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2021/12/22 | 1,157 | 4,737 | <issue_start>username_0: I’m a postdoc (at a North American research university), and due to the high cost of living in the area, I’ve been rooming with other people. One of said roommates is an undergrad in a relatively close area to mine (different department).
Now university policies are incredibly vague about this... |
2021/12/22 | 809 | 3,361 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a first-year Physics student and I decide to challenge myself by taking a Math course that's well above my level. I was doing pretty well during the first half of the semester with offline lectures and was averaging an A. Until another wave of Covid hit and I have to spend the rest of the ... |
2021/12/22 | 4,100 | 15,772 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it enough to hold a contract as professor (be it a major university), to use this title in official communications?
What are the rules (also unwritten rules) in your country?
I am interested also in European and Asian countries, besides North Americans.<issue_comment>username_1: In Britain... |
2021/12/22 | 1,237 | 4,912 | <issue_start>username_0: I am interested in a Ph.D. in Robotics (possibly in the UK). But I have been working as a run-of-the-mill software engineer in the industry for the last 5 years. Browsing this forum, I am seeing people express widely varying opinions on how industry experience is viewed in academia.
As a part ... |
2021/12/23 | 601 | 2,365 | <issue_start>username_0: What's the actual difference between what a Mathematical Physicist and a Theoretical Physicist do?
When I look at the curriculum from some Applied Mathematicians from the maths department at my university, the areas on which those work in look quite similar to the one some Physicists from our ... |
2021/12/24 | 721 | 3,023 | <issue_start>username_0: I was recently reading a paper in some journal which described part of their method in the following way:
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> Our goal is to perform [something] on our data, which is drawn from [distribution]. This poses a problem because [reason]. We therefore *took inspiration from Author et al. (1970) and... |
2021/12/24 | 1,337 | 5,503 | <issue_start>username_0: For instance, <NAME>, key researcher in mRNA technology in immunology and therapies got a bunch of awards in 2021 as a result of the COVID19 vaccine being developed based on her work.
Did someone on Karikó's behalf fill out applications and nominations for each of these awards/prizes/medals, o... |
2021/12/24 | 939 | 3,638 | <issue_start>username_0: I wrote to a professor whose area of specialization aligns with mine in pure math and I wanted to discuss the possibility of a PhD.
I got the following reply:
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> Dear X
>
>
> thanks for your message and interest. We can in principle discuss the
> possibility of a PhD with me, but I should... |
2021/12/24 | 238 | 1,106 | <issue_start>username_0: I attempted to reach the corresponding author, for an article I had questions about, but her university e-mail was seemingly disabled because she left academia.
Learning that she started to work at a corporate job, I looked for alternative sources of communication such as business e-mail, whic... |
2021/12/24 | 533 | 2,186 | <issue_start>username_0: I wrote to 6 professors whose research aligns with my interests (all in Europe) on December 21 for disussing PhD opportunities and attached my CV along with the mail. One of the professors replied after 3 hours that he doesn't have an opening. The rest have yet to reply. I came to know that it ... |
2021/12/24 | 941 | 4,183 | <issue_start>username_0: As Chief Editor, Associate Editor, or Handling Editor of scholarly manuscripts, mainly but not solely focusing on cardiovascular disease), I have often the last say on which potential reviewers to invite.
I am becoming more and more conscious of the need to support female authors, and I am not... |
2021/12/25 | 385 | 1,615 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a polymer chemist doing a postdoc. I would like to pursue my career as a researcher. However, I have only 5 publications (all first author) 3.5 years after my PhD graduation. 2 more should be submitted within 6 months.
Will it be possible to continue my career as a research scientist?<issu... |
2021/12/25 | 373 | 1,659 | <issue_start>username_0: I took an online exam a month ago and ran into some technical issues which caused me to do it on another device. I realize now that this can be seen as academic misconduct since it shows me leaving the test page quite a few times near the end and going on the LMS. A month has already passed aft... |
2021/12/25 | 910 | 3,861 | <issue_start>username_0: My understanding is that while a traditional publisher invests its own resources to market and publish a book with the hope of getting enough revenue to cover their costs, vanity publishers charge the author a fee and then the author takes the risk. With the latter, this allows for less regulat... |
2021/12/26 | 984 | 4,292 | <issue_start>username_0: I've been admitted to a **PhD in Curriculum and Instruction** program in the USA. However, both my supervisor's research interest and mine are Education Policy. I also want to work in the field of **Education Policy** after graduation. So, are there any big problems when my program is named Cur... |
2021/12/27 | 509 | 1,957 | <issue_start>username_0: I am about to finish my Ph.D. at the ripe old age of 34. I plan to stay on and try to become a part of the faculty at a university. Considering the time it takes, not to mention the competition involved, to become an assistant professor and then get tenure to become an associate professor and t... |
2021/12/27 | 354 | 1,421 | <issue_start>username_0: I hear this phrase time and time again, mostly from very senior professors:
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> "Do you know the new book by [person]."
>
> "Yes. He was a student of [famous guy]".
>
>
>
Before anyone asks, it's mostly male individuals in the discussion.
What is the social function of that phrase? Th... |
2021/12/27 | 652 | 2,894 | <issue_start>username_0: I am very interested in **artificial intelligence** and its relation with pure mathematics topics such as differential geometry, topology, algebraic topology, analysis, probability, etc. I am finishing my undergraduate degree in mathematics and I also have an engineering degree. I don't know wh... |
2021/12/27 | 1,658 | 7,279 | <issue_start>username_0: Textbooks are expensive. If I want to buy one, I want to make sure that the content will be worth it. The sample chapters on Amazon might not be enough to make a careful evaluation. Some websites offer pirated copies of textbooks for download. Is it unethical to use such services just to evalua... |
2021/12/28 | 618 | 2,662 | <issue_start>username_0: I work in bioinformatics (almost no lab work) in Europe. I have been offered a Postdoc position in California and just found out that I am pregnant. What should I do? Should I disclose my pregnancy this early considering that I don't even have a second heartbeat yet and miss the once-in-a-lifet... |
2021/12/28 | 849 | 3,919 | <issue_start>username_0: I am asking in regards to the European Union ERC grants but this could apply to **any grant application with no set guidelines for references formatting**.
The ERC guideline states:
"*Please use a reference style that is commonly used in your discipline such as American Chemical Society (ACS) ... |
2021/12/28 | 530 | 2,360 | <issue_start>username_0: My manuscript has been in review for several months. I would like it to be published soon because it is supposed to be part of my thesis. I have already contacted the editor and was told that they are having trouble finding reviewers. At the same time, there is another journal within the publis... |
2021/12/28 | 859 | 3,710 | <issue_start>username_0: This question applies to both data set I generated from my own research and public data set I reproduce in teaching.
Suppose in a data intensive course, I used a publicly available data set as an example (with proper citation), and, for purely non-scientific reasons (e.g. to avoid a politicall... |
2021/12/28 | 780 | 3,362 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently received comments from the reviewers on my research paper. In my paper I look at the impact of X on Y and find that X negatively affects Y. One reviewer has commented that while my findings are interesting, they are uncomfortable with the idea because of existing literature that has ... |
2021/12/28 | 572 | 2,639 | <issue_start>username_0: In a final exam of mathematical statistics, a set of required statistical tables are allowed to be used. As a junior instructor of Mathematical Statistics, I want to know whether I can provide a sheet of some useful but huge formulae in the final exam. For instance, in the case of interval esti... |
2021/12/29 | 848 | 3,445 | <issue_start>username_0: I spotted a 2019 paper which literally copy-pastes paragraphs from a 2011 paper and doesn't cite them. The author (who is different than the 2011 paper's) claims that as their own research paper. Should I report this to the journal?
The paper has six pages of copied content. Out of 46, 6 pages... |
2021/12/29 | 2,645 | 10,345 | <issue_start>username_0: In the US, except for professional master's degrees like MSW, one can get a master's for free, in less time (and even get paid a stipend) by starting a PhD then dropping out.
(In my PhD, you could do this with nothing but one year of ordinary coursework and a single modern language test.)
And... |
2021/12/29 | 934 | 4,175 | <issue_start>username_0: As discussed previously, having applicants draft their own recommendation letters (or at least provide inputs) seems to be quite a common practice.
However, I have noticed that a few (American) universities require applicants to affirm that they "will not write any portion or have any involvem... |
2021/12/29 | 644 | 2,829 | <issue_start>username_0: I wonder if it is legal/acceptable to teach standard scientific material for free on youtube. The concern is about copyright issues. I assume that it is okay to upload youtube videos explaining standard results in math, physics, or computer science, given that it is standard and already availab... |
2021/12/29 | 1,270 | 4,933 | <issue_start>username_0: My question is whether it is common for researchers in combinatorics to advertise their results, and then not to publish them? I am motivated by 1 particular example which I will state. But first I suggest an answer: they produce too many interesting results to publish them all. Posting slides ... |
2021/12/29 | 259 | 1,095 | <issue_start>username_0: I am applying for multiple internships over the summer and most of them require 2 LOR's, is it okay to ask one professor to write me a LOR for each? I am a freshman and don't have many teachers who could write me a recommendation.<issue_comment>username_1: Ask a couple of professors who best kn... |
2021/12/30 | 831 | 3,076 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a mathematics PhD scholar (particularly in number theory). I have a question in mind.
In general, a PhD scholar doesn't have much publications (or no publication) upto a certain stage. Suppose I don't have a good CV or personal webpage to track me, except some information in research-gate... |
2021/12/30 | 1,461 | 6,034 | <issue_start>username_0: Here are the details:
I'm a Ph.D. student in mathematics.
A year ago, my supervisor ask me to try to generalize some results, saying that this "question" is given by one of the famous researchers in our domain of work, let's call him X.
Four months ago he asked me to add the name of X to the... |
2021/12/30 | 1,472 | 6,121 | <issue_start>username_0: I spotted a paper with around 106 citations, around which 86 are just the author citing himself. Now I understand that people do this to work on their previous studies, but 86? That's around just 20 citations you've received for your paper. Another paper of his has 96 citations with 87 being se... |
2021/12/30 | 722 | 2,906 | <issue_start>username_0: There is no work that is free of error and people make mistakes :) But that is not what I am after, I am seeing advise on how to go about asking for clarification.
Recently a paper was published in the field of civil engineering in a reputable journal. In that paper, there is a mistake/discrep... |
2022/01/01 | 933 | 4,152 | <issue_start>username_0: (PI: Project Initiator, I get this term from proposal-writing) I am an undergraduate student (and have been off and on over the last 7 [now almost 8] years). I went to a professor at my university with a novel idea. I was able to provide good answers to their questions and they are willing to c... |
2022/01/01 | 1,602 | 6,583 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm looking for an efficient way to organize academic papers on my bookshelf. I'm a CS PhD student and continue to amass a large number of papers that I periodically need to refer to. The PDFs of these are very easy to deal with, but the physical prints end up in small piles throughout my offic... |
2022/01/01 | 941 | 3,992 | <issue_start>username_0: In the world of academia what exactly counts as a **novelty**, when we talk about a novel idea or more specifically when we say **Academic Novelty** ?
I am trying to start writing on a particular topic (details of which I am not at liberty to divulge) but I am a bit confused about the aspect o... |
2022/01/01 | 961 | 4,131 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm in a 3 year pure math BSc in Europe, currently on my 5th semester, definitely can graduate by the end of the spring semester of 2022. I have heard in this SE that graduating earlier than planned (for example in 3 years in the US) is only impressive to yourself, but what about intentionally ... |
2022/01/02 | 1,839 | 7,408 | <issue_start>username_0: So, it is January 2022 and like me, many are waiting to hear back from the universities to which we applied last month. This period feels like purgatory. Since I am an International student, I didn't go through this during my bachelor's and master's. In my country, decisions are very fast. How ... |
2022/01/03 | 785 | 3,412 | <issue_start>username_0: With pre-preprint servers readily accessible, I'm wondering if it is possible for graduate students to directly publish their work without their advisor. Is this taboo?
If a student conducts independent research whose intellectual property has been acknowledged (in writing) by the advisor to b... |
2022/01/03 | 1,371 | 5,776 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a research assistant in an university.
I'm advising some students, in the capacity of co-advisor with another colleague, to write a work which is necessary for them to graduate and which will add points to the final marks they get.
They have sent the work in some time ago, but I didn't ha... |
2022/01/03 | 2,999 | 13,147 | <issue_start>username_0: I have thought about setting up a quiz as part of a job application form (see background below for details), where I ask about 5 multiple-choice questions which are trivial to answer (or require a minimal Google search) for people in the right field, no more than 2-3 minutes altogether. These w... |
2022/01/03 | 696 | 3,184 | <issue_start>username_0: I am going to teach a course in the Winter term and I have access to the solution manual provided by the publisher. Is it legal to share some questions (not the whole questions) with their answers with students?<issue_comment>username_1: You want to check with the publisher. To make this public... |
2022/01/04 | 1,950 | 8,150 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a PhD candidate who applied to a mix of postdocs and tenure track assistant professor positions. I've received an offer for a postdoc fellowship (2-3 year institutional training fellowship) that won't begin until summer 2022, and they've given me a 3 week deadline to respond. However, I hav... |
2022/01/04 | 3,445 | 14,262 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a postdoc in engineering who is interested in doing more "old school" mathematical theoretical research than computational research (i.e., running large simulations on a computer). Theory seems to get negligible funding in my area, but computational projects seem loaded with funding. I have... |
2022/01/04 | 479 | 1,860 | <issue_start>username_0: I am teaching an academic writing course for grad students and part of the course content involves peer review activities on one another's writings. These peer reviews will receive a letter grade.
Do you know of any tools/templates/techniques to facilitate this both from the students perspecti... |
2022/01/04 | 1,644 | 6,140 | <issue_start>username_0: How to systematically become verified of the "textual quality" of submission on time of submission? How to know when quality is good?
Some older posts:
[How accurate are published papers?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/41812/how-accurate-are-published-papers?noredirect=1&lq=1)
... |
2022/01/04 | 350 | 1,471 | <issue_start>username_0: My two year postdoc contract is ending next week. I am looking for a job at a bank in my state now. My university's personnel office has contacted me asking me to resign; that is to say, they're asking me to bring the employment relationship to an end (a few days) before the automatic end date ... |
2022/01/04 | 1,052 | 4,517 | <issue_start>username_0: I am applying to a computational biology job. I want to make it clear that I am extremely interested in the practical aspects of my work, wet-biology generally, and collaborating with / supporting bench researchers.
My concern is that "bench researcher" is a colloquial / derogatory / unprofess... |
2022/01/04 | 979 | 4,195 | <issue_start>username_0: I collected data almost a decade ago with a bad collaborator. The collaborator contributed very little and I didn't want to continue the partnership. When data collection was complete, I ran basic analysis and wrote a short report for the funder. I then set the project aside and moved on to oth... |
2022/01/04 | 242 | 983 | <issue_start>username_0: I was notified via a backchannel that I'm on a shortlist for a competitive top tier postdoc in my STEM field, though some offers were already made. There's no interview process, but is there anything I can do to tip the odds in my favor?<issue_comment>username_1: No. You just have to wait and l... |
2022/01/05 | 1,300 | 5,291 | <issue_start>username_0: Being a PhD student, I just finished supervising my first masters thesis. Now I have to assess and grade it. While I have a grading template provided by the university (listing the different aspects of the thesis and points out of X for each aspects), I am finding it hard to estimate how good t... |
2022/01/05 | 680 | 2,939 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm doing a review of a paper (very well written, I think) for a journal with a fairly good reputation.
This is my first review, and I have a question regarding data availability which is, according to the journal policy, a necessary condition to publish:
>
> The data, code or other digital ... |
2022/01/05 | 3,398 | 14,503 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a graduate student in math (algebraic geometry) and a course I did was simply self studying a 600 pages textbook on algebraic geometry and discussing it with my advisor. As part of the assessment for this course, I need to give a 20 minutes talk. The audience are other graduate students an... |
2022/01/05 | 225 | 955 | <issue_start>username_0: Today I received the result of a PhD program, and they said, "I regret to inform you that the Committee is not able to recommend your admission to the program at this time. However, please note that your name is currently on a reserve list. If a place becomes available, we will let you know imm... |
2022/01/06 | 2,582 | 10,809 | <issue_start>username_0: To give more context, I am in the US.
I am a first-year PhD student in CS, and I was admitted without an advisor. Over the first semester, I have talked to many professors to see if our research interests match. Finally I decided to work with Prof. X, and I told him that. He then followed with... |
2022/01/06 | 1,619 | 7,053 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm applying for a permanent lectureship at a UK university. The candidate brief has a list of essential and desirable criteria. I meet all of the essential criteria, but not the desirable criteria. The application form however, requires some sort of response to each of these criteria (the text... |
2022/01/06 | 560 | 2,210 | <issue_start>username_0: Due to COVID, we have to convert a large number of hand written exams into PDF.
Does anybody have experience with this?
What could be a good strategy?<issue_comment>username_1: A few years ago I was using [Crowdmark](https://crowdmark.com/) for grading, which required scanning a lot. It's a b... |
2022/01/06 | 2,851 | 12,471 | <issue_start>username_0: Every spring (including the spring about to start), I teach an honors course that normally has an enrollment of about 25, with 15 to 20 of those coming from the top few percent of our students and the rest coming from the top 20%. I give a series of quite challenging assignments that require bo... |
2022/01/07 | 1,886 | 7,686 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm interested in the cultural norms of my field (pure math, in US academia) though of course all answers are welcome.
I'm applying to graduate school, and noticed that the personal websites of several current students at top PhD programs include a small list of other top graduate schools they... |
2022/01/07 | 815 | 3,531 | <issue_start>username_0: About a year ago, I quit my PhD in mathematics. At the time, I was working on a project given to me by my former advisor. His contributions were as follows:
1. Explaining the basic idea of the project, along with a few aspects of the problem that might cause difficulty
2. Providing some papers... |
2022/01/08 | 419 | 1,885 | <issue_start>username_0: What if the company behind a reference manager or the people behind it decided to stop the application development and just delete it from the internet. In this case I may lose all my data. So, what is the options that prevent this from happening?<issue_comment>username_1: You could make sure t... |
2022/01/08 | 3,790 | 15,746 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a second-year math Ph.D. student without a master's degree who likes taking math classes and loves [TAing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teaching_assistant) and tutoring, but dislikes research. During the first semester of my second year, I spent about 3-4 hours a week on research while ta... |
2022/01/09 | 655 | 2,754 | <issue_start>username_0: I am supposed to choose between mathematics and biology for the next stage of my academic career, i.e. college at undergraduate level. This will broadly classify my local career options into engineering (if I pursue math) or medicine/related fields (if I pursue biology). This bifurcation is the... |
2022/01/09 | 559 | 2,379 | <issue_start>username_0: I emailed a Prof. in Germany my CV and my research interests and that I want to discuss PhD research opportunities with him.
His reply was the following:
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> Thank you very much for your message and your interest. I do not know
> yet whether or nor I will have the capacity to take on new stu... |
2022/01/09 | 3,536 | 14,299 | <issue_start>username_0: I had a math question and I went to my professor's (now a professor at Harvard) office hours (this was a really long time ago). I asked him and he said, "It's obvious!" I sort of said, "OK." I never did figure out the answer to the question...<issue_comment>username_1: It probably means: "You s... |
2022/01/09 | 705 | 3,122 | <issue_start>username_0: I have opened dialogue with him before and he said he would tell the admission committee about our contact. I have not been rejected yet, but I would really like to work with him (payment does not matter). I am already enrolled in another grad program without many resources, so being able to co... |
2022/01/09 | 989 | 4,464 | <issue_start>username_0: I am considering applying for a PhD in Design and my idea for a Phd project is creating an innovative app. What concerns me is that I do not know how to develop apps, I am not a developer but a UX/UI designer.
So my role would be to research, build the structure and architecture of the app, de... |
2022/01/10 | 1,500 | 6,411 | <issue_start>username_0: Trying to decide between PhD offers got me thinking about the goal of a PhD. I don't mean in a general sense (see [here](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/108792/what-is-the-goal-of-the-phd) for an example), I mean about which area of research to prioritize. Of course, ideally, in a ... |
2022/01/10 | 923 | 4,080 | <issue_start>username_0: Every research job/position I've ever had, I have had some sort of "informal" (verbal, via email) offer, followed by me showing up the first day of work to sign the contract and start. This is in Europe, where salaries for such positions are regulated and public knowledge so there was nothing t... |
2022/01/10 | 6,549 | 26,819 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm looking for a clear, definitive answer to the following question: Is taking someone else's writing, and changing some of the words, inherently plagiarism?
I find resources that describe plagiarism are usually a bit vague around this issue. For example, one commonly-quoted book says this (P... |
2022/01/10 | 6,017 | 24,819 | <issue_start>username_0: I came out on the diversity portion and I am having deep regrets and fears that anybody outside the admissions committee sees it. I doubt anybody on admissions even cares but I need to know that such information will not spread.
I shared this information on a portal that asked for a diversity ... |
2022/01/10 | 2,689 | 10,508 | <issue_start>username_0: I live in an Asian country and I wrote to three professors in France asking to discuss PhD research opportunities in Math.
I introduced myself and told them my background in the particular branch of mathematics (courses done, title of my master's thesis) and e-mailed them my CV along with ment... |
2022/01/11 | 2,092 | 8,795 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently in the process of applying to different PhD Programs, and I have a very specific topic/theme in mind that I would like to work on and that resonates deeply with my personal mission, goals, and expertise.
However, in applying to certain PhD programs, I find that many potential sup... |
2022/01/11 | 790 | 3,464 | <issue_start>username_0: For my PhD experiment, I am using a video game for my control condition, do I need permission from the video game developer?<issue_comment>username_1: That depends on what you do with the video. It is probably covered by copyright and it is conceivable that patent law also applies. If you cite ... |
2022/01/11 | 2,263 | 9,120 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm working on a paper and found myself using certain words very frequently. For instance, the word "condition" or "study" or "group" or "participants" or "the results suggested"....?
I mean I was just looking at a paragraph and realized I had used the word condition 14 times!
Do you have a l... |
2022/01/12 | 1,292 | 5,843 | <issue_start>username_0: When publishing in a non-open access journal, one (*Author*) is usually required to sign a copyright transfer agreement with the *Publisher* such as [this](http://wiki.publishing.umich.edu/sites/mpublishing/uploads/c/ca/Author-journal_article_transfer.pdf).
Now, when the paper includes some wo... |
2022/01/12 | 2,419 | 9,523 | <issue_start>username_0: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives became an almost overnight transformational success in academia beginning one or two years ago (in the US and several other countries such as Canada and the UK). The most visible change is perhaps the introduction of Diversity Statements as a re... |
2022/01/12 | 1,282 | 5,485 | <issue_start>username_0: How likely is an instructor position to be a stepping-stone for an assistant professor position?
I'm a postdoc in the US and currently applying for academic positions in the US. Is it a good move to consider an instructor position at a relatively well-known university relative to tenure-track ... |
2022/01/13 | 586 | 2,611 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a friend from Germany who was a foreign exchange student in the US for a couple of years. She has a master's degree in Political Science from a German university and several years of experience managing academic programs at a university in Frankfurt.
She would really like to work and li... |
2022/01/13 | 2,440 | 10,464 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a first year PhD student in a lab in Europe. I joined the lab 6 months ago and soon afterwards realized that the topic and institute are not what I had imagined it would be.
It took me quite some time of thinking to come to the difficult point to realize that I have to quit my PhD to find... |
2022/01/13 | 465 | 1,954 | <issue_start>username_0: It looks like I'm about to apply for a postdoc position to go back to my former PhD supervisor, with only one PI in between.
Normally as a Postdoc going for a 2nd (or 3rd depending on how you count it) position, the PhD supervisor would be a good person to ask for a reference (one of 3 in this... |
2022/01/13 | 1,386 | 5,638 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it **generally** a **big** case of academic integrity/plagiarism to lie about the date accessed of a certain document or whatever when making citations, at least in the following case?
**The case:** The idea is for procrastinators/crammers who do work at the last minute to change the date a... |
2022/01/14 | 468 | 2,110 | <issue_start>username_0: I've been invited to present a talk at another university on a topic of my choice, and I have decided to share the literature review section of the paper I'm working on and haven't published yet. Wondering if it is okay to ask the organizers not to record my presentation? What's the right way t... |
2022/01/14 | 1,252 | 5,453 | <issue_start>username_0: **Context**
* Under my mentor's guidance and support, I've been working on a paper that has really bloomed.
* It is exciting **technically** and **scientifically** - the technology invented and the new findings it uncovered are both novel and impactful.
* My mentor really pushed me to add addi... |
2022/01/14 | 2,634 | 10,936 | <issue_start>username_0: At my university (in Germany), a discussion is going on for some months. The issue is that some (professors and PhD students) want to establish a policy that, prior to the oral defense of their PhD thesis, candidates should have access to the (written) assessments of their thesis by the examine... |
2022/01/14 | 1,076 | 4,805 | <issue_start>username_0: I received a major revision recently. However, as I was making revisions, I realized that my first draft from a few months ago is badly organized and poorly written.
I want to make some changes to a part that the reviews did not complain about.
My advisor told me to only focus on the question... |
2022/01/14 | 263 | 1,132 | <issue_start>username_0: Does anyone know a software that is able to interpret a report. I need help for regularly marking 90 paper, each about 2000 words. This is ver time consuming. I was wondering if anyone is aware an `AI type software package were it can spot key words.
Many thanks
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2022/01/15 | 2,843 | 12,282 | <issue_start>username_0: I teach an advanced engineering undergrad class online and typically I love and encourage students to ask questions both by unmuting as well as over chat.
I have never had this problem in earlier years, but this time around I have a student who asks so many questions that it's almost disruptiv... |
2022/01/15 | 545 | 2,114 | <issue_start>username_0: Last summer, I was offered a Ph.D. position at a famous University, but unfortunately, while initially I accepted it, then I had to reject it due to significant family circumstances that I explained to my potential supervisor and they understood (at least that's how I understood).
Until last D... |
2022/01/15 | 539 | 2,379 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a person who completed his master's last year and now I am preparing for PhD admissions in Europe. I am from a poor country in Asia.
I have 3 PhD interviews scheduled in last week of January to February for universities in France and Germany.1 interview is with prospective supervisor alon... |
2022/01/15 | 726 | 2,983 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm applying for a faculty position. The required documents include:
1. a letter of application
2. statement addressing the candidate's teaching interests
3. statement addressing the scholarly/performance agenda
4. curriculum vitae
5. contact information for three references
6. graduate transc... |
2022/01/16 | 582 | 2,544 | <issue_start>username_0: I applied to several PhD programs for computer science for this coming academic year. I just received a conspicuously congratulatory email from one of them with an invitation to attend a virtual open house and a link to a page with information about the event.
While the email was very clear th... |
2022/01/16 | 679 | 2,957 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an undergraduate student in physics who has been self-studying certain subjects in humanities/social sciences due to the pandemic. I'd like to gain more perspective on the subjects, but have been unable to, due to the few people I know in the field and the quarantine.
There are interestin... |
2022/01/17 | 2,040 | 8,209 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a master's degree from a university outside of Canada. I recently decided to apply for Ph.D. in Canada and I found a potential supervisor, I like his research area, he has more industrial research projects going on. I like the fact that he gets projects from the industry, and his persona... |
2022/01/17 | 1,202 | 5,084 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a first year CS PhD student, I find myself spend 80% of my independent study time learning many computer skills rather than the contents of my research. Does it mean I am less capable than other peer students? Below are some examples.
* I switched to MacOS from Windows, and I learned basi... |
2022/01/17 | 1,667 | 7,018 | <issue_start>username_0: My theoretical physics paper is being rejected repeatedly at the editorial stage, without undergoing peer review. However, every rejection explicitly states that there is no technical error in my line of reasoning and so far none have questioned the relevance and novelty of my work. After five ... |
2022/01/17 | 626 | 2,534 | <issue_start>username_0: I have applied to a graduate program in the US, and a Professor emailed me that he wants to meet on Zoom to talk about my application.
He gave me some dates when he will be available for a Zoom meeting.
How do I politely request that I don't want to meet at late night (Indian time)?
Will it b... |
2022/01/17 | 1,845 | 7,101 | <issue_start>username_0: It is well known that wealth is not distributed equally; even within a country, the wealthiest families are sometimes *significantly* wealthier than average or poor families.
My question is: does owning wealth mean these higher level groups of society do better academically than those who have... |