originality](https://www.lexico.com/definition/originality) is as follows
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> The ability to think independently and creatively.
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> The qual... |
2021/10/21 | 738 | 2,806 | <issue_start>username_0: It turns out that I am between posts: my last (fixed term) contract ended this week and I have not yet taken up a new post (won't happen until at least February next year and is not yet certain).
In the meantime, how can I present the first information seen on my CV in the best light?
Normall... |
2021/10/21 | 1,021 | 4,361 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a postdoc in math who defended his Ph.D. a year ago. I have 5 papers where three of them were written by me(only author). I have always made some (minor) problems that the most referees (except one referee who read my paper and asked me to revise it; the paper is submitted international Ma... |
2021/10/21 | 620 | 2,604 | <issue_start>username_0: I've made a new discovery.
It has prompted me to make new hypotheses in multiple areas - not particularly related to each other.
I have already conducted experiments to demonstrate these. I am now organizing all the data for publishing.
My concern is, once I publish the initial discovery, I ... |
2021/10/21 | 4,832 | 19,997 | <issue_start>username_0: I’m looking to apply for my MCS at a well-known North-American university – the same university where I completed my BCS with honors. My grades are good, more than sufficient to get into an MCS program. My BCS GPA at completion was a 3.6.
However, I was young and especially dumb in university.... |
2021/10/22 | 879 | 3,652 | <issue_start>username_0: I will hopefully be starting a PhD soon, it will be in the sciences (so at least several hours a day will be spend in labs). It is a 3 year position, with a possible extension to 3.5 years, and it's in Europe.
It is possible that I will also start a job around the same time. It would be a remo... |
2021/10/22 | 661 | 2,640 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm working to prepare my master's degree admission.
So the admission team provided me with a declaration form and I'm want to know what exactly the last two points mean:
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> **Read the following and agree below:**
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> • I will read and accept the responsibility of the Honor Code if I am... |
2021/10/22 | 1,951 | 8,085 | <issue_start>username_0: If you google some obvious search phrases, you will find a number of web sites where students can pay people to take their online exams for them.
If I am convinced that a student has used such a service on one of my online exams, how can I prove it? The disciplinary board at my university has ... |
2021/10/22 | 547 | 1,768 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a Master's student, soon I will be finishing my master's thesis. I am looking for a full-time job and would like to know the exact Entgeltgruppe I belong to. I am studying in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.<issue_comment>username_1: >
> Entgeltgruppe 9b TVöD gilt typischerweise für Beschäftig... |
2021/10/22 | 1,275 | 5,297 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a PhD student. When COVID lockdowns hit I lost contact with everyone else from my department other than my supervisor. I subsequently pretty much lost all my motivation to work, and managed to work an average of 5-6 hours *per week* in the last 18 months. (I'm in a field where in theory I c... |
2021/10/23 | 1,133 | 4,923 | <issue_start>username_0: I started a PhD program in the US in August. My supervisor didn't respond to numerous emails, copied to department staff, for a month. Finally, I got some rather hostile responses -- all caps, abusive language, etc. After that, we had a meeting that was just bullying, condescension and harassme... |
2021/10/23 | 1,081 | 4,920 | <issue_start>username_0: I have completed my BS and MS from India and am applying for a Ph.D. in the US. I just want to know, are international students required to submit certificates along with their transcripts even if the certificate requirement is not mentioned on the program website?
I am confused about whether ... |
2021/10/23 | 1,233 | 5,198 | <issue_start>username_0: We are in a moderate sized group (approx. 10 PhD and 4 postdocs) with a single professor as everyone's supervisor, who is well respected in our field. In our field it is normal that the supervisor is co author on all papers unless it was an external side project / collaboration and so the major... |
2021/10/23 | 4,585 | 17,853 | <issue_start>username_0: TLDR: I love mathematics but can't find a way to study/do research without becoming unhealthily obsessive. Any tips on how not to think about mathematics all the time, on how to manage intrusive thoughts?
**Background:** Three years ago I graduated with an MSc in Mathematics, and published 3-4... |
2021/10/23 | 912 | 3,555 | <issue_start>username_0: In (Dr.) <NAME>'s [Geometric Unity: Author’s Working Draft, v 1.0](https://geometricunity.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/Geometric_Unity-Draft-April-1st-2021.pdf) he has a footnote on the first page:
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> The Author is not a physicist and is no longer an active academician, but is an Entertainer
... |
2021/10/24 | 802 | 3,273 | <issue_start>username_0: I am sent a lot of papers to review, from an expanding set of journals. Currently I am a postdoc on the job market, with little time. Even though recently I only agree to review for better journals, or for journals that haven't asked me before, reviewing still takes too much of my time. Is it w... |
2021/10/24 | 639 | 2,664 | <issue_start>username_0: I am applying for a a Master's in Computer science at United States as an International Student. If I mention the names of a couple of professors of the university in my SOP, and indicate that I find their research interesting, would it be helpful since it indicates I have done some research ab... |
2021/10/24 | 593 | 2,502 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently found a case of duplicate publishing and at the same time conflict of interests. Here is the case:
Someone sent a paper (in Persian) as the sole author in a scientific Persian journal. Submission date is Jan 1, 2020 and acceptance date is Aug 8, 2020. Based on the author academic ba... |
2021/10/25 | 573 | 2,365 | <issue_start>username_0: A few days ago I have uploaded my article to the EM system. Next, I downloaded the generated PDF and everything was seen perfect. However, yesterday the Elsevier support team sent an email to me saying "There appears to be an error in the file [ 00main.tex ] that prevents the PDF from building ... |
2021/10/25 | 1,222 | 5,210 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm writing a commentary-ish paper on what NOT to do on peer-reviews. Like many of you here, I've received numerous reviews ranging from very good and constructive to absolute garbage.
Some background:
Some of the notably bad ones include recommending rejection entirely because of the sample ... |
2021/10/25 | 418 | 1,708 | <issue_start>username_0: I graduated from my master studies 1.5 year ago (almost). Could this gap affect my attempts for setting foot into a PhD?
I have to say that all that time I acquired 2 certifications in different languages as well as one professional certificate for advancing my programming capabilities.
I wou... |
2021/10/25 | 958 | 3,502 | <issue_start>username_0: Im a mature student, i am almost finished with my undergrad and looking to continue to a masters or maybe go straight for a PhD.
The end game is to emigrate to the USA to teach in the universities and partake in some research projects.
I was wondering, as i cant seem to find anything online. ... |
2021/10/25 | 1,040 | 4,299 | <issue_start>username_0: Let's say, as an example, that I started a PhD in a lab which works with artificial intelligence, and I'm in a position to work with neural networks. If I'm more interested on implementing neural networks on very constrained devices (let's say, low processing power and small memory), could that... |
2021/10/26 | 231 | 1,044 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently a TT faculty at school A and I am applying to school B. I have my peers' letters from their annual class visits at school A. Can I share them with the hiring committee while applying to school B? I am thinking of including a link to those letters in my teaching statement.<issue_c... |
2021/10/26 | 1,168 | 5,075 | <issue_start>username_0: One of my graduate-level classes had our midterm exam worth 30% of our class grade. Since our class is too big for proper distancing in our usual room, the professor split the class.
Two-thirds of the class would take the exam with the professor, while the rest of us would take the exam in ano... |
2021/10/26 | 760 | 3,112 | <issue_start>username_0: Data from a published study was deposited on the [Harvard Dataverse](https://dataverse.harvard.edu/) abiding by the replication policy of a scientific journal. I have no connections with the scholars who collected the data and published the study, but I am conducting related work so I downloade... |
2021/10/26 | 425 | 1,387 | <issue_start>username_0: Is there any database/resource/website providing the full historical impact factors of a journal?
Scimago gives graphs of citations (kinda IF), but it only backs to 1999. I look for a database having older IFs.<issue_comment>username_1: Yes, check Journal Citation Reports (JCR), published by t... |
2021/10/26 | 1,658 | 7,298 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently a postdoc at one of Europe's universities. I have a grant that covers my postdoc position (1.5 years) and it's coming to an end soon. I have been working with one member of the research group on a research topic. Since the last year, I have been encountering many problems and I w... |
2021/10/26 | 1,373 | 5,700 | <issue_start>username_0: I wonder if this is going to sound silly, I'd rather vent this anonymously online first before taking any action in the real world... I'm doing a Bachelor's Degree in Creative Writing and part of our next assignment is on Mozart. The music they've selected us to analyze is his Horn Concerto No.... |
2021/10/27 | 2,188 | 9,302 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm considering a change in careers and have a general interest in pursuing research in a humanities field (probably history or philosophy) as a future career. As a result I've been researching degree programs, as well as possible future academic careers. However, I'm struggling with figuring o... |
2021/10/27 | 807 | 3,264 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a 5th year Ph.D. student in Computer Science. My advisor thinks that I have made a good progress during my Ph.D. and I should give my Ph.D. synopsis presentation. In the Ph.D. synopsis presentation, the student briefly presents the work to the research committee so that they give approval ... |
2021/10/27 | 525 | 1,726 | <issue_start>username_0: In my paper, I am quoting a sentence which involves a quote from another paper. I am using Chicago style notes and bibliography. How should I do this? See the example below:
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> Hoffman concludes, “Actual class affiliation is not as important for
> the rise of Islamic fundamentalism as ‘an in... |
2021/10/27 | 2,312 | 10,081 | <issue_start>username_0: As a disclaimer, I have to say I am against any kind of censorship. That being said, academics also have a responsibility to their audience.
An academic with a few thousand citations purposefully perverts statistics on covid vaccinations. His statements are all "technically true, but what is t... |
2021/10/27 | 4,873 | 20,531 | <issue_start>username_0: I went to undergrad with someone who I am good friends with. He was always very bright and got into a top tier grad school. I went to another grad school and we're both postdocs now (again, at different universities).
However, in grad school he got involved in some questionable research activi... |
2021/10/27 | 332 | 1,384 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm an undergraduate student applying to the graduate programs in the U.K. I'm preparing the personal statement and have a question about the format. From the website, there are no general requirements on that, but I wonder is it appropriate if I highlight (i.e., make bold) the part in a senten... |
2021/10/27 | 1,534 | 6,271 | <issue_start>username_0: My dissertation is just for an undergraduate degree, but acknowledgements are required. I have sent two direct emails to the internal supervisor who was assigned to me, one introducing myself and one asking for advice. There have also been several emails where they have been copied into, just t... |
2021/10/28 | 1,258 | 5,320 | <issue_start>username_0: Does anyone intentionally make papers shorter in order to avoid grammar or reference errors?
I've pondered this, because it seems like it could be a good strategy. However it may come with pitfalls, such as not saying all that might be necessary.
But having fewer words and sentences would mak... |
2021/10/28 | 917 | 3,927 | <issue_start>username_0: In a meeting for a potential PostDoc place, I want to talk to the professor about potential collaborations and working together. I've learnt that independent papers are a must for my career. I also know that I am able to do this but perhaps not entirely independently. For example, I may produce... |
2021/10/28 | 1,511 | 6,537 | <issue_start>username_0: This question is an extension of this particular question: [Is this way of writing e-mails to professors asking for funded PhD positions to work under their supervision good?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/173122/is-this-way-of-writing-e-mails-to-professors-asking-for-funded-phd-... |
2021/10/28 | 377 | 1,658 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm writing the introduction to my Ph.D. thesis in theoretical physics. It is fairly interdisciplinary sandwich thesis. I have already written a Background section were I write some of the necessary background knowledge necessary to the motivations and the context of the paper. So I am left wit... |
2021/10/28 | 1,599 | 7,096 | <issue_start>username_0: I had a very bad PhD experience which has led to complete loss of motivation to pursue a career in theoretical physics. I don't have the motivation anymore to work on topics which are very abstract and, being a postdoc, it is even harder to do this independently. In addition, I find the long te... |
2021/10/29 | 2,263 | 9,803 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a STEM undergrad. Many of my upper division assignments are group reports with a lot of writing (literature reviews, lab reports). A lot of my cohort does not seem to have college level writing skills. Their tone is too casual for scientific writing and oftentimes their writing is convolut... |
2021/10/29 | 496 | 2,078 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm trying to immigrate outside my country and found that all employers require degree certificates before work permit sponsorship.
I've dropped out of college and have been studying at home online. I don't have any college certificates apart from a recent ESL teachers course diploma certifica... |
2021/10/29 | 539 | 2,219 | <issue_start>username_0: I wanted to do a book review for a journal. I enquired the editor whether a book review for the journal is commissioned by the editor or anyone can write. He answered anyone can write and included the following in the mail.
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> We normally invite authors to do the review of the book that we
>... |
2021/10/29 | 3,681 | 15,703 | <issue_start>username_0: **Summary**: I am closing my laboratory, and need to find a new placement for a PhD student who has strong anti-vaccination beliefs. Every professor on campus knows about it. How I can help them find new lab?
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One bright, well-performing individual in my group is unvaccinated (against ever... |
2021/10/29 | 2,346 | 10,148 | <issue_start>username_0: My former postdoc has a new position at an R1 as an Assistant Professor. He is horrified at something I myself once struggled with: he is discovering that his job is a form of management. The individual contributor skillset he succeeded with in my laboratory is one he can no longer indulge as m... |
2021/10/30 | 1,439 | 4,900 | <issue_start>username_0: For defining Impact Factor, [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_factor) uses an example of Nature with the following data
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> 2016 papers = 880
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> 2017 papers = 902
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> 2018 citations = 74,090
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leading to the 2017 Impact Factor of 41.577 for Nature.
Checking th... |
2021/10/30 | 4,400 | 19,163 | <issue_start>username_0: I teach mathematics at the university level. While I do not expect anyone to speak and write perfectly all the time, I do feel that students who emerge from college should not be regularly misspelling words and using poor grammar. So when a student sends me an email using such constructions as ... |
2021/10/31 | 2,033 | 8,597 | <issue_start>username_0: I found out that my supervisor in college translated an unpublished article of mine (in Chinese) into English verbatim and published it in a top journal, without any quotation marks or acknowledgments. I have amounts of email records 5 years ago as evidence, in which my supervisor and I discuss... |
2021/10/31 | 739 | 3,208 | <issue_start>username_0: Some universities do not clearly state that I should not or must not contact potential PhD advisors. For instance, one says it is not "necessary" to contact an advisor during the application process. Supervision will be decided later. Does this mean contact is not necessary but you can do it if... |
2021/10/31 | 510 | 2,024 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm applying for Ph.D. this year. As far as I know, many universities are **strong-committee**, i.e. one has to pass the committee so that he/she could get a Ph.D. offer. But when I contacted one professor at **Yale** (which is also strong-committee), the professor guaranteed that if I apply, h... |
2021/10/31 | 1,653 | 7,296 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a first year PhD student in theoretical physics. My problem isn't strictly due to imposter syndrome, but rather not knowing how I should be spending my time. My supervisor has only given me some vague guidance on what my project should be about, while I hoped to be given some reasonably wel... |
2021/10/31 | 501 | 2,095 | <issue_start>username_0: Do editors have 3 of 4 simple rules they typically fall back on when selecting referees?
Such as picking candidate among recent citations in the submitted paper, or recent citations that appeared in their journal, picking close colleagues? ... are there any likely generalities?<issue_comment>u... |
2021/10/31 | 2,426 | 10,294 | <issue_start>username_0: In normal job-hunting, it's acceptable to apply for jobs "informationally", to learn about new opportunities before deciding whether the new opportunity is better than your current.
Suppose I'm a published MS-level researcher in industry, but have gotten interested in certain research projects... |
2021/11/01 | 1,907 | 7,839 | <issue_start>username_0: Last year, I went to a math conference to present new results in my paper 1, which was just submitted to a journal. Afterwards, a well-known Professor X approached me to discuss the paper. He seemed very interested in the results, and mentioned paper 2, which was written by him and his collabor... |
2021/11/01 | 427 | 1,892 | <issue_start>username_0: I submitted a manuscript to Journal A. After review, 2 reviewers were positively endorsed for publication. However, 1 reviewer and editor suggests publishing it in another journal (B) in the same system. So We agreed, revised, and transferred to Journal B. So my question is:
Will the transferre... |
2021/11/01 | 1,463 | 6,437 | <issue_start>username_0: The question is essentially in the title. Do PhD programs in the United States prefer it if an applicant does not have a master's degree beforehand? This question is particular to **engineering**, as I think the answer varies even within STEM.
As far as I am aware, most US PhD programs will ac... |
2021/11/01 | 1,455 | 6,091 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm in the penultimate year of my undergraduate education and about 20% of the year's grade is a research project. It is essentially an exercise since not everybody is expected to produce much in a way of scientific contribution at this stage. It is however possible to do insightful, publishabl... |
2021/11/01 | 5,611 | 23,183 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a 5th year grad student. This is the first time I am allowed to teach a higher level major course on my own. We just had our midterm today and I am confused as to how to proceed.
On the midterm that I created, the instructions were to "attempt only 5 problems" out of a total of 8. But I d... |
2021/11/02 | 5,389 | 22,196 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm an undergraduate student in the U.S. writing my resume for grad school applications. I'm pursuing double degrees (will have two diplomas) in physics and mathematics (both in Bachelor of Science), with a minor in philosophy. I'm really confused about how I can show the education on my resume... |
2021/11/02 | 1,318 | 5,291 | <issue_start>username_0: Are academic publications meant to be "dry"?
Or are there examples of "nice to read" papers?
Is this subjective?<issue_comment>username_1: Different texts have different purposes. If you buy a novel, then you want to be entertained. If you read a scientific article you want information. Stand... |
2021/11/02 | 1,279 | 5,388 | <issue_start>username_0: You would surely have read the quote which says
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> *If you can't explain it to a six-year-old, you don't understand it yourself.*
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I'm a Master's student in Physics currently in my first sem. Soon, We have to choose an advisor for our Ph.D. There are instructors whose teaching doesn... |
2021/11/02 | 408 | 1,724 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently applying for a PhD position in data science, and my potential supervisor is asking me to write a research proposal. This professor is working on "ML & NLP methods for Digital Health."
I am very interested in NLP technologies, and I really want to pursue a PhD in this direction. ... |
2021/11/03 | 6,050 | 25,455 | <issue_start>username_0: I made a small mistake while teaching a very simple concept. It was mainly a numerical mistake, and the essential parts of the concept were well illustrated. I want to admit my mistake and even though most students will receive it well, I fear to lose my authority with some students, mainly the... |
2021/11/03 | 2,900 | 11,924 | <issue_start>username_0: Follow-up question to [Why do most scientists think Brexit is bad for British science?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/114135/why-do-most-scientists-think-brexit-is-bad-for-british-science)
If Brexit is bad for British science, then naively one would expect that the rankings of B... |
2021/11/03 | 1,435 | 5,837 | <issue_start>username_0: I sent my Review Paper to a journal and it took almost 4 months to respond to me.
In the first decision, the reviewers suggested some revisions. Their comments on the first decision were:
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> Reviewer: 1
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> Comments to the Author
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> The present manuscript refers to the review on TVC... |
2021/11/03 | 1,036 | 4,212 | <issue_start>username_0: I have submitted a draft paper (word count is about 11000 words) to my supervisor in Late July 2021. My supervisor has started editing the paper in late September but hasn't finished it yet. Editing about 30% of the paper is still remaining. Is it normal to take this long? I must mention that t... |
2021/11/03 | 539 | 2,311 | <issue_start>username_0: If you search my website (<https://example.com>) at Google Scholar, you get 400+ results. There are dozens of papers that mention my website because it shows valuable and concise data about thousands of plant and animal species.
The papers cite my website with the main URL (<https://example.co... |
2021/11/03 | 502 | 2,220 | <issue_start>username_0: I am applying for a marine biology orientated PhD in Denmark and they ask for the following:
A research proposal/description of your approach to the above project (max one page excluding references)
The project already has a defined topic although it is quite vague. I am unsure what is expect... |
2021/11/03 | 651 | 2,933 | <issue_start>username_0: I would like to follow a line of investigation but I have some doubts. I'm mathematician and currently finishing my master's degree in Latin America. I know that I have a lot to learn to make impact articles, but I would like to start by publishing results from my point of view with alternate d... |
2021/11/04 | 1,434 | 5,824 | <issue_start>username_0: How do I change British university's mind? I don't want to argue or get into a debate. For privacy, I prefer not to disclose more details. The course isn't science or medicine, so there are not many reasons to study this on campus. I started remote study in Oct. 2021.
Their refusal unnerves me... |
2021/11/04 | 876 | 3,810 | <issue_start>username_0: Follow-up question to If Brexit is bad for British science, why hasn't the rankings of British universities worsened?
For example, Berkeley for engineering and technology even managed to surpass Singapore's NTNU, going from the 6th place to the 5th, under the last 2 years of Trump's presidency... |
2021/11/04 | 1,313 | 5,839 | <issue_start>username_0: I am fresh at teaching computer science. For this subject, students must write an exam. Are there any statistics beyond avg, median, max, min points which you can recommend calculating? Furthermore, can you recommend any visualizations for year over year comparisons or comparisons with various ... |
2021/11/04 | 383 | 1,543 | <issue_start>username_0: I am planning to quit my master degree ( I have completed 14 of 20 months) because I dont feel it will be helpful in my career, I also dont like to do a final Business model plan (which is huge around 180 pages) to get the degree (it must have financial evaluation and more stuff that are not re... |
2021/11/04 | 627 | 2,640 | <issue_start>username_0: Is there a problem with "non-publisher" journals?
Since the web allows anyone to produce information, then is the idea of a "publisher" out-dated?
Why not publish by oneself, rather than through a publisher?<issue_comment>username_1: The main issue in a coherent answer/resolution to this ques... |
2021/11/04 | 866 | 3,683 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently applying for a PhD degree in Canada and one of my potential supervisors from the UK asked if he could ask my Master’s supervisor for reference. So I emailed my ex-supervisor about this but got an automatic reply saying she’s on maternity leave.
However, I have her Facebook and I... |
2021/11/04 | 1,014 | 4,439 | <issue_start>username_0: I've done some work at my industry research internship that has led to a draft of a paper. I am currently applying to PhD programs, and the company at which I interned has a lengthy internal review process which will result in an inability to submit the paper to either a publication venue or a ... |
2021/11/04 | 983 | 4,171 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently working on my second book and I want to make it open access this time. I know there is many way to put the book online (github, bookdown, etc.), but I am worried on how it will be perceived by colleagues to not have the book officially published by a publisher.
**Update**
I am ... |
2021/11/04 | 1,029 | 4,275 | <issue_start>username_0: I’m writing my first recommendation letter for a student (for grad school) who is *excellent*. I’d like to, thus, write a very good recommendation letter. Are there informal guidelines for writing recommendation letters so that my letter does not come off as insincere and reflects the student’s... |
2021/11/05 | 5,784 | 24,994 | <issue_start>username_0: As a Ph.D. student, I have TA'd many classes, and it seems every semester, we have caught at least one person for directly copying homework answers from a previous year's solutions. In most cases (probably 8/10), the instructor does not want to begin any formal academic integrity hearings, so a... |
2021/11/06 | 1,156 | 4,642 | <issue_start>username_0: My advisor has funds for me to use for research from his grant so that I don't have to teach in my final semester. Unfortunately my department is denying the request and forcing me to teach a course to be funded since they are low on teachers. 75% of other students are being allowed to use rese... |
2021/11/06 | 601 | 2,419 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing a statement of purpose for Ph.D. applications in the US and Europe. In doing so, I have come across the idea that I should not use first-person pronouns in formal writing. Does this apply to statements of purpose? How do I describe my academic/research/other experiences in the stat... |
2021/11/06 | 762 | 3,158 | <issue_start>username_0: One of my students is applying to [Caltech](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Institute_of_Technology) for a PhD. He asked me for a recommendation letter. I haven't written a recommendation letter before. He is a bright student and I want to help him.
On Caltech's website, there are fiv... |
2021/11/06 | 2,261 | 9,577 | <issue_start>username_0: Though I don't have a graduate degree, I have original (and rigorous!) mathematics and have been cold-emailing some professors. Unfortunately, none of them want to collaborate online with me.
I really would like to get my research accepted. What can I do?<issue_comment>username_1: Read enough ... |
2021/11/07 | 2,238 | 9,511 | <issue_start>username_0: If I upload my research to researchgate, will this guarantee me copyright? Because I sent my research there and I added it to the site with ease and no one has reviewed it before sending it.<issue_comment>username_1: Read enough math papers so that you have a sense about how they are written up... |
2021/11/07 | 558 | 1,693 | <issue_start>username_0: How do I cite the pullout? Should I just cite the original? What would the bibtex be?
The pullout has information that is extremely useful, and I have not found the thing I needed anywhere else.
(I feel like I'm overthinking this, but this is one of the most obscure formats that I have had to... |
2021/11/07 | 489 | 2,240 | <issue_start>username_0: In a particular math PhD application, there are multiple questions along the lines of "please describe personal experiences and perspectives and what you would bring to our community", as well as a place to attach unspecified "supplemental documents". It appears that these areas of the applicat... |
2021/11/08 | 4,914 | 20,774 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently seeking a career outside of academia (STEM) and every "entry-level" career in my field seems to demand familiarity with dozens of technologies.
For example, here is a data science job from a big tech company:
* Familiarity with at least 1-2 popular AI/ML frameworks and tools -
... |
2021/11/08 | 3,066 | 12,861 | <issue_start>username_0: I am less than 2 months away from the end of my PhD (Europe, bioinformatics/machine learning in cancer research). My publication record is super bad so far, submitted my first paper 7 months ago and now we are retracting it and will submit it again as the handling editor was unable to find suit... |
2021/11/08 | 1,243 | 5,128 | <issue_start>username_0: I need to write an outline of my research for a grant. The orginization I am applying to, NSERC asks for:
"Body text in a minimum 12 pt Times New Roman font"
Well here's a little problem, I don't own Windows and getting my hands on an MS product to write the proposal irks me a bit. I also don... |
2021/11/08 | 2,188 | 9,056 | <issue_start>username_0: I am going to have "entretien de motivation" (interview of motivation) for a graduate school. There is a high change that one of the questions will be like "What are your pros and cons?".
What to say if I can't see any serious cons that can influence my study? I admit that I am not perfect but... |
2021/11/08 | 947 | 3,876 | <issue_start>username_0: There is a one sentence precise definition for a graph theoretical concept that I would like to copy more or less 1:1 into my paper. The only thing I change is some naming as "points" to "nodes" to fit it to the rest of the paper.
Is this assumed plagiarism? The definition is short and precise.... |
2021/11/08 | 291 | 1,217 | <issue_start>username_0: I work in an industry research lab. Some time ago, my team wrote a paper. Despite the core authors of the paper being 2 team members (author A and B), we decided to be inclusive and add 2 additional team members as authors (author C and D), even if their contribution was very limited (basically... |