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2022/08/31 | 632 | 2,856 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a new PhD student, and worked on something with a postdoc during my master's degree, and we will send it for publication in the upcoming few months. Even though the work was done during my master's, I was going to put in my current email address and research group information on the public... |
2022/08/31 | 1,811 | 7,448 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a master's degree in computer science, and have been working as a software developer outside of academia for about a decade. I'm considering trying to transition into academic philosophy with the ambition of having an academic career, as far fetched as this may be. I'm evaluating the fol... |
2022/09/01 | 765 | 3,169 | <issue_start>username_0: So I've recently graduated with a STEM degree, but my advisor still wants us to make a submission to a conference.
Right now I am unemployed and I have no source of income.
What is the best way going about telling my advisor that I would like to be paid?<issue_comment>username_1: This is an e... |
2022/09/01 | 401 | 1,708 | <issue_start>username_0: My colleagues and I are trying to publish a paper since July of this year. Unfortunately, we have sent the papers to three journals, but on all three occasions, the response we got from the editor was that the paper "does not fit the journal".
To this end, I have a simple query: Do we need to ... |
2022/09/01 | 1,678 | 6,915 | <issue_start>username_0: I have some publications in top NLP (Computer science field) conferences and a few will be published soon. I worked under not fully academic project but results include publication in the same NLP field and as I understand, it should be enough for getting Phd.
PS: NLP - Natural Language Proc... |
2022/09/01 | 1,260 | 5,236 | <issue_start>username_0: **EDIT FOR UPDATE**
*I rejected this specific research fellowship.*
*Another lab in the same R&D institute reached out to me soon after I rejected the first one, offering me full funding with living stipend (higher than the average COL in the area). We had a discussion with it, and they are a... |
2022/09/01 | 1,249 | 4,437 | <issue_start>username_0: While reading the paper of some authors. I have decided to work on a question which they listed as an open question in the conclusion section. I'm hesitating on whether or not to cite the paper, from which I got the question, because usually we cite papers providing answers rather than papers s... |
2022/09/01 | 1,196 | 5,065 | <issue_start>username_0: I saw similar questions but not exactly the same as my situation. I have three papers prepared during my Ph.D., one is published already, and the other two are just manuscripts that have not been submitted yet. If I copy and paste the contents from my papers to my thesis:
1. For the one publis... |
2022/09/02 | 1,125 | 5,294 | <issue_start>username_0: We published a paper last year when I was a student. I submitted this paper’s abstract to a conference this year after I graduated and I did not ask my coauthors about this. Now this abstract get accept and will be presented at the conference. One of the coauthor who is my previous supervisor s... |
2022/09/02 | 1,462 | 6,089 | <issue_start>username_0: Professors looking for PhD students will often have several ongoing research thrusts that students can work on. These may correspond to different three- or five-year grant awards, for example, or they may be different directions within the same grant.
In my cursory experience, watching various... |
2022/09/03 | 562 | 2,340 | <issue_start>username_0: I review a grant application. One of the applicants, Author B, has published an article in a high impact journal as joint first author with Author A (Author A is not in the grant application). In the journal, the published order of authors is
**Author A°, Author B°**, ... (here, the "°" illust... |
2022/09/03 | 611 | 2,673 | <issue_start>username_0: Silly question, but I figured I'd ask. What information should be present in the opening slide of my presentation to a conference and how do I format it? Should it be like this:
Interesting picture
Title
Name of presenter
MA Student, Department, University
Logo of Department/Universi... |
2022/09/03 | 525 | 2,090 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a Professor at a college in the US where we wear regalia to the student graduations. I have a PhD, but am about to complete another doctoral degree from a different university, neither of which are where I teach. Do I have to choose one gown to wear to graduation or is there a specific way... |
2022/09/03 | 883 | 3,914 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose I am the *only* instructor for the **Algorithms and data structures** course in my institute. Before the start of the course, say during the first lecture, I provide the students with the textbooks to be referred to. The course does not have any lab. It is a theory course.
Most of the ... |
2022/09/04 | 523 | 2,220 | <issue_start>username_0: Usually Postdoctoral Fellows do not have the Intellectual Property (IP) for the data they collect during their positions. When a Postdoc finishes their role, research institutions can potentially use their collected data for funding or publish it. In some cases, Ive seen manuscripts prevented f... |
2022/09/04 | 767 | 2,988 | <issue_start>username_0: I wrote a paper in which I mentioned all citations for definitions that are not mine, and did not cite my previous paper's definition or my supervisor's previous papers as both of us are authors.
My supervisor got really angry on me for this. Did I deserve it?<issue_comment>username_1: It appe... |
2022/09/04 | 934 | 3,568 | <issue_start>username_0: What is the actual goal of citing the "access date/time" of when you access a URL? For [example](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chalcolithic&oldid=1099494107):
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> <NAME> (July 17, 2010). "Serbian site may have hosted first copper makers". ScienceNews. Retrieved 22 April 2017.
>
... |
2022/09/05 | 910 | 3,884 | <issue_start>username_0: I have my whole PhD thesis split into two papers to be submitted to the same journal at the same time, and each of them needs to be cited by the other (circular citations). I can publish the first paper to arXiv and get the DOI and cite it in the second paper. But I also want the first paper to... |
2022/09/05 | 1,340 | 5,522 | <issue_start>username_0: I took 14 years to finish my Ph.D. Mostly this was due to a health problem (now cured); partly it was because I bit off too large a research problem. It's done now, though, and I'm applying for an academic/research position.
I'm embarrassed to write 2008–2022 in the column next to the line tha... |
2022/09/05 | 809 | 3,471 | <issue_start>username_0: The field is mathematics (functional analysis). As we get ready to post a paper on arxive, we realized that one of the results here disproves a conjecture proposed in another paper.
Assuming the author of that conjecture is still around, is it good practice to communicate with the author first... |
2022/09/06 | 854 | 3,674 | <issue_start>username_0: If one has a publicly available dataset depositored in an online depository such as Zenodo or Figshare, is it suitable for the same data be stored in a separate location such as ResearchGate that can use the same DOI? I am not sure if this would count as dual publication, or if this is even val... |
2022/09/06 | 799 | 3,636 | <issue_start>username_0: This is a problem that comes up every now and then when I am asked to review a paper.
In my old field of research (robotics), papers straddled the line between creative problem solving and theoretically sound science. The general layout of all of the papers is to first provide a scientific rea... |
2022/09/06 | 2,422 | 10,496 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been employed on a project at a German University for over a year and a half and got a half-time working contract.
Even though I am getting paid, I have not been required from my supervisor to do much besides working on my own project. I did spend some time preparing questionnaires for ... |
2022/09/06 | 972 | 4,168 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently receive an editorial letter that is unwilling to share referee reports. The letter explicitly mentions the existence of such report but the editor don't want to send it to me.
Is not sending referees reports normal and happen frequently?
Related: [How to interpret this rejection em... |
2022/09/06 | 433 | 1,865 | <issue_start>username_0: My wife moved from India in 2021. She has a green card and a master's degree in physics. When she got here she decided to study radiation therapy at a nearby community college. She got her foreign transcript evaluated through a website and gave those to the community college.
There was no issu... |
2022/09/07 | 3,236 | 13,260 | <issue_start>username_0: It's my first time teaching a college class as an instructor. My grade breakdown is as follows:
* Worksheets 15%
* Lab attendance and participation 15%
* Homework 40%
* Final Exam 30%
* Discussion forum 3% extra credit
I have two TAs who have been doing the homework and worksheet grading. I p... |
2022/09/07 | 2,232 | 9,281 | <issue_start>username_0: I am studying Computer Science in an unknown, crap tier university in India. Due to my interest in Deep Learning, I've done some strong projects and internships in it. Word passed over and people started asking for help with things, and subsequently my current situation also happened because a ... |
2022/09/07 | 1,181 | 5,015 | <issue_start>username_0: This question may seem like vague but I am still asking... What does make a research paper 'good' in pure mathematics ? I am asking this question independent of the journal where it gets published or the number of citation that the paper has. Is this depth of the content or some ingenious/out o... |
2022/09/07 | 1,048 | 4,808 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm writing a report regarding a paper in mathematics, which I have spent three months reviewing. During this period, I have tried to understand the ideas presented by the authors, but in vain.
The format of the paper and the length of the proofs are making it hard, even to an experienced read... |
2022/09/07 | 678 | 2,788 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently writing my master's thesis in physics and part of the introductory section is taken from a lecture my advisor gave during a group meeting. How do I site such a lecture?<issue_comment>username_1: I would not typically cite a lecture in a master's thesis, though you could ask your ... |
2022/09/08 | 686 | 2,786 | <issue_start>username_0: How should I reference footnotes inside a footnote. Do we have to have them superscripted?
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6 For further clarification, see footnote 5.
How should I style **see footnote 5**?<issue_comment>username_1: I would not typically cite a lecture in a master's thesis, though you could ask your ad... |
2022/09/09 | 692 | 3,217 | <issue_start>username_0: My field of background is material science. I am writing a paper regarding some novel properties we discovered from a material system. I struggled a lot with the introduction. Since the entire work is a random discovery (but also pretty important), I wanted the introduction to focus on prior kn... |
2022/09/09 | 1,654 | 6,727 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently finished my PhD in the Spring of this year and after taking some time off I have been on the job hunt looking to get into industry or a government position. One of my publications ended up being a collaboration between a few different groups, and one in particular was led by a Nobel ... |
2022/09/09 | 720 | 3,134 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm used to publishing in a field where it's normal to submit papers in LaTeX format. The journal has a LaTeX class file. No fuss, no muss. Now I'm submitting a paper to journals in a field where the standard seems to be the following. They want both a Word file and a PDF file submitted, and th... |
2022/09/09 | 724 | 3,011 | <issue_start>username_0: For academic papers, is it frowned upon to include screenshots of graphics generated by some computer program? I am working on a paper and want to include data that I generated in R.<issue_comment>username_1: Screen shots are often not the best solution. Pretty much all packages that you can us... |
2022/09/10 | 1,459 | 6,109 | <issue_start>username_0: I had this conversation with a friend recently (who's a tenure-track professor). He says although he's currently in a well-paid, highly desirable job, he is skeptical about his future because he's got to pass his tenure review. If he fails that, then the university effectively slaps a "not good... |
2022/09/10 | 642 | 2,659 | <issue_start>username_0: I am submitting a paper for graduate school application in philosophy. Among the items required, a writing sample. The sample relates directly to the field and to the potential supervisor's research area as well. The paper DOES reconstruct a philosophical problem for a particular philosopher, a... |
2022/09/11 | 402 | 1,739 | <issue_start>username_0: I have received the decision on a manuscript that I have submitted. The editor in chief decided to reject the paper stating that the reviewers are advising against the publication of the manuscript.
There were four reports, two suggesting minor revisions and publication of the paper. The other... |
2022/09/11 | 400 | 1,669 | <issue_start>username_0: Our paper recently got a "major revision", with comments from three reviewers. Two of them were actually ok, just answers for a few questions and rephrasing of some parts. The third reviewer showed harsh prejudice about our work and their comments were are all marked with and exclamation mark (... |
2022/09/11 | 2,144 | 9,079 | <issue_start>username_0: Over the course of my PhD, I've had the pleasure of being a TA for many courses under many different profs, all were great experiences. I learned a lot, did a lot of good work with the other TAs and helped the students a ton.
Currently however, the professor I am a TA for is an absolute menace... |
2022/09/11 | 825 | 3,597 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a junior researcher and physician at a German university hospital. I am part of a funding program with regular workshops on grant applications, scientific writing, etc.
More recently, we discussed grant applications at the workshops. All of us had to hand in a sample application or an app... |
2022/09/11 | 370 | 1,649 | <issue_start>username_0: I work at a teaching-oriented college, where no postgraduate programs exist, and no research assistants hired. I have a research idea, but due to teaching load, I am thinking about hiring a research assistant online (zoom meetings) to do some of the programming/coding and data analysis/visualiz... |
2022/09/11 | 490 | 1,790 | <issue_start>username_0: Different countries have different ways of giving a salary range, in some countries I have noticed that the job posting explicitly says "estimated net salary". Now I am wondering about academic jobs in Norway, it is never specified in job postings so there must be a social norm I guess.
For ex... |
2022/09/11 | 802 | 3,277 | <issue_start>username_0: Following [this question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/188578/how-much-does-being-denied-tenure-damage-your-career) it is natural to ask a basic question:
*Assuming a tenure-track faculty member in the US or Canada was denied tenure after their case has been submitted to the Un... |
2022/09/12 | 731 | 3,286 | <issue_start>username_0: I have already completed my undergraduate and masters studies in continental Europe (engineering/natural sciences, very applied field) and am currently applying for PhD positions starting autumn 2023.
Most of the research projects I am interested are advertised as being funded by private partn... |
2022/09/12 | 653 | 2,865 | <issue_start>username_0: I have received a decision letter with a rejection. The letter contained two reports recommending publication and two reports, with negative comments, which have nothing to do with the manuscript, and possibly belonging to another manuscript and were submitted to me by mistake.
I have contacte... |
2022/09/12 | 1,000 | 4,029 | <issue_start>username_0: My initial goal 5 years ago was to do an applied math PhD, but I had to find a job to pay off my loans. I've been working in data science for a couple years. I'm now planning to apply again.
**1. Different Academic background**
My academic background is in France, but I'm now living in the US... |
2022/09/12 | 1,982 | 8,640 | <issue_start>username_0: In reviewing a paper in analysis (mathematics), I provided a detailed review report that I feel was not too harsh (at least well within the realm of reasonable).
Today, the authors came back with a revision that, in my opinion, failed to address all the major criticisms I raised and ignored mo... |
2022/09/13 | 1,025 | 4,302 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a post-doctoral researcher in social sciences and work on several topics that may not only be interested to the discipline itself but also to a wider academic audience, I suppose (hopefully).
Besides trying to publish in the disciplinary journals, I am also wondering whether it makes sens... |
2022/09/13 | 567 | 1,956 | <issue_start>username_0: I have seen many authors cite in scientific research papers as follows:
>
> First\_author's\_last\_name et al.[10]
> Another\_first\_author's\_last\_name et al. [15]
>
>
>
I have also seen some papers refer to popular methods created by some authors as follows:
>
> In 2006, CravingGold ... |
2022/09/13 | 1,590 | 6,625 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently finishing up my doctorate in Europe and will start a post-doc next year. My understanding is that a lot of people end up doing post-doc after post-doc (easily till around their 40s), without ever getting a permanent contract at a university.
My question is: What are the options ... |
2022/09/13 | 339 | 1,531 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently in the fourth year of my Ph.D. and I am fully engrossed in my research work. Sometimes I find it hard to revise some forgotten concept from a related subject. What is the best strategy to revise old concepts while one is simultaneously doing one's research work?
For example in P... |
2022/09/14 | 258 | 1,112 | <issue_start>username_0: I applied to school A for law school and got rejected. Now I'm planning to reapply but for a different grad program. Will the school have all my records from the law school?<issue_comment>username_1: If by Rejected you mean that you did not get into Laws, they will not have any records besides ... |
2022/09/14 | 923 | 4,081 | <issue_start>username_0: Do the sponsors of a conference have anything to do with the quality of that conference? In particular, can someone conclude something of a conference's quality by an NSF sponsorship? I searched around looking for NSF funding criteria but could find very little.<issue_comment>username_1: I'd su... |
2022/09/14 | 3,432 | 14,809 | <issue_start>username_0: Usually in industry, we are either employed (in which case our company pays us), or founders (in which case we go look for funding). To the extent that we need to spend the company's money, or hire people, we deal with the company. If we are our own bosses, we co-founders can consult each other... |
2022/09/15 | 2,121 | 9,067 | <issue_start>username_0: Currently, I am working on a model that includes deep neural networks. I am not an expert in coding nor are my colleagues.
I had a hypothesis and it seems to be working. So, I may need to write a research paper and publish it. It takes much time to go through every step and understand in detai... |
2022/09/15 | 971 | 3,944 | <issue_start>username_0: I am from Europe and always use a comma as a decimal separator. Thus, in all previous publications I have used a comma as a separator, noone ever objected. We recently submitted a new manuscript and one reviewer comment we got was that we **should** use points instead of commas as separators. T... |
2022/09/15 | 963 | 3,971 | <issue_start>username_0: My son is starting university (in the UK) next week and has been given his timetable. The face to face lectures are from 5pm or 6pm until 7pm (just one starts earlier than this on a Friday, 1-2pm). I find this pretty shocking for a full-time university degree course, and have concerns on impact... |
2022/09/15 | 507 | 2,375 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently peer-reviewing a paper for a journal. I will recommend acceptance with majors, though the journal has asked for any other citations which may be useful to be presented to the author.
I have written one such article for an online publication which was published a few years ago. I... |
2022/09/15 | 866 | 3,661 | <issue_start>username_0: An author submitted a manuscript to a Scopus and a Web of Science Journal. Few months later, he received an email including the full name of the author, name of Journal and the title of the submitted manuscript. The email asking the author to pay $$ in order to accept reviewing the paper. Then,... |
2022/09/15 | 483 | 1,900 | <issue_start>username_0: I got a postdoctoral scholarship from a Turkish Science Institution. It covers a monthly stipend for a year and travel expenses.
A university in the UK accepted me as a "postdoctoral fellow". The university does not pay me any salary, they just host me. The Turkish Science Institution will cove... |
2022/09/15 | 873 | 3,673 | <issue_start>username_0: I left academia back in 2013, after completing my PhD. By chance, I've recently stumbled across a paper, published by my former lab group, whose central premise is rooted in experimental work I conducted.
I'm left with a vague feeling of injustice, but I'm not sure a) if any wrong has actually... |
2022/09/16 | 1,072 | 4,568 | <issue_start>username_0: A colleague of mine working outside of Europe has encountered an absolute bizarre and, IMO, utterly unacceptable situation for the first time in their decades-long career as a chemical engineering researcher. I am myself stumped and do not know how to proceed and require some sound, honest advi... |
2022/09/16 | 1,049 | 4,398 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD student in pure math, now in my second year. I understand that different PhD supervisors have different levels of involvement with their students' projects, and I very much appreciate how engaged my supervisor is with what I am working on. However, there is something that concerns me... |
2022/09/16 | 2,547 | 10,440 | <issue_start>username_0: According to <NAME>., <NAME>., <NAME>., <NAME>., <NAME>., & <NAME>. (2022). Nobel and novice: [Author prominence affects peer review](https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4190976) (August 16, 2022):
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> We invite more than 3,300 researchers to review a paper jointly written by ... |
2022/09/16 | 1,165 | 5,012 | <issue_start>username_0: As the news on the climate front keep [getting worse](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/08/world-on-brink-five-climate-tipping-points-study-finds) (not that it's unexpected, but it's still depressing), I would like to minimize my travels and consequently my carbon footprint. Natu... |
2022/09/16 | 1,317 | 5,503 | <issue_start>username_0: A friend of mine has a personal website, including a CV laid out on a page of that site (i.e. not a downloadable PDF/ODT/DOC) document. I want to help them spruce up that page somewhat.
Now, this could be made into a more complicated question if I said I also wanted the style of the CV to matc... |
2022/09/16 | 1,270 | 5,005 | <issue_start>username_0: Sure I've heard about Impact Factor ratings that all public universities heed to... but I've also heard that you do peer-review for free, and publishers earn money from letting people read papers, and letting people publish papers as well. Wouldn't it make more sense to simply publish PDFs on o... |
2022/09/17 | 489 | 2,152 | <issue_start>username_0: Currently applying for a research-related job in my field while in the last year of my undergraduate degree. I have conducted research and have publications in this field. I am wondering if the number of citations I have for my work is relevant, and if so, how many would I need to gain benefit ... |
2022/09/17 | 806 | 3,560 | <issue_start>username_0: I finished my PhD some time ago, and my relationship with my advisor was really poor. For instance he refused to write me any recommendation letter for my postdoc because he considered that working with me was extremly difficult (I think the same about him).
On the other hand I had very good r... |
2022/09/18 | 1,470 | 6,399 | <issue_start>username_0: This question is hypothetical. I have completed my MS in mathematics and started thinking about applying to a PhD in Mathematics in the USA as an international student in pure mathematics. I'm wondering: what if I can not produce original research within 5/6 years? What should a student do if t... |
2022/09/18 | 675 | 2,947 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been applying for graduate level positions at several labs in the US, and I received the following reply from the PI of one of the labs I applied to - "if you are interested you should provide two or three references who are willing to write letters of recommendation for you, and we shou... |
2022/09/18 | 1,247 | 5,326 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm worried that I am not working on things that bigshot academics care about and that this is hindering my ability to get a good job. Is there **any** point in trying to become an assistant professor if I don't work on a trendy topic? On job applications they say something like, "We give prior... |
2022/09/18 | 497 | 2,118 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm planning to apply for a Master's program in Germany, but the final grade I received in high school was awful (67%) due to the grief I experienced after the death of my parents. Although my grade in high school was sub-par, my GPA was excellent for my bachelor's degree.
Are low high school ... |
2022/09/18 | 709 | 3,305 | <issue_start>username_0: For example, many of the published papers didn't take A into account when running some simulations to calculate B and I am trying to address the importance of A in my paper. How should I properly comment and/or criticize the existing work?
Suppose I say something like this: most of the existin... |
2022/09/19 | 1,802 | 7,657 | <issue_start>username_0: I am invited to present in a session at a conference, and the conference requires presenters to pay the registration fee themselves.
I usually will have some research grant/ travel fund to cover the registration fee; however, this year, I don't have any financial support from my institution.
Th... |
2022/09/19 | 683 | 3,115 | <issue_start>username_0: Sometimes in IEEE magazines I see Part 1 in one issue and Part 2 in the next issue.
How does this work when writing and submitting? Do I need to submit both parts at the same time or does IEEE decide to split it? Can there be more than a one issue delay between Part 1 and Part 2?
As part of my... |
2022/09/19 | 662 | 3,005 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a second year PhD student in mathematics.
I often feel like research is emphasized much but teaching is not as compared to research.
I enjoy both aspects of my job. But worry if I may lose motivation on putting my effort into teaching later in my career. Therefore I am seeking some inspi... |
2022/09/19 | 308 | 1,089 | <issue_start>username_0: Has there been any successful examples of crowd funded academic research projects? (i.e., instead of grants from funding agencies)
I would restrict the scope of this question to only within academia.<issue_comment>username_1: [Tabby's star](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabby%27s_Star) is a va... |
2022/09/19 | 1,978 | 8,437 | <issue_start>username_0: I am in the final course of my bachelor degree program. I am from the country of Georgia.
I am aiming to complete a PhD in USA without a master's degree in a mathematics field.
So I have one question about it:
* Will I be able to fly back to Georgia on holidays and see my
family? Are there h... |
2022/09/19 | 511 | 2,261 | <issue_start>username_0: Assuming one submits a paper to an academic journal where the editor is positively or negatively biased towards you, what can they do to affect the odds of the paper getting accepted? An ideal answer would include links to academic research attempting to quantify the prevalence/effect of such b... |
2022/09/20 | 488 | 1,985 | <issue_start>username_0: Does a instructor have to specify whether or not they accept late assignments? Only now, after three years of college, have I encountered a professor who does not explicitly state his policy for late assignments. Neither on the course outline nor in person. I would like to know if it is strongl... |
2022/09/20 | 668 | 2,826 | <issue_start>username_0: I finished my Ph.D. recently and I am about to submit my thesis but I have copied a few lines from the discussion and results from my own papers. Will it be considered plagiarism? Can I exclude my papers while running Ithenticate software or should I contact springer nature and ask for permissi... |
2022/09/20 | 718 | 2,963 | <issue_start>username_0: I am completing my PhD in Chemical Engineering at one of the best universities in Latin America. I was also a visiting scholar at a university in the US during my PhD studies. However, Brazil has recently had one of its highest budget cuts in research grants and scholarships. Many academics are... |
2022/09/20 | 436 | 1,812 | <issue_start>username_0: I have submitted a paper and both reviewers stated that the work is very well-written, novel, very well-done etc., and asked only some very easy questions. After I sent the revised version, on the same day both reviewers completed their review report (I could see the status on the tracking syst... |
2022/09/20 | 693 | 2,951 | <issue_start>username_0: I was recently asked to review a paper. I liked the paper a lot and eventually recommended it for publication after minor revisions. The paper inspired me to do further research on some questions motivated by the paper. I did the research parallel to writing the report and quickly made progress... |
2022/09/20 | 1,551 | 6,600 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a Ph.D. student who has recently become aware of several health and safety hazards in my lab, which I have been unable to address with my supervisor/other lab members. These hazards include alphabetical storage of chemicals (ignoring chemical compatibility), leakage/spillage of chemicals in... |
2022/09/20 | 1,776 | 7,763 | <issue_start>username_0: I need help to avoid any potential academic misconduct regarding ongoing research. It is a bit complex. Let me explain the situation. It is not related to my Ph.D. thesis.
I am an international Ph.D. student starting in February 2022. Before starting my Ph.D., I found a public dataset and conc... |
2022/09/20 | 2,576 | 10,553 | <issue_start>username_0: How to proceed with my PhD? I'm 18 months into it, but I don't see this project going anywhere.
Perhaps I didn't do my due diligence or researched the position before accepting it. I'm working in a team with half a dozen other PhD's, and the "research" focuses on extending and improving an ext... |
2022/09/20 | 889 | 3,804 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a Ph.D. student in mathematics. I have worked on a project and wrote a paper. A reputed old mathematician, who is not my supervisor but is an excellent and friendly human, in my opinion, consistently helped me to write the paper. I am about to submit the paper to a journal. When I offered ... |
2022/09/20 | 1,323 | 5,163 | <issue_start>username_0: Instances of discrimination and/or bullying are common in academia. Here are some examples from [BzH](https://www.bzh.bayern.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Publikationen/Beitraege_zur_Hochschulforschung/2021/2021-1-2-Lasser-Bultema-Jahn-Loeffler.pdf), [Elephant in the Lab.org](https://elephantinthela... |
2022/09/20 | 1,703 | 7,100 | <issue_start>username_0: I was wondering if one can submit to two conferences/journals, but one is non-archival (e.g., a workshop). My curiosity stems from the NeurIPS experiment showing that the submission process seems highly stochastic, so if the submission does pass the non-archival compliance, I wanted it to go to... |
2022/09/21 | 515 | 2,310 | <issue_start>username_0: We submitted our paper and got rejected. Now we want to submit somewhere else. Me (first author) wants to submit the paper as it is, while the corresponding author wants to do further experiments. Is there anything I can do? Who has the last word? Can the corresponding just decide like that, ev... |
2022/09/21 | 589 | 2,625 | <issue_start>username_0: I asked for a recommendation letter from a professor and sent him all the required materials. He agreed to write me the letters, but he also said that he will send me the letters later next week. Is this normal? As far as I know, the content of a recommendation letter should be confidential and... |
2022/09/21 | 1,351 | 5,563 | <issue_start>username_0: I got my Master's degree in mathematics in 2017. Since then, I haven't done a lot of maths, so I am a bit rusty. I am now considering doing a PhD in maths, but I have little-to-no idea for a topic.
I seem to understand that it is not unusual for prospect PhD students to be without a topic at f... |
2022/09/21 | 2,620 | 10,671 | <issue_start>username_0: I wanted to know if one can get MSc scholarships just by emailing professors from different universities, by showing them that we have some interest and some experience in fields that they have research interests in.
I am thinking mostly about universities in Germany, Australia, and the UK.<is... |
2022/09/21 | 1,226 | 4,981 | <issue_start>username_0: Last year I worked on a novel dataset provided by my supervisor and I found interesting results which I presented in my BSc dissertation. A PhD candidate was working on the same dataset. Now the PhD candidate asked me via WhatsApp if he can use some of my figures in his PhD thesis. I asked the ... |
2022/09/21 | 2,847 | 12,535 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a theoretical physics PhD student in the initial years. There is something which has been bothering me ever since I have started my PhD till today i.e whether one should completely focus on research all the time? Let me clarify:
I understand that PhD is about becoming an independent resea... |
2022/09/22 | 461 | 2,158 | <issue_start>username_0: I am preparing a rebuttal letter to reviewers and the editor about one of my manuscripts. The reviewers were concerned about the results and they suggest running the same models but using another way to calculate the response variable. I am totally fine to explore the data with other ways to ma... |
2022/09/22 | 842 | 3,647 | <issue_start>username_0: I am applying to grad school this year for PhDs in mathematics. I have done four projects overall. One was a REU through which I published paper, and the second was my undergraduate thesis, where we solved an original problem (My professor said it wasn't enough to publish in a journal just yet,... |