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2022/02/07 | 483 | 2,068 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a graduate student at a well ranked US institution A, and my undergraduate was from a very low ranked and small institution B in another country. Sometimes students from institution B (encouraged by my previous advisor there) ask me for the documents I used to get admitted to A. This inclu... |
2022/02/07 | 530 | 2,396 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm going to be brief with this post. We have submitted a paper to journal x. We had two reviewers. Both had comments which we addressed in our response letter. Reviewer 1 endorsed the paper. However, reviewer 2 rejected it cause we did not use western blot to confirm the protein level of gene ... |
2022/02/08 | 486 | 2,167 | <issue_start>username_0: After presenting a paper at a conference, I have been invited to publish an extended version in a journal. The only requirement I have been told is that it must have at least 30% new material and an explicit justification of how it differs from the original version presented at the conference.
... |
2022/02/08 | 473 | 2,097 | <issue_start>username_0: I have applied for a postdoc position in October 2021 by sending my application to the responsible professor by email (as it's the only way to apply) as announced in the poster (in Germany). I got an instant automatic reply email from the professor mentioning that she was away for 10 days. I ne... |
2022/02/08 | 5,883 | 23,840 | <issue_start>username_0: I was looking at faculty jobs, and most of the jobs in UK publish the salary range and band, which (from my understanding) is essentially non-negotiable and adopted by most universities in the UK. It ends up being roughly 65k USD for an assistant professor / lecturer entry level position, even ... |
2022/02/08 | 5,467 | 22,380 | <issue_start>username_0: I passed the interview for a postdoc position some weeks ago, and the department asked me for various documents so they could begin the mandatory background/references check. I sent in the files pretty quickly (~2 weeks ago), but did not receive any confirmation that they got my email, or any k... |
2022/02/08 | 1,587 | 6,710 | <issue_start>username_0: I've been experiencing a phenomenon for a couple of months now that I cannot understand. I'm a first year phd student and I'm working on a problem that my advisor has suggested. I've made some progress, but nothing publishable yet. My advisor however says that I shouldn't worry and that I'm mak... |
2022/02/09 | 631 | 2,695 | <issue_start>username_0: The following instructions were sent to poster presenters at some online conference ([AAAI 2022](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AAAI_Conference_on_Artificial_Intelligence)):
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> Submission guidelines: All posters must be uploaded as PDF files. Posters may not exceed 1 page/side. Recommended fi... |
2022/02/09 | 562 | 2,002 | <issue_start>username_0: I have doubts about which of the university rankings is more reliable in terms of academic reputation, because there are notable differences in ranking for the same universities across different portals.
For example, if I consider a university X, I will find the following results:
a) [QS Worl... |
2022/02/09 | 2,053 | 8,199 | <issue_start>username_0: I finished my PhD in physics in the middle of last year in the UK, and have started my postdoc in Germany. My PhD had a lot of guidance and I met with my supervisor every week, but it's totally different with my postdoc. The big thing is that my postdoc is not a fulfilment of a specific grant f... |
2022/02/09 | 661 | 2,852 | <issue_start>username_0: In the scope of undergraduate college courses, is there any known precedent of being able to drop students from the course due to excessive absences without reason, lack of any real contribution, or little to no performance?
For example, something like:
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> Notice: given your grade of 35% yo... |
2022/02/09 | 2,310 | 9,738 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently enrolled in a Master's program in electrical engineering at a public research university in the midwestern United States. I am currently focusing on power distribution and transmission, as it seems like there are only a small number of well-defined channels between such things and mi... |
2022/02/09 | 3,325 | 13,852 | <issue_start>username_0: Say I plan to share an idea with a professor that has the potential to inspire a biotech startup. **What forward-looking steps can I, as an undergraduate, take beforehand to ensure the professor won't poach the idea and pretend I never spoke with them?** Assume that the quality of the idea meri... |
2022/02/10 | 386 | 1,782 | <issue_start>username_0: I have submitted a paper to a conference, but the reviews are not good and the rebuttal is not going well either. So the paper will most likely not be accepted later on.
The "intend to submit"/register deadline for another conference will be in a short time, which requires a title and abstract ... |
2022/02/10 | 1,451 | 6,156 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a grad student with an untenured faculty. Her tenure dossier was discussed last year and I have heard through the grapevine that she may be denied tenure the primary reasons being her lack of productivity (one article published, one in review at the time of ptc meeting in fall now accepted... |
2022/02/10 | 1,638 | 7,007 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm hoping you can help. My background is that I became a parent at an early age, and chose at the time to prioritized raising and feeding my child over going to college. Doing both really wasn't an option. I've done well, and I've been doing community college courses part-time since my younges... |
2022/02/10 | 1,190 | 5,023 | <issue_start>username_0: I am interviewing for a faculty position at R1 university. I get to the process of scheduling on-site visit but all of the sudden, the department told me they canceled the position I am interviewing for. How common is this (canceling a faculty position during an interview)? Or is it just a "pol... |
2022/02/10 | 248 | 1,115 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm submitting to a conference, and in the part where you're supposed to indicate conflict of interest, they indicate that same affiliation is a conflict of interest.
So I've declared affiliation CoI for those program committee members with the same affiliation as me.
My question is: will thi... |
2022/02/10 | 2,827 | 11,558 | <issue_start>username_0: This has happened a few times. The university is an average, good university in UK. One professor said lately "I'm so sick of this f\*\*\*\*\*\* pandemic." Another time another lecturer said "When you find yourself in a situation when you feel like: how do I solve this f\*\*\*\*\*\* problem? Yo... |
2022/02/11 | 603 | 2,367 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a direct quote in my academic work that is from another academic work. It's something like
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> "We can analyze the execution time as follows."
>
>
>
I had a reviewer say that, since it's now in my work, I shouldn't use "We". What should I use instead? "They"?<issue_comment>username... |
2022/02/11 | 792 | 3,263 | <issue_start>username_0: My company is currently struggling and I might get fired because of it (throught no fault of mine). I did my Ph.D. in this company a few years ago, which they financed (in part), and during which I produced unpublished research work. This work is mostly unfinished, but I still did write up some... |
2022/02/11 | 1,624 | 6,425 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a phd student in mathematics in US. Basically, I worked hard throughout the first two years because of the qualifying exam. After that, I kind of lost steam when I was supposed to start doing actual research and slacked off for my 3rd year (I was also dealing with anxiety and depression iss... |
2022/02/12 | 2,361 | 9,111 | <issue_start>username_0: So long story short is that, while I was doing my masters I have worked with a PhD candidate on a paper. I basically developed half of the system and did all the experiments while I was doing my masters. During my masters they tried to publish the results at different venues, but did not get se... |
2022/02/12 | 430 | 1,874 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm wondering how researchers would keep up with all the new works if they're in a fast moving area like machine learning. There's significantly more research being published, so it would seem to be a major disadvantage to continue working in that area because you need to read so many paper tha... |
2022/02/12 | 684 | 3,203 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a TA. Recently a few students (good students) approached me, because they are having a hard time retaining the information from the main professor's lectures. (They think he is putting too much information on the powerpoints, which makes it impossible to take notes).
Is there a good way to... |
2022/02/12 | 418 | 1,966 | <issue_start>username_0: For Non-STEM backgrounds like Media/Film Studies, is it possible to get a master's degree in Data Analytics/ Data science to go for the desired field? I feel extremely need for a transition into a data analyst role with strong scientific research methodologies, computational and quantitative sk... |
2022/02/12 | 500 | 2,263 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a tutor for a university course that has just had a midterm exam marked and returned to the students. One of the students emailed me asking for summary statistics of the midterm exam: the maximum score, minimum score, and average score of the class. He says that in previous classes this inf... |
2022/02/12 | 732 | 2,892 | <issue_start>username_0: My masters program is in physics. I already have quite some research experience, but almost exclusively in the R&D department of two well known companies. Therefore neither my bachelor thesis nor my internship reports are publicly available.
I have one research paper I published with one of th... |
2022/02/13 | 2,309 | 9,564 | <issue_start>username_0: I was recently asked to be tangentially involved in writing a review paper as part of a research group I am involved in. Originally, I was just supposed to review some sections I have particular expertise in once they had been written.
With the time of year, many people moved positions and I w... |
2022/02/13 | 1,806 | 7,698 | <issue_start>username_0: Some people summarize the content of a lecture to deepen their understanding, but I am thinking about using Wikipedia instead. Specifically, I mean finding the Wikipedia article (in my primary, non-English language) that covers the lecture material and adding any suitable content that the artic... |
2022/02/13 | 1,073 | 4,410 | <issue_start>username_0: What would be the status of a [distance-learning Master's program](https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/subjects/tesol/tesol-msc-distance/#d.en.85695) in academia? Would it fulfill the requirement of an on-campus Ph.D. program?
What would be the status of a [distantce-learning doctoral program](https:... |
2022/02/13 | 786 | 3,440 | <issue_start>username_0: My partner was born outside the U.S. and received their degree from a foreign university. My partner is now living and working in the United States. They have begun to apply to various Ph.D. programs, which all require letters of recommendation from previous professors.
The problem that has be... |
2022/02/13 | 1,128 | 4,637 | <issue_start>username_0: My doctoral project required me to learn a whole new method from zero. My advisor had another student who mastered the technique since his BA studies, and so was much more advanced than me. I asked this student several times to share his code with me, but he claimed that his research was "class... |
2022/02/13 | 1,432 | 6,065 | <issue_start>username_0: I heard some postdocs discussing at a meeting that if assistant professors get denied tenure their students usually can’t find jobs. I think by this they meant academic jobs i.e., postdocs. This seems like an unfair situation since tenure denial seldom has much to do with the student. Is there ... |
2022/02/13 | 2,095 | 8,857 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing a paper presenting a mathematical theorem I recently proved. However, while reading one of the papers that I am citing, I found out that the same result (or something very similar) might be present in the author's Ph.D. thesis.
To be more precise, the author only alludes to the ex... |
2022/02/14 | 749 | 3,221 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a newly admitted grad student for computer science. I've always had an extremely difficult time with taking notes, reading, and retaining information from reading. I find that I'm only able to read a few paragraphs or so before I start to unintentionally skip words or get distracted by my t... |
2022/02/14 | 331 | 1,220 | <issue_start>username_0: Ph.D. Candidate in Social Work. When should I start applying for Tenure Track positions, if I plan to complete my degree by December 2023?
I'm Canadian. And yes, there are Social Work researchers in my country.<issue_comment>username_1: Generally (within the US), new faculty begin at the start ... |
2022/02/14 | 1,509 | 6,291 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a resident of Asia and I have done my master's in mathematics last year(2021) from a university ranked 400 in mathematics in the world. and I am applying for PhD positions in Europe. I didn't applied to USA because instead of preparing for GRE and TOEFL , I wanted to spent that time self-s... |
2022/02/14 | 2,311 | 9,029 | <issue_start>username_0: I completed my masters in mathematics in 2021 and took a break to study more topics in Math before applying for PhD positions.
In december, I wrote to a prof of pure math at the Aix-Marseille University whose interests align with mine asking if he has an open PhD position available.
His reply... |
2022/02/14 | 1,828 | 7,574 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently writing my Ph.D. thesis. The thesis is in computer science specifically the data science domain. The thesis will be based on my 8 first-authored publications in IEEE, ACM and springer. The final thesis will be eventually available online for public by the university library.
Can... |
2022/02/14 | 1,472 | 6,235 | <issue_start>username_0: Apologies if this is a loaded question, the closest thing I can find is [this](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/65938/how-to-publish-algorithm) post and while some of the answers were helpful, I feel I'm not close to solving my problem, hopefully this thread can become a guide for p... |
2022/02/14 | 3,016 | 12,148 | <issue_start>username_0: I started working as a part time researcher in a company during my master degree as part of my graduate studies. I published a paper 2.5-3 years ago based on the data and my work at school.
Last month, I noticed that a competing company patented the idea that was presented in my paper in 2019 w... |
2022/02/15 | 292 | 1,174 | <issue_start>username_0: I started my PhD in solid state physics in 2019 here in US. Due to covid, our labs were closed for about 8months. After that, I could not get any results in 2021 and its been more than 2.5 years into my PhD with no publications.
I wanted to ask the community how concerned should I be. I do fre... |
2022/02/15 | 2,334 | 10,177 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a new professor and am writing my first letters of recommendation. I have an undergrad student that is truly quite good applying to a summer research program at an institution where I have people I know. I don't think these colleagues are on the selection committee of the internship program... |
2022/02/16 | 1,558 | 6,841 | <issue_start>username_0: In cases where new professors at universities or research institutes are given laboratory space and budgets for new equipment, graduate students and postdocs, but assistance in *recruiting* those graduate students and postdocs is not provided, what are techniques that they use to populate their... |
2022/02/16 | 2,717 | 10,707 | <issue_start>username_0: I will have a postdoc fellowship in Germany with a stipend contract, not a working contract. Therefore, I won't have the pension or other social benefits. Health insurance is paid by the organization on a reimbursement basis.
The question is, will any deductions be made, like income tax, from ... |
2022/02/16 | 1,103 | 4,940 | <issue_start>username_0: I helped a friend with an analysis and this will now be published. The analysis only took me two evenings of work and I saw this as a favour to my friend and told them I didn't need authorship in return. In the past, I have helped several colleagues from my own field with analyses and regularly... |
2022/02/16 | 1,954 | 8,498 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a fourth semester mathematics student. I have obtained great grades in Calculus/Analysis II & III. The first two semesters, I would say top 5%.
Have I cheated myself, as I did not use the notes from the professor, I used the books Calculus II & III from <NAME>, that had many interesting e... |
2022/02/16 | 2,451 | 10,398 | <issue_start>username_0: I’m a mature student, starting a part-time MSc. computer science degree after a decade in industry, after previously graduating with a BSc degree. I am out of touch with academia, but I am excited to get into it. I have an open mind to this all and I know it’ll be a bumpy ride.
My first module... |
2022/02/17 | 1,015 | 4,414 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an assistant prof. on a tenure-track in the US, in an institution that was heavily oriented toward teaching when I was hired, but that is gradually gearing toward more intensive research activities.
When I was hired, the faculty in my field were hosted by a department primarily devoted to... |
2022/02/17 | 460 | 1,946 | <issue_start>username_0: I sent my research work to an sci indexed journal. However, it was under review for 5 months.. So we sent query to the editor. After sending the query, the reviewers' comments came just within 4 days suggesting a minor revision.
We sent the manuscript with minor revision but now it is again un... |
2022/02/17 | 1,227 | 5,131 | <issue_start>username_0: I am doing a 3-year PhD in CS (Probability+Logic) at an average university in Continental Europe. I am currently in my final year (which ends JAN -23). I have one top tier (A\*) AI-conference publication and nothing else to show for my two years. But my first paper has led to multiple new ideas... |
2022/02/17 | 1,726 | 6,601 | <issue_start>username_0: This question is an extension of my previous question:[How many days should I wait for e-mail of Prospective Supervisor in this condition](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/181456/how-many-days-should-i-wait-for-e-mail-of-prospective-supervisor-in-this-conditi)
I e-mailed a prof in ... |
2022/02/17 | 1,349 | 6,015 | <issue_start>username_0: I could use some advice from more experienced instructors.
My social science course culminates in a term paper based on independent research.
However, in some cases students end up changing the topic of their term paper because they hit a bottleneck.
In the past, I encouraged them to make th... |
2022/02/17 | 1,519 | 6,372 | <issue_start>username_0: So after a few postdocs in applied math (PhD in pure math), I'm currently outside academia with a part time teaching position in France. I'm in the process of applying to a lab in the South of France for a permanent faculty (Maitre des Conférences) position and I contacted the head of research ... |
2022/02/18 | 761 | 3,196 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a recent PhD (~7 months since I started my postdoc with my PhD adviser) in plasma physics/engineering with multiple conference presentations and 5 first author papers resulting from my PhD in journals such as *Plasma Sources Science and Technology* and *Geophysical Research Letters*. My let... |
2022/02/18 | 818 | 3,721 | <issue_start>username_0: For transparency, I would like to share my accepted papers' **anonymous** peer reviews, if my coauthors unanimously agree. Some journals partner with websites such as openreview.net (which share reviews even for rejected papers), others may have that included in their process, but in most cases... |
2022/02/18 | 705 | 2,875 | <issue_start>username_0: Currently a full-time senior lecturer in a UK university (post-1992, lower middle-ranking if it matters).
I am thinking of going part-time (0.8 or even 0.6) due to physical or/and mental health. Not sure what I am asking here. Guess I am wondering how I may approach this, as I have never done ... |
2022/02/19 | 2,410 | 10,708 | <issue_start>username_0: As a non-native English speaker, I struggle sometimes during my academic writing because of lack of some academic vocabulary.
I have bought many books for academic vocabulary, but I found them to be boring, and even when I memorize a word, I don't remember it when I start writing.
So, what ar... |
2022/02/19 | 451 | 1,882 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm getting a couple bound copies of my dissertation for myself and my parents. Just like academic regalia has meanings behind the colors of the uniform, I was wondering if there was also some standard colorings for the leather that a dissertation is bound in.
Like maybe PhD dissertations are ... |
2022/02/20 | 1,426 | 6,012 | <issue_start>username_0: I had asked a similar question after six months into my current PhD. Then, the question was too dependent on individual factors and hence the question was closed. I will briefly explain the situation now after almost a year and a half.
Pros:
1. I managed to do a detailed literature review and... |
2022/02/20 | 2,375 | 9,782 | <issue_start>username_0: So, I'm reviewing a medical study (open-label trial) that compares the efficacy of different drug doses on a patient population (heart failure). The study is arguably of low-quality, compared to the landmark trials that established the benefit of this drug in this population: low sample size (~... |
2022/02/20 | 2,681 | 11,493 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently a PhD student in a computational lab. My supervisor manages a program that is relevant to our field and which is supposed to be better and faster. Our group is mainly focused on application. (No PhD students are here to code. There was one but they left.) Personally, my research ... |
2022/02/21 | 842 | 3,858 | <issue_start>username_0: I have reached out to a researcher about using their dataset from a paper published 20+ years ago, but they have not responded to my email. There are a variety of reasons why they might have not responded, ranging from being retired, data is destroyed, not trusting unsolicited emails, coveting ... |
2022/02/21 | 1,420 | 6,028 | <issue_start>username_0: **Scenario 1:**
Depending on the length of the talk, I'd show the speaker a 10min/5min "warning" sign that their time is about to come to an end. Arguably, 1-2min "overtime" seems tolerable, but 5mins will delay further proceedings (especially if everyone is doing it). What would be a polite w... |
2022/02/21 | 682 | 2,971 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it normal/acceptable to ask researchers/supervisors you're familiar with (in this case, a professor who supervised me some number of years ago) about other researchers who they've likely to have met? Specifically, I'm having to decide on a researcher to supervise me on a short project, but o... |
2022/02/21 | 403 | 1,642 | <issue_start>username_0: Would it hurt graduate admissions chances if I went to a logic REU or took upper-level philosophy courses? I go to a small school that doesn't offer graduate-level mathematics. What if I applied to masters programs first, would that help?<issue_comment>username_1: Quite the opposite, actually, ... |
2022/02/22 | 1,568 | 6,409 | <issue_start>username_0: I graduated last year from a prestigious university where I was in general a very good student. I am now applying to graduate programs.
The class (upper-level undergraduate mathematics) had moved to an online format due to the pandemic; the first part of the class was in person. (This was 2 ye... |
2022/02/22 | 5,509 | 23,705 | <issue_start>username_0: [Wikipedia article on Certified Teacher](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certified_teacher)
In most countries one must be licensed to teach at pre-school, primary or secondary level. The process for acquiring the license typically involves taking and passing an exam. Example for the Philippines:... |
2022/02/22 | 2,008 | 8,340 | <issue_start>username_0: Tertiary education is very expensive in the USA, UK, Australia, New Zealand, etc.
On the other hand, on average, tuition fees in the EU are 1/5th the cost of that of the USA.
Why don't students from those countries go to the EU for higher education en masse, and how are their higher education... |
2022/02/22 | 452 | 1,608 | <issue_start>username_0: A few months ago I have published my paper in arxiv. Now I came to know that a automatic DOI (digital object identification) number is given to it. Is it ok or normal?
I have no idea about DOI. What is the given DOI?<issue_comment>username_1: A google search will turn up the link to the offici... |
2022/02/22 | 469 | 1,686 | <issue_start>username_0: I’m shortlisted for a campus interview. I am asked if I can do it in few days. I’m nervous because it is very little time to prepare my research talk and teaching lesson. Can I tell them that the proposed date is too soon and would it be possible to do it at a later day? Would it go against me?... |
2022/02/22 | 1,149 | 5,033 | <issue_start>username_0: As a PhD student, I am expected to do research on my own, possibly assisted by my supervisor or colleagues. Like any researcher, I sometimes spend days looking for a small piece of information, sometimes just a single sentence, that answers a question whose lack of an answer was preventing me f... |
2022/02/22 | 1,094 | 4,201 | <issue_start>username_0: As a professor at a university of applied science in Germany, is 600 hours of teaching considered a lot? What does it look like? The job description says:
>
> Die Arbeitszeit beträgt grundsätzlich 40 Stunden pro Woche. Der Mitarbeiter hält in der Vorlesungszeit Lehrveranstaltungen im Umfang v... |
2022/02/22 | 654 | 2,763 | <issue_start>username_0: I accepted a pre-doctoral fellowship at University A with the expectation I will pursue a PhD there. After 3 months into the fellowship, I realized that the program doesn't exactly spark my interest and I cannot see myself spending the next 4-5 years doing this type of research.
Unfortunately,... |
2022/02/23 | 301 | 1,328 | <issue_start>username_0: Unfortunately, I recently discovered that my name was removed from a published piece which I contributed substantially to (it is available online). I have already asked my co-authors, and all of them claim that they did not make the attempt to remove me as author.
Should I call the editor to c... |
2022/02/23 | 1,372 | 5,560 | <issue_start>username_0: I am invited to an interview for a Lecturer (Teaching) position in a (very prestigious both research-and-teaching-based) UK institute. The duty and the responsibilities noted in the job ad clearly target teaching without saying anything about research, say,
>
> Duties and Responsibilities
>
... |
2022/02/23 | 817 | 3,410 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently writing my master's thesis using LaTeX and am struggling with the citations, specifically when referring to software that I've used. I am mostly unsure of how precise the citations should be.
For example, I used TensorFlow 2.7 for the bulk of my work, but I'm not sure if I shoul... |
2022/02/24 | 678 | 2,920 | <issue_start>username_0: I graduated with my bachelors recently and started working full time for the employer I had while I was a student. My employer has offered to pay for my tuition if I want to go back to school for my masters degree at the local university, but I have a slight dilemma.
I made a fatal mistake as ... |
2022/02/24 | 395 | 1,770 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently our group has submitted a manuscript with me as the leading author. The manuscript is about computation and modeling, which involves lots of data analysis. Right now the manuscript is under review.
Today I just found that my manuscript has some errors and should be corrected, and some... |
2022/02/25 | 1,644 | 6,622 | <issue_start>username_0: The professor taught me a course many years ago, while the wife died in a road accident that I learned about in the news.
What should I say at the wake? Can I ask about the professor's research and work, or should I focus on non-academic things?
Edit:
* I don't know the professor's wife.
* T... |
2022/02/25 | 1,083 | 4,595 | <issue_start>username_0: Important Context: I should note that while we are both American and did our BA/MA in the US, both of us have/will have gone abroad for our PhDs. My friend is applying to a university in the UK and has already made personal contact with potential supervisors in this department.
I completed my ... |
2022/02/25 | 3,037 | 13,498 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a postdoc whose contract has finished, and I am in the process of applying for industry jobs. However, I have multiple papers making their way through the submission and review process. My institution is demanding my laptop back, but I don't have a personal laptop, just a phone. So if any ... |
2022/02/25 | 725 | 3,152 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm in a master's program and have already completed my bachelor's, which is the only formal requirement for doctoral study for my program. The first semester went great and I received top marks. This semester, however, I suddenly became gravely ill (to keep it brief: COVID infection triggered ... |
2022/02/26 | 723 | 3,258 | <issue_start>username_0: I'd like to publish a paper in a cosmology journal. However, I've been outside academia for about 3 years since completing my masters. Is there any platform where I can share my idea and get feedback to beat it into shape? Or where it can be critically judged? What is the best way to proceed to... |
2022/02/26 | 1,596 | 7,195 | <issue_start>username_0: Here's the scenario. I am an expert in a subject X and I would like to combine it with method Y to do something new. I have a distant connection to someone who co-authored a book on Y and I approached him suggesting a collaboration. He responded positively as X is interesting to him.
My collab... |
2022/02/26 | 616 | 2,746 | <issue_start>username_0: A common structure of a thesis in computer science has the following structure:
1. Introduction
2. Related Work
3. (Requirement) Analysis
4. Concept
5. Implementation
6. Evaluation
7. Conclusion
Considering such a thesis, I would like to ask how can I differentiate which aspects are part of t... |
2022/02/27 | 2,705 | 11,655 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently working in a group of two where I and another person is supposed to compose code for an assigment we recived. This worked well in the beginning, as we discussed various solutions and tried to understand some concepts of the code language we used.
However, during the weekend I get... |
2022/02/27 | 802 | 3,465 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently doing my third postdoc at an Ivy league university. My supervisor is very famous in his area of research and he was very supportive for me during the first year. However, he waited until the end of the first year before offering me an extension so I applied to a few tenure-track p... |
2022/02/27 | 873 | 3,581 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a first year PhD student in an interdisciplinary STEM subfield, in a UK-style program (so 3 or 4 years long). I have been offered a 12-week internship in a biotech startup working in a similar subfield as me. My university allows graduate students to pause their PhD in order to take intern... |
2022/02/27 | 2,186 | 8,834 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been contacted by the search committee of a Swedish institute to whose (STEM-based) tenure-track position I had applied almost 8 months ago. They informed me that I will have an interview over 30 days after their invitation email. I found that a bit strange because, at least to my experi... |
2022/02/27 | 1,504 | 6,134 | <issue_start>username_0: I have 2 options:
1. I still have a very real chance to graduate with a (quite) legendary gpa, however this option is sort of throwing all of my eggs in one basket, as it makes me very committed (by limiting options) to continuing in academia.
2. Doing a part-time internship (but 30 hours/week... |
2022/02/28 | 1,170 | 4,887 | <issue_start>username_0: Yesterday, I was talking to a guy who has a Ph.D. in organic chemistry, got sacked from academia because of Covid related fund cuts, and he is not being able to find jobs in the industry because, what I realized, his proficiency is poor or nonexistent with computers.
Now, consider another cand... |
2022/02/28 | 1,500 | 6,784 | <issue_start>username_0: Me and my coauthor are writing a (math) paper with a third person who initially has been very active, mainly in the form of conversations and planning, and then after writing some parts, disappearead and proceeded to ignore every attempt to get in touch with them.
Let me note we are aware they... |
2022/02/28 | 1,743 | 7,126 | <issue_start>username_0: I am from a marginalized community in my country whose religion X is persecuted in my home country (which is in Asia). Now, I am in my first year of PhD study in math in a top university in Germany
But this incident happened on Friday: A professor from my country, Mr. Z (of religion Y, which p... |
2022/03/01 | 1,433 | 5,445 | <issue_start>username_0: I completed my masters in mathematics from Asia in August 2021 and joined PhD in Germany in Nov 2021. I had to do a masters project/thesis in my 4th semester (April-August) and for that I asked a prof. in my country but a different university in Jan 2021 as no one in my university was specializ... |
2022/03/01 | 1,134 | 4,824 | <issue_start>username_0: I am wondering whether a company employee can take a role of associate editor of a scientific journal. Let's take the following example.
Suppose I am a university professor, and my role is teaching and guiding students and doing research. At the same time, I am also taking a role as an associa... |
2022/03/01 | 298 | 1,197 | <issue_start>username_0: The preprint version of my article has been already published in arXiv. Now I want to add the ISSN of the journal that published my publication. Unfortunately, they don't provide any doi. Could you please explain how to add ISSN to an arXiv preprint? Is it like -> Edit journal ref -> Report num... |
2022/03/01 | 719 | 2,841 | <issue_start>username_0: I do not see any questions here about how to convert APA (or MLA, Chicago, Turabian, etc.) style into HTML (**edit: styled with CSS**) for online publication. Since HTML is perhaps the most accessible format for assistive technologies, I'm puzzled. As a professional who helped faculty create an... |
2022/03/01 | 519 | 2,124 | <issue_start>username_0: As part of PhD applications, I shared a copy of my unofficial GRE test scores from a test I took approximately 5 years ago (using a PDF from the ETS that shows the date I took the test.) Now several months later I have received PhD offers but my GRE test scores have expired. That is, my GRE sco... |