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2022/08/04 | 835 | 3,701 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a doctoral student. I share an office with one other individual. As is customary, the names, emails, and offices of graduate students are published on the department site.
I am the victim in a stalking case. The authorities have been involved and I am in the middle of legal proceedings. W... |
2022/08/04 | 932 | 3,727 | <issue_start>username_0: I was wondering if there are any journals that do not use 'doc' or any other similar file formats in the review process
In my experience I have used 'track changes' in some document editor to communicate with reviewers
I remember finding it strange at first that the academics/alchemists in th... |
2022/08/04 | 5,272 | 21,894 | <issue_start>username_0: A couple of decades ago I graduated from a Russian university with an MS in physics, and my MS thesis contained a critical flaw. In short, the thesis was about static perturbations in a certain physical system, but the system itself is unstable in the very same model, with the instability lengt... |
2022/08/05 | 909 | 3,986 | <issue_start>username_0: Thanks to a large donation by a generous donor, my department has an "institute" that they use to host seminar speakers, subsidize student travel, support postdocs, and host social engagements. I have been asked to administer this institute for the next two years, and have to give a presentatio... |
2022/08/05 | 612 | 2,538 | <issue_start>username_0: I am planning to apply for a PhD in the USA and Canada in fall 2023. I'm applying to English, Film and Media and Gender studies departments. All the programs require only one writing sample of decent length.
My best piece of writing is the preface of my MPhil dissertation which is a discussion... |
2022/08/05 | 276 | 1,167 | <issue_start>username_0: I have recently joined as a research staff (after finishing my PhD) under a professor, and my primary duty is to interact and provide day-to-day support (mostly academically) to all of his PhD students. Should I always keep my professor in cc when interacting with the students via Email?<issue_... |
2022/08/05 | 1,023 | 4,154 | <issue_start>username_0: This question falls in the general category of [another question from 5.5 years ago](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/90366/should-formulas-include-units) with the addition of the explicit request from the reviewer.
A comment from a reviewer requested that units of all physical qua... |
2022/08/07 | 1,138 | 4,984 | <issue_start>username_0: I reviewed a manuscript which used my work. I recommended acceptance with minor revisions. Only after submitting my review, my wife discovered that my name is misspelled once in the manuscript. I'm a young scholar who would very much like to have one more citation. I sent an email to the editor... |
2022/08/07 | 813 | 3,626 | <issue_start>username_0: I am thinking how to structure a paper on economics. I have some scatter data from online sources, but nothing I collected on my own, say, via a survey.
I am struggling to figure out how to organize my research. Specifically, I am unsure if I need to first have a research question and then a h... |
2022/08/07 | 1,759 | 7,187 | <issue_start>username_0: I understand in general, it is safer to NOT list hobbies on a CV.
My question is about whether is it a good idea to put these on my academic website.
I am a PhD student in a STEM field. Right now I only have CV on my website, and I want to put pictures there. I do photography as a hobby, and ... |
2022/08/08 | 754 | 3,312 | <issue_start>username_0: Some authors have published a very long complex research paper (on ArXiv, theoretical computer science, math, category theory) and it contains references to three additional research-technical reports, the references of two of them included the note "available from authors upon request".
I hav... |
2022/08/08 | 938 | 4,375 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm new to peer-review and my experience in this domain was receiving a reviewer report rather than providing one.
A while ago, I have requested a major revision to a manuscript that I have been asked to review by a journal. The major revisions I requested included some modifications in the fi... |
2022/08/08 | 1,295 | 5,686 | <issue_start>username_0: The goal of my PhD was to design a particular device. Such a ldesign requires many considerations, because the structure has many "moving parts" and available upgrades.
The topic has been studied for a few decades now, however I haven't seen any paper that puts all the stuff together. Finding ... |
2022/08/08 | 719 | 2,865 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a European doctoral candidate about to defend her PhD dissertation. I'd love to eventually get a job at a small teaching university with a relatively larger focus on education rather than research; I'm thinking of something like SLACs (small liberal arts colleges) in the US.
I am given to ... |
2022/08/08 | 519 | 2,275 | <issue_start>username_0: How do you cite a paper whose preprint title differs from the published version?
It's not so uncommon that publishers ask the authors to change the name of paper in the publication process. This is after the paper is up on the arxiv, and so it already is known by its first title.
So how do yo... |
2022/08/08 | 2,647 | 11,223 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a first-year medical university student and was given a Microsoft email with the uni's domain that is also connected to a free Office 365 subscription.
The uni wants us to use their email to contact them regarding anything related, and that's pretty reasonable. But, I was experimenting in ... |
2022/08/09 | 732 | 3,217 | <issue_start>username_0: My research proposal received many comments such as "is not convincingly sound", "is not convincingly demonstrated", "is not convincingly developed". I was not able to draw the hints to improve the proposal using those comments. Does that mean the reviewers are so lazy to review it in details t... |
2022/08/10 | 434 | 1,703 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a prospective psychology PhD student, and one of the most intimidating problems was tuition expenses, but I've checked a number of PhD programs (NYU, Carniege-Mellon, Princeton) and they all say something along the lines of "anyone accepted into this program has fully funded tuition" and it... |
2022/08/10 | 470 | 2,076 | <issue_start>username_0: As a history student, my research proposal is about a comparative research of xx in country A and B. Does the potential supervisor need to be interested in both A and B? Or either of them is fine?<issue_comment>username_1: I'm not a historian, but I expect it is most important that your adviser... |
2022/08/10 | 412 | 1,896 | <issue_start>username_0: We have finished the work and are now planning to submit it. We are targeting a journal. But then we found the journal is only six pages. Six pages only allow us to write down our brief idea and some conclusions. So we have to omit a lot of details in the paper. But we also want to publish thos... |
2022/08/10 | 389 | 1,736 | <issue_start>username_0: A former MSc student asked me to write her a recommendation letter, so that she can apply for a PhD position. Although I feel that she is bright and dedicated, I only teach her in a hands-on course which last for 2 weeks. Sadly, during Corona time, we can only work online. Therefore I do not ha... |
2022/08/11 | 1,123 | 4,818 | <issue_start>username_0: May a person whose job title isn't instructor of labs/instructor of PhD students/lab-assistant and who is working full-time (non-student) in a research university lab under a professor who recruits PhD students refuse to teach their boss's PhD students how to do lab work or ask for additional p... |
2022/08/11 | 625 | 2,859 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose you're working on a lengthy text that you would like to publish as a book or a "research monograph". For example in mathematics stuff like Springer Lecture Notes, Memoirs of the AMS, or any other book series.
Then say you upload a preliminary version of the book somewhere, say arXiv (w... |
2022/08/11 | 1,023 | 4,125 | <issue_start>username_0: I have written a manuscript and want some feedback from experts. So I sent emails to different professors to ask their permission if they want to view my manuscript. I did not attach my manuscript to my email. Would it be considered spam? Would it ruin my reputation?<issue_comment>username_1: T... |
2022/08/11 | 434 | 1,640 | <issue_start>username_0: Having spent quite a lot of time going through the literature on my research topic, I've been disappointed by the search features offered by the dominant academic databases and search engine (Web of Science, Scopus, Google Scholar etc...).
The search feature remains pretty basic and allows us ... |
2022/08/11 | 1,029 | 4,450 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently, I found a monograph that includes results from my dissertation. Those results have also been included in conference presentations. They have also been disseminated by the funding agency that supported my work in various fact sheets. This monograph includes links to my website but does... |
2022/08/12 | 274 | 1,188 | <issue_start>username_0: I want to do my Master's Degree from Japan, for which I sent an email with my research proposal on 3rd August, 2022. The Professor replied within 2 hours of email, showing interest in my profile and asking for funds, to which I responded positively (will be able to manage funds). It has been 10... |
2022/08/12 | 358 | 1,563 | <issue_start>username_0: I looked into the colleges given above and under requirements it says that electrical engineers would be eligible for CS degrees.
I'm going to study ECE as my undergraduate course. Would that also be enough to enroll into those colleges?<issue_comment>username_1: For each available seat in the... |
2022/08/12 | 498 | 2,321 | <issue_start>username_0: I am trying to find additional research about a certain topic. I have found one study that is specifically about this topic, and the results are very interesting. I would like to find out if any additional studies have attempted to reproduce the results.
I have tried searching online using sev... |
2022/08/12 | 3,104 | 12,959 | <issue_start>username_0: I am international STEM PhD student in the UK.
My advisor asked me to try and attempt a question that he has been thinking about for more than five years. He was always very encouraging, but wasn't confident that I would be able to solve it. I wasn't very confident either.
It turned out to be... |
2022/08/13 | 741 | 3,231 | <issue_start>username_0: I have recently received a decision on a manuscript in the field of mathematics, which I have submitted to a journal a while ago. The reviewers comments were typical: modifying the abstract, ameliorating the language and "what do you think of" type questions. The editor's decision was major rev... |
2022/08/14 | 1,141 | 4,799 | <issue_start>username_0: I have studied different insects for my entire academic career, but I've never had to work with live specimens before. I am considering a project where I will need to capture live dragonflies and look at their wings under our SEM. However, I will likely need to remove the wings from some live s... |
2022/08/15 | 1,040 | 4,376 | <issue_start>username_0: I have noticed several polisci or economics papers in the past few years such as [this](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=5EIL7zMAAAAJ&sortby=pubdate&citation_for_view=5EIL7zMAAAAJ:SdhP9T11ey4C) or [this](https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=37... |
2022/08/15 | 387 | 1,573 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a mathematician/computer scientist (my interests lie around the intersection of the two), and often when I want an introduction to a new research area I find that well-written dissertations are the best way to get up-to-speed quickly.
The problem is that I have no good way of finding these... |
2022/08/15 | 1,238 | 5,300 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing up an essay, like a sort of project. It is not an academic paper, but it will be read and judged by some fellows.
I am trying to document or base my statements on a topic by including some proper references, and I am really in a bit of a hurry, so I do not have much time to search... |
2022/08/16 | 1,125 | 4,539 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a master graduate in the field of material science. I didn't continue my PhD, however, my supervisor involved me as a co-author of a paper (due to my work during my master thesis), and I received so many invitations to be a speaker in conferences all over the world. Can I accept and go abr... |
2022/08/16 | 875 | 3,724 | <issue_start>username_0: This is a follow-up to my previous question: ([Advisor's paper fundamentally flawed, what do I do?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/183662/advisors-paper-fundamentally-flawed-what-do-i-do)).
My advisor and another student collaborated on a paper. After reading it carefully myself,... |
2022/08/16 | 564 | 2,507 | <issue_start>username_0: I've just finished high school and am looking at different options for undegrad. My long term goal is to get a PhD. I wanted to know what admission committees think of online undergraduate degrees. Are they considered on par with regular offline degress? I'd prefer an answer from a STEM perspec... |
2022/08/16 | 2,523 | 10,365 | <issue_start>username_0: I was very passionate about my PhD. The institute, research topic and funding is good. One year has passed and I covered PhD coursework credits with good grades. However, during the last 5 months, I gradually lost all motivation for my PhD.
For the previous month, I did absolutely nothing. We ... |
2022/08/16 | 3,038 | 12,882 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm offering a new grad course this semester; this is my first teaching role. One student reached out to me four months ago, asking about the attendance policy. I did not have one because I had not considered it, being new to teaching.
I told him I'd have the syllabus ready a week before the s... |
2022/08/16 | 685 | 2,673 | <issue_start>username_0: This post is related to [this](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/187099/what-should-i-do-when-someone-publishes-a-paper-based-on-results-i-already-poste) one. It's been almost a month, and both of the publisher and the journal have done nothing about the plagiarism. Every time I call... |
2022/08/17 | 938 | 3,983 | <issue_start>username_0: I wanted to the submit my newly written paper (my first paper) in the prestigious physical journal "Annalen der Physik". Incidentally, a problem arose. I filled out all of the boxes except the institutional information on the author login page. I am a school student from India, but I have no co... |
2022/08/17 | 2,825 | 12,033 | <issue_start>username_0: Our students recently sat an exam and A LOT of them failed. As part of the moderation process it was noted that there were some questions that none of the students had answered correctly. Is there any justification (evidence based if possible) for removing the 'difficult' questions?<issue_comme... |
2022/08/17 | 1,433 | 6,081 | <issue_start>username_0: Currently, I am applying to funded PhD programmes in Europe. Not long ago, I thought it would not be so competitive, but now I am losing my self-confidence, receiving constant rejections. The other cause of my frustration is that I want to get an offer faster since my home country is invading U... |
2022/08/17 | 917 | 4,066 | <issue_start>username_0: One of the reviewers has asked a technical question that is not related to the main scope of the paper that I submitted. On top of this, I am not sure if the answer I am going to give is correct or not (I have tried it but the technicality involved is not my area of research, so I am hesitant w... |
2022/08/17 | 418 | 1,792 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm from Europe and would like apply for PhD in the USA. On my university it is mandatory to take 70 credits of courses in order to finish a master's degree. However, I decided to take extra courses to push my GPA.
How is that managed?
I can write my 'better GPA', but still I'm obligated to se... |
2022/08/17 | 712 | 3,035 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm writing a thesis which consists in a literature review and I came across some articles whose titles seem to be appropriate for my research, but they don't have any abstract and their full text is unavailable. Before even trying to get those full texts, which might require some time and effo... |
2022/08/18 | 5,300 | 22,523 | <issue_start>username_0: I had asked all of the students during introductory class why they were taking this particular course. And one of the students replied they were taking it for the credit hours. I found it disrespectful and chewed the student a bit in the class. And it might have impacted my grading for that stu... |
2022/08/18 | 426 | 1,843 | <issue_start>username_0: A habilitation (in Germany and Austria at least) gives you the *venia legendi*, or the formal licence ot teach at higher education institutes - and now comes the important part - **for a given discipline**.
Does it mean that if I feel home in two different disciplines (say, sociology on the on... |
2022/08/18 | 833 | 3,576 | <issue_start>username_0: Asking on behalf of a friend's relative to maximize anonymity.
(Most details are left out to protect the identity of this person, and I was also not given much detail to begin with.)
Dr. X is an early career scientist who had to flee his home country due to credible threat for his family. His ... |
2022/08/18 | 375 | 1,615 | <issue_start>username_0: Is an ISBN a sign of prestigious publishing?
Will the conference paper with ISBN appea in Google scholar, ResearchGate and orcid?
Is ARICBET CONFFERENCE PRESTUGIOUS?<issue_comment>username_1: No, ISBN is for identification purposes. It has no intrinsic value other than as a means of distingui... |
2022/08/18 | 1,629 | 6,641 | <issue_start>username_0: We have [discussed before](https://academia.stackexchange.com/a/118554/79875) that consequences for not getting [irb](/questions/tagged/irb "show questions tagged 'irb'") approval might include: (1) not be able to publish in a reputable journal, and (2) getting sanctioned or fired by your emplo... |
2022/08/18 | 1,533 | 6,470 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm I PhD student in X engineering in the university X (top ranked program in the US, big university) and I'm finishing my first year with a first author paper in an important journal, 3 conferences (1 of them as invited speaker) and accepted to two more international conferences in October (my... |
2022/08/19 | 865 | 3,341 | <issue_start>username_0: Getting your PhD at a prestigious university, doing a postdoc at a prestigious university, publishing in fancy prestigious journals, etc.?<issue_comment>username_1: This information is used as predictors to forecast your success. There might be better predictors but sometimes those are not avai... |
2022/08/19 | 864 | 3,680 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a Ph.D. student in the field of social science --sports marketing and public relations. Lately, I have submitted a manuscript to a reputable journal X in my field, my choice was hinged on two reasons: 1. My research addresses a niche that can be published only in a handful of journals, X i... |
2022/08/19 | 2,234 | 9,838 | <issue_start>username_0: This is my first semester being a TA. When students email me and include personal reasons (e.g. sick family member or mental health struggles) when they ask for things like extensions or to switch recitation slots, how much detail should I include when raising these issues to the professor teac... |
2022/08/19 | 2,615 | 10,671 | <issue_start>username_0: Like most students and professors during the pandemic, I attended my classes online for over a year. The online lectures weren't mandatory, and I stopped attending after the first day and relied on my readings to guide me.
During our first test, the class had a practice test that if completed ... |
2022/08/20 | 1,791 | 7,815 | <issue_start>username_0: Dear Academia Community,
I would like to ask the following question:
In my department, there is the culture of "IF first", which implies that the IF is the most important (and often sole) criteria when submitting an article to a journal. My supervisor insists on a list with 5 journal suggestio... |
2022/08/20 | 594 | 2,403 | <issue_start>username_0: I am building the glossary of my master's thesis. To redirect readers to it when they come across a technical word, I stress them with a `*` at the end, like : `preemption*`
How should I deal with words appearing more than 50 or 100 times?
I thought about stressing the first one appearing in ... |
2022/08/21 | 1,361 | 5,579 | <issue_start>username_0: I have an upcoming assessment worth 45% of our final grade which I do not think is fair.
We have been allocated into groups of twelve, which is further split in half. Each sub-group is to prepare a report on a topic which is broadly related to the other sub-group's topic. Material co-operation... |
2022/08/21 | 651 | 2,850 | <issue_start>username_0: In the course of an experimental study, I sent a few samples for testing at a commercial lab. By commercial, I mean that they provide standardized testing services for a fee, and are not engaged in research or development. These tests are a paid service rather than a collaboration.
The tests a... |
2022/08/21 | 567 | 2,367 | <issue_start>username_0: I was recently contacted by a journal editor where they effectively requested that I update my citation database. They said that they came across one of my pre-prints where I reference another pre-print, which has since been published in their journal:
>
> I was interested to see your article... |
2022/08/22 | 566 | 2,456 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently in the following situation:
Another person (not from my department) and I did a study together.
The other person is an associate professor, I am a junior researcher (medical doctor).
We performed a secondary data analysis of clinical data. The data is his and I performed the anal... |
2022/08/22 | 457 | 1,943 | <issue_start>username_0: In a Springer journal, one of the items in Authors Guidelines is :
**Manuscripts should be submitted in LaTeX. We recommend using Springer Nature’s LaTeX template.**
However, I have already typed the manuscript using the standard LaTeX template and I'm about to submit it.
Does the word **rec... |
2022/08/22 | 663 | 2,985 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing my masters thesis at a company. The thesis is about customer segmentation. One research contribution of the thesis was to propose a way to validate the found clusters in an unsupervised setting.
That being said, to find clusters, I followed a very standard process. From raw data, ... |
2022/08/22 | 1,687 | 6,968 | <issue_start>username_0: My advisor has become increasingly toxic since the beginning of the pandemic. He makes belittling comments about my competence over small things like typos, shuts down my ideas as "bullshit" (and sometimes comes up with the same ideas "himself" a day later). Frequently skips our scheduled meeti... |
2022/08/23 | 3,579 | 15,563 | <issue_start>username_0: I will be completing my PhD soon, and my supervisor is asking me to sign an IPR declaration where I have to mention the research works where I had direct or indirect contribution. However, it also states that I will not get any authorship in the resulting publication.
Here is the text of the d... |
2022/08/23 | 1,195 | 5,366 | <issue_start>username_0: Here's some backgound...
I wrote a master thesis several years ago in my native language (Not in English).
And recently I am planning to further my studies and so I think an English version of the paper will help my applications for English-speaking schools.
And here goes some tricky parts...... |
2022/08/23 | 2,821 | 9,676 | <issue_start>username_0: As far as I understand,
1. In the USA, they use "X, PhD."
2. The rest of the world use "Dr. X."
In Germany, they use the latter form.
If someone completes an interdisciplinary (chemical sciences and computer science) **PhD in Germany, can they use #1 in Germany**, if they want to?<issue_comm... |
2022/08/24 | 706 | 2,833 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm second author on a paper I have been working on with 7 others for a while. It has to do with machine learning in medicine. I did a bit of the programming but I mostly got help from my mentors (and from Stack Overflow). The parts of the paper I wrote were scrapped/revised by others in my gro... |
2022/08/24 | 1,705 | 7,777 | <issue_start>username_0: I was hoping someone can help me with an issue that has been bothering me for some time.
Last year I came up with an idea for a project for my PhD. I don't know why, but for some reason myself and my supervisor decided to work on this project in collaboration with another PhD student and his s... |
2022/08/24 | 2,971 | 12,710 | <issue_start>username_0: I have dedicated four years of my life in a journey at a so-called "respectable" university in the Middle East as an undergraduate student pursuing my degree. In this journey, a period equivalent to half of my time spent in the university had arrived whereby unrest and protest coupled with surg... |
2022/08/25 | 1,558 | 5,879 | <issue_start>username_0: Pretty much what the title says (I know this question is quite strange).
I have some extra money (my research stipend is fairly generous, and I get paid by doing TA work on top of it) that I'd like to spend to increase my research productivity. I am thinking of hiring an undergraduate to help ... |
2022/08/25 | 4,081 | 16,440 | <issue_start>username_0: After a PhD, why do people **generally** do postdocs at universities rather than work in research firms or organizations?
Is it only because they want to become academicians?<issue_comment>username_1: There are several reasons to do a postdoc:
* be author on more publications (which in turn m... |
2022/08/25 | 501 | 2,012 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing a pure-math paper.
I want to cite a paper where the authors are not listed in alphabetical order, e.g.:
>
> <NAME> and <NAME>
>
>
>
I know that the latter is the supervisor of the former.
I assume that when citing this paper, I should not change the order of authors (if thi... |
2022/08/25 | 643 | 2,761 | <issue_start>username_0: I am in the process of writing a paper. I have done the data collection, and am in the process of analysis. But somehow my supervisor does not show much interest in my work or my research topic (i am in 2nd year, this is my first paper ), we meet once a month to review my overall progress.
I h... |
2022/08/25 | 894 | 3,594 | <issue_start>username_0: I will be visiting a university in the US to give an invited talk. The organizer told me that I could choose to arrive a couple of days early, and leave a couple of days late. They will be paying for my hotel reservation and airline ticket.
I love to explore new places, and do not have constra... |
2022/08/25 | 620 | 2,662 | <issue_start>username_0: I have sent my paper to the Annals of Mathematics. They emailed me:
>
> The expert consulted has determined that the paper is not suitable for the Annals. The nature of the reporting was such that there are no details to share. There are no reports to be shared with the author.
>
>
>
What... |
2022/08/25 | 759 | 3,179 | <issue_start>username_0: Consider the following situation: A student is at a university U, funded by a certain stipend, with the ambition of pursuing a phd in research area X. After a year he drops out because things are not working with the professor. Another year later he starts work on a paper in the research area X... |
2022/08/25 | 481 | 2,094 | <issue_start>username_0: I was reading some papers and I came up with some ideas that I think are interesting. But I am worried that someone else is working on it. It would be a waste of time if I try to prove something and then somebody else proves it first. I'm in math. What kind of ways are there to minimize working... |
2022/08/25 | 619 | 2,494 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a phd student in a lab. PI has been sending out an email to everyone to prepare for a conference. They already booked hotels and flights and all. I only noticed this because the other phd student in the lab told me about it. So I was a little shocked about the news. I have assumed I will a... |
2022/08/26 | 747 | 2,822 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a Congolese grad student who has received two PhD scholarship offers.
I got the first quite a while ago but when I saw the call for the Irish program I applied because it fit everything I've been doing in my career like a glove, and at the time I was having second thoughts about the first ... |
2022/08/26 | 1,292 | 5,568 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD student in the social sciences and I already have a first advisor.
A few years ago, eyeing the possibility of a PhD, I had informally asked a professor of mine if she would be possibly interested/have the capacity to be my advisor. I had already worked with her and liked the collabo... |
2022/08/27 | 365 | 1,606 | <issue_start>username_0: I received a response from potential supervisor, in her response , she said ' I would, in principle be happy for you to apply to the university'. then she asked me whether I contacted with Professor xx (another potential supervisor), she said 'so I think your project will fit really well in the... |
2022/08/28 | 1,625 | 5,995 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it OK to specify your school next to your "Ph.D.": in your email signature, in the title of your web site, etc.
For example,
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> <NAME>, PhD (Harvard)
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>
>
*Edit:* added [united-states](/questions/tagged/united-states "show questions tagged 'united-states'"), because I think there mi... |
2022/08/28 | 1,141 | 4,661 | <issue_start>username_0: I received a referee report for my single authored paper recently in Mathematics. Both the referees have asked for a revision.
I am having a problem with a proof of a theorem in the paper.
Reviewer A asks to add more details to the proof of the theorem. He/She says it is not possible for him/h... |
2022/08/28 | 454 | 1,920 | <issue_start>username_0: So there are two professors at my university that have the same name (the only differences are their titles), and incidentally they both know me well enough to write my letter of recommendation, and I also have no other option. Does this affect my application?
Edit: Thank you all for your answ... |
2022/08/28 | 1,482 | 6,494 | <issue_start>username_0: Let's say a group of students decides to study an existing subject X collectively without a professor. What general guidelines should be followed so that the group can make the most out of it?
I am mainly interested in things like
1. What should be the ideal size of the study group?
2. Should... |
2022/08/28 | 895 | 3,697 | <issue_start>username_0: My university has a course called "Technical Communication" that aims to teach undergraduate math and computer science students (usually sophomores and juniors) how to give good talks. We have [lots of great materials](http://techspeaking.denison.edu/Technically_Speaking/Home.html) for teaching... |
2022/08/28 | 344 | 1,203 | <issue_start>username_0: I reviewed a manuscript for a journal from a well-known publisher.
I received
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> A gentle reminder that we sent you an invitation on ... to review the revised version of the following paper
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I responded with
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> Please allow 18 days. My partner just had emergency surgery.
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2022/08/29 | 348 | 1,389 | <issue_start>username_0: So I will be applying to graduate schools in Computer Science this fall. I am an undergrad senior currently.
Last summer, I participated in an REU. I am wondering whether I should get my REU mentor's recommendation letter or not. The thing is that it was an REU outside of my college, so my men... |
2022/08/29 | 1,192 | 5,245 | <issue_start>username_0: I will join a college by the end of Sept/Oct. I will pursue Physics (Hons), and my target is to get prestigious research internships at places like LEAP (Leidan observatory in Netherlands) or CERN, so what small steps should I take in the first and second year to achieve my ultimate objective?<... |
2022/08/29 | 892 | 3,947 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been working with some data from a technical report that is freely available online as a PDF document from the website of the institution that published the report. I've cut and pasted the data from tables in the report for my research (and written a program to process it as the data are... |
2022/08/29 | 1,346 | 5,907 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a final year Ph.D. collaborating with people in my lab (Biomedical) and spent more than a year on this side project which is not part of my thesis research. My results combined with some calculations (which I also performed a bit) from a colleague (research associate) can make up a story a... |
2022/08/29 | 3,575 | 15,472 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a third-year PhD student at a university in the Netherlands. The program is normally four years but students finish averagely in 4.5 years. By the end of each year we have progress evaluation. The first and second went well, just some advice, nothing critical. However, about 10 days ago I r... |
2022/08/30 | 2,599 | 11,410 | <issue_start>username_0: This post is from the perspective of the management of a master’s degree in computer science (not from the perspective of a single student).
We have a 2 years master’s degree (= 4 terms). In 3rd term students use about 15 to 20% of their time to find and plan their master thesis topic. In the ... |
2022/08/30 | 1,365 | 5,506 | <issue_start>username_0: In various universities I've looked at, there are some course prefixes that seem common, e.g.:
* CSC: Computer Science
* BIO: Biology
* MTH and MAT: Mathematics
I have also seen four-character prefixes, and there have been times when a prefix is wildly different than what I would expect. I wo... |
2022/08/31 | 2,623 | 11,779 | <issue_start>username_0: The title might seem vague but please bear with me:
I always liked pure mathematics, I believe I understood the purpose of applied mathematics as well, but just until I am finishing up now my thesis. The thesis involves PDEs and numerical schemes. I spent almost now 1.5 year with the subject. ... |
2022/08/31 | 1,247 | 5,385 | <issue_start>username_0: My team submitted an article to an MDPI journal 7 weeks ago. The manuscript quickly went into peer review. After a few weeks, MDPI contacted us and asked us to provide a list of potential reviewers. They had troubles to recruit reviewers at this stage. We provided them a list with known experts... |
2022/08/31 | 1,250 | 5,000 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm in my last week of my mathematics masters dissertation and I don't really know how to refer to my own work and to myself in the dissertation. To refer to myself I'm using "this author" but it sounds a bit hokey, but obviously I feel like using "I" is a bit too informal.
Likewise, I'm refer... |