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2022/03/01 | 786 | 3,228 | <issue_start>username_0: When I was a PhD student, I would sign up for 15 minute slots with my advisor, power through the meeting and be out quickly. Sometimes they ran 5-10 minutes over but generally they were highly efficient. Now I'm a new jr faculty member with undergrads and PhD students. So far I rarely finish ta... |
2022/03/02 | 735 | 3,340 | <issue_start>username_0: There have been a few answers and comments on this site where lecturers have noted some useful practices they implement in their teaching, which they disclose in the course outline. Usually this occurs when the lecturer wants to put the students on notice of some practice they have that may dif... |
2022/03/02 | 2,589 | 11,283 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD student and have recently accepted a review request from a (quite prestigious) journal. I wonder whether I should tell this to my supervisor. Of course, the benefit of telling them is that my supervisor might help me improve my review; the drawback is that it might affect the anonymi... |
2022/03/02 | 1,571 | 6,622 | <issue_start>username_0: A few months ago, in our group meeting, my advisor brought up a problem in the field that might be interesting for us to think about it. Although it was not related to my PhD, since I was going for my defense, I started to think about it with another student and prepared a paper and sent it to ... |
2022/03/02 | 1,424 | 5,855 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a month away from graduating in Math. I spent the last six months working on what I consider now a poor master thesis.
I was asked to discuss some connections between model theory and combinatorics.
I think this bad result was due to the topic itself, my poor organization and an even worse... |
2022/03/02 | 914 | 4,360 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm being asked (by my advisors) to include a person I don't even know as author of my new papers, in which they haven't done anything. The reason seems to be that my work is based on source code that was written by the three of them in the past. These people have already published several pape... |
2022/03/03 | 3,019 | 12,853 | <issue_start>username_0: Do research professors generally earn additional money from externally funded projects apart from their university salary? I ask because I'm wondering whether this explains why many professors – who have tenured, relatively well-paying positions – spend so much time applying for and executing t... |
2022/03/03 | 604 | 2,387 | <issue_start>username_0: I am interested in a research topic (say X). I see several survey papers on X, but they all date back to 2013. I can't find a recent survey paper from 2013 to 2022. I feel a need to get a recent snapshot of the X for my thesis and future research. Upon discussing it with my supervisor, he think... |
2022/03/04 | 1,310 | 5,483 | <issue_start>username_0: I have found by absolute chance a doctorate thesis by a foreign author dating from the 70s, having as a subject the village where my parents are from. I was able to order it and have it in my possession.
No one knew about this work in the village, and only a few people told me that they did re... |
2022/03/04 | 554 | 2,295 | <issue_start>username_0: I submitted my work to journal X almost a year ago; the status of the paper remained "Assigned to Reviewers" for a long time, and despite repeated emails, no one from the editorial board responded. After my last email, they recently responded, and the status date has been changed to 22 February... |
2022/03/04 | 1,353 | 5,700 | <issue_start>username_0: A paper I am reviewing very clearly originates from the US. The authors don't use SI units.
As a European, I am always put off by non-metric units and I would like to request to change the units to SI units, not only because I am more familiar with them, but also because it would make the paper... |
2022/03/04 | 3,169 | 12,718 | <issue_start>username_0: I have noticed\* that an undergrad student in a course I teach has "female" written in the "gender" field in the university intranet database (used for course enrollment, grading, etc.), although they present themselves as male in terms of appearance and pronouns.
I would have chalked it up to... |
2022/03/04 | 705 | 3,128 | <issue_start>username_0: I am aware of the ethics around submitting papers to multiple journals simultaneously. I know some people have also asked about submitting [simultaneous papers to the same journal](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/85796/submitting-multiple-distinct-papers-to-the-same-journal). In th... |
2022/03/04 | 3,026 | 12,767 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a female undergraduate student and in a bit of a situation here.
Last semester, I had a male graduate teaching assistant for one of my classes, and I got the very strong impression for months that this TA was romantically interested in me because of his behavior. He'd turn others away fro... |
2022/03/05 | 1,048 | 4,476 | <issue_start>username_0: I am pretty sure anyone can publish an article in a mathematics journal as long as the editors accept it.
In order to publish research or a study that is somehow related to medicine, what do the journal editors require of the persons submitting or credited as authors of the paper?
Or are the ... |
2022/03/05 | 403 | 1,728 | <issue_start>username_0: Do you have any tips for students interested in 2 or 3 areas in the same department but not in the same area? For example, I'm in computer science phd admit in the USA interested in both cryptography and natural language processing. I need to choose now which area to pursue, so it's difficult f... |
2022/03/06 | 631 | 2,404 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a researcher on physics and I was invited to a conference as a speaker at the [1st European Conference on Engineering & Technology ECETECH 2022](https://ecetech.org/). The full expenses (round trip flight tickets, travel insurance, and hotel accommodation booking) will be paid by the organ... |
2022/03/06 | 225 | 972 | <issue_start>username_0: If an external reviewer is invited to review phd thesis, will it be considered as (conflict of interest) if the reviewer was previously the applicant bachelor thesis supervisor?<issue_comment>username_1: It is just something that should be revealed. If you are the student, then ask your current... |
2022/03/06 | 1,738 | 7,588 | <issue_start>username_0: So that they can do better next time. There's usually no transparency or explanation of why they were rejected.<issue_comment>username_1: You generally won't know. That's frustrating because you don't know what to improve. All you know from rejection is that your application “wasn't good enough... |
2022/03/07 | 704 | 3,228 | <issue_start>username_0: Is there some sort of secret trait or skill I can develop to become a more successful researcher?<issue_comment>username_1: I don't know of any trick. But, I started to get better at my research, by trying to understand and replicate what people far more successful than me were doing.
The numb... |
2022/03/07 | 910 | 4,107 | <issue_start>username_0: I showed my research statement for applying to postdocs to my advisor, but that's it. Also the recommendation letter writers looked at it (they requested it, anyway) but have provided no feedback/suggestions. How can I tell if my research statement is too long or too short, if the research prop... |
2022/03/08 | 4,105 | 16,735 | <issue_start>username_0: After PhD and a year of postdoc in mechanical engineering, I accepted a position of a scientific editor with a publishing company. The pay is decent but not great. I have been working in the new role for the past 9 months.
So far I have been finding the job quite interesting though not as enjo... |
2022/03/08 | 353 | 1,591 | <issue_start>username_0: I've come across several documents that say something like "please use the following reference to the whole report:," or "reference to this report may be made in the following form:"
Maybe this is a dumb question, but is it necessary to abide by these suggested references, or are they simply e... |
2022/03/08 | 1,986 | 8,518 | <issue_start>username_0: **Summary**: I am a shy/introverted PhD student and I have a collaborator at another university. They are setting up a meeting for me with an important researcher in the field. What should I even say in a meeting like that? How can I make it productive?
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I am a PhD student and I have a col... |
2022/03/09 | 474 | 1,964 | <issue_start>username_0: I had an interview for a Ph.D. Biostatistics program at a US university. Later, I received an unofficial rejection email from the interviewer after I asked him about my status. However, during the interview, he mentioned that my profile was better suited for the Ph.D. Epidemiology program. When... |
2022/03/09 | 1,963 | 8,423 | <issue_start>username_0: I am 29 years old and have majored in political science and obtained a B.A. degree with it.
I'm asking this question since I want to ask for some advice about in what case would there be any possibility for me of getting into a graduate school that majors in mathematical biology.
The reasons ... |
2022/03/09 | 466 | 1,749 | <issue_start>username_0: I have two accepted papers X and Y. I listed X as a reference for Y. I used "To appear" in front of X in the reference section of Y. But it has not published yet. How can I add volume details of X, while it seems that X will be published after publishing Y?<issue_comment>username_1: I think it ... |
2022/03/09 | 2,077 | 8,939 | <issue_start>username_0: I want to know whether I can visit lectures in German universities as a listener (without being enrolled at the uni). For example, I wish to study in Heidelberg University but want to talk to the people there, but first and foremost go to some lectures in physics or mathematics.<issue_comment>u... |
2022/03/09 | 2,026 | 8,139 | <issue_start>username_0: Several years ago, when I was taking an English language course, one of my teachers said that one of her acquaintances did a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering and became a Headmaster in a Bilingual school.
At that time, I didn't think much about that information. However, since, I am preparing f... |
2022/03/09 | 505 | 2,300 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an international applicant to a graduate program in Canada. I found out last week that at least one domestic applicant already received an informal email from the admissions team informing them that they were nominated for admission, and that they would get the official decision letter thr... |
2022/03/09 | 533 | 2,164 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm in the final stages of preparing my dissertation. I've noticed that former graduates from my department have included the text "© [student's name]" at the bottom of their title pages. Is this necessary to include in a dissertation? What would be the consequences of not including it? (I'm in... |
2022/03/09 | 606 | 2,553 | <issue_start>username_0: I have recently graduated with an MSc in nuclear physics, and am having a hard time finding appropriate entry-level openings for a job. I have looked at multiple openings at several national laboratories as well as private contractors, but everyone seems to either want a full doctorate for a po... |
2022/03/10 | 303 | 1,453 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been asked to give a small presentation as a part of the postdoc interview. The general guideline is that the presentation should foster ideas, roles and vision in the upcoming project. Basically, I have discussed the scientific ideas concerning the project, however what could I add to m... |
2022/03/10 | 381 | 1,676 | <issue_start>username_0: I had been interviewed for a research-based master's position two weeks ago. Since then, I have submitted two papers to top-tier venues in my field.
Additionally, a few days before the interview, I had taken up an industrial role. However, this never came up in the interview. As far as I know,... |
2022/03/10 | 366 | 1,611 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm looking to download some papers from a reference list in an Excel file which consisted of all the basic info about a paper (e.g., author, year, title, publication, etc.) but unfortunately not the DOI. I've looked into many methods for batch downloading papers, but they all require the DOI t... |
2022/03/10 | 711 | 2,821 | <issue_start>username_0: As far as I understand, there are two types of faculties in the universities/colleges:
1. Research + teaching faculties
2. Teaching-only faculties
Do teaching-only faculties get tenures (i.e. permanent employment) in the universities/colleges?<issue_comment>username_1: That depends on the uni... |
2022/03/11 | 2,376 | 10,423 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm 5 months into my 1st data science postdoc and I already feel overwhelmed, intellectually isolated, and now unmotivated. Is this what a bad lab fit means? Let me elaborate below.
I just completed my Phd in CS. The project was heavy on method development with application in Biology. For my p... |
2022/03/11 | 763 | 3,298 | <issue_start>username_0: This coming year I'm going to be starting a quantitative post doc in the United States after finishing a PhD.
Is it typical that I will be expected to fully stop all of my PhD work while I'm at the post doc so that I can focus on the new work there? If not, to what extent? For example, is it o... |
2022/03/11 | 816 | 3,405 | <issue_start>username_0: I received an offer from a top US engineering Ph.D. Program. Let's say this is Program A. I also have another offer program B. Currently, I am waiting on program C's decisions. The potential advisor from C is very positive he will have full funding + offer for me soon. All A, B, and C are my TO... |
2022/03/11 | 425 | 1,766 | <issue_start>username_0: I appreciate the prompt reply.
I sent out my phd application in epidemiology to NYU , but got short listed to interview the department of social and behavioral sciences at NYU, because they sensed my application fits this department better.
I did an interview, and the chairs of the social and... |
2022/03/12 | 1,079 | 4,714 | <issue_start>username_0: I want to ask if it is possible to be a mathematician (while also being a computer scientist reseaching in a mathematical related field).
I really love mathematics, specifically analytic number theory. For example I would like to create algorithms to solve problems in number theory and I alrea... |
2022/03/12 | 716 | 2,801 | <issue_start>username_0: I am soon going to move from India to Norway. I own multiple reference books that will be relevant to my work in the future as well and I plan to move with my books. Several of the editions that I own are marked "for sale in the Indian subcontinent only". One of them bears a sticker "ILLEGAL fo... |
2022/03/12 | 601 | 2,374 | <issue_start>username_0: I am interested in the field of Bioinformatics in the USA.
As far as I know, a Research Assistant (RA) is a Ph.D. student or postdoc fellow working in a funded project under a research professor, assisting them in executing experiments and publishing research papers.
Am I correct?
What else ... |
2022/03/13 | 649 | 2,927 | <issue_start>username_0: There is a trend in STEM: things get more and more complicated over time.
There seems to be two things that are not matching up with the pace of our time: page limit, and page format.
**Page limit**: for example, to me this is anti-interdisciplinary. As results concern more disciplines, it is... |
2022/03/13 | 729 | 3,346 | <issue_start>username_0: I submitted a manuscript to a journal, and the status changed from Awaiting Reviewer Selection to Awaiting Reviewer Confirmation. It has been 1.5 months with no change in status. I'm curious if we are still waiting for reviewers to accept the review of the manuscript, like Awaiting Reviewer Inv... |
2022/03/13 | 1,036 | 4,549 | <issue_start>username_0: The thing I'm most concerned about is that whether PhDs who working on traditional project will find a good way out after graduation compared to those working on hot direction.
Also, for the traditional project, I'm familiar with most basic techniques used since I used them in my undergrad, so... |
2022/03/13 | 1,277 | 5,437 | <issue_start>username_0: I just got some great news that I have been offered a full studentship on a PhD program that's currently my second most favourite option. I have only until March 16th to accept it or reject it. In the meantime, my most preferred option has not gotten back to me yet, even though I even emailed t... |
2022/03/14 | 1,873 | 8,114 | <issue_start>username_0: I have received a reviewer comment that is not understandable. Specifically, the comment asks that I show that X is true, but I never mention X in the whole paper and X is not even related to my work. What should I do in this situation?
Should I:
1. just ignore that comment? or
2. ask for cla... |
2022/03/14 | 816 | 3,330 | <issue_start>username_0: I've been working hard on research with my advisor, and he seems to be happy with my progress. I would like to get an RA position next semester.
Should I tell my advisor that I'm going to cut back a bit on my research time in order to encourage him to give me an official RA position? I've been... |
2022/03/14 | 2,159 | 8,706 | <issue_start>username_0: I noticed that so many field experts in different disciplines (politicians, lawyers) become part-time teachers (next to their full-time job). I'm just wondering, how does (building up) teaching experience actually help them to become more successful?<issue_comment>username_1: There are other re... |
2022/03/14 | 854 | 3,662 | <issue_start>username_0: I've finished masters and I've worked on my independent research for few years but never published anything nor I haven't posted any of my research work in public. The reason I did not publish is that I was working on the project and now I am about to finish it.
Now, I want to apply for a PhD ... |
2022/03/15 | 3,762 | 15,634 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD student in an Applied Math program. Recently, we received our TA assignments for the next quarter. To my surprise, I was assigned to TA a graduate-level class that I had never taken before which covers material I have very little experience with. I wrote an email to the DGS to ask if... |
2022/03/15 | 934 | 4,179 | <issue_start>username_0: I did a virtual campus visit interview for tenure track assistant professor positions in an R1 university in the U.S. I think that I aced a job talk and was good with one-to-one faculty interviews. My supervisor told me that they had not reached out to him for a letter of recommendation even be... |
2022/03/15 | 1,194 | 5,099 | <issue_start>username_0: I was taught as an undergraduate to be very careful when using and citing reprints of older books because they were frequently edited, abridged, or even censored. I was specifically warned not to use the "For Kids" editions of Shakespeare that removed all of the sex jokes and that failure to us... |
2022/03/15 | 679 | 2,841 | <issue_start>username_0: My MSc advisor gave me an idea that was already done and was not expecting me to add anything new but I found new insights, he was not convinced, he never helped or gave me motivation but, I continued anyway and wrote a paper, presented it at a conference, and gained positive feedback and I wil... |
2022/03/15 | 914 | 3,671 | <issue_start>username_0: All of the items on my application for a postdoc position was completed around 2 weeks ago. The prospective PI told me he will take a look over everything and gets back to me in a day or two, he did not get back to me and I sent a follow up email, he replied very quickly with a nice message and... |
2022/03/16 | 987 | 4,136 | <issue_start>username_0: The question **is** pretty vague, of course. But what I'm trying to get is if that has some influence at all.
To put it into perspective: I'm a Physics undergrad student at University of Campinas, which is, undoubtely, alongside University of São Paulo, the top university at Brazil, likewise S... |
2022/03/16 | 3,338 | 14,233 | <issue_start>username_0: I am marking an exam for a course I tutor. One student has given two answers for a particular question in the exam – one answer is fully correct, while the other is completely wrong.
Each answer has full working and explanation of how the answers were derived. It appears that the student wasn'... |
2022/03/16 | 1,302 | 5,696 | <issue_start>username_0: I’m an undergrad researcher at a lab. I started to work with my mentor, a PhD candidate, last year. She was nice at the first, and I learned a lot from her. Quickly, like in 2 weeks after starting my research, I became very independent and started to do experiments and collect/analyze data with... |
2022/03/16 | 769 | 3,438 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently submitted to a journal a manuscript that raises issues about a previous paper published before by the same journal. My submission got rejected but made no mention of our concerns about the previous paper. So I wrote to the editor to suggest that maybe they had overlooked that aspect ... |
2022/03/16 | 1,508 | 6,045 | <issue_start>username_0: I have come across this [iGRAD-Plant](https://www.igrad-plant.hhu.de/application-igrad-plant-class-of-2022) PhD program for early career scientists in plant biology, which is a joint effort of the Heinrich Heine University, Research
Center Jülich and the Graduate Program in Genetics at Michigan... |
2022/03/16 | 731 | 2,907 | <issue_start>username_0: (I have seen multiple questions about how to share datasets in general, but none of them seems to involve the criterion of an open contributorship.)
I want to share a dataset to which *anyone should be able to contribute*.
What would be a suitable platform for such purposes?
The platform sho... |
2022/03/16 | 3,862 | 16,536 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a [Bulgarian](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Bulgarian#Adjective) PhD student in Germany. I am Muslim, but not religious. Our group is international and most of the other students are from developed countries.
Since the day I started my PhD, there is one student (she is not German) in our... |
2022/03/17 | 467 | 1,946 | <issue_start>username_0: I have an engineering degree and work in a giant business corporation. I am currently doing my MBA (in the last semester).
Sometimes the fear of not getting the degree bugs me (I have to present a thesis); maybe it will be really bad and all the effort was in vain.
How do you cope with the fea... |
2022/03/17 | 1,257 | 5,450 | <issue_start>username_0: As academics, professors and researchers possess a high level of subject matter expertise. However, many a times this knowledge is not accessible beyond small circles of people.
In such a scenario would academics be interested in teaching highly specific live online cohort based courses to ext... |
2022/03/17 | 631 | 2,759 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been accepted as a doctoral student (aerospace engineering, US). The email I received suggested that I get in touch with the faculty of my interest to discuss funding and research. I did try contacting two of the professors but have not heard back.
Do you have any suggestion on how to r... |
2022/03/17 | 649 | 2,793 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a student of an Asian country who completed the 2nd year of masters last year and I am applying for PhD positions in Pure Mathematics in Europe.
I know about [this scholarship database website](https://scholarshipdb.net/scholarship-scholarships/Program-Undergraduate) which list open posit... |
2022/03/17 | 644 | 2,807 | <issue_start>username_0: I am teaching a class on introduction to academic research. The papers that I've written have mostly been according to a style that I "just picked up" from reading academic papers, and most of these were CS/math type affairs that involved a lot of *theory* and not much *science*.
**Is there a ... |
2022/03/18 | 1,397 | 6,204 | <issue_start>username_0: Many months ago I informally explained to another PhD student of my chair the main idea I was working on. Today, 6 months after, I discovered that he submitted it to a minor conference, got it accepted and published. In the meantime, I have submitted a long paper to a major journal, where this ... |
2022/03/18 | 1,596 | 6,894 | <issue_start>username_0: I hope all is well,
I find myself in a situation where one student keeps a grim face when I teach. It seems he is not happy with the way I deliver the material. This makes me feel uncomfortable and it affects my mood.
I tried to be nice and accomodating. I also tried to explain why I could no... |
2022/03/18 | 1,603 | 6,907 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm in the jury of a PhD thesis in a small institution in Canada. The candidate has been a part-time PhD student here for about ten years, and is also the founder of a not-for-profit that aims to disseminate the results of his research. Apparently, he received a MPhil degree from the University... |
2022/03/19 | 788 | 3,457 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently found out that a research assistant had made unconsulted plans to present, and possibly publish, a paper as a single author on the basis of a study conducted for their principal investigator. The research assistant was not involved in the original research design and worked under spe... |
2022/03/19 | 489 | 2,059 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD student in computer science at a German university, working remotely on the PhD. I do not get much support from my professor (anymore) in terms of time for discussions and I have little to no relation to the other PhD students. Before Covid-19 I would travel to the city in which the ... |
2022/03/20 | 1,695 | 7,398 | <issue_start>username_0: A PhD student I know is having trouble with their academic advisor. Their advisor is very hands-off (to the level of being neglectful) and has a very sink-or-swim mentoring style. To be clear, the advisor gives next to no mentoring advice and is unwilling to help their students with anything th... |
2022/03/20 | 2,223 | 9,072 | <issue_start>username_0: In 2015, I enrolled in an MSc in Computer Security program with the aim of getting a Ph.D. However, I dropped out of that program as I didn't like it. Then I enrolled in a MSc Machine Learning program in 2016 but again dropped out of that program because it was too hard for me, apparently becau... |
2022/03/20 | 412 | 1,805 | <issue_start>username_0: In 2019, I graduated with a PhD. (I am no academic so that was a massive achievement for me). I had started writing an article on the research however, due to personal circumstances, this was delayed. And then along came Covid. The discipline I did my PhD in was challenging under Covid as it wa... |
2022/03/20 | 1,726 | 7,439 | <issue_start>username_0: If you disagree with most of the research community about some methodological questions\*\*, how should you act as a reviewer of a paper?
**Should you review as most reviewers would? Or should you follow what you think is scientifically correct?**
More details on the disagreement. The typical... |
2022/03/20 | 1,460 | 6,285 | <issue_start>username_0: I know the professors are a busy tribe. I would like to save them some time by writing a letter of recommendation myself and sending them for approval.
Would that be seen as impolite as I am evaluating myself and therefore it is biased? It could be regarded as me trying to cheat.<issue_comment... |
2022/03/20 | 530 | 2,144 | <issue_start>username_0: I plan to apply to graduate programs to get a master's degree. My undergraduate GPA isn't impressive (3.067, can I round that to 3.1 on my résumé?). I completed a certificate program in geographic information systems at a community college, and my GPA there was much better (3.84).
My low under... |
2022/03/21 | 2,550 | 10,423 | <issue_start>username_0: Summary: I am a successful tenure-track assistant professor, but want to move to another department/institute or industry
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I’m an assistant professor about halfway through my tenure clock at one of the top universities in my field. I am good at my job: my group publishes, my students are d... |
2022/03/21 | 655 | 2,606 | <issue_start>username_0: [CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy)](https://casrai.org/credit/) offers 14 roles that, when enumerated alongside a mult-authored publication, renders individual contributions visible.
Here is a simple example from [this paper](https://doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_00158) (involving three authors):
>... |
2022/03/21 | 312 | 838 | <issue_start>username_0: Given a sentence.
>
> We can use A,B,C or other methods.
>
>
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How would each of A,B and C be cited.
like this
>
> We can use A (Citation A),B (Citation B),C (Citation C) or other methods
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>
>
or this
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> We can use A,B,C (Citation A; Citation B; Citation C) or other methods.
> ... |
2022/03/22 | 3,782 | 15,737 | <issue_start>username_0: I thought about my failure in the course a thousand times and could not think of any solution that could have helped me to pass the course successfully.
**Introduction**
In 2017, I was studying a graduate course named "Computer Architecture" ([syllabus](https://www.scribd.com/document/56597... |
2022/03/22 | 1,072 | 4,513 | <issue_start>username_0: I am only starting to learn the French, but I already need to read 1971 French mathematical book (<https://mathscinet.ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=0344253>), others wanted to read it too.
I am considering the idea about my pet project in which I could translate parts of this book in the Engli... |
2022/03/22 | 761 | 3,202 | <issue_start>username_0: In an accepted paper, I have written my acknowledgments to the funding entities and now I want to also acknowledge the fact that this work was mostly carried out in X place thanks to an internship Funding. However, I am not sure if I should phrase it like that or if there is a typical sentence ... |
2022/03/22 | 1,467 | 5,334 | <issue_start>username_0: The source I would like to cite introduces a new concept, and when doing so, the term used to describe this concept is written in quotation marks – however these quotation marks are used for emphasis rather than citing a specific source.
I.e. The source, written by (Example, 1999) says somethi... |
2022/03/22 | 486 | 2,080 | <issue_start>username_0: If a professor shares their office phone number on their website, can I make a call and ask them about postdoc positions? What should I say to them?<issue_comment>username_1: Personally, I wouldn't attempt it. If you interrupt something they consider serious they won't like it much. And, what c... |
2022/03/23 | 1,437 | 5,570 | <issue_start>username_0: In an academic paper, a colleague and I wrote that we "used Python (v3.8.8)" to perform a certain calculation.
The copy editor has asked us to provide the company name and location to complete the citation as "used Python (v3.8.8, \_\_, \_\_)."
We got a similar request for the Python scikit-l... |
2022/03/23 | 477 | 1,985 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently reviewing the proof of an accepted paper for its publication. I have noticed there is a figure whose colors I have chosen very poorly: one of them is yellow and cannot be seen very clearly and when printing the paper in gray scale it is invisible. Also, there is a Figure in which... |
2022/03/23 | 1,140 | 4,878 | <issue_start>username_0: I was interviewed a few days ago for a master degree and the interviewer asked me questions about the degree and the school in general. Some questions were about the learning method they use, the number of people in the class, the internship rhythm, etc. I wasn't able to answer some questions l... |
2022/03/23 | 550 | 2,404 | <issue_start>username_0: I've written an article which is 32 pages long, (including 1.5 page of references and 3 pages of appendices). I intend to submit it to a conference which accepts 20-page long articles including references and excluding appendices, with at most an additional 10 pages for appendices.
The obvious... |
2022/03/23 | 1,206 | 5,071 | <issue_start>username_0: I've fortunately gotten a placement to do supervised mathematical research over the summer. The field is probability/statistics. My research topic has already been given to me. I'm planning on asking this in my next meeting, but I'd like to gather some thoughts ahead of time on what success mea... |
2022/03/24 | 697 | 2,934 | <issue_start>username_0: My PhD advisor recently agreed to fund my research visit for a conference. What is the etiquette for submitting expense bills for reimbursement?
Should I submit bills for all the ubers taken, meals eaten, etc? Or should I mainly just ask for reimbursement for the flight and accommodation?
I am ... |
2022/03/24 | 529 | 2,300 | <issue_start>username_0: I have seen many articles with the "Survey" tag. What exactly does a (survey article consist of? Does it contain all the history and work done related to the particular topic?
**My concern:** Is it ok to write an article as a survey? What are the chances for the acceptance of the article in a ... |
2022/03/24 | 547 | 2,384 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD graduate and I supervised a Master's student in a research work that lead to a publication. The Master student is the first author, then it is me, and then is the name of our advisor. Since I had an equal contribution to the paper, does stating me as an equal contributor affect my su... |
2022/03/24 | 702 | 3,090 | <issue_start>username_0: I was just wondering if a short survey on the literature belongs on a conference paper (10 pages max). Is it an option to submit the short survey (focuses specifically on an area) to a conference and later on the fully developed survey (focuses on all aspects) to a survey journal? Or would it b... |
2022/03/24 | 2,369 | 9,667 | <issue_start>username_0: "No pronouns please" was the first line in the academic's bio after their name—it was included in an invitation to attend their presentation. No other data.
What if you slipped and used a pronoun when you were addressing them? How could you handle it?
It turned out after the event that the pe... |
2022/03/24 | 1,560 | 6,653 | <issue_start>username_0: I have, unfortunately, ended up working with a truly awful co-author on three separate projects. The problem with this co-author is easy to summarise: he contributes almost nothing to the projects, and yet he wants to make all the decisions. As you can probably guess, he is fairly senior (and s... |
2022/03/24 | 1,505 | 6,197 | <issue_start>username_0: In general, it's fairly difficult to get a funded PhD position in the UK, if you're an international student.
An international grad student in the UK has essentially a few options, such as: (1) ultra-prestigious scholarships like the Rhodes scholarship, (2) external funding, e.g. from industry... |
2022/03/25 | 567 | 2,481 | <issue_start>username_0: My dissertation advisor (committee chair) just informed me that he is severely ill and will leave the program very soon. His physical condition does not allow him to continue with any kind of advisory work, and that's happening all of a sudden.
We have been on this dissertation topic for almos... |