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2022/04/22 | 1,283 | 5,606 | <issue_start>username_0: My preprint is on a topic that is based on high-school math and yet contains a fundamental discovery, but it is getting desk rejected from journal to journal because it does not fit the mould of articles that they usually recieve - mine is just 2 pages of which 50% is figures because I rely on ... |
2022/04/22 | 3,585 | 15,668 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently teaching an **elective** course
for undergraduate students in the College of Business,
at a university located in Hong Kong.
Students who choose to take the course
can use the course as one of the elective courses
to fulfill their graduation requirements,
but there are many other... |
2022/04/22 | 793 | 3,166 | <issue_start>username_0: What is the general practice for universities in USA in deciding if there any conflict between receiving 2 month salary funded by an NSF grant (the maximum) and teaching a Summer course (which produces additional salary)?
It is possible very short Summer course may be an exception. I’m mainly ... |
2022/04/22 | 512 | 2,208 | <issue_start>username_0: I have published two papers, say A and B. The core of A and B is totally different but they have a similar background.
The similarity of A and B is <1% using iThenticate.
However, I accidentally found that A and B share two sequential almost identical sentences in the introduction of backgrou... |
2022/04/23 | 940 | 3,915 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a query to ask about a postdoctoral extension. I got the position for 1 year. During the interview, I was told that it can be extended. Now at the same time another person was also recruited (we are both from the same country, not the US). This other person got the postdoc position for 3... |
2022/04/23 | 4,897 | 19,069 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a student of linguistics who works on Marathi. A lot of literature on this topic is available in Marathi language which uses [the Devanagari script](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devanagari), but in the academic literature, I have seen many researchers transliterating the original title, a... |
2022/04/23 | 1,306 | 5,523 | <issue_start>username_0: A few days ago I received an email from the journal Computational and Applied Mathematics
>
> Please be informed you have been registered by our editorial team as a user on the Editorial Manager site for Computational and Applied Mathematics. Information about Computational and Applied Mathem... |
2022/04/23 | 562 | 2,415 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm planning to publish my first paper, and while choosing a journal, I noticed that the journals can be open access or not.
As far as I understand it, open-access journals can be read for free (i.e. without paying subscription fees) by anyone.
Does it imply that I can be published in such a jo... |
2022/04/23 | 1,273 | 5,306 | <issue_start>username_0: I have marked several writing assignments for this course and the grade grubbing from this cohort was unlike anything I’ve ever experienced as a TA.
The primary instructor and I were given a heads up from the previous semesters instructors and therefore we established some ground rules between... |
2022/04/24 | 253 | 1,072 | <issue_start>username_0: So, basically the paper was written and submitted as student. But PhD is over, so not anymore a student. Is there any way to still attend it as a student. The fee for a regular is several times that of a student.<issue_comment>username_1: I do not see it as a problem. You were invited as a stud... |
2022/04/24 | 2,269 | 10,054 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an undergraduate of Animal and Environmental Biology. I don't have much research experience, but I have taken some courses on research writing and have assisted some senior students in their research projects. I want to write a review paper, but I am not sure how far I can go. Is it really... |
2022/04/24 | 681 | 2,979 | <issue_start>username_0: So the mistake is not a major bug, the contributions of the paper remain the same, but still, I feel it was a silly statistical error. Can I correct it, even if the reviewers missed catching it?<issue_comment>username_1: Yes, you should if you can. Presumably the reviewers are not the last peop... |
2022/04/24 | 328 | 1,194 | <issue_start>username_0: I want to cite from [this](https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-662-05328-7) book. It has explicitly marked different authors for the chapters, but there are no editors given on the front pages. Is this then regarded as a monography rather than a miscellany/anthology or do I use all aut... |
2022/04/24 | 582 | 2,554 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an international grad student in a middle-tier mathematics PhD program in the USA. I am still in my first year. Soon after joining the program I realized there is no active faculty who works close to my interest. Also I don't like the city, and one of the reasons is there is repeated incid... |
2022/04/25 | 403 | 1,924 | <issue_start>username_0: We had a paper rejected where I was the first author. The second author and I almost had the same level of contribution to the paper.
Now we are resubmitting the paper to another journal. However, due to my personal business, I cannot work on this paper and its future revisions full-time, henc... |
2022/04/25 | 556 | 2,273 | <issue_start>username_0: I applied for some faculty position in September 2021, and four days ago, I received an email mentioning that
>
> We have now started with the recruitment process and are pleased to
> inform you that your application has been shortlisted.
>
>
> Please let us know if you are still interested... |
2022/04/25 | 1,095 | 4,669 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a paper submission that now is going through the second round of revisions.
Reviewer #1 suggested publishing after some minor changes, while **reviewer #2** has been more critical of the piece. Anyway, I submitted the revised paper and reviewer #2 now requested some minor changes, which... |
2022/04/26 | 755 | 3,059 | <issue_start>username_0: 2 weeks ago I just started a phd abroad (Germany) and I am Brazilian. Previously I was in job that bored me to death and I chose to leave it and come to Germany to live my dream and do a PhD. However, I am feeling that I made a wrong choice. Even if in my field is not so hard to get tenured in ... |
2022/04/26 | 1,831 | 8,029 | <issue_start>username_0: I live in an Asian country and completed my master's in Math in June 2020. I want to do a PhD in Europe, but I have had some difficulties in finding a suitable position. I do not believe doing a PhD in my country is a good option due to racism and corruption and related issues.
I have been thi... |
2022/04/26 | 733 | 3,151 | <issue_start>username_0: I also tried contacting both schools, but they fail to give me a clear answer concerning the status of my application. Also tried looking on the application page on the site of both universities, but no result there as well. Can I consider myself rejected at this point or is there still any hop... |
2022/04/26 | 701 | 2,938 | <issue_start>username_0: Researchers in Russia may face a blackout on the internet and may only surf on national websites ([ref](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/07/technology/russia-ukraine-internet-isolation.html)). Then they could not submit any paper to non-Russian journals anymore.
I was wondering whether some jou... |
2022/04/26 | 456 | 1,976 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a graduate student pursuing a master's degree in Information Systems, and I have never published a paper before.
I am planning to submit a paper to a conference, and the conference specifically asks if those submitting papers are willing to also act as reviewers.
I am willing to review, ... |
2022/04/26 | 717 | 3,144 | <issue_start>username_0: When I submitted my paper to a journal in November 2021, I saw that it was indexed by SCOPUS, but in 2022 I noticed that it is no longer indexed by SCOPUS. Therefore, I want to withdraw my published paper from that journal. Does writing an email to Editor in Chief work for my case?<issue_commen... |
2022/04/27 | 755 | 3,236 | <issue_start>username_0: I grew up in an abusive family wherein some family members continuously manipulated and exploited me. And around 10+ years ago I engaged with some violent resistance.
Later I reflected on this experience, engaged with the issue academically, and wrote on some non-academic (but intellectual) ma... |
2022/04/27 | 817 | 3,479 | <issue_start>username_0: I sometimes find potential errors in slides/notes that professors provide us as studying material. These are often some distraction or algebraic errors, other times lack of formalism that might generate misunderstanding.
As a PhD student, should I let them know, so that they can correct themse... |
2022/04/27 | 1,144 | 5,055 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a first semester student in a PhD programme on a bioinformatics related topic. Before being accepted, I spent around 7 months in learning about the topic of my project. I have a BC degree in Biology, so I'm not exactly well informed in bioinformatics.
I have been losing motivation to conti... |
2022/04/27 | 880 | 4,012 | <issue_start>username_0: I have applied for a PhD position at a university in UK at the end of January (in time before the deadline, which was also at the end of January). Shortly after, I was invited to an interview, which (in my opinion) went quite well. However, since then I haven't heard anything. So, it is now app... |
2022/04/27 | 3,997 | 16,871 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm doing my PhD in mathematics (Germany) for four years, and I have agreed with my supervisor that I should finish within the next half a year.
I am not very confident that this is a realistic perspective. I have worked on various things in the past four years but have hardly been successful ... |
2022/04/27 | 764 | 3,245 | <issue_start>username_0: If a University change its name after graduation, should graduates use the original or the new name of the school in their CV? Sometimes even countries change their names, again should graduates refer to the original or new names in their CV if that takes place after their graduation?<issue_com... |
2022/04/28 | 2,106 | 8,890 | <issue_start>username_0: Often in class, professors will ask questions to the class. Usually, I'll at least think I know the answer to the question, so naturally I want to answer it.
The problem is that my hand shouldn't constantly be up throughout the class. I need to make sure all of the students have a chance to th... |
2022/04/28 | 522 | 2,263 | <issue_start>username_0: I’m preparing a journal article on a novel method. There are several related methods publicly described on preprint servers such as arXiv or bioRxiv.
Is it permitted to cite works that have not been peer reviewed and is it appropriate to acknowledge them? I wish to discuss and critique them as... |
2022/04/28 | 1,018 | 4,331 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been reading some historical papers in the field of computer science, economics and game theory. I have noticed that some of the really old ones such as *Equilibrium points in n-person games* by <NAME> (1949) accessed from [PNAS](https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.36.1.48) has minor inconsiste... |
2022/04/28 | 948 | 4,191 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been undertaking a PhD for three months. I have two supervisors, one is easy to get hold of, the other one isn't.
I presumed that when starting this three months ago, a clear initial starting research question would have been devised based on the data available, and that this complete d... |
2022/04/28 | 3,513 | 13,857 | <issue_start>username_0: I want to know whether there is a need for responding to students who ask for points/marks by arguing **that they only answered the question that was asked.**, a.k.a "literalism". So, I am giving a simple hypothetical scenario.
*Note*: This is a simple scenario and the questions can be differen... |
2022/04/28 | 534 | 2,286 | <issue_start>username_0: This is for a conference application <https://www.hcm.uni-bonn.de/index.php?id=5007>
I'm not sure what a letter of intent is supposed to look like.<issue_comment>username_1: Guessing that this is more of a workshop (tightly focused, everyone contributes) than a conference (more general, many o... |
2022/04/28 | 2,079 | 8,929 | <issue_start>username_0: 7 years ago, a mouse experiment was performed, and samples are still available for further analysis. This mouse experiment is already published with a certain readout. Now, we publish a whole different story, and one supplemental figure stems from the samples of that old experiment, with a new ... |
2022/04/29 | 1,606 | 6,746 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing my STEM thesis, 90% percent of which is about mathematical modeling. However, I am unsure at what level I should write for the introduction.
Should I write it so it is accessible for everyone? Or should I assume a high level of technical expertise?
Does anyone have experience in ... |
2022/04/29 | 565 | 2,500 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an undergraduate about to graduate within the next six months. I have a research article as a third author in a journal with an impact factor of 3+ related to machine learning used for Bioinformatics. I have another manuscript that may not get published, since my supervisor suddenly made m... |
2022/04/30 | 492 | 2,057 | <issue_start>username_0: I found previous tuition and fees for other school years through reports that my university has published onto it website.
I am using these reports for two of my projects that I am turning into my professors next week that counts as a final exam for two different courses taught by two differen... |
2022/04/30 | 903 | 3,782 | <issue_start>username_0: I had an interview at a reputable business school for upcoming MBA intake. The interview was informal and was conducted in the coffee shop on premises.
The first issue happened when the interviewer (Chinese male, early 50s) offered to buy me a beverage. I replied with 'thanks could I please ha... |
2022/04/30 | 1,402 | 5,861 | <issue_start>username_0: I tried asking this same question here previously but worded it poorly. Please let me know if my muddled style is unclear to anyone alongside myself.
What I'm essentially asking is: all else being equal, does an advanced degree (MS or PhD) in Math and/or Philosophy (phil of math, or logic) pro... |
2022/05/01 | 1,093 | 4,699 | <issue_start>username_0: When authors submit paper to a journal, the paper will go through the peer review process. When a reviewer accepts to review a paper, the reviewer is then given the power to delay the publication of the paper and the power to reject the paper. From time to time, it has been shown that reviewers... |
2022/05/01 | 2,265 | 10,016 | <issue_start>username_0: I’m a mathematician (after a fashion), working in industry, and I find great value in older books about geometry, written between around 1850 and 1920. I notice that my favorite books are often offered for sale on the internet, and, after I purchase them, I typically find that they came from so... |
2022/05/01 | 1,900 | 8,049 | <issue_start>username_0: I am joining a PhD program in mathematics in a few months. But I am having a hard time explaining what a PhD is to my parents! They ask: Why is it not enough to complete a PhD just for the sake of completing it? How can I come up with something not known to anyone?
My attempts at explaining go... |
2022/05/02 | 717 | 2,976 | <issue_start>username_0: When publishing in the physical sciences the main paper is usually something 2D, you can read it online or print it. Many journals support supplementary data in the form of pdf files and videos.
It is possible to plan a rotation/zoom scenario for a 3D scatter plot, make that into a video and a... |
2022/05/02 | 1,492 | 6,516 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently in a very unique situation and in need of advice. For context, I am a first year PhD student in the United States.
Basically, my advisor's wife accepted an academic job offer at another university in another state. There was no position made for my advisor, but he has decided to ... |
2022/05/02 | 1,574 | 6,846 | <issue_start>username_0: So there's a Statistics exam in my Uni (in Germany). It's more of an application to Surveying. The Prof. who teaches this class gives really easy assignments which made me believe the exam would be in a similar pattern. We were even given a mock exam and it's a pre-requisite to sit for the main... |
2022/05/02 | 990 | 4,199 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently an undergrad without much experience in publishing scientific papers. Due to the pressure of many of my teachers and peers, I felt the need to get something published so I contacted an open access journal to publish a review paper I initially made for a class.
I initially submitt... |
2022/05/03 | 854 | 3,441 | <issue_start>username_0: **Is there a way to know what the eventual URL of an arXiv paper will be before it is submitted?**
That is, the article exists as a draft in my arXiv.org account and has a 7-digit identifier of the form `submit/1234567`, but I have *not* yet pressed the submit button, so it doesn't yet have a ... |
2022/05/03 | 854 | 3,525 | <issue_start>username_0: I messed up in my university even in courses related to my field of interest. The main problem was lack of discipline: I would alternate between high-intensity periods where I only stopped to sleep and low-intensity periods where I would work on random subjects unrelated to my coursework, or no... |
2022/05/03 | 993 | 4,374 | <issue_start>username_0: I want to upload a scanned copy of a research paper that isn't accessible online to demonstrate someone else's significant contribution to a field. Internet was not widely available when the study was released. I intend to upload the paper on Research Gate to make its abstract indexed by Google... |
2022/05/04 | 1,310 | 5,516 | <issue_start>username_0: One of my professors returned an assignment that was graded by hand. After the semester ended and the final grades were submitted, the professor discovered that the grade was incorrectly entered in the online grade book as 95/100 instead of 73/100. She is now motioning to have the grade changed... |
2022/05/04 | 864 | 3,567 | <issue_start>username_0: So, I am graduating with my Master's in 3 weeks. The university that I am graduating from is the same one where I did my undergrad. I currently have a bachelor's robe, not a master's one because I figured, the same university, not much difference, and I didn't have the $100+ extra to order anot... |
2022/05/04 | 731 | 3,196 | <issue_start>username_0: I work for a company in the medical sector that, among other things, conducts literature searches and submits them to regulators for approval prior to product launch. The company currently pays for most articles and I was wondering:
1. If the authors are approached by employees and in turn sen... |
2022/05/04 | 1,791 | 7,499 | <issue_start>username_0: Often in lectures, my professors will ask rhetorical questions. Sometimes, their body language makes it look like they're waiting for a response, and they'll even look intensely at a specific student when asking as if they want that specific student to respond.
I don't want to stare at the pro... |
2022/05/04 | 1,419 | 5,932 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing this question on behalf of a friend, Alice. Alice is in a US based university working towards earning her Master's of Science in Nursing. This semester, Alice was enrolled in lecture based class with a corresponding clinical class. That is, she worked 250 clinical hours with a nurs... |
2022/05/04 | 426 | 1,797 | <issue_start>username_0: I need advice on how to cite sources with the same author or same year when there are too many of them. My citations are Chicago style and I am doing (author, date) format. However, I have about 50 podcasts I analyzed from the same year and I have run out of alphabet letter to use the format (A... |
2022/05/04 | 880 | 3,793 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a second-year Math and CS undergraduate in the US. I am beginning to consider my prospects for graduate school, or possibly industry research.
My research experience thus far is from an internship at a private company. I do not participate in client work, only in proprietary/confidential ... |
2022/05/04 | 1,271 | 5,282 | <issue_start>username_0: Due to a bad home life and an un-diagnosed attention disorder, I dropped out of high school in 10th grade. After teaching myself some things about computers, I got a job as a mid-level (L4) engineer at Google when I was 20. I'm 22 now and my high school classmates just completed their undergrad... |
2022/05/04 | 1,510 | 6,105 | <issue_start>username_0: I work in industry. I applied to a good mid-tier biochemistry PhD program and was accepted. College buddies, who are now grad students at prestigious programs are advising me to break my word/signed acceptance to start with this program in the fall and apply to prestigious programs the next app... |
2022/05/04 | 1,204 | 4,879 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm taking my qualifying exam next Friday and I'm wondering what I should do the day before to help reduce my anxiety. Do you recommend last-minute studying or taking the day off to relax and reflect?<issue_comment>username_1: Feeling comfortable and happy through your program will be a key to ... |
2022/05/05 | 1,052 | 4,385 | <issue_start>username_0: Who owns (US) private non-profit universities ? I understand that being non-profit means that no one receives dividends. However does it mean that no one owns a private non-profit university? Can someone decide to sell a private non-profit university ?<issue_comment>username_1: There are a rang... |
2022/05/05 | 2,272 | 8,245 | <issue_start>username_0: One referee comment says that "Not sure the colormap shows up well in black and white". Two figures in my manuscript are shown below. Do I have to change the colormap settings? If I do, how do I ensure that the colormap shows well in black and white?
[ and never supervised a student.
Now I des... |
2022/05/06 | 479 | 2,008 | <issue_start>username_0: I am completing my masters in a few months, and going for a job. I want to pursue my doctorate after 3-4 years of working. Is it better to speak with professors now, if they want to be my guide once I come back? Or better to reach them when I finally decide to come back to the university and st... |
2022/05/06 | 2,269 | 10,055 | <issue_start>username_0: As a student, it frustrates me when a professor gives us an assignment with a deadline, but then waits a month (or sometimes more!) before returning the assignment to us.
I realize that professors are busy people and are often teaching many classes, but it feels unfair when I as a student have... |
2022/05/06 | 804 | 3,140 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm very careful with visual appearance of what I write, and I want to know if there is some convention with the font used in the graphs or diagrams of an article. Normally the articles are written with the defoult LaTex font,
* LaTex font, `Tex`
[ books on their website, provided that I log in with my institutional account. Springer books can be downloaded as PDF files.
Because I prefer physical copies of academic titles for reading convenie... |
2022/05/07 | 2,086 | 8,529 | <issue_start>username_0: After an undergrad degree in mathematics, I am doing a PhD in theoretical computer science. To satisfy my PhD program’s requirements, I'm taking a very challenging coding class this semester. I know how to code, but this course is more like a systems programming class and not something I'm used... |
2022/05/07 | 1,733 | 7,249 | <issue_start>username_0: I had two PhD supervisors. Let's call the first one A and second one B. A was the main supervisor who had the authority in signature. B was a young professor trying to gain experience on supervising PhD students.
For some reasons I always preferred discussing my research with B over A. These w... |
2022/05/07 | 816 | 3,409 | <issue_start>username_0: This is a broad question. However, I think there's more to it than meets the eye. Yes, I do speak multiple languages fluently due to my studies, but I never thought much about it until now.
In America, it seems academic jobs are very competitive and only the very best PhD students from the top... |
2022/05/09 | 2,315 | 8,977 | <issue_start>username_0: Here is a letter of rejection sent by Quarter Journal of Economics, to a big name professor. This letter is publicly available online.
>
> Many thanks for your interesting and provocative paper. I have received a referee report on your piece, and I have read it myself. There are certainly man... |
2022/05/09 | 2,380 | 11,105 | <issue_start>username_0: My department (of mathematical sciences in a US university) is considering some curriculum changes for our majors and the topic of our "mathematical filter course" came up.
For clarity, I'll define a mathematical filter course as a course that is treated as a pre-requisite for other courses bu... |
2022/05/09 | 4,252 | 17,700 | <issue_start>username_0: It got me so disappointed because I thought the publication experience was the most crucial part of the application, and, as far as I could tell, not that many students in the universities I applied to got 1st author papers in top conferences before starting their PhDs. The conference where I g... |
2022/05/09 | 1,356 | 5,799 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose one would like to propose a new way of performing a specific task in academic writing, for example, a different/new way of citing. I realise this example is vague, but the example is not the focus of the question.
How would they go about doing so? Would they publish an article explaini... |
2022/05/10 | 237 | 1,053 | <issue_start>username_0: I presented a poster at a conference last year to gain some feedback on my research. Since then, I have made significant findings and am beginning to write a manuscript. I would like to use some of the text that I wrote for my poster in my manuscript. Since only my abstract for the conference w... |
2022/05/10 | 1,744 | 7,784 | <issue_start>username_0: Even the best candidates have weaknesses and areas for development. When writing a (generally positive) letter of recommendation, is it appropriate/helpful to mention these, or will this count against the applicant?
Does the answer change depending on the candidate's career stage (i.e. whether... |
2022/05/10 | 1,051 | 4,472 | <issue_start>username_0: In our discipline we are equal coauthors ordered alphabetically.
We have one most senior coauthor (advisor) who supplied the idea and edited the manuscript, two junior coauthors who have done most of the work, and another "half-senior" coauthor who has been commenting but reluctant to directly... |
2022/05/11 | 854 | 3,876 | <issue_start>username_0: I just got my Ph.D. degree majoring Chemical Engineering this month and I will start my research career. I am a new researcher. I wonder whether I can post my full dissertation (currently only viewable by people in my institution) on a personal website or ResearchGate?
I studied in a private u... |
2022/05/11 | 1,499 | 6,143 | <issue_start>username_0: **Background:**
I am a first year PhD student in Math and I am failing my classes miserably. I believe that I am a hard worker, passionate about math and I am definitely committed to the program. However, I have also came to the realization that having these qualities does not necessarily grant... |
2022/05/11 | 525 | 2,012 | <issue_start>username_0: If someone currently working 100% with employer 1 in a public job. Is it possible to get employed by a university or public organisation (employer 2) with 25% or 35% contract after having a Master's or Doctorate degree?
The dual job includes engagement in some activity within the group.<issue_... |
2022/05/12 | 1,858 | 7,723 | <issue_start>username_0: I have found myself in a quite ugly situation: Since around 1,5 years, I am in a situation here during my PhD studies where I cannot set boundaries to damaging/ silent bullying behaviour of some PhD colleagues.
I started around 2 years ago, with 2 fellow colleagues. We spent quite some time to... |
2022/05/12 | 864 | 2,959 | <issue_start>username_0: After what George was Georgetown University named? Or was it named that because of where it is located?<issue_comment>username_1: It's named Georgetown because it overlooked a village named that: "[Georgetown University History](https://www.georgetown.edu/who-we-are/our-history/)":
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> <NAME>... |
2022/05/13 | 896 | 3,852 | <issue_start>username_0: My college demands a fee (equivalent to $10) from the students for every LOR that the student asks for. The fee goes to the college authorities and not to the professors themselves.
Is this a malpractice? I already wrote a complaint to principal/dean and he said that this is how it works.
Wha... |
2022/05/13 | 916 | 3,830 | <issue_start>username_0: 6 months ago I presented a talk describing some research I had been doing and presenting some half finished results. Ive since discovered that one of the attendees took my idea from the talk and decided to pursue the same research project, albeit in a slightly different (but very similar) way. ... |
2022/05/13 | 6,144 | 25,334 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm about to graduate with my BS and begin a PhD program in statistics. However, I have some doubts about my ability to succeed just because everyone says that a PhD is a grueling, long journey and that work ethic is more important than just being smart. I think my motives for doing the degree ... |
2022/05/14 | 888 | 3,879 | <issue_start>username_0: When writing a dissertation for a PhD in computer science, where the research is interdisciplinary, is it OK to define and include in depth explanation for an extraordinarily large amount of terminology in the preliminaries and background?
Currently, in my preliminaries and background section,... |
2022/05/14 | 1,334 | 5,570 | <issue_start>username_0: My former PI (and role model and one of the most incredible people I know) wrote me a letter of recommendation for a scholarship before she passed away. I know her secretary was the one who submitted the letter (so presumably she still has it), so I'm wondering if it's ok for me to ask to see t... |
2022/05/14 | 707 | 2,738 | <issue_start>username_0: During the early stage of my research career many years ago, as a graduate student, I met this young and bright but yet very manipulative PhD student. Let's call the person A.
At the beginning A was cordial and told me to work on the same type of research as them. After I decided to carve out ... |
2022/05/14 | 9,410 | 38,282 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an instructor in a STEM field. I am teaching an upper-division course where I try to interact with the students rather than just lecturing. I am teaching in the students' native language; there do not seem to be any language issues.
I am struggling because the students tend to give wrong ... |
2022/05/15 | 772 | 3,465 | <issue_start>username_0: My paper has been accepted at one of the top conferences in my field for oral presentation (very low acceptance rate).
In the past, I have always presented papers for which I was first author myself. However, this time I may be not be able to present myself (the date and location make it har... |
2022/05/15 | 601 | 2,093 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm preparing my masters thesis in mathematics ([Stochastic Calculus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic_calculus)).
My first chapter consists of recalling some concepts like
1. [Hölder's inequality](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%B6lder%27s_inequality).
2. [Clarke's generalized gra... |
2022/05/16 | 830 | 3,509 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently applying for several PhD programs (in mathematics) and for many of them, it is required to write a short (approx. 2 pages; no more than 10.000 characters) summary of my Master's thesis. It should contain the motivations of the thesis and research, the methods used as well as the ... |
2022/05/16 | 346 | 1,548 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an undergraduate engineering student, I recently submitted an abstract for an upcoming conference in about a week. However, I have not produced any results yet and have not gone far in my research. Is it at all acceptable to present what I have done thus far? Or should I just cancel my att... |
2022/05/17 | 901 | 3,728 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently applied for several permanent research positions. The interview were all similar: a talk on your past, present and planned research and some time for questions. I prepared well for the talk and got feedback from several colleagues.
My problem is to prepare for the question part. I t... |
2022/05/17 | 738 | 3,195 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm in th midst of pursuing a PhD and have a few potential papers in the works, but have lots of other analytical work to be done as well. It seems from my discussions with supervisors that there are plenty of opportunities to squeeze papers out of the work I'm doing, but I'm wondering I should... |
2022/05/17 | 1,230 | 5,024 | <issue_start>username_0: From my search on the internet on how a research poster should be designed I got a lot of different opinions on best practices.
The area where opinions seemed particularly diverging were the use of bullet points. Some ([1](https://www.sciencegraphicdesign.com/blog/how-do-you-make-your-first-sc... |
2022/05/17 | 1,645 | 7,059 | <issue_start>username_0: I am very proud of this achievement and I am thinking about sharing the email to social media. Is it okay to post it as long as I remove confidential information, e.g. manuscript id, title, author?
Also, if it is okay to post it on social media, can I include the journal name and the editor th... |