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2021/11/08 | 763 | 3,348 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm studying computer science at a technical college. In some courses we perform live coding exams, i.e. we download the code and have a certain amount of time to solve the exam, then we have to push the code to the server where it is graded. (No internet access allowed)
I'm already doing all ... |
2021/11/09 | 2,838 | 12,489 | <issue_start>username_0: I proposed a project about twistor formulations in noncommutative geometry for alternative theories of gravity to a professor to apply for a PhD program in physics in 2019, and though the professor didn't have any publications concerning the theories and techniques in my proposed project, he si... |
2021/11/09 | 716 | 2,888 | <issue_start>username_0: First of all, I am not asking whether it is ethical to round one's GPA. I essentially rounded my GPA by accident and want to know the possible consequences of this.
I applied to the NSF GRFP. Recently, I read that when and how to round one's GPA can be subtle questions, but at the time I wrote... |
2021/11/09 | 614 | 2,691 | <issue_start>username_0: As a part the required statement of teaching associated with an academic job application, I need to explain my "pedagogical practices, observations, and advances". I searched a bit and figured out that pedagogical practices are fivefold, say, constructive, collaborative, reflective, integrative... |
2021/11/09 | 399 | 1,724 | <issue_start>username_0: I am applying for for a PhD psychology program. Does it mean my clinical work, or other awards and leadership recognition's during my education?<issue_comment>username_1: From my perspective, the committee wants to know your overall personality besides all the grades and coursework you send the... |
2021/11/09 | 3,212 | 13,745 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a postdoc in math who defended his Ph.D. a year ago. I have 4 papers where three of them were written by me(only author). From time to time, when I don't understand some part of a paper, I send an email to the author and ask them about it. I have been told since I was a student that I shou... |
2021/11/09 | 1,082 | 4,760 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose a faculty member has external funding for PhD students (who would otherwise have TA positions). How do they decide which of their PhD students get funding? For instance, I've seen faculty who give priority to their most senior students or who rotate funding between all students. Are the... |
2021/11/09 | 998 | 4,353 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it possible for an F-1 visa holder who is an international PhD student in the US, work outside of the university?
Also, is it possible for him to establish a company and work for his company during his education instead of doing TA/RA/GSR things?<issue_comment>username_1: Faculty members in... |
2021/11/10 | 977 | 4,316 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm in industry now. I'm applying to PhD programs but don't want to be under a lot of stress so that I can have time to slowly think deeply about problems and explore stuff without having pressure to deliver papers and results. And I want to be able to do other things. Any tips on finding unive... |
2021/11/10 | 2,997 | 12,027 | <issue_start>username_0: I have posted here before about the issues with my PhD, but now I get the feeling that I am suffering from burnout and I need to know what to do next. My degree is costing a lot of money and I feel like I have no interest in it any longer. I am currently five years in to a seven-year part time ... |
2021/11/10 | 3,649 | 15,845 | <issue_start>username_0: I am trying to self-study a graduate-level physics book that was recommended to me, but it doesn't have any exercises. Also, it's a specific enough topic to where I can't really find any other textbooks that cover all of the same topics. What are some good ways to learn this book besides just r... |
2021/11/11 | 3,561 | 15,436 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm legitimately looking for advice and to try to take control of my life and my job prospects post-graduation, but also feel that I can't portray the challenge of my situation honestly without recognizing that my supervisor really does carry quite a lot of blame here.
If it helps, she is pret... |
2021/11/11 | 546 | 2,332 | <issue_start>username_0: I just submitted my doctoral thesis yesterday. I finished my project two years ago and published it in a high level journal. My supervisor asked me to give the co-first author position to a postdoc, although there isn't any input from her. After a long time of struggeling, I agreed, because oth... |
2021/11/11 | 295 | 1,310 | <issue_start>username_0: I am wondering if postdoctoral positions come with unemployment insurance. I specifically want to know about this in UK and Canada. I know research positions in Germany for instance benefit from public service rules. Therefore, one can claim insurance in Germany after postdoc contracts end.
Mo... |
2021/11/11 | 550 | 2,394 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a PhD student and I'm collaborating in a project with a more experienced researcher. This is the first time I collaborate with anyone, so I'm new to this. Recently, in the subject we are investigating, there were two related things to be studied. I started one and he started doing the other... |
2021/11/11 | 530 | 2,412 | <issue_start>username_0: I am going to apply for a postdoc position in the US. Application requirements include a cover letter and research statement.
I am not a native English speaker and in my department, unfortunately, there is no natives. My question is whether (i) it would be useful/necessary to have both texts c... |
2021/11/12 | 1,357 | 5,757 | <issue_start>username_0: I remember that I had a course in college called "Integration Project" and we had to do surveys, I went to the local mall to do surveys to people, everything fine. Then I discovered that my other team members were falsifying the survey responses because of lack of time.
The results of the surv... |
2021/11/12 | 668 | 1,888 | <issue_start>username_0: in APA 7, How do I cite works that have text cited previously.
For example:
Author Smith (2020) has a sentence in published works:
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> This is an important sentence (Jones, 2010; Franks, 2011; & Gates, 2014)
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I want to use this sentence.
I'm a little confused on APA 7 rules. Does ... |
2021/11/12 | 451 | 1,960 | <issue_start>username_0: For starts, I'm a math major and physics minor.
**TLDR**:
I'm applying to math graduate schools. Should I submit a letter of recommendation from a physics professor?
**Longer version**:
I'm applying to math graduate schools. More specifically, I'm applying to math programs that do research ... |
2021/11/13 | 1,912 | 7,990 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently into a very worrying situation. I landed a position as a PostDoc about 2 years ago, to join a new project and I was really excited about it. However, ever since I started, I have found myself with difficulties to obtain results, to the point that in these two years I have not bee... |
2021/11/13 | 3,905 | 15,768 | <issue_start>username_0: Tenure track professors at USA R1s, ideally in STEM, help me understand: in 2021 what advantages do professors have over equivalent industry and government researchers?
I am tenure track at a top 5 university in my area. I have been building a lab with another pre-tenure professor. She is leav... |
2021/11/13 | 1,682 | 7,111 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently applied and interviewed for a post doc position in a leading scientific institution in Australia.
I never thought I'd get the position, and the reason why I interviewed was to get more experience in speaking up. However, I got the position, and now I'm really conflicted as if I shoul... |
2021/11/13 | 395 | 1,835 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm curious to know if research outputs as a PhD student count by the committee for promotion from assistant to associate professor only those produced during as assistant professor.
I'll appreciate your input.<issue_comment>username_1: Only in the sense that you have a fuller CV. But most plac... |
2021/11/14 | 4,068 | 17,600 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a student of mathematics. I am greatly interested in the subject, but it seems as though my peers opine quite uniformly that I totally lack any sort of talent for it. To give you a few examples:
* One professor suggested in front of a tutor that I was mentally ill and suggested that I fin... |
2021/11/14 | 1,149 | 4,429 | <issue_start>username_0: Other research-focused PIs (or aspiring PIs) how do/would you spend funding to increase your own wellbeing?
My funding stream (R1, USA) allows me some spending flexibility, and my lab is doing well. At the same time, I am a bit worn down. I am considering how I might buy myself greater wellbei... |
2021/11/14 | 1,722 | 7,273 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently enrolled in a Master's coursework program in Australia and I've just completed my first semester. I've been looking into going to law school in Australia after I'm done. I submitted my law school application and I got accepted but here's where I encountered my current problem.
I ... |
2021/11/14 | 722 | 3,102 | <issue_start>username_0: *Alpha* and *Beta* releases are stages in [software release life cycle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_release_life_cycle). Could these terms be used to denote the stages of ripeness of an online course?
The background for this question is that I have created a website to sell and teac... |
2021/11/14 | 469 | 1,987 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it necessary to have all skills asked in advertisement to get a post doc.? I have very ordinary PhD and due to COVID I spent very little time in lab , although I leant some techniques bit I can’t say I am an expert in these area but I am ready to learn and move ahead. Can I apply positions w... |
2021/11/14 | 480 | 2,143 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a paper that was recently accepted for a conference. I have already submitted the camera ready version and accepted the copyright terms etc. However, I now believe my design and results are not brilliant the more I look into it. This might invalidate the main claim and conclusion. Am I s... |
2021/11/14 | 1,110 | 4,775 | <issue_start>username_0: A year ago I submitted my CV to an institution of higher learning and they indicated that they would contact me if any openings for instructors became available. At that time all positions in my field were filled.
I just discovered that as of November 1, new positions were posted on their jobs... |
2021/11/14 | 663 | 2,852 | <issue_start>username_0: I got really bad problem. First of all, I am studying for exams, and we have syllabus for exams. And 80% of questions in this exam are repeated from the past year question papers of last 10 years. I have this weird fantasy that whenever I understand a subject well, I want to dive even deeper to... |
2021/11/15 | 881 | 3,421 | <issue_start>username_0: I published a journal paper about one year ago. I used content from other people's work with correct citation, but I described it with the wrong organization name. For example:
***Sam, from NYU, reported good performance of this prediction method in 20XX. (Sam, 20XX)***.
Although the citation... |
2021/11/15 | 532 | 2,002 | <issue_start>username_0: I would like to describe my used machine learning methods in the methodology of my thesis and my source is **Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras & TensorFlow** from O´Reilly. I anticipate that there is no general answer and it depends on the University, however, if I would like t... |
2021/11/15 | 559 | 2,059 | <issue_start>username_0: There is one section inside a chapter of my thesis that ended up written by my advisor.
As it stands right now, I think it should have quotation marks, and then to add the reference from where it's from. But it's from my advisor, not a paper, book, etc. How can I cite my advisor properly?
Cou... |
2021/11/15 | 579 | 2,424 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an undergraduate student writing a thesis. I am stuck in a cycle of revisions and would like to be able to complete my thesis and move on to other things.
I have both an advisor and co-advisor. They have different ideas about the structure and content of the thesis, and my advisor will as... |
2021/11/16 | 681 | 2,903 | <issue_start>username_0: I submitted an article to a prestigious journal JCR Q1 about 20 months ago. It took more than 6 months for them to send the article for review. But it was worth it. The reviewers did a good job and decided "major revisions". The EiC was very kind to me and made suggestions for improvement.
How... |
2021/11/16 | 986 | 4,004 | <issue_start>username_0: Any guidelines as to what's a sufficient level of "being succinct" research papers?
This confuses me, because it seems to me like "being succinct" is sold as an *ideal* ("a very desirable thing to have"). But when trying to figure out "well how to produce succinct text", then I find as if ther... |
2021/11/16 | 934 | 3,858 | <issue_start>username_0: A potential supervisor asked to speak with me over Zoom, and sent me a Zoom link. However, the day came and went, but they didn’t show up, and haven't replied to my emails (for about 5 days now, as of November 16).
What should the next step be?
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Previously, they had asked for a meeting, b... |
2021/11/16 | 687 | 2,920 | <issue_start>username_0: I am in the process of applying for a Ph.D. and the application process requires several reference letters. Since I only have done significant work with only one supervisor so far in my Master's, I would need to ask from previous professors during my Bachelor's.
Fortunately, the previous profe... |
2021/11/16 | 1,004 | 4,468 | <issue_start>username_0: I am applying for a tenure-track position in a university located in California. While sending the auto-request emails to my recommenders, I just noted that the following information is automatically attached to each request email:
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> Please read the University of California's confidentialit... |
2021/11/17 | 437 | 1,816 | <issue_start>username_0: My paper was accepted by a conference. The paper is limited to 11 pages at the time of submission. But now when I add author information, the paper becomes 12 pages. But I did not see the page requirement of Camera-Ready version. Is the page limit of Camera-Ready the same as when it was submitt... |
2021/11/17 | 1,008 | 4,250 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently pursuing my bachelor's in Mechanical engineering and I am facing this issue since a long time. I study a subject completely and then forget it overtime as I continue to study new subjects. I thought repetition could probably serve me well. But if I start revisiting a subject all o... |
2021/11/17 | 1,967 | 8,535 | <issue_start>username_0: Two years ago, I was about three weeks (fortunately I keep notes) into a postdoc research position with a federal government organization, and I was excited to participate in a meeting with a federal researcher who was asking for help with ideas after a paper was rejected by journal reviewers f... |
2021/11/17 | 2,851 | 12,313 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm must declare at the very beginning that I'm a PhD student that suffers from major impostor syndrome, and very much feel very unconfident about myself or my abilities.
That being said, I recently received a paper to review for a conference, and when I read the paper I felt it wasn't well-mo... |
2021/11/18 | 258 | 1,234 | <issue_start>username_0: I've noticed some potential professors explicitly write to contact them prior to applying if interested in working with them. Why is that?<issue_comment>username_1: Probably to save you and them time, because in the past they have received many applications that were not suitable, or they are o... |
2021/11/18 | 1,019 | 4,413 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a graduate masters student in the Computer Science Field in the final year of my masters program. Recently, in a particular elective course in which I had been doing quite well, I had a major falling out with the professor due to which 70% of internal marks got cancelled. The professor adv... |
2021/11/18 | 492 | 2,205 | <issue_start>username_0: I am working on composite material modification with the combinations X + A + P and X + A + Q (where, X, A, P, Q are different materials). For both works, I used the same testing methodologies (experimental program). Now, I have enough data for two separate research articles on each of the comb... |
2021/11/18 | 950 | 3,849 | <issue_start>username_0: I was offered a UKRI funded position. It was advertised as two positions. I negotiated my salary given my experience and the PI refused. Since I am International, I was waiting for my visa so I attended some meetings with the team. During these meetings, I realised that my level is much higher ... |
2021/11/18 | 846 | 3,822 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD student in physics at a US institution. I've worked with a very good and supportive professor last summer in some area of research. The goal was to try a particular research group and see if it is a good fit. I was not committed to that group. The research work in that group is very ... |
2021/11/18 | 1,110 | 4,678 | <issue_start>username_0: I had to choose my dissertation topic, but due to some technical problems the wrong choice was selected. I wanted to know how much will it affect when I'm looking for a job. My major is accounting and finance and the topic that was chosen is much more theoretical i.e corporate social responsibi... |
2021/11/19 | 1,436 | 6,001 | <issue_start>username_0: I will start working as a postdoc at a university in the UK. I want to apply for a grant as PI and I am afraid to discuss this with my supervisor. Can I apply without telling him? The grant application goes through a university committee. So he will know anyway, but there is a high chance he wa... |
2021/11/19 | 2,893 | 12,754 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a statistics lecturer at a university. For midterms and short exams, I have students use software such as StatCrunch or Excel for computational questions, but not theoretical questions.
The head of department, from a physics background, said to me that using such software to answer comput... |
2021/11/19 | 2,911 | 12,847 | <issue_start>username_0: I am applying to graduate (doctoral) programs for this fall with the first deadlines for application materials being December 1st (as of writing this post it is November 19th).
I asked a professor, who I felt would be my strongest recommender for a letter of recommendation some months ago. The... |
2021/11/19 | 1,317 | 5,509 | <issue_start>username_0: I finished my PhD one month ago. I applied to post-docs and I received three firm offers. Those offers are interesting but are (i) not in the field I would ideally like working on, (ii) are not the most strategic choice for my academic career.
What I would be more interested in, and what would... |
2021/11/20 | 477 | 2,176 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently a researcher shared on Twitter
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> I've reached that stage as a supervisor where the students have the idea, do the math, write the code, run experiments, draft the paper and I contribute by fixing the formatting errors in their bibliography files.
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If this is the case, shou... |
2021/11/20 | 2,357 | 9,598 | <issue_start>username_0: I am the smartest (or nerdiest) person in my class and my classmates who I have spent a lot of my time helping during the school year, whether with homework or explaining parts they didn't understand keep asking me to let them cheat from my paper.
I want to tell my teacher to change my seat so... |
2021/11/21 | 2,521 | 10,680 | <issue_start>username_0: In 2018, I shared an idea with an assistant professor from another university. I shared this because this is an idea many people are working on and are developing approaches to solve it.
My PhD advisor himself is not the one from this problem area, so I had little help from him. This is a proje... |
2021/11/21 | 464 | 1,540 | <issue_start>username_0: My Supervisor has pointed out that Harvard requires different in-text citation styles based on whether it is in Narrative style or Parenthetical.
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2021/11/21 | 2,399 | 10,029 | <issue_start>username_0: I am doing my PhD since 2019 in the subject of molecular biology.
I am at the end stage of my PhD.
Despite the harsh beginning, I put really a lot of effort to become very good in laboratory work and I started spending a lot of time within the lab working at the bench within the 1st year of my... |
2021/11/22 | 1,472 | 6,346 | <issue_start>username_0: In the future, I'm thinking about applying for tenure-track positions in Computer Science at teaching/undergraduate focused institutions. The kinds of places that usually have 3-3 teaching loads and smaller class sizes.
How much grading of student work do faculty in these kinds of departments ... |
2021/11/22 | 1,414 | 6,079 | <issue_start>username_0: What if you opt for the 12-month pay but quit your position before the end of an academic year? (For example, give 30-days notice in December). Do you forfeit your 3 months of distributed pay that would have been paid over the summer months?<issue_comment>username_1: I taught at such places, th... |
2021/11/22 | 1,345 | 5,404 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been working on my PhD for fourteen months now. I had a break only for four days before my PhD. I was busy with my master's thesis before that. During the PhD, I have had breaks for 3 weeks scattered during the last fourteen months. I didn't have a break in the summer, because I was worr... |
2021/11/22 | 1,715 | 7,011 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a postdoc based in Europe working in a theoretical/computational field with a background in physics and am considering leaving academia. There are various reasons for this, but most importantly I have not made as much progress as I had hoped and am pessimistic about my long-term chances of ... |
2021/11/22 | 1,318 | 5,472 | <issue_start>username_0: I noticed that a recent teaching faculty candidate's LORs from an institution outside the US all had not-so-short and shamelessly hagiographic "short bios" appended onto the end. One went on for a whole page, making me wonder who they were recommending, the candidate or themselves.
I've always... |
2021/11/23 | 830 | 3,394 | <issue_start>username_0: I am applying to US universities for Ph.D. so I wrote to some professors from X university. Actually, I wrote them at the beginning of this year but I was late for admission so I did not get any positive reply. But wrote them again last month and one of them replied asking if I have time (that ... |
2021/11/24 | 1,621 | 6,832 | <issue_start>username_0: When writing a book about a subject, if all your text is in your own words, and, contains only commonly known, fundamental, well established knowledge about the subject, which can all be seen in tons of resources, do you need to show any references or bibliography at all - even if you looked at... |
2021/11/24 | 1,505 | 6,087 | <issue_start>username_0: Several astronomers are building up the grass-roots / volunteer organisation [Astronomers for Planet Earth](https://astronomersforplanet.earth) (raising awareness for the climate crisis from an astronomical perspective).
Most, but not all of us have institutional affiliations with various univ... |
2021/11/24 | 439 | 1,898 | <issue_start>username_0: I am looking for postdocs, and I have different postdoc offers.
I am really hesitating between different possibilities.
Some of those offers are interesting, in a dynamic group and they are in eastern Europe countries.
I was wondering if compared to a post-doc in a country such as the U.S for... |
2021/11/25 | 884 | 3,588 | <issue_start>username_0: Consider the [following bolded recommendation](https://ewh.ieee.org/reg/ccece15/files/ccece-word-sample.pdf#page=4) for arranging graphs and tables for an IEEE submission
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> Because IEEE will do the final formatting of your paper,
> **you do not need to position figures and tables at the top... |
2021/11/25 | 468 | 2,122 | <issue_start>username_0: There is a paper that has used **entropy feature** in the **beta band** for subject classification and obtained a specific **accuracy value**. I am aware that there is no context here, but I put these minimal information just to explain my problem. Now I have two subsections under the "Literatu... |
2021/11/25 | 1,971 | 8,310 | <issue_start>username_0: Impact factors and citation counts are widely used metrics to judge the reputation of researchers. However, these metrics can be misleading, and in some cases can be manipulated.
Why do universities place so much importance on citation counts and accumulative impact factors?<issue_comment>user... |
2021/11/25 | 380 | 1,639 | <issue_start>username_0: I am adopting the MLA citation style. If a book is written by a principal author with an editor, is it obligatory to add an editor of the book in citation?<issue_comment>username_1: There are a lot of kinds of editors, but it would be very unusual if any of them contributed to the actual intell... |
2021/11/25 | 566 | 2,476 | <issue_start>username_0: Is publishing a paper only with theoretical knowledge deemed okay? I was invited by an editor (through a lecture series) to publish a paper in an Urban Planning journal. I wrote two articles and they're published recently. However, I don't feel proud instead I'm self criticising and feeling tha... |
2021/11/26 | 1,151 | 4,758 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently came across a very old article of mine. The article was written at the beginning of my career when we were pressured to publish extensively. There is nothing really wrong with the article, but it is written in poor language (my English was very basic at the time) and it has no specia... |
2021/11/26 | 1,123 | 4,439 | <issue_start>username_0: Following this question on SE Academia: [Easy way to see historical trend in keywords in publications?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/3439/easy-way-to-see-historical-trend-in-keywords-in-publications), I'm using Google Scholar and the linked script (<https://github.com/Pold87/aca... |
2021/11/26 | 491 | 2,061 | <issue_start>username_0: I would like to reference thoughts from [a book](https://faculty.ksu.edu.sa/sites/default/files/Modern_labor_economics__theory_and_public_policy_0.pdf), which would be a legal and normal thing to do, but there is a part on the first page of the book which makes me confused. Maybe the author for... |
2021/11/26 | 2,029 | 8,564 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a mathematics student in the US. For a recent exam, I achieved one of the highest scores. The problem is that the final question was intended to be a challenge, rather than one "average" students are expected to solve completely. Most students got only partial credit for their attempt.
I ... |
2021/11/27 | 781 | 2,871 | <issue_start>username_0: I finished my PhD in early 2018. I immediately sumbitted an hard copy at the dept. library and a pdf copy on the online database (open-access), a few weeks later as per Univeristy rules.
1. at the time I found some mistakes - probably due to the stress of the moment- (typos/syntax etc.) and so... |
2021/11/27 | 622 | 2,834 | <issue_start>username_0: I am interested in expanding my areas of research to a somewhat unrelated field, where less than half of my current competences would be directly applicable. To start collaborating with other researchers in a field, it is necessary to have some experience, and ideally, to have some papers publi... |
2021/11/27 | 1,116 | 4,740 | <issue_start>username_0: [How do I improve my ability to learn?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/176879/how-do-i-improve-my-ability-to-learn)
Here is a similar question. I will tell why it doesn't answer my question here.
1. Solving exercises is not my problem. My problem is learning the theoritical subj... |
2021/11/27 | 3,665 | 15,840 | <issue_start>username_0: For the background: I am a Ph.D. student (UK) in a computational field (my job can be done anywhere in the world where there is an internet connection, no experimental work involved). I started around one year ago, during the covid period.
My supervisor is a senior professor, who graduated fro... |
2021/11/27 | 2,602 | 11,104 | <issue_start>username_0: A [recent](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/178407/58912) question mentioned the importance of citation counts and impact factor in evaluations of faculty candidates. There are some good answers explaining why this is the dominant model today.
I'm curious if any other models have achieved ... |
2021/11/27 | 1,359 | 6,066 | <issue_start>username_0: I contacted an author to obtain his data and code for a published paper because I could not figure out how he was obtaining some results, given that I was using the same dataset. Once I obtained the code, I started digging in and I found out that there are many mistakes leading to the published... |
2021/11/27 | 1,254 | 5,559 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an undergraduate student applying to graduate schools. One of my recommenders is my math professor. On the university's webpage and outlook email, his title is 'Fixed Term Assistant Professor'. So I included the 'Fixed term' when I filled out recommender's information on my application por... |
2021/11/27 | 333 | 1,468 | <issue_start>username_0: I sent a manuscript five months ago to an APS journal (American Physical Society) and five referees refused to review my paper in this time interval.
Some of them responded after about four weeks and in the status it is written that: message received (not a report). My paper is about thermodyn... |
2021/11/27 | 505 | 2,130 | <issue_start>username_0: I am applying to graduate school for mathematics. The school I am applying to requires the GRE subject test. I was unable to take it, however (both exams in Spring and Fall 2021 were cancelled due to the pandemic). I ended up emailing the generic grad school admissions office and they said that... |
2021/11/28 | 1,364 | 5,961 | <issue_start>username_0: I am 3 months into a 15 months postdoc in the UK, so I am still into the initial 6-months probation period. My contract specifies I have to give 3 months notice before leaving (plus some further clauses about not leaving mid-term, but I think this is mostly for teaching positions, while I only ... |
2021/11/28 | 1,156 | 5,086 | <issue_start>username_0: Journals allow some leeway for editing images as long as you do not selectively edit parts of the image and the image edits do not change the evidence provided by the image.
In practice this seems to mean that:
* exposure / levels
* white balance
* contrast
Are allowed.
But I am unclear whe... |
2021/11/28 | 550 | 2,363 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an international STEM major graduate. Immediately after I obtained my BS degree in the spring semester, I went on a funded Ph.D. program in the following Fall semester. However, 2 months into the program, I received a very generous "a tenure like" job offer in my home country that guarante... |
2021/11/28 | 1,197 | 5,187 | <issue_start>username_0: I had a collaboration with a group and a paper is published as the result of this study which includes many experts. The study was done in groups where each group had a leader, we had multiple meetings, passed our research notes according to our study, the group leaders then wrote the paper. Ho... |
2021/11/28 | 375 | 1,682 | <issue_start>username_0: I am going to apply for a university-wide position and have already communicated with my target department. The department chair liked my CV and research a lot and strongly suggested I should apply for the position. But since the position is for the entire university, it is not clear if they ha... |
2021/11/29 | 738 | 3,446 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm considering going back into school to get my graduate degree. A large part of my decision is the ability to Open Source all of my code. I'm really not familiar how the idea of IP reconciles itself with University as a concept, my experiences lie in corporate environments, where IP is a clos... |
2021/11/29 | 524 | 2,222 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a 3.8 undergraduate GPA with almost entirely A's in all courses. After obtaining my undergraduate degree, I took courses for fun in various subjects at two remote graduate schools. Because I was working full-time, I was exhausted a lot of the time and didn't focus on the grades. I got mo... |
2021/11/29 | 576 | 2,583 | <issue_start>username_0: I received an email from a person that is completely unknown to me, who claims that they were in an online master's program provided by my university department. They are asking for a recommendation letter for an application to a PhD program.
However, I am a postdoc and don't teach any classes... |
2021/11/29 | 568 | 2,341 | <issue_start>username_0: Making literature review I typically browse google Scholar, cite interesting work, download BibTex from scholar into my .bib file on overleaf - that is it.
Which is more than fine for me... until the publication time, when typically editors ask for detailed and professional bib entries (with D... |
2021/11/29 | 588 | 2,374 | <issue_start>username_0: A question about terminology here...
When creating schedules or timetables for our school, the first thing we do is to allocate a teacher for each course that is to be given. Example:
* John will be teaching...
+ ...Math 1 for student group A
+ ...Math 1 for student group B
* Mary will be t... |
2021/11/29 | 484 | 1,960 | <issue_start>username_0: To give specifics about my questions, I am on track to completing my Master's degree in Europe (Switzerland) and I have been looking at applying to the U.S. in case I cannot get a Ph.D. at my current school.
I have heard through the vines that since I will already have a Master's degree with a... |
2021/11/30 | 941 | 4,035 | <issue_start>username_0: A few weeks ago, I sent an email to a professor in a western European country in the hope of getting a Ph.D. position in the field of management. I have 17 years of work experience and 8 years of academic experience at the same time, I am a 45-year-old man, married, from Iran. Although the firs... |
2021/11/30 | 458 | 1,974 | <issue_start>username_0: I applied for an associate professor position in data science and new technologies. It was a real surprise when the committee chose me out of 16 persons to be the first among many.
After 2 weeks of the notification of me being #1, I was asked to present a potential new course in data science o... |
2021/11/30 | 2,045 | 8,496 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been studying remotely at my university since September 2021. Each of my weekly classes on Zoom has around ten people. I always turn on my camera. But I still do not know any my classmates. Some turn on their camera, some do not. I have corresponded with nobody outside classes.
I want t... |