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2022/05/17 | 1,371 | 6,017 | <issue_start>username_0: I am reading a classic book in mathematics that was published in the 1960s. This book uses very old notation, which makes it impossible to read it. Suppose further that I want to read the whole book and, in the process, retype it using modern notation, without any addition. Can I do it freely?
... |
2022/05/18 | 440 | 1,857 | <issue_start>username_0: I was planning on applying to med school. However I realized that I no longer wanted to apply this cycle. I am anxious to write an email to my LORs asking them to hold off on writing my letter of recommendations. I was wondering if something similar to the email written below would be acceptabl... |
2022/05/18 | 719 | 3,012 | <issue_start>username_0: I noticed that many journals' rankings include the country. And also, I found that some journals are called "International ...".
I start wondering if the country is important when choosing a journal to submit my paper?
If my university and I are in country A, can I still submit an article to j... |
2022/05/18 | 874 | 3,583 | <issue_start>username_0: I live in an Asian country (not China) and completed my master's in Math in June 2020. I wanted to do a PhD in math, but didn't apply in China for session 2022 due to some reasons. I do not believe doing a PhD in my country is a good option due to severe racism and corruption and related issues... |
2022/05/18 | 1,099 | 4,455 | <issue_start>username_0: I am sorry if this question seems offensive, so I begin by reiterating that it derives from my personal perception and lack of information instead of ill intent or the purpose of attacking the reputation of academia.
Taking into account the lack of transparency concerning hiring decisions in a... |
2022/05/18 | 1,815 | 7,059 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it ethical to privately thank authors when you discover they’ve cited your work?
Can it be looked upon like you’re trying to gain future favour? Or like the citation itself was for any reason other than purely academic reasons?<issue_comment>username_1: It is fine, and they are not likely to... |
2022/05/18 | 728 | 3,177 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently, a submission of mine was declined as not suitable for the journal, but with the rejection came a request to transfer the manuscript to another journal owned by the same company.
However, the other journal has a higher (four-figure vs. zero) publication charge.
Is this standard pract... |
2022/05/18 | 1,058 | 4,612 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm wondering what's the general approach to doing an internship as a postdoc?
If you have your own funding as a postdoc and are just interested in doing a short internship in industry (12 weeks) to see what it's like, are there any issues with this? What is the best approach to tell your PI?
... |
2022/05/19 | 1,870 | 7,760 | <issue_start>username_0: So, I've received what was in many respects a perfectly normal spam message of the form;
>
> Due to your recent publication *[title of my paper]* you are invited
> to contribute a chapter to a book on *[topic of book]* called *[book
> title]*. This will be published by *[name of predatory pub... |
2022/05/19 | 440 | 2,033 | <issue_start>username_0: Considering an event with a double masked (i.e. double "blind" process), **should an anonymous submission include acknowledgments** to people who helped with the research work but denied to be co-authors, or wait for the final version to include such acknowledgments?
I assume not: if they are ... |
2022/05/19 | 2,592 | 9,391 | <issue_start>username_0: Which **alternative names can one use to refer to a "blind experiment"** (defined by <https://www.thefreedictionary.com/blinds> as "2a. Performed or made without the benefit of background information that might prejudice the outcome or result: blind taste tests used in marketing studies.")?
A ... |
2022/05/19 | 916 | 3,792 | <issue_start>username_0: In academic contexts, what is the consensus on whether we should avoid using "blind" as a category of persons, or should we avoid using it as an adjective (or both or none)? Does it vary between distinct academic communities?
**CONTEXT**: In a scientific project and its report, I was using the... |
2022/05/19 | 655 | 2,685 | <issue_start>username_0: Disclaimer: I am not thinking of actually doing this. This is just a random shower thought that I had.
I am a non-tenured adjunct instructor. Would I be disciplined or lose my job if I announced to my class that I was offering a $100 cash reward for any information about cheating taking place ... |
2022/05/20 | 620 | 2,727 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a theory that I cannot test myself. A group that doesn't know me has the proprietary data needed to test it, and I think they could test it fairly easily (hours to weeks of work, I think). I plan to reach out and pitch my theory to them. My only contributions are the hypothesis and an ar... |
2022/05/20 | 539 | 2,401 | <issue_start>username_0: I noticed that people read complex research over the obvious when they see a simple and clear abstract they don't read it
why is this ?<issue_comment>username_1: I'll speak only about math and CS, by main academic interests. In both of those fields, and perhaps others, the conclusions alone, wh... |
2022/05/20 | 599 | 2,388 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a math postdoc who defended his Ph.D. two years ago. I have been working on a project with some senior mathematician for 1.5 years. I also invited him to the university where I am affiliated for two weeks. We finished some preliminary versions of a paper, and then he told me he will send t... |
2022/05/20 | 1,879 | 8,033 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD student. I feel like I am increasingly experiencing situations where ideas that are explained in a way everyone can understand them are criticized as being too simple to be a major contribution to the field. I feel like people rationalize that if they can fully understand the idea th... |
2022/05/20 | 3,002 | 11,108 | <issue_start>username_0: I am looking for software to create slides like [these](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBR7rfdJPio&t=1691s).
* I want everything to be hand-drawn/hand-written.
* I don't want to draw/write anything at the time of presentation, but I want parts of the slides to be revealed bit by bit, exactly ... |
2022/05/21 | 753 | 3,091 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose somebody is repeating a class, where the assignment topic is the same every year. Is it self-plagiarism if that person is handing in the same or a similar paper, essay, etc.?<issue_comment>username_1: If you submit something you previously submitted to any previous class, even if it's t... |
2022/05/21 | 1,410 | 6,053 | <issue_start>username_0: Title says it all, but for specifics..
Just found out my thesis advisor published a paper last year using a figure from my thesis. The thesis is in embargo until later this year.
I do have be honest and say that the figure in question is a redraft (with some slight alteration) from an older s... |
2022/05/22 | 1,396 | 6,022 | <issue_start>username_0: I am in a weird situation. I changed my advisors during my Ph.D. program. I received research funding for my doctoral research before I changed advisors. The funding source does require funding acknowledgment in papers.
Now I graduated, but I learned that my former advisor is doing research on... |
2022/05/22 | 5,944 | 24,794 | <issue_start>username_0: In the comments on [this question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/185428), there were a two opposing opinions ([anti](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/185428/software-for-creating-hand-written-slides-that-are-revealed-gradually#comment499178_185428), [pro](https://acad... |
2022/05/23 | 795 | 3,603 | <issue_start>username_0: In our university, the professor has obliged the students to take the lab and the course together. In this university the laboratory courses cannot be emergency dropped from a semester.
The laboratory has to be taken after or while having the course itself. The course itself is three credits a... |
2022/05/23 | 293 | 1,312 | <issue_start>username_0: I am considering a paper submission to a journal. In the submission platform, it is possible to upload a cover letter but it is not required. (In the past, I 've submitted to other journals where the cover letter was mandatory.)
Are there any good reasons to add a cover letter when it is not r... |
2022/05/23 | 3,083 | 11,852 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a graduate student in mathematics. I am preparing to give a 20-minute short talk for a conference. I am looking at some beamer presentations [this one](https://webspace.science.uu.nl/%7Ekarem001/Diamant2019talk.pdf) and [this one](https://webspace.science.uu.nl/%7Ekarem001/Benasquetalk.pdf... |
2022/05/23 | 565 | 2,242 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm an assistant prof. in a public US university. I have to go up for tenure this year. The department I'm in is somewhat mismanaged, with lots of politics and favoritism. Many have left the department in recent years, and I don't see any motivation for the chair or the dean to improve the situ... |
2022/05/23 | 1,017 | 4,430 | <issue_start>username_0: I received a phone call from the department chair informing me that they are willing to give me an offer. Then, he sent me the startup sheet and asked me to send them my comments. This sheet contains salary, student support, travel, moving expenses, and a few other items. The chair also asked m... |
2022/05/23 | 844 | 3,487 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD candidate (last year) and was invited as a guest editor in a peer reviewed journal. I am excited to take the experience and I am sure I will handle it well, but I am not sure if I have to be a PhD holder to qualify for such position.<issue_comment>username_1: There are no general rul... |
2022/05/23 | 5,778 | 24,201 | <issue_start>username_0: **Summary:** It took me 3 years to analyze data from one sample (n=1) whereas correct way to perform experiment would be with n>=3. Now my job and funding are in question, since I don't have more time. My supervisor pressures me to fabricate data.
I want to gather all the missing data but that... |
2022/05/23 | 2,613 | 11,005 | <issue_start>username_0: What is the smallest reasonable amount of time needed to prepare lectures?
I have recently learned that professors at my university (in UK) don't know who is going to teach one of the new modules starting in October. They say they sometimes aren't allocated until a few weeks before the semeste... |
2022/05/24 | 320 | 1,361 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently graduating student and having a thesis project to pass the course and requirement for graduation. Is it possible to fail the my program if the panelist in my defense does not like my thesis? Does it affect my possibility to pass the course and graduate?<issue_comment>username_1: ... |
2022/05/24 | 843 | 3,641 | <issue_start>username_0: I am collaborating in a multi-authored paper in physics. In one part, I made a mathematical contribution and proved some important theorem.
However, I was not sure whether my proof is quite correct. Therefore, I posted a question on MathOverflow and a partial answer showed up which was very cl... |
2022/05/24 | 298 | 1,044 | <issue_start>username_0: How are academic papers supposed to cite multiple sources in the same sentence when enumerating?
Which of the following examples does it right? (in APA)
1. Prevalent models within this context are model A, model B, and model C (source A, p. 12; source B, p. 202-203; source C, p. 1).
2. Preval... |
2022/05/25 | 618 | 2,524 | <issue_start>username_0: I plan to apply positions after getting my phd degree. Between graduation and getting a formal job, I am going to use "researcher in xxx" as a job title. Actually, I plan to use it after getting a formal job as well.
I am going to use it on academic website, researchgate, linkedin etc. not on ... |
2022/05/25 | 1,013 | 4,443 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm pursuing an industrial PhD within a company in the context of an European project, having two directors: one from the company and another from the university. The topic of my PhD is related to the use of artificial neural networks, although the company where I work has no relation to this f... |
2022/05/26 | 510 | 1,871 | <issue_start>username_0: I've been searching this a long time but found no answer.
Suppose I have three version
[v1] Fri, 1 Apr 2022 19:59:40 UTC (5,413 KB)
[v2] Sun, 10 Apr 2022 01:50:29 UTC (5,668 KB)
[v3] Fri, 15 Apr 2022 02:27:34 UTC (5,440 KB)
I want to keep v1 and v3, can I just delete v2?
Anyone has done t... |
2022/05/26 | 577 | 2,595 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a question about the Google Scholar Search Engine (Grawl Bot) copyright issue. Any advice would be appreciated.
Here is the story. My university library accidentally uploaded my restricted report as an open-access document to the internet without my permission. After I found this, I not... |
2022/05/26 | 1,429 | 6,002 | <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 extreme racism and corruption, abuse. These issues had alr... |
2022/05/26 | 656 | 2,652 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a third year math major at a top 30 US university. I fear that I may have destroyed my chances for graduate school (or perhaps I am being dramatic). I would really appreciate if someone could give me some unbiased advice and perspective.
It is likely that I am going to fail a lower divisi... |
2022/05/27 | 842 | 3,470 | <issue_start>username_0: I am doing a closed and open book exam recently. I was working so hard on it and hoping to pass the exam. However, I received an email that said there’s an evidence that I plagiarized. I was crying for days and couldn’t do anything. I can’t even concentrate on reading and understanding the link... |
2022/05/27 | 1,481 | 6,109 | <issue_start>username_0: This hasn't directly happened to me, but it's come close. Basically I meet a professor for other reasons (I attended a talk by them, I requested a recommendation from them, during a social visit to their department, etc), and we talk about their work. They are clearly very passionate about thei... |
2022/05/27 | 1,524 | 6,793 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it possible for a professor to write for an undergraduate student who is applying for a graduate program, a negative letter of recommendation? More like a minor criticism? If so doesn't this affect the student's academic career?<issue_comment>username_1: If a letter of recommendation doesn't... |
2022/05/27 | 1,782 | 7,080 | <issue_start>username_0: Academic publishing are here to stay and keeping the discussions about already well voiced topics (ethics, open access charges, paying reviewers) aside, as an academic, what changes would you like to see in the manuscript submission and peer review process for major companies like Elsevier, Spr... |
2022/05/27 | 1,552 | 6,405 | <issue_start>username_0: Over the past several months we have developed a new way of handling very large numbers in order to turn handling these numbers into a storage problem rather than a processing problem.
The system is now operational but we cannot get into contact with any university departments in order to chec... |
2022/05/27 | 358 | 1,557 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently completed a final round interview for an AP job. I told the interview committee that I only have about a few days to respond to other offers and would appreciate if they could let me know the decision as soon as possible although I know that they are interviewing other candidates as ... |
2022/05/28 | 1,337 | 5,765 | <issue_start>username_0: I've a PhD in pure math, with postdoctoral experience in theoretical/statistical aspects of machine learning, with over seven years of teaching experience in math *in English*, and **currently a part time lecturer** of math in an engineering school in France. This year I applied to 44 **full ti... |
2022/05/28 | 881 | 3,835 | <issue_start>username_0: If a respectable professor writes the same recommendation letter for all students they recommend, especially when it looks like merely a character certificate, i.e. the professor knows the student X, s/he is good, sincere, hardwarking, qualified XYZ; but does not mention any details of strength... |
2022/05/28 | 725 | 2,958 | <issue_start>username_0: Ability to get a Recommendation letter / other career success often requires good perception by teachers. But when a large number of professors aren't very insightful, they tend to prioritise traits like politeness, diplomacy and sociability. In other hand, there are a little number of students... |
2022/05/28 | 1,122 | 4,959 | <issue_start>username_0: One referee report is awful. Comments are basically two types:
1. Please re-invent the wheel and write a primer to the whole field.
* Must supply more basic background to the field (analogy: paper is about one aspect of mouse genetics, referee wants me to explain what genetics are, and what ... |
2022/05/28 | 1,574 | 6,253 | <issue_start>username_0: I was born in the US and stayed for a little over 2 years, thus English and Spanish (my parents' native languages) are both my native languages. I've stayed in near constant contact with English and never lost the language even if I was raised for the rest of my life in a Spanish speaking count... |
2022/05/29 | 2,315 | 10,254 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an undergraduate studying in Australia aiming for a US PhD program. I want to apply for a PhD in statistics. I have good grades in all of my math and stats courses in general.
Unfortunately, the statistics department has quite a few very bad lecturers. And the two lowest grades I got are ... |
2022/05/29 | 979 | 4,193 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm taking a gap year and I plan on applying to grad schools again this fall. I'm wondering if the GRE Math subject test is helpful/required anymore?
Personally, I have very low grades in some important math courses (imagine like C+'s/B-'s in algebra/analysis because I could never force myself... |
2022/05/29 | 2,994 | 12,891 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a faculty member, and my department chair's son is enrolled in a course I'm teaching. Actually, this happened twice during the past academic year and is slated to happen again this fall.
I'm uncomfortable with being placed in this position; my point of view is that the situation is imprope... |
2022/05/29 | 747 | 3,237 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm working through an MS in Statistics and considering career paths and curious if a specific career path exists in academia. I would like to work in an academic statistics core and provide support to researchers. I'd also like to be able to teach. I realize as an MS my teaching would likely b... |
2022/05/29 | 650 | 2,801 | <issue_start>username_0: I hold a master degree. Currently, I'm preparing PhD applications for several universities in the USA and Canada. I already know quite well my research interests. At some universities, there is only one professor researching in this area. I would only state the name of this professor in my stat... |
2022/05/30 | 774 | 3,225 | <issue_start>username_0: I have submitted my review paper for publication to more than two journals. I was unaware of the consequences. The paper got accepted at al three journals. They asked for payment and copyright etc. I haven't processed anything as I only want to publish it in one journal only. I also became awar... |
2022/05/30 | 1,073 | 3,049 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm trying to find the following paper:
<NAME>, “Decomposition of a complete graph into subgraphs isomorphic to a given graph.“ Congressus Numerantium XV (1975), 647-659. MR0396347 (53:214)
Also seen cited as:
<NAME>, “Decomposition of a complete graph into subgraphs isomorphic to a given gr... |
2022/05/30 | 1,631 | 7,123 | <issue_start>username_0: Occasionally it happens that a referee suggests [citing their own papers](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/46150/958) [in a review](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/127171/958). This may be a problematic practice, since there is a thin line between appropriate and inappropriate recommen... |
2022/05/30 | 687 | 2,961 | <issue_start>username_0: I’m a computer science student in the second semester. I passed all my first exams fairly well and can follow my lectures quite decent (usually).
But whenever I want to dig deeper into a topic and try doing some studies on my own reading books it’s often hard for me to follow the author’s poin... |
2022/05/30 | 2,262 | 9,283 | <issue_start>username_0: A female instructor has had conflict with a much younger male co-instructor and has complained to her chair and associate chair about what she experienced as sexist and other difficult behavior. When the new schedule for the following year again has her paired with the same co-instructor, she a... |
2022/05/30 | 3,061 | 12,591 | <issue_start>username_0: For students who identify as nonhuman animals, should the requests for *nonhuman pronouns*, *animal names*, and *animal vocalizations* be taken seriously in **college classroom settings**?
My question is *not* about specific school's policy (after reading all the official documents, I have a p... |
2022/05/31 | 538 | 2,351 | <issue_start>username_0: I submitted an article to a journal last year in July. It took some months for it to be processed and peer reviewer to be assigned.
I received the first decision in March (major revisions). The article went through several rounds of revision. The last exchange I had with the journal editor was... |
2022/05/31 | 489 | 1,736 | <issue_start>username_0: I am preparing a poster for an in-person (finally) workshop and I know that the general guide for posters is that they should be readable from 1-2 meters away. What I don't know is how this translates to what I see on a screen.
Since we have this guideline (1-2 m viewing distance) and know tha... |
2022/05/31 | 1,825 | 7,723 | <issue_start>username_0: If x paper says "y et al. [1] have found so and so in the water of India", why can't I use the exact same words as the "x paper" and just cite [1]? My understanding is this- since x paper does not own the set of words that was used to explain what y has found, it's not their 'idea'. And stating... |
2022/06/01 | 375 | 1,415 | <issue_start>username_0: My PhD thesis has the following structure.
* Introduction [5 pages]
* Lit Review [50 pages]
* Project 1: Preliminary study [25 pages]
* Project 1: Extended study [30 pages]
* Project 2: Preliminary study [25 pages]
* Project 2: Extended study [30 pages]
* Conclusion + outlook [10 pages]
Is it... |
2022/06/01 | 1,818 | 7,910 | <issue_start>username_0: This is the first semester in which classes aren't online anymore after the pandemic where I lecture (For information, this is in Brazil, and English is not my mother language). It's been two years of classes being online.
This is the second exam I've given and I keep receiving small written p... |
2022/06/01 | 2,404 | 9,992 | <issue_start>username_0: So I did a ppt poster presentation. In one of the sections of my PowerPoint, the entire section was highlighted as having a 10% similarity to a website, which is already cited in my PowerPoint and paraphrased. Now on looking at the word version of my PowerPoint it highlighted generalized statem... |
2022/06/02 | 614 | 2,701 | <issue_start>username_0: I believe in some fields like physics or other experimental science, hiring a student without PhD degree as a research assistant is common. In pure mathematics, do professors have the need to hire non-PhD students as their research assistants?<issue_comment>username_1: In pure Mathematics, ther... |
2022/06/02 | 590 | 2,519 | <issue_start>username_0: It is my first article ever in this field. I submited it to a high impact journal last year and just got the decision today -- acceptance with major revision. I have no idea whether this bad or not. One of reviewers sounds unreasonable while the other was asking relatively good questions. Can s... |
2022/06/02 | 2,240 | 9,126 | <issue_start>username_0: I've finished writing my thesis and have done an online plagiarism check. I used <https://www.check-plagiarism.com/> to check and got a lot of plagiarism. I don't understand why. You can find an example below. For instance, I don't see where the plagiarism is in the first sentence which is mark... |
2022/06/02 | 989 | 4,206 | <issue_start>username_0: It's been almost a year now that I've been working as an intern in a research institution. I've worked on several research projects in the institution now and some of them are already published. However, the only benefit that I get out of the internship is *network*, *publications*, and *promis... |
2022/06/02 | 839 | 3,871 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it common for universities to admit graduate students who speak the language of instruction but not the local language? For instance,the program might be taught in French, but everyone in the community speaks Arabic on a daily basis.
This question is sort of the opposite of [this post](https... |
2022/06/02 | 1,132 | 4,646 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm an undergrad studying pure mathematics, and graduate school applications are around the corner. *My ultimate aim is to do a PhD in pure mathematics.* I understand that in several places (e.g., Canada, the UK, Germany, France, & Switzerland), it is the norm to require a **Master's degree** b... |
2022/06/03 | 1,866 | 8,297 | <issue_start>username_0: When I did my Master thesis, I discovered a new physical phenomenon and realized a novel technique in our prototype device. However, due to the rush of graduation, I didn't have time to collect enough data for the formal publication.
After I graduate from the master's degree, the work was hand... |
2022/06/03 | 2,533 | 11,181 | <issue_start>username_0: A couple of months ago, I submitted a positive recommendation letter for one of my students for a master's program, and she got accepted by the university. However, after my submission, I've noticed unethical behavior from her side – cheating at an exam –, and violation of the university’s code... |
2022/06/04 | 818 | 3,673 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently preparing a manuscript for publication, and will likely upload it to the arXiv first. However, let's say I'm submitting to a journal with a *very* identifiable formatting style, like, let's hypothetically say, an IEEE journal. While most articles I see on the arXiv are fairly "for... |
2022/06/04 | 1,672 | 7,234 | <issue_start>username_0: What special measures does one take into account to deliver lectures in classes including +100 students (compared to those of less-crowded classes)?<issue_comment>username_1: With 3 TAs you have a reasonable staff/student ratio. You need to use that staff to address the challenges a larger clas... |
2022/06/05 | 1,905 | 7,778 | <issue_start>username_0: Especially where there are numerous possible answers to each question, e.g. 5.
If one doesn’t know the answer to a question but puts forth a (somewhat) educated guess, at what point is the chance of getting >0 for this question secondary to lowering the value of ‘definitely’ correct answers?
... |
2022/06/06 | 1,165 | 4,994 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a strange request - I am looking for ways to get started on publishing a few papers in a couple of years. Ideally looking to collaborate with researchers/professors to contribute to their work and ideally become co-author in some capacity. Is this a reasonable route ? If yes, where can I... |
2022/06/07 | 994 | 4,033 | <issue_start>username_0: I got into an internship with my PI this summer. She accepted me. I’m so thrilled, I’m loving it, but today was the first day she actually came in, as she is usually at her other lab in NY. I mean, she glanced over at me and my mentor for like half a second because she was going by in a hurry a... |
2022/06/07 | 1,961 | 7,840 | <issue_start>username_0: As a general rule, I'm a laid back person and don't take life too seriously. So while I have a PhD, let's say, I don't wave around. (So much so that my PhD scroll hasn't been framed yet).
I work outside academia and for my job, I write governmental papers and submit to various committees. Yet ... |
2022/06/07 | 466 | 1,988 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a graduate student and I organised a series of online lectures spread over many days. The total number of registrants was 50 but those who actually came were around 10 to 11. Now, today one of the speakers did not agree to continue because he was expecting more attendees, so it was awkward.... |
2022/06/08 | 1,640 | 6,572 | <issue_start>username_0: *Note: I am aware of this [other post](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/17232) that covers why doing many PhDs in different subjects is not a good path. My question is different: can I do multiple PhDs **in the same subject**, or very similar subjects, rather than climbing the ladde... |
2022/06/08 | 672 | 2,855 | <issue_start>username_0: I am postdoc working at a university, and I was hired by the PI of a specific project, let us call it Project X.
Apart from working on Project X, when time permits I like to concentrate on my own research, and from time to time I end up writing a paper. Now I have a doubt. If I write a paper t... |
2022/06/08 | 903 | 3,808 | <issue_start>username_0: I am looking at doing a PhD in UK with a recent taught master degree (just graduated last year with distinction, all courses with A grades). However, my first bachelor degree was only in third class (which was over 15 years ago). Will it be possible for me to get a PhD offer in UK? Since normal... |
2022/06/08 | 1,744 | 6,819 | <issue_start>username_0: At universities in Germany, there are the following standardized job titles that I find difficult to express in English in a useful manner:
* **[Studentische Hilfskraft](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wissenschaftliche_Hilfskraft#Studentische_Hilfskr%C3%A4fte)**: a student who does not yet hold... |
2022/06/10 | 2,173 | 9,083 | <issue_start>username_0: Yesterday, before my exam, I went through as many practice questions as possible, and incorporated anything I missed into my notes - this included cases not taught in the textbook or lectures. I am a law student, and all our in-person exams are unrestricted open book - we can bring in anything ... |
2022/06/10 | 199 | 847 | <issue_start>username_0: I have recently submitted the abstract for a journal. After a couple of months, its editor emailed me and told me that my email was in her junk folder. Also, she asked me to resend the abstract. Is it ok to say, "Thank you to take the time to notify me," in the beginning of my email? I want to ... |
2022/06/10 | 538 | 1,711 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm reading a research report. I encountered several times 'S' which I don't know what it stands for.
Examples:
'The first directions to S were as follows.'
'After the record was played, S was asked to grade the music as a whole on a four-point scale.'
It's a study about *musical humor* and... |
2022/06/10 | 1,818 | 8,018 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm working under a professor as a research assistant. She is preparing a proposal for research she wants to do with unmanned vehicles. A part of this proposal is showing that the past research doesn't focus on large numbers of vehicles, and the ones that do are not as intelligent and use "swar... |
2022/06/11 | 564 | 2,438 | <issue_start>username_0: I've seen second editions of philosophical articles. For example, Quine's From a Logical Point of View is a collection of articles, some of them updated. But I have never seen a second edition of an article in journals. Are books the only option for this?<issue_comment>username_1: Papers are ce... |
2022/06/11 | 363 | 1,538 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a Ph.D. student at an institute in maths department. This year my brother also has applied for Ph.D. in the same institute in Civil engineering department. Now he has to face a written test first to get qualified for the interview. The syllabus of test is given on the website but no inform... |
2022/06/11 | 1,513 | 6,326 | <issue_start>username_0: **Background**: I am a junior postdoc who has been working for some years with an overseas collaborator who is much more senior. I have previously had no issues at all with this collaborator. For the last few months, I've been working on **project A**. I came up with the idea for project A on m... |
2022/06/11 | 411 | 1,795 | <issue_start>username_0: Are there professional standards which discourage the circulation of a submitted scientific work, in order to get feedback from colleagues?<issue_comment>username_1: Generally, private circulation is fine. Sending it by email to some people, with a request not to pass it on, won't cause any iss... |
2022/06/12 | 167 | 693 | <issue_start>username_0: I have recently received reviews for my manuscript from Elsevier.
There are comments from Reviewer #3 and Reviewer #4 only, does that mean reviewer 1 and 2 rejected the article??<issue_comment>username_1: Most likely they did not respond to the reviewer invitation, or accepted it but did not su... |
2022/06/12 | 1,344 | 5,552 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it acceptable in cases when your last name changes based on your gender, to change the name to make it simpler for English language readers? This is common in Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, etc.
So for example, I might be called <NAME>**a** (even though my husband's name is <NAME>**i**).... |
2022/06/12 | 266 | 1,142 | <issue_start>username_0: My wife and I want to go to Australia. She wants to pursue her diploma in hotel management and so we are on the verge of writing our SOP. Should I state that she is single or married, as we heard that there is a chance of cancellation of the visa if the diploma student is declared married?<issu... |
2022/06/12 | 3,863 | 16,016 | <issue_start>username_0: **TL;DR:** First, all of this is happening in the US. I was a PhD student in X, in good standing, but had a shift of interest towards field Y, so I switched programs and universities to study Y. A year is passed since I switched, I'm currently in good standing in Y, but have come to the underst... |
2022/06/12 | 697 | 3,090 | <issue_start>username_0: I am working in the field of HCI. My relationship with my advisor turned sour due to difference of opinion and eventually I changed my advisor. Now I am stuck in a situation where my paper as a first author is on hold because the ex-advisor is not letting me submit it. This is primarily my work... |
2022/06/13 | 1,389 | 6,090 | <issue_start>username_0: I suggested an interesting research question (exploratory data analysis) to my advisor and he really wants me to get started. However, I realized today in reading the agreement attached to the data enclave (with deidentified patient data or allegedly that), that there’s an obvious potential con... |